August 5 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on August 5, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♌︎ Leo
Jul 23 – Aug 22
Birth stone
Peridot
Birth flower
Gladiolus
How common
#109 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous August 5 birthdays
Ivar Aasen · Norwegian linguist and poet, dubbed the father of Nynorsk1813
Deodoro da Fonseca · President of Brazil1827
Ilya Repin · Russian-empire painter of Ukrainian birth1844
Guy de Maupassant · French writer1850
Conrad Aiken · American novelist and poet1889
John Huston · American film director, screenwriter, and actor1906
Robert Taylor · American actor1911
Neil Armstrong · American astronaut and lunar explorer1930
Loni Anderson · American actress1945
Hun Sen · Prime Minister of Cambodia1952
Patrick Ewing · Jamaican-American basketball player1962
Mark Strong · British actor1963
James Gunn · American screenwriter and filmmaker1966
Marine Le Pen · French politician1968
Valdis Dombrovskis · 11th Prime Minister of Latvia1971
Kajol · Indian film actress1974
Salomon Kalou · Ivorian association football player1985
Daichi Kamada · Japanese association football player1996
Olivia Holt · American actress and singer-songwriter1997
Gavi · Spanish association football player2004
On this day in history
1981U.S. president Ronald Reagan fired the 11,345 striking members of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization en masse.
1993Wizards of the Coast released Magic: The Gathering, the first trading card game.
2008The New England Revolution win the 2008 North American SuperLiga final against the Houston Dynamo.
2011NASA launched the Juno probe to Jupiter as part of the New Frontiers program.
1916First World War: The British Empire's Sinai and Palestine campaign began with a victory at the Battle of Romani.
1957American Bandstand, a show dedicated to the teenage "baby-boomers" by playing the songs and showing popular dances of the time, debuts on the ABC television network.
1963Cold War: The United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union sign the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
1969Police raided a screening of the film Lonesome Cowboys in Atlanta, Georgia, leading to the creation of a Gay Liberation Front in that city.
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