February 5

February 5 is the 36th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 329 days remaining until the end of the year (330 in leap years).

Events

• 62 – Earthquake in Pompeii, Italy.
• 756 – An Lushan, leader of a revolt against the Tang Dynasty. He declares himself emperor and establishes the state of Yan.
• 1576 – Henry of Navarre abjures Catholicism at Tours and rejoins the Protestant forces in the French Wars of Religion.
• 1597 – A group of early Japanese Christians are killed by the new government of Japan for being seen as a threat to Japanese society.
• 1631 – Roger Williams emigrates to Boston.
• 1778 – South Carolina becomes the second state to ratify the Articles of Confederation.
• 1782 – Spanish defeat British forces and capture Minorca.
• 1783 – In Calabria a sequence of strong earthquakes begins.
• 1810 – Peninsular War: Siege of Cádiz begins.
• 1818 – Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte ascends to the thrones of Sweden and Norway.
• 1849 – University of Wisconsin–Madison's first class meets at Madison Female Academy.
• 1852 – The New Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia, one of the largest and oldest museums in the world, opens to the public.
• 1859 – Wallachia and Moldavia are united under Alexandru Ioan Cuza as the United Principalities, an autonomous region within the Ottoman Empire, which ushered the birth of the modern Romanian state.
• 1869 – The largest alluvial gold nugget in history, called the "Welcome Stranger", is found in Moliagul, Victoria, Australia.
• 1885 – King Leopold II of Belgium establishes the Congo as a personal possession.
• 1900 – The United States and the United Kingdom sign a treaty for the Panama Canal.
• 1905 – in Mexico, the General Hospital of Mexico is inaugurated, started with 4 basic specialities.
• 1909 – Belgian chemist Leo Baekeland announces the creation of Bakelite, the world's first synthetic plastic.
• 1913 – Greek military aviators, Michael Moutoussis and Aristeidis Moraitinis perform the first naval air mission in history, with a Farman MF.7 hydroplane.
• 1917 – The current constitution of Mexico is adopted, establishing a federal republic with powers separated into independent executive, legislative, and judicial branches.
• 1917 – The Congress of the United States passes the Immigration Act of 1917 over President Woodrow Wilson's veto. Also known as the Asiatic Barred Zone Act, it forbade immigration from nearly all of south and southeast Asia.
• 1918 – Stephen W. Thompson shoots down a German airplane. It is the first aerial victory by the U.S. military.
• 1918 – SS Tuscania is torpedoed off the coast of Ireland; it is the first ship carrying American troops to Europe to be torpedoed and sunk.
• 1919 – Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D. W. Griffith launch United Artists.
• 1924 – The Royal Greenwich Observatory begins broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal or the "BBC pips".
• 1937 – United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposes a plan to enlarge the Supreme Court of the United States.
• 1939 – Generalísimo Francisco Franco becomes the 68th "Caudillo de España", or Leader of Spain.
• 1941 – World War II: Allied forces begin the Battle of Keren to capture Keren, Eritrea.
• 1945 – World War II: General Douglas MacArthur returns to Manila.
• 1946 – The Chondoist Chongu Party is founded in North Korea.
• 1958 – Gamal Abdel Nasser is nominated to be the first president of the United Arab Republic.
• 1958 – A hydrogen bomb known as the Tybee Bomb is lost by the US Air Force off the coast of Savannah, Georgia, never to be recovered.
• 1962 – French President Charles de Gaulle calls for Algeria to be granted independence.
• 1963 – The European Court of Justice's ruling in Van Gend en Loos v Nederlandse Administratie der Belastingen establishes the principle of direct effect, one of the most important, if not the most important, decisions in the development of European Union law.
• 1971 – Astronauts land on the moon in the Apollo 14 mission.
• 1972 – Bob Douglas becomes the first African American elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame.
• 1975 – Riots break in Lima, Peru after the police forces go on strike the day before. The uprising (locally known as the Limazo) is bloodily suppressed by the military dictatorship.
• 1976 – The 1976 swine flu outbreak begins at Fort Dix, NJ.
