On This Day
Monday · events, births, deaths, and who was alive.
November 5 1990
Born on This Day
Alejandro Fuentes🇳🇴
Norwegian singer · b. 1987
Days alive
1,096
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Art Garfunkel🇺🇸
actor · b. 1941
Days alive
17,897
Bailey Jay🇺🇸
actor · b. 1988
Days alive
730
Billy Hunter🇺🇸
American football player and basketball executive (born 1942) · b. 1942
Days alive
17,532
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Christoph Metzelder
Notable Trials · b. 1980
Days alive
3,652
Donald Macpherson Baillie🇬🇧
deceasedBritish theologian and minister (1887–1954) · 1887–1954
Days lived
24,466
Eduard Oriol🇪🇸
football player · b. 1986
Days alive
1,461
Florian Genton🇫🇷
journalist · b. 1981
Days alive
3,287
Fort Calata🇿🇦
deceasedPolitical activist · 1956–1985
Days lived
10,461
Gisela Fischdick🇩🇪
chess player · b. 1955
Days alive
12,784
Gram Parsons🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican singer-songwriter · 1946–1973
Days lived
9,815
Greasy Neale🇺🇸
deceasedfilm director · 1891–1973
Days lived
29,947
Gustl Berauer🇩🇪
deceasedathlete · 1912–1986
Days lived
26,847
Harry Warner Frantz🇺🇸
deceasedjournalist · 1891–1982
Days lived
33,044
Ike Turner🇺🇸
deceasedsinger · 1931–2007
Days lived
27,796
Javy López🇺🇸
Puerto Rican professional baseball player, catcher · b. 1970
Days alive
7,305
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Jean-Pierre Papin🇫🇷
football player · b. 1963
Days alive
9,862
Joachim Weiskopf🇩🇪
German dentist · b. 1927
Days alive
23,011
Johnny Damon🇺🇸
film director · b. 1973
Days alive
6,209
Jon-Erik Hexum🇺🇸
deceasedTelevision actor · 1957–1984
Days lived
9,844
Kellen Winslow🇺🇸
All-American college football player, professional football player, tight end, College Football Hall of Fame member, Pro Football Hall of Fame member · b. 1957
Days alive
12,053
Kevin Jonas🇺🇸
singer · b. 1987
Days alive
1,096
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Koos Kombuis🇿🇦
South African musician · b. 1954
Days alive
13,149
Kris Jenner
Momager · b. 1955
Days alive
12,784
Leah Culver🇺🇸
American computer scientist and entrepreneur · b. 1982
Days alive
2,922
Lotte Betke🇩🇪
deceasedGerman journalist (1905-2008) · 1905–2008
Days lived
37,518
Magnus Lavonius🇫🇮
deceasedFinnish politician and business magnate · 1870–1948
Days lived
28,444
Mike Hanke🇩🇪
German association football player · b. 1983
Days alive
2,557
Nikolai Tanayev
deceasedPrime Minister of Kyrgyzstan (1945-2020) · 1945–2020
Days lived
27,285
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Peter Hammill🇬🇧
singer-songwriter · b. 1948
Days alive
15,340
Richard Holmes🇬🇧
writer · b. 1945
Days alive
16,436
Rolf von Goth🇩🇪
deceasedactor · 1906–1981
Days lived
27,398
Rudolf Augstein🇩🇪
deceasedjournalist · 1923–2002
Days lived
28,857
Ryan Adams🇺🇸
American musician · b. 1974
Days alive
5,844
Steven Küchler🇩🇪
German boxer · b. 1975
Days alive
5,479
Takehiro Tomiyasu
association football player · b. 1998
Tan Min-Liang🇸🇬
CEO and Co-founder of Razer Inc. · b. 1977
Days alive
4,748
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Uwe Seeler🇩🇪
deceasedGerman association football player (1936–2022) · 1936–2022
Days lived
31,304
Vandana Shiva🇮🇳
Indian philosopher, activist and environmentalist (*1952) · b. 1952
Days alive
13,879
Virat Kohli🇮🇳
Sports · b. 1988
Days alive
730
Vivien Leigh🇬🇧
deceasedFilm actor · 1913–1967
Days lived
19,603
Walter Wislicenus🇩🇪
deceasedGerman astronomer (1859–1905) · 1859–1905
Days lived
16,768
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Yair Lapid🇮🇱
Journalist · b. 1963
Days alive
9,862
Zara Taylor🇨🇦
singer · b. 1983
Days alive
2,557
Zygmunt Chychła🇵🇱
deceasedPolish boxer (1926–2009) · 1926–2009
Days lived
30,272
Died on This Day
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Art Tatum🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican jazz pianist (1909–1956) · 1909–1956
Days lived
17,190
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Bernhard Lichtenberg
deceasedGerman Roman Catholic priest, theologian, martyr and blessed (1875–1943) · 1875–1943
Days lived
