October 5
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[edit] Births
- 1658 - Mary of Modena, queen of James II of England (d. 1718)
- 1703 - Jonathan Edwards, evangelical Christian leader
- 1713 - Denis Diderot, French philosopher and encylopedist (d. 1784)
- 1824 - Henry Chadwick, baseball writer and statistician
- 1878 - Louise Dresser, actress (d. 1965)
- 1829 - Chester A. Arthur, 21st President of the United States (d.1886)
- 1882 - Robert Goddard, rocket scientist
- 1894 - Bevil Rudd, South African athlete
- 1902 - Larry Fine, American actor and comedian, original member of The Three Stooges (d. 1975)
- 1902 - Ray Kroc, American fast food entrepreneur (d. 1984)
- 1903 - M. King Hubbert, geophysicist (d. 1989)
- 1907 - Mrs. Miller, singer (d. 1997)
- 1908 - Joshua Logan, film director and writer (d. 1988)
- 1911 - Flann O'Brien, humorist (d. 1966)
- 1917 - Allen Ludden, television game show host (d. 1981)
- 1919 - Donald Pleasence, actor (d. 1995)
- 1921 - Bill Willis, American football player
- 1922 - Jose-Froilan Gonzalez, race car driver
- 1923 - Glynis Johns, actress
- 1924 - Bill Dana, actor, comedian
- 1930 - Pavel Popovich, cosmonaut
- 1933 - Diane Cilento, actress
- 1935 - Diahann Carroll, actress
- 1936 - Václav Havel, playwright, President of the Czech Republic
- 1937 - Barry Switzer, American football coach
- 1941 - Eduardo Duhalde, President of Argentina
- 1943 - Steve Miller, musician
- 1948 - Tawl Ross, musician (P Funk)
- 1951 - Karen Allen, actress
- 1952 - Clive Barker, writer
- 1954 - Bob Geldof, musician
- 1958 - André Kuipers, astronaut
- 1958 - Bernie Mac, actor, comedian
- 1960 - Daniel Baldwin, actor
- 1962 - Michael Andretti, race car driver
- 1963 - Caron Keating, presenter (d. 2004)
- 1965 - Mario Lemieux, hockey player
- 1965 - Patrick Roy, hockey player
- 1967 - Guy Pearce, actor
- 1972 - Grant Hill, basketball player
- 1975 - Kate Winslet, actress
- 1983 - Nicky Hilton, American heiress of the Hilton Hotel chain
[edit] Deaths
- 578 - Justin II, Byantine Emperor
- 877 - Charles the Bald
- 1056 - Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor
- 1214 - King Alfonso VIII of Castile (b. 1155)
- 1285 - King Philip III of France (b. 1245)
- 1606 - Philippe Desportes, French poet (b. 1546)
- 1791 - Grigori Potemkin, Russian statesman
- 1813 - Tecumseh, Native American leader
- 1837 - Hortense de Beauharnais Queen of Holland and mother of the Emperor Napoleon III of France
- 1913 - Hans von Bartels, German painter
- 1930 - Christopher Birdwood Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson, British Secretary of State for Air
- 1936 - J. Slauerhoff, Dutch poet and novelist, from complications following neglected tuberculosis (b. 1898)
- 1941 - Louis Dembitz Brandeis, justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
- 1943 - Leon Roppolo, jazz musician (b. 1902)
- 1969 - Walter Hagen, champion golfer
- 1976 - Lars Onsager, physical chemist
- 1983 - Earl Tupper, inventor of Tupperware
- 1986 - Hal B. Wallis, film producer
- 1986 - James H. Wilkinson, mathematician (b. 1919)
- 1992 - Eddie Kendricks, singer
- 1995 - Linda Gary, voice actor (b. 1944)
- 1996 - Seymour Cray, American computer pioneer
- 2003 - Denis Quilley, British actor
- 2003 - Dan Snyder, Atlanta Thrashers hockey player
- 2004 - Rodney Dangerfield, American Comedian (b. 1921)
- 2004 - Maurice Wilkins, DNA pioneer (b. 1916)
