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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 5th of January 1066 | EVENT | Edward the Confessor dies childless, sparking a succession crisis that will eventually lead to the Norman Conquest of England. |
| 5th of January 1355 | EVENT | Charles I of Bohemia is crowned with the Iron Crown of Lombardy in Milan. |
| 5th of January 1477 | EVENT | Battle of Nancy: Charles the Bold is killed and Burgundy becomes part of France. |
| 5th of January 1500 | EVENT | Duke Ludovico Sforza conquers Milan. |
| 5th of January 1527 | EVENT | Felix Manz, a leader of the Anabaptist congregation in Zurich, is executed by drowning. |
| 5th of January 1554 | EVENT | A great fire occurs in Eindhoven, Netherlands. |
| 5th of January 1675 | EVENT | Battle of Colmar: the French army beats Brandenburg. |
| 5th of January 1757 | EVENT | Louis XV of France survives an assassination attempt by Robert : Francois Damiens, the last person to be executed in France by drawing and quartering, the traditional and gruesome form of capital punishment used for regicides. |
| 5th of January 1759 | EVENT | George Washington marries Martha Dandridge Custis. |
| 5th of January 1781 | EVENT | American Revolutionary War: Richmond, Virginia, is burned by British naval forces led by Benedict Arnold. |
| 5th of January 1782 | EVENT | American Revolutionary War: French troops begin a siege of a British garrison on Brimstone Hill in Saint Kitts. |
| 5th of January 1846 | EVENT | The United States House of Representatives votes to stop sharing the Oregon Territory with the United Kingdom. |
| 5th of January 1854 | EVENT | The San Francisco steamer sinks, killing 300 people. |
| 5th of January 1895 | EVENT | Dreyfus Affair: French army officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island. |
| 5th of January 1896 | EVENT | An Austrian newspaper reports that Wilhelm Roentgen has discovered a type of radiation later known as X-rays. |
| 5th of January 1900 | EVENT | Irish leader John Edward Redmond calls for a revolt against British rule. |
| 5th of January 1909 | EVENT | Colombia recognizes the independence of Panama. |
| 5th of January 1911 | EVENT | Kappa Alpha Psi, the world's second oldest and largest black fraternity, is founded at Indiana University. |
| 5th of January 1912 | EVENT | The Prague Party Conference takes place. |
| 5th of January 1913 | EVENT | First Balkan War: During the Naval Battle of Lemnos, Greek admiral Pavlos Kountouriotis forces the Turkish fleet to retreat to its base within the Dardanelles, from which it did not venture for the rest of the war. |
| 5th of January 1914 | EVENT | The Ford Motor Company announces an eight-hour workday and a minimum wage of $5 for a day's labor. |
| 5th of January 1918 | EVENT | The Free Committee for a German Workers Peace, which would become the Nazi party, is founded. |
| 5th of January 1925 | EVENT | Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming becomes the first female governor in the United States. |
| 5th of January 1933 | EVENT | Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge begins in San Francisco Bay. |
| 5th of January 1940 | EVENT | FM radio is demonstrated to the Federal Communications Commission for the first time. |
| 5th of January 1944 | EVENT | The Daily Mail becomes the first transoceanic newspaper. |
| 5th of January 1945 | EVENT | The Soviet Union recognizes the new pro-Soviet government of Poland. |
| 5th of January 1957 | EVENT | In a speech given to the United States Congress, President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces the establishment of what will later be called the Eisenhower Doctrine. |
| 5th of January 1968 | EVENT | Alexander Dubcek comes to power: "Prague Spring" begins in Czechoslovakia. |
| 5th of January 1969 | EVENT | Members of the Royal Ulster Constabulary damage property and assault occupants in the Bogside in Derry, Northern Ireland. In response, residents erect barricades and establish Free Derry. |
| 5th of January 1971 | EVENT | The first One Day International cricket match is held between Australia and England at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. |
| 5th of January 1972 | EVENT | U.S. President Richard Nixon orders the development of a space shuttle program. |
| 5th of January 1974 | EVENT | Warmest reliably measured temperature in Antarctica of +59?F (+15?C) recorded at Vanda Station |
| 5th of January 1974 | EVENT | An earthquake in Lima, Peru, kills six people, and damages hundreds of houses. |