24,808
Carlos Ulrrico Cesco🇦🇷
deceasedArgentine astronomer (1910-1987) · 1910–1987
Days lived
28,105
Cēzars Ozers🇷🇺
deceasedOlympic basketball player (1937–2023) · 1937–2023
Days lived
31,678
Erich Heller🇬🇧
deceasedBritish scholar of German literature and philosophy · 1911–1990
Days lived
29,078
Erich Neumann🇩🇪
deceasedGerman writer, psychologist and philosopher (1905-1960) · 1905–1960
Days lived
20,375
Ernest Gellner🇬🇧
deceasedCzech anthropologist, philosopher and sociologist · 1925–1995
Days lived
25,533
Hajo Herrmann🇩🇪
deceasedGerman bomber pilot (1913–2010) · 1913–2010
Days lived
35,525
Isaiah Berlin🇬🇧
deceasedRusso-British-Latvian Jewish social and political theorist, philosopher and historian of ideas (1909–1997) · 1909–1997
Days lived
32,294
Jacques Grand'Maison🇨🇦
deceasedCanadian writer (1931–2016) · 1931–2016
Days lived
31,004
John Fowles🇬🇧
deceasedEnglish novelist (1926–2005) · 1926–2005
Days lived
29,074
Karol Duchoň
deceasedsinger · 1950–1985
Days lived
12,982
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Leonardo Favio🇦🇷
deceasedactor · 1938–2012
Days lived
27,190
Link Wray🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican guitarist (1929–2005) · 1929–2005
Days lived
27,946
Loulou de la Falaise🇫🇷
deceasedfashion muse and designer (1947–2011) · 1947–2011
Days lived
23,561
Mack Sennett🇨🇦
deceasedCanadian-American actor, producer and director (1880–1960) · 1880–1960
Days lived
29,512
Mario Cecchi Gori🇮🇹
deceasedfilm producer (1920–1993) · 1920–1993
Days lived
26,892
Milan Mladenović🇭🇷
deceasedrapper · 1958–1994
Days lived
13,194
Nora Brockstedt🇳🇴
deceasedNorwegian singer and musician (1923-2015) · 1923–2015
Days lived
33,892
Robert Knight🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican singer · 1945–2017
Days lived
26,493
Robert Maxwell🇬🇧
deceasedMedia Mogul, Politician, Fraudster · 1923–1991
Days lived
24,985
Willi Hennig🇩🇪
deceasedwriter · 1913–1976
Days lived
23,210
Who Was Alive
Notable people alive on this date, sorted by most days lived (top 20).
Sándor Farkas
Catholic priest, born 1853 · b. 1853
Days alive
50,346
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Horst von der Goltz
German spy and actor · b. 1884
Days alive
39,024
José Miguel Barandiarán🇪🇸
deceasedBasque anthropologist, etnologist and archaeologist (1889–1991) · 1889–1991
Days lived
37,244
Frank J. Skinner🇺🇸
American football player · b. 1891
Days alive
36,372
Walter Schenk🇩🇪
deceasedGerman military personnel · 1891–2000
Days lived
39,634
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Hal Roach🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican filmmaker (1892–1992) · 1892–1992
Days lived
36,817
Lajos Perley
athlete · b. 1892
Days alive
36,035
Lang Jingshan
deceasedartist · 1892–1995
Days lived
37,506
Zośka Vieras🇱🇹
deceasedBelarusian writer and poet (1892-1991) · 1892–1991
Days lived
36,166
Lillian Gish🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican actress (1893–1993) · 1893–1993
Days lived
36,295
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Martha Graham🇺🇸
deceasedBallet dancer · 1894–1991
Days lived
35,388
Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia🇮🇹
deceasedItalian film director (1894–1998) · 1894–1998
Days lived
37,799
Hermann Florstedt
deceasedmilitary person · 1895–2000
Days lived
38,302
Adolf Pokorny🇦🇹
deceasedAustrian-born dermatologist and doctor; defendant in the Doctors' Trial at Nuremberg (1895-?) · 1895–2000
Days lived
38,144
Silas Simmons🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican baseball player (1895–2006) · 1895–2006
Days lived
40,557
Heinrich Eberbach🇩🇪
deceasedGerman general (1895–1992) · 1895–1992
Days lived
35,295
Sylvia de Arruda Botelho Bittencourt🇧🇷
deceasedBrazilian journalist · 1896–1995
Days lived
36,188
Friedrich Hund🇩🇪
deceasedchemist · 1896–1997
Days lived
36,945
Lilia Skala🇺🇸
deceasedAustrian-American actress (1896-1994) · 1896–1994
Days lived
35,813
Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky🇦🇹
deceasedAustrian architect (1897–2000) · 1897–2000
Days lived
37,614
Animals Alive
Notable animals alive on this date.
