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Famous people born on September 5

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Well-known people born on September 5 include Louis XIV of France (1638), Freddie Mercury (1946), Caspar David Friedrich (1774) and Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1888). Our list below has 81 people for this date, most widely covered first.

This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives September 5 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1638 (Louis XIV of France) and the most recent is 2002 (Alika Milova). The most common fields on this date: football, politician, singer.

Who was born on September 5?

  1. Louis XIV of France 1638 King of France and Navarre from 1643 to 1715
  2. Freddie Mercury 1946 British singer, songwriter and musician, frontman of the rock band Queen
  3. Caspar David Friedrich 1774 German Romantic landscape painter
  4. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan 1888 2nd President and 1st Vice President of India, Indian philosopher and politician
  5. Michael Keaton 1951 American actor
  6. Werner Herzog 1942 German film director, producer, screenwriter, actor and opera director
  7. Raquel Welch 1940 American actress
  8. Bukayo Saka 2001 English footballer
  9. Arthur Koestler 1905 Hungarian-British author and journalist
  10. Marianna Madia 1980 Italian politician
  11. Johann Christian Bach 1735 German composer
  12. Bob Newhart 1929 American stand-up comedian and actor
  13. Leonardo Araújo 1969 Brazilian association football player
  14. Paul Breitner 1951 German association football player
  15. Christoph Martin Wieland 1733 German poet and writer
  16. Giacomo Meyerbeer 1791 German-French composer
  17. George Lazenby 1939 Australian actor
  18. Chris Hipkins 1978 Prime Minister of New Zealand from January to November 2023
  19. Jesse James 1847 American outlaw, confederate guerrilla, and train robber
  20. Nuri Şahin 1988 Turkish-German association football player
  21. Matthias Sammer 1967 German association football player, coach and executive
  22. Rose McGowan 1973 American actress, director and activist
  23. Osamu Maeda 1965 Japanese association football player
  24. Ken Naganuma 1930 Japanese association football player and manager
  25. Andriyan Nikolayev 1929 Soviet cosmonaut
  26. Abdullah Abdullah 1960 Afghan politician
  27. Otto Bauer 1881 Austrian Social Democrat
  28. Kat Graham 1989 American actress and singer
  29. Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen 1771 Archduke of Austria
  30. Nicanor Parra 1914 Chilean writer, poet, mathematician, and physicist
  31. Carice van Houten 1976 Dutch actress and singer
  32. Kim Yuna 1990 South Korean figure skater
  33. Darryl F. Zanuck 1902 American film producer
  34. John Carew 1979 Norwegian association football player
  35. Lobsang Sangay 1968 Prime Minister of the Tibetan Government in Exile
  36. Mario Scelba 1901 Italian politician
  37. Yulia Peresild 1984 Russian actress of Estonian origin
  38. Jennifer Geerlings-Simons 1953 Surinamese physician and politician
  39. Sigrid 1996 Norwegian singer
  40. Joseba Etxeberria 1977 Spanish footballer and manager
  41. Claudette Colvin 1939 African-American civil rights activist
  42. Paddy Considine 1973 British actor
  43. Skandar Keynes 1991 British actor
  44. Felipe Caicedo 1988 Ecuadorian footballer
  45. Patrick Bamford 1993 English association football player
  46. Sergei Loznitsa 1964 Ukrainian film director and screenwriter
  47. Heimito von Doderer 1896 Austrian writer
  48. Francis Ngannou 1986 Cameroonian mixed martial artist
  49. Friedrich Christian I, Elector of Saxony 1722 Elector of Saxony
  50. Pita Limjaroenrat 1980 Thai businessman and politician
  51. René Grousset 1885 French historian
  52. Paul Volcker 1927 American economist
  53. Benita Ferrero-Waldner 1948 Austrian diplomat and politician
  54. Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri 1667 Italian Jesuit and mathematician
  55. Aleksandar Trajkovski 1992 Macedonian footballer
  56. Alessandra Mele 2002 Norwegian-Italian singer
  57. Waldemar Pawlak 1959 Polish politician
  58. Clay Regazzoni 1939 Swiss racecar driver
  59. Alika Milova 2002 Estonian singer-songwriter
  60. Caroline Sunshine 1995 American actress and singer
  61. Mishary Rashid Al-Afasy 1976 Imam of Grand Mosque (Kuwait), Quran reciter, preacher, Nasheed artist
  62. Edoardo Amaldi 1908 Italian physicist
  63. Al Stewart 1945 Scottish singer-songwriter, folk-rock musician
  64. Alfred Gomis 1993 Senegalian footballer
  65. Amy Beach 1867 American composer and pianist
  66. Clarke Abel 1780 British surgeon and naturalist
  67. Fons Rademakers 1920 Dutch filmmaker, actor and producer
  68. Gregorio Paltrinieri 1994 Italian swimmer
  69. David Brabham 1965 Australian racing driver
  70. Henry Maitland Wilson, 1st Baron Wilson 1881 British field marshal
  71. Farida of Egypt 1921 Egyptian queen consort
  72. Friedrich Akel 1871 Estonian diplomat and politician
  73. Paul Josef Cordes 1934 German Roman Catholic cardinal and archbishop
  74. Grzegorz Sandomierski 1989 Polish footballer
  75. Taki Inoue 1963 Racecar driver
  76. Dennis Dugan 1946 American actor and film director
  77. Jean-Étienne Montucla 1725 French mathematician (*1725 – †1799)
  78. Eugen Goldstein 1850 German physicist and the great science-history maker
  79. Joseph Szigeti 1892 Hungarian born American violinist
  80. Mohammad Javad Bahonar 1933 Iranian cleric
  81. Ryoichi Kurisawa 1982 Japanese association football player

Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on September 5 share the 5th of September as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.

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