| 5th of January 1975 | EVENT | The Tasman Bridge in Tasmania, Australia, is struck by the bulk ore carrier Lake Illawarra, killing twelve people. |
| 5th of January 1976 | EVENT | Cambodia is renamed the Democratic Kampuchea by the Khmer Rouge. |
| 5th of January 1976 | EVENT | Ten Protestant civilians are shot dead by a paramilitary group at Kingsmill in County Armagh, Northern Ireland (part of The Troubles). |
| 5th of January 1991 | EVENT | Georgian troops attack Tskhinvali, the capital of South Ossetia, opening the 1991 : 1992 South Ossetia War. |
| 5th of January 1993 | EVENT | The oil tanker MV Braer runs aground on the coast of the Shetland Islands, spilling 84,700 tons of crude oil. |
| 5th of January 1993 | EVENT | Washington state executes Westley Allan Dodd by hanging (the last legal hanging in America). |
| 5th of January 1996 | EVENT | Hamas bombmaker Yahya Ayyash is killed by an Israeli-planted booby-trapped cell phone. |
| 5th of January 2003 | EVENT | Police arrest seven suspects in connection with Wood Green ricin plot. |
| 5th of January 2005 | EVENT | Eris, the largest known dwarf planet in the solar system, is discovered by the team of Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L. Rabinowitz using images originally taken on October 21, 2003, at the Palomar Observatory. |
| 5th of January 1209 | BIRTHDAY | Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall, King of the Romans (d. 1272) |
| 5th of January 1548 | BIRTHDAY | Francisco Suarez, Spanish theologian (d. 1617) |
| 5th of January 1587 | BIRTHDAY | Xu Xiake, Chinese geographer (d. 1641) |
| 5th of January 1592 | BIRTHDAY | Shah Jahan, Mughal Emperor of India (d. 1666) |
| 5th of January 1614 | BIRTHDAY | Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria (d. 1662) |
| 5th of January 1667 | BIRTHDAY | Antonio Lotti, Italian composer (d. 1740) |
| 5th of January 1696 | BIRTHDAY | Giuseppe Galli-Bibiena, Italian architect/painter (d. 1757) |
| 5th of January 1717 | BIRTHDAY | William Wildman Shute Barrington, British statesman (d. 1793) |
| 5th of January 1762 | BIRTHDAY | Constanze Mozart, wife of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (d. 1842) |
| 5th of January 1767 | BIRTHDAY | Jean-Baptiste Say, French economist, originator of Say's Law (d. 1832) |
| 5th of January 1778 | BIRTHDAY | Zebulon Pike, American explorer (d. 1813) |
| 5th of January 1779 | BIRTHDAY | Stephen Decatur, American naval officer (d. 1820) |
| 5th of January 1808 | BIRTHDAY | Anton Fuster, Austrian priest and revolutionary activist (d. 1881) |
| 5th of January 1829 | BIRTHDAY | Sir Roger Ichborne, British heir (d. c. 1854) |
| 5th of January 1834 | BIRTHDAY | William John Wills, English explorer (d. 1861) |
| 5th of January 1838 | BIRTHDAY | Camille Jordan, French mathematician (d. 1922) |
| 5th of January 1846 | BIRTHDAY | Rudolf Christoph Eucken, German writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1926) |
| 5th of January 1855 | BIRTHDAY | King Camp Gillette, American inventor (d. 1932) |
| 5th of January 1864 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Caruthers, American baseball player (d. 1911) |
| 5th of January 1864 | BIRTHDAY | Ban Johnson, American baseball executive (d. 1931) |
| 5th of January 1865 | BIRTHDAY | Julio Garavito Armero, Colombian astronomer (d. 1920) |
| 5th of January 1866 | BIRTHDAY | Dimitrios Gounaris, Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1922) |
| 5th of January 1871 | BIRTHDAY | Frederick Converse, American composer (d. 1940) |
| 5th of January 1874 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph Erlanger, American physiologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1965) |
| 5th of January 1876 | BIRTHDAY | Konrad Adenauer, German statesman (d. 1967) |
| 5th of January 1879 | BIRTHDAY | Hans Eppinger, Austrian physician (d. 1946) |
| 5th of January 1880 | BIRTHDAY | Nikolay Medtner, Russian composer (d. 1951) |
| 5th of January 1882 | BIRTHDAY | Herbert Bayard Swope, American journalist (d. 1958) |
| 5th of January 1885 | BIRTHDAY | Humbert Wolfe, Italian-born British poet (d. 1940) |
| 5th of January 1886 | BIRTHDAY | Markus Reiner, Israeli scientist (d. 1976) |
| 5th of January 1893 | BIRTHDAY | Paramahansa Yogananda, Indian guru (d. 1952) |
| 5th of January 1893 | BIRTHDAY | Zoltan Boszormeny, Hungarian Nazi politician (d. unknown) |
| 5th of January 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Elizabeth Cotten, American musician (d. 1987) |
| 5th of January 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Jeannette Piccard, American priest, and aeronaut (d. 1981) |
