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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 5th of August 0642 | EVENT | Battle of Maserfield : Penda of Mercia defeats and kills Oswald of Northumbria. |
| 5th of August 0910 | EVENT | The last major Danish army to raid England is defeated at the Battle of Tettenhall by the allied forces of Mercia and Wessex, led by King Edward the Elder and Earl Aethelred of Mercia. |
| 5th of August 1100 | EVENT | Henry I is crowned King of England in Westminster Abbey. |
| 5th of August 1305 | EVENT | William Wallace, who led the Scottish resistance against England, is captured by the English near Glasgow and transported to London where he is put on trial and executed. |
| 5th of August 1388 | EVENT | The Battle of Otterburn, a border skirmish between the Scottish and the English in Northern England, is fought near Otterburn. |
| 5th of August 1583 | EVENT | Sir Humphrey Gilbert establishes the first English colony in North America, at what is now St John's, Newfoundland. |
| 5th of August 1600 | EVENT | The Gowrie Conspiracy against King James VI of Scotland (later to become King James I of England) takes place. |
| 5th of August 1620 | EVENT | The Mayflower departs from Southampton, England on its first attempt to reach North America. |
| 5th of August 1689 | EVENT | 1,500 Iroquois attack the village of Lachine in New France. |
| 5th of August 1716 | EVENT | The Battle of Petrovaradin takes place. |
| 5th of August 1735 | EVENT | Freedom of the press: New York Weekly Journal writer John Peter Zenger is acquitted of seditious libel against the royal governor of New York, on the basis that what he had published was true. |
| 5th of August 1763 | EVENT | Pontiac's War: Battle of Bushy Run : British forces led by Henry Bouquet defeat Chief Pontiac's Indians at Bushy Run. |
| 5th of August 1772 | EVENT | The First Partition of Poland begins. |
| 5th of August 1781 | EVENT | The Battle of Dogger Bank takes place. |
| 5th of August 1858 | EVENT | Cyrus West Field and others complete the first transatlantic telegraph cable after several unsuccessful attempts. It will operate for less than a month. |
| 5th of August 1860 | EVENT | Charles XV of Sweden of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Norway in Trondheim. |
| 5th of August 1861 | EVENT | American Civil War: in order to help pay for the war effort, the United States government levies the first income tax as part of the Revenue Act of 1861 (3% of all incomes over US $800; rescinded in 1872). |
| 5th of August 1861 | EVENT | The United States Army abolishes flogging. |
| 5th of August 1862 | EVENT | American Civil War: Battle of Baton Rouge : along the Mississippi River near Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Confederate troops drive Union forces back into the city. |
| 5th of August 1864 | EVENT | American Civil War: the Battle of Mobile Bay begins : at Mobile Bay near Mobile, Alabama, Admiral David Farragut leads a Union flotilla through Confederate defenses and seals one of the last major Southern ports. |
| 5th of August 1870 | EVENT | Franco-Prussian War: the Battle of Spicheren is fought, resulting in a Prussian victory. |
| 5th of August 1874 | EVENT | Japan launches its postal savings system, modeled after a similar system in the United Kingdom. |
| 5th of August 1882 | EVENT | The Standard Oil of New Jersey is established. |
| 5th of August 1884 | EVENT | The cornerstone for the Statue of Liberty is laid on Bedloe's Island (now Liberty Island) in New York Harbor. |
| 5th of August 1888 | EVENT | Bertha Benz drives from Mannheim to Pforzheim and back in the first long distance automobile trip, commemorated as the Bertha Benz Memorial Route since 2008. |
| 5th of August 1901 | EVENT | Peter O'Connor sets the first IAAF recognised long jump world record of 24 ft 11 3/4 ins. The record will stand for 20 years. |
| 5th of August 1914 | EVENT | World War I: the German minelayer Konigin Luise lays a minefield about 40 miles of the Thames Estuary (Lowestoft). She is intercepted and sunk by the British light-cruiser HMS Amphion. |
| 5th of August 1914 | EVENT | In Cleveland, Ohio, the first electric traffic light is installed. |
| 5th of August 1925 | EVENT | Plaid Cymru is formed with the aim of disseminating knowledge of the Welsh language that is at the time in danger of dying out. |
| 5th of August 1940 | EVENT | World War II: the Soviet Union formally annexes Latvia. |
| 5th of August 1944 | EVENT | World War II: possibly the biggest prison breakout in history occurs as 545 Japanese POWs attempt to escape outside the town of Cowra, New South Wales, Australia. |
