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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 5th of February 0062 | EVENT | Earthquake in Pompeii, Italy. |
| 5th of February 1576 | EVENT | Henry of Navarre abjures Catholicism at Tours and rejoins the Protestant forces in the French Wars of Religion. |
| 5th of February 1597 | EVENT | A group of early Japanese Christians are killed by the new government of Japan for being seen as a threat to Japanese society. |
| 5th of February 1631 | EVENT | Roger Williams emigrates to Boston. |
| 5th of February 1778 | EVENT | South Carolina becomes the first state to ratify the Articles of Confederation. |
| 5th of February 1782 | EVENT | Spanish defeat British forces and capture Minorca. |
| 5th of February 1783 | EVENT | In Calabria a sequence of strong earthquakes begins. |
| 5th of February 1810 | EVENT | Peninsular War: Siege of Cadiz begins. |
| 5th of February 1818 | EVENT | Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte ascends to the thrones of Sweden and Norway. |
| 5th of February 1852 | EVENT | The Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia, one of the largest and oldest museums in the world, opens to the public. |
| 5th of February 1859 | EVENT | Wallachia and Moldavia are united under Alexander John Cuza as the United Principalities, an autonomous region within the Ottoman Empire, which ushered the birth of the modern Romanian state. |
| 5th of February 1869 | EVENT | The largest alluvial gold nugget in history, called the "Welcome Stranger", is found in Moliagul, Victoria, Australia. |
| 5th of February 1885 | EVENT | King Leopold II of Belgium establishes the Congo as a personal possession. |
| 5th of February 1900 | EVENT | The United States and the United Kingdom sign a treaty for the Panama Canal |
| 5th of February 1913 | EVENT | Greek military aviators, Michael Moutoussis and Aristeidis Moraitinis perform the first naval air mission in history, with a Farman MF.7 hydroplane. |
| 5th of February 1917 | EVENT | The current constitution of Mexico is adopted, establishing a federal republic with powers separated into independent executive, legislative, and judicial branches. |
| 5th of February 1917 | EVENT | The Congress of the United States passes the Immigration Act of 1917 over President Woodrow Wilson's veto. Also known as the Asiatic Barred Zone Act, it forbade immigration from nearly all of south and southeast Asia. |
| 5th of February 1918 | EVENT | Stephen W. Thompson shoots down a German airplane. It is the first aerial victory by the U.S. military. |
| 5th of February 1918 | EVENT | SS Tuscania (1914) is torpedoed off the coast of Ireland; it is the first ship carrying American troops to Europe to be torpedoed and sunk. |
| 5th of February 1919 | EVENT | Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D.W. Griffith launch United Artists. |
| 5th of February 1924 | EVENT | The Royal Greenwich Observatory begins broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal or the "BBC pips". |
| 5th of February 1937 | EVENT | President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposes a plan to enlarge the Supreme Court of the United States. |
| 5th of February 1939 | EVENT | Generalisimo Francisco Franco becomes the 68th "Caudillo de Espana", or Leader of Spain. |
| 5th of February 1941 | EVENT | World War II: Allied forces begin the Battle of Keren to capture Keren, Eritrea. |
| 5th of February 1945 | EVENT | World War II: General Douglas MacArthur returns to Manila. |
| 5th of February 1946 | EVENT | The Chondoist Chongu Party is founded in North Korea. |
| 5th of February 1958 | EVENT | Gamel Abdel Nasser is nominated to be the first president of the United Arab Republic. |
| 5th of February 1958 | EVENT | A hydrogen bomb known as the Tybee Bomb is lost by the US Air Force off the coast of Savannah, Georgia, never to be recovered. |
| 5th of February 1962 | EVENT | French President Charles De Gaulle calls for Algeria to be granted independence. |
| 5th of February 1963 | EVENT | The European Court of Justice's ruling in Van Gend en Loos v Nederlandse Administratie der Belastingen establishes the principle of direct effect, one of the most important, if not the most important, decisions in the development of European Union law. |
| 5th of February 1971 | EVENT | Astronauts land on the moon in the Apollo 14 mission. |
| 5th of February 1972 | EVENT | Bob Douglas becomes the first African American elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame. |
| 5th of February 1976 | EVENT | The 1976 swine flu outbreak begins at Fort Dix, NJ. |
| 5th of February 1988 | EVENT | Manuel Noriega is indicted on drug smuggling and money laundering charges. |
| 5th of February 1994 | EVENT | Byron De La Beckwith is convicted of the 1963 murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers. |
