On this day — November 5

Charles Chauncy, English-American pastor, theologian, and academic (died 1672)

Anna Maria van Schurman, Dutch painter (died 1678)

Isaac de Benserade, French poet and educator (died 1691)

Ibrahim of the Ottoman Empire (died 1648)

Attilio Ariosti, Italian viola player and composer (died 1729)

Christoph Ludwig Agricola, German painter (died 1719)

Louis Bertrand Castel, French mathematician and philosopher (died 1757)

Pietro Longhi, Venetian painter and educator (died 1785)

Louis-Gabriel Guillemain, French violinist and composer (died 1770)

John Brown, English author and playwright (died 1766)

William Byron, 5th Baron Byron, English lieutenant and politician (died 1798)

Hugh Montgomerie, 12th Earl of Eglinton, Scottish composer and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ayrshire (died 1819)

Richard Cosway, English painter (died 1821)

William Bland, Australian surgeon and politician (died 1868)

Benjamin Butler, American general, lawyer, and politician, 33rd Governor of Massachusetts (died 1893)

Moritz Szeps, Ukrainian-Austrian journalist and publisher (died 1902)

Duncan Gordon Boyes, English soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross (died 1869)

Ella Wheeler Wilcox, American author and poet (died 1919)

Charles Dupuy, French academic and politician, 60th Prime Minister of France (died 1923)

Alphonse Desjardins, Canadian journalist and businessman, co-founded Desjardins Group (died 1920)

Paul Sabatier, French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1941)

Eugene V. Debs, American union leader and politician (died 1926)

Léon Teisserenc de Bort, French meteorologist and climatologist (died 1913)

Ida Tarbell, American journalist, author, reformer, and educator (died 1944)

Chittaranjan Das, Indian lawyer and politician (died 1925)

Edwin Flack, Australian tennis player and runner (died 1935)

Otto Wahle, Austrian-American swimmer and coach (died 1963)

George A. Malcolm, American lawyer and jurist (died 1961)

P Moe Nin, Burmese author and translator (died 1940)

James Elroy Flecker, English author, poet, and playwright (died 1915)

Will Durant, American historian and philosopher (died 1981)

Sadae Inoue, Japanese general (died 1961)

Paul Wittgenstein, Austrian-American pianist and educator (died 1961)

Jan Zrzavý, Czech painter and illustrator (died 1977)

J. B. S. Haldane, English-Indian geneticist and biologist (died 1964)

John Alcock, captain in the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force, copilot of the first non-stop trans-Atlantic flight (died 1919)

Raymond Loewy, French-American engineer and designer (died 1986)

Beardsley Ruml, American economist and statistician (died 1960)

Walter Gieseking, French-German pianist and composer (died 1956)

Charles MacArthur, American playwright and screenwriter (died 1956)

Margaret Atwood Judson, American historian and author (died 1991)

Natalie Schafer, American actress (died 1991)

Ethelwynn Trewavas, British ichthyologist, over a dozen fish species named in her honor (died 1993)

Etta Moten Barnett, American actress and singer (died 2004)

Martin Dies, Jr., American lawyer, judge and politician (died 1972)

Eddie Paynter, English cricketer (died 1979)

Cooney Weiland, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 1985)

Joel McCrea, American actor (died 1990)

Louis Rosier, French racing driver (died 1956)

Sajjad Zaheer, Indian author and poet (died 1973)

Endre Kabos, Hungarian fencer (died 1944)

Fred Lawrence Whipple, American astronomer and academic (died 2004)

John Hackett, Australian-English general and academic (died 1997)

Marie Osborne Yeats, American actress and costume designer (died 2010)

Roy Rogers, American singer, guitarist and actor (died 1998)

W. Allen Wallis, American economist and statistician (died 1998)

Guy Green, English-American director, screenwriter and cinematographer (died 2005)

Vivien Leigh, Indian-British actress (died 1967)

John McGiver, American actor (died 1975)

Alton Tobey, American painter and illustrator (died 2005)

Jacqueline Auriol, French pilot (died 2000)

Banarsi Das Gupta, Indian activist and politician, 4th Chief Minister of Haryana (died 2007)

