Anniversaries 5 October

Birth

Thomas Goodwin1

English clergyman 1600–1680

Jonathan Edwards79

Christian preacher, philosopher, and theologian 1703–1758

Denis Diderot106

French Enlightenment philosopher and encyclopædist 1713–1784

Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon92

British Baron 1732–1802

James Iredell3

one of the first Justices of the Supreme Court of the Unite… 1751–1799

Chester A. Arthur10

American politician, 21st President of the United States (i… 1829–1886

John Addington Symonds3

English poet and literary critic 1840–1893

Philipp Mainländer5

German poet and philosopher 1841–1876

Thomas Little Heath46

British civil servant and academic 1861–1940

John Erskine5

American educator 1879–1951

Ze'ev Jabotinsky5

Jewish leader 1880–1940

Teresa de la Parra1

Venezuelan novelist 1889–1936

Georges Bidault1

French politician 1899–1983

Bing Xin3

Chinese writer 1900–1999

Ray Kroc3

American businessman 1902–1984

M. King Hubbert1

American geoscientist 1903–1989

Flann O'Brien30

Irish writer 1911–1966

Donald Pleasence1

British actor 1919–1995

Jagadguru Kripaluji Maharaj2

spiritual leader 1922–2013

Jock Stein4

Scottish footballer and manager 1922–1985

Philip Berrigan5

Priest and anti-war activist 1923–2002

Stig Dagerman26

Swedish writer 1923–1954

Bob Thaves1

cartoonist 1924–2006

Louise Fitzhugh5

American children's writer 1928–1974

John Pearson (author)2

author 1930

Reinhard Selten6

German economist 1930–2016

Václav Havel126

playwright, essayist, poet, dissident and 1st President of … 1936–2011

Barry Switzer2

American football player and coach 1937

Teresa Heinz Kerry5

Portuguese–American businesswoman, widow of Sen. H. John He… 1938

Harpal Brar3

British politician 1939

Carlos Almaraz1

Chicano artist 1941–1989

Michael Morpurgo11

British children's writer 1943

Robin Lane Fox20

Historian, educator, writer, gardener 1946

Bill James3

American baseball writer and statistician 1949

Peter Ackroyd11

English author 1949

Bob Geldof1

Irish singer-songwriter, author and political activist 1951

Imran Khan7

Prime Minister of Pakistan 1952

Clive Barker101

author, film director and visual artist 1952

Kancha Ilaiah21

Indian scholar, activist and writer 1952

Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell7

British businessman 1955

Bart D. Ehrman21

American academic 1955

Neil deGrasse Tyson89

American astrophysicist and science communicator 1958

D.M. Turner5

American drug researcher 1962–1996

Jatuporn Prompan2

Thai television activist 1965

Sean Carroll10

American theoretical cosmologist 1966

Grant Hill1

retired American basketball player 1972

Cédric Villani4

French mathematician 1973

Colin Meloy7

American musician 1974

Kate Winslet11

English actress and singer 1975

Ramzan Kadyrov2

President of Chechnya, former militia leader 1976

Patricia Conde8

Spanish actress 1979

Craig Benzine3

Filmmaker, comedian, presenter 1980

Mashrafe Mortaza8

Bangladeshi international cricketer and politician 1983

Christian Canlubo10

Filipino Internet Entrepreneur 2002

Death

Henry Carey11

English composer and playwright 1687–1743

Tecumseh7

Native American leader of the Shawnee 1768–1813

Bryan Procter4

English poet 1787–1874

Richard F. Pettigrew2

American politician 1848–1926

Ingram Crockett2

American writer 1856–1936

Louis Brandeis45

American Supreme Court Justice 1856–1941

Dwight Morrow3

American politician 1873–1931

Harry Emerson Fosdick40

American pastor 1878–1969

Hussain Ahmed Madani2

19th century Islamic scholar of India 1879–1957

Helena Roerich58

Russian philosopher 1879–1955

Solomon Lefschetz1

American mathematician 1884–1972

Jogendra Nath Mandal4

Pakistani politician 1904–1968

Ramnath Goenka13

Indian politician 1904–1991

Grace Lee Boggs2

social activist and feminist 1915–2015

James H. Wilkinson6

English mathematician 1919–1986

Rodney Dangerfield54

American actor and comedian 1921–2004

Lois Gladys Leppard1

American writer 1924–2008

Seymour Cray2

Applied mathematician, computer scientist, and electrical e… 1925–1996

Neil Postman106

American writer and academic 1931–2003

Keith Roberts10

British writer and artist 1935–2000

Bavua Ntinu André1

Spiritual master of the PSV 1939–2013

Miguel Enríquez5

Chilean politician 1944–1974

Henning Mankell7

Swedish crime writer, children's author, leftist activist a… 1948–2015

Steve Jobs150

American entrepreneur and co-founder of Apple Inc. 1955–2011