Famous Birthdays for March 5th

Pre-1600[edit]

• 1133 – Henry II of England (d. 1189)^[15]
• 1224 – Saint Kinga of Poland (d. 1292)
• 1324 – David II of Scotland (d. 1371)^[16]
• 1326 – Louis I of Hungary (d. 1382)
• 1340 – Cansignorio della Scala, Lord of Verona (d. 1375)
• 1451 – William Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, English Earl (d. 1491)
• 1512 – Gerardus Mercator, Flemish mathematician, cartographer, and philosopher (d. 1594)
• 1523 – Rodrigo de Castro Osorio, Spanish cardinal (d. 1600)
• 1527 – Ulrich, Duke of Mecklenburg (d. 1603)
• 1539 – Christoph Pezel, German theologian (d. 1604)
• 1563 – John Coke, English civil servant and politician (d. 1644)
• 1575 – William Oughtred, English minister and mathematician (d. 1660)
• 1585 – John George I, Elector of Saxony (d. 1656)
• 1585 – Frederick I, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg (d. 1638)

1601–1900[edit]

• 1637 – Jan van der Heyden, Dutch painter and engineer (d. 1712)
• 1658 – Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac, French explorer and politician, 3rd Colonial Governor of Louisiana (d. 1730)
• 1693 – Johann Jakob Wettstein, Swiss theologian and scholar (d. 1754)
• 1696 – Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian painter (d. 1770)
• 1703 – Vasily Trediakovsky, Russian poet and playwright (d. 1768)
• 1713 – Edward Cornwallis, English general and politician, Governor of Gibraltar (d. 1776)
• 1713 – Frederick Cornwallis, English archbishop (d. 1783)
• 1723 – Princess Mary of Great Britain (d. 1773)
• 1733 – Vincenzo Galeotti, Italian-Danish dancer and choreographer (d. 1816)
• 1739 – Benjamin Ruggles Woodbridge, American colonel and physician (d. 1819)
• 1748 – Jonas Carlsson Dryander, Swedish botanist and biologist (d. 1810)
• 1748 – William Shield, English violinist and composer (d. 1829)
• 1750 – Jean-Baptiste-Gaspard d'Ansse de Villoison, French scholar and academic (d. 1805)
• 1751 – Jan Křtitel Kuchař, Czech organist, composer, and educator (d. 1829)
• 1774 – Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse, Danish organist and composer (d. 1842)
• 1779 – Benjamin Gompertz, English mathematician and statistician (d. 1865)
• 1785 – Carlo Odescalchi, Italian cardinal (d. 1841)
• 1794 – Jacques Babinet, French physicist, mathematician, and astronomer (d. 1872)
• 1794 – Robert Cooper Grier, American lawyer and jurist (d. 1870)
• 1814 – Wilhelm von Giesebrecht, German historian and academic (d. 1889)
• 1800 – Georg Friedrich Daumer, German poet and philosopher (d. 1875)
• 1815 – John Wentworth, American journalist and politician, 19th Mayor of Chicago (d. 1888)
• 1817 – Austen Henry Layard, English archaeologist, academic, and politician, Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (d. 1894)
• 1830 – Étienne-Jules Marey, French physiologist and chronophotographer (d. 1904)
• 1830 – Charles Wyville Thomson, Scottish historian and zoologist (d. 1882)
• 1834 – Félix de Blochausen, Luxembourgian politician, 6th Prime Minister of Luxembourg (d. 1915)
• 1834 – Marietta Piccolomini, Italian soprano (d. 1899)
• 1853 – Howard Pyle, American author and illustrator (d. 1911)
• 1862 – Siegbert Tarrasch, German chess player and theoretician (d. 1934)
• 1867 – Louis-Alexandre Taschereau, Canadian lawyer and politician, 14th Premier of Quebec (d. 1952)
• 1869 – Michael von Faulhaber, German cardinal (d. 1952)
• 1870 – Frank Norris, American journalist and author (d. 1902)
• 1870 – Evgeny Paton, French-Ukrainian engineer (d. 1953)
• 1871 – Rosa Luxemburg, Polish-Russian economist and philosopher (d. 1919)
• 1871 – Konstantinos Pallis, Greek general and politician, Minister Governor-General of Macedonia (d. 1941)
• 1873 – Olav Bjaaland, Norwegian skier and explorer (d. 1961)
• 1874 – Henry Travers, English-American actor (d. 1965)
• 1875 – Harry Lawson, Australian politician, 27th Premier of Victoria (d. 1952)
• 1876 – Thomas Inskip, 1st Viscount Caldecote, English lawyer and politician, 8th Lord Chief Justice of England (d. 1947)
• 1876 – Elisabeth Moore, American tennis player (d. 1959)