• 1985 – Ugo Vetere, then the mayor of Rome, and Chedli Klibi, then the mayor of Carthage meet in Tunis to sign a treaty of friendship officially ending the Third Punic War which lasted 2,131 years.
• 1988 – Manuel Noriega is indicted on drug smuggling and money laundering charges.
• 1994 – Byron De La Beckwith is convicted of the 1963 murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers.
• 1994 – Markale massacres, more than 60 people are killed and some 200 wounded as a mortar shell explodes in a downtown marketplace in Sarajevo.
• 1997 – The so-called Big Three banks in Switzerland announce the creation of a $71 million fund to aid Holocaust survivors and their families.
• 2000 – Russian forces massacre at least 60 civilians in the Novye Aldi suburb of Grozny, Chechnya.
• 2004 – Rebels from the Revolutionary Artibonite Resistance Front capture the city of Gonaïves, starting the 2004 Haiti rebellion.
• 2008 – A major tornado outbreak across the Southern United States kills 57.

Births

• 1505 – Aegidius Tschudi, Swiss historian and author (d. 1572)
• 1519 – René of Châlon, (d. 1544)
• 1534 – Giovanni de' Bardi, Italian soldier, composer, and critic (d. 1612)
• 1589 – Esteban Manuel de Villegas, Spanish poet and educator (d. 1669)
• 1594 – Biagio Marini, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1663)
• 1608 – Gaspar Schott, German mathematician and physicist (d. 1666)
• 1626 – Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné, French author (d. 1696)
• 1650 – Anne Jules de Noailles, French general (d. 1708)
• 1703 – Gilbert Tennent, Irish minister (d. 1764)
• 1723 – John Witherspoon, Scottish-American minister and academic (d. 1794)
• 1725 – James Otis, Jr., American lawyer and politician (d. 1783)
• 1744 – John Jeffries, American physician and surgeon (d. 1819)
• 1748 – Christian Gottlob Neefe, German composer and conductor (d. 1798)
• 1748 – Elias Stein, Dutch chess player (d. 1812)
• 1784 – Nancy Lincoln, American mother of Abraham Lincoln (d. 1818)
• 1788 – Robert Peel, English lieutenant and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1850)
• 1795 – Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger, Austrian mineralogist, geologist, and physicist (d. 1871)
• 1804 – Johan Ludvig Runeberg, Finnish poet and hymn-writer (d. 1877)
• 1808 – Carl Spitzweg, German painter and poet (d. 1885)
• 1827 – Peter Lalor, Irish-Australian activist and politician (d. 1889)
• 1810 – Ole Bull, Norwegian violinist and composer (d. 1880)
• 1824 – Alfonso Capecelatro, Italian cardinal (d. 1912)
• 1837 – Dwight L. Moody, American evangelist and publisher, founded Moody Publishers (d. 1899)
• 1840 – John Boyd Dunlop, Scottish businessman, co-founded Dunlop Rubber (d. 1921)
• 1840 – Hiram Maxim, American-English engineer, invented the Maxim gun (d. 1916)
• 1847 – Eduard Magnus Jakobson, Estonian missionary and engraver (d. 1903)
• 1848 – Joris-Karl Huysmans, French author and critic (d. 1907)
• 1848 – Ignacio Carrera Pinto, Chilean lieutenant (d. 1882)
• 1848 – Belle Starr, American criminal (d. 1889)
• 1852 – Terauchi Masatake, Japanese field marshal and politician, 9th Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1919)
• 1866 – Domhnall Ua Buachalla, Irish politician, 3rd and last Governor-General of the Irish Free State (d. 1963)
• 1876 – Ernie McLea, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1931)
• 1876 – Sailor Young. English cricketer (d. 1964)
• 1878 – André Citroën, French engineer and businessman, founded Citroën (d. 1935)
• 1880 – Gabriel Voisin, French pilot and engineer (d. 1973)
• 1885 – Burton Downing, American cyclist (d. 1929)
• 1889 – Ernest Tyldesley, English cricketer (d. 1962)
• 1897 – Dirk Stikker, Dutch businessman and politician, 3rd Secretary General of NATO (d. 1979)
• 1900 – Adlai Stevenson II, American soldier, politician, and diplomat, 5th United States Ambassador to the United Nations (d. 1965)
• 1903 – Sakari Momoi, Japanese super-centenarian (d. 2015)
• 1903 – Joan Whitney Payson, American businesswoman and philanthropist (d. 1975)
• 1906 – John Carradine, American actor and singer (d. 1988)
