November 5

November 5 – Famous Birthdays

Tilda Swinton (MOVIE ACTRESS) 1960

Kevin Jonas (GUITARIST) 1987

Luke Hemsworth (TV ACTOR) 1981

November 5 – Famous Birthdays:

1900 – Martin Dies, Jr., American lawyer, judge, and politician (d. 1972)
1900 – Natalie Schafer, American actress (d. 1991)
1900 – Ethelwynn Trewavas, British ichthyologist, over a dozen fish species named in her honor (d. 1993)
1901 – Etta Moten Barnett, American actress and singer (d. 2004)
1901 – Eddie Paynter, English cricketer (d. 1979)
1904 – Cooney Weiland, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1985)
1905 – Joel McCrea, American actor (d. 1990)
1905 – Louis Rosier, French race car driver (d. 1956)
1905 – Sajjad Zaheer, Indian author and poet (d. 1973)
1906 – Endre Kabos, Hungarian fencer (d. 1944)
1906 – Fred Lawrence Whipple, American astronomer and academic (d. 2004)
1910 – John Hackett, Australian-English general and academic (d. 1997)
1911 – Marie Osborne Yeats, American actress and costume designer (d. 2010)
1911 – Roy Rogers, American singer, guitarist, and actor (d. 1998)
1913 – Guy Green, English-American director, screenwriter, and cinematographer (d. 2005)
1913 – Vivien Leigh, Indian-British actress (d. 1967)
1913 – John McGiver, American actor (d. 1975)
1914 – Alton Tobey, American painter and illustrator (d. 2005)
1917 – Jacqueline Auriol, French pilot (d. 2000)
1917 – Banarsi Das Gupta, Indian activist and politician, 4th Chief Minister of Haryana (d. 2007)
1919 – Hasan Askari, Pakistani linguist, scholar, and critic (d. 1978)
1919 – Myron Floren, American accordion player and pianist (d. 2005)
1920 – Tommy Godwin, American-English cyclist and coach (d. 2012)
1920 – Douglass North, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2015)
1921 – Georges Cziffra, Hungarian pianist and composer (d. 1994)
1921 – Fawzia Fuad of Egypt (d. 2013)
1922 – Violet Barclay, American illustrator (d. 2010)
1922 – Yitzchok Scheiner, American-Israelian rabbi
1922 – Cecil H. Underwood, American educator and politician, 25th and 32nd Governor of West Virginia (d. 2008)
1923 – Rudolf Augstein, German soldier and journalist, co-founded Der Spiegel (d. 2002)
1926 – John Berger, English author, poet, painter, and critic (d. 2017)
1927 – Hirotugu Akaike, Japanese statistician (d. 2009)
1930 – Wim Bleijenberg, Dutch footballer and manager (d. 2016)
1930 – Hans Mommsen, German historian and academic (d. 2015)
1931 – Leonard Herzenberg, American immunologist, geneticist, and academic (d. 2013)
1931 – Gil Hill, American actor, police officer and politician (d. 2016)
1931 – Harold McNair, Jamaican-English saxophonist and flute player (d. 1971)
1931 – Ike Turner, American singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer (d. 2007)
1932 – Algirdas Lauritėnas, Lithuanian basketball player (d. 2001)
1933 – Herb Edelman, American actor (d. 1996)
1934 – Jeb Stuart Magruder, American minister and civil servant (d. 2014)
1935 – Lester Piggott, English jockey and trainer
1935 – Christopher Wood, English author and screenwriter (d. 2015)
1936 – Michael Dertouzos, Greek-American computer scientist and academic (d. 2001)
1936 – Uwe Seeler, German footballer and actor
1936 – Billy Sherrill, American record producer, songwriter, and arranger (d. 2015)
1937 – Chan Sek Keong, Singaporean lawyer, judge, and politician, 3rd Chief Justice of Singapore
1937 – Harris Yulin, American actor
1938 – Joe Dassin, American-French singer-songwriter (d. 1980)
1938 – César Luis Menotti, Argentinian footballer and manager
1938 – Jim Steranko, American author and illustrator
1939 – Lobsang Tenzin, Singaporean religious leader
1940 – Ted Kulongoski, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 36th Governor of Oregon
