| 126301 | November 5 | Birth | 1854 – Paul Sabatier, French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1941) |
| 126302 | November 5 | Birth | 1855 – Eugene V. Debs, American union leader and politician (d. 1926) |
| 126303 | November 5 | Birth | 1855 – Léon Teisserenc de Bort, French meteorologist and climatologist (d. 1913) |
| 126304 | November 5 | Birth | 1857 – Ida Tarbell, American journalist, author, and educator (d. 1944) |
| 126305 | November 5 | Birth | 1870 – Chittaranjan Das, Indian lawyer and politician (d. 1925) |
| 126306 | November 5 | Birth | 1873 – Edwin Flack, Australian tennis player and runner (d. 1935) |
| 126307 | November 5 | Birth | 1879 – Otto Wahle, Austrian-American swimmer and coach (d. 1963) |
| 126308 | November 5 | Birth | 1881 – George A. Malcolm, American lawyer and jurist (d. 1961) |
| 126309 | November 5 | Birth | 1883 – P Moe Nin, Burmese author and translator (d. 1940) |
| 126310 | November 5 | Birth | 1884 – James Elroy Flecker, English author, poet, and playwright (d. 1915) |
| 126311 | November 5 | Birth | 1885 – Will Durant, American historian and philosopher (d. 1981) |
| 126312 | November 5 | Birth | 1886 – Sadae Inoue, Japanese general (d. 1961) |
| 126313 | November 5 | Birth | 1887 – Paul Wittgenstein, Austrian-American pianist and educator (d. 1961) |
| 126314 | November 5 | Birth | 1890 – Jan Zrzavý, Czech painter and illustrator (d. 1977) |
| 126315 | November 5 | Birth | 1892 – J. B. S. Haldane, English-Indian geneticist and biologist (d. 1964) |
| 126316 | November 5 | Birth | 1893 – Raymond Loewy, French-American engineer and designer (d. 1986) |
| 126317 | November 5 | Birth | 1894 – Beardsley Ruml, American economist and statistician (d. 1960) |
| 126318 | November 5 | Birth | 1895 – Walter Gieseking, French-German pianist and composer (d. 1956) |
| 126319 | November 5 | Birth | 1895 – Charles MacArthur, American playwright and screenwriter (d. 1956) |
| 126320 | November 5 | Birth | 1900 – Martin Dies, Jr., American lawyer, judge, and politician (d. 1972) |
| 126321 | November 5 | Birth | 1900 – Natalie Schafer, American actress (d. 1991) |
| 126322 | November 5 | Birth | 1901 – Etta Moten Barnett, American actress and singer (d. 2004) |
| 126323 | November 5 | Birth | 1904 – Cooney Weiland, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1985) |
| 126324 | November 5 | Birth | 1905 – Joel McCrea, American actor and singer (d. 1990) |
| 126325 | November 5 | Birth | 1905 – Louis Rosier, French race car driver (d. 1956) |
| 126326 | November 5 | Birth | 1905 – Sajjad Zaheer, Indian author and poet (d. 1973) |
| 126327 | November 5 | Birth | 1906 – Endre Kabos, Hungarian fencer (d. 1944) |
| 126328 | November 5 | Birth | 1906 – Fred Lawrence Whipple, American astronomer and academic (d. 2004) |
| 126329 | November 5 | Birth | 1910 – John Hackett, Australian-English general and academic (d. 1997) |
| 126330 | November 5 | Birth | 1911 – Marie Osborne Yeats, American actress and costume designer (d. 2010) |