January 5 is the 5th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 360 days remaining (361 in leap years).
- 1717 - William Wildman Shute Barrington, British statesman (+ 1793)
- 1779 - Stephen Decatur, American naval officer
- 1855 - King Camp Gillette, inventor (+ 1932)
- 1876 - Konrad Adenauer, German chancellor 1949-1963 (+ 1967)
- 1893 - Paramahansa Yogananda, Indian guru
- 1904 - Jeane Dixon[?], astrologer (+ 1997)
- 1909 - Stephen Kleene, mathematician
- 1913 - Jean-Pierre Aumont[?], actor
- 1914 - George Reeves, actor (+ 1959)
- 1921 - Friedrich Dürrenmatt, writer (+ 1990)
- 1923 - Sam Phillips, county music[?] producer
- 1926 - Maria Schell[?], actress
- 1928 - Walter Mondale, U.S. Senator, Democratic presidential nominee in 1984
- 1928 - Ali Bhutto[?], President and Prime Minister of Pakistan (+ 1979)
- 1931 - Alvin Ailey[?], choreographer (+ 1989)
- 1931 - Alfred Brendel, pianist
- 1931 - Robert Duvall, actor and director
- 1932 - Umberto Eco, philologist and writer
- 1932 - Raisa Gorbachev, political consort, (+ 1999)
- 1938 - King Juan Carlos of Spain
- 1941 - Miyazaki Hayao, film maker
- 1941 - Grady Thomas[?], singer (P-Funk)
- 1942 - Charlie Rose[?], talk show host
- 1946 - Diane Keaton, actress
- 1953 - George Tenet, Director of the CIA
- 1961 - Suzy Amis[?], actress
- 1969 - Marilyn Manson, singer
- 1589 - Catherine de Medici, Queen of France
- 1922 - Ernest Shackleton, explorer
- 1929 - Nikolai Nikolaevich Romanov[?], Grand Duke of Russia
- 1933 - Calvin Coolidge, President of the United States
- 1941 - Amy Johnson, aviator
- 1943 - George Washington Carver, educator, activist, botanist
- 1956 - Mistinguett (Jeanne Bourgeois), French singer
- 1963 - Rogers Hornsby[?], Baseball Hall of Famer
- 1970 - Max Born, physicist and recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics 1954
- 1970 - (death discovered) - Jock Yablonski[?], President of the [[United Mine Workers} (and his family)
- 1971 - Douglas Shearer, pioneer motion-picture sound engineer
- 1979 - Charles Mingus, musician
- 1988 - Pete Maravich, basketball star
- 1994 - Thomas P. 'Tip' O'Neill[?], Speaker of the House
- 1996 - Yahya Ayyash[?], terrorist
- 1998 - Sonny Bono, singer, actor, United States Representative
- 2002 - Igor Cassini[?], gossip columnist ("Cholly Knickerbocker")
- 2003 - Roy Jenkins, British politician
See Also: January,
February,
March,
April,
May,
June,
July,
August,
September,
October,
November,
December
January 4 - January 6 - December 5 - February 5 - Historical anniversaries