| 5th of February 1994 | EVENT | During the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina more than 60 people are killed and some 200 wounded as a mortar shell slams into a downtown marketplace in Sarajevo. |
| 5th of February 1997 | EVENT | The so-called Big Three banks in Switzerland announce the creation of a $71 million fund to aid Holocaust survivors and their families. |
| 5th of February 2000 | EVENT | Russian forces massacre at least 60 civilians in the Novye Aldi suburb of Grozny, Chechnya. |
| 5th of February 2004 | EVENT | Twenty-three Chinese people drown when a group of 35 cockle-pickers are trapped by rising tides in Morecambe Bay, England. Twenty-one bodies are recovered. |
| 5th of February 2004 | EVENT | Rebels from the Revolutionary Artibonite Resistance Front capture the city of Gonaives, starting the 2004 Haiti rebellion. |
| 5th of February 2008 | EVENT | A major tornado outbreak across the Southern United States leaves 57 dead, the most since the May 31, 1985 outbreak that killed 88. |
| 5th of February 2009 | EVENT | The United States Navy guided missile cruiser USS Port Royal runs aground off Oahu, Hawaii, damaging the ship as well as a coral reef. |
| 5th of February 0976 | BIRTHDAY | Sanjo, Emperor of Japan (d. 1017) |
| 5th of February 1505 | BIRTHDAY | Aegidius Tschudi, Swiss historian (d. 1572) |
| 5th of February 1519 | BIRTHDAY | Rene of Chalon, (d. 1544) |
| 5th of February 1534 | BIRTHDAY | Giovanni de' Bardi, Italian writer (d. 1612) |
| 5th of February 1589 | BIRTHDAY | Esteban Manuel de Villegas, Spanish poet (d. 1669) |
| 5th of February 1608 | BIRTHDAY | Gaspar Schott, German mathematician (d. 1666) |
| 5th of February 1626 | BIRTHDAY | Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne, French author (d. 1696) |
| 5th of February 1650 | BIRTHDAY | Anne-Jules, French general (d. 1708) |
| 5th of February 1703 | BIRTHDAY | Gilbert Tennent, Irish-born religious leader (d. 1764) |
| 5th of February 1725 | BIRTHDAY | James Otis, American lawyer and patriot (d. 1783) |
| 5th of February 1744 | BIRTHDAY | John Jeffries, Physician, Surgeon, Balloonist (d. 1819) |
| 5th of February 1784 | BIRTHDAY | Nancy Hanks Lincoln, mother of Abraham Lincoln (d. 1818) |
| 5th of February 1788 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Peel, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1850) |
| 5th of February 1795 | BIRTHDAY | Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger, Austrian mineralogist (d. 1871) |
| 5th of February 1804 | BIRTHDAY | Johan Ludvig Runeberg, Finnish poet (d. 1877) |
| 5th of February 1808 | BIRTHDAY | Carl Spitzweg, German painter (d. 1885) |
| 5th of February 1810 | BIRTHDAY | Ole Bull, Norwegian violinist (d. 1880) |
| 5th of February 1837 | BIRTHDAY | Dwight L. Moody, American evangelist (d. 1899) |
| 5th of February 1840 | BIRTHDAY | Hiram Stevens Maxim, American inventor (Maxim gun) (d. 1916) |
| 5th of February 1840 | BIRTHDAY | John Boyd Dunlop, Scottish inventor (d. 1921) |
| 5th of February 1848 | BIRTHDAY | Joris-Karl Huysmans, French author (d. 1907) |
| 5th of February 1848 | BIRTHDAY | Belle Starr, American outlaw (d. 1889) |
| 5th of February 1848 | BIRTHDAY | Ignacio Carrera Pinto, Chilean war hero (d. 1882) |
| 5th of February 1878 | BIRTHDAY | Andre Citroen, French automobile pioneer (d. 1935) |
| 5th of February 1880 | BIRTHDAY | Gabriel Voisin, French aviation pioneer (d. 1973) |
| 5th of February 1889 | BIRTHDAY | Ernest Tyldesley, English cricketer (d. 1962) |
| 5th of February 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Adlai Stevenson, American politician, 31st Governor of Illinois (d. 1965) |
| 5th of February 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Joan Whitney Payson, American heiress (d. 1975) |
| 5th of February 1906 | BIRTHDAY | John Carradine, American actor (d. 1988) |
| 5th of February 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Pierre Pflimlin, French Politician (d. 2000) |
| 5th of February 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Dunn (musician), pioneer Western swing musician (d. 1971) |
| 5th of February 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Daisy and Violet Hilton, British conjoined twins (d. 1969) |
| 5th of February 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Peg Entwistle, English actress (d. 1932) |
| 5th of February 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Grazyna Bacewicz, Polish composer and violinist (d. 1969) |
| 5th of February 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Francisco Varallo, Argentine footballer (d. 2010) |
| 5th of February 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Leblond, Canadian cell biologist (d. 2007) |
| 5th of February 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Jussi Bjorling, Swedish tenor (d. 1960) |
