August 5 is the 217th day of the year (218th in leap years), with 148 days remaining.
- 1843 — Sarah Dazley died.
- 1907 — Robert Irwin is born.
- 1934 — Robert Biehler is born.
- 1948 — Alfred Leonard Cline died.
- 1961 — Andrei Barausov is born.
- 1963 — Amos Robinson is born.
- 1973 — Oto Biederman is born.
- 1991 — Donald Evans is apprehended.
- 1991 — Andrei Sibiryakov died.
- 1997 — Charles Duffy is apprehended.
- 1998 — James Fairweather is born.
- 1999 — Charles Anthony Boyd died.
- 2000 — Dellmus Charles Colvin's victim, Dorothea Wetzel, is found.
- 2000 — Vincent Johnson is apprehended.
- 2001 — Robert Spangler died.
- 2011 — Kevin Sweat is apprehended.
- 2013 — Francisco Benitez died.
- 2013 — John Errol Ferguson died.
- 2017 — Joe Metheny died.
- 2022 — Robert Edwards is apprehended.