List of Famous people born on October 5th

Niels Marius Nielsen was a Norwegian sailor who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics.

Juan Manuel Vargas Risco is a retired Peruvian footballer that played as a left back.

José Couso Permuy was a Spanish cameraman who was one of the April 8, 2003 journalist deaths by U.S. fire after a U.S. tank fired at the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad, Iraq during the 2003 Iraq invasion.

Eugénie Pétain was the wife of the French military commander and political leader Philippe Pétain who ruled Vichy France between 1940 and 1944.

Wilhelm Heinrich Solf was a German scholar, diplomat, jurist and statesman.

Helen Churchill Candee was an American author, journalist, interior decorator, feminist, and geographer. Today, she is best known as a survivor of the sinking of RMS Titanic in 1912, and for her later work as a travel writer and explorer of southeast Asia.

Tatunca Nara, born Hans Günther Hauck, is a German-Brazilian jungle guide and self-styled Indian chieftain, best known for inventing the stories of the lost city of Akakor.

James Rizzi was an American pop artist who was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York.

Lorenzo Alejandro Mendoza Giménez is a Venezuelan billionaire businessman, the CEO of Empresas Polar, owned by his family, and Venezuela's largest privately held company, with $7 billion in annual sales.

Philippe Rondot was a French general, formerly an important personality of the French intelligence. He worked for both the domestic intelligence DST and the foreign intelligence DGSE and was an aide to several Defence Ministers.