| 5th of February 1914 | BIRTHDAY | William S. Burroughs, American author (d. 1997) |
| 5th of February 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1998) |
| 5th of February 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Hofstadter, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1990) |
| 5th of February 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Isuzu Yamada, Japanese actress |
| 5th of February 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Red Buttons, American actor (d. 2006) |
| 5th of February 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Tim Holt, American actor (d. 1973) |
| 5th of February 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Andreas Papandreou, Greek politician, Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1996) |
| 5th of February 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Muir, British comedian (d. 1998) |
| 5th of February 1921 | BIRTHDAY | John Pritchard, British conductor (d. 1989) |
| 5th of February 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Alain de Changy, Belgian racing driver (d. 1994) |
| 5th of February 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Claude King, American musician |
| 5th of February 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Ruth Fertel, American entrepreneur (d. 2002) |
| 5th of February 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Andrew Greeley, American priest and novelist |
| 5th of February 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Fred Sinowatz, Austrian politician (d. 2008) |
| 5th of February 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Al Worthington, American baseball player |
| 5th of February 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Luc Ferrari, French composer (d. 2005) |
| 5th of February 1930 | BIRTHDAY | John A. Gambling, American radio show host (d. 2004) |
| 5th of February 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Cesare Maldini, Italian footballer and manager |
| 5th of February 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Jorn Donner, Finnish writer/director |
| 5th of February 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Hank Aaron. American baseball player |
| 5th of February 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Don Cherry, Canadian ice hockey commentator |
| 5th of February 1936 | BIRTHDAY | K. S. Nissar Ahmed, Kannada Poet |
| 5th of February 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Stuart Damon, American actor |
| 5th of February 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Wang Xuan, Chinese scientist (d. 2006) |
| 5th of February 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Gaston Roelants, Belgian athlete |
| 5th of February 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Jane Bryant Quinn, American journalist |
| 5th of February 1940 | BIRTHDAY | H.R. Giger, Swiss artist |
| 5th of February 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Stephen J. Cannell. American television producer and writer (d. 2010) |
| 5th of February 1941 | BIRTHDAY | David Selby, American actor |
| 5th of February 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Kaspar Villiger, Swiss Federal Councilor |
| 5th of February 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Roger Staubach, American football player |
| 5th of February 1942 | BIRTHDAY | James B. Cobb, Jr., American guitarist (Classics IV) |
| 5th of February 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Cory Wells, American singer (Three Dog Night) |
| 5th of February 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Nolan Bushnell, American video game pioneer |
| 5th of February 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Craig Morton, American football player |
| 5th of February 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Mann, American film director |
| 5th of February 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Al Kooper, American musician |
| 5th of February 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Tamanoumi Masahiro, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 51st Yokozuna (d. 1971) |
| 5th of February 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Charlotte Rampling, British actress |
| 5th of February 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Darrell Waltrip, American race car driver |
| 5th of February 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Barbara Hershey, American actress |
| 5th of February 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Errol Morris, American film director |
| 5th of February 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Sven-Goran Eriksson, Swedish football manager |
| 5th of February 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Christopher Guest, American film actor and director |
