| 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 |