Harriet🇦🇺
deceasedGalápagos tortoise · 1830–2006
Days lived
64,138
Jonathan🇸🇭
Seychelles giant tortoise · b. 1832
Days alive
58,017
Lonesome George🇪🇨
deceasedPinta Island tortoise · 1910–2012
Days lived
37,430
Lin Wang🇹🇼
deceasedAsian elephant · 1917–2003
Days lived
31,467
Washoe🇺🇸
deceasedChimpanzee · 1965–2007
Days lived
15,399
Koko🇺🇸
deceasedWestern lowland gorilla · 1971–2018
Days lived
17,152
Alex🇺🇸
deceasedAfrican grey parrot · 1976–2007
Days lived
11,433
Keiko🇮🇸
deceasedOrca · 1977–2003
Days lived
9,841
Companies That Existed
Brands and companies already founded by this date.
Hermes🇫🇷
Luxury Goods · b. 1837
Days since founding
56,190
Procter & Gamble🇺🇸
Consumer Goods · b. 1837
Days since founding
55,887
Berkshire Hathaway🇺🇸
Conglomerate / Investments · b. 1839
Days since founding
55,460
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HSBC🇬🇧
Banking · b. 1865
Days since founding
45,902
Tata Group🇮🇳
Conglomerate · b. 1868
Days since founding
44,868
Goldman Sachs🇺🇸
Investment Banking · b. 1869
Days since founding
44,502
Eli Lilly🇺🇸
Pharmaceuticals · b. 1876
Days since founding
41,946
Chevron🇺🇸
Oil & Gas · b. 1879
Days since founding
40,598
Already Published
Notable books already in print.
Meditations🇮🇹
Philosophy/Stoicism Book · b. 180
Days in print
661,397
Don Quixote🇪🇸
Satire/Adventure Book · b. 1605
Days in print
140,911
Pride and Prejudice🇬🇧
Romance/Satire Book · b. 1813
Days in print
64,929
Crime and Punishment🇷🇺
Psychological Fiction Book · b. 1866
Days in print
45,598
The Great Gatsby🇺🇸
Tragedy/Modernist Book · b. 1925
Days in print
23,950
Brave New World🇬🇧
Dystopian/Sci-Fi Book · b. 1932
Days in print
21,493
The Hobbit🇬🇧
Fantasy/Adventure Book · b. 1937
Days in print
19,403
The Little Prince🇫🇷
Novella/Fantasy Book · b. 1943
Days in print
17,380
Already Released
Films already out by this date.
Wuthering Heights
Drama film · b. 1939
Days since release
18,840
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12 Angry Men🇺🇸
Drama/Crime Film · b. 1957
Days since release
12,262
The Godfather🇺🇸
Crime/Drama Film · b. 1972
Days since release
6,800
Jaws🇺🇸
Thriller/Adventure Film · b. 1975
Days since release
5,617
Star Wars: A New Hope🇺🇸
Sci-Fi/Fantasy Film · b. 1977
Days since release
4,912
Mad Max
Film · b. 1979
Days since release
4,225
Alien🇺🇸
Sci-Fi/Horror Film · b. 1979
Days since release
4,182
The Shining
Film · b. 1980
Days since release
3,961