Famous People Born on September 5
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- Fan Zhongyan (989) — Chinese poet, politician, philosopher and writer (989–1052)
- Otto Bauer (1881) — Austrian socialist politician (1881–1938)
- Bill Mazeroski (1936) — American baseball player (1936–2026)
- Paul Dietzel (1924) — American football player, coach, and administrator (1924–2013)
- Raquel Welch (1940) — American actress and model (1940–2023)
- Gregorio Paltrinieri (1994) — Italian swimmer (born 1994)
- Dave Dryden (1941) — Canadian ice hockey player (1941–2022)
- Yuna Kim (1990) — South Korean figure skater (born 1990)
- Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of Sunderland (1641) — English nobleman and politician (1641–1702)
- Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1888) — President of India from 1962 to 1967
- Henry Maitland Wilson (1881) — British field marshal (1881–1964)
- Morris Carnovsky (1897) — American actor (1897–1992)
- V. O. Chidambaram Pillai (1872) — Indian freedom fighter (1872–1919)
- Louis VIII of France (1187) — King of France from 1223 to 1226
- David Brabham (1965) — Australian racing driver (born 1965)
- Robert Fergusson (1750) — Scottish poet and writer
- Gareth Evans (politician) (1944) — Australian politician (born 1944)
- Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791) — German-born opera composer (1791–1864)
- Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy (1817) — Russian poet, novelist, and playwright
- Werner Herzog (1942) — German director, producer, screenwriter (born 1942)
- Rod Barajas (1975) — American baseball player and coach (born 1975)
- Caspar David Friedrich (1774) — German Romantic landscape painter (1774–1840)
- Shane Sewell (1972) — Canadian professional wrestler and referee (born 1972)
- George Huntington Hartford (1833) — American politician (1833–1917)
- Lance Stephenson (1990) — American basketball player (born 1990)
- Filippo Volandri (1981) — Italian tennis player
- Victorien Sardou (1831) — French dramatist (1831–1908)
- Loudon Wainwright III (1946) — American musician (born 1946)
- Pragyan Ojha (1986) — Former Indian cricketer
- William Dampier (1651) — English explorer, pirate, privateer and naturalist (1651–1715)