March 5 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on March 5, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♓︎ Pisces
Feb 19 – Mar 20
Birth stone
Aquamarine
Birth flower
Daffodil
How common
#245 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous March 5 birthdays
Siegbert Tarrasch · German chess player, chess writer, and chess theoretician1862
Heitor Villa-Lobos · Brazilian composer1887
Zhou Enlai · 1st Premier of the People's Republic of China1898
Rex Harrison · British actor1908
James Tobin · American economist1918
Pier Paolo Pasolini · Italian writer, filmmaker, poet, and intellectual1922
Daniel Kahneman · Israeli-American psychologist and economist1934
Dean Stockwell · American actor1936
Olusegun Obasanjo · Nigerian president and military leader1937
Lynn Margulis · American evolutionary biologist1938
Felipe González · Prime Minister of Spain from 1982 to 19961942
Bernard Arnault · French entrepreneur1949
João Lourenço · President of Angola since 20171954
Gerald Vanenburg · Dutch association football player1964
Aleksandar Vučić · 5th President of the Republic of Serbia1970
John Frusciante · American guitarist1970
Eva Mendes · American actress and model1974
Kensuke Nagai · Japanese association football player1989
Harry Maguire · English association football player1993
Madison Beer · American singer1999
On this day in history
1960Cuban photographer Alberto Korda took his iconic photograph Guerrillero Heroico of Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara.
1978The Landsat 3 is launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
1979Soviet probes Venera 11, Venera 12 and the German-American solar satellite Helios II all are hit by "off the scale" gamma rays leading to the discovery of soft gamma repeaters.
1981The ZX81, a pioneering British home computer, was launched by Sinclair Research, and went on to sell more than 1.5 million units around the world.
1825Roberto Cofresí, one of the last Caribbean pirates, was apprehended after his flagship sloop Anne was captured by authorities.
1906Moro Rebellion: United States Army troops bring overwhelming force against the native Moros in the First Battle of Bud Dajo, leaving only six survivors.
1936The prototype of the Supermarine Spitfire flew for the first time.
1943World War II: The Gloster Meteor, the Allies' only operational jet aircraft, made its maiden flight.
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