• 1907 – Pierre Pflimlin, French politician, Prime Minister of France (d. 2000)
• 1908 – Marie Baron, Dutch swimmer and diver (d. 1948)
• 1908 – Bob Dunn, American trombonist and guitarist (d. 1971)
• 1908 – Daisy and Violet Hilton, English conjoined twins (d. 1969)
• 1909 – Grażyna Bacewicz, Polish violinist and composer (d. 1969)
• 1910 – Charles Philippe Leblond, French-Canadian biologist and academic (d. 2007)
• 1910 – Francisco Varallo, Argentinian footballer (d. 2010)
• 1911 – Jussi Björling, Swedish tenor (d. 1960)
• 1914 – William S. Burroughs, American author and painter (d. 1997)
• 1914 – Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, English physiologist, biophysicist, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998)
• 1915 – Robert Hofstadter, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1990)
• 1917 – Isuzu Yamada, Japanese actress (d. 2012)
• 1918 – V. Dharmalingam, Sri Lankan Tamil politician (d. 1985)
• 1919 – Red Buttons, American actor and singer (d. 2006)
• 1919 – Kenneth Hare, Canadian climatologist and academic (d. 2002)
• 1919 – Tim Holt, American actor and singer (d. 1973)
• 1919 – Andreas Papandreou, Greek economist and politician, Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1996)
• 1920 – Frank Muir, English actor and playwright (d. 1998)
• 1921 – Ken Adam, German-English production designer and art director
• 1921 – John Pritchard, English conductor and director (d. 1989)
• 1922 – Alain de Changy, Belgian race car driver (d. 1994)
• 1923 – Fatmawati, Indonesian wife of Sukarno, 1st First Lady of Indonesia (d. 1980)
• 1923 – Claude King, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2013)
• 1924 – Duraisamy Simon Lourdusamy, Indian cardinal (d. 2014)
• 1926 – Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, American publisher (d. 2012)
• 1927 – Robert Allen, American pianist and composer (d. 2000)
• 1927 – Jacob Veldhuyzen van Zanten, Dutch captain and pilot (d. 1977)
• 1928 – Tage Danielsson, Swedish author, actor, and director (d. 1985)
• 1928 – Andrew Greeley, American priest, sociologist, and author (d. 2013)
• 1928 – P. J. Vatikiotis, Israeli-American historian and political scientist (d. 1997)
• 1929 – Luc Ferrari, French composer (d. 2005)
• 1929 – Fred Sinowatz, Austrian politician, 23rd Chancellor of Austria (d. 2008)
• 1930 – Rostislav Yankovsky, Ukrainian-Russian actor
• 1932 – Cesare Maldini, Italian footballer and manager
• 1933 – Jörn Donner, Finnish director and screenwriter
• 1933 – Norm Grabowski, American actor and hot rod builder (d. 2012)
• 1933 – B.S. Johnson, English author, poet, and critic (d. 1973)
• 1934 – Hank Aaron. American baseball player
• 1934 – Don Cherry, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and sportscaster
• 1935 – Alex Harvey, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1982)
• 1936 – K. S. Nissar Ahmed, Indian poet and academic
• 1936 – Norma Thrower, Australian hurdler
• 1937 – Stuart Damon, American actor and singer
• 1937 – Larry Hillman, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1937 – Gaston Roelants, Belgian runner
• 1937 – Alar Toomre, Estonian-American astronomer and mathematician
• 1937 – Wang Xuan, Chinese computer scientist and academic (d. 2006)
• 1938 – Rafael Nieto Navia, Colombian lawyer, jurist, and diplomat
• 1940 – H. R. Giger, Swiss painter, sculptor, and set designer (d. 2014)
• 1940 – Luke Graham, American wrestler (d. 2006)
• 1940 – Dick Warlock, Canadian actor and stuntman
• 1941 – Jaap Blokker, Dutch businessman (d. 2011)
• 1941 – Stephen J. Cannell. American actor, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2010)
• 1941 – David Selby, American actor and playwright
• 1941 – Vadim Gulyaev, Russian water polo player (d. 1998)
• 1941 – Kaspar Villiger, Swiss engineer and politician, 85th President of the Swiss Confederation
• 1942 – Roger Staubach, American football player and sportscaster
• 1942 – Susan Hill, English author
• 1942 – Cory Wells, American singer (Three Dog Night)
• 1943 – Nolan Bushnell, American businessman, founded Atari, Inc.
