February 5

2024 Calendar

February 5 is the 36th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 329 days remaining until the end of the year (330 in leap years).

Events

Up to 1900

1520 – Sven Sture the Younger, regent of Sweden (b. 1493)
1578 - Giovanni Battista Moroni, Italian painter (b. 1520)
1661 - Shunzhi Emperor of China (b. 1638)
1705 - Philipp Jakob Spener, German theologian (b. 1635)
1754 - Nicolaas Kruik, Dutch astronomer and cartographer (b. 1678)
1790 - William Cullen, Scottish physician and chemist (b. 1710)
1807 - Pasquale Paoli, Corsican military leader and politician (b. 1725)
1818 – King Charles XIII of Sweden (b. 1748)
1881 – Thomas Carlyle, Scottish physician and chemist (b. 1795)
1882 - Adolfo Rivadeneyra, Spanish traveler, writer and diplomat (b. 1841)
1889 - Ole Jacob Broch, Norwegian scientist and politician (b. 1818)

1901 – 2000

1917 – Jaber II al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1860)
1922 - Slavoljub Eduard Penkala, Croatian inventor (b. 1871)
1927 - Inayat Khan, Indian educator (b. 1882)
1931 - Athanasios Eftaxias, Greek politician (b. 1849)
1933 - Joseph Roffo, French rugby player (b. 1879)
1938 – Hans Litten, German lawyer (b. 1903)
1941 – Banjo Paterson, Australian poet (b. 1864)
1941 - Otto Strandman, 1st Prime Minister of Estonia (b. 1864)
1947 – Hans Fallada, German writer (b. 1893)
1952 - Adela Verne, English pianist and composer (b. 1877)
1953 - Iuliu Maniu, Romanian politician (b. 1873)
1955 - Victor Houteff, Bulgarian religious reformer and writer (b. 1885)
1969 – Thelma Ritter, American actress (b. 1902)
1972 - Marianne Moore, American writer (b. 1887)
1976 - Rudy York, American baseball player (b. 1926)
1981 – Ella Grasso, Governor of Connecticut (b. 1919)
1993 - Joseph L. Mankiewicz, American writer, producer and director (b. 1909)
1993 - Tip Tipping, English actor and stuntman (b. 1958)
1993 - Adnan Kahveci, Turkish politician (b. 1949)
1997 - Pamela Harriman, English-American diplomat (b. 1920)
1999 – Wassily Leontief, Russian economist (b. 1906)

From 2001

2005 – Gnassingbé Eyadéma, President of Togo (b. 1937)
2008 – Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Indian spiritual guru (b. 1917)
2009 – Dana Vavrova, Czech actress (b. 1967)
2010 – Harry Schwarz, South African lawyer, politician and diplomat (b. 1924)
2011 – Brian Jacques, British writer (b. 1939)
2013 - Stuart Freeborn, British make-up artist (b. 1914)
2013 - Egil Hovland, Norwegian composer (b. 1924)
2014 - Carlos Borges, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1931)
2015 - Henri Coppens, Belgian footballer (b. 1930)
2015 - K. N. Choksy, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician (b. 1933)
2015 - Val Logsdon Fitch, American nuclear physicist (b. 1923)
2016 - Bodil Malmsten, Swedish poet and novelist (b. 1944)
2016 - Bill Birchfield, American politician (b. 1935)
2016 - Ciriaco Cañete, Filipino martial artist (b. 1919)
2017 - Sonny Geraci, American musician (b. 1947)
2017 - Björn Granath, Swedish actor (b. 1946)
2018 - Margot Duhalde, Chilean pilot (b. 1920)
2021 - Christopher Plummer, Canadian actor (b. 1929)