• 1879 – William Beveridge, Bangladeshi-English economist and academic (d. 1963)
• 1879 – Andres Larka, Estonian general and politician, 1st Estonian Minister of War (d. 1943)
• 1880 – Sergei Natanovich Bernstein, Russian mathematician and academic (d. 1968)
• 1882 – Dora Marsden, English author and activist (d. 1960)^[17]
• 1883 – Pauline Sperry, American mathematician (d. 1967)^[18]
• 1885 – Marius Barbeau, Canadian ethnographer and academic (d. 1969)
• 1886 – Dong Biwu, Chinese judge and politician, Chairman of the People's Republic of China (d. 1975)
• 1886 – Freddie Welsh, Welsh boxer (d. 1927)
• 1887 – Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazilian guitarist and composer (d. 1959)
• 1894 – Henry Daniell, English-American actor (d. 1963)
• 1898 – Zhou Enlai, Chinese politician, 1st Premier of the People's Republic of China (d. 1976)
• 1898 – Misao Okawa, Japanese super-centenarian (d. 2015)
• 1900 – Lilli Jahn, Jewish German doctor (d. 1944) ^[19]
• 1900 – Johanna Langefeld, German guard and supervisor of three Nazi concentration camps (d. 1974)

1901–present[edit]

• 1901 – Friedrich Günther, Prince of Schwarzburg (d. 1971)
• 1901 – Julian Przyboś, Polish poet, essayist and translator (d. 1970)
• 1904 – Karl Rahner, German priest and theologian (d. 1984)
• 1905 – László Benedek, Hungarian-American director and cinematographer (d. 1992)
• 1908 – Fritz Fischer, German historian and author (d. 1999)
• 1908 – Irving Fiske, American author and playwright (d. 1990)
• 1908 – Rex Harrison, English actor (d. 1990)
• 1910 – Momofuku Ando, Taiwanese-Japanese businessman, founded Nissin Foods (d. 2007)
• 1910 – Ennio Flaiano, Italian author, screenwriter, and critic (d. 1972)
• 1911 – Subroto Mukerjee, Indian Air Marshall, Father of the Indian Air Force (d. 1960)^[20]
• 1912 – Jack Marshall, New Zealand colonel, lawyer, and politician, 28th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1988)
• 1915 – Henry Hicks, Canadian academic and politician, 16th Premier of Nova Scotia (d. 1990)
• 1915 – Laurent Schwartz, French mathematician and academic (d. 2002)
• 1918 – Milt Schmidt, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager (d. 2017)
• 1918 – Red Storey, Canadian football player, referee, and sportscaster (d. 2006)
• 1918 – James Tobin, American economist and academic (d. 2002)
• 1920 – José Aboulker, Algerian surgeon and activist (d. 2009)
• 1920 – Virginia Christine, American actress (d. 1996)
• 1920 – Rachel Gurney, English actress (d. 2001)
• 1920 – Wang Zengqi, Chinese writer (d. 1997)
• 1921 – Arthur A. Oliner, American physicist and electrical engineer (d. 2013)^[21]
• 1921 – Elmer Valo, American baseball player and coach (d. 1998)
• 1922 – James Noble, American actor (d. 2016)^[22]
• 1922 – Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1975)
• 1923 – Juan A. Rivero, Puerto Rican biologist and academic (d. 2014)
• 1923 – Laurence Tisch, American businessman, co-founded the Loews Corporation (d. 2003)
• 1924 – Roger Marche, French footballer (d. 1997)
• 1927 – Jack Cassidy, American actor and singer (d. 1976)
• 1927 – Robert Lindsay, 29th Earl of Crawford, Scottish businessman and politician
• 1928 – J. Hillis Miller, American academic and critic (d. 2021)
• 1929 – Erik Carlsson, Swedish race car driver (d. 2015)
• 1929 – J. B. Lenoir, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1967)
• 1930 – John Ashley, Canadian ice hockey player and referee (d. 2008)
• 1930 – Del Crandall, American baseball player and manager (d. 2021)
• 1931 – Fred, French author and illustrator (d. 2013)
• 1931 – Barry Tuckwell, Australian horn player and educator (d. 2020)^[23]
• 1932 – Paul Sand, American actor
• 1933 – Walter Kasper, German cardinal and theologian
• 1934 – Daniel Kahneman, Israeli-American economist and psychologist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1935 – Letizia Battaglia, Italian photographer and journalist
• 1935 – Philip K. Chapman, Australian-American astronaut and engineer (d. 2021)
• 1935 – Shamsuddin Qasemi, Bangladeshi Islamic scholar and politician (d. 1996)^[24]
