March 5

2024 Calendar

March 5 is the 64th day of the year (65th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 301 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

Up to 1900

254 - Pope Lucius I (b. 200)
1534 - Antonio da Correggio, Italian painter (b. 1489)
1539 - Nuno da Cunha, Portuguese admiral and politician (b. 1487)
1592 - Michael Coxcie, Flemish painter (b. 1499)
1611 - Shimazu Yoshihisa, Japanese warlord and samurai (b. 1533)
1622 - Ranuccio I Farnese, Duke of Parma (b. 1569)
1695 - Henry Wharton, English writer (b. 1664)
1770 – Crispus Attucks, American revolutionary figure
1776 – Yeongjo of Joseon of Korea (b. 1694)
1778 – Thomas Arne, English composer (b. 1710)
1815 – Franz Mesmer, German physician and astrologer (b. 1734)
1827 – Pierre-Simon Laplace, French mathematician (b. 1749)
1827 – Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist and inventor (b. 1745)
1895 – Nikolai Leskov, Russian writer (b. 1831)

1901 - 1950

1901 - Louis Kahn, Estonian-American architect (d. 1974)
1904 - Karl Rahner, German theologian (d. 1984)
1908 – Rex Harrison, British actor (d. 1990)
1908 - Irving Fiske, American writer and playwright (d. 1990)
1910 – Momofuko Ando, Taiwanese businessman (d. 2007)
1910 - Ennio Flaiano, Italian writer, journalist and screenwriter (d. 1972)
1912 - Jack Marshall, 28th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1988)
1914 - Philip Farkas, American horn player and teacher (d. 1992)
1915 - Henry Hicks, Canadian politician, 16th Premier of Nova Scotia (d. 1990)
1915 - Laurent Schwartz, French mathematician (d. 2002)
1918 - Milt Schmidt, Canadian ice hockey player, coach and manager
1918 – James Tobin, American economist, Nobel laureate (d. 2002)
1920 - José Aboulker, Algerian surgeon and activist (d. 2009)
1922 – Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian director (d. 1975)
1923 - Andrea Aureli, Italian actor
1924 - Jacques Vergès, French lawyer (d. 2013)
1927 – Jack Cassidy, American actor (d. 1976)
1929 - Erik Carlsson, Swedish rally driver (d. 2015)
1929 - J. B. Lenoir, American blues guitarist and singer-songwriter (d. 1967)
1930 - John Ashley, NHL referee (d. 2008)
1930 - Del Crandall, American baseball player
1931 - Jerrie Cobb, American aviator (d. 2019)
1933 - Don L. Anderson, American geophysicist (d. 2014)
1933 - Walter Kasper, German cardinal
1933 - Evgeni Vasiukov, Russian chess player (d. 2018)
1933 – Tommy Tucker, American blues singer and guitarist (d. 1982)
1934 – Daniel Kahneman, Israeli economist
1934 - James B. Sikking, American actor
1935 - Philip K. Chapman, Australian astronaut and scientist
1936 – Canaan Banana, 1st President of Zimbabwe (d. 2003)
1937 – Olusegun Obasanjo, two-time former President of Nigeria
1938 – Lynn Margulis, American evolutionary biologist (d. 2011)
1938 - Fred Williamson, American football player, actor, director, producer and screenwriter
1940 – Josef Piontek, German footballer
1940 - John W. Carlin, 40th Governor of Kansas
1942 – Felipe Gonzalez, former Prime Minister of Spain
1942 - Mike Resnick, American science fiction writer
1943 - Lucio Battisti, Italian singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1998)
1943 - Christian Führer, German pastor and activist (d. 2014)
1944 - Roy Gutman, American journalist
1946 - Murray Head, British actor and singer
1947 - John Kitzhaber, former Governor of Oregon
1948 – Elaine Paige, English singer and actress
1948 - Eddy Grant, Guyanese-British musician
1948 – Jan van Beveren, Dutch footballer (d. 2011)
1948 - Paquirri, Spanish bullfighter (d. 1984)
1949 – Franz Josef Jung, German politician

