Deaths on 5 November
90 deaths on this day in history.
| Date of death | Athlete | NOC(s) | Sport(s) | Year(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 November 1918 | Reuben Povey |  RSA |
ATH | 1912 |
| 5 November 1931 | Konrad Stäheli |  SUI |
SHO | 1900—1906 |
| 5 November 1939 | Rikard Brunn |  SWE |
WLF | 1920—1924 |
| 5 November 1942 | Oscar Geier | SUI |
BOB | 1932 |
| 5 November 1942 | Jonas Slier |  NED |
GAR | 1908 |
| 5 November 1943 | Jack Green |  GBR |
CTR | 1900 |
| 5 November 1946 | Thomas, Lord Howard de Walden | GBR |
FEN/MBO | 1906—1908 |
| 5 November 1946 | Ichiro Kaga |  JPN |
ATH | 1920 |
| 5 November 1946 | Sigismond de Stojowski |  POL |
ART | 1932 |
| 5 November 1948 | Sammy Mellor |  USA |
ATH | 1904 |
| 5 November 1949 | Arnaud, Marquis de Castelbajac |  FRA |
SHO | 1924 |
| 5 November 1949 | Franks Robinson | GBR IRL |
HOC | 1908 |
| 5 November 1951 | Reggie Walker | RSA |
ATH | 1908 |
| 5 November 1952 | Allan Potts | USA |
SSK | 1932—1936 |
| 5 November 1954 | José Fórmica |  ESP |
ROW | 1900 |
| 5 November 1959 | Garnett Wikoff | USA |
ATH | 1912 |
| 5 November 1960 | John Falchenberg |  NOR |
ATH | 1906—1912 |
| 5 November 1963 | Eduard Krüger |  GER |
EJP | 1928 |
| 5 November 1964 | Percy Nobbs |  CAN |
FEN | 1908 |
| 5 November 1966 | Peder Pedersen |  DEN |
FBL | 1906 |
| 5 November 1966 | Jules Staudt |  LUX |
WPO | 1928 |
| 5 November 1967 | Otto Liebing | GER |
ROW | 1912 |
| 5 November 1967 | Jānis Rudzītis |  LAT |
WRE | 1924 |
| 5 November 1967 | Patrick Wheatley | GBR |
TEN | 1924 |
| 5 November 1968 | Viktor Hackberg | SWE |
ATH | 1912 |
| 5 November 1969 | Jos De Beuckelaer |  BEL |
CTR | 1948 |
| 5 November 1969 | Marcel Leineweber | LUX |
GAR | 1936 |
| 5 November 1971 | Karl Haglund | SWE |
ATH | 1912 |
| 5 November 1971 | Luigi Tasselli |  ITA |
CTR | 1928 |
| 5 November 1972 | Guus Kessler | NED |
TEN | 1906 |
| 5 November 1972 | Alfred Schmidt |  EST |
WLF | 1920 |
| 5 November 1972 | Sven Tisell | SWE |
ROW | 1936 |
| 5 November 1973 | Frank Crawley | GBR |
BOX | 1924—1928 |
| 5 November 1973 | Camille Prunier | FRA |
WRE | 1920 |
| 5 November 1976 | Franciszek Szymczyk | POL |
CTR | 1924 |
| 5 November 1977 | Léon le Cornu | FRA |
ROW | 1928 |
| 5 November 1979 | Lisa Regnell | SWE |
DIV | 1912 |
| 5 November 1979 | Jean Rigal | FRA |
FBL | 1960 |
| 5 November 1979 | Zaki Selim |  EGY |
BKB | 1952 |
| 5 November 1982 | Santiago Amat | ESP |
SAL | 1924—1932 |
| 5 November 1982 | Gennady Plotnikov |  URS |
VVO | 1972 |
| 5 November 1984 | Gerhard Hönicke |  GDRGER |
ATH | 1960—1964 |
| 5 November 1984 | Domien Jacob | BEL |
GAR | 1920 |
| 5 November 1984 | Ivor Montagu | GBR |