James Lawton Collins Jr., American brigadier general (died 2002)

Giuseppe Salvioli, Italian football player

Hasan Askari, Pakistani linguist, scholar and critic (died 1978)

Myron Floren, American accordionist and pianist (died 2005)

Tommy Godwin, American-English cyclist and coach (died 2012)

Douglass North, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2015)

Georges Cziffra, Hungarian pianist and composer (died 1994)

Fawzia Fuad of Egypt (died 2013)

Violet Barclay, American illustrator (died 2010)

Yitzchok Scheiner, American-Israeli rabbi (died 2021)

Cecil H. Underwood, American educator and politician, 25th and 32nd Governor of West Virginia (died 2008)

Rudolf Augstein, German soldier and journalist, co-founder of Der Spiegel (died 2002)

John Berger, English author, poet, painter and critic (died 2017)

Hirotugu Akaike, Japanese statistician (died 2009)

Wim Bleijenberg, Dutch footballer and manager (died 2016)

Hans Mommsen, German historian and academic (died 2015)

Leonard Herzenberg, American immunologist, geneticist and academic (died 2013)

Gil Hill, American actor, police officer and politician (died 2016)

Harold McNair, Jamaican-English saxophonist and flute player (died 1971)

Diane Pearson, British book editor and novelist (died 2017)

Ike Turner, American singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer (died 2007)

Algirdas Lauritėnas, Lithuanian basketball player (died 2001)

Herb Edelman, American actor (died 1996)

Jeb Stuart Magruder, American minister and civil servant (died 2014)

Lester Piggott, English flat racing jockey and trainer (died 2022)

Christopher Wood, English author and screenwriter (died 2015)

Michael Dertouzos, Greek-American computer scientist and academic (died 2001)

Uwe Seeler, German footballer (died 2022)

Billy Sherrill, American record producer, songwriter and arranger (died 2015)

Chan Sek Keong, Singaporean lawyer, judge and politician, 3rd Chief Justice of Singapore

Harris Yulin, American actor (died 2025)

Joe Dassin, American-French singer-songwriter (died 1980)

Jim Steranko, American author and illustrator

Lobsang Tenzin, Tibetan religious leader

Ted Kulongoski, American soldier, lawyer and politician, 36th Governor of Oregon

Elke Sommer, German actress

Art Garfunkel, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Yoshiyuki Tomino, Japanese animator, director and screenwriter

Bill Schlesinger, American baseball player (died 2023)

Pierangelo Bertoli, Italian singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2002)

Friedman Paul Erhardt, German-American chef and author (died 2007)

Percy Hobson, Australian high jumper (died 2022)

Sam Shepard, American playwright and actor (died 2017)

Peter Pace, American general

Aleka Papariga, Greek accountant and politician

Svetlana Tširkova-Lozovaja, Russian fencer and coach

Gram Parsons, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1973)

Quint Davis, American director and producer

Peter Noone, English singer-songwriter and guitarist

Tonin Çobani, Albanian folklorist and writer.

Bob Barr, American lawyer and politician

Peter Hammill, English singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer

Bernard-Henri Lévy, French philosopher and author

William Daniel Phillips, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate

Armin Shimerman, American actor

Jimmie Spheeris, American singer-songwriter (died 1984)

Thorbjørn Jagland, Norwegian politician, 25th Prime Minister of Norway

James Kennedy, American psychologist and author

Oleh Blokhin, Ukrainian footballer and manager

Vandana Shiva, Indian philosopher and author

Bill Walton, American basketball player and sportscaster (died 2024)

Joyce Maynard, American journalist, author and academic

Vincenzo D'Amico, Italian footballer (died 2023)

Alejandro Sabella, Argentine footballer and manager (died 2020)

Jeffrey Sachs, American economist and academic

Bernard Chazelle, French computer scientist and academic

Kris Jenner, American talent manager and businesswoman

Nestor Serrano, American actor

Karan Thapar, Indian journalist and author

Rob Fisher, English keyboard player and songwriter (died 1999)

John Harwood, American journalist

Lavrentis Machairitsas, Greek singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2019)