| 5th of January 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Yves Tanguy, French painter (d. 1955) |
| 5th of January 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Stella Gibbons, English novelist (d. 1989) |
| 5th of January 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Harold Gatty, Australian aviator (d. 1957) |
| 5th of January 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Erica Morini, Austrian violinist (d. 1995) |
| 5th of January 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Jeane Dixon, American astrologer (d. 1997) |
| 5th of January 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Kathleen Kenyon, English archaeologist (d. 1978) |
| 5th of January 1908 | BIRTHDAY | George Dolenz, American actor (d. 1963) |
| 5th of January 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Stephen Cole Kleene, American mathematician (d. 1994) |
| 5th of January 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Lucienne Bloch, Swiss-born American sculptor, muralist, photographer (d. 1995) |
| 5th of January 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Hugh Brannum, American actor (d. 1987) |
| 5th of January 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Jack Lovelock, New Zealand athlete (d. 1949) |
| 5th of January 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Jean-Pierre Aumont, French actor (d. 2001) |
| 5th of January 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Nicolas de Stael, French-Russian painter (d. 1955) |
| 5th of January 1914 | BIRTHDAY | George Reeves, American actor (d. 1959) |
| 5th of January 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Arthur H. Robinson, Canadian cartographer (d. 2004) |
| 5th of January 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Wieland Wagner, German stage director (d. 1966) |
| 5th of January 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Jane Wyman, American actress (d. 2007) |
| 5th of January 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Francis L. Kellogg, American diplomat and socialite (d. 2006) |
| 5th of January 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Lucienne Day, British textile designer (d. 2010) |
| 5th of January 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Severino Gazzelloni, Italian flautist (d. 1992) |
| 5th of January 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Italian pianist (d. 1995) |
| 5th of January 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Friedrich Durrenmatt, Swiss writer (d. 1990) |
| 5th of January 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Governali, American professional football player (d. 1978) |
| 5th of January 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg |
| 5th of January 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Sir Anthony Synnot, Australian naval officer (d. 2001) |
| 5th of January 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Sam Phillips, American music producer (d. 2003) |
| 5th of January 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Gilbert Bogle, Australian scientist (d. 1963) |
| 5th of January 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Hosea Williams, American activist (d. 2000) |
| 5th of January 1926 | BIRTHDAY | William De Witt Snodgrass, American poet |
| 5th of January 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Walter Mondale, American politician, former United States Senator from Minnesota and 42nd Vice President of the United States |
| 5th of January 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Pakistani statesman (d. 1979) |
| 5th of January 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Wilbert Harrison, American singer (d. 1994) |
| 5th of January 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Alfred Masini, American television producer (d. 2010) |
| 5th of January 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Alfred Brendel, Austrian pianist |
| 5th of January 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Alvin Ailey, American choreographer (d. 1989) |
| 5th of January 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Joan Coxsedge, Australian politician |
| 5th of January 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Duvall, American actor |
| 5th of January 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Umberto Eco, Italian writer |
| 5th of January 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Chuck Noll, American football coach |
| 5th of January 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Raisa Gorbacheva, wife of Mikhail Gorbachev (d. 1999) |
