May 5 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on May 5, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♉︎ Taurus
Apr 20 – May 20
Birth stone
Emerald
Birth flower
Lily of the valley
How common
#272 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous May 5 birthdays
Søren Kierkegaard · Danish theologian, philosopher, poet and social critic1813
Karl Marx · German-born philosopher1818
Eugénie de Montijo · Empress consort of the French from 1853 to 18701826
Henryk Sienkiewicz · Polish writer1846
Nellie Bly · American journalist1864
Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell · British Army general and Viceroy of India1883
Tyrone Power · American actor1914
Zail Singh · President of India from 1982 to 19871916
Arthur Leonard Schawlow · American physicist1921
Michael Palin · English actor1943
John Rhys-Davies · Welsh actor1944
Boban Babunski · Macedonian association football player1968
Craig David · British singer1981
Henry Cavill · British actor1983
Adele · English singer-songwriter1988
Chris Brown · American singer and rapper1989
Raúl Jiménez · Mexican association football player1991
Aryna Sabalenka · Belarusian tennis player1998
Justin Kluivert · Dutch association football player1999
Carlos Alcaraz · Spanish tennis player2003
On this day in history
1961Project Mercury: American astronaut Alan Shepard made a sub-orbital spaceflight on board Freedom 7, becoming the second person to travel into outer space.
1992The Twenty-seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified, 202 years after it was first proposed.
1994American teenager Michael P. Fay was caned in Singapore for theft and vandalism, a punishment that the United States deemed to be excessive for a teenager committing a non-violent crime.
2020Philippine broadcast network ABS-CBN was forced to go off-air by the National Telecommunications Commission after Congress failed to renew its franchise granted in 1995.
1864American Civil War: Union Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's Overland Campaign in Virginia began with the inconclusive Battle of the Wilderness in Spotsylvania County.
1891Carnegie Hall (interior pictured) in New York City, built by the philanthropist Andrew Carnegie, officially opened with a concert conducted by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
1904Pitching for the Boston Americans, Cy Young threw the first perfect game in modern professional baseball.
1945World War II: American and German troops fought side-by-side at the Battle for Castle Itter, defending a prison against Waffen-SS forces.
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