Famous People Born on January 5
Famous people born on January 5 include Umberto Eco (1932), Konrad Adenauer (1876) and Bradley Cooper (1975).
MORE FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS
Umberto Eco
Italian semiotician, philosopher and writer (1932–2016)
Konrad Adenauer
Chancellor of West Germany from 1949 to 1963
Bradley Cooper
American actor and filmmaker (born 1975)
Juan Carlos I
King of Spain from 1975 to 2014
Frank-Walter Steinmeier
President of Germany since 2017
Hayao Miyazaki
Japanese animator and artist (born 1941)
Rudolf Christoph Eucken
19th/20th-century German philosopher (1846–1926)
Shah Jahan
Mughal emperor from 1628 to 1658
Diane Keaton
American actress (1946–2025)
Marilyn Manson
American musician (born 1969)
Robert Duvall
American actor and filmmaker (1931–2026)
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
4th President and 9th Prime Minister of Pakistan (1928–1979)
Deepika Padukone
Indian actress (born 1986)
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Swiss author and dramatist (1921–1990)
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
Kenyan writer and academic (1938–2025)
DIED ON THIS DAY
MORE FAMOUS DEATHS
Calvin Coolidge
President of the United States from 1923 to 1929
Max Born
German–British physicist (1882–1970)
Eusébio
Portuguese footballer (1942–2014)
Catherine de' Medici
Queen of France from 1547 to 1559
Harold Urey
American physical chemist (1893–1981)
Edward the Confessor
King of the English from 1042 to 1066
George Washington Carver
American botanist and inventor (1864–1943)
Mário Zagallo
Brazilian footballer and manager (1931–2024)
Pierre Boulez
French composer and conductor (1925–2016)
Andrei Platonov
Russian author
Sources
- January 5 — Wikipedia. Births and deaths on this date
- Ernest Shackleton — Wikipedia
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation. Birth years under More famous deaths