| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for | 
|---|
| Bob Abernethy | Journalist | 5-Nov-1927 |  | Former NBC News correspondent | 
| Bryan Adams | Musician | 5-Nov-1959 |  | Canadian Rocker | 
| Ryan Adams | Singer/Songwriter | 5-Nov-1974 |  | Heartbreaker | 
| Washington Allston | Painter | 5-Nov-1779 | 9-Jul-1843 | The Dead Man Revived | 
| Victor Argo | Actor | 5-Nov-1934 | 6-Apr-2004 | Taxi Driver and Mean Streets | 
| Bob Barr | Politician | 5-Nov-1948 |  | Congressman from Georgia, 1995-2003 | 
| John Berger | Novelist | 5-Nov-1926 |  | British novelist, G | 
| John Bowen | Novelist | 5-Nov-1924 |  | The Truth Will Not Help Us | 
| Benjamin Franklin Butler | Attorney | 5-Nov-1818 | 11-Jan-1893 | Criminal lawyer, Civil War general | 
| Grenville Clark | Attorney | 5-Nov-1882 | 13-Jan-1967 | World Peace Through World Law | 
| Johnny Damon | Baseball | 5-Nov-1973 |  | "Caveman" outfielder | 
| Joseph S. Davis | Economist | 5-Nov-1885 | 1975 | Council of Economic Advisers, 1955-58 | 
| Eugene V. Debs | Labor Leader | 5-Nov-1855 | 20-Oct-1926 | Labor leader ran for President five times | 
| Martin Dies, Jr. | Politician | 5-Nov-1900 | 14-Nov-1972 | Congressman from Texas | 
| Charles Dow | Journalist | 5-Nov-1851 | 4-Dec-1902 | Dow of Dow Jones | 
| Will Durant | Historian | 5-Nov-1885 | 7-Nov-1981 | The Story of Civilization | 
| Herb Edelman | Actor | 5-Nov-1933 | 21-Jul-1996 | Stan Zbornak on The Golden Girls | 
| Thomas B. Evans, Jr. | Politician | 5-Nov-1931 |  | Congressman from Delaware, 1977-83 | 
| Myron Floren | Musician | 5-Nov-1919 | 23-Jul-2005 | Accordionist for Lawrence Welk | 
| Jeffrey A. Frankel | Economist | 5-Nov-1952 |  | Council of Economic Advisers, 1997-99 | 
| Mo Gaffney | Actor | 5-Nov-1958 |  | Comedy partner with Kathy Najimy | 
| Art Garfunkel | Singer/Songwriter | 5-Nov-1941 |  | Simon and Garfunkel | 
| Seth Gilliam | Actor | 5-Nov-1968 |  | Carver on The Wire | 
| Willoughby Gray | Actor | 5-Nov-1916 | 13-Feb-1993 | Sir John Stevens on Howards' Way | 
| Guy Green | Film Director | 5-Nov-1913 | 15-Sep-2005 | A Patch of Blue | 
| Jonny Greenwood | Guitarist | 5-Nov-1971 |  | Guitarist for Radiohead | 
| J. B. S. Haldane | Biologist | 5-Nov-1892 | 1-Dec-1964 | Haldane's principle | 
| Patricia Harty | Actor | 5-Nov-1941 |  | Greta Patterson on Occasional Wife | 
| Will H. Hays | Business | 5-Nov-1879 | 7-Mar-1954 | The Hays Production Code | 
| Jon-Erik Hexum | Actor | 5-Nov-1957 | 18-Oct-1984 | Actor accidently shot himself | 
| Jeffrey R. Howard | Judge | 5-Nov-1955 |  | 1st Circuit Court of Appeals | 
| Clifford Irving | Hoaxer | 5-Nov-1930 |  | Howard Hughes autobiography hoax | 
| Famke Janssen | Actor | 5-Nov-1965 |  | X-Men, Bond Girl | 