| 5th of August 1944 | EVENT | Holocaust: Polish insurgents liberate a German labor camp in Warsaw, freeing 348 Jewish prisoners. |
| 5th of August 1949 | EVENT | In Ecuador an earthquake destroys 50 towns and kills more than 6,000. |
| 5th of August 1949 | EVENT | The Mann Gulch fire kills 13 firefighters in Montana. |
| 5th of August 1957 | EVENT | American Bandstand, a show dedicated to the teenage "baby-boomers" by playing the songs and showing popular dances of the time, debuts on the ABC television network. |
| 5th of August 1960 | EVENT | Burkina Faso, then known as Upper Volta, becomes independent from France. |
| 5th of August 1962 | EVENT | Nelson Mandela is jailed. He would not be released until 1990. |
| 5th of August 1963 | EVENT | The United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union sign a nuclear test ban treaty. |
| 5th of August 1964 | EVENT | Vietnam War: Operation Pierce Arrow : American aircraft from carriers USS Ticonderoga and USS Constellation bomb North Vietnam in retaliation for strikes against U.S. destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin. |
| 5th of August 1969 | EVENT | Mariner program: Mariner 7 makes its closest fly-by of Mars (3,524 kilometers). |
| 5th of August 1974 | EVENT | Vietnam War: the U.S. Congress places a $1 billion dollar limit on military aid to South Vietnam. |
| 5th of August 1979 | EVENT | In Afghanistan, Maoists undertake an attempted military uprising. |
| 5th of August 1981 | EVENT | Ronald Reagan fires 11,359 striking air-traffic controllers who ignored his order for them to return to work. |
| 5th of August 1989 | EVENT | General elections are held in Nicaragua with the Sandinista Front winning a majority. |
| 5th of August 1995 | EVENT | The city of Knin, a significant Serb stronghold, is captured by Croatian forces during Operation Storm. The date is celebrated in Croatia as Victory Day. |
| 5th of August 2003 | EVENT | A car bomb explodes in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta outside the Marriott Hotel killing 12 and injuring 150. |
| 5th of August 2010 | EVENT | 2010 Copiapo mining accident occurs, trapping 33 Chilean miners approximately 2,300 ft below the ground. |
| 5th of August 1301 | BIRTHDAY | Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent, English politician (d. 1330) |
| 5th of August 1461 | BIRTHDAY | King Alexander Jagiellon of Poland (d. 1506) |
| 5th of August 1623 | BIRTHDAY | Antonio Cesti, Italian composer (d. 1669) |
| 5th of August 1641 | BIRTHDAY | John Hathorne, American magistrate (d. 1717) |
| 5th of August 1662 | BIRTHDAY | James Anderson, Scottish historian (d. 1728) |
| 5th of August 1694 | BIRTHDAY | Leonardo Leo, Italian composer (d. 1744) |
| 5th of August 1802 | BIRTHDAY | Niels Henrik Abel, Norwegian mathematician (d. 1829) |
| 5th of August 1811 | BIRTHDAY | Ambroise Thomas, French opera composer (d. 1896) |
| 5th of August 1813 | BIRTHDAY | Ivar Aasen, Norwegian poet and linguist (d. 1896) |
| 5th of August 1815 | BIRTHDAY | Edward John Eyre, English explorer (d. 1901) |
| 5th of August 1827 | BIRTHDAY | Deodoro da Fonseca, Brazilian statesman (d. 1892) |
| 5th of August 1828 | BIRTHDAY | Queen Louise of the Netherlands, Dutch consort of Charles XV of Sweden (d. 1871) |
| 5th of August 1833 | BIRTHDAY | Queen Carola of Vasa, Austrian consort of Albert of Saxony (d. 1907) |
| 5th of August 1850 | BIRTHDAY | Guy de Maupassant, French writer (d. 1893) |
| 5th of August 1862 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph Merrick, English sideshow performer (d. 1890) |
| 5th of August 1866 | BIRTHDAY | Harry Trott, Australian cricketer (d. 1917) |
| 5th of August 1866 | BIRTHDAY | Carl Harries, German chemist (d. 1923) |
| 5th of August 1872 | BIRTHDAY | Oswaldo Cruz, Brazilian physician (d. 1917) |
| 5th of August 1877 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Thomson, Canadian painter (d. 1917) |
| 5th of August 1887 | BIRTHDAY | Reginald Owen, English actor (d. 1972) |
| 5th of August 1888 | BIRTHDAY | Victor Francen, Belgian-born French actor (d. 1977) |
| 5th of August 1889 | BIRTHDAY | Conrad Aiken, American writer (d. 1973) |
| 5th of August 1890 | BIRTHDAY | Erich Kleiber, Austrian conductor (d. 1956) |
| 5th of August 1890 | BIRTHDAY | Naum Gabo, Russian sculptor (d. 1977) |
| 5th of August 1897 | BIRTHDAY | Aksel Larsen, Danish politician (d. 1972) |
| 5th of August 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Claude Autant-Lara, French film director (d. 2000) |
