June 5
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[change] Births
- 1341 - Edmund of Langley, a younger son of King Edward III of England (d. 1402)
- 1606 - Pierre Corneille, French playwright d. 1684)
- 1718 - Thomas Chippendale, English furniture maker (d. 1779)
- 1723 - Adam Smith, Scottish economist (d. 1790)
- 1757 - Pierre Jean George Cabanis, French physiologist (d. 1808)
- 1771 - King Ernest I of Hanover (d. 1851)
- 1781 - Christian August Lobeck, German classical scholar (d. 1860)
- 1819 - John Couch Adams, English mathematician and astronomer (d. 1892)
- 1850 - Pat Garrett, American Western lawman (d. 1908)
- 1876 - Tony Jackson, American musician (d. 1920)
- 1879 - Robert Mayer, philanthropist (d. 1985)
- 1883 - John Maynard Keynes, English economist (d. 1946)
- 1884 - Ralph Benatzky, composer (d. 1957)
- 1887 - Pancho Villa, Mexican revolutionary (d. 1923)
- 1894 - Roy Thomson, Lord Thomson of Fleet, English publisher(d. 1976)
- 1895 - William Boyd, American actor (d. 1972)
- 1898 - Federico García Lorca, Spanish lyricist and dramatist (d. 1936)
- 1912 - Josef Neckermann, entrepreneur and dressage equestrian (d. 1992)
- 1919 - Richard Scarry, children's author (d. 1994)
- 1925 - Art Donovan, American football star
- 1925 - Boy Gobert, actor (d. 1986)
- 1928 - Robert Lansing, actor (d. 1994)
- 1928 - Tony Richardson, British actor (d. 1991)
- 1931 - Jacques Demy, French playwright
- 1932 - Christy Brown, author (d. 1981)
- 1934 - Bill Moyers, American journalist
- 1938 - Karin Balzer, East German hurdler
- 1939 - Joe Clark, sixteenth Prime Minister of Canada
- 1939 - Margaret Drabble, English novelist
- 1941 - Martha Argerich, Argentine pianist
- 1941 - Spalding Gray, American actor, screenwriter, and monologue artist (d. 2004)
- 1944 - Tommie Smith, American athlete
- 1947 -
- Kevin Schon, American actor
- Laurie Anderson, American performance artist, actress, composer
- 1949 - Ken Follett, Welsh author
- 1954 - Nicko McBrain, English musician (Iron Maiden)
- 1962 - Princess Astrid of Belgium
- 1967 - Joe DeLoach, American athlete
- 1970 - Martin Gelinas, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1971 - Mark Wahlberg ("Marky Mark"), American singer, actor
- 1972 - Mike Bucci (Nova, Simon Dean), American professional wrestler
- 1979 - David Bisbal, Spanish singer
- 1996 - Vivian Anne Munafo
[change] Deaths
- 1900 - Stephen Crane, American author
- 2004 - Ronald Reagan, actor and 40th President of the United States.
[change] Events
- 2002- Elizabeth Smart, a teenager is kidnapped from her home in Utah