| 88621 | August 5 | Birth | 1998 – Kanon Suzuki, Japanese singer and actress (Morning Musume) |
| 88622 | August 5 | Birth | 2000 – Maya Bond, Japanese-American singer-songwriter and drummer |
| 88623 | August 5 | Death | 642 – Eowa of Mercia |
| 88624 | August 5 | Death | 642 – Oswald of Northumbria (b. 604) |
| 88625 | August 5 | Death | 824 – Heizei, Japanese emperor (b. 773) |
| 88626 | August 5 | Death | 882 – Louis III, Frankish king (b. 863) |
| 88627 | August 5 | Death | 917 – Euthymius I of Constantinople (b. 834) |
| 88628 | August 5 | Death | 1364 – Kōgon, Japanese emperor (b. 1313) |
| 88629 | August 5 | Death | 1579 – Stanislaus Hosius, Polish cardinal (b. 1504) |
| 88630 | August 5 | Death | 1610 – Alonso García de Ramón, Spanish soldier and politician, Royal Governor of Chile (b. 1552) |
| 88631 | August 5 | Death | 1633 – George Abbot, English archbishop and academic (b. 1562) |
| 88632 | August 5 | Death | 1678 – Juan García de Zéspedes, Mexican tenor and composer (b. 1619) |
| 88633 | August 5 | Death | 1729 – Thomas Newcomen, English engineer, invented the Newcomen atmospheric engine (b. 1664) |
| 88634 | August 5 | Death | 1743 – John Hervey, 2nd Baron Hervey, English courtier and politician, Vice-Chamberlain of the Household (b. 1696) |
| 88635 | August 5 | Death | 1778 – Charles Clémencet, French historian and author (b. 1703) |
| 88636 | August 5 | Death | 1792 – Frederick North, Lord North, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1732) |
| 88637 | August 5 | Death | 1799 – Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe, English admiral and politician (b. 1726) |
| 88638 | August 5 | Death | 1868 – Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes, French archaeologist and historian (b. 1788) |
| 88639 | August 5 | Death | 1877 – Gustav, Prince of Vasa (b. 1799) |
| 88640 | August 5 | Death | 1877 – Robert Williams (Trebor Mai), Welsh poet (b.1830) |
| 88641 | August 5 | Death | 1880 – Ferdinand Ritter von Hebra, Austrian physician and dermatologist (b. 1816) |
| 88642 | August 5 | Death | 1888 – Anna Haining Bates, Canadian-American giant (b. 1846) |
| 88643 | August 5 | Death | 1895 – Friedrich Engels, German-English philosopher and author (b. 1820) |
| 88644 | August 5 | Death | 1901 – Victoria, Princess Royal of the United Kingdom (b. 1840) |
| 88645 | August 5 | Death | 1911 – Bob Caruthers, American baseball player and umpire (b. 1864) |
| 88646 | August 5 | Death | 1921 – Dimitrios Rallis, Greek lawyer and politician, 78th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1844) |
| 88647 | August 5 | Death | 1923 – Vatroslav Jagić, Croatian linguist, philologist, and academic (b. 1835) |
| 88648 | August 5 | Death | 1925 – Jennie Lee, American actress (b. 1848) |
| 88649 | August 5 | Death | 1929 – Millicent Fawcett, English union leader and activist (b. 1847) |
| 88650 | August 5 | Death | 1933 – Charles Harold Davis, American painter and academic (b. 1856) |