February 5
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[edit] Births
- 1600 - Dr. Johan Picardt, doctor and author
- 1608 - Caspar Schott, scientist
- 1626 - Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné, French author
- 1725 - James Otis, American lawyer and patriot (d. 1783)
- 1748 - Christian Gottlieb Neefe, organist/composer
- 1788 - Robert Peel, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1850)
- 1804 - Johan Ludvig Runeberg, Finnish poet (d. 1877)
- 1808 - Carl Spitzweg, painter (d. 1885)
- 1810 - Ole Bull, Norwegian violinist (d. 1880)
- 1837 - Dwight L. Moody, evangelist (d. 1899)
- 1840 - John Boyd Dunlop, inventor (d. 1921)
- 1848 - Joris-Karl Huysmans, author (d. 1907)
- 1848 - Belle Starr, outlaw (d. 1889)
- 1878 - André Citroën, French automobile pioneer (d. 1935)
- 1880 - Gabriel Voisin, French aviation pioneer (d. 1973)
- 1900 - Adlai Stevenson, American politician (d. 1965)
- 1904 - Walter Gross, cabaretist (d. 1989)
- 1906 - John Carradine, actor (d. 1988)
- 1908 - Daisy and Violet Hilton, conjoined twins, actresses (d. 1969)
- 1914 - William S. Burroughs, American author (d. 1997)
- 1918 - Tim Holt, American actor (d. 1973)
- 1919 - Red Buttons, actor
- 1919 - Andreas Papandreou, Greek politician (d. 1996)
- 1921 - John Pritchard, English conductor (d. 1989)
- 1923 - Claude King, American country musician
- 1927 - Ruth Fertel, entrepreneur (d. 2002)
- 1928 - Andrew Greeley, priest, novelist
- 1929 - Fred Sinowatz, politician
- 1929 - Al Worthington, baseball player
- 1930 - John A. Gambling, radio show host (d. 2004)
- 1934 - Hank Aaron, Baseball Hall of Famer
- 1935 - Sandra Paretti, author (d. 1994)
- 1937 - Stuart Damon, American actor
- 1940 - H.R. Giger, artist
- 1941 - Kaspar Villiger, former member of the Swiss Federal Council
- 1941 - David Selby, American actor
- 1941 - Jane Bryant Quinn, American journalist
- 1942 - Roger Staubach, Pro Football Hall of Famer
- 1943 - Nolan Bushnell, video game pioneer
- 1943 - Craig Morton, American football star
- 1943 - Michael Mann, American film director, writer, producer
- 1944 - Gilles Aubin, physicist
- 1944 - Al Kooper, musician
- 1945 - Charlotte Rampling, actress
- 1947 - Darrell Waltrip, automobile racer
- 1947 - David Ladd, American actor-producer
- 1948 - Christopher Guest, actor, writer, director, composer
- 1948 - Barbara Hershey, actress
- 1948 - Errol Morris, American documentary film director
- 1949 - Nigel Olsson, rock drummer
- 1956 - Richard S. Stamos New York writer, artist, nascent scientist, Cartesan Agnostic.
- 1962 - Jennifer Jason Leigh, American actress
- 1964 - Laura Linney, actress
- 1964 - Duff McKagen, Guns N'Roses
- 1965 - Gheorghe Hagi, Romanian football player
- 1966 - Rok Petrovič, Slovenian alpine skier (d. 1993)
- 1968 - Roberto Alomar, baseball player
- 1969 - Bobby Brown, singer
- 1971 - Markus Redmond, American actor
- 1972 - Mary E. Donaldson, Crown Princess of Denmark
- 1977 - Ahmad Merritt, football player
- 1984 - Carlos Tévez, Argentina football striker
- 1985 - Cristiano Ronaldo, football player
- 1989 - Jeremy Sumpter, American actor
