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Famous people born on October 5
Short answer
Well-known people born on October 5 include Denis Diderot (1713), Kate Winslet (1975), Chester A. Arthur (1829) and Emomali Rahmon (1952). Our list below has 101 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives October 5 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1609 (Paul Fleming) and the most recent is 2006 (Jacob Tremblay). The most common fields on this date: football, actress, actor.
Who was born on October 5?
- Denis Diderot 1713 French Enlightenment philosopher writer and encyclopædist
- Kate Winslet 1975 English actress
- Chester A. Arthur 1829 President of the United States from 1881 to 1885
- Emomali Rahmon 1952 President of Tajikistan (1992-present)
- Ramzan Kadyrov 1976 Russian politician and head of the Chechen Republic
- Robert H. Goddard 1882 American physicist
- Neil deGrasse Tyson 1958 American astrophysicist and science communicator
- Donald Pleasence 1919 British actor
- Jesse Eisenberg 1983 American actor
- Bernie Mac 1957 American actor
- Guy Pearce 1967 Australian actor
- Bernard Bolzano 1781 Bohemian mathematician and priest
- Glynis Johns 1923 British actress
- Reinhard Selten 1930 German economist
- Careca 1960 Brazilian association football player
- Andreas Kaplan 1977 German economist, dean, university rector; higher education expert; edtech; social…
- Milena Dravić 1940 Serbian actress
- Ray Kroc 1902 American businessman
- Tom Hooper 1972 British-Australian filmmaker
- Mario Lemieux 1965 Canadian ice hockey player and team owner
- Takahiro Ogihara 1991 Japanese association football player
- Clive Barker 1952 English author, film director, and visual artist
- Eduardo Duhalde 1941 President of Argentina from 2002 to 2003
- Konstantin Zyryanov 1977 Russian footballer
- Francis Peyton Rous 1879 American scientist
- Exequiel Palacios 1998 Argentine association football player
- Brian Johnson 1947 English singer, songwriter and television show host of car shows
- Karen Allen 1951 American actress
- Kevin Mirallas 1987 Belgian association football player
- Peter Ackroyd 1949 English author
- Marie Laforêt 1939 French-Swiss singer and actress
- Humberlito Borges 1980 Brazilian association football player
- Nicola Rizzoli 1971 Italian football referee
- Mary of Modena 1658 Queen consort of England
- Georges Bidault 1899 French politician
- Jonathan Edwards 1703 Christian preacher, philosopher, and theologian
- Pavel Popovich 1930 Soviet cosmonaut
- Chanathip Songkrasin 1993 Thai association football player
- Cédric Villani 1973 French mathematician and politician
- Francesco Guardi 1712 Italian painter
- Antoine Gizenga 1925 Congolese Prime Minister, candidate for President
- Richard F. Gordon 1929 American astronaut
- Brian O'Nolan 1911 Irish writer
- Eden Golan 2003 Israeli singer
- Yuika Sugasawa 1990 Japanese association football player
- Jacob Tremblay 2006 Canadian actor
- Magda Szabó 1917 Hungarian writer, poet and translator
- Mauricio Pellegrino 1971 Argentine association football manager
- Grant Hill 1972 American basketball player
- Robbie Kruse 1988 Australian association football player
- Philipp Mainländer 1841 German poet and philosopher
- Inessa Kravets 1966 Soviet and Ukrainian triple and long jumper
- Tim Ream 1987 American soccer player
- Xiao Zhan 1991 Chinese actor and singer
- Wilhelm Weitling 1808 German-American socialist
- Rahmon Nabiyev 1930 Tajikistani politician
- Louise Dresser 1878 American actress
- Adil Hussain 1963 Indian actor of Iraqi origin
- Juan Manuel Vargas 1983 Peruvian footballer
- Jock Stein 1922 Scottish football player and manager
- Inna Churikova 1943 Soviet and Russian actress
- Bart D. Ehrman 1955 American biblical scholar
- Nicky Hilton 1983 American socialite
- Johann II, Prince of Liechtenstein 1840 Prince of Liechtenstein
- Daniel Baldwin 1960 American actor
- Travis Kelce 1989 American football player
- José Froilán González 1922 Argentine racing driver
- Parminder Nagra 1975 British actress
- Ludwig Borchardt 1863 German egyptologist
- Kenwyne Jones 1984 Trinidad and Tobago footballer
- Jeff Conaway 1950 American actor
- Ben Cardin 1943 American lawyer and former politician
- Maya Lin 1959 American sculptor and architect
- Joshua Logan 1908 American stage and film director and writer
- Michèle Pierre-Louis 1947 Haitian Prime Minister
- Meliton Kantaria 1920 Hero of the Soviet Union
- Yutaro Abe 1984 Japanese association football player
- Zlatko Dedić 1984 Slovenian footballer
- Guido von List 1848 Austrian writer
- Jádson 1983 Brazilian footballer
- Tornike Shengelia 1991 Georgian basketball player
- A. R. Penck 1939 German artist
- Florian Mayer 1983 German tennis player
- Stig Dagerman 1923 Swedish writer
- Zhang Yining 1981 Chinese table tennis player
- André Kuipers 1958 Dutch astronaut
- Chevalier d'Éon 1728 French diplomat, spy and soldier. d’Éon lived openly as a trans woman while in exile…
- Arthur Zimmermann 1864 German diplomat
- Saori Yoshida 1982 Japanese sport wrestle, coach
- Ángela Molina 1955 Spanish actress
- Carlos Mayor 1965 Argentine association football player and manager
- Eddie Clarke 1950 British guitarist
- José Donoso 1924 Chilean author and journalist
- Joel Lindpere 1981 Estonian footballer
- Julio César Cáceres 1979 Paraguayan footballer
- Marie-Claire Blais 1939 Playwright working in Quebec
- Rui Costa 1986 Portuguese cyclist
- Patrick Roy 1965 Canadian ice hockey player
- Bing Xin 1900 Chinese writer，poet
- Paul Fleming 1609 German physician, poet and diplomat
- Boris Shcherbina 1919 Soviet politician, vice-chairman of the Council of Ministers
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on October 5 share the 5th of October as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.