April 5 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on April 5, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♈︎ Aries
Mar 21 – Apr 19
Birth stone
Diamond
Birth flower
Daisy
How common
#216 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous April 5 birthdays
Joseph Lister · British surgeon and antiseptic pioneer1827
Algernon Charles Swinburne · English poet, playwright and novelist1837
Booker T. Washington · African-American educator, author, orator, and advisor1856
Spencer Tracy · American actor1900
Melvyn Douglas · American actor1901
Bette Davis · American actress1908
Herbert von Karajan · Austrian conductor1908
Gregory Peck · American actor1916
Robert Bloch · American fiction writer1917
Roger Corman · American film director and producer1926
Ivar Giaever · Norwegian-American physicist1929
Frank Gorshin · American actor and comedian1933
Roman Herzog · former President of the Federal Republic of Germany1934
Colin Powell · American general and diplomat1937
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo · Filipino politician1947
Judith Resnik · American engineer and astronaut1949
Agnetha Fältskog · Swedish singer1950
Akira Toriyama · Japanese manga artist and character designer1955
Pharrell Williams · American record producer and songwriter1973
Hayley Atwell · English and American actress1982
On this day in history
1614Pocahontas, a Native American woman, married English colonist John Rolfe, leading to a period of peace between the Powhatan people and the inhabitants of Jamestown, Virginia.
1974Carrie, the first novel by American author Stephen King, was published.
1998The Akashi Kaikyo Bridge, then the world's longest suspension bridge, linking Awaji Island and Kobe in Japan, opened to traffic.
2002In the first reported data breach, 250,000 social security numbers collected by the State of California were stolen from a data center.
1956Cuban Revolution: Fidel Castro declares himself at war with Cuban President Fulgencio Batista.
1966During the Buddhist Uprising, South Vietnamese military prime minister Nguyễn Cao Kỳ personally attempted to lead the capture of the restive city of Đà Nẵng before backing down.
1979Faculty members, clerical workers, and librarians at Boston University went on strike.
1983In China, the People's Armed Police, primarily responsible for internal security, was founded.
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