• 1936 – Canaan Banana, Zimbabwean minister and politician, 1st President of Zimbabwe (d. 2003)
• 1936 – Dale Douglass, American golfer
• 1936 – Dean Stockwell, American actor (d. 2021)
• 1937 – Olusegun Obasanjo, Nigerian general and politician, 5th President of Nigeria
• 1938 – Paul Evans, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1938 – Lynn Margulis, American biologist and academic (d. 2011)
• 1938 – Fred Williamson, American football player, actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1939 – Samantha Eggar, English actress
• 1939 – Tony Rundle, Australian politician, 40th Premier of Tasmania
• 1939 – Benyamin Sueb, Indonesian actor and comedian (d. 1995)
• 1939 – Peter Woodcock, Canadian serial killer (d. 2010)
• 1939 – Pierre Wynants, Belgian chef
• 1940 – Tom Butler, English bishop
• 1940 – Ken Irvine, Australian rugby league player (d. 1990)
• 1940 – Graham McRae, New Zealand race car driver (d. 2021)
• 1940 – Sepp Piontek, German footballer and manager
• 1941 – Des Wilson, New Zealand-English businessman and activist
• 1942 – Felipe González, Spanish lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Spain
• 1942 – Mike Resnick, American author and editor (d. 2020)
• 1942 – David Watkins, Welsh rugby player
• 1943 – Lucio Battisti, Italian singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1998)
• 1944 – Peter Brandes, Danish painter and sculptor
• 1944 – Roy Gutman, American journalist and author
• 1945 – Wilf Tranter, English footballer^[25]
• 1946 – Richard Bell, Canadian pianist (d. 2007)
• 1946 – Guerrino Boatto, Italian illustrator and painter (d. 2018)
• 1946 – Graham Hawkins, English footballer and manager (d. 2016)
• 1946 – Murray Head, English actor and singer
• 1947 – Clodagh Rodgers, Northern Irish singer and actress
• 1947 – Kent Tekulve, American baseball player and sportscaster
• 1948 – Paquirri, Spanish bullfighter (d. 1984)
• 1948 – Eddy Grant, Guyanese-British singer-songwriter and musician
• 1948 – Richard Hickox, English conductor and scholar (d. 2008)
• 1948 – Elaine Paige, English singer and actress
• 1948 – Jan van Beveren, Dutch footballer and coach (d. 2011)
• 1949 – Bernard Arnault, French businessman, philanthropist, and art collector
• 1949 – Franz Josef Jung, German lawyer and politician, German Federal Minister of Defence
• 1949 – Tom Russell, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1951 – Rodney Hogg, Australian cricketer and coach
• 1952 – Petar Borota, Serbian footballer and coach (d. 2010)
• 1952 – Robin Hobb, American author^[26]
• 1952 – Mike Squires, American baseball player and scout^[27]
• 1953 – Katarina Frostenson, Swedish poet and author
• 1953 – Michael J. Sandel, American philosopher and academic
• 1953 – Tokyo Sexwale, South African businessman and politician, 1st Premier of Gauteng^[28]
• 1954 – Marsha Warfield, American actress
• 1954 – João Lourenço, Angolan president^[29]
• 1955 – Penn Jillette, American magician, actor, and author
• 1956 – Teena Marie, American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2010)
• 1956 – Christopher Snowden, English engineer and academic
• 1957 – Mark E. Smith, English singer, songwriter and musician (d. 2018)
• 1957 – Ray Suarez, American journalist and author
• 1958 – Volodymyr Bezsonov, Ukrainian footballer and manager
• 1958 – Bob Forward, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1958 – Andy Gibb, English-Australian singer-songwriter and actor (d. 1988)
• 1959 – Vazgen Sargsyan, Armenian colonel and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Armenia (d. 1999)
• 1960 – Paul Drayson, Baron Drayson, English businessman and politician, Minister for Defence Equipment, Support and Technology
• 1963 – Joel Osteen, American pastor, author, and television host
• 1964 – Bertrand Cantat, French singer-songwriter
• 1964 – Gerald Vanenburg, Dutch footballer and manager
• 1965 – Steve Linnane, Australian rugby league player^[30]
• 1965 – José Semedo, Portuguese footballer and coach
• 1966 – Oh Eun-sun, South Korean mountaineer
• 1966 – Bob Halkidis, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1966 – Michael Irvin, American football player, sportscaster, and actor