| 5th of February 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Yvon Vallieres, French-Canadian politician |
| 5th of February 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Jonathan Freeman, American actor |
| 5th of February 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Russell Grant, British astrologer |
| 5th of February 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Balavoine, French singer and songwriter (d. 1986) |
| 5th of February 1953 | BIRTHDAY | John Beilein, American basketball coach |
| 5th of February 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Takashi Ishikawa, Japanese sumo and professional wrestler |
| 5th of February 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Loretta Tofani, American journalist |
| 5th of February 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Cliff Martinez, American musician |
| 5th of February 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Heath, American baseball player |
| 5th of February 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Betty Ong, Flight attendant of American Airlines Flight 11 on September 11, 2001 (d. 2001) |
| 5th of February 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Hector Rebaque, Mexican racing driver |
| 5th of February 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Jennifer Granholm American politician, 47th Governor of Michigan |
| 5th of February 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Aris Christofellis, Greek countertenor |
| 5th of February 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Savvas Kofidis, Greek footballer and manager |
| 5th of February 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Jennifer Jason Leigh, American actress |
| 5th of February 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Steven Shainberg, American film director |
| 5th of February 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Laura Linney, American actress |
| 5th of February 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Duff McKagan, American musician (Guns N' Roses) |
| 5th of February 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Alexia, Cypriot singer |
| 5th of February 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Gheorghe Hagi, Romanian footballer |
| 5th of February 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Keith Moseley, American musician (The String Cheese Incident) |
| 5th of February 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Apostolos Nanos, Greek archer |
| 5th of February 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Rok Petrovic, Slovenian skier (d. 1993) |
| 5th of February 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Frederick Pitcher, Nauruan politician |
| 5th of February 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Parnell, American actor |
| 5th of February 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Ey?or Gu?jonsson, Icelandic actor |
| 5th of February 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Nir Kabaretti, Israeli conductor |
| 5th of February 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Roberto Alomar, Puerto Rican baseball player |
| 5th of February 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Qasim Melho, Syrian actor |
| 5th of February 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Bobby Brown, American singer |
| 5th of February 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Sheen, Welsh actor |
| 5th of February 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Sara Evans, American singer |
| 5th of February 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Koriki Choshu, Japanese comedian |
| 5th of February 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark |
| 5th of February 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Trijntje Oosterhuis, Dutch singer |
| 5th of February 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Matvichuk, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 5th of February 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Giovanni van Bronckhorst, Dutch footballer |
| 5th of February 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Adam Carson, American musician (AFI) |
| 5th of February 1976 | BIRTHDAY | John Aloisi, Australian soccer player |
| 5th of February 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Abhishek Bachchan, Indian actor |
| 5th of February 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Moorman, American football player |
| 5th of February 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Jaa, Thai actor |
| 5th of February 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Ben Ainslie, British sailor |
| 5th of February 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Adam Everett, American baseball player |
