| 88381 | August 5 | Birth | 1833 – Carola of Vasa (d. 1907) |
| 88382 | August 5 | Birth | 1843 – James Scott Skinner, Scottish violinist and composer (d. 1927) |
| 88383 | August 5 | Birth | 1844 – Ilya Repin, Russian painter and sculptor (d. 1930) |
| 88384 | August 5 | Birth | 1850 – Guy de Maupassant, French author and poet (d. 1893) |
| 88385 | August 5 | Birth | 1862 – Joseph Merrick, English man with severe deformities (d. 1890) |
| 88386 | August 5 | Birth | 1866 – Carl Harries, German chemist and academic (d. 1923) |
| 88387 | August 5 | Birth | 1866 – Harry Trott, Australian cricketer (d. 1917) |
| 88388 | August 5 | Birth | 1868 – Oskar Merikanto, Finnish pianist and composer (d. 1924) |
| 88389 | August 5 | Birth | 1872 – Oswaldo Cruz, Brazilian physician, bacteriologist, and epidemiologist, founded the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (d. 1917) |
| 88390 | August 5 | Birth | 1874 – Wesley Clair Mitchell, American economist and academic (d. 1948) |
| 88391 | August 5 | Birth | 1876 – Mary Ritter Beard, American historian and activist (d. 1958) |
| 88392 | August 5 | Birth | 1877 – Tom Thomson, Canadian painter (d. 1917) |
| 88393 | August 5 | Birth | 1880 – Gertrude Rush, American lawyer and jurist (d. 1962) |
| 88394 | August 5 | Birth | 1880 – Ruth Sawyer, American author and educator (d. 1970) |
| 88395 | August 5 | Birth | 1887 – Reginald Owen, English-American actor and singer (d. 1972) |
| 88396 | August 5 | Birth | 1888 – Victor Francen, Belgian-French actor (d. 1977) |
| 88397 | August 5 | Birth | 1889 – Conrad Aiken, American author and poet (d. 1973) |
| 88398 | August 5 | Birth | 1890 – Naum Gabo, Russian-American sculptor (d. 1977) |
| 88399 | August 5 | Birth | 1890 – Erich Kleiber, Austrian conductor and director (d. 1956) |
| 88400 | August 5 | Birth | 1897 – Roberta Dodd Crawford, American soprano and educator (d. 1954) |
| 88401 | August 5 | Birth | 1897 – Aksel Larsen, Danish lawyer and politician (d. 1972) |
| 88402 | August 5 | Birth | 1901 – Claude Autant-Lara, French director, screenwriter, and politician (d. 2000) |
| 88403 | August 5 | Birth | 1904 – Kenneth V. Thimann, English-American botanist and microbiologist (d. 1997) |
| 88404 | August 5 | Birth | 1906 – Joan Hickson, English actress (d. 1998) |
| 88405 | August 5 | Birth | 1906 – John Huston, American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1987) |
| 88406 | August 5 | Birth | 1906 – Wassily Leontief, German-American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999) |
| 88407 | August 5 | Birth | 1908 – Harold Holt, Australian lawyer and politician, 17th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1967) |
| 88408 | August 5 | Birth | 1910 – Bruno Coquatrix, French songwriter and manager (d. 1979) |
| 88409 | August 5 | Birth | 1910 – Herminio Masantonio, Argentinian footballer (d. 1956) |
| 88410 | August 5 | Birth | 1911 – Robert Taylor, American actor and singer (d. 1969) |