January 5 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on January 5, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♑︎ Capricorn
Dec 22 – Jan 19
Birth stone
Garnet
Birth flower
Carnation
How common
#260 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous January 5 birthdays
Rudolf Christoph Eucken · German philosopher1846
Joseph Erlanger · American doctor1874
Konrad Adenauer · German politician, Chancellor of West Germany, Zentrum and CDU1876
Paramahansa Yogananda · Yogi, Kriya Yoga guru and founder of Self-Realization Fellowship1893
Jane Wyman · American actress1917
Friedrich Dürrenmatt · Swiss author and dramatist1921
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto · 4th President and 9th Prime Minister of Pakistan1928
Walter Mondale · Vice President of the United States from 1977 to 19811928
Robert Duvall · American actor and director1931
Umberto Eco · Italian semiotician1932
Juan Carlos I · King of Spain from 1975 to 20141938
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o · Kenyan writer1938
Hayao Miyazaki · Japanese animator, filmmaker, and mangaka1941
Diane Keaton · American actress and film director1946
Frank-Walter Steinmeier · German politician, president of Germany since 20171956
Clancy Brown · American actor1959
Marilyn Manson · American musician1969
Bradley Cooper · American actor and filmmaker1975
January Jones · American actress1978
Deepika Padukone · Indian actress1986
On this day in history
1925Nellie Tayloe Ross was inaugurated as Governor of Wyoming, the first woman to serve as the governor of a U.S. state.
1949In his State of the Union speech, U.S. president Harry S. Truman announced: "Every segment of our population, and every individual, has a right to expect from his government a fair deal."
1991The embassy of the United States to Somalia was evacuated by helicopter airlift days after violence enveloped Mogadishu during the Somali Civil War.
2008Mikheil Saakashvili was decisively re-elected as President of Georgia in "the first genuinely competitive presidential election" in the history of the country.
2005The dwarf planet Eris was discovered by a team using images from the Samuel Oschin telescope at Palomar Observatory.
2007The Taiwan High Speed Rail opened, connecting Taipei and Kaohsiung.
2009In Eng Foong Ho v Attorney-General, the Court of Appeal of Singapore held that equality before the law was satisfied by a "reasonable nexus" between state action and the object of the law.
2022Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev dismisses Prime Minister Asqar Mamin and declares state of emergency over the 2022 Kazakh unrest.
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