• 1943 – Michael Mann, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1944 – Henfil, Brazilian journalist, author, and illustrator (d. 1988)
• 1944 – J. R. Cobb, American guitarist (Classics IV and Atlanta Rhythm Section)
• 1944 – Al Kooper, American singer-songwriter and producer (Blues Project and Blood, Sweat & Tears)
• 1944 – Tamanoumi Masahiro, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 51st Yokozuna (d. 1971)
• 1946 – Amnon Dankner, Israeli journalist and author (d. 2013)
• 1946 – Mauro Pagani, Italian singer-songwriter and violinist (Premiata Forneria Marconi)
• 1946 – Charlotte Rampling, English actress and singer
• 1947 – Regina Duarte, Brazilian actress
• 1947 – Clemente Mastella, Italian politician, Italian Minister of Justice
• 1947 – Darrell Waltrip, American race car driver and sportscaster
• 1948 – Sven-Göran Eriksson, Swedish footballer and manager
• 1948 – Dennis Ferguson, Australian sex offender (d. 2012)
• 1948 – Christopher Guest, American actor and director
• 1948 – Barbara Hershey, American actress
• 1948 – Errol Morris, American director and producer
• 1948 – Tom Wilkinson, English actor and singer
• 1949 – Kurt Beck, German politician
• 1949 – Yvon Vallières, Canadian educator and politician
• 1950 – Catherine Castel, French actress and makeup artist
• 1950 – Marie-Pierre Castel, French actress
• 1950 – Jonathan Freeman, American actor, singer, voice artist, and comedian
• 1950 – Rafael Puente, Mexican footballer, manager and sportscaster
• 1951 – Russell Grant, English astrologer and author
• 1951 – Nikolay Merkushkin, Mordovian engineer and politician, 1st Head of the Republic of Mordovia
• 1951 – Robin Sachs, English-American actor (d. 2013)
• 1951 – Elizabeth Swados, American composer and director (d. 2016)
• 1952 – Daniel Balavoine, French singer-songwriter and producer (d. 1986)
• 1952 – Vladimir Moskovkin, Ukrainian-Russian geographer, economist, and academic
• 1953 – Freddie Aguilar, Filipino folk musician
• 1953 – John Beilein, American basketball player and coach
• 1953 – Gustavo Benítez, Paraguayan footballer and manager
• 1953 – Giannina Braschi, Puerto Rican author and playwright
• 1953 – Takashi Ishikawa, Japanese wrestler
• 1953 – Loretta Tofani, American journalist
• 1954 – Cliff Martinez, American drummer and songwriter
• 1954 – Frank Walker, Australian journalist and author
• 1955 – Mike Heath, American baseball player and manager
• 1955 – Kenji Ohba, Japanese actor
• 1956 – Betty Ong, American flight attendant on American Airlines Flight 11 (d. 2001)
• 1956 – Héctor Rebaque, Mexican race car driver
• 1956 – David Wiesner, American author and illustrator
• 1957 – Jüri Tamm, Estonian hammer thrower and politician
• 1957 – Nick Laird-Clowes, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Dream Academy and Pink Floyd)
• 1959 – Sudip Chatterjee, Indian footballer and manager (d. 2006)
• 1959 – Jennifer Granholm Canadian-American lawyer and politician, 47th Governor of Michigan
• 1959 – Armando Husillos, Argentinian footballer and manager
• 1960 – Aris Christofellis, Greek soprano and musicologist
• 1960 – Bonnie Crombie, Canadian politician, 6th Mayor of Mississauga
• 1961 – Savvas Kofidis, Greek footballer and manager
• 1961 – Tim Meadows, American actor and screenwriter
• 1961 – Hakan Peker, Turkish singer-songwriter and dancer
