| 126271 | November 5 | Event | 1995 – André Dallaire attempts to assassinate Prime Minister Jean Chrétien of Canada. He is thwarted when the Prime Minister's wife locks the door. |
| 126272 | November 5 | Event | 1996 – Pakistani President Farooq Leghari dismisses the government of Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and dissolves the National Assembly of Pakistan. |
| 126273 | November 5 | Event | 2003 – Green River Killer Gary Ridgway pleaded guilty to 48 counts of murder. |
| 126274 | November 5 | Event | 2006 – Saddam Hussein, former president of Iraq, and his co-defendants Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, are sentenced to death in the al-Dujail trial for their roles in the massacre of 148 Shi'a Muslims in 1982. |
| 126275 | November 5 | Event | 2007 – China's first lunar satellite, Chang'e 1, goes into orbit around the Moon. |
| 126276 | November 5 | Event | 2007 – Android mobile operating system is unveiled by Google. |
| 126277 | November 5 | Event | 2009 – U.S. Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan murders 13 and wounds 32 at Fort Hood, Texas in the deadliest mass shooting at a U.S. military installation. |
| 126278 | November 5 | Event | 2013 – India launches the Mars Orbiter Mission, its first interplanetary probe. |
| 126279 | November 5 | Birth | 1271 – Ghazan, Mongol ruler (d. 1304) |
| 126280 | November 5 | Birth | 1494 – Hans Sachs, German poet and playwright (d. 1576) |
| 126281 | November 5 | Birth | 1549 – Philippe de Mornay, French theologian and author (d. 1623) |
| 126282 | November 5 | Birth | 1592 – Charles Chauncy, English-American pastor, theologian, and academic (d. 1672) |
| 126283 | November 5 | Birth | 1613 – Isaac de Benserade, French poet and educator (d. 1691) |
| 126284 | November 5 | Birth | 1615 – Ibrahim of the Ottoman Empire (d. 1648) |
| 126285 | November 5 | Birth | 1666 – Attilio Ariosti, Italian viola player and composer (d. 1729) |
| 126286 | November 5 | Birth | 1667 – Christoph Ludwig Agricola, German painter (d. 1719) |
| 126287 | November 5 | Birth | 1701 – Pietro Longhi, Venetian painter and educator (d. 1785) |
| 126288 | November 5 | Birth | 1705 – Louis-Gabriel Guillemain, French violinist and composer (d. 1770) |
| 126289 | November 5 | Birth | 1715 – John Brown, English author and playwright (d. 1766) |
| 126290 | November 5 | Birth | 1722 – William Byron, 5th Baron Byron, English lieutenant and politician (d. 1798) |
| 126291 | November 5 | Birth | 1739 – Hugh Montgomerie, 12th Earl of Eglinton, Scottish composer and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ayrshire (d. 1819) |
| 126292 | November 5 | Birth | 1742 – Richard Cosway, English painter (d. 1821) |
| 126293 | November 5 | Birth | 1789 – William Bland, Australian surgeon and politician (d. 1868) |
| 126294 | November 5 | Birth | 1816 – Ursula Frayne, Irish-Australian nun and missionary (d. 1885) |
| 126295 | November 5 | Birth | 1818 – Benjamin Butler, American general, lawyer, and politician, 33rd Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1893) |
| 126296 | November 5 | Birth | 1835 – Moritz Szeps, Ukrainian-Austrian journalist and publisher (d. 1902) |
| 126297 | November 5 | Birth | 1846 – Duncan Gordon Boyes, English soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross (d. 1869) |
| 126298 | November 5 | Birth | 1850 – Ella Wheeler Wilcox, American author and poet (d. 1919) |
| 126299 | November 5 | Birth | 1851 – Charles Dupuy, French academic and politician, 60th Prime Minister of France (d. 1923) |
| 126300 | November 5 | Birth | 1854 – Alphonse Desjardins, Canadian journalist and businessman, co-founded Desjardins Group (d. 1920) |