| Kris Jenner | Relative | 5-Nov-1955 |  | Wife of Bruce Jenner | 
| Kevin Jonas | Musician | 5-Nov-1987 |  | The Jonas Brothers | 
| Lyman Knapp | Politician | 5-Nov-1837 | 9-Oct-1904 | Territorial Governor of Alaska, 1889-93 | 
| Ted Kulongoski | Politician | 5-Nov-1940 |  | Governor of Oregon, 2003-11 | 
| Vivien Leigh | Actor | 5-Nov-1913 | 8-Jul-1967 | Gone With The Wind | 
| Bernard-Henri Lévy | Author | 5-Nov-1948 |  | Who Killed Daniel Pearl? | 
| Forrest Lewis | Actor | 5-Nov-1899 | 2-Jun-1977 | Character actor | 
| Eugene Lipinski | Actor | 5-Nov-1956 |  | Lloyd Manning on Da Vinci's Inquest | 
| Raymond Loewy | Designer | 5-Nov-1893 | 14-Jul-1986 | Father of industrial design | 
| Nicholas Longworth | Politician | 5-Nov-1869 | 9-Apr-1931 | Congressman from Ohio, 1903-31 | 
| Javy Lopez | Baseball | 5-Nov-1970 |  | Catcher Atlanta Braves #8 | 
| Bryan Lourd | Business | 5-Nov-1960 |  | Creative Artists Agency | 
| Lee Lozano | Painter | 5-Nov-1930 | 2-Oct-1999 | Misogyny as art form | 
| Charles MacArthur | Playwright | 5-Nov-1895 | 21-Apr-1956 | The Front Page | 
| Jeb Magruder | Government | 5-Nov-1934 |  | Nixon's deputy campaign director | 
| Joel McCrea | Actor | 5-Nov-1905 | 20-Oct-1990 | Ride the High Country | 
| John McGiver | Actor | 5-Nov-1913 | 9-Sep-1975 | Midnight Cowboy | 
| David W. McKeague | Judge | 5-Nov-1946 |  | 6th Circuit Court of Appeals | 
| Raphael Mechoulam | Chemist | 5-Nov-1930 |  | Discovered THC | 
| Greasy Neale | Football | 5-Nov-1891 | 2-Nov-1973 | NFL Hall of Fame Coach | 
| Corin Nemec | Actor | 5-Nov-1971 |  | Parker Lewis Can't Lose | 
| Truman H. Newberry | Politician | 5-Nov-1864 | 3-Oct-1945 | US Senator from Michigan, 1919-22 | 
| Peter Noone | Singer | 5-Nov-1947 |  | Lead singer of Herman's Hermits | 
| Douglass C. North | Economist | 5-Nov-1920 |  | Cliometrics | 
| Joseph C. O'Mahoney | Politician | 5-Nov-1884 | 1-Dec-1962 | US Senator from Wyoming, 1934-61 | 
| Tatum O'Neal | Actor | 5-Nov-1963 |  | Paper Moon | 
| Allen I. Olson | Politician | 5-Nov-1938 |  | Governor of North Dakota, 1981-85 | 
| Baby Marie Osborne | Actor | 5-Nov-1911 | 11-Nov-2010 | Silent-era child star | 
| Peter Pace | Military | 5-Nov-1945 |  | Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, 2005-07 | 
| Gram Parsons | Musician | 5-Nov-1946 | 19-Sep-1973 | Flying Burrito Brothers | 
| Robert Patrick | Actor | 5-Nov-1958 |  | Mimetic polyalloy in Terminator 2 | 
| Hy Peskin | Photographer | 5-Nov-1915 | 2-Jun-2005 | Sports photojournalist | 
| William D. Phillips | Physicist | 5-Nov-1948 |  | Trapped atoms with laser light | 
| Thomas Pickering | Diplomat | 5-Nov-1931 |  | Career US Ambassador | 
