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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 5th of May 0553 | EVENT | The Second Council of Constantinople begins. |
| 5th of May 1215 | EVENT | Rebel barons renounce their allegiance to King John of England -- part of a chain of events leading to the signing of the Magna Carta. |
| 5th of May 1260 | EVENT | Kublai Khan becomes ruler of the Mongol Empire. |
| 5th of May 1494 | EVENT | Christopher Columbus lands on the island of Jamaica and claims it for Spain. |
| 5th of May 1640 | EVENT | King Charles I of England dissolves the Short Parliament. |
| 5th of May 1762 | EVENT | Russia and Prussia sign the Treaty of St. Petersburg. |
| 5th of May 1789 | EVENT | In France, the Estates-General convenes for the first time since 1614. |
| 5th of May 1809 | EVENT | The Swiss canton of Aargau denies citizenship to Jews. |
| 5th of May 1809 | EVENT | Mary Kies becomes the first woman awarded a U.S. patent, for a technique of weaving straw with silk and thread. |
| 5th of May 1811 | EVENT | In the second day of fighting at the Peninsular War Battle of Fuentes de Onoro the French army, under Marshall Massena, drive in the Duke of Wellington's overextended right flank, but French frontal assaults fail to take the town of Fuentes de Onoro and the Anglo-Portugese army holds the field at the end of the day. |
| 5th of May 1821 | EVENT | Emperor Napoleon I dies in exile on the island of Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean. |
| 5th of May 1835 | EVENT | In Belgium, the first railway in continental Europe opens between Brussels and Mechelen. |
| 5th of May 1860 | EVENT | Giuseppe Garibaldi sets sail from Genoa, leading the expedition of the Thousand to conquer the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies and giving birth to the Kingdom of Italy. |
| 5th of May 1862 | EVENT | Cinco de Mayo: troops led by Ignacio Zaragoza halt a French invasion in the Battle of Puebla in Mexico. |
| 5th of May 1864 | EVENT | American Civil War: The Battle of the Wilderness begins in Spotsylvania County, Virginia. |
| 5th of May 1865 | EVENT | In North Bend, Ohio (a suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio), the first train robbery in the United States takes place. |
| 5th of May 1866 | EVENT | Memorial Day first celebrated in United States at Waterloo, New York. |
| 5th of May 1877 | EVENT | Indian Wars: Sitting Bull leads his band of Lakota into Canada to avoid harassment by the United States Army under Colonel Nelson Miles. |
| 5th of May 1886 | EVENT | The Bay View Tragedy: A militia fires into a crowd of protesters in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, killing seven. |
| 5th of May 1891 | EVENT | The Music Hall in New York City (later known as Carnegie Hall) has its grand opening and first public performance, with Tchaikovsky as the guest conductor. |
| 5th of May 1904 | EVENT | Pitching against the Philadelphia Athletics at the Huntington Avenue Grounds, Cy Young of the Boston Americans throws the first perfect game in the modern era of baseball. |
| 5th of May 1920 | EVENT | Authorities arrest Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti for alleged robbery and murder. |
| 5th of May 1925 | EVENT | Scopes Trial: serving of an arrest warrant on John T. Scopes for teaching evolution in violation of the Butler Act. |
| 5th of May 1925 | EVENT | The government of South Africa declares Afrikaans an official language |
| 5th of May 1936 | EVENT | Italian troops occupy Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. |
| 5th of May 1940 | EVENT | World War II: Norwegian Campaign : Norwegian squads in Hegra Fortress and Vinjesvingen capitulate to the Nazis after all other Norwegian forces in southern Norway had laid down their arms. |
| 5th of May 1940 | EVENT | World War II: Norwegian refugees form a government-in-exile in London |
| 5th of May 1941 | EVENT | Emperor Haile Selassie returns to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; the country commemorates the date as Liberation Day or Patriots' Victory Day. |
| 5th of May 1945 | EVENT | World War II: Canadian and UK troops liberate the Netherlands and Denmark from Nazi occupation when Wehrmacht troops capitulate. |
| 5th of May 1946 | EVENT | The International Military Tribunal for the Far East begins in Tokyo with twenty-eight Japanese military and government officials accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity. |