• 1962 – Jacqui Dankworth, English singer and actress
• 1962 – Jennifer Jason Leigh, American actress, producer, and screenwriter
• 1962 – Martin Nievera, Filipino-American singer-songwriter and actor
• 1963 – Steven Shainberg, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1964 – Laura Linney, American actress, singer, and producer
• 1964 – Duff McKagan, American singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer (Guns N' Roses, Velvet Revolver, Loaded, and Neurotic Outsiders)
• 1964 – Helena Bergström, Swedish actress, director, and screenwriter
• 1964 – Piotr Trzaskalski, Polish director and screenwriter
• 1964 – Alexia Vassiliou, Cypriot singer-songwriter
• 1965 – Tarik Benhabiles, Algerian-French tennis player and coach
• 1965 – Gheorghe Hagi, Romanian footballer and manager
• 1965 – Keith Moseley, American bass player and songwriter (The String Cheese Incident)
• 1966 – Nicklas Kroon, Swedish tennis player
• 1966 – Jonathan Morgan, American porn actor and director
• 1966 – Dean Nalder, Australian footballer and politician
• 1966 – José María Olazábal, Spanish golfer
• 1966 – Rok Petrovič, Slovenian skier (d. 1993)
• 1967 – Chris Parnell, American actor
• 1968 – Roberto Alomar, Puerto Rican baseball player and coach
• 1968 – David R. Flores, Mexican-American jockey
• 1968 – Marcus Grönholm, Finnish race car driver
• 1968 – Eyþór Guðjónsson, Icelandic actor and producer
• 1969 – Bobby Brown, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor (New Edition)
• 1969 – Michael Sheen, Welsh actor and director
• 1970 – Jean-Marc Jaumin, Belgian basketball player and coach
• 1971 – Michel Breistroff, French ice hockey player (d. 1996)
• 1971 – Sara Evans, American singer-songwriter
• 1972 – Kristopher Carter, American composer
• 1972 – Koriki Chōshū, Japanese comedian
• 1972 – Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark
• 1973 – Richard Matvichuk, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1973 – Trijntje Oosterhuis, Dutch singer-songwriter
• 1974 – Juha Tapio, Finnish singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1974 – Jenny Alversjö, Swedish television presenter
• 1975 – Brainpower, Belgian-Dutch rapper
• 1975 – Adam Carson, American drummer (AFI and Tiger Army)
• 1975 – Giovanni van Bronckhorst, Dutch footballer and manager
• 1976 – John Aloisi, Australian footballer and manager
• 1976 – Abhishek Bachchan, Indian actor, singer, and producer
• 1976 – Nancy Feber, Belgian tennis player
• 1976 – Tony Jaa, Thai actor and martial artist
• 1977 – Ben Ainslie, English sailor
• 1977 – Yuko Aoki, Japanese singer and model
• 1977 – Simone Cristicchi, Italian singer-songwriter
• 1977 – Adam Everett, American baseball player and coach
• 1977 – Valery Kobzarenko, Ukrainian cyclist
• 1977 – Ahmad Merritt, American football player
• 1977 – Andrejs Prohorenkovs, Latvian footballer and manager
• 1977 – Elin Topuzakov, Bulgarian footballer and manager
• 1978 – Mohamed Ousserir, Algerian footballer
• 1978 – Samuel Sánchez, Spanish cyclist
• 1979 – Alexander Ryabov, Russian ice hockey player
• 1979 – Ilaria Salvatori, Italian fencer
• 1980 – Stefano Di Fiordo, Italian footballer
• 1980 – Brad Fitzpatrick, American programmer, created LiveJournal
• 1980 – Peter, Hereditary Prince of Yugoslavia
• 1980 – Paul Kirui, Kenyan runner
• 1980 – Tiwa Savage, Nigerian singer-songwriter and actress