| 5th of August 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Wassily Leontief, Russian economist, Nobel laureate (d. 1999) |
| 5th of August 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Joan Hickson, English actress (d. 1998) |
| 5th of August 1906 | BIRTHDAY | John Huston, American director (d. 1987) |
| 5th of August 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Harold Holt, 17th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1967) |
| 5th of August 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Bruno Coquatrix, French songwriter and music impresario (d. 1979) |
| 5th of August 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Taylor, American actor (d. 1969) |
| 5th of August 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Abbe Pierre, French Catholic priest (d. 2007) |
| 5th of August 1914 | BIRTHDAY | David Brian, American actor (d. 1993) |
| 5th of August 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Betty Oliphant, Canadian ballerina (d. 2004) |
| 5th of August 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Drake, American actor (d. 1982) |
| 5th of August 1922 | BIRTHDAY | L. Tom Perry, American religious figure |
| 5th of August 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Devan Nair, Singaporean statesman (d. 2005) |
| 5th of August 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Neil Armstrong, American astronaut |
| 5th of August 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Michal Kovac, Slovakian politician |
| 5th of August 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Wendell Berry, American poet, writer and farmer |
| 5th of August 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Karl Johan Astrom, Control engineer and theorist |
| 5th of August 1935 | BIRTHDAY | John Saxon, American actor |
| 5th of August 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Brian G. Marsden, British astronomer (d. 2010) |
| 5th of August 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Herb Brooks, American ice hockey coach (d. 2003) |
| 5th of August 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Princess Irene of the Netherlands |
| 5th of August 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Clark, American film director (d. 2007) |
| 5th of August 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Nelson Briles, American baseball player (d. 2005) |
| 5th of August 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Sammi Smith, American country singer and songwriter (d. 2005) |
| 5th of August 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Bruce Coslet, American football player and coach |
| 5th of August 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Loni Anderson, American actress |
| 5th of August 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Erika Slezak, American actress |
| 5th of August 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Ron Silliman, American poet |
| 5th of August 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Angry Anderson, Australian entertainer (Rose Tattoo) |
| 5th of August 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Bernie Carbo, American baseball player |
| 5th of August 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Rick Derringer, American guitarist and vocalist |
| 5th of August 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Carole Laure, French-Canadian actress |
| 5th of August 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Ray Clemence, English footballer |
| 5th of August 1951 | BIRTHDAY | John Jarratt, Australian actor |
| 5th of August 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Louis Walsh, Irish music manager |
| 5th of August 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Rick Mahler, American baseball player (d. 2005) |
| 5th of August 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Samantha Sang, Australian singer |
| 5th of August 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Jerry Ciccoritti, Canadian film director |
| 5th of August 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Maureen McCormick, American actress |
| 5th of August 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Faith Prince, American actress |
| 5th of August 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Clayton Rohner, American actor |
| 5th of August 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Pete Burns, English singer (Dead or Alive) |
| 5th of August 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Pat Smear, American guitarist (Nirvana, Foo Fighters) |
| 5th of August 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Seth Swirsky, American songwriter |