| 5th of February 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Ahmad Merritt, American football player |
| 5th of February 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Shawn Reaves, American actor |
| 5th of February 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Russell, American football player |
| 5th of February 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Stefano Di Fiordo, Italian footballer |
| 5th of February 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Brad Fitzpatrick, American programmer |
| 5th of February 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Robin Vik, Czech tennis player |
| 5th of February 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Prince Peter, American-born Yugoslav royalty |
| 5th of February 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Jo Swinson, British politician |
| 5th of February 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Loukas Vyntra, Greek football player |
| 5th of February 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Nora Zehetner, American actress |
| 5th of February 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Aidin Nikkhah Bahrami, Iranian basketball player (d. 2007) |
| 5th of February 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin Everett, American football player |
| 5th of February 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Marc Kennedy, Canadian Curler |
| 5th of February 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Tomas Kopecky, Slovak ice hockey player |
| 5th of February 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Rodrigo Palacio, Argentine footballer |
| 5th of February 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Dionysis Makris, Greek singer |
| 5th of February 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Wheesung, Korean R&B singer |
| 5th of February 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Nate Salley, American football player |
| 5th of February 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Carlos Tevez, Argentinine footballer |
| 5th of February 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Lindsey Cardinale, American singer |
| 5th of February 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Laurence Maroney, American football player |
| 5th of February 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Crystal Hunt, American actress |
| 5th of February 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Cristiano Ronaldo, Portuguese footballer |
| 5th of February 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Manuel Fernandes, Portuguese footballer |
| 5th of February 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Ashley Simmons, American professional wrestler |
| 5th of February 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Vedran Corluka, Croatian football player |
| 5th of February 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Billy Sharp, English footballer |
| 5th of February 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Reed Sorenson, American racecar driver |
| 5th of February 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Carlos Villanueva, Chilean footballer |
| 5th of February 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Linus Omark, Swedish ice hockey player |
| 5th of February 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Darren Criss, American actor, singer |
| 5th of February 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Johnathan Haggerty, American football player |
| 5th of February 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin J. Maclean, Scottish singer-songwriter |
| 5th of February 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Cristine Reyes, Filipino actress |
| 5th of February 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Jeremy Sumpter, American actor |
| 5th of February 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Marvin Knoll, German footballer |
| 5th of February 1992 | BIRTHDAY | Neymar, Brazilian footballer |
| 5th of February 1994 | BIRTHDAY | Saki Nakajima, Japanese singer |
| 5th of February 2002 | BIRTHDAY | Davis Cleveland, American actor |
| 5th of February 0995 | DEATH | William IV, Duke of Aquitaine (Born 937) |
| 5th of February 1520 | DEATH | Sten Sture the Younger, regent of Sweden (Born 1493) |
| 5th of February 1574 | DEATH | Nicolaas Kruik, Dutch cartographer (Born 1678) |
| 5th of February 1578 | DEATH | Giambattista Moroni, Italian painter (Born c.1520-24) |
| 5th of February 1705 | DEATH | Philipp Jakob Spener, German theologian (Born 1635) |
| 5th of February 1766 | DEATH | Leopold Josef Graf Daun, Austrian field marshal (Born 1705) |
| 5th of February 1775 | DEATH | Eusebius Amort, German Catholic theologian (Born 1692) |
| 5th of February 1790 | DEATH | William Cullen, Scottish physician and chemist (Born 1710) |
