| 101131 | September 5 | Death | 1803 – Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, French general and author (b. 1741) |
| 101132 | September 5 | Death | 1803 – François Devienne, French flute player and composer (b. 1759) |
| 101133 | September 5 | Death | 1836 – Ferdinand Raimund, Austrian actor and playwright (b. 1790) |
| 101134 | September 5 | Death | 1837 – James Ruse, English-Australian farmer and criminal (b. 1759) |
| 101135 | September 5 | Death | 1838 – Charles Percier, French architect and interior decorator (b. 1764) |
| 101136 | September 5 | Death | 1857 – Auguste Comte, French sociologist and philosopher (b. 1798) |
| 101137 | September 5 | Death | 1876 – Manuel Blanco Encalada, Chilean admiral and politician, 1st President of Chile (b. 1790) |
| 101138 | September 5 | Death | 1877 – Crazy Horse, American tribal leader (b. 1849) |
| 101139 | September 5 | Death | 1898 – Sarah Emma Edmonds, Canadian-American nurse, soldier, and spy (b. 1841) |
| 101140 | September 5 | Death | 1901 – Ignacij Klemenčič, Slovenian physicist and academic (b. 1853) |
| 101141 | September 5 | Death | 1902 – Rudolf Virchow, German anthropologist, pathologist, and biologist (b. 1821) |
| 101142 | September 5 | Death | 1906 – Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian physicist and philosopher (b. 1844) |
| 101143 | September 5 | Death | 1912 – Arthur MacArthur, Jr., American general (b. 1845) |
| 101144 | September 5 | Death | 1917 – Marian Smoluchowski, Austrian-Polish physicist and mountaineer (b. 1872) |
| 101145 | September 5 | Death | 1920 – Robert Harron, American actor (b. 1893) |
| 101146 | September 5 | Death | 1922 – Georgette Agutte, French painter (b. 1867) |
| 101147 | September 5 | Death | 1926 – Karl Harrer, German journalist and politician (b. 1890) |
| 101148 | September 5 | Death | 1930 – Robert Means Thompson, American soldier, businessman, and philanthropist (b. 1849) |
| 101149 | September 5 | Death | 1931 – John Thomson, Scottish footballer (b. 1909) |
| 101150 | September 5 | Death | 1932 – Francisco Acebal, Spanish journalist, author, and playwright (b. 1866) |
| 101151 | September 5 | Death | 1932 – Paul Bern, German-American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1889) |
| 101152 | September 5 | Death | 1934 – Sidney Myer, Russian-Australian businessman, founded Myer Stores (b. 1878) |
| 101153 | September 5 | Death | 1936 – Federico Borrell García, Spanish soldier (b. 1912) |
| 101154 | September 5 | Death | 1936 – Gustave Kahn, French poet and critic (b. 1859) |
| 101155 | September 5 | Death | 1942 – François de Labouchère, French soldier and pilot (b. 1917) |
| 101156 | September 5 | Death | 1945 – Clem Hill, Australian cricketer and footballer (b. 1877) |
| 101157 | September 5 | Death | 1948 – Richard C. Tolman, American physicist and chemist (b. 1881) |
| 101158 | September 5 | Death | 1953 – Richard Walther Darré, Argentinian-German agronomist and politician (b. 1895) |
| 101159 | September 5 | Death | 1954 – Eugen Schiffer, German lawyer and politician, Vice-Chancellor of Germany (b. 1860) |
| 101160 | September 5 | Death | 1955 – Haydn Bunton, Sr., Australian footballer and coach (b. 1911) |