| 5th of May 1949 | EVENT | The Treaty of London establishes the Council of Europe in Strasbourg as the first European institution working for European integration. |
| 5th of May 1950 | EVENT | Bhumibol Adulyadej crowns himself King Rama IX of Thailand. |
| 5th of May 1955 | EVENT | West Germany gains full sovereignty. |
| 5th of May 1961 | EVENT | The Mercury program: Mercury-Redstone 3 : Alan Shepard becomes the first American to travel into outer space, making a sub-orbital flight of 15 minutes. |
| 5th of May 1964 | EVENT | The Council of Europe declares May 5 as Europe Day. |
| 5th of May 1972 | EVENT | Alitalia Flight 112 crashes into Mount Longa near Palermo, Sicily, killing all 115 aboard, making it the deadliest single-aircraft disaster in Italy. |
| 5th of May 1980 | EVENT | Operation Nimrod: The British Special Air Service storms the Iranian embassy in London after a six-day siege. |
| 5th of May 1981 | EVENT | Bobby Sands dies in the Long Kesh prison hospital after 66 days of hunger-striking, aged 27. |
| 5th of May 1987 | EVENT | Iran-Contra affair: start of Congressional televised hearings in the United States of America |
| 5th of May 1991 | EVENT | A riot breaks out in the Mt. Pleasant section of Washington, D.C. after police shoot a Salvadoran man. |
| 5th of May 1992 | EVENT | Ratification by Alabama brings into effect the 27th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. |
| 5th of May 1994 | EVENT | The signing of the Bishkek Protocol between Armenia and Azerbaijan effectively freezes the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. |
| 5th of May 1994 | EVENT | American teenager Michael P. Fay is caned in Singapore for theft and vandalism, a punishment that many in the United States deemed to be excessive for a teenager committing a non-violent crime. However, significant numbers of Americans were also in favor of it. |
| 5th of May 2006 | EVENT | The government of Sudan signs an accord with the Sudan Liberation Army. |
| 5th of May 2007 | EVENT | All 114 aboard Kenya Airways Flight 507 die when the pilots lose control of the plane and it crashes in Douala, Cameroon. |
| 5th of May 2010 | EVENT | Mass protests in Greece erupt in response to austerity measures imposed by the government as a result of the Greek debt crisis. |
| 5th of May 0867 | BIRTHDAY | Uda, Emperor of Japan (d. 931) |
| 5th of May 1210 | BIRTHDAY | King Afonso III of Portugal (d. 1279) |
| 5th of May 1479 | BIRTHDAY | Guru Amar Das, third Sikh Guru (d. 1574) |
| 5th of May 1546 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter, English politician (d. 1623) |
| 5th of May 1684 | BIRTHDAY | Francoise Charlotte d'Aubigne, niece of Madame de Maintenon and ancestress of the Heir to the Belgian throne (d. 1739) |
| 5th of May 1747 | BIRTHDAY | Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1792) |
| 5th of May 1764 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Craufurd, British general (d. 1812) |
| 5th of May 1800 | BIRTHDAY | Louis Christophe Francois Hachette, French publisher (d. 1864) |
| 5th of May 1813 | BIRTHDAY | S?ren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher (d. 1855) |
| 5th of May 1818 | BIRTHDAY | Karl Marx, German political philosopher (d. 1883) |
| 5th of May 1826 | BIRTHDAY | Empress Eugenie of France, wife of Napoleon III (d. 1920) |
| 5th of May 1830 | BIRTHDAY | John Batterson Stetson, American hat manufacturer (d. 1906) |
| 5th of May 1832 | BIRTHDAY | H.H. Bancroft, American historian and publisher (d. 1918) |
| 5th of May 1833 | BIRTHDAY | Ferdinand von Richthofen, German geographer (d. 1905) |
| 5th of May 1834 | BIRTHDAY | Viktor Hartmann, Russian architect and painter (d. 1873) |
| 5th of May 1846 | BIRTHDAY | Henryk Sienkiewicz, Polish author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1916) |
| 5th of May 1864 | BIRTHDAY | Nellie Bly, American journalist and writer (d. 1922) |
| 5th of May 1866 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas B. Thrige, Danish industrialist (d. 1938) |
| 5th of May 1869 | BIRTHDAY | Hans Pfitzner, German composer (d. 1949) |
| 5th of May 1883 | BIRTHDAY | Archibald Wavell, British general (d. 1950) |
| 5th of May 1883 | BIRTHDAY | Agustin Barrios, Paraguayan guitarist and composer (d. 1944) |
