October 5
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Art and culture
- 1969 - Monty Python first airs on the BBC
Births
- 1713 - Denis Diderot, French philosopher and encylopedist (d. 1784)
- 1864 - Louis Lumière, French film pioneer (d. 1948)
- 1952 - Clive Barker, English writer
- 1975 - Kate Winslet, English actress
Deaths
- 1880 - Jacques Offenbach, German-born composer (b. 1819)
- 1992 - Eddie Kendricks, American singer (The Temptations) (b. 1939)
Notes
- 2003 - Neil Postman, American cultural critic (b. 1931 )
- 1934 - Jean Vigo, French filmmaker (b. 1905)
- 1962 - Sylvia Beach, American book store owner and publisher (b. 1887)
- 1927 - Al Hansen (October 5, 1927 – June 22 1995) was an American artist (d. 1948)
- 1949 - Peter Ackroyd (born October 5 1949, London) is an English author.
- 1935 - Ben Barenholtz (born October 5, 1935 in Kovel, Poland)
- 1840 - John Addington Symonds (October 5 1840 - April 19, 1893) was an English poet and literary critic. (d. 1948)
- 1524 - Joachim Patinir (ca. 1480 – October 5, 1524), was a Flemish Northern Renaissance history and landscape painter. (d. 1948)
- 1950 - Laura Gemser (born October 5 1950, Java, Indonesia) is an actress of Indo
- 2001 - Jan Lenica (1928, Poznań, Poland - 5 October 2001, Berlin) was a Polish graphic designer (d. 1948)
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