People born on October 5

Denis Diderot

French Enlightenment philosopher writer and encyclopædist (1713–1784)

Václav Havel

Czech statesman, playwright, and former dissident, the last president of Czechoslovakia and the first president of the Czech Republic (1936–2011)

Chester A. Arthur

President of the United States from 1881 to 1885

Kate Winslet

English actress (born 1976)

Imran Khan

Prime Minister of Pakistan from 2018 to 2022 and former cricketer

Emomali Rahmon

President of Tajikistan (1992-present)

Ramzan Kadyrov

Russian politician and head of the Chechen Republic

Robert H. Goddard

American physicist

Neil deGrasse Tyson

African-American astrophysicist, and science communicator

Donald Pleasence

British actor (1919–1995)

Jesse Eisenberg

American actor

Bernard Bolzano

Bohemian mathematician and priest (*1781 – †1848)

Bernie Mac

American actor

Careca

Brazilian association football player

Cosimo de' Medici

First ruler of the Medici political dynasty (1389–1464)