Famous People Born on August 5
Famous people born on August 5 include Neil Armstrong (1930), Guy de Maupassant (1850) and Marine Le Pen (1968).
BORN ON THIS DAY
MORE FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS
Guy de Maupassant
French writer (1850–1893)
Marine Le Pen
French lawyer and politician (born 1968)
Niels Henrik Abel
Norwegian mathematician (1802–1829)
Ilya Repin
Ukrainian-born Russian painter (1844–1930)
Vitus Bering
Danish-born Russian explorer (1681–1741)
Kajol
Indian actress (born 1974)
John Huston
American-Irish filmmaker and actor (1906–1987)
Wassily Leontief
Soviet-American economist and Nobel Laureate (1906–1999)
Gavi
Spanish footballer (born 2004)
Ivar Aasen
Norwegian philologist and lexicographer (1813–1896)
Deodoro da Fonseca
President of Brazil from 1889 to 1891
Mark Strong
British actor (born 1963)
Guillaume Du Fay
Composer of the Renaissance (1397–1474)
Salomon Kalou
Ivorian footballer (born 1985)
Valdis Dombrovskis
Latvian politician (born 1971)
DIED ON THIS DAY
Friedrich Engels
Co-author of The Communist Manifesto with Marx
Toni Morrison
Beloved, Nobel Prize in Literature
MORE FAMOUS DEATHS
Richard Burton
Welsh actor (1925–1984)
Alec Guinness
English actor (1914–2000)
Todor Zhivkov
Leader of Bulgaria from 1956 to 1989
Heinrich Otto Wieland
German Nobel laureate in Chemistry (1877–1957)
Carmen Miranda
Brazilian singer (1909–1955)
Thomas Newcomen
English inventor, preacher and ironmonger (1664–1729)
Soichiro Honda
Japanese businessman
Wilhelm Marx
Chancellor of Germany, 1923–1925, 1926–1928
Frederick North, Lord North
Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1770 to 1782
Chavela Vargas
Mexican singer (1919–2012)
Sources
- August 5 — Wikipedia. Births and deaths on this date
- Neil Armstrong — Wikipedia
- Friedrich Engels — Wikipedia
- Toni Morrison — Wikipedia
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation. Birth years under More famous deaths