November 5 is the 309th day of the year (310th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 56 days remaining until the end of the year.
1901 – 2000
- 1911 - After declaring war on the Ottoman Empire on September 29, Italy takes control of Tripoli and Cyrenaica in present-day Libya.
- 1912 – Woodrow Wilson is elected President of the United States. William Taft, in finishing third (behind Theodore Roosevelt running for the Progressive Party), scores the worst-ever result of a US President seeking re-election.
- 1913 - Otto of Bavaria is deposed by his cousin, the Prince-Regent, who becomes Ludwig III of Bavaria.
- 1914 - World War I: France and the British Empire declare war on the Ottoman Empire.
- 1916 – The Kingdom of Poland is proclaimed.
- 1917 – The provisional government of Estonia is overthrown, in the run-up to the October Revolution in Russia, which is so named because of the Julian Calendar in use in Russia at the time.
- 1940 – Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected to serve a record third term as President of the United States.
- 1942 – World War II: The United Kingdom wins the Second Battle of El Alamein in Egypt.
- 1943 - World War II: Bombing of the Vatican.
- 1945 – Colombia joins the UN.
- 1967 – A train crash at Hither Green, in Southeast London, kills 49 people.
- 1968 – Richard Nixon is elected President of the United States, over Hubert H. Humphrey.
- 1970 - Vietnam War: The US Military Assistance command in Vietnam reports the lowest weekly American soldier death toll in five years, at 24.
- 1982 - The Itaipu Dam is opened on the border between Brazil and Paraguay. São Paulo is among the places that it supplies electricity to.
- 1987 – Anti-Apartheid activist Govan Mbeki is released after 24 years in prison.
- 1990 – Rabbi Meir Kahane, founder of the far-right Kach movement, is shot dead after giving a speech in a New York City hotel.
- 1994 – President Ronald Reagan announces that he has Alzheimer's disease in order to raise public awareness of the disease.
- 1994 - George Foreman wins the Heavyweight World Boxing Title, 20 years after his win in the Rumble in the Jungle in 1974.
- 1995 - André Dallaire attempts to kill Prime Minister of Canada Jean Chrétien.
- 1996 – Sardar Farooq Ahmad Khan Leghari dismisses Benazir Bhutto's government, and dissolves Pakistan's National Assembly.
- 1996 – Flooding is caused in thinly-inhabited parts of Iceland, after the volcano under the Grimsvotn ice cap erupts.
- 1996 – Bill Clinton is elected to serve a second term as President of the United States, defeating Senator Bob Dole.
Up to 1800
- 1271 – Mahmud Ghazan, Mongol ruler (d. 1304)
- 1494 – Hans Sachs, German meistersinger (d. 1576)
- 1549 - Philippe de Mornay, French writer (d. 1623)
- 1592 - Charles Chauncy, English-born President of Harvard College (d. 1672)
- 1607 - Anna Maria von Schurman, Dutch-German polymath (d. 1678)
- 1613 - Isaac de Benserade, French poet (d. 1691)
- 1615 – Ibrahim I, Ottoman sultan (d. 1648)
- 1666 - Attilio Ariosti, Italian composer (d. 1729)
- 1667 - Christoph Ludwig Agricola, German painter (d. 1719)
- 1701 - Pietro Longhi, Venetian painter (d. 1785)
- 1705 - Louis-Gabriel Guillemain, French composer and violinist (d. 1770)
- 1739 - Hugh Montgomerie, 12th Earl of Eglington, Scottish peer, composer and politician (d. 1819)
- 1754 - Alejandro Malaspina, Italian-Spanish admiral and nobleman (d. 1809)
- 1779 - Washington Allston, American painter and writer (d. 1843)
- 1787 - John Richardson, Scottish naval surgeon, naturalist and Arctic explorer (d. 1865)
1801 – 1900
