| 113821 | October 5 | Birth | 1695 – John Glas, Scottish minister (d. 1773) |
| 113822 | October 5 | Birth | 1703 – Jonathan Edwards, American pastor and theologian (d. 1758) |
| 113823 | October 5 | Birth | 1712 – Francesco Guardi, Italian painter (d. 1793) |
| 113824 | October 5 | Birth | 1713 – Denis Diderot, French philosopher and critic (d. 1784) |
| 113825 | October 5 | Birth | 1715 – Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau, French economist and educator (d. 1789) |
| 113826 | October 5 | Birth | 1717 – Marie Anne de Mailly, French mistress of Louis XV of France (d. 1744) |
| 113827 | October 5 | Birth | 1728 – Chevalier d'Eon, French diplomat and spy (d. 1810) |
| 113828 | October 5 | Birth | 1743 – Giuseppe Gazzaniga, Italian composer and educator (d. 1818) |
| 113829 | October 5 | Birth | 1781 – Bernard Bolzano, Czech mathematician and philosopher (d. 1848) |
| 113830 | October 5 | Birth | 1792 – Joseph Crosfield, English businessman (d. 1844) |
| 113831 | October 5 | Birth | 1795 – Alexander Keith, Scottish-Canadian brewer and politician, 13th Mayor of Halifax (d. 1873) |
| 113832 | October 5 | Birth | 1820 – David Wilber, American lawyer and politician (d. 1890) |
| 113833 | October 5 | Birth | 1824 – Henry Chadwick, English-American historian and author (d. 1908) |
| 113834 | October 5 | Birth | 1829 – Chester A. Arthur, American general, lawyer, and politician, 21st President of the United States (d. 1886) |
| 113835 | October 5 | Birth | 1844 – Francis William Reitz, South African lawyer and politician, 5th State President of the Orange Free State (d. 1934) |
| 113836 | October 5 | Birth | 1848 – Guido von List, Austrian-German journalist and poet (d. 1919) |
| 113837 | October 5 | Birth | 1850 – Sergey Muromtsev, Russian lawyer and politician (d. 1910) |
| 113838 | October 5 | Birth | 1857 – Peadar Toner Mac Fhionnlaoich, Irish author and playwright (d. 1942) |
| 113839 | October 5 | Birth | 1858 – Helen Churchill Candee, American journalist and author (d. 1949) |
| 113840 | October 5 | Birth | 1864 – Louis Lumière, French director and producer (d. 1948) |
| 113841 | October 5 | Birth | 1873 – Lucien Mérignac, French fencer (d. 1941) |
| 113842 | October 5 | Birth | 1878 – Louise Dresser, American actress (d. 1965) |
| 113843 | October 5 | Birth | 1879 – Francis Peyton Rous, American pathologist and virologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1970) |
| 113844 | October 5 | Birth | 1882 – Robert H. Goddard, American physicist, engineer, and academic (d. 1945) |
| 113845 | October 5 | Birth | 1883 – Ernst Pittschau, German actor (d. 1951) |
| 113846 | October 5 | Birth | 1885 – Arunachalam Mahadeva, Sri Lankan politician and diplomat (d. 1969) |
| 113847 | October 5 | Birth | 1885 – Ida Rubinstein, Russian ballerina and actress (d. 1960) |
| 113848 | October 5 | Birth | 1887 – René Cassin, French judge and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1976) |
| 113849 | October 5 | Birth | 1887 – Manny Ziener, German actress (d. 1972) |
| 113850 | October 5 | Birth | 1888 – Mary Fuller, American actress and screenwriter (d. 1973) |