• 1981 – Zied Bhairi, Tunisian footballer
• 1981 – Sara Foster, American actress
• 1981 – Mia Hansen-Løve, French director and screenwriter
• 1981 – Jason Kawau, New Zealand rugby player
• 1981 – Wesam Rizik, Qatari footballer
• 1981 – Jason Shoemark, New Zealand rugby player
• 1981 – Loukas Vyntra, Czech-Greek footballer
• 1981 – Nora Zehetner, American actress
• 1981 – Julie Zenatti, French singer and actress
• 1982 – Wheesung, South Korean singer-songwriter and producer
• 1982 – Aidin Nikkhah Bahrami, Iranian basketball player (d. 2007)
• 1982 – Deidra Dionne, Canadian skier
• 1982 – Marc Kennedy, Canadian curler
• 1982 – Yū Kobayashi, Japanese voice actress
• 1982 – Tomáš Kopecký, Slovak ice hockey player
• 1982 – Dionysis Makris, Greek singer
• 1982 – Rodrigo Palacio, Argentinian footballer
• 1982 – Pablo Palacios, Ecuadorian footballer
• 1982 – Jenn Suhr, American pole vaulter
• 1983 – Sanna Askelöf, Swedish martial artist
• 1984 – Carlos Tevez, Argentinian footballer
• 1985 – Paul Duffield, Australian footballer
• 1985 – Constantinos Georgiades, Cypriot footballer
• 1985 – Rudy Haddad, French-Tunisian footballer
• 1985 – Lloyd Johansson, Australian rugby player
• 1985 – Julia Kova, Russian model and singer, Miss Universe Russia 2003
• 1985 – Robert Lijesen, Dutch swimmer
• 1985 – Laurence Maroney, American football player
• 1985 – Cristiano Ronaldo, Portuguese footballer
• 1985 – Tatiana Silva, Belgian model, Miss Belgium 2005
• 1986 – Vedran Ćorluka, Croatian footballer
• 1986 – Manuel Fernandes, Portuguese footballer
• 1986 – Gerardo Flores, Mexican footballer
• 1986 – Sekope Kepu, Australian-New Zealand rugby player
• 1986 – Roger Kluge, German cyclist
• 1986 – Janne Korpi, Finnish snowboarder and harness racer
• 1986 – Kim Min-woo, South Korean ice dancer
• 1986 – Madison Rayne, American wrestler
• 1986 – Takayuki Seto, Japanese footballer
• 1986 – Billy Sharp, English footballer
• 1986 – Reed Sorenson, American race car driver
• 1986 – Jānis Strenga, Latvian bobsledder
• 1986 – Carlos Villanueva, Chilean footballer
• 1987 – Vernus Abbott, Saint Lucian footballer
• 1987 – Darren Criss, American actor and singer
• 1987 – Curtis Jerrells, American basketball player
• 1987 – Alex Kuznetsov, Ukrainian-American tennis player
• 1987 – Linus Omark, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1987 – Donald Sanford, American-Israeli sprinter
• 1988 – Natalie Geisenberger, German luger
• 1988 – Štěpán Kodeda, Czech orienteering competitor (d. 2015)
• 1988 – Philipp Marschall, German skier
• 1988 – Karin Ontiveros, Mexican model and sportscaster
• 1989 – Edoardo Giorgetti, Italian swimmer
• 1989 – Dmytro Khovbosha, Ukrainian footballer
• 1989 – Marina Melnikova, Russian tennis player
• 1989 – Otele Mouangue, Cameroonian footballer
• 1989 – Renée Slegers, Dutch footballer
• 1989 – Jeremy Sumpter, American actor
• 1990 – Dmitry Andreikin, Russian chess player
• 1990 – Lars Krogh Gerson, Luxembourgian-Norwegian footballer
• 1990 – Kim Ji-soo, South Korean singer-songwriter
• 1990 – Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Indian cricketer
• 1990 – Jordan Rhodes, Scottish footballer
• 1991 – Nabil Bahoui, Swedish footballer
• 1991 – Alba Riquelme, Paraguayan model, Miss Paraguay 2011
• 1992 – Nabilla Benattia, French model
• 1992 – Stefan de Vrij, Dutch footballer
• 1992 – Neymar, Brazilian footballer
