| 126601 | November 5 | Death | 2012 – Bob Kaplan, Canadian lawyer and politician, 30th Solicitor General of Canada (b. 1936) |
| 126602 | November 5 | Death | 2012 – Louis Pienaar, South African lawyer and diplomat, Minister of Internal Affairs (b. 1926) |
| 126603 | November 5 | Death | 2012 – Sikandar Sanam, Pakistani actor and singer (b. 1960) |
| 126604 | November 5 | Death | 2013 – Habibollah Asgaroladi, Iranian politician (b. 1932) |
| 126605 | November 5 | Death | 2013 – Juan Carlos Calabró, Argentinian actor and screenwriter (b. 1934) |
| 126606 | November 5 | Death | 2013 – Tony Iveson, English soldier and pilot (b. 1919) |
| 126607 | November 5 | Death | 2013 – Charles Mosley, English genealogist and author (b. 1948) |
| 126608 | November 5 | Death | 2013 – Charlie Trotter, American chef and author (b. 1959) |
| 126609 | November 5 | Death | 2013 – Stuart Williams, Welsh footballer and manager (b. 1930) |
| 126610 | November 5 | Death | 2014 – Manitas de Plata, French guitarist (b. 1921) |
| 126611 | November 5 | Death | 2014 – Alexei Devotchenko, Russian actor and activist (b. 1965) |
| 126612 | November 5 | Death | 2014 – Lane Evans, American lawyer and politician (b. 1951) |
| 126613 | November 5 | Death | 2014 – Wally Grant, American ice hockey player (b. 1927) |
| 126614 | November 5 | Death | 2014 – Abdelwahab Meddeb, Tunisian-French author, poet, and scholar (b. 1946) |
| 126615 | November 5 | Death | 2014 – Hans Nijman, Dutch mixed martial artist and wrestler (b. 1959) |
| 126616 | November 5 | Death | 2015 – Nora Brockstedt, Norwegian singer (b. 1923) |
| 126617 | November 5 | Death | 2015 – Soma Edirisinghe, Sri Lankan businesswoman and philanthropist (b. 1939) |
| 126618 | November 5 | Death | 2015 – Hans Mommsen, German historian and academic (b. 1930) |
| 126619 | November 5 | Holidays and observations | Christian feast day:DomninusElizabeth, the mother of John the BaptistGalationGuido Maria ConfortiMagnusNovember 5 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) |
| 126620 | November 5 | Holidays and observations | Guy Fawkes Night (United Kingdom, New Zealand and the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador), and its related observances:West Country Carnival (English West Country) |
| 126621 | November 5 | Holidays and observations | Kanakadasa Jayanthi (Karnataka) |
| 126622 | November 6 | Event | 355 – Roman emperor Constantius II promotes his cousin Julian to the rank of Caesar, entrusting him with the government of the Prefecture of the Gauls. |
| 126623 | November 6 | Event | 1528 – Shipwrecked Spanish conquistador Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca becomes the first known European to set foot in the area that would become Texas. |
| 126624 | November 6 | Event | 1789 – Pope Pius VI appoints Father John Carroll as the first Catholic bishop in the United States. |
| 126625 | November 6 | Event | 1844 – The first Constitution of the Dominican Republic is adopted. |
| 126626 | November 6 | Event | 1856 – Scenes of Clerical Life, the first work of fiction by the author later known as George Eliot, is submitted for publication. |
| 126627 | November 6 | Event | 1861 – American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is elected president of the Confederate States of America. |
| 126628 | November 6 | Event | 1865 – American Civil War: CSS Shenandoah is the last Confederate combat unit to surrender after circumnavigating the globe on a cruise on which it sank or captured 37 unarmed merchant vessels. |
| 126629 | November 6 | Event | 1869 – In New Brunswick, New Jersey, Rutgers College defeats Princeton University (then known as the College of New Jersey), 6–4, in the first official intercollegiate American football game. |
| 126630 | November 6 | Event | 1913 – Mohandas Gandhi is arrested while leading a march of Indian miners in South Africa. |