November 5 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on November 5, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♏︎ Scorpio
Oct 23 – Nov 21
Birth stone
Topaz
Birth flower
Chrysanthemum
How common
#149 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous November 5 birthdays
Paul Sabatier · French chemist1854
Eugene V. Debs · American labor and political leader1855
Will Durant · American historian, philosopher and writer1885
Vivien Leigh · British actress1913
Douglass North · American economist and Nobel laureate1920
Ike Turner · American musician1931
Joe Dassin · French-American musician1938
Art Garfunkel · American singer1941
Sam Shepard · American playwright and actor1943
William Daniel Phillips · Physics Nobel laureate1948
Vandana Shiva · Indian philosopher, activist and environmentalist1952
Jeffrey Sachs · American economist1954
Kris Jenner · American media personality, socialite, and businesswoman1955
Robert Patrick · American actor1958
Bryan Adams · Canadian singer-songwriter and musician1959
Yair Lapid · Leader of the Opposition in the Knesset1963
Tatum O'Neal · American actress1963
Famke Janssen · Dutch actress1964
Sam Rockwell · American actor1968
Kevin Jonas · American singer, actor and musician1987
On this day in history
1968Richard Nixon is elected as 37th President of the United States.
1996Pakistani President Farooq Leghari dismisses the government of Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and dissolves the National Assembly.
2013The Indian Space Research Organisation launched the Mars Orbiter Mission, India's first interplanetary probe.
2024Donald Trump becomes the first president of the United States to be elected to a non-consecutive second term in 132 years, since Grover Cleveland won the 1892 election.
1912Woodrow Wilson is elected the 28th President of the United States, defeating incumbent William Howard Taft.
1940Franklin D. Roosevelt is the first and only President of the United States to be elected to a third term.
1944World War II: Allied forces began a military campaign on Japanese-occupied Singapore.
1950Korean War: The 27th British Commonwealth Brigade succeeded in preventing a Chinese breakthrough at the Battle of Pakchon.
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