| 5th of August 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Tawny Kitaen, American actress |
| 5th of August 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Mark O'Connor, American violinist |
| 5th of August 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Athula Samarasekera, Sri Lankan cricketer |
| 5th of August 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Patrick Ewing, Jamacian-born American basketball player |
| 5th of August 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Richard de Groen, New Zealand cricketer |
| 5th of August 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Otis Thorpe, American basketball player |
| 5th of August 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Adam Yauch, American rapper (Beastie Boys) |
| 5th of August 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Motoi Sakuraba, Japanese composer |
| 5th of August 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Scott William Winters, American actor |
| 5th of August 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Jonathan Silverman, American actor |
| 5th of August 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Matthew Caws, American singer (Nada Surf) |
| 5th of August 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Lang, Austrian drummer |
| 5th of August 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Terri Clark, Canadian country singer |
| 5th of August 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Tokimitsu Ishizawa, Japanese professional wrestler |
| 5th of August 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Marine Le Pen, French politician |
| 5th of August 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Funkmaster Flex, American hip hop DJ |
| 5th of August 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Oleg Luzhny, Ukrainian footballer |
| 5th of August 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Colin McRae, Scottish rally driver (d. 2007) |
| 5th of August 1968 | BIRTHDAY | John Olerud, American baseball player |
| 5th of August 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Vasbert Drakes, Barbadian cricketer |
| 5th of August 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Venkatesh Prasad, Indian cricketer |
| 5th of August 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Paola Volpato, Chilean actress |
| 5th of August 1970 | BIRTHDAY | James Gunn, American filmmaker |
| 5th of August 1971 | BIRTHDAY | "Evil" Jared Hasselhoff, American bassist (The Bloodhound Gang) |
| 5th of August 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Christian Olde Wolbers, Belgian guitarist and bassist (Fear Factory) |
| 5th of August 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Ikuto Hidaka, Japanese professional wrestler |
| 5th of August 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Aaqib Javed, Pakistani cricketer |
| 5th of August 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Theodore Whitmore, Jamaican footballer |
| 5th of August 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Sean Sherk, American mixed martial artist |
| 5th of August 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Sanwar Hossain, Bangladeshi cricketer |
| 5th of August 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Alvin Ceccoli, Australian soccer player |
| 5th of August 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Manuel Greil, German footballer |
| 5th of August 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Antoine Sibierski, French footballer |
| 5th of August 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Ami Foster, American actress |
| 5th of August 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Antony Cotton, English actor |
| 5th of August 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Kajol Mukherjee, Indian actress |
| 5th of August 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Iddo Goldberg, Israeli-born British actor |
| 5th of August 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Eicca Toppinen, Finnish cellist (Apocalyptica) |
| 5th of August 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Haim Goldenberg, Israeli-born Canadian mentalist (GoldMind) |
| 5th of August 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Jeff Friesen, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 5th of August 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Kwon Sang-woo, South Korean actor |
| 5th of August 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Marian Pahars, Latvian footballer |
