| 25141 | March 5 | Death | 1695 – Henry Wharton, English librarian and author (b. 1664) |
| 25142 | March 5 | Death | 1726 – Evelyn Pierrepont, 1st Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull, English politician, Lord President of the Council (b. 1655) |
| 25143 | March 5 | Death | 1731 – Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulsi, Syrian scholar and author (b. 1641) |
| 25144 | March 5 | Death | 1770 – Crispus Attucks, American slave (b. 1723) |
| 25145 | March 5 | Death | 1776 – Yeongjo of Joseon (b. 1694) |
| 25146 | March 5 | Death | 1778 – Thomas Arne, English composer and educator (b. 1710) |
| 25147 | March 5 | Death | 1815 – Franz Mesmer, German physician and astrologist (b. 1734) |
| 25148 | March 5 | Death | 1827 – Pierre-Simon Laplace, French mathematician and astronomer (b. 1749) |
| 25149 | March 5 | Death | 1827 – Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist and academic (b. 1745) |
| 25150 | March 5 | Death | 1829 – John Adams, English sailor (b. 1766) |
| 25151 | March 5 | Death | 1849 – David Scott, Scottish painter (b. 1806) |
| 25152 | March 5 | Death | 1876 – Marie d'Agoult, German-French historian and author (b. 1805) |
| 25153 | March 5 | Death | 1893 – Hippolyte Taine, French historian and critic (b. 1828) |
| 25154 | March 5 | Death | 1895 – Nikolai Leskov, Russian author, playwright, and journalist (b. 1831) |
| 25155 | March 5 | Death | 1895 – Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baronet, English general and scholar (b. 1810) |
| 25156 | March 5 | Death | 1903 – George Francis Robert Henderson, English colonel and author (b. 1854) |
| 25157 | March 5 | Death | 1904 – John Lowther du Plat Taylor, English colonel (b. 1829) |
| 25158 | March 5 | Death | 1907 – Friedrich Blass, German philologist, scholar, and academic (b. 1843) |
| 25159 | March 5 | Death | 1923 – Dora Pejačević, Croatian composer (b. 1885) |
| 25160 | March 5 | Death | 1925 – Johan Jensen, Danish mathematician and engineer (b. 1859) |
| 25161 | March 5 | Death | 1926 – Clément Ader, French engineer, designed the Ader Avion III (b. 1841) |
| 25162 | March 5 | Death | 1927 – Franz Mertens, Polish-Austrian mathematician and academic (b. 1840) |
| 25163 | March 5 | Death | 1928 – Lidia Quaranta, Italian actress (b. 1891) |
| 25164 | March 5 | Death | 1929 – David Dunbar Buick, Scottish-American businessman, founded Buick (b. 1854) |
| 25165 | March 5 | Death | 1931 – Arthur Tooth, English priest (b. 1839) |
| 25166 | March 5 | Death | 1934 – Reşit Galip, Turkish academic and politician, 6th Turkish Minister of National Education (b. 1893) |
| 25167 | March 5 | Death | 1935 – Roque Ruaño, Spanish priest and engineer (b. 1877) |
| 25168 | March 5 | Death | 1940 – Cai Yuanpei, Chinese philosopher and academic (b. 1868) |
| 25169 | March 5 | Death | 1944 – Max Jacob, French poet and author (b. 1876) |
| 25170 | March 5 | Death | 1945 – Lena Baker, American murderer (b. 1901) |