- 1810 - Alphonso Taft, United States Attorney General, father of William Howard Taft (d. 1891)
- 1818 - Benjamin Franklin Butler, 33rd Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1893)
- 1851 – Charles Dupuy, Prime Minister of France (d. 1923)
- 1854 – Paul Sabatier, French chemist (d. 1941)
- 1855 - Léon Teisserenc de Bort, French meteorologist (d. 1913)
- 1855 - Eugene V. Debs, American socialist leader (d. 1926)
- 1857 – Ida Tarbell, American journalist (d. 1944)
- 1864 - Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh, English-Scottish artist and designer (d. 1933)
- 1870 - Chittaranjan Das, Indian politician (d. 1925)
- 1873 - Edwin Flack, Australian tennis player (d. 1935)
- 1878 - Kuzma Petrov-Vadkin, Russian painter (d. 1939)
- 1885 – Will Durant, American historian (d. 1981)
- 1887 – Paul Wittgenstein, Austrian pianist (d. 1961)
- 1889 - Andrejs Kapmals, Latvian runner (d. 1994)
- 1890 - Jan Zrzavy, Czech painter (d. 1977)
- 1891 - Greasy Neale, American football coach and baseball player (d. 1973)
- 1892 - John Alcock, British pilot (d. 1919)
- 1892 - J. B. S. Haldane, Scottish geneticist (d. 1964)
- 1893 - Raymond Loewy, French-American industrial designer (d. 1986)
- 1895 – Walter Gieseking, German pianist (d. 1956)
- 1900 - Martin Dies, Jr., American politician (d. 1972)
1901 – 1950
- 1904 - Alfredo Brilhante da Costa, Brazilian footballer (d. 1980)
- 1905 – John Whedon, American screenwriter (d. 1991)
- 1906 – Fred Whipple, American astronomer (d. 2004)
- 1911 - Marie Osborne, American actress (d. 2010)
- 1911 – Roy Rogers, American actor (d. 1998)
- 1913 – Vivien Leigh, English actress (d. 1967)
- 1914 - Emmanuel Nsubuga, Archbishop of Kampala (d. 1991)
- 1916 - Willoughby Gray, English actor (d. 1993)
- 1917 – Jacqueline Auriol, French pilot (d. 2000)
- 1917 - Banarsi Das Gupta, Indian politician, 4th Chief Minister of Haryana (d. 2007)
- 1920 – Douglass North, American economist (d. 2015)
- 1920 - John H. Land, American politician, Mayor of Apopka, Florida (d. 2014)
- 1921 - Georges Cziffra, Hungarian pianist (d. 2004)
- 1921 - Princess Fawzia Fuad of Egypt, Queen of Iran (d. 2013)
- 1922 - Cecil H. Underwood, 25th Governor of West Virginia (d. 2008)
- 1923 – Rudolf Augstein, German publisher (Der Spiegel magazine) (d. 2002)
- 1926 - John Berger, English art critic, novelist, painter and poet (d. 2017)
- 1929 - Lennart Johansson, Swedish football official, former UEFA President
- 1930 - Clifford Irving, American author (d. 2017)
- 1930 - Hans Mommsen, German historian (d. 2015)
- 1931 – Charles Taylor, Canadian philosopher
- 1931 – Ike Turner, American musician (d. 2007)
- 1931 - Geoffrey Bolton, Australian historian (d. 2015)
- 1934 - Victor Argo, American actor (d. 2004)
- 1935 – Lester Piggott, British jockey
- 1936 – Uwe Seeler, German footballer
- 1938 – Joe Dassin, American singer (d. 1980)
- 1938 – César Luis Menotti, Argentine footballer
- 1938 - Jim Steranko, American graphic artist
- 1939 - Lobsang Tenzin, 5th Prime Minister of the Tibetan government-in-exile
- 1940 – Anthony Rolfe Johnson, British tenor (d. 2010)
- 1940 – Elke Sommer, German actress
- 1940 – Ted Kulongoski, American politician and former Governor of Oregon
- 1941 – Art Garfunkel, American musician
- 1941 - Yoshiyuki Tomino, Japanese animator, director and screenwriter
- 1942 - Pierangelo Bertoli, Italian singer-songwriter (d. 2002)
- 1943 – Sam Shepard, American actor, writer and playwright (d. 2017)
- 1946 - Gram Parsons, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1973)
- 1947 - Peter Noone, British singer
- 1947 - Franco Trappoli, Italian politician
- 1948 – Bob Barr, American politician
