Portal:China/Anniversaries/January/January 5

Births

• 1587 – Xu Xiake, Chinese geographer (d. 1641)
• 1956 – Chen Kenichi, Japanese-Chinese chef

Deaths

• 1588 – Qi Jiguang, Chinese general (b. 1528)
• 2007 – Chih Ree Sun, Chinese-American physicist and poet (b. 1923)