Anniversaries 5 November

Birth

Sidonius Apollinaris7

Gaulish poet, aristocrat and bishop 430–489

Isaac de Benserade1

French writer 1613–1691

John Brown (essayist)2

English divine and author 1715–1766

Washington Allston2

American artist 1779–1843

Benjamin Butler (politician)3

Union Army general, lawyer, politician 1818–1893

James Whitbread Lee Glaisher6

English mathematician and astronomer 1848–1928

Элла Уилер Уилкокс2

1850–1919

Ella Wheeler Wilcox46

American author and poet 1850–1919

Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield1

American theologian 1851–1921

Eugene V. Debs108

American labor and political leader 1855–1926

Chittaranjan Das12

Indian politician and leader of the Swaraj Party 1870–1925

James Elroy Flecker5

Poet 1884–1915

Will Durant85

American historian, philosopher and writer 1885–1981

J. B. S. Haldane32

Geneticist and evolutionary biologist 1892–1964

Raymond Loewy7

industrial designer 1893–1986

Harold Innis22

Canadian professor of political economy 1894–1952

Mikhail Bakhtin3

Philosopher, scholar 1895–1975

Lev Vygotsky4

Soviet psychologist 1896–1934

Herbert Schiller19

American media critic 1919–2000

Richard Taylor (philosopher)2

American philosopher, born 1919 1919–2003

Douglass C. North18

American Economist 1920–2015

John Berger28

British painter, writer and art critic 1926–2017

Charles Taylor2

Canadian philosopher 1931

Bao Tong1

Policy secretary of former Chinese Premier Zhao Ziyang 1932–2022

Christopher Wood (writer)10

English writer 1935–2015

Ted Kulongoski1

American politician 1940

Art Garfunkel3

American singer, poet, and actor 1941

Sam Shepard4

American playwright and actor 1943–2017

Peter Pace3

16th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff 1945

Joseph Aind1

Indian priest 1945

Bob Barr8

Republican and Libertarian politician 1948

Peter Hammill6

British musician 1948

Bernard-Henri Lévy2

French film director and philosopher 1948

Thorbjørn Jagland2

Norwegian politician 1950

Vandana Shiva18

Indian philosopher 1952

Joyce Maynard4

American writer 1953

Jeffrey D. Sachs29

American economist 1954

Rupert Thomson1

British writer 1955

Bernard Chazelle1

French computer scientist 1955

Daniel T. Gilbert6

American psychologist 1957

Bryan Adams22

Canadian singer-songwriter 1959

Lisa Kleypas214

American writer 1964

Atul Gawande13

American surgeon 1965

Jen Lancaster16

American writer 1967

Dariusz Kałuża1

Polish religious servant and bishop 1967

Mark Batterson11

American pastor and writer 1969

Andrew Sean Greer4

Novelist, short story writer 1970

Johnny Damon2

American professional baseball outfielder 1973

Jerry Stackhouse1

American basketball player 1974

Ryan Adams54

American alt-country/rock singer-songwriter 1974

Kenichiro Takaki2

Japanese video game producer 1976

Sherry Argov74

American writer 1977

Eliud Kipchoge2

Kenyan long-distance runner 1984

Bailey Jay1

American pornographic actress 1988

Virat Kohli7

Indian cricket player 1988

Berta Castañé2

Spanish actress and model 2002

Death

Koho Kenichi2

Japanese sangha of Rinzai school in Kamakura era 1241–1316

Hemu5

General and Chief Minister of Adil Shah Suri 1501–1556

`Abd al-Qadir Bada'uni16

Indian historian 1540–1615

William Henry Ashurst (judge)12

English judge 1725–1807

Daniel Drake3

American physician and writer 1785–1852

Antoinette Brown Blackwell13

American minister 1825–1921

James Clerk Maxwell27

Scottish physicist 1831–1879

William Torrey Harris2

American philosopher 1835–1909

Auberon Herbert16

British politician 1838–1906

Alexis Carrel7

French surgeon and biologist 1873–1944

Joseph Stella7

American artist 1877–1946

Charley Toorop1

Dutch painter 1891–1955

Dietrich von Choltitz12

German general 1894–1966

Spencer W. Kimball18

President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 1895–1985

Richard Hartshorne18

American Geographer 1899–1992

Jan Oort5

Dutch astronomer 1900–1992

Joseph Kesselring1

American writer and playwright 1902–1967

Vladimir Horowitz6

American classical pianist and composer 1903–1989

Arndt Pekurinen1

Finnish pacifist 1905–1941

Lionel Trilling30

American academic 1905–1975

Elliott Carter6

American composer 1908–2012

Isaiah Berlin30

Russo-British Jewish social and political theorist, philoso… 1909–1997

Ernest Gellner32

Czech anthropologist, philosopher and sociologist 1925–1995

Bülent Ecevit1

former Prime Minister of Turkey (1925-2006) 1925–2006

John Fowles120

British writer 1926–2005

Meir Kahane7

American/Israeli political activist and rabbi 1932–1990

Ernest J. Gaines11

Novelist, short story writer, teacher 1933–2019

John Leonard42

American critic, writer, and commentator 1939–2008