Michael Sorridimi, Australian rugby league player

Jeff Watson, American guitarist and songwriter

Mike Score, English singer-songwriter and keyboard player

Don Falcone, American keyboard player, songwriter and producer

Mo Gaffney, American actress and screenwriter

Robert Patrick, American actor

Bryan Adams, Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer and actor

Tomo Česen, Slovenian mountaineer

René Froger, Dutch singer-songwriter

Tilda Swinton, English actress

Mark West, American basketball player

Alan G. Poindexter, American captain, pilot and astronaut (died 2012)

Turid Birkeland, Norwegian businesswoman and politician, Norwegian Minister of Culture (died 2015)

Michael Gaston, American actor

Abedi Pele, Ghanaian footballer and manager

Marcus J. Ranum, American computer scientist and author

Hans Gillhaus, Dutch footballer and scout

Andrea McArdle, American actress and singer

Tatum O'Neal, American actress and author

Jean-Pierre Papin, French footballer and manager

Brian Wheat, American bass player and songwriter

Atul Gawande, American surgeon and journalist

Angelo Moore, American singer and musician

James Allen, English journalist and sportscaster

Nayim, Spanish footballer and manager

Urmas Kirs, Estonian footballer and manager

Judy Reyes, American actress and producer

Ricardo Fort, Argentinian actor, director and businessman (died 2013)

Seth Gilliam, American actor

Sam Rockwell, American actor

Pat Kilbane, American actor, comedian, director and screenwriter

Javy López, Puerto Rican-American baseball player

Sergei Berezin, Russian ice hockey player

Jonny Greenwood, English guitarist and songwriter

Rob Jones, Welsh-English footballer and coach

Corin Nemec, American actor, producer and screenwriter

Mårten Olander, Swedish golfer

Johnny Damon, American baseball player

Alexei Yashin, Russian ice hockey player and manager

Ryan Adams, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Angela Gossow, German singer-songwriter

Dado Pršo, Croatian footballer and coach

Taine Randell, New Zealand rugby player

Jerry Stackhouse, American basketball player and sportscaster

Lisa Scott-Lee, Welsh singer-songwriter

Sebastian Arcelus, American actor

Maarten Tjallingii, Dutch cyclist

Richard Wright, English footballer and coach

Xavier Tondo, Spanish cyclist (died 2011)

Bubba Watson, American golfer

Romi Dames, Japanese-American actress

Michalis Hatzigiannis, Cypriot singer-songwriter and producer

Keith McLeod, American basketball player

David Suazo, Honduran footballer and coach

Luke Hemsworth, Australian actor

Andrei Korobeinik, Estonian computer programmer, businessman and politician

Paul Chapman, Australian footballer

Rob Swire, Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer

Alexa Chung, English model and television host

Jon Cornish, Canadian football player

Tobias Enström, Swedish ice hockey player

Baruto Kaito, Estonian sumo wrestler

Eliud Kipchoge, Kenyan long-distance runner

John Sutton, Australian rugby league player

Nick Tandy, English racing driver

Nikolay Zherdev, Ukrainian-Russian ice hockey player

Kate DeAraugo, Australian singer-songwriter

Annet Mahendru, American actress

BoA, South Korean singer-songwriter, producer and actress

Ian Mahinmi, American basketball player

Kasper Schmeichel, Danish footballer

Nodiko Tatishvili, Georgian singer

Kevin Jonas, American singer-songwriter, guitarist and actor

Jason Kelce, American football player

O. J. Mayo, American basketball player

Yannick Borel, French fencer

Virat Kohli, Indian cricketer

D. J. Kennedy, American basketball player

Flume, Australian DJ and producer

Jon Gray, American baseball player

Shōdai Naoya, Japanese sumo wrestler

Odell Beckham Jr., American football player

Marco Verratti, Italian footballer

Dastonbek Otabolaev, Uzbekistani karateka

Astou Ndour-Fall, Senegalese-Spanish basketball player

Trey Lyles, Canadian basketball player

Takehiro Tomiyasu, Japanese footballer

Matty Beniers, American ice hockey player