Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/August 5
Births
[edit]- 1802 - Niels Henrik Abel, Norwegian mathematician (d. 1829)
- 1850 - Guy de Maupassant, French author (d. 1893)
- 1877 - Tom Thomson, Canadian painter (d. 1917)
- 1906 - John Huston, American director (d. 1987)
- 1908 - Harold Holt, 17th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1967)
- 1923 - Devan Nair, President of Singapore (d. 2005)
- 1930 - Neil Armstrong, (pictured) American astronaut (d. 2012)
- 1946 - Loni Anderson, American actress
- 1962 - Patrick Ewing, American basketball player
- 1980 - Wayne Bridge, English footballer
Deaths
[edit]- 1895 - Friedrich Engels, German philosopher (b. 1820)
- 1911 - Bob Caruthers, baseball player (b. 1864)
- 1962 - Marilyn Monroe, American actress (b. 1926)