| 5th of May 1887 | BIRTHDAY | Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1972) |
| 5th of May 1889 | BIRTHDAY | Herbie Taylor, South African cricketer (d. 1973) |
| 5th of May 1890 | BIRTHDAY | Christopher Morley, American writer (d. 1957) |
| 5th of May 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Freeman Gosden, American radio comedian (Amos-Amos 'n' Andy) (d. 1982) |
| 5th of May 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Blind Willie McTell, American singer (d. 1959) |
| 5th of May 1903 | BIRTHDAY | James Beard, American chef and cookbook writer (d. 1985) |
| 5th of May 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Kurt Bohme, German bass (d. 1989) |
| 5th of May 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Miklos Radnoti, Hungarian poet (d. 1944) |
| 5th of May 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Andor Lilienthal, Hungarian chess grandmaster (d. 2010) |
| 5th of May 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Tyrone Power, American actor (d. 1958) |
| 5th of May 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Alice Faye, American actress (d. 1998) |
| 5th of May 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Georgios Papadopoulos, Greek dictator (d. 1999) |
| 5th of May 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Arthur Leonard Schawlow, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999) |
| 5th of May 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Wollheim, British philosopher (d. 2003) |
| 5th of May 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Leo Ryan, United States Congressman (d. 1978) |
| 5th of May 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Ann B. Davis, American actress |
| 5th of May 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Pat Carroll, American actress |
| 5th of May 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Nora Denney, American actress (d. 2005) |
| 5th of May 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Greg, Belgian comic-book writer (Achille Talon) (d. 1999) |
| 5th of May 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Will Hutchins, American actor |
| 5th of May 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Ace Cannon, American saxophonist |
| 5th of May 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Douglas Marland, American television writer (d. 1993) |
| 5th of May 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Rehme, American film producer |
| 5th of May 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Bernard Pivot, French journalist and television host |
| 5th of May 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Ervin Lazar, Hungarian writer (d. 2006) |
| 5th of May 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Patrick Gowers, British composer |
| 5th of May 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Delia Derbyshire, British electronic music composer (d. 2001) |
| 5th of May 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Johnnie Taylor, American singer (d. 2000) |
| 5th of May 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Murphy, American actor |
| 5th of May 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Cesare Fiorio, Italian sporting director of various Formula One teams |
| 5th of May 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Lasse Aberg, Swedish artist, actor and musician |
| 5th of May 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Lance Henriksen, American actor and painter |
| 5th of May 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Lindsay-Hogg, American film director |
| 5th of May 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Alexander Ragulin, Russian hockey player (d. 2004) |
| 5th of May 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Marc Alaimo, American actor |
| 5th of May 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Istvan Bujtor, Hungarian actor (d. 2009) |
| 5th of May 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Tammy Wynette, American musician (d. 1998) |
| 5th of May 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Palin, British writer, actor, and comedian |
| 5th of May 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Bo Larsson, Swedish footballer |
| 5th of May 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Roger Rees, Welsh-American actor |
| 5th of May 1944 | BIRTHDAY | John Rhys-Davies, English-born Welsh actor |