1940 – Elke Sommer, German actress
1941 – Art Garfunkel, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1941 – Yoshiyuki Tomino, Japanese animator, director, and screenwriter
1942 – Pierangelo Bertoli, Italian singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2002)
1943 – Friedman Paul Erhardt, German-American chef and author (d. 2007)
1943 – Percy Hobson, Australian high jumper
1943 – Sam Shepard, American playwright and actor (d. 2017)
1945 – Peter Pace, American general
1945 – Aleka Papariga, Greek accountant and politician
1945 – Svetlana Tširkova-Lozovaja, Russian fencer and coach
1946 – Gram Parsons, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1973)
1946 – Ken Whaley, Austrian-English bass player and songwriter (d. 2013)
1947 – Quint Davis, American director and producer
1947 – Rubén Juárez, Argentinian singer-songwriter and bandoneon player (d. 2010)
1947 – Peter Noone, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1948 – Bob Barr, American lawyer and politician
1948 – Peter Hammill, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1948 – Bernard-Henri Lévy, French philosopher and author
1948 – William Daniel Phillips, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1949 – Armin Shimerman, American actor
1949 – Jimmie Spheeris, American singer-songwriter (d. 1984)
1950 – Thorbjørn Jagland, Norwegian politician, 25th Prime Minister of Norway
1950 – James Kennedy, American psychologist and author
1952 – Oleh Blokhin, Ukrainian footballer and manager
1952 – Brian Muehl, American puppeteer
1952 – Vandana Shiva, Indian philosopher and author
1952 – Bill Walton, American basketball player and sportscaster
1953 – Florentino Floro, Filipino lawyer and judge
1953 – Joyce Maynard, American journalist, author, and academic
1954 – Alejandro Sabella, Argentine footballer and manager
1954 – Jeffrey Sachs, American economist and academic
1955 – Bernard Chazelle, French computer scientist and academic
1955 – Kris Jenner, American talent manager and businesswoman
1955 – Karan Thapar, Indian journalist and author
1956 – Jeff Watson, American guitarist and songwriter (Night Ranger)
1956 – John Harwood, American journalist
1956 – Lavrentis Machairitsas, Greek singer-songwriter and guitarist
1956 – Michael Sorridimi, Australian rugby league player
1956 – Rob Fisher, English keyboard player and songwriter (d. 1999)
1957 – Mike Score, English singer-songwriter and keyboard player
1958 – Don Falcone, American keyboard player, songwriter, and producer
1958 – Mo Gaffney, American actress and screenwriter
1958 – Robert Patrick, American actor
1959 – Bryan Adams, Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor
1959 – Tomo Česen, Slovenian mountaineer
1960 – René Froger, Dutch singer-songwriter
1960 – Tilda Swinton, English actress
1961 – Alan G. Poindexter, American captain, pilot, and astronaut (d. 2012)
1962 – Turid Birkeland, Norwegian businesswoman and politician, Norwegian Minister of Culture (d. 2015)
1962 – Abedi Pele, Ghanaian footballer and manager
1962 – Marcus J. Ranum, American computer scientist and author
1963 – Hans Gillhaus, Dutch footballer and scout
1963 – Andrea McArdle, American actress and singer
1963 – Tatum O’Neal, American actress and author
1963 – Brian Wheat, American bass player and songwriter
1963 – Jean-Pierre Papin, French footballer and manager
1965 – Atul Gawande, American surgeon and journalist
1965 – Famke Janssen, Dutch model and actress
1966 – Nayim, Spanish footballer and manager
1966 – James Allen, English journalist and sportscaster
1966 – Urmas Kirs, Estonian footballer and manager
1967 – Marcelo D2, Brazilian rapper
1967 – Judy Reyes, American actress and producer
1968 – Ricardo Fort, Argentinian actor, director, and businessman (d. 2013)