• 1966 – Aasif Mandvi, Indian-American actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1966 – Zachery Stevens, American singer-songwriter
• 1968 – Gordon Bajnai, Hungarian businessman and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Hungary
• 1968 – Theresa Villiers, English lawyer and politician, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
• 1969 – Paul Blackthorne, English actor and producer
• 1969 – Danny King, English author and playwright
• 1969 – Moussa Saïb, Algerian footballer and manager
• 1969 – M.C. Solaar, Senegalese-French rapper
• 1970 – Mike Brown, American basketball player and coach
• 1970 – John Frusciante, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1970 – Yuu Watase, Japanese illustrator
• 1971 – Greg Berry, English footballer and coach
• 1971 – Jeffrey Hammonds, American baseball player and scout
• 1971 – Yuri Lowenthal, American voice actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1971 – Filip Meirhaeghe, Belgian cyclist
• 1971 – Mark Protheroe, Australian rugby league player
• 1973 – Yannis Anastasiou, Greek footballer and manager
• 1973 – Nelly Arcan, Canadian author (d. 2009)
• 1973 – Juan Esnáider, Argentinian footballer and manager
• 1973 – Ryan Franklin, American baseball player
• 1973 – Nicole Pratt, Australian tennis player, coach, and sportscaster
• 1973 – Špela Pretnar, Slovenian skier
• 1974 – Kevin Connolly, American actor and director
• 1974 – Jens Jeremies, German footballer
• 1974 – Matt Lucas, English actor, comedian, writer, and television personality^[31]
• 1974 – Eva Mendes, American model and actress
• 1975 – Luciano Burti, Brazilian race car driver and sportscaster
• 1975 – Sasho Petrovski, Australian footballer
• 1975 – Chris Silverwood, English cricketer and coach
• 1976 – Neil Jackson, English actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1976 – Šarūnas Jasikevičius, Lithuanian basketball player and coach
• 1976 – Paul Konerko, American baseball player
• 1976 – Norm Maxwell, New Zealand rugby player
• 1977 – Taismary Agüero, Cuban-Italian volleyball player
• 1977 – Adam Hayden, Australian rugby league player^[32]
• 1978 – Jared Crouch, Australian footballer
• 1978 – Mike Hessman, American baseball player and coach
• 1978 – Kimberly McCullough, American actress, singer, and dancer
• 1978 – Carlos Ochoa, Mexican footballer
• 1979 – Martin Axenrot, Swedish drummer
• 1979 – Lee Mears, English rugby player
• 1980 – Shay Carl, American businessman, co-founded Maker Studios
• 1981 – Barret Jackman, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1981 – Paul Martin, American ice hockey player
• 1982 – Dan Carter, New Zealand rugby player
• 1982 – Philipp Haastrup, German footballer
• 1983 – Édgar Dueñas, Mexican footballer
• 1984 – Branko Cvetković, Serbian basketball player
• 1984 – Guillaume Hoarau, French footballer
• 1985 – David Marshall, Scottish footballer
• 1985 – Brad Mills, American baseball player
• 1985 – Kenichi Matsuyama, Japanese actor
• 1986 – Alexandre Barthe, French footballer
• 1986 – Matty Fryatt, English footballer
• 1987 – Anna Chakvetadze, Russian tennis player
• 1987 – Chris Cohen, English footballer
• 1988 – Liassine Cadamuro-Bentaïba, Algerian footballer
• 1988 – Jovana Brakočević, Serbian volleyball player^[33]
• 1990 – Danny Drinkwater, English footballer
• 1990 – Mason Plumlee, American basketball player^[34]
• 1990 – Alex Smithies, English footballer
• 1991 – Ramiro Funes Mori, Argentinian footballer
• 1991 – Daniil Trifonov, Russian pianist and composer
• 1993 – El Hadji Ba, French footballer
• 1993 – Joshua Coyne, American violinist and composer
• 1993 – Fred, Brazilian footballer^[35]
• 1993 – Harry Maguire, English footballer
• 1994 – Daria Gavrilova, Russian-Australian tennis player
• 1994 – Kyle Schwarber, American baseball player
• 1996 – Taylor Hill, American model
• 1996 – Emmanuel Mudiay, Congolese basketball player
• 1997 – Milena Venega, Cuban rower^[36]
• 1998 – Bo Bichette, American baseball player
• 2007 – Roman Griffin Davis, British actor^[37]