| 5th of May 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Ward, British drummer |
| 5th of May 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Rudolf Finsterer, German rugby player and coach |
| 5th of May 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Campbell McComas, Australian impersonator and broadcaster (d. 2005) |
| 5th of May 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Dave Spector, American television personality and commentator |
| 5th of May 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Melinda Culea, American actress |
| 5th of May 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Marien, Quebecois actor, singer and songwriter |
| 5th of May 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Richard E. Grant, British actor |
| 5th of May 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Howitt, British actor and film director |
| 5th of May 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Ron Arad, Israeli aircraft navigator missing in action |
| 5th of May 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Robert DiPierdomenico, Australian rules footballer |
| 5th of May 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Johann Gajda, German footballer |
| 5th of May 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Ian McCulloch, English singer (Echo & the Bunnymen) |
| 5th of May 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Williams, American news anchor |
| 5th of May 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Hiroshi Hase, Japanese professional wrestler and politician |
| 5th of May 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Jenifer McKitrick, American songwriter |
| 5th of May 1963 | BIRTHDAY | James LaBrie, Canadian singer (Dream Theater) |
| 5th of May 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Simon Rimmer, English chef |
| 5th of May 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Heidi Kozak, American actress |
| 5th of May 1964 | BIRTHDAY | John Lee, Korean-born American football player |
| 5th of May 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Glenn Seton, Australian racing driver |
| 5th of May 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Shawn Drover, Canadian drummer (Megadeth) |
| 5th of May 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Josh Weinstein, American writer |
| 5th of May 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Takehito Koyasu, Japanese seiyu (voice actor) |
| 5th of May 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Maro Mavri, Greek fashion-model and actress |
| 5th of May 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Soheil Ayari, French racer |
| 5th of May 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Kyan Douglas, American TV-personality |
| 5th of May 1970 | BIRTHDAY | LaPhonso Ellis, American basketball player |
| 5th of May 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Todd Newton, American TV-personality, two-time game-show host |
| 5th of May 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Naomi Klein, Canadian author and activist |
| 5th of May 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Harold Miner, American basketball player |
| 5th of May 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Redmond, American baseball player |
| 5th of May 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Brad Bombardir, Canadian ice-hockey player |
| 5th of May 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Zigmund Palffy, Slovak ice-hockey player |
| 5th of May 1972 | BIRTHDAY | James Cracknell, British rower |
| 5th of May 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Mikael Renberg, Swedish ice-hockey player |
| 5th of May 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Devin Townsend, Canadian musician (Strapping Young Lad) |
| 5th of May 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Tina Yothers, American actress |
| 5th of May 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Casino Versus Japan, American composer |
| 5th of May 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Seiji Ara, Japanese racing driver |
| 5th of May 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Dieter Brummer, Australian actor |
| 5th of May 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Anastasios Pantos, Greek footballer |