1951 - 2000

1953 – Both Josef Stalin and Sergei Prokofiev die in Soviet Union.
1955 – President of Lithuania, Antanas Merkys dies, after having been imprisoned and deported to the Soviet Union.
1956 – Ernie Terrell becomes the WBA world heavyweight champion, beating Eddie Machen.
1956 – "King Kong" first televised.
1958 – Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region is established.
1958 – Explorer 2 spacecraft launches, fails to reach Earth orbit.
1960 - Alberto Korda takes the famous "Guerrillero Heroico" photograph of Che Guevara.
1960 – Elvis Presley is discharged from a 2-year hitch in the United States Army.
1963 – Country singer Patsy Cline dies in a plane crash.
1964 – Atlanta Mayor Ivan Allen Jr announces a baseball team is moving there.
1964 – Ceylon declares emergency crisis due to unrest.
1965 – First performance of Walter Piston's Eighth Symphony.
1966 – A BOAC Boeing 707 jet crashes on Mount Fuji, Japan killing 124
1966 – In Luxembourg, Udo Jürgens wins the eleventh Eurovision Song Contest for Austria.
1966 – Bob Seagren vaults 5.19m, an indoor world record.
1968 – US launches Solar Explorer B, aka Explorer 37 from Wallops Island to study the Sun.
1970 – A nuclear non-proliferation treaty goes into effect after ratification by 43 nations.
1970 – Dubnium atoms first detected conclusively.
1971 – First live performance of Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven."
1973 – Two Spanish aircraft collide in mid-air over France, killing 68 people.
1973 – Donald DeFreeze, future Symbionese Liberation Army leader, escapes from Vacaville Prison.
1974 – Yom Kippur War: Israeli forces withdrew from the west bank of the Suez Canal.
1974 – "Candide", by Leonard Bernstein, opens at Broadway Theatre in NYC for 740 performances.
1976 – British pound falls below $2 US for the first time.
1978 – Landsat 3 is launched from Vandenberg AFB in California.
1979 – Detection equipment picks up a gamma ray burst originating from the Large Magellanic Cloud, leading to the discovery of soft gamma repeaters.
1979 – Voyager 1's closest approach to Jupiter, 172000 miles.
1980 – Earth satellites record gamma rays from remnants of supernova N-49.
1981 – Cannibal Alferd Packer pardoned posthumously.
1982 – SNL star John Belushi dies of a drug overdose in his hotel room.
1982 – Venera 14, a Soviet satellite arrives at the planet Venus.
1983 – Bob Hawke becomes Australian prime minister after defeating Malcolm Fraser in Australian elections.
1983 - In the oldest regular match in international rugby union, Scotland achieves its most recent away win over England to-date, winning 22-12 at Twickenham Stadium in London.
1984 - 6,000 miners in the United Kingdom begin their strike at Cortonwood Colliery.
1985 – The body of undercover DEA agent Enrique Camarena is found.
1988 – Constitution of Turks and Caicos Islands restored and revised.
1991 – Iraq releases all Gulf War prisoners
1993 – Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson is banned from international competition for life after testing positive for banned substances for the second time.
1998 – NASA announces that the Clementine probe orbiting the Moon has found enough water to support a human colony.
1998 – NASA announces the choice of United States Air Force Lt. Col. Eileen Collins as the first woman commander of a space shuttle mission.
1999 – Paul Okalik is elected first Premier of Nunavut.

From 2001

2004 - Masanori Tokita, Japanese footballer (b. 1925)
2006 - Milan Babic, Serbian politician (b. 1956)
2008 – Joseph Weizenbaum, German-American computer science professor (b. 1923)
2010 – Philip Langridge, English operatic tenor (b. 1939)
2011 – Alberto Granado, Argentine biochemist, writer and travel companion of Che Guevara (b. 1922)
2012 - Robert B. Sherman, American songwriter (b. 1925)
2013 - Hugo Chávez, President of Venezuela (b. 1954)
2013 - Paul Bearer, American professional wrestler and manager (b. 1954)
2013 - Dieter Pfaff, German actor (b. 1947)
2014 - Leopoldo Maria Panero, Spanish poet (b. 1948)
2014 - Geoff Edwards, American actor and presenter (b. 1931)
2015 - Edward Egan, American cardinal (b. 1932)
2015 - Jim McCann, Irish musician (b. 1944)
2015 - Vlada Divljan, Serbian musician (b. 1958)
2016 - Hassan al-Turabi, Sudanese religious and political leader (b. 1932)
2016 - Ray Tomlinson, American computer programmer (b. 1941)
2016 - Al Wistert, American football player (b. 1920)
2016 - Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Austrian cellist (b. 1929)
2016 - James Douglas, American actor (b. 1929)
2017 - Anthony C. Beilenson, American politician (b. 1932)
2017 - Douglas Henry, American politician (b. 1926)
2017 - Florence S. Jacobsen, American Mormon leader and missionary (b. 1913)
2017 - Jay Lynch, American cartoonist (b. 1945)
2018 - Trevor Baylis, British inventor (b. 1937)
2018 - John Hall Buchanan Jr., American politician (b. 1928)
2018 - Tomas Aguon Camacho, Northern Marianas Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1933)
2018 - Kjerstin Dellert, Swedish opera singer (b. 1925)
2018 - André S. Labarthe, French actor and film director (b. 1931)
2018 - Uri Lubrani, Israeli diplomat and military official (b. 1926)
2018 - Jam Saqi, Pakistani politician (b. 1944)
2018 - Helmut Maucher, German businessman (b. 1927)
2018 - Stephan Tanneberger, German oncologist and chemist (b. 1935)
2018 - Hayden White, American historian (b. 1928)
2019 - Chu Shijian, Chinese businessman (b. 1928)
2019 - Jacques Loussier, French businessman (b. 1934)

