Portal:Germany/Anniversaries/August/August 5
- 1895 – Death of philosopher Friedrich Engels
- 1901 – Death of Empress Victoria, known as Kaiserin Friedrich
- 1946 – Death of Wilhelm Marx, Chancellor of Germany 1923-1925
- 1957 – Death of chemist Heinrich Otto Wieland, recipient of the 1927 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his research into bile acids