- 1948 – William Daniel Phillips, American physicist
- 1948 - Bernard-Henri Lévy, French writer
- 1950 – Thorbjorn Jagland, Norwegian politician
1951 – 1975
- 1951 - Tony Evers, American politician, elected 66th Governor of Wisconsin
- 1952 – Oleg Blokhin, Ukrainian footballer
- 1952 - Bill Walton, American basketball player
- 1953 - Joyce Maynard, American author
- 1954 - Alejandro Sabella, Argentine footballer and coach
- 1954 - Jeffrey Sachs, American economist
- 1955 - Bernard Chazelle, French computer scientist
- 1955 - Kris Jenner, American television personality
- 1957 - Kellen Winslow, American football player
- 1957 - Jon-Erik Hexum, American model and actor (d. 1984)
- 1958 - Don Falcone, American musician and producer
- 1958 - Mo Gaffney, American actress and comedienne
- 1958 - Robert Patrick, American actor
- 1959 – Bryan Adams, Canadian singer and songwriter
- 1960 – Tilda Swinton, British actress
- 1961 - Alan G. Poindexter, American astronaut (d. 2012)
- 1962 - Turid Birkeland, Norwegian politician (d. 2015)
- 1963 - Hans Gillhaus, Dutch footballer
- 1963 - Andrea McArdle, American actress
- 1963 – Jean-Pierre Papin, French footballer
- 1963 – Tatum O'Neal, American actress
- 1964 – Abedi Pele, Ghanaian footballer
- 1964 - Famke Janssen, Dutch actress, director, producer, screenwriter and model
- 1966 - Georgia Apostolou, Greek actress
- 1966 - Nayim, Spanish footballer
- 1967 - Judy Reyes, American actress
- 1968 - Sam Rockwell, American actor
- 1969 - Pat Kilbane, American actor and comedian
- 1970 – Tamzin Outhwaite, British actress
- 1970 - Shaun Murphy, Irish-Australian footballer
- 1971 - Chris Addison, English comedian
- 1971 - Jonny Greenwood, English musician (Radiohead)
- 1971 - Dana Jacobson, American sportscaster
- 1971 - Sergei Berezin, Russian ice hockey player
- 1973 – Alexei Yashin, Russian ice hockey player
- 1973 - Johnny Damon, American baseball player
- 1973 - Danniella Westbrook, British actress
- 1974 – Ryan Adams, American singer
- 1974 – Dado Prso, Croatian footballer
- 1974 - Chris Sununu, American politician, 82nd Governor of New Hampshire
- 1975 - Lisa Scott-Lee, Welsh singer-songwriter (Steps)
From 1976
- 1976 - Claudia Llosa, Peruvian movie director
- 1977 - Yonas Kifle, Eritrean runner
- 1977 - Brittney Skye, American pornographic actress
- 1978 - Bubba Watson, American golfer
- 1978 - Xavier Tondo, Spanish cyclist (d. 2011)
- 1979 - Keith McLeod, American basketball player
- 1979 - David Suazo, Honduran footballer
- 1979 - Michalis Hatzigiannis, Greek-Cypriot songwriter and singer
- 1979 – Patrick Owomoyela, German footballer
- 1980 – Christoph Metzelder, German footballer
- 1980 - Eva González, Spanish model and beauty queen
- 1980 - Andrei Korobeinik, Estonian computer programmer, businessman and politician
- 1981 - Ksenia Sobchak, Russian television personality and politician
- 1982 - Rob Swire, Australian singer, musician and record producer
- 1983 - Alexa Chung, British television presenter and former fashion model
- 1983 – Mike Hanke, German footballer
- 1983 - Andrew Hayden-Smith, English actor
- 1984 - Nikolay Zherdev, Ukrainian-Russian ice hockey player
- 1986 – BoA, South Korean singer
- 1986 – Kasper Schmeichel, Danish footballer
- 1986 - Nodiko Tatishvili, Georgian singer
- 1986 - Ian Mahinmi, American basketball player
- 1987 - O. J. Mayo, American basketball player
- 1987 – Kevin Jonas, American musician (The Jonas Brothers)
- 1988 - Bailey Jay, American pornographic actress
- 1988 - Virat Kohli, Indian cricketer
- 1992 - Odell Beckham Jr., American football player
- 1992 - Marco Verratti, Italian footballer
- 1994 - AJ Pritchard, English dancer and choreographer
Up to 1950
- 1370 – Casimir III the Great, King of Poland (b. 1310)
- 1515 - Mariotto Albertinelli, Italian painter (b. 1476)
- 1714 - Bernardino Ramazzani, Italian physician (b. 1633)
- 1758 – Hans Egede, Norwegian Lutheran missionary (b. 1686)
- 1807 – Angelica Kauffman, Swiss-Austrian painter (b. 1741)
- 1828 – Maria Fyodorovna of Russia (b. 1759)
- 1876 - Theodor von Heuglin, German explorer and ornithologist (b. 1824)
- 1879 – James Clerk Maxwell, Scottish physicist (b. 1831)
- 1930 – Christiaan Eijkman, Dutch physician and pathologist (b. 1858)
- 1933 - Texas Guinan, American saloon keeper, actress and musician (b. 1884)
- 1933 - Walther von Dyck, German mathematician (b. 1856)
- 1937 - Hadji Ali, vaudeville performance artist (b. between 1887 and 1892)
- 1942 - George M. Cohan, American musician, actor, writer and composer (b. 1878)
- 1944 – Alexis Carrel, French surgeon, won the 1912 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1873)
1951 – 2000
- 1955 – Maurice Utrillo, French artist (b. 1883)
- 1956 – Art Tatum, American jazz musician (b. 1909)
- 1960 – Johnny Horton, American country singer (b. 1925)
- 1975 - Annette Kellerman, Australian swimmer (b. 1887)
- 1975 – Edward Lawrie Tatum, American geneticist (b. 1909)
- 1977 – René Goscinny, French comic book writer (b. 1926)
- 1977 - Guy Lombardo, Canadian conductor (b. 1902)
- 1979 - Al Capp, American cartoonist (b. 1909)
- 1981 - Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, 16th Karmapa Lama, Tibetan religious figure (b. 1924)
- 1985 - Spencer W. Kimball, American religious figure (b. 1895)
- 1986 - Bobby Nunn, American singer (b. 1925)
- 1987 - Eamonn Andrews, Irish radio and TV host (b. 1922)
- 1989 – Vladimir Horowitz, Russian-born pianist (b. 1903)
- 1990 – Meir Kahane, rabbi (b. 1932)
- 1991 – Robert Maxwell, Slovakian-born media tycoon (b. 1923)
- 1991 - Fred MacMurray, American actor (b. 1908)
- 1992 - Adile Ayda, Turkish diplomat (b. 1912)
- 1997 – Isaiah Berlin, Latvian philosopher and educator (b. 1909)
- 2000 - Jimmie Davis, American country music singer and politician (b. 1899)
From 2001
- 2001 - Gholam Reza Azhari, Prime Minister of Iran
- 2002 - Billy Guy, American singer (b. 1925)
- 2003 – Bob Hatfield, American singer (The Righteous Brothers) (b. 1940)
- 2006 – Bülent Ecevit, Turkish politician (b. 1925)
- 2006 – Pietro Rava, Italian footballer (b. 1916)
- 2007 – Nils Liedholm, Swedish footballer (b. 1922)
- 2010 – Jill Clayburgh, American actress (b. 1944)
- 2010 - Shirley Verrett, American opera singer (b. 1931)
- 2012 - Elliott Carter, American composer (b. 1908)
- 2014 - Manitas de Plata, French flamenco guitarist (b. 1921)
- 2014 - Lane Evans, American politician (b. 1951)
- 2014 - Alexei Devotchenko, Russian actor and activist (b. 1965)
- 2015 - Nora Brockstedt, Norwegian singer (b. 1923)
- 2015 - George Barris, American automobile designer (b. 1925)
- 2015 - Hans Mommsen, German historian (b. 1930)
- 2015 - Czeslaw Kiszczak, former Prime Minister of Poland (b. 1925)
- 2017 - Nancy Friday, American author (b. 1933)
- 2017 - Devin Patrick Kelley, American mass shooter (b. 1991)
- 2017 - Robert Knight, American singer (b. 1973)
- 2017 - Dionatan Teixeira, Brazilian footballer (b. 1992)
- 2017 - Mansour bin Muqrin, Saudi businessman and politician (b. 1973
- 2017 - Lothar Thoms, German track cyclist (b. 1956)
- 2018 - Keith Christiansen, Canadian-American ice hockey player (b. 1944)
- 2018 - Héctor Ferrer, Puerto Rican politician (b. 1970)
- 2019 - Omero Antonutti, Italian actor (b. 1935)
- 2019 - Ernest J. Gaines, American author (b. 1933)