| 39061 | April 5 | Birth | 1719 – Axel von Fersen the Elder, Swedish field marshal and politician, Lord Marshal of Sweden (d. 1794) |
| 39062 | April 5 | Birth | 1727 – Pasquale Anfossi, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1797) |
| 39063 | April 5 | Birth | 1732 – Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French painter and etcher (d. 1806) |
| 39064 | April 5 | Birth | 1752 – Sébastien Érard, French instrument maker (d. 1831) |
| 39065 | April 5 | Birth | 1761 – Sybil Ludington, heroine of the American Revolutionary War (d. 1839) |
| 39066 | April 5 | Birth | 1769 – Sir Thomas Hardy, 1st Baronet, English admiral (d. 1839) |
| 39067 | April 5 | Birth | 1780 – Benjamin Greene, English brewer and businessman, founded Greene King Brewery (d. 1860) |
| 39068 | April 5 | Birth | 1784 – Louis Spohr, German violinist, composer, and conductor (d. 1859) |
| 39069 | April 5 | Birth | 1805 – Samuel Forde, Irish painter (d. 1828) |
| 39070 | April 5 | Birth | 1816 – Samuel Freeman Miller, American physician, lawyer, and jurist (d. 1890) |
| 39071 | April 5 | Birth | 1827 – Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister, English surgeon and academic (d. 1912) |
| 39072 | April 5 | Birth | 1832 – Jules Ferry, French lawyer and politician, 44th Prime Minister of France (d. 1893) |
| 39073 | April 5 | Birth | 1835 – Carl Theodor Schulz, German-Norwegian gardener (d. 1914) |
| 39074 | April 5 | Birth | 1837 – Algernon Charles Swinburne, English poet, author, and playwright (d. 1909) |
| 39075 | April 5 | Birth | 1839 – Robert Smalls, American pilot and politician (d. 1915) |
| 39076 | April 5 | Birth | 1840 – Ghazaros Aghayan, Armenian historian and linguist (d. 1911) |
| 39077 | April 5 | Birth | 1856 – Booker T. Washington, American author and educator (d. 1915) |
| 39078 | April 5 | Birth | 1857 – Alexander of Battenberg (d. 1893) |
| 39079 | April 5 | Birth | 1858 – Washington Atlee Burpee, Canadian businessman, founded Burpee Seeds (d. 1915) |
| 39080 | April 5 | Birth | 1863 – Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine (d. 1950) |
| 39081 | April 5 | Birth | 1869 – Sergey Chaplygin, Russian physicist, mathematician, and engineer (d. 1942) |
| 39082 | April 5 | Birth | 1869 – Albert Roussel, French composer (d. 1937) |
| 39083 | April 5 | Birth | 1871 – Mirko Seljan, Croatian explorer (d. 1912) |
| 39084 | April 5 | Birth | 1872 – Samuel Cate Prescott, American microbiologist and chemist (d. 1962) |
| 39085 | April 5 | Birth | 1875 – Mistinguett, French actress and singer (d. 1956) |
| 39086 | April 5 | Birth | 1878 – Paul Weinstein, German high jumper (d. 1964) |
| 39087 | April 5 | Birth | 1883 – Walter Huston, Canadian-American actor and singer (d. 1950) |
| 39088 | April 5 | Birth | 1884 – Ion Inculeț, Bessarabian academic and politician, President of Moldova (d. 1940) |
| 39089 | April 5 | Birth | 1891 – Arnold Jackson, English runner, soldier, and lawyer (d. 1972) |
| 39090 | April 5 | Birth | 1893 – Clas Thunberg, Finnish speed skater (d. 1973) |