September 5 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on September 5, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♍︎ Virgo
Aug 23 – Sep 22
Birth stone
Sapphire
Birth flower
Aster
How common
#61 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous September 5 birthdays
Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy · Count, Russian poet, novelist and playwright1817
Jesse James · American outlaw, confederate guerrilla, and train robber1847
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan · 2nd President and 1st Vice President of India1888
Darryl F. Zanuck · American film producer1902
Arthur Koestler · Hungarian-British author and journalist1905
Bob Newhart · American stand-up comedian and actor1929
George Lazenby · Australian actor1939
Raquel Welch · American actress1940
Werner Herzog · German film director, producer, screenwriter, actor and opera director1942
Freddie Mercury · British singer, songwriter and musician, frontman of the rock band Queen1946
Michael Keaton · American actor1951
Paul Breitner · German association football player1951
Matthias Sammer · German association football player, coach and executive1967
Leonardo Araújo · Brazilian association football player1969
Rose McGowan · American actress, director and activist1973
Chris Hipkins · Prime Minister of New Zealand from January to November 20231978
Marianna Madia · Italian politician1980
Nuri Şahin · Turkish-German association football player1988
Kat Graham · American actress and singer1989
Bukayo Saka · English footballer2001
On this day in history
1781American Revolutionary War: French naval forces handed Britain a major strategic defeat at the Battle of the Chesapeake.
1905Under the mediation of U.S. president Theodore Roosevelt, the Russo-Japanese War officially ended with the signing of a treaty at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Maine.
1943World War II: American and Australian airborne forces landed at Nadzab as part of the New Guinea campaign against Japan.
1977NASA launched the space probe Voyager 1, currently the farthest spacecraft from Earth, from Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
1960Poet Léopold Sédar Senghor is the first elected President of Senegal.
1968End of the Congress of Carrara, one of the major 20th century anarchist congresses.
1970Vietnam War: Operation Jefferson Glenn begins: The United States 101st Airborne Division and the South Vietnamese 1st Infantry Division initiate a new operation in Thừa Thiên–Huế Province.
2021The President of Guinea, Alpha Condé is captured by armed forces during a coup d'état.
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