| 5th of January 1934 | BIRTHDAY | William Bendeck, Bolivian rally driver (d. 1971) |
| 5th of January 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Florence King, American humorist |
| 5th of January 1938 | BIRTHDAY | King Juan Carlos I of Spain |
| 5th of January 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Otto, American football player |
| 5th of January 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Kenyan writer |
| 5th of January 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Michael O'Donoghue, American writer (d. 1994) |
| 5th of January 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Yuri Ershov, Russian mathematician |
| 5th of January 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Sir Michael Rose, British military officer |
| 5th of January 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Athol Guy, Australian singer (The Seekers) |
| 5th of January 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Hayao Miyazaki, Japanese film maker |
| 5th of January 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi, Indian cricketer |
| 5th of January 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Terenci Moix, Spanish writer (d. 2003) |
| 5th of January 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Jan Leeming, English television presenter and newsreader |
| 5th of January 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Charlie Rose, American talk show host |
| 5th of January 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Maurizio Pollini, Italian pianist |
| 5th of January 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Mary Gaudron, Australian jurist |
| 5th of January 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Ed Rendell, American politician and 45th Governor of Pennsylvania |
| 5th of January 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Roger Spottiswoode, Canadian-born film director |
| 5th of January 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Chuck McKinley, American tennis player (d. 1986) |
| 5th of January 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Diane Keaton, American actress |
| 5th of January 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Dewine, American politician |
| 5th of January 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Mercury Morris, American football player |
| 5th of January 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Ted Lange, American actor |
| 5th of January 1949 | BIRTHDAY | George Brown, American drummer (Kool & The Gang) |
| 5th of January 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Ioan Petru Culianu, Romanian educator (d. 1991) |
| 5th of January 1950 | BIRTHDAY | John Manley, Canadian politician |
| 5th of January 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Charlie Richmond, Canadian entrepreneur |
| 5th of January 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Krzysztof Wielicki, Polish mountaineer |
| 5th of January 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Stein, American guitarist (Blondie) |
| 5th of January 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Arnold, English footballer |
| 5th of January 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Archer, American singer (The Archers) |
| 5th of January 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Pamela Sue Martin, American actress |
| 5th of January 1953 | BIRTHDAY | George Tenet, American civil servant, university professor and 18th Director of Central Intelligence |
| 5th of January 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Rann, Australian politician |
| 5th of January 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Alex English, American basketball player |
| 5th of January 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Laszlo Krasznahorkai, Hungarian writer |
| 5th of January 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Chen Kenichi, Japanese-born chef |
| 5th of January 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Tim Macartney-Snape, Australian mountaineer |
| 5th of January 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin Hastings, Australian rugby league footballer |
| 5th of January 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Nancy Delahunt, Canadian athlete |
| 5th of January 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Clancy Brown, American actor |
| 5th of January 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Glenn Stromberg, Swedish footballer |
| 5th of January 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Jones, British aviator (Red Bull Air Race World Series) |
