Famous people born on 5 November

• Vivien LeighBritish actress · 1913–1967
  53 yrs
• Ibrahim I18th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire · 1615–1648
  32 yrs
• Paul SabatierFrench chemist · 1854–1941
  86 yrs
• Umar IIUmayyad caliph from 717 to 720 · AD 681–720
  38 yrs
• Will Durant ↗American historian, philosopher and writer · 1885–1981
  96 yrs
• J.B.S. Haldane ↗Geneticist and evolutionary biologist · 1892–1964
  72 yrs
• Louis the Stammerer ↗King of West Francia from 877 to 879 · AD 846–879
  32 yrs
• Louis II of Italy ↗Ruler of the Holy Roman Empire from 844 to 875 · AD 825–875
  49 yrs
• Sam Shepard ↗American playwright and actor · 1943–2017
  73 yrs
• Joe Dassin ↗French-American musician · 1938–1980
  41 yrs
• Kira Muratova ↗Soviet and Ukrainian film director, screenwriter, film actress · 1934–2018
  83 yrs
• Douglass North ↗American economist and Nobel laureate · 1920–2015
  95 yrs
• Uwe Seeler ↗German association football player · 1936–2022
  85 yrs
• César Luis Menotti ↗Argentine footballer and manager · 1938–2024
  85 yrs
• Ike Turner ↗American musician · 1931–2007
  76 yrs
• Princess Fawzia Fuad of Egypt ↗Queen consort of Iran from 1941 to 1948 · 1921–2013
  91 yrs
• Eugene V. Debs ↗American labor and political leader · 1855–1926
  70 yrs
• Giovanni Battista Belzoni ↗Italian antiquarian · 1778–1823
  45 yrs
• John Berger ↗British painter, writer and art critic · 1926–2017
  90 yrs
• Catherine of Valois ↗Queen consort of England · 1401–1437
  35 yrs
• Alejandro Sabella ↗Argentine association football player and manager · 1954–2020
  66 yrs
• Anna Maria van Schurman ↗Artist, scientist and philosopher from the Northern Netherlands · 1607–1678
  70 yrs
• Bill Walton ↗American basketball player and sportscaster · 1952–2024
  71 yrs
• Roy Rogers ↗American actor and singer · 1911–1998
  86 yrs
• Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin ↗Russian painter · 1878–1939
  60 yrs
• Lennart Johansson ↗Industrialist, Swedish football administrator, president of UEFA · 1929–2019
  89 yrs
• Fred Lawrence Whipple ↗American astronomer · 1906–2004
  97 yrs
• Ida Tarbell ↗American journalist · 1857–1944
  86 yrs
• Mikhail Artsybashev ↗Russian writer and playwright · 1878–1927
  48 yrs
• Edwin Flack ↗Australian middle distance runner and tennis player · 1873–1935
  61 yrs
• Joel McCrea ↗American actor · 1905–1990
  84 yrs
• Mihail Sadoveanu ↗Romanian writer, journalist and politician · 1880–1961
  80 yrs

Only people with a known day of birth are listed, and only people who have died. Dates are from Wikidata (CC0), last updated 22 October 2026.

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