| 100831 | September 5 | Event | 1978 – Camp David Accords: Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat begin peace discussions at Camp David, Maryland. |
| 100832 | September 5 | Event | 1980 – The Gotthard Road Tunnel opens in Switzerland as the world's longest highway tunnel at 10.14 miles (16.32 km) stretching from Göschenen to Airolo. |
| 100833 | September 5 | Event | 1984 – STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle Discovery lands after its maiden voyage. |
| 100834 | September 5 | Event | 1984 – Western Australia becomes the last Australian state to abolish capital punishment. |
| 100835 | September 5 | Event | 1986 – Pan Am Flight 73 with 358 people on board is hijacked at Karachi International Airport. |
| 100836 | September 5 | Event | 1990 – Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Army soldiers slaughter 158 civilians. |
| 100837 | September 5 | Event | 1991 – The current international treaty defending indigenous peoples, Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989, comes into force. |
| 100838 | September 5 | Event | 1996 – Hurricane Fran makes landfall near Cape Fear, North Carolina as a Category 3 storm with 115 mph sustained winds. Fran caused over $3 billion in damage and killed 27 people. |
| 100839 | September 5 | Event | 2012 – A firecracker factory explodes near Sivakasi, Tamil Nadu, killing 40 and injuring 50 others. |
| 100840 | September 5 | Event | 2012 – An accidental explosion at a Turkish Army ammunition store in Afyon, western Turkey kills 25 soldiers and wounds four others. |
| 100841 | September 5 | Birth | 699 – Abu Hanifa, Iraqi scholar (d. 767) |
| 100842 | September 5 | Birth | 1187 – Louis VIII of France (d. 1226) |
| 100843 | September 5 | Birth | 1201 – Alix, Duchess of Brittany (d. 1221) |
| 100844 | September 5 | Birth | 1319 – Peter IV of Aragon (d. 1387) |
| 100845 | September 5 | Birth | 1540 – Magnus, Duke of Holstein (d. 1583) |
| 100846 | September 5 | Birth | 1567 – Date Masamune, Japanese daimyo (d. 1636) |
| 100847 | September 5 | Birth | 1568 – Tommaso Campanella, Italian poet, philosopher, and theologian (d. 1639) |
| 100848 | September 5 | Birth | 1638 – Louis XIV of France (d. 1715) |
| 100849 | September 5 | Birth | 1666 – Gottfried Arnold, German historian and theologian (d. 1714) |
| 100850 | September 5 | Birth | 1667 – Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri, Italian priest, mathematician, and philosopher (d. 1733) |
| 100851 | September 5 | Birth | 1694 – František Václav Míča, Czech conductor and composer (d. 1744) |
| 100852 | September 5 | Birth | 1695 – Carl Gustaf Tessin, Swedish politician and diplomat (d. 1770) |
| 100853 | September 5 | Birth | 1722 – Frederick Christian, Elector of Saxony (d. 1763) |
| 100854 | September 5 | Birth | 1725 – Jean-Étienne Montucla, French mathematician and theorist (d. 1799) |
| 100855 | September 5 | Birth | 1735 – Johann Christian Bach, German-English viol player and composer (d. 1782) |
| 100856 | September 5 | Birth | 1750 – Robert Fergusson, Scottish poet and author (d. 1774) |
| 100857 | September 5 | Birth | 1769 – John Shortland, English commander (d. 1810) |
| 100858 | September 5 | Birth | 1771 – Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen (d. 1847) |
| 100859 | September 5 | Birth | 1772 – Fath-Ali Shah Qajar, Iranian king (d. 1834) |
| 100860 | September 5 | Birth | 1774 – Caspar David Friedrich, German painter and etcher (d. 1840) |