Births

1901 – 1950

1906 – John Carradine, American actor (d. 1988)
1907 – Pierre Pflimlin, Prime Minister of France (d. 2000)
1908 - Daisy and Violet Hilton, English conjoined twins (d. 1969)
1910 – Charles Leblond, Canadian cell biologist (d. 2007)
1910 – Francisco Varallo, Argentine footballer (d. 2010)
1911 – Jussi Björling, Swedish tenor (d. 1960)
1914 – William S. Burroughs, American writer (d. 1997)
1914 – Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, British physiologist and biophysicist (d. 1998)
1915 – Robert Hofstadter, American physicist (d. 1990)
1915 - Margaret Millar, Canadian writer (d. 1994)
1916 - Ugo Locatelli, Italian footballer (d. 1993)
1917 - Isuzu Yamada, Japanese actress (d. 2012)
1919 – Andreas Papandreou, Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1996)
1919 - Red Buttons, American actor (d. 2006)
1919 - Tim Holt, American actor (d. 1973)
1921 - Ken Adam, German-born British motion picture designer (d. 2016)
1921 - John Pritchard, English conductor (d. 1989)
1923 - Fatmawati, First Lady of Indonesia (d. 1980)
1923 - Claude King, American musician (d. 2013)
1924 - Duraisamy Simon Lourdusamy, Indian cardinal (d. 2014)
1926 - Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, American publisher (d. 2012)
1926 - Stefan Gierasch, American actor (d. 2014)
1929 – Fred Sinowatz, Chancellor of Austria (d. 2008)
1929 - Luc Ferrari, French composer (d. 2005)
1929 - Al Worthington, American baseball player
1929 - Hal Blaine, American musician
1930 - Ilon Wikland, Estonian-Swedish illustrator
1932 – Cesare Maldini, Italian footballer (d. 2016)
1933 - Milos Milutinovic, Yugoslavian footballer (d. 2003)
1933 - Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann, Nicaraguan priest, diplomat and politician (d. 2017)
1934 – Hank Aaron, American Baseball Hall of Famer
1934 - Don Cherry, Canadian ice hockey player
1935 - Charles Turnbull, Governor of the United States Virgin Islands
1937 – Larry Hillman, Canadian ice hockey player
1939 - Miguel Boyer, French-Spanish economist and politician (d. 2014)
1940 - H. R. Giger, Swiss artist (d. 2014)
1941 – Stephen J. Cannell, American television producer and writer (d. 2010)
1941 - Cory Wells, American musician (d. 2015)
1941 – David Selby, American actor
1941 - Kaspar Villiger, Swiss Federal Councillor
1943 – Michael Mann, American movie director
1944 - Tamanoumi Masahiro, Japanese sumo wrestler (d. 1971)
1945 - Chubby Brown, British comedian
1946 – Charlotte Rampling, British actress
1946 - Mauro Pagani, Italian singer-songwriter and violinist
1947 - Clemente Mastella, Italian politician
1948 – Sven-Göran Eriksson, Swedish football manager
1948 – Christopher Guest, American actor and director
1949 – Kurt Beck, German politician
1950 - Catherine Castel, French actress and make-up artist
1950 - Marie-Pierre Cassel, French actress
1950 - Jonathan Freeman, American actor

1951 – 1975

1951 - Russell Grant, British astrologer
1951 - Robin Sachs, British actor (d. 2013)
1951 - Nikolay Merkushkin, Russian politician
1952 - Daniel Balavoine, French singer and songwriter
1953 - Gustavo Benitez, Paraguayan footballer
1954 - Cliff Martinez, American musician
1959 – Jennifer Granholm, Canadian-born American politician, former Governor of Michigan
1961 - Albert Anderson, New Zealand rugby player
1961 - Savvas Kofidis, Greek footballer and manager
1961 - Jim Meadows, American actor
1961 - Hakan Peker, Turkish dancer, songwriter, singer and musical composer
1962 - Jacqui Dankworth, English jazz singer
1964 – Laura Linney, American actress
1964 – Duff McKagan, American musician
1964 - David Gilmore, American jazz musician
1965 - Gheorghe Hagi, Romanian footballer
1966 - Jose Maria Olazabal, Spanish golfer
1966 - Vivian Wu, Chinese actress
1969 – Bobby Brown, American singer
1969 – Michael Sheen, Welsh actor
1970 - Jean-Marc Jaumin, Belgian basketball player and coach
1972 – Mary E. Donaldson, Crown Princess of Denmark
1975 – Giovanni van Bronckhorst, Dutch footballer
1975 - Alison Hammond, English television presenter

From 1976

1976 – Abhishek Bachchan, Indian actor
1976 – John Aloisi, Australian footballer
1977 – Ben Ainslie, English sailor
1980 - Patrick Grady, Scottish politician
1980 - Jo Swinson, Scottish politician
1980 - Brad Fitzpatrick, American programmer
1980 - Peter, Hereditary Prince of Yugoslavia
1980 - Tiwa Savage, Nigerian singer, songwriter and actress
1981 - Nora Zehetner, American actress
1982 - Aidin Nikkah Behrami, Iranian basketball player (d. 2007)
1982 – Rodrigo Palacio, Argentine footballer
1984 – Carlos Tevez, Argentine footballer
1985 – Cristiano Ronaldo, Portuguese footballer
1985 - Paul Vandervort, American actor and model
1986 - Andreas Beck, German tennis player
1986 – Vedran Corluka, Croatian footballer
1987 - Linus Omark, Swedish ice hockey player
1988 - Natalie Geisenberger, German luger
1990 - Jordan Rhodes, Scottish footballer
1991 – Alba Riquelme, Paraguayan model
1992 – Neymar, Brazilian footballer
1992 - Stefan de Vrij, Dutch footballer
1992 - Carina Vogt, German ski jumper, first women's Ski jumping Olympic champion
1994 - Saki Nakajima, Japanese singer
1995 - Adnan Januzaj, Belgian footballer
1995 - Trayvon Martin, American teenager, shooting victim (d. 2012)
2002 – Davis Cleveland, American actor
2016 - Jigme Namgyel Wangchuck, Crown Prince of Bhutan

Deaths

Observances

Trivia

A large number of successful footballers and football managers were born on February 5. This includes ones that are currently active in either playing or management, and some who are currently not.