| 5th of August 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Eric Hinske, American baseball player |
| 5th of August 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Walsh, English footballer |
| 5th of August 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Mulder, American baseball player |
| 5th of August 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Kim Gevaert, Belgian sprinter |
| 5th of August 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Nektaria Karantzi, Greek singer |
| 5th of August 1979 | BIRTHDAY | David Healy, Northern Irish footballer |
| 5th of August 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Kaylani Lei, Singaporean-born American pornographic actress |
| 5th of August 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Wayne Bridge, English footballer |
| 5th of August 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Sophie Winkleman, English actress |
| 5th of August 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Ali Umar, Maldivian footballer |
| 5th of August 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Jason Culina, Australian soccer player |
| 5th of August 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Vatsal Seth, Indian actor |
| 5th of August 1981 | BIRTHDAY | David Clarke, British ice hockey player |
| 5th of August 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Carl Crawford, American baseball player |
| 5th of August 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Rachel Scott, American murder victim (d. 1999) |
| 5th of August 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Cory Williams, American internet celebrity |
| 5th of August 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Erik Guay, Canadian alpine skier |
| 5th of August 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Ko Shibasaki, Japanese singer |
| 5th of August 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Alester Maregwede, Zimbabwean cricketer |
| 5th of August 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Genelia D'Souza, Indian actress |
| 5th of August 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Jamie Houston, English-born German rugby player |
| 5th of August 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Pete Sell, American mixed martial artist |
| 5th of August 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Ryu Seung Min, Korean table tennis player |
| 5th of August 1982 | BIRTHDAY | LoLo Jones, American track and field athlete |
| 5th of August 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Tobias Regner, German singer |
| 5th of August 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Dawn Richard, American singer (Danity Kane, Dirty Money) |
| 5th of August 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Korey Hall, American football player |
| 5th of August 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Megan Joy Corkrey, American singer |
| 5th of August 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Laurent Ciman, Belgian footballer |
| 5th of August 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Salomon Kalou, Ivorian footballer |
| 5th of August 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Cassie Davis, Australian singer |
| 5th of August 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Paula Creamer, American golfer |
| 5th of August 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Lexi Belle, American pornographic actress |
| 5th of August 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Federica Pellegrini, Italian swimmer |
| 5th of August 1993 | BIRTHDAY | Suzuka Ohgo, Japanese actress |
| 5th of August 2000 | BIRTHDAY | Maya Bond, Japanese-born American singer-songwriter and drummer |
| 5th of August 0882 | DEATH | King Louis III of France (Born 863) |
| 5th of August 1063 | DEATH | Gruffydd ap Llywelyn, King of Gwynedd (Born 1007) |
| 5th of August 1364 | DEATH | Emperor Kogon of Japan (Born 1313) |
| 5th of August 1572 | DEATH | Isaac Luria, Palestinian Kabbalist (Born 1534) |
| 5th of August 1579 | DEATH | Stanislaus Hosius, Polish Catholic cardinal (Born 1504) |
| 5th of August 1610 | DEATH | Alonso Garcia de Ramon, Spanish soldier and twice Royal Governor of Chile (Born 1552) |
| 5th of August 1633 | DEATH | George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury (Born 1562) |
| 5th of August 1678 | DEATH | Juan Garcia de Zespedes, Mexican viol player, tenor and composer (Born 1619) |
| 5th of August 1743 | DEATH | John Hervey, 2nd Baron Hervey, English statesman and writer (Born 1696) |
| 5th of August 1778 | DEATH | Charles Clemencet, French historian (Born 1703) |
