The 309th day of the year, the 310th in a leap year
Born on 5 November
Every 5 November birthday from 1920 to 2026 was Scorpio, in every time zone.
- Star sign
- ScorpioWater, fixed, ruled by Mars.
- Birthstone
- Topaz, CitrineThe 1912 list gave Topaz.
- Birth flower
- ChrysanthemumUsually taken today to mean loyalty.
- Most common weekdays
- Saturday and Thursday16 times each between 1920 and 2026.
Your year
Without JavaScript, the pages for each birth year give the generation and Chinese animal for a birth on 5 November in any year.
Which weekday 5 November falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 5 November falls on every day of the week: Saturday 16, Thursday 16, Friday 15, Sunday 15, Monday 15, Wednesday 15, Tuesday 15.
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How common a birthday 5 November is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,822 babies were born on 5 November in each year of the twenty, making it the 149th most common of the 366 dates, where 26 September came first with 1,974 and 26 December last with 1,359.
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Born on 5 November
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Vivien Leigh | 1913–1967 | British actress |
| Bryan Adams | 1959– | Canadian singer-songwriter and musician |
| Vandana Shiva | 1952– | Indian philosopher, activist and environmentalist |
| Tilda Swinton | 1960– | Scottish-British actress |
| Paul Sabatier | 1854–1941 | French chemist |
| William Daniel Phillips | 1948– | physics Nobel laureate |
| Virat Kohli | 1988– | Indian cricket player |
| Will Durant | 1885–1981 | American historian, philosopher and writer |
| Oleg Blokhin | 1952– | Ukrainian footballer, coach, and politician |
| Sam Rockwell | 1968– | American actor |
| Kasper Schmeichel | 1986– | Danish association football player |
| J. B. S. Haldane | 1892–1964 | Geneticist and evolutionary biologist |
| Jeffrey Sachs | 1954– | American economist |
| Marco Verratti | 1992– | Italian association football player |
| Bernard-Henri Lévy | 1948– | French film director and philosopher |
| Sam Shepard | 1943–2017 | American playwright and actor |
| Jean-Pierre Papin | 1963– | French football manager |
Died on 5 November
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| James Clerk Maxwell | 1831–1879 | Scottish physicist |
| Alexis Carrel | 1873–1944 | French surgeon and biologist |
| Isaiah Berlin | 1909–1997 | British social and political theorist, philosopher and historian of ideas |
| Bülent Ecevit | 1925–2006 | Prime Minister of Turkey four times between 1974 and 2002 |
| Christiaan Eijkman | 1858–1930 | Dutch physician |
| John Fowles | 1926–2005 | English novelist |
| René Goscinny | 1926–1977 | French comics writer and editor |
| Casimir III the Great | 1310–1370 | King of Poland from 1333 to 1370 |
| Jan Oort | 1900–1992 | Dutch astronomer |
| Vladimir Horowitz | 1903–1989 | Russian and American pianist |
| Angelica Kauffman | 1741–1807 | Swiss artist |
| Edward Tatum | 1909–1975 | American geneticist |
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