1968 – Sam Rockwell, American actor
1969 – Pat Kilbane, American actor, comedian, director, and screenwriter
1970 – Javy López, Puerto Rican-American baseball player
1971 – Chris Addison, Welsh-English comedian, actor, and screenwriter
1971 – Sergei Berezin, Russian ice hockey player
1971 – Jonny Greenwood, English guitarist and songwriter
1971 – Dana Jacobson, American sportscaster
1971 – Rob Jones, Welsh-English footballer and coach
1971 – Edmond Leung, Hong Kong singer-songwriter and producer
1971 – Mårten Olander, Swedish golfer
1973 – Johnny Damon, American baseball player
1973 – Peter Emmerich, American illustrator and educator
1973 – Gráinne Seoige, Irish journalist
1973 – Alexei Yashin, Russian ice hockey player and manager
1974 – Ryan Adams, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1974 – Angela Gossow, German singer-songwriter
1974 – Dado Pršo, Croatian footballer and coach
1974 – Taine Randell, New Zealand rugby player
1974 – Jerry Stackhouse, American basketball player and sportscaster
1975 – Lisa Scott-Lee, Welsh singer-songwriter
1976 – Sebastian Arcelus, American actor, singer, and producer
1976 – Mr. Fastfinger, Finnish guitarist and songwriter
1976 – Jeff Klein, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1976 – Samuel Page, American actor
1977 – Maarten Tjallingii, Dutch cyclist
1977 – Richard Wright, English footballer and coach
1978 – Xavier Tondo, Spanish cyclist (d. 2011)
1978 – Bubba Watson, American golfer
1979 – Romi Dames, Japanese-American actress
1979 – Colin Grzanna, German rugby player and surgeon
1979 – Michalis Hatzigiannis, Cypriot singer-songwriter and producer
1979 – Keith McLeod, American basketball player
1979 – David Suazo, Honduran footballer and coach
1980 – Jaime Camara, Brazilian race car driver
1980 – Andrei Korobeinik, Estonian computer programmer, businessman, and politician
1980 – Christoph Metzelder, German footballer
1980 – Orkun Uşak, Turkish footballer
1981 – Paul Chapman, Australian footballer
1981 – Ümit Ergirdi, Turkish footballer
1982 – Leah Culver, American computer scientist and programmer, co-founded Pownce
1982 – Bryan LaHair, American baseball player
1982 – Rob Swire, Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1982 – Matthew Williams, Welsh footballer
1983 – Alexa Chung, English model and television host
1983 – Mike Hanke, German footballer
1983 – Juan Morillo, Dominican baseball player
1983 – David Pipe, Welsh footballer
1984 – Jon Cornish, Canadian football player
1984 – Tobias Enström, Swedish ice hockey player
1984 – Nick Folk, American football player
1984 – Baruto Kaito, Estonian sumo wrestler
1984 – Eliud Kipchoge, Kenyan long distance runner
1984 – John Sutton, Australian rugby league player
1984 – Nick Tandy, English race car driver
1984 – Nikolay Zherdev, Ukrainian-Russian ice hockey player
1985 – Michel Butter, Dutch runner
1985 – Kate DeAraugo, Australian singer-songwriter
1985 – Alo Dupikov, Estonian footballer
1985 – Rimo Hunt, Estonian footballer
1985 – Pınar Saka, Turkish sprinter
1986 – BoA, South Korean singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
1986 – Ian Mahinmi, American basketball player
1986 – Kasper Schmeichel, Danish footballer
1986 – Nodiko Tatishvili, Georgian singer
1987 – Kevin Jonas, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
1987 – Chris Knierim, American figure skater
1987 – O. J. Mayo, American basketball player
1988 – Virat Kohli, Indian cricketer
1989 – Andrew Boyce, English footballer
1991 – Flume, Australian DJ and producer
1991 – Shōdai Naoya, Japanese sumo wrestler
1992 – Odell Beckham Jr., American football player
1992 – Marco Verratti, Italian footballer
1993 – Hideya Tawada, Japanese actor and model