| 5th of January 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Phil Thornalley, English bass guitarist (The Cure) |
| 5th of January 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Suzy Amis, American actress and model |
| 5th of January 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Perry Fenwick, English actor |
| 5th of January 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Danny Jackson, American baseball player |
| 5th of January 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Jeff Fassero, American baseball player |
| 5th of January 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Grant Young (musician), American drummer (Soul Asylum) |
| 5th of January 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Vinnie Jones, British footballer-turned-actor |
| 5th of January 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Kate Schellenbach, American drummer (Luscious Jackson) |
| 5th of January 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Tuttle, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 5th of January 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Flanigan, American actor |
| 5th of January 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Ricky Paull Goldin, American actor |
| 5th of January 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Andrew Golota, Polish boxer |
| 5th of January 1968 | BIRTHDAY | DJ Bobo, Swiss singer |
| 5th of January 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Carrie Ann Inaba, American dancer and choreographer |
| 5th of January 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Juneau, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 5th of January 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Marilyn Manson, American singer |
| 5th of January 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Paul McGillion, Scottish actor |
| 5th of January 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Rick Campanelli, Canadian TV presenter |
| 5th of January 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Mayuko Takata, Japanese actress |
| 5th of January 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Jayne Middlemiss, British TV presenter and celebrity chef |
| 5th of January 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Sakis Rouvas, Greek singer |
| 5th of January 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Phil Joel, New Zealand bassist (Newsboys) |
| 5th of January 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Sarah Jane Honeywell, British television presenter |
| 5th of January 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Kylie Bax, New Zealand model |
| 5th of January 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Grier, American ice hockey player |
| 5th of January 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Bradley Cooper, American actor |
| 5th of January 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Warrick Dunn, American football player |
| 5th of January 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Matt Wachter, American bassist (30 Seconds to Mars) |
| 5th of January 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Diego Tristan, Spanish footballer |
| 5th of January 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Sabrina Harman, American military figure and accused torturer |
| 5th of January 1978 | BIRTHDAY | January Jones, American actress |
| 5th of January 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Franck Montagny, French Formula One driver |
| 5th of January 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Marcus Trick, German rugby player |
| 5th of January 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Ronnie O'Brien, Irish footballer |
| 5th of January 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Kyle Calder, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 5th of January 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Masami Tanaka, Japanese swimmer |
| 5th of January 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Bennie Joppru, American football player |
| 5th of January 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Corey Flynn, New Zealand rugby union footballer |
| 5th of January 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Brooklyn Sudano, American actress |
| 5th of January 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Joel Thomas Zimmerman, Canadian musician |
| 5th of January 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Norichika Aoki, Japanese baseball player |
| 5th of January 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Darren Mackie, Scottish footballer |