| 5th of May 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Juan Pablo Sorin, Argentine footballer |
| 5th of May 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Choi Kang-hee, South Korean actress |
| 5th of May 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Santiago Cabrera, Chilean actor |
| 5th of May 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Bruno Cheyrou, French footballer |
| 5th of May 1978 | BIRTHDAY | John Wilshere, Papua New Guinean rugby league footballer |
| 5th of May 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Morgan Pehme, American filmmaker and writer |
| 5th of May 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Vincent Kartheiser, American actor |
| 5th of May 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Yossi Benayoun, Israeli footballer |
| 5th of May 1980 | BIRTHDAY | DerMarr Johnson, American basketball player |
| 5th of May 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Hank Green, Musician, video blogger and founder of ecogeek.org |
| 5th of May 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Marcelle Bittar, Brazilian model |
| 5th of May 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Craig David, English singer |
| 5th of May 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Danielle Fishel, American actress |
| 5th of May 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Duncan, American baseball player |
| 5th of May 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Jay Bothroyd, English footballer |
| 5th of May 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Randall Gay, American football player |
| 5th of May 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Wouter D'Haene, Belgian flatwater-canoeist |
| 5th of May 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Henry Cavill, Jersey actor |
| 5th of May 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Scott Ware, American football player |
| 5th of May 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Wade MacNeil, Canadian guitarist (Alexisonfire) |
| 5th of May 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Terrence Wheatley, American football player |
| 5th of May 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Marcos Rogerio, Brazilian footballer |
| 5th of May 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Shoko Nakagawa, Japanese actress, illustrator and singer |
| 5th of May 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Jessie Cave, English actress |
| 5th of May 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Marija Sestic, Bosnian singer |
| 5th of May 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Adele, English singer |
| 5th of May 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Jessica Dubroff, American pilot trainee (d. 1996) |
| 5th of May 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Brooke Hogan, American singer and television personality |
| 5th of May 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Larissa Wilson, English actress |
| 5th of May 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Brown, American singer and actor |
| 5th of May 1999 | BIRTHDAY | Nathan Chen, American figure skater |
| 5th of May 0200 | DEATH | Sun Ce, warlord of the Han Dynasty (Born 175) |
| 5th of May 0311 | DEATH | Galerius, Roman Emperor |
| 5th of May 0984 | DEATH | Gerberga of Saxony, Queen of Western Francia |
| 5th of May 1028 | DEATH | King Alfonso V of Castile, Leon, and Galicia (Born 994) |
| 5th of May 1194 | DEATH | King Casimir II of Poland (Born 1138) |
| 5th of May 1219 | DEATH | King Leo II of Armenia (Born 1150) |
| 5th of May 1309 | DEATH | King Charles II of Naples (Born 1254) |
| 5th of May 1426 | DEATH | Ephraim of Nea Makri, Greek Orthodox saint (Born 1384) |
| 5th of May 1525 | DEATH | Frederick III of Saxony (Born 1463) |
| 5th of May 1586 | DEATH | Henry Sidney, Lord Deputy of Ireland (Born 1529) |
| 5th of May 1604 | DEATH | Claudio Merulo, Italian composer (Born 1533) |
| 5th of May 1671 | DEATH | Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester, English politician (Born 1602) |
| 5th of May 1672 | DEATH | Samuel Cooper, English painter (Born 1609) |
| 5th of May 1705 | DEATH | Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor (Born 1640) |
| 5th of May 1760 | DEATH | Laurence Shirley, 4th Earl Ferrers, English murderer (Born 1720) |