| 5th of August 1792 | DEATH | Frederick North, Lord North, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (Born 1732) |
| 5th of August 1799 | DEATH | Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe, Royal Navy admiral of the fleet (Born 1726) |
| 5th of August 1868 | DEATH | Jacques Boucher de Crevecoeur de Perthes, French archaeologist (Born 1788) |
| 5th of August 1877 | DEATH | Gustavus, Crown Prince of Sweden (Born 1799) |
| 5th of August 1880 | DEATH | Ferdinand Ritter von Hebra, Austrian physician (Born 1816) |
| 5th of August 1895 | DEATH | Friedrich Engels, German philosopher (Born 1820) |
| 5th of August 1901 | DEATH | Victoria, Princess Royal of Great Britain and German Empress (Born 1840) |
| 5th of August 1911 | DEATH | Bob Caruthers, American baseball player (Born 1864) |
| 5th of August 1923 | DEATH | Vatroslav Jagic, Croatian Slavist (Born 1835) |
| 5th of August 1925 | DEATH | Jennie Lee, American actress (Born 1848) |
| 5th of August 1929 | DEATH | Millicent Fawcett, British suffragist (Born 1847) |
| 5th of August 1944 | DEATH | Maurice Turnbull, English cricketer (Born 1906) |
| 5th of August 1946 | DEATH | Wilhelm Marx, Chancellor of Germany (Born 1863) |
| 5th of August 1952 | DEATH | Sameera Moussa, Egyptian nuclear scientist (Born 1917) |
| 5th of August 1955 | DEATH | Carmen Miranda, Portuguese actress and singer (Born 1909) |
| 5th of August 1957 | DEATH | Heinrich Otto Wieland, German chemist, Nobel Laureate (Born 1877) |
| 5th of August 1959 | DEATH | Edgar Guest, English poet (Born 1881) |
| 5th of August 1960 | DEATH | Arthur Meighen, 9th Prime Minister of Canada (Born 1874) |
| 5th of August 1962 | DEATH | Marilyn Monroe, American actress (Born 1926) |
| 5th of August 1963 | DEATH | Salvador Bacarisse, Spanish composer (Born 1898) |
| 5th of August 1964 | DEATH | Art Ross, Canadian hockey player and executive (Born 1886) |
| 5th of August 1968 | DEATH | Luther Perkins American guitarist (Born 1928) |
| 5th of August 1972 | DEATH | Harry Hylton-Foster, Speaker of the British House of Commons (Born 1905) |
| 5th of August 1978 | DEATH | Jesse Haines, American baseball player (Born 1893) |
| 5th of August 1980 | DEATH | Harold L. Runnels, American politician (Born 1924) |
| 5th of August 1983 | DEATH | Judy Canova, American actress (Born 1913) |
| 5th of August 1984 | DEATH | Richard Burton, Welsh actor (Born 1925) |
| 5th of August 1987 | DEATH | Georg Gassmann, German politician (Born 1910) |
| 5th of August 1991 | DEATH | Soichiro Honda, Japanese automotive executive (Born 1906) |
| 5th of August 1991 | DEATH | Paul Brown, American football coach (Born 1908) |
| 5th of August 1992 | DEATH | Jeff Porcaro, American drummer (Toto) (Born 1954) |
| 5th of August 1994 | DEATH | Menachem Avidom, Israeli composer (Born 1908) |
| 5th of August 1994 | DEATH | Alain de Changy, Belgian racing driver (Born 1922) |
| 5th of August 1998 | DEATH | Otto Kretschmer, German U-boat commander (Born 1912) |
| 5th of August 1998 | DEATH | Todor Zhivkov, Bulgarian dictator (Born 1911) |
| 5th of August 2000 | DEATH | Sir Alec Guinness, British actor (Born 1914) |
| 5th of August 2000 | DEATH | Otto Buchsbaum, Austrian-born Brazilian writer and ecological activist (Born 1920) |
| 5th of August 2000 | DEATH | Tullio Crali, Italian artist associated with Futurism (Born 1910) |
| 5th of August 2001 | DEATH | Otema Allimadi, Prime Minister of Uganda (Born 1929) |
| 5th of August 2002 | DEATH | Josh Ryan Evans, American actor (Born 1982) |
| 5th of August 2002 | DEATH | Chick Hearn, American basketball announcer (Born 1916) |
| 5th of August 2002 | DEATH | Franco Lucentini, Italian writer (Born 1920) |
| 5th of August 2002 | DEATH | Matt Robinson, American actor (Born 1937) |
| 5th of August 2005 | DEATH | Polina Astakhova, Russian gymnast (Born 1936) |
| 5th of August 2005 | DEATH | Jim O'Hora, American football coach (Born 1915) |
| 5th of August 2005 | DEATH | Raul Roco, Philippine senator (Born 1941) |
| 5th of August 2006 | DEATH | Susan Butcher, American sled dog champion (Born 1954) |
| 5th of August 2007 | DEATH | Jean-Marie Lustiger, French Catholic Cardinal (Born 1926) |
| 5th of August 2007 | DEATH | Florian Pittis, Romanian actor, singer and producer (Born 1943) |
| 5th of August 2008 | DEATH | Reg Lindsay, Australian country and western singer-songwriter (Born 1929) |
| 5th of August 2008 | DEATH | Neil Bartlett, English chemist, produced xenon hexafluoroplatinate (Born Sept. 15, 1932) |
| 5th of August 2009 | DEATH | Budd Schulberg, American screenwriter and novelist (Born 1914) |