• 1993 – Aleksandr Ilyin, Russian footballer
• 1994 – Arisa Komiya, Japanese actress and model
• 1994 – Saki Nakajima, Japanese singer (Cute, Guardians 4)
• 1995 – Adnan Januzaj, Belgian-Albanian footballer
• 1995 – Batuhan Karacakaya, Turkish actor
• 1997 – Patrick Roberts, English footballer
• 2001 – Juan Karlos Labajo, Filipino-German singer and actor

Deaths

• 523 – Avitus of Vienne, Latin archbishop and saint (b. 470)
• 806 – Kanmu, Japanese emperor (b. 737)
• 1578 – Giovanni Battista Moroni, Italian painter (b. 1520)
• 1705 – Philipp Spener, German theologian and author (b. 1635)
• 1751 – Henri François d'Aguesseau, French jurist and politician, Chancellor of France (b. 1668)
• 1754 – Nicolaas Kruik, Dutch astronomer and cartographer (b. 1678)
• 1766 – Count Leopold Joseph von Daun, Austrian field marshal (b. 1705)
• 1775 – Eusebius Amort, German theologian and academic (b. 1692)
• 1790 – William Cullen, Scottish physician and chemist (b. 1710)
• 1807 – Pasquale Paoli, Corsican commander and politician (b. 1725)
• 1881 – Thomas Carlyle, Scottish philosopher, historian, and academic (b. 1795)
• 1882 – Adolfo Rivadeneyra, Spanish orientalist and diplomat (b. 1841)
• 1892 – Emilie Flygare-Carlén, Swedish author (b. 1807)
• 1915 – Ross Barnes, American baseball player and manager (b. 1850)
• 1917 – Jaber II Al-Sabah, Kuwaiti ruler (b. 1860)
• 1922 – Christiaan de Wet, South African general and politician, State President of the Orange Free State (b. 1854)
• 1922 – Slavoljub Eduard Penkala, Croatian engineer, invented the Mechanical pencil (b. 1871)
• 1927 – Inayat Khan, Indian mystic and educator (b. 1882)
• 1931 – Athanasios Eftaxias, Greek politician, 118th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1849)
• 1933 – Joseph Roffo, French rugby player and tug of war competitor (b. 1879)
• 1933 – Josiah Thomas, English-Australian miner and politician (b. 1863)
• 1937 – Lou Andreas-Salomé, Russian psychoanalyst and author (b. 1861)
• 1938 – Hans Litten, German lawyer and jurist (b. 1903)
• 1941 – Banjo Paterson, Australian journalist, author, and poet (b. 1864)
• 1941 – Otto Strandman, Estonian lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Estonia (b. 1875)
• 1946 – George Arliss, English actor and playwright (b. 1868)
• 1948 – Johannes Blaskowitz, German general (b. 1883)
• 1952 – Adela Verne, English pianist and composer (b. 1877)
• 1955 – Victor Houteff, Bulgarian religious reformer and author (b. 1885)
• 1957 – Sami Ibrahim Haddad, Lebanese surgeon and author (b. 1890)
• 1962 – Jacques Ibert, French-Swiss composer (b. 1890)
• 1967 – Leon Leonwood Bean, American businessman, founded L.L.Bean (b. 1872)
• 1967 – Violeta Parra, Chilean singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1917)
• 1969 – Thelma Ritter, American actress and singer (b. 1902)
• 1972 – Marianne Moore, American poet, critic, translator, and editor (b. 1887)
• 1976 – Rudy Pompilli, American saxophonist (Bill Haley & His Comets) (b. 1926)
• 1977 – Oskar Klein, Swedish physicist and academic (b. 1894)
• 1981 – Ella T. Grasso, American politician, 83rd Governor of Connecticut (b. 1919)
• 1982 – Neil Aggett, Kenyan-South African physician and union leader (b. 1953)
• 1983 – Margaret Oakley Dayhoff, American chemist and academic (b. 1925)
• 1984 – Santo, Mexican wrestler and actor (b. 1917)
