Famous People Born on May 5
Famous people born on May 5 include Karl Marx (1818), Søren Kierkegaard (1813) and Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846).
BORN ON THIS DAY
Karl Marx
Das Kapital, Communist Manifesto
Søren Kierkegaard
Danish philosopher, father of existentialism
MORE FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS
Henryk Sienkiewicz
Polish epic writer (1846–1916)
Adele
English singer-songwriter (born 1988)
Henry Cavill
British actor (born 1983)
Arthur Leonard Schawlow
American physicist (1921–1999)
Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor
Holy Roman Emperor from 1790 to 1792
Nellie Bly
American investigative journalist (1864–1922)
Carlos Alcaraz
Spanish tennis player (born 2003)
Michael Palin
English actor (born 1943)
Aryna Sabalenka
Belarusian tennis player (born 1998)
Zail Singh
President of India from 1982 to 1987
Eugénie de Montijo
Empress of the French from 1853 to 1870
John Rhys-Davies
Welsh actor (born 1944)
Afonso III of Portugal
King of Portugal from 1248 to 1279
Raúl Jiménez
Mexican footballer (born 1991)
Tyrone Power
American actor (1914–1958)
DIED ON THIS DAY
MORE FAMOUS DEATHS
Ludwig Erhard
Chancellor of West Germany from 1963 to 1966
Mikhail Botvinnik
Soviet chess grandmaster (1911–1995)
Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor
Holy Roman Emperor from 1658 to 1705
Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet
German mathematician (1805–1859)
Umaru Musa Yar'Adua
President of Nigeria from 2007 to 2010
Alfred Hermann Fried
Austrian Jewish pacifist and publicist (1864–1921)
Carlos Saavedra Lamas
Argentine academic and politician
César Luis Menotti
Argentine footballer and manager (1938–2024)
Gino Bartali
Italian cyclist (1914–2000)
Bret Harte
American fiction writer and poet (1836–1902)
Sources
- May 5 — Wikipedia. Births and deaths on this date
- Karl Marx — Wikipedia
- Søren Kierkegaard — Wikipedia
- Napoleon — Wikipedia
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation. Birth years under More famous deaths