5 January (people)


 * 1925 - Actor Wolfe Morris was born.
 * 1927 - Actor Graham Rigby was born.
 * 1927 - Film cameraman Ken Westbury was born.
 * 1928 - Actor Denise Bryer was born.
 * 1929 - Composer Norman Kay was born.
 * 1931 - Actor John Line was born.
 * 1935 - Actor David Ryall was born.
 * 1959 - Actor Kate Duchêne was born.
 * 1967 - Actor Ross Mullan was born.
 * 1969 - Writer Adrian Rigelsford was born.
 * 1977 - Writer and Designer Clayton Hickman was born.
 * 1986 - Continuity supervisor Pamela Davies died.
 * 1988 - Actor Mandip Gill was born.
 * 1996 - Actor Maxim Baldry was born.
 * 2017 - Actor Peter Thomas died.
 * 2018 - Stage director Mick Hughes died.
 * 2021 - Actor James Greene died.