Births

Up to 1800

1133 – King Henry II of England (d. 1189)
1324 – King David II of Scotland (d. 1371)
1326 – King Louis I of Hungary (d. 1382)
1512 – Gerardus Mercator, Flemish map maker (d. 1594)
1563 - John Coke, English politician (d. 1644)
1575 - William Oughtred, English mathematician (d. 1660)
1585 - John George I, Elector of Saxony (d. 1656)
1658 - Antoine Laumet de la Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, French explorer (d. 1730)
1685 - George Frideric Handel, German composer (d. 1759)
1693 - Johann Jakob Wettstein, Swiss theologian (d. 1754)
1696 - Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian painter (d. 1770)
1703 - Vasily Kirillovich Trediakovsky, Russian poet (d. 1768)
1713 – Edward Cornwallis, English military officer (d. 1776)
1713 – Frederick Cornwallis, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1783)
1723 – Princess Mary of Great Britain (d. 1773)
1739 - Benjamin Ruggles Woodbridge, American physician and statesman (d. 1819)
1756 - Nathaniel Alexander, 13th Governor of North Carolina (d. 1808)
1794 - Jacques Babinet, French physicist (d. 1872)

1801 – 1900

1815 - John Wentworth, American politician (d. 1888)
1832 - Isaac Israel Hayes, American physician and polar explorer (d. 1881)
1836 - Charles Goodnight, American cattle rancher (d. 1929)
1853 - Howard Pyle, American writer and illustrator (d. 1911)
1855 - Archduchess Sophie of Austria (d. 1857)
1858 - José Relvas, Prime Minister of Portugal (d. 1929)
1862 – Siegbert Tarrasch, German chess player (d. 1934)
1867 – Louis-Alexandre Taschereau, Premier of Quebec (d. 1952)
1869 - Michael von Faulhaber, German cardinal (d. 1952)
1870 – Frank Norris, American writer (d. 1902)
1871 – Rosa Luxemburg, German Socialist revolutionary (d. 1919)
1873 – Olav Bjaaland, Norwegian explorer and cross-country skier (d. 1961)
1874 – Henry Travers, British actor (d. 1965)
1879 – William Henry Beveridge, British economist (d. 1963)
1882 - Arthur Hussey, American golfer (d. 1915)
1886 - Dong Biwu, Chinese politician (d. 1975)
1887 – Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazilian composer (d. 1959)
1888 - Jeff Tesreau, American baseball player (d. 1946)
1890 - Wilhelm Boden, German politician (d. 1961)
1893 - Konstantin Muraviev, Prime Minister of Bulgaria (d. 1973)
1897 - Set Persson, Swedish Communist politician (d. 1960)
1898 - Misao Okawa, Japanese supercentenarian, oldest-living person (d. 2015)
1898 – Soong May-ling, First Lady of the Republic of China (d. 2003)
1898 – Zhou Enlai, Chinese Communist politician (d. 1976)
1900 - Anna Henderson, American supercentenarian (d. 2014)

1951 – 1975

1952 – Alan Clark, British musician (Dire Straits)
1952 - Fernando de Piedade Dios dos Santos, former Prime Minister of Angola
1953 – Michael Sandel, American political philosopher
1954 - Steve Prestwich, English-Australian musician and songwriter (d. 2011)
1955 - Penn Jillette, American illusionist, comedian, musician and writer
1956 - Marco Paolini, Italian stage actor and writer
1956 – Teena Marie, American singer-songwriter (d. 2010)
1957 - Mark E. Smith, English musician (d. 2018)
1958 – Andy Gibb, English-born Australian singer and teen idol (d. 1988)
1959 – Vazgen Sargsyan, Prime Minister of Armenia (d. 1999)
1959 - David Fury, American television and producer
1962 – The Proclaimers, Scottish singers and musicians
1963 - Lotta Engberg, Swedish singer
1963 - Joel Osteen, American televangelist
1964 - Bertrand Cantat, French singer-songwriter
1966 - Oh Eun-Sun, South Korean mountaineer
1968 – Gordon Bajnai, former Prime Minister of Hungary
1968 – Theresa Villiers, British politician
1970 – John Frusciante, American musician (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
1970 - Lisa Robin Kelly, American actress (d. 2013)
1972 - Brian Grant, American basketball player
1972 - Luca Turilli, Italian guitarist and songwriter
1973 - Yannis Anastasiou, Greek footballer
1974 – Kevin Connolly, American actor and comedian
1974 – Matt Lucas, British actor and comedian
1974 – Jens Jeremies, German footballer
1974 – Eva Mendes, American actress
1975 – Nelly Arcan, Canadian writer (d. 2009)

From 1976

1976 – Sarunas Jasikevicius, Lithuanian basketball player
1977 - Wally Szczerbiak, American basketball player
1978 - Kimberly McCullough, American actress
1978 - Carlos Ochoa, Mexican footballer
1981 – Andreas Wiig, Norwegian snowboarder
1982 – Dan Carter, New Zealand rugby union player
1982 - Nikki Walker, Scottish rugby union player
1982 - Giorgia Palmas, Italian television personality and model
1984 - Aarthi Agarwal, Indian actress (d. 2015)
1985 - Kenichi Matsuyama, Japanese actor
1985 – David Marshall, Scottish footballer
1985 - Brad Mills, American baseball player
1986 - Ellen Whitaker, British equestrian showjumper
1987 – Anna Chakvetadze, Russian tennis player
1987 – Ishmael Miller, English footballer
1988 - Bjarni Vidarsson, Icelandic footballer
1989 - Kensuke Nagai, Japanese footballer
1989 - Sterling Knight, American actor and singer
1989 – Jake Lloyd, American actor
1990 - Danny Drinkwater, English footballer
1991 - Michael Hayböck, Austrian ski jumper
1993 - Harry Maguire, English footballer
1994 - Daria Gavrilova, Russian tennis player
1999 - Madison Beer, American singer

Deaths

1901 – 2000

1925 – Jonas Jensen, Danish mathematician (b. 1859)
1926 - Clement Ader, French engineer (b. 1841)
1929 – David Dunbar Buick, Scottish-born American engineer, inventor and industrialist (b. 1854)
1940 - Cai Yuanpei, Chinese educator (b. 1868)
1944 – Max Jacob, French poet and writer (b. 1876)
1947 - Alfredo Casella, Italian composer (b. 1883)
1950 - Edgar Lee Masters, American poet, biographer and dramatist (b. 1868)
1953 - Herman J. Mankiewicz, American screenwriter (b. 1897)
1953 – Sergei Prokofiev, Russian composer (b. 1891)
1953 – Joseph Stalin, Georgian leader of the Soviet Union (b. 1879)
1955 – Antanas Merkys, Lithuanian politician (b. 1888)
1963 – Patsy Cline, American singer (b. 1932)
1963 - Cowboy Copas, American singer (b. 1913)
1963 - Hawkshaw Hawkins, American singer (b. 1921)
1965 - Chen Cheng, Chinese politician (b. 1897)
1965 - Pepper Martin, American baseball player (b. 1904)
1966 – Anna Akhmatova, Russian poet (b. 1889)
1967 – Mohammed Mossadegh, Iranian Prime Minister (b. 1882)
1967 - Georges Vanier, 19th Governor General of Canada (b. 1888)
1974 - Sol Hurok, American impresario (b. 1888)
1976 - Otto Tief, Prime Minister of Estonia (b. 1889)
1977 – Tom Pryce, Welsh racing driver (b. 1949)
1980 – Winifred Wagner, German opera producer (b. 1897)
1980 - Jay Silverheels, Canadian actor (b. 1912)
1982 – John Belushi, American actor (b. 1949)
1984 - Pierre Cochereau, French organist and composer (b. 1924)
1984 - Tito Cobbi, Italian baritone (b. 1915)
1990 – Edmund Conen, German footballer (b. 1914)
1990 – Gary Merrill, American actor (b. 1915)
1995 – Vivian Stanshall, British musician (b. 1943)
1999 – Richard Kiley, American actor (b. 1922)

Observances

Custom Chief's Day (Vanuatu)
Lei Feng Day (China)
National Tree Planting Day (Iran)
St. Piran's Day (Cornwall)