| 5th of February 1807 | DEATH | Pasquale Paoli, Corsican patriot and military leader (Born 1725) |
| 5th of February 1881 | DEATH | Thomas Carlyle, Scottish writer and historian (Born 1795) |
| 5th of February 1882 | DEATH | Adolfo Rivadeneyra, Spanish traveler, writer and diplomat (Born 1841) |
| 5th of February 1892 | DEATH | Emilie Flygare-Carlen, Swedish novelist (Born 1807) |
| 5th of February 1915 | DEATH | Ross Barnes, baseball player (Born 1850) |
| 5th of February 1917 | DEATH | Jaber II Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (Born 1860) |
| 5th of February 1922 | DEATH | Slavoljub Eduard Penkala, Croatian inventor (Born 1871) |
| 5th of February 1922 | DEATH | Christiaan De Wet, South African general (Born 1854) |
| 5th of February 1927 | DEATH | Inayat Khan, Indian sufi (Born 1882) |
| 5th of February 1933 | DEATH | Josiah Thomas, Australian politician (Born 1863) |
| 5th of February 1937 | DEATH | Lou Andreas-Salome, Russian-born writer (Born 1861) |
| 5th of February 1938 | DEATH | Hans Litten, German jurist (Born 1903) |
| 5th of February 1941 | DEATH | Banjo Paterson, Australian poet, author of "Walzing Matilda" (Born 1864) |
| 5th of February 1946 | DEATH | George Arliss, English actor (Born 1868) |
| 5th of February 1948 | DEATH | Johannes Blaskowitz, German general (Born 1883) |
| 5th of February 1957 | DEATH | Sami Ibrahim Haddad, Lebanese surgeon (Born 1890) |
| 5th of February 1962 | DEATH | Jacques Ibert, French composer (Born 1890) |
| 5th of February 1967 | DEATH | Leon Leonwood Bean, American department store founder (Born 1872) |
| 5th of February 1967 | DEATH | Violeta Parra, Chilean folklorist and visual artist (Born 1917) |
| 5th of February 1969 | DEATH | Thelma Ritter, American actress (Born 1905) |
| 5th of February 1970 | DEATH | Rudy York, American baseball player (Born 1913) |
| 5th of February 1972 | DEATH | Marianne Moore, American poet (Born 1887) |
| 5th of February 1976 | DEATH | Rudy Pompilli, American musician (Bill Haley and His Comets) (Born 1926) |
| 5th of February 1977 | DEATH | Oskar Klein, Swedish physicist (Born 1894) |
| 5th of February 1981 | DEATH | Ella Grasso, Governor of Connecticut (Born 1919) |
| 5th of February 1984 | DEATH | Rodolfo Guzman Huerta, Mexican wrestler and film actor (Born 1917) |
| 5th of February 1985 | DEATH | Georges-Emile Lapalme, French-Canadian politician (Born 1907) |
| 5th of February 1987 | DEATH | William Collier, American film and stage actor (Born 1902) |
| 5th of February 1991 | DEATH | Dean Jagger, American actor (Born 1903) |
| 5th of February 1992 | DEATH | Miguel Rolando Covian, Brazilian physiologist (Born 1913) |
| 5th of February 1993 | DEATH | Sean Flanagan, Irish Gaelic footballer and politician (Born 1922) |
| 5th of February 1993 | DEATH | Marcel Leger, Quebec politician (Born 1930) |
| 5th of February 1993 | DEATH | Joseph L. Mankiewicz, American writer, producer, and director (Born 1909) |
| 5th of February 1993 | DEATH | Tip Tipping, British actor and stuntman (parachuting accident) (Born 1958) |
| 5th of February 1995 | DEATH | Doug McClure, American actor (Born 1935) |
| 5th of February 1997 | DEATH | Pamela Harriman, English-born American diplomat (Born 1920) |
| 5th of February 1998 | DEATH | Tim Kelly, American musician (Born 1963) |
| 5th of February 1999 | DEATH | Wassily Leontief, Russian economist, Nobel Prize Laureate (Born 1906) |
| 5th of February 2000 | DEATH | Claude Autant-Lara, French film director (Born 1901) |
| 5th of February 2003 | DEATH | Helge Boes, American Central Intelligence Agency officer (Born 1970) |
| 5th of February 2004 | DEATH | John Hench, American animator (Born 1908) |
| 5th of February 2005 | DEATH | Gnassingbe Eyadema, President of Togo (Born 1937) |
| 5th of February 2006 | DEATH | Franklin Cover, American actor (Born 1928) |
| 5th of February 2006 | DEATH | Norma Candal, Puerto Rican actress and comedian (Born 1930) |
| 5th of February 2007 | DEATH | Fred Ball, American movie studio executive, actor, and the brother of comedienne Lucille Ball (Born 1915) |
| 5th of February 2007 | DEATH | Leo T. McCarthy, American politician and 43rd Lieutenant Governor of California (1983 : 1995) (Born 1930) |
| 5th of February 2007 | DEATH | Alfred Worm, Austrian investigative journalist (Born 1945) |
| 5th of February 2008 | DEATH | Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Indian guru, founder of Transcendental Meditation (Born c. 1917) |
| 5th of February 2010 | DEATH | Harry Schwarz, South African lawyer, politician and diplomat, leader of the anti-apartheid movement (Born 1924) |
| 5th of February 2010 | DEATH | Brendan Burke, Gay rights activist, son of Toronto Maple Leafs GM Brian Burke (Born 1988) |
| 5th of February 2011 | DEATH | Brian Jacques, English author, author of the Redwall series (Born 1939) |