1926—1967 | |
| 5 November 1984 | Thomas Sands | USA |
FEN | 1936 |
| 5 November 1985 | Kjeld Borge Andersen | NOR |
ALP | 1960 |
| 5 November 1985 | Ernest Weiss | CAN |
SAL | 1968 |
| 5 November 1986 | Mohamed Hassan Helmi | EGY |
FBL | 1936 |
| 5 November 1987 | Willy Tschopp | SUI |
ATH | 1928 |
| 5 November 1988 | Rudolf Wirz | SUI |
HBL | 1936 |
| 5 November 1989 | Johs Elvestad | NOR |
ART | 1932 |
| 5 November 1990 | Øivind Breiby | NOR |
BOX | 1948 |
| 5 November 1991 | Roy Garforth | GBR |
WPO | 1948 |
| 5 November 1991 | Alfred Skrobisch | USA |
FEN | 1952 |
| 5 November 1992 | Sven Eriksson | SWE |
ALP/NCB/SJP | 1928—1936 |
| 5 November 1992 | Vyacheslav Skomorokhov | URS UKR |
ATH | 1968 |
| 5 November 1997 | Arturo Fernández |  PER |
FBL | 1936 |
| 5 November 2000 | Dave Sheppard | USA |
WLF | 1956 |
| 5 November 2000 | Per-Owe Trollsås | SWE |
ATH | 1960 |
| 5 November 2004 | Miklós Kocsis |  HUN |
SHO | 1956 |
| 5 November 2006 | André Grosjean | SUI |
WPO | 1948 |
| 5 November 2006 | Pietro Rava | ITA |
FBL | 1936 |
| 5 November 2006 | Aleksey Voropayev |  RUS EUN |
GAR | 1992—1996 |
| 5 November 2007 | Cristian Bove |  ARG |
ROW | 1948 |
| 5 November 2007 | François van Kruisdijk | NED |
SWM | 1972 |
| 5 November 2007 | Nils Liedholm | SWE |
FBL | 1948 |
| 5 November 2008 | Věra Černá |  CZE TCH |
ATH | 1960 |
| 5 November 2010 | Dimitrios Zografos |  GRE |
WPO | 1948 |
| 5 November 2011 | Hannu Haapalainen |  FIN |
IHO | 1976—1980 |
| 5 November 2011 | Hubert Rammaert | FRA |
HOC | 1968 |
| 5 November 2011 | Tadeusz Walasek | POL |
BOX | 1956—1964 |
| 5 November 2014 | Jack Nelson | USA |
SWM | 1956 |
| 5 November 2014 | Luciano Soli | ITA |
HOC | 1960 |
| 5 November 2015 | Jim Achurch |  AUS |
ATH | 1956 |
| 5 November 2016 | Marek Svatoš |  SVK |
IHO | 2006 |
| 5 November 2016 | Andreas Vgenopoulos | GRE |
FEN | 1972 |
| 5 November 2017 | Paul Kerb |  AUT |
FEN | 1952—1960 |
| 5 November 2017 | Lothar Thoms | GDR |
CTR | 1980 |
| 5 November 2017 | Hugo Zarich | ARG |
FBL | 1960 |
| 5 November 2018 | Keith Christiansen | USA |
IHO | 1972 |
| 5 November 2019 | Larion Serghei |  ROU |
CSP | 1976 |
| 5 November 2020 | David Hawkins | AUS |
SWM | 1952 |
| 5 November 2020 | Barbara McAulay | AUS |
DIV | 1956 |
| 5 November 2020 | Leonid Osipov | RUSURS |
WPO | 1964—1972 |
| 5 November 2020 | Tony Waiters | CANGBR |
FBL | 1984 |
| 5 November 2021 | Osvaldo Bisbal | ARG |
BOX | 1988—1996 |
| 5 November 2022 | Turhan Göker |  TUR |
ATH | 1952 |
| 5 November 2022 | Yoshiaki Unetani | JPN |
ATH | 1972 |
| 5 November 2023 | Russell Camilleri | USA |
WRE | 1960—1964 |
| 5 November 2023 | Cēzars Ozers | LATURS |
BKB | 1960 |