| 5th of May 1766 | DEATH | Jean Astruc, French physician and scholar (Born 1684) |
| 5th of May 1808 | DEATH | Pierre Jean George Cabanis, French physiologist (Born 1757) |
| 5th of May 1811 | DEATH | Robert Mylne, Scottish architect (Born 1734) |
| 5th of May 1821 | DEATH | Napoleon I of France (Born 1769) |
| 5th of May 1827 | DEATH | Frederick Augustus I of Saxony (Born 1750) |
| 5th of May 1833 | DEATH | Sophia Campbell, Australian artist (Born 1777) |
| 5th of May 1855 | DEATH | Sir Robert Inglis, Bt, English politician (Born 1786) |
| 5th of May 1859 | DEATH | Peter Gustav Dirichlet, German mathematician (Born 1805) |
| 5th of May 1892 | DEATH | August Wilhelm von Hofmann, German chemist (Born 1818) |
| 5th of May 1896 | DEATH | Silas Adams, American lawyer and politician (Born 1839) |
| 5th of May 1900 | DEATH | Ivan Aivazovsky, Russian painter (Born 1817) |
| 5th of May 1916 | DEATH | John MacBride, Irish Nationalist and member of the Easter Rising (Born 1865) |
| 5th of May 1921 | DEATH | Alfred Hermann Fried, Austrian writer and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (Born 1864) |
| 5th of May 1931 | DEATH | Glen Kidston, British aviator and racing driver (Born 1899) |
| 5th of May 1941 | DEATH | Natalija Obrenovic, Queen of Serbia (Born 1859) |
| 5th of May 1942 | DEATH | Qemal Stafa, Albanian politician (Born 1920) |
| 5th of May 1945 | DEATH | Peter Van Pels, Jewish Refugee (Born 1926) |
| 5th of May 1947 | DEATH | Ty LaForest, Canadian baseball player (Born 1917) |
| 5th of May 1959 | DEATH | Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Argentine politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (Born 1878) |
| 5th of May 1962 | DEATH | Ernest Tyldesley, English cricketer (Born 1889) |
| 5th of May 1965 | DEATH | Nikos Gounaris, Greek tenor (Born 1915) |
| 5th of May 1971 | DEATH | Violet Jessop, Titanic survivor (Born 1887) |
| 5th of May 1977 | DEATH | Ludwig Erhard, German politician (CDU) and Chancellor of Germany from 1963 until 1966 (Born 1897) |
| 5th of May 1981 | DEATH | Bobby Sands, Irish activist (Born 1954) |
| 5th of May 1983 | DEATH | Horst Schumann, Nazi physician (Born 1901) |
| 5th of May 1985 | DEATH | Sir Donald Bailey, British civil engineer (Born 1901) |
| 5th of May 1988 | DEATH | Michael Shaara, American author (Born 1928) |
| 5th of May 1992 | DEATH | Jean-Claude Pascal, French singer (Born 1927) |
| 5th of May 1994 | DEATH | Mario Quintana, Brazilian poet (Born 1906) |
| 5th of May 1995 | DEATH | Mikhail Botvinnik, Russian chess player, grandmaster and world champion (Born 1911) |
| 5th of May 1997 | DEATH | Walter Gotell, German actor (Born 1924) |
| 5th of May 1999 | DEATH | Vasilis Diamantopoulos, Greek actor (Born 1920) |
| 5th of May 2000 | DEATH | Gino Bartali, Italian cyclist (Born 1914) |
| 5th of May 2000 | DEATH | Bill Musselman, American basketball head coach (Born 1940) |
| 5th of May 2001 | DEATH | Clifton Hillegass, American writer and publisher (Born 1918) |
| 5th of May 2001 | DEATH | Raymond Kessler, American midget wrestler |
| 5th of May 2002 | DEATH | Hugo Banzer, Bolivian dictator (Born 1926) |
| 5th of May 2002 | DEATH | Paul Klipsch, American engineer, noted for his loudspeaker designs (Born 1904) |
| 5th of May 2002 | DEATH | George Sidney, American film director (Born 1916) |
| 5th of May 2003 | DEATH | Sam Bockarie, RUF Rebel commander (Born 1964) |
| 5th of May 2003 | DEATH | Walter Sisulu, South African activist (Born 1912) |
| 5th of May 2004 | DEATH | Ritsuko Okazaki, Japanese singer-songwriter (Born 1959) |
| 5th of May 2005 | DEATH | Elisabeth Fraser, American television, film, and stage actress (Born 1920) |
| 5th of May 2005 | DEATH | Edgar Ponce, Mexican actor and dancer (Born 1974) |
| 5th of May 2006 | DEATH | Naushad Ali, Indian composer (Born 1919) |
| 5th of May 2007 | DEATH | Theodore Harold Maiman, American physicist, noted for making the first working laser (Born 1927) |
| 5th of May 2008 | DEATH | Irv Robbins, Canadian-American entrepreneur (Born 1917) |
| 5th of May 2010 | DEATH | Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, 12th president of Nigeria (Born 1951) |
| 5th of May 2010 | DEATH | Giulietta Simionato, Italian mezzo-soprano (Born 1910) |
| 5th of May 2011 | DEATH | Yosale Merimovich, Israeli football player and manager (Born 1924) |
| 5th of May 2011 | DEATH | Claude Choules, last surviving World War I veteran (Born 1901) |