What happened on November 5 ?

1271 - Mahmud Ghazan, Persian ruler (d. 1304)

1549 - Philippe de Mornay, French writer (d. 1623)

1592 - Charles Chauncy, English-born president of Harvard College (d. 1672)

1613 - Isaac de Benserade, French poet (d. 1691)

1615 - Ibrahim I, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1648)

1667 - Christoph Ludwig Agricola, German painter (d. 1719)

1701 - Pietro Longhi, Venetian painter (d. 1785)

1715 - John Brown, English writer (d. 1766)

1722 - William Byron, 5th Baron Byron, English dueler (d. 1798)

1742 - Richard Cosway, English artist (d. 1821)

1851 - Charles Dupuy, French prime minister (d. 1923)

1854 - Paul Sabatier, French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1941)

1855 - Léon Teisserenc de Bort, French meteorologist (d. 1913)

1855 - Eugene V. Debs, American socialist leader (d. 1926)

1857 - Ida Tarbell, American journalist (d. 1944)

1885 - Will Durant, American historian (d. 1981)

1890 - Jan Zrzavý, Czech painter (d. 1977)

1892 - J. B. S. Haldane, Scottish geneticist (d. 1964)

1895 - Walter Gieseking, French pianist (d. 1956)

1895 - Charles MacArthur, American author (d. 1956)

1900 - Martin Dies, Jr., American politician (d. 1972)

1900 - Natalie Schafer, American actress (d. 1991)

1904 - Cooney Weiland, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1985)

1905 - Joel McCrea, American actor (d. 1990)

1906 - Fred Lawrence Whipple, American astronomer (d. 2004)

1911 - Roy Rogers, American actor (d. 1998)

1913 - Vivien Leigh, English actress (d. 1967)

1914 - Alton Tobey, American artist (d. 2005)

1919 - Myron Floren, American accordianist, The Lawrence Welk Show (d. 2005)

1920 - Douglass North, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate

1921 - Georges Cziffra, Hungarian pianist (d. 1994)

1921 - Fawzia of Egypt, Queen of Iran

1931 - Ike Turner, American musician

1935 - Lester Piggott, British Jockey

1938 - César Luis Menotti, Argentine footballer

1941 - Art Garfunkel, American musician

1941 - Elke Sommer, German actress

1943 - Sam Shepard, American playwright and actor

1945 - Peter Pace, US Marine and current Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

1946 - Herman Brood, Dutch musician and artist

1946 - Gram Parsons, American musician (d. 1973)

1947 - Peter Noone, English musician and actor

1948 - Hrdayananda Gosvami, ISKCON guru

1948 - Bernard-Henri Lévy, French public intellectual

1948 - Peter Hammill, British musician

1948 - William Daniel Phillips, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

1949 - Armin Shimerman, American actor

1950 - Thorbjørn Jagland, Former norwegian prime minister

1952 - Bill Walton, American basketball player and commentator

1952 - Oleg Blokhin, Ukrainian footballer

1955 - Bernard Chazelle, French-born computer scientist

1958 - Robert Patrick, American actor

1959 - Bryan Adams, Canadian musician

1961 - Gina Mastrogiacomo, American actress (d. 2001)

1962 - Abédi Pelé, Ghanian Footballer

1963 - Andrea McArdle, American actress

1963 - Tatum O'Neal, American actress

1965 - Famke Janssen, Dutch model and actress

1968 - Sam Rockwell, American film actor

1971 - Corin Nemec, American actor

1971 - Jonny Greenwood, Guitarist (Radiohead)

1973 - Johnny Damon, baseball player

1973 - Alexei Yashin, Russian ice hockey player

1974 - Ryan Adams, American musician

1974 - Jerry Stackhouse, American basketball player

1975 - Angela Gossow, German singer (Arch Enemy)

1977 - Brittney Skye, American porn star

1977 - Richard Wright, English footballer

1986 - BoA, Korean singer

1986 - Kasper Schmeichel, Danish footballer