June 5 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on June 5, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♊︎ Gemini
May 21 – Jun 20
Birth stone
Pearl
Birth flower
Rose
How common
#147 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous June 5 birthdays
John Couch Adams · English mathematician and astronomer1819
Allvar Gullstrand · Swedish ophthalmologist1862
James Connolly · Irish republican, trade unionist and socialist revolutionary1868
Pancho Villa · Mexican revolutionary1878
John Maynard Keynes · British economist1883
Federico García Lorca · Spanish poet, dramatist and prose writer1898
Dennis Gabor · Nobel Prize-winning physicist and inventor of holography1900
Carlo Biotti · Italian judge1901
Hélène Cixous · French philosopher and writer1937
Martha Argerich · Argentine pianist1941
Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo · Equatoguinean politician, President of Equatorial Guinea since 19791942
Laurie Anderson · American artist and musician1947
Ken Follett · British novelist1949
Kenny G · American saxophonist1956
Jeff Garlin · American comedian and actor1962
Rick Riordan · American author1964
Michael E. Brown · American planetary astronomer1965
Mark Wahlberg · American actor1971
Troye Sivan · Australian singer-songwriter and actor1995
Yulia Lipnitskaya · Russian figure skater1998
On this day in history
1989An anonymous demonstrator, later dubbed "Tank Man", single-handedly stopped a column of Chinese tanks during the Tiananmen Square protests before being dragged aside.
1997Anticipating a coup attempt, President Pascal Lissouba of the Republic of the Congo ordered the detention of his rival Denis Sassou Nguesso, initiating a second civil war.
2001Tropical Storm Allison, the costliest Atlantic tropical cyclone that was never a hurricane, made landfall in Texas, causing approximately $8.5 billion in damage.
2004Noël Mamère, the mayor of Bègles, conducted a marriage ceremony for two men, even though same-sex marriage in France had not yet been legalised.
1947Cold War: Marshall Plan: In a speech at Harvard University, the United States Secretary of State George Marshall calls for economic aid to war-torn Europe.
1963The arrest of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini for publicly denouncing Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi sparked protests in Iran.
1967Following Israel's initiation of Operation Focus with the goal to neutralise the Egyptian Air Force, Syrian Air Force, and the Royal Jordanian Air Force, the Six-Day War begins.
1981The first clinical cases of AIDS were published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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