| Benjamin Quayle | Politician | 5-Nov-1976 |  | Congressman, Arizona 3rd | 
| Jessie Ralph | Actor | 5-Nov-1864 | 30-May-1944 | San Francisco | 
| Marcus Ranum | Computer Programmer | 5-Nov-1962 |  | Tenable Network Security | 
| Judy Reyes | Actor | 5-Nov-1967 |  | Nurse Espinosa on Scrubs | 
| Sam Rockwell | Actor | 5-Nov-1968 |  | Lawn Dogs | 
| Roy Rogers | Actor | 5-Nov-1911 | 6-Jul-1998 | Cowboy movie actor, rode Trigger | 
| Paul Sabatier | Chemist | 5-Nov-1854 | 14-Aug-1941 | Heterogeneous catalysis | 
| Jeffrey Sachs | Economist | 5-Nov-1954 |  | The End of Poverty | 
| Natalie Schafer | Actor | 5-Nov-1900 | 10-Apr-1991 | Mrs. Howell on Gilligan's Island | 
| Herbert I. Schiller | Author | 5-Nov-1919 | 29-Jan-2000 | Mass Communications and American Empire | 
| William J. Sebald | Diplomat | 5-Nov-1901 | Aug-1980 | Chief US FSO in Japan, 1947-52 | 
| Nestor Serrano | Actor | 5-Nov-1955 |  | Capt. Bruno Dante on Witchblade | 
| Sam Shepard | Playwright | 5-Nov-1943 |  | Buried Child | 
| Armin Shimerman | Actor | 5-Nov-1949 |  | Quark on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine | 
| Vandana Shiva | Activist | 5-Nov-1952 |  | Eco-Feminist | 
| Nick Smith | Politician | 5-Nov-1934 |  | Congressman from Michigan, 1993-2005 | 
| Elke Sommer | Actor | 5-Nov-1940 |  | Deadlier Than the Male | 
| Maria Stader | Singer | 5-Nov-1911 | 27-Apr-1999 | Operatic soprano, specialty Mozart | 
| Jock Stallard | Politician | 5-Nov-1921 | 29-Mar-2008 | British MP, St. Pancras North, 1970-83 | 
| Jay B. Stephens | Attorney | 5-Nov-1946 |  | General Counsel of Raytheon | 
| Tilda Swinton | Actor | 5-Nov-1960 |  | The Deep End | 
| Alphonso Taft | Government | 5-Nov-1810 | 21-May-1891 | Attorney General under Grant | 
| Ida M. Tarbell | Journalist | 5-Nov-1857 | 6-Jan-1944 | History of the Standard Oil Company | 
| Charles Taylor | Philosopher | 5-Nov-1931 |  | Sources of the Self | 
| Vernon W. Thomson | Politician | 5-Nov-1905 | 2-Apr-1988 | Governor of Wisconsin, 1957-59 | 
| Ike Turner | Musician | 5-Nov-1931 | 12-Dec-2007 | River Deep, Mountain High | 
| Cecil H. Underwood | Politician | 5-Nov-1922 | 24-Nov-2008 | Twice Governor of West Virginia | 
| Bill Walton | Basketball | 5-Nov-1952 |  | NBA Most Valuable Player, 1978 | 
| Bubba Watson | Golf | 5-Nov-1978 |  | Winner, 2012 Masters Tournament | 
| Fred Whipple | Astronomer | 5-Nov-1906 | 30-Aug-2004 | Comet Guy | 
| Ella Wheeler Wilcox | Poet | 5-Nov-1850 | 30-Oct-1919 | Poems of Passion | 
| Frederica Wilson | Politician | 5-Nov-1942 |  | Congresswoman, Florida 17th | 
| Harris Yulin | Actor | 5-Nov-1937 |  | Roger Stanton on 24 | 
| Robert J. Zimmer | Educator | 5-Nov-1947 |  | President, University of Chicago |