| 5th of January 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Janica Kostelic, Croatian skier |
| 5th of January 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Benoit Vaugrenard, French cyclist |
| 5th of January 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Sean Dockery, American basketball player |
| 5th of January 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Amanda Hearst, American heiress and model |
| 5th of January 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Cuccione, Canadian actor (d. 2001) |
| 5th of January 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Diego Vera, Uruguayan footballer |
| 5th of January 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Yoon So-Yi, South Korean actress |
| 5th of January 1986 | BIRTHDAY | J. P. Arencibia, American baseball player |
| 5th of January 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Deepika Padukone, Indian model and actress |
| 5th of January 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Teppei Koike, Japanese actor and singer |
| 5th of January 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Kristin Cavallari, American actress |
| 5th of January 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Pauline, French singer |
| 5th of January 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Krisztian Nemeth, Hungarian footballer |
| 5th of January 1991 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Pacheco, Spanish footballer |
| 5th of January 1996 | BIRTHDAY | Max Baldry, English actor |
| 5th of January 1999 | BIRTHDAY | Marc Yu, American musician |
| 5th of January 0842 | DEATH | Al-Mu'tasim, Abbasid caliph (Born 794) |
| 5th of January 1066 | DEATH | Edward the Confessor, King of England (Born 1004) |
| 5th of January 1387 | DEATH | King Peter IV of Aragon (Born 1319) |
| 5th of January 1400 | DEATH | John Montacute, 3rd Earl of Salisbury, English politician (Born c. 1350) |
| 5th of January 1448 | DEATH | Christopher of Bavaria (Born 1416) |
| 5th of January 1465 | DEATH | Charles, Duke of Orleans, French poet (Born 1394) |
| 5th of January 1477 | DEATH | Charles, Duke of Burgundy (Born 1433) |
| 5th of January 1524 | DEATH | Marko Marulic, Croatian poet (Born 1450) |
| 5th of January 1527 | DEATH | Felix Manz, Swiss leader (executed) (Born 1498) |
| 5th of January 1588 | DEATH | Qi Jiguang, Chinese general (Born 1528) |
| 5th of January 1589 | DEATH | Catherine de' Medici, queen of Henry II of France (Born 1519) |
| 5th of January 1713 | DEATH | Jean Chardin, French explorer (Born 1643) |
| 5th of January 1740 | DEATH | Antonio Lotti, Italian composer (Born 1667) |
| 5th of January 1762 | DEATH | Empress Elizabeth of Russia (Born 1709) |
| 5th of January 1771 | DEATH | John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford, British statesman (Born 1710) |
| 5th of January 1796 | DEATH | Samuel Huntington,(statesman) (Born 1731) |
| 5th of January 1823 | DEATH | Major George Johnston, Lieutenant-Governor of New South Wales (Born 1764) |
| 5th of January 1846 | DEATH | Alfred Thomas Agate, American artist (Born 1812) |
| 5th of January 1858 | DEATH | Joseph Radetzky von Radetz, Austrian field marshal (Born 1766) |
| 5th of January 1860 | DEATH | Saint John Nepomucene Neumann, first American bishop to be canonized (Born 1811) |
| 5th of January 1883 | DEATH | Charles Tompson, first Australian published poet (Born 1806) |
| 5th of January 1888 | DEATH | Henri Herz, Austrian pianist (Born 1803) |
| 5th of January 1891 | DEATH | Emma Abbott, American soprano (Born 1849) |
| 5th of January 1904 | DEATH | Karl Alfred von Zittel, German palaeontologist (Born 1839) |
| 5th of January 1910 | DEATH | Leon Walras, French economist (Born 1834) |
| 5th of January 1919 | DEATH | Sumako Matsui, Japanese actress and singer (Born 1886) |
| 5th of January 1922 | DEATH | Sir Ernest Shackleton, Irish explorer (Born 1874) |
| 5th of January 1933 | DEATH | Calvin Coolidge, 30th President of the United States (Born 1872) |
| 5th of January 1937 | DEATH | Marie Booth, child of William and Catherine Booth (Born 1864) |
| 5th of January 1939 | DEATH | Amelia Earhart, American aviator declared dead after disappearance in 1937 (Born 1897) |
| 5th of January 1940 | DEATH | Humbert Wolfe, Italian-British poet (Born 1885) |
| 5th of January 1941 | DEATH | Amy Johnson, English aviator (Born 1903) |
| 5th of January 1942 | DEATH | Tina Modotti, Italian photographer, model, actress, and revolutionary political activist (Born 1896) |