• 1985 – Georges-Émile Lapalme, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1907)
• 1987 – William Collier, Jr., American actor and producer (b. 1902)
• 1989 – Emrys James, Welsh actor (b. 1928)
• 1991 – Dean Jagger, American actor (b. 1903)
• 1992 – Miguel Rolando Covian, Argentinian-Brazilian physiologist and academic (b. 1913)
• 1993 – Seán Flanagan, Irish footballer and politician, 7th Irish Minister for Health (b. 1922)
• 1993 – Marcel Léger, Canadian politician (b. 1930)
• 1993 – Joseph L. Mankiewicz, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1909)
• 1995 – Doug McClure, American actor and singer (b. 1935)
• 1997 – René Huyghe, French historian and author (b. 1906)
• 1998 – Cecil FitzMaurice, 8th Earl of Orkney (b. 1919)
• 1999 – Wassily Leontief, Russian-American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
• 2000 – Claude Autant-Lara, French director and screenwriter (b. 1901)
• 2004 – John Hench, American animator (b. 1908)
• 2005 – Gnassingbé Eyadéma, Togolese general and politician, President of Togo (b. 1937)
• 2005 – Henri Rochon, Canadian tennis player (b. 1912)
• 2005 – Michalina Wisłocka, Polish gynecologist and sexologist (b. 1921)
• 2006 – Franklin Cover, American actor (b. 1928)
• 2007 – Leo T. McCarthy, New Zealand-American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 43rd Lieutenant Governor of California (b. 1930)
• 2007 – Alfred Worm, Austrian journalist, author, and academic (b. 1945)
• 2008 – Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Indian guru, founded Transcendental Meditation (b. 1918)
• 2010 – Brendan Burke, Canadian ice hockey player and activist (b. 1988)
• 2010 – Ian Carmichael, English actor and singer (b. 1920)
• 2010 – Harry Schwarz, South African lawyer, politician, and diplomat, 13th South Africa Ambassador to United States (b. 1924)
• 2011 – Brian Jacques, English author and radio host (b. 1939)
• 2011 – Peggy Rea, American actress (b. 1921)
• 2012 – Sam Coppola, American actor (b. 1932)
• 2012 – Jiang Ying, Chinese opera singer (b. 1919)
• 2012 – Jo Zwaan, Dutch sprinter (b. 1922)
• 2013 – Stuart Freeborn, English make up artist (b. 1914)
• 2013 – Reinaldo Gargano, Uruguayan journalist and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Uruguay (b. 1934)
• 2013 – Egil Hovland, Norwegian composer and conductor (b. 1924)
• 2013 – Tom McGuigan, New Zealand soldier and politician, 23rd New Zealand Minister of Health (b. 1921)
• 2013 – Paul Tanner, American trombonist (Glenn Miller Orchestra) (b. 1917)
• 2014 – Robert A. Dahl, American political scientist and academic (b. 1915)
• 2015 – K. N. Choksy, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician, Minister of Finance of Sri Lanka (b. 1933)

Holidays and observances

• Christian feast day:
  • Agatha of Sicily
  • Roger Williams, Anne Hutchinson (Episcopal Church (USA))
  • Twenty-six Martyrs of Japan (in Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and Anglican Church in Japan)
  • February 5 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Constitution Day (Mexico)
• Crown Princess Mary's birthday (Denmark)
• Kashmir Day (Pakistan)
• Liberation from the Alberoni Occupation (San Marino)
• National Weatherperson's Day (United States)
• Runeberg's Birthday, where Runeberg's tart are made specially for the holiday. (Finland)
• Unity Day (Burundi)

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada