October 5
date
October 5 is the 278th day of the year (279th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 87 days remaining until the end of the year.
Events Edit
Up to 1900 Edit
- 610 – Coronation of Emperor Heraclius of the Byzantine Empire.
- 1143 – King Alfonso VII of Leon recognises Portugal as a kingdom.
- 1450 – Jews are expelled from Lower Bavaria by order of Louis IX, Duke of Bavaria.
- 1502 – Christopher Columbus names Costa Rica.
- 1550 – The city of Concepcion, Chile is founded.
- 1582 – This day does not exist in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain, as the Gregorian calendar is introduced. In those countries, October 4 is followed by October 15.
- 1665 – The University of Kiel is founded.
- 1762 – British troops occupy Manila, Philippines.
- 1789 – French Revolution: Women in Paris march to Versailles in the March on Versailles to confront Louis XVI of France about his intention to hold on to the system of feudalism.
- 1793 – French Revolution: Christianity is removed as the official state religion of France.
- 1813 – The Battle of Thames is fought in Canada, in which American forces defeat British ones.
- 1857 – The city of Anaheim, California is founded.
- 1864 – Calcutta, India, is almost completely destroyed by a cyclone, killing 60,000 people.
- 1869 – In weather, the Saxby Gale devastates the Bay of Fundy along the maritime provinces of Eastern Canada.
- 1877 – Chief Joseph surrenders his Nez Perce band to US General Nelson A. Miles.
- 1895 – The first individual time trial for cyclists takes place in London.
1901 – 2000 Edit
- 1903 – Samuel Griffith becomes the first Chief Justice of Australia.
- 1905 – Wilbur Wright pilots the Wright Flyer III in a flight of 24 miles in 39 minutes, a world record that stuck until 1908.
- 1908 – Austria-Hungary annexes Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- 1910 – Portugal becomes a Republic.
- 1914 – World War I: First aerial combat resulting in a death, in international conflict.
- 1915 – Bulgaria enters World War I as one of the Central Powers.
- 1921 – Baseball's World Series is broadcast on radio for the first time.
- 1933 – In Germany, the Nazis take total control of the press.
- 1938 – In Germany, under Nazi rule, Jews' passports are declared illegal.
- 1943 – World War II: 98 American POWs are executed by Japanese forces on Wake Island in the Pacific Ocean.
- 1944 – World War II: Royal Canadian Air Force pilots shoot down the first German jet fighter over France.
- 1944 – Women in France are given the right to vote.
- 1947 – The first televised White House address is given by Harry S. Truman.
- 1948 – A magnitude 7.3 earthquake strikes present-day Turkmenistan, killing over 100,000 people.
- 1951 – The first Mediterranean Games begin in Alexandria, Egypt.
- 1955 – Disneyland Hotel opens in Anaheim, California.
- 1962 – The first James Bond movie, Dr. No, is released.
- 1962 – Love Me Do, the Beatles' first single, is released in the United Kingdom.
- 1968 – Police baton civil rights demonstrators in Derry, Northern Ireland, considered to be the beginning of the Troubles.
- 1969 – Monty Python's Flying Circus is first shown on BBC One.
- 1970 – The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is founded.
- 1970 – In Montreal, Quebec, Canada, British trade commissioner James Cross is kidnapped by members of the Front de liberation du Quebec, starting the October Crisis.
- 1973 – Signature of the European Patent Convention.
- 1974 – The Guildford pub bombings are carried out by the Provisional IRA, killing 4 British soldiers and 1 civilian.
- 1984 – Marc Garneau becomes the first Canadian in space.
- 1986 – Israel's secret nuclear weapons are revealed.
- 1988 – The Brazilian Constitution is ratified by the Constituent Assembly.
- 1989 – Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama, wins the Nobel Peace Prize.
- 1991 – An Indonesian military transport plane crashes after take-off from Jakarta, Indonesia, killing 137, including two on the ground. Only one on board survives.
- 1992 – Lennart Meri becomes President of Estonia.
- 1999 – The Ladbroke Grove rail crash in West London kills 31 people.
- 2000 – Mass demonstrations in Belgrade lead to the resignation of Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic.
From 2001 Edit
- 2001 – In baseball, Barry Bonds overtakes Mark McGwire's single-season home run record, hitting his 71st and 72nd home runs of the season respectively.
- 2004 – At 27.25 degrees Celsius, Germany records its warmest October 5th in 125 years.
- 2011 – Steve Jobs, former CEO of Apple Inc., dies aged 56, leading to widespread reaction on social media.
- 2014 – Formula One racing driver Jules Bianchi suffers serious injuries in a crash at the Japanese Grand Prix, leading to his death in July 2015.
- 2017 – Allegations of sexual harassment against the film producer Harvey Weinstein are published, starting the #MeToo movement.
- 2018 – Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad win the Nobel Peace Prize.
Births Edit
Up to 1900 Edit
- 1338 – Alexios III, Emperor of Trebizond (d. 1390)
- 1520 – Alessandro Farnese, Italian cardinal (d. 1589)
- 1640 – Françoise-Athenais, marquise de Montespan, mistress to King Louis XIV of France (d. 1707)
- 1658 – Mary of Modena, Queen of England (d. 1718)
- 1703 – Jonathan Edwards, American theologian (d. 1758)
- 1712 – Francesco Guardi, Italian painter (d. 1793)
- 1713 – Denis Diderot, French philosopher (d. 1784)
- 1717 – Marie Anne de Mailly, mistress to Louis XV of France (d. 1744)
- 1743 – Giuseppe Gazzaniga, Italian opera composer (d. 1818)
- 1781 – Bernard Bolzano, Czech mathematician and philosopher (d. 1848)
- 1789 – William Scoresby, British sailor and explorer (d. 1857)
- 1829 – Chester A. Arthur, 21st President of the United States (d. 1886)
- 1844 – Francis William van Reitz, State President of the Orange Free State (d. 1934)
- 1848 – Guido von List, German writer (d. 1919)
- 1850 – Sergey Muromtsev, Russian lawyer and politician (d. 1910)
- 1858 – Helen Churchill Candee, American author and journalist (d. 1929)
- 1861 – Ismael Montes, President of Bolivia (d. 1933)
- 1862 – Wilhelm Solf, German politician and diplomat (d. 1936)
- 1864 – Louis Lumière, French cinema pioneer (d. 1948)
- 1878 – Louise Dresser, American actress (d. 1965)
- 1879 – Francis Peyton Rous, American pathologist (d. 1970)
- 1881 – Robert Stangland, American athlete (d. 1953)
- 1882 – Robert H. Goddard, American rocket scientist (d. 1945)
- 1882 – Giorgio Abetti, Italian astronomer (d. 1982)
- 1885 – Ida Rubinstein, Russian dancer, actress and choreographer (d. 1960)
- 1887 – Max Ackermann, German painter (d. 1975)
- 1887 – René Cassin, French jurist (d. 1976)
- 1888 – Mary Fuller, American actress and comedienne (d. 1973)
- 1889 – Teresa de la Parra, Venezuelan novelist (d. 1936)
- 1892 – Remington Kellogg, American naturalist (d. 1969)
- 1894 – Bevil Rudd, South African athlete (d. 1948)
- 1895 – Walter Bedell Smith, American general (d. 1961)
- 1898 – Nachum Gutman, Moldovan-Israeli painter and sculptor (d. 1980)
- 1899 – Georg, Duke of Mecklenburg (d. 1963)
1901 – 1950 Edit
- 1901 – John Alton, American cinematographer (d. 1996)
- 1902 – Ray Kroc, American fast food entrepreneur (d. 1984)
- 1905 – John Hoyt, American actor (d. 1991)
- 1908 – Joshua Logan, American director and screenwriter (d. 1988)
- 1911 – Brian O'Nolan, Irish writer (d. 1966)
- 1914 – Zhang Zhen, Chinese general (d. 2015)
- 1916 – Stetson Kennedy, American writer (d. 2011)
- 1919 – Donald Pleasence, English actor (d. 1995)
- 1920 – Meliton Kantaria, Soviet-Georgian soldier, raised Soviet Flag on the Reichstag (d. 1993)
- 1921 – Pham Duy, Vietnamese singer-songwriter (d. 2013)
- 1922 – José Froilán González, Argentine racing driver (d. 2013)
- 1922 – Jock Stein, Scottish football manager (d. 1985)
- 1923 – Albert Gudmundsson, Icelandic footballer and politician (d. 1994)
- 1923 – Glynis Johns, British actress
- 1923 – Kailashpati Mishra, Indian politician, Governor of Gujarat (d. 2012)
- 1924 – Bill Dana, American actor
- 1924 – Frederic Morton, Austrian-American writer (d. 2015)
- 1924 – Javid Iqbal, Pakistani judge (d. 2015)
- 1925 – Walter Dale Miller, American politician, 29th Governor of South Dakota (d. 2015)
- 1927 – Bruce Millan, Scottish politician (d. 2013)
- 1929 – Robert F. Gordon, Jr., American astronaut
- 1930 – Pavel Popovich, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 2009)
- 1930 – Reinhard Selten, German economist (d. 2016)
- 1931 – Derek Grierson, Scottish footballer (d. 2011)
- 1932 – Madhav Apte, Indian cricketer (d. 2019)
- 1932 – Neal Ascherson, Scottish journalist and writer
- 1933 – Diane Cilento, Australian actress (d. 2011)
- 1936 – Václav Havel, Czech playwright and former President of the Czech Republic and Czechoslovakia (d. 2011)
- 1937 – Barry Switzer, American football coach
- 1938 – Teresa Heinz Kerry, wife of US Senator John Kerry and part of the family that owns the Heinz ketchup company
- 1941 – Eduardo Duhalde, former President of Argentina
- 1943 – Michael Morpurgo, English writer
- 1944 – Cesare Nosiglia, Italian archbishop
- 1944 – Nils Malmros, Danish movie director and screenwriter
- 1946 – Thomson Allan, Scottish footballer
- 1946 – Robin Lane Fox, English historian and author
- 1947 – Michèle Pierre-Louis, 14th Prime Minister of Haiti
- 1947 – Brian Johnson, English singer-songwriter (AC/DC)
- 1948 – Drew Jarvie, Scottish footballer
- 1948 – Tawl Ross, American guitarist (Funkadelic)
- 1949 – Peter Ackroyd, English author
- 1949 – Klaus Ludwig, German racing driver
- 1950 – Jeff Conaway, American actor (d. 2011)
- 1950 – Eddie Clarke, English guitarist
1951 – 1975 Edit
- 1951 – Bob Geldof, Irish musician and humanitarian activist
- 1951 – Karen Allen, American actress
- 1951 – Willie Donachie, Scottish footballer
- 1952 – Emomalii Rahmon, President of Tajikistan
- 1952 – Vladimir Nevzorov, Russian judoka
- 1954 – Jimmy Hartwig, German footballer and actor
- 1955 – Jean-Jacques Lafon, French singer-songwriter
- 1955 – Caroline Loeb, French actress and singer
- 1955 – Angela Molina, Spanish actress
- 1957 – Lee Thompson, English singer-songwriter and saxophonist
- 1957 – Bernie Mac, American actor and comedian (d. 2008)
- 1958 – Antonio Di Gennaro, Italian footballer
- 1958 – André Kuipers, Dutch astronaut
- 1958 – Neil deGrasse Tyson, American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author
- 1960 – David Kirk, New Zealand rugby player
- 1960 – Daniel Baldwin, American actor
- 1960 – Careca, Brazilian footballer
- 1962 – Caron Keating, British television personality (d. 2004)
- 1962 – Michael Andretti, American racing driver
- 1963 – Laura Davies, British golfer
- 1963 – Michael Hadschieff, Austrian speed skater
- 1963 – Charlotte Link, German author
- 1963 – Nick Robinson, English journalist
- 1964 – Keiji Fujiwara, Japanese voice actor
- 1965 – Mario Lemieux, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1966 – Inessa Kravets, Ukrainian athlete
- 1967 – Guy Pearce, Australian actor
- 1967 – Rex Chapman, American basketball player and sportscaster
- 1970 – Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh, Scottish politician
- 1971 – Mauricio Pellegrino, Argentine footballer
- 1972 – Grant Hill, American basketball player
- 1974 – Alex Walkinshaw, English actor
- 1975 – Kate Winslet, English actress
- 1975 – Parminder Nagra, English actress
- 1975 – Bobo Baldé, Guinean footballer
- 1975 – Monica Rial, American voice actress
From 1976 Edit
- 1976 – Song Seung-heon, South Korean actor and singer
- 1976 – Ramzan Kadyrov, President of Chechnya
- 1976 – Royston Ten, Singaporean director, producer and screenwriter
- 1977 – Konstantin Zyryanov, Russian footballer
- 1977 – Hugleikur Dagsson, Icelandic artist
- 1978 – James Valentine, American musician (Maroon 5)
- 1979 – Vince Grella, Australian footballer
- 1979 – Joe Lipari, American writer, comedian and moviemaker
- 1980 – Paul Thomas, American musician (Good Charlotte)
- 1980 – James Toseland, British motorcycle racer
- 1981 – Zhang Yining, Chinese table tennis player
- 1981 – Joel Lindpere, Estonian footballer
- 1982 – Brandi Williams, American singer-songwriter and actress
- 1983 – Florian Mayer, German tennis player
- 1983 – Jesse Eisenberg, American actor
- 1983 – Nicky Hilton, American heiress of the Hilton Hotel chain
- 1984 – Zlatko Dedic, Slovenian footballer
- 1984 – Kenwyne Jones, Trinidadian footballer
- 1984 – Clint Jones, American ski jumper
- 1985 – Nicola Roberts, British singer (Girls Aloud)
- 1987 – Kevin Mirallas, Belgian footballer
- 1987 – Park So Yeon, South Korean singer
- 1987 – Hadleigh Parkes, New Zealand-Welsh rugby union player
- 1988 – Bahar Kızıl, German singer-songwriter (Monrose)
- 1988 – Sam Warburton, Welsh rugby player
- 1989 – Asmirandah, Indonesian actress, singer, writer and model
- 1991 – Arthur Pic, French racing driver
- 1992 – Kevin Magnussen, Danish racing driver
- 1992 – Mercedes Lambre, Argentine actress and singer
Deaths Edit
Up to 1900 Edit
- 578 – Justin II, Byantine Emperor (b. 520)
- 877 – Charles the Bald
- 1056 – Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1017)
- 1112 – Sigebert of Gembloux, French monk, historian and author (b. 1030)
- 1214 – King Alfonso VIII of Castile (b. 1155)
- 1285 – King Philip III of France (b. 1245)
- 1606 – Philippe Desportes, French poet (b. 1546)
- 1763 – King Augustus III of Poland (b. 1696)
- 1777 – Johann Andreas Segner, Slovakian-German mathematician, physicist and physician (b. 1704)
- 1791 – Grigori Potemkin, Russian statesman (b. 1739)
- 1805 – Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, English general (b. 1738)
- 1813 – Tecumseh, Native American leader (b. 1768)
- 1837 – Hortense de Beauharnais Queen of Holland and mother of the Emperor Napoleon III of France (b. 1783)
- 1853 – Mahlon Dickerson, Governor of New Jersey (b. 1770)
- 1855 – Thomas Mitchell, Australian explorer
- 1861 – Kinsley S. Bingham, Governor of Michigan (b. 1808)
- 1880 – Jacques Offenbach, French composer (b. 1819)
1901 – 2000 Edit
- 1913 – Hans von Bartels, German painter (b. 1856)
- 1918 – Roland Garros, French pilot (b. 1888)
- 1927 – Sam Warner, American movie producer (b. 1887)
- 1930 – Christopher Birdwood Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson, British Secretary of State for Air (b. 1876)
- 1933 – Renée Adoree, French actress (b. 1898)
- 1936 – J. Slauerhoff, Dutch poet and novelist, from complications following neglected tuberculosis (b. 1898)
- 1938 – Mary Faustina Kowalska, Polish nun, mystic and saint (b. 1905)
- 1940 – Silvestre Revueltas, Mexican composer (b. 1899)
- 1941 – Louis Dembitz Brandeis, justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (b. 1856)
- 1943 – Leon Roppolo, jazz musician (b. 1902)
- 1957 – José Leandro Andrade, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1901)
- 1969 – Walter Hagen, champion golfer
- 1976 – Lars Onsager, Norwegian physical chemist (b. 1903)
- 1976 – Barbara Nichols, American actress (b. 1929)
- 1983 – Earl Tupper, inventor of Tupperware (b. 1907)
- 1983 – Humberto Mauro, Brazilian movie director and screenwriter (b. 1897)
- 1986 – Hal B. Wallis, movie producer
- 1986 – James H. Wilkinson, mathematician (b. 1919)
- 1992 – Eddie Kendricks, singer (b. 1939)
- 1995 – Linda Gary, voice actor (b. 1944)
- 1996 – Seymour Cray, American computer pioneer (b. 1926)
From 2001 Edit
- 2002 – Chuck Rayner, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1920)
- 2003 – Denis Quilley, British actor (b. 1927)
- 2003 – Dan Snyder, Atlanta Thrashers ice hockey player (b. 1978)
- 2004 – Rodney Dangerfield, American comedian (b. 1921)
- 2004 – Maurice Wilkins, DNA pioneer (b. 1916)
- 2007 – Walter Kempowski, German writer (b. 1929)
- 2007 – Justin Tuveri, Italian World War I veteran (b. 1898)
- 2009 – Giselher Klebe, German composer (b. 1925)
- 2009 – Israel Gelfand, Soviet-born American mathematician (b. 1913)
- 2010 – Bernard Clavel, French writer (b. 1923)
- 2011 – Bert Jansch, Scottish musician (b. 1943)
- 2011 – Steve Jobs, American computer entrepreneur and innovator, co-founder and CEO of Apple Inc. (b. 1955)
- 2011 – Charles Napier, American actor (b. 1936)
- 2012 – Claude Pinoteau, French movie director and screenwriter (b. 1925)
- 2013 – Carlo Lizzani, Italian actor and movie director (b. 1922)
- 2014 – Yuri Lyubimov, Russian stage actor and director (b. 1917)
- 2014 – Andrea de Cesaris, Italian racing driver (b. 1959)
- 2014 – Anna Przybylska, Polish actress (b. 1978)
- 2014 – Geoffrey Holder, Trinidadian actor, director, artist and dancer (b. 1930)
- 2014 – Anna Maria Gherardi, Italian actress (b. 1939)
- 2014 – Misty Upham, American actress (b. 1982)
- 2015 – Henning Mankell, Swedish writer (b. 1948)
- 2015 – Jos Vandeloo, Belgian writer and poet (b. 1925)
- 2015 – Grace Lee Boggs, American writer and activist (b. 1915)
- 2015 – Chantal Akerman, Belgian movie director and artist (b. 1950)
- 2015 – Infante Carlos, Duke of Calabria (b. 1938)
- 2016 – Georges Balandier, French sociologist, ethnologist and anthropologist (b. 1920)
- 2016 – Michal Kovac, 1st President of Slovakia (b. 1930)
- 2016 – Josh Samman, American mixed martial artist (b. 1988)
- 2017 – Toon Geurts, Dutch sprint canoeist (b. 1932)
- 2017 – Eberhard van der Laan, Dutch politician (b. 1955)
- 2017 – Giorgio Pressburger, Hungarian-Italian writer (b. 1937)
- 2017 – Anne Wiazemsky, French actress and novelist (b. 1947)
- 2017 – Sylke Tempel, German journalist and novelist (b. 1963)
- 2018 – Jimmy Duquennoy, Belgian cyclist (b. 1995)
- 2018 – Ray Galton, English screenwriter (b. 1930)
- 2018 – Ivar Odnes, Norwegian politician (b. 1963)
- 2018 – Víctor Pey, Spanish-Chilean engineer and political activist (b. 1915)
- 2019 – Andy Etcheburren, American baseball player (b. 1943)
- 2019 – Marcello Giordani, Italian tenor (b. 1963)
- 2019 – David Greaves, English snooker player (b. 1946)
- 2019 – Henry Keizer, Dutch politician and businessman (b. 1960)
- 2019 – Blaine Lindgren, American sprinter (b. 1939)
- 2019 – Margaret Lyons, Canadian radio executive (b. 1923)
- 2019 – Philippe Vandevelde, Belgian comic writer (b. 1957)