October 5

Denis Diderot

Denis Diderot (French:; 5 October 1713 – 31 July 1784) was a French philosopher, art critic, and writer, best known for serving as co-founder, chief editor, and contributor to the Encyclopédie along with Jean le Rond d'Alembert. He was a prominent figure during the Age of Enlightenment.

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Bernard Bolzano

Bernard Bolzano (UK:, US:; German:; Italian:; born Bernardus Placidus Johann Nepomuk Bolzano; 5 October 1781 – 18 December 1848) was a Bohemian mathematician, logician, philosopher, theologian and Catholic priest of Italian extraction, also known for his liberal views. Bolzano wrote in German, his native language.

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Chester A. Arthur

Chester Alan Arthur (October 5, 1829 – November 18, 1886) was the 21st president of the United States, serving from 1881 to 1885. A Republican from New York, he served as the 20th vice president under President James A. Garfield in 1881, assuming the presidency after Garfield's assassination.

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Robert H. Goddard

Robert Hutchings Goddard (October 5, 1882 – August 10, 1945) was an American physicist, inventor, and engineer credited with creating and building the world's first liquid-fueled rocket, which was successfully launched on March 16, 1926.

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Ray Kroc

Raymond Albert Kroc (October 5, 1902 – January 14, 1984) was an American businessman who was instrumental in turning McDonald's into the most successful global fast food corporation by revenue.

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Donald Pleasence

Donald Henry Pleasence ( PLEZ-ənss; 5 October 1919 – 2 February 1995) was an English actor. He was known for his "bald head and intense, staring eyes," and played more than 250 stage, film, and television roles across a nearly 60-year career.

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Glynis Johns

Glynis Margaret Payne Johns (5 October 1923 – 4 January 2024) was a British actress and singer. In a career exceeding seven decades on stage and screen, Johns appeared in more than 60 films and 30 plays.

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Reinhard Selten

Reinhard Justus Reginald Selten (German:; 5 October 1930 – 23 August 2016) was a German economist, who won the 1994 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (shared with John Harsanyi and John Nash).

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Václav Havel

Václav Havel (Czech:; 5 October 1936 – 18 December 2011) was a Czech statesman, author, poet, playwright, and dissident.

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Milena Dravić

Milena Dravić (Serbian Cyrillic: Милена Дравић, pronounced; 5 October 1940 – 14 October 2018) was a Yugoslavian and Serbian film, television and theatre actress.

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Eduardo Duhalde

Eduardo Alberto Duhalde (Spanish pronunciation:; born 5 October 1941) is a former politician from Argentina. A member of the Peronist party, Duhalde served as the President of Argentina from January 2002 to May 2003.

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Brian Johnson

Brian Johnson (born 5 October 1947) is an English singer and songwriter. He is the third lead singer of the Australian rock band AC/DC, taking over the role in 1980 after the death of Bon Scott.

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Henry III

Henry III (German: Heinrich III, 28 October 1016 – 5 October 1056), called Heinrich the Pious, was Holy Roman Emperor from 1046 until his death in 1056. A member of the Salian dynasty, he was the eldest son of Conrad II and Gisela of Swabia.

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Philip III of France

Philip III (1 May 1245 – 5 October 1285), called the Bold (French: le Hardi), was King of France from 1270 until his death in 1285. His father, Louis IX, died in Tunis during the Eighth Crusade.

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Abbas II of Persia

Abbas II (Persian: عباس دوم, romanized: ʿAbbās II; born Soltan Mohammad Mirza; 30 August 1632 – 26 October 1666) was the seventh Shah of Safavid Iran, ruling from 1642 to 1666.

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Augustus III of Poland

Augustus III of Poland (German: August III.; Polish: August III Sas – "the Saxon"; Lithuanian: Augustas III; 17 October 1696 – 5 October 1763) was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1733 until 1763, as well as Elector of Saxony in the Holy Roman Empire where he was known as Frederick Augustus II (German:…

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Gregory Potyomkin

Prince Grigory Aleksandrovich Potemkin-Tauricheski (11 October 1739 – 16 October 1791) was a Russian military leader, statesman, nobleman, and favourite of Catherine the Great. He died during negotiations over the Treaty of Iași, which ended a war with the Ottoman Empire that he had overseen.

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William Lassell

William Lassell (18 June 1799 – 5 October 1880) was an English merchant and astronomer. He is remembered for his improvements to the reflecting telescope and his ensuing discoveries of four planetary satellites.

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Santa Faustina Kowalska

Maria Faustyna Kowalska of the Blessed Sacrament, OLM (born Helena Kowalska; 25 August 1905 – 5 October 1938) was a Polish Catholic religious sister and mystic.

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Lars Onsager

Lars Onsager (27 November 1903 – 5 October 1976) was a Norwegian American physical chemist and theoretical physicist. He held the Gibbs Professorship of Theoretical Chemistry at Yale University.

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Gloria Grahame

Gloria Grahame (born Gloria Penelope Hallward; November 28, 1923 – October 5, 1981) was an American actress. She began her acting career in theater and in 1944 made her first film for MGM.

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Maurice Wilkins

Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins (15 December 1916 – 5 October 2004) was a New Zealand-born British biophysicist and Nobel laureate whose research spanned multiple areas of physics and biophysics, contributing to the scientific understanding of phosphorescence, isotope separation, optical microscopy, and X-ray…

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Steve Jobs

Co-founder of Apple who introduced the Macintosh, iPod and iPhone.

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Henning Mankell

Henning Georg Mankell (Swedish pronunciation:; 3 February 1948 – 5 October 2015) was a Swedish crime writer, children's author, and dramatist, best known for a series of mystery novels starring his most noted creation, Inspector Kurt Wallander. He also wrote a number of plays and screenplays for television.

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