| 5th of January 1943 | DEATH | George Washington Carver, American educator (Born 1864) |
| 5th of January 1946 | DEATH | Kitty Cheatham, American singer (Born 1864) |
| 5th of January 1951 | DEATH | Andrei Platonov, Russian writer (Born 1899) |
| 5th of January 1952 | DEATH | Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow, Viceroy of India (Born 1887) |
| 5th of January 1952 | DEATH | Hristo Tatarchev, Bulgarian revolutionary (Born 1869) |
| 5th of January 1954 | DEATH | Rabbit Maranville, American baseball player (Born 1891) |
| 5th of January 1956 | DEATH | Mistinguett, French singer (Born 1875) |
| 5th of January 1963 | DEATH | Rogers Hornsby, American baseball player (Born 1896) |
| 5th of January 1970 | DEATH | Max Born, German physicist, Nobel laureate (Born 1882) |
| 5th of January 1970 | DEATH | Roberto Gerhard, Catalan composer (Born 1896) |
| 5th of January 1970 | DEATH | Cyril Fagan, Irish astrologer (Born 1896) |
| 5th of January 1971 | DEATH | Douglas Shearer, Canadian film engineer (Born 1899) |
| 5th of January 1974 | DEATH | Lev Oborin, Russian pianist (Born 1907) |
| 5th of January 1976 | DEATH | Mal Evans, Beatles' "roadie" (Born 1935) |
| 5th of January 1976 | DEATH | John A. Costello, Taoiseach of Ireland (Born 1891) |
| 5th of January 1978 | DEATH | Wyatt Cooper, American screenwriter (Born 1927) |
| 5th of January 1979 | DEATH | Charles Mingus, American musician (Born 1922) |
| 5th of January 1981 | DEATH | Harold C. Urey, American chemist, Nobel laureate (Born 1893) |
| 5th of January 1981 | DEATH | Lanza del Vasto, Italian philosopher (Born 1901) |
| 5th of January 1982 | DEATH | Sir Edmund Herring, Australian military commander, Lieutenant Governor of Victoria (Born 1892) |
| 5th of January 1982 | DEATH | Hans Conried, American actor (Born 1917) |
| 5th of January 1982 | DEATH | Harvey Lembeck, American actor (Born 1923) |
| 5th of January 1985 | DEATH | Robert L. Surtees, American Oscar-winning cinematographer (Ben-Hur) (Born 1906) |
| 5th of January 1987 | DEATH | Herman Smith-Johannsen, Norwegian-born Canadian cross-country skier (Born 1875) |
| 5th of January 1987 | DEATH | Margaret Laurence, Canadian author (Born 1926) |
| 5th of January 1988 | DEATH | Pete Maravich, American basketball player (Born 1947) |
| 5th of January 1990 | DEATH | Arthur Kennedy, American actor (Born 1914) |
| 5th of January 1991 | DEATH | Vasko Popa, Yugoslav poet (Born 1922) |
| 5th of January 1994 | DEATH | Tip O'Neill, American politician (Born 1912) |
| 5th of January 1994 | DEATH | Brian Johnston, English cricket commentator (Born 1912) |
| 5th of January 1996 | DEATH | Lincoln Kirstein, American writer, impresario, art connoisseur (Born 1907) |
| 5th of January 1996 | DEATH | Yahya Ayyash, Palestinian Hamas member (Born 1966) |
| 5th of January 1997 | DEATH | Andre Franquin, Belgian cartoonist (Gaston Lagaffe) (Born 1924) |
| 5th of January 1997 | DEATH | Burton Lane, American composer and lyricist (Born 1912) |
| 5th of January 1998 | DEATH | Sonny Bono, American entertainer and politician (Born 1935) |
| 5th of January 1998 | DEATH | Ken Forssi, American musician (Love) (Born 1943) |
| 5th of January 2001 | DEATH | Nancy Parsons, American actress (Born 1942) |
| 5th of January 2003 | DEATH | Massimo Girotti, Italian film actor (Born 1918) |
| 5th of January 2003 | DEATH | Roy Jenkins, British politician (Born 1920) |
| 5th of January 2003 | DEATH | Doreen Carwithen, British composer, widow of William Alwyn (Born 1922) |
| 5th of January 2003 | DEATH | Jean Kerr, American author (Born 1923) |
| 5th of January 2004 | DEATH | Tug McGraw, American baseball player, father of Tim McGraw (Born 1944) |
| 5th of January 2004 | DEATH | Norman Heatley, member of the team of Oxford University scientists who developed penicillin (Born 1911) |
| 5th of January 2005 | DEATH | Danny Sugerman, American music manager (The Doors) (Born 1954) |
| 5th of January 2006 | DEATH | Lord Merlyn-Rees, British politician (Born 1920) |
| 5th of January 2007 | DEATH | Momofuku Ando, inventor of instant noodles and cup noodles (Born 1910) |
| 5th of January 2007 | DEATH | Chih Ree Sun, Chinese-American physicist and poet (Born 1923) |
| 5th of January 2008 | DEATH | Clinton Grybas, Australian sports commentator (Born 1975) |
| 5th of January 2009 | DEATH | Ned Tanen, American movie executive (Born 1931) |
| 5th of January 2009 | DEATH | Jimmy Sullivan, American Musician (Born 1981) |
| 5th of January 2009 | DEATH | Griffin Bell, American lawyer (Born 1918) |
| 5th of January 2010 | DEATH | Murray Saltzman, Reform Jewish rabbi and civil rights leader (Born 1929) |