Born on August 5
August 5 birthdays & history
If you were born on August 5, you share a birthday with Neil Armstrong, Guy de Maupassant and Marine Le Pen. August 5 babies are Leo, with peridot as their birthstone and the gladiolus as their birth flower. August 5 is the 218th day of the year in leap years (217th in other years).
Famous people born on August 5
- 1930Neil Armstrong, American pilot, engineer, and astronaut, first man to walk on the Moon
- 1850Guy de Maupassant, French short story writer, novelist, and poet
- 1968Marine Le Pen, French lawyer and politician
- 1802Niels Henrik Abel, Norwegian mathematician and theorist
- 1844Ilya Repin, Russian painter and sculptor
- 1681Vitus Bering, Danish-born Russian explorer
- 1974Kajol, Indian film actress
- 1906John Huston, American actor, director, and screenwriter
- 1905Wassily Leontief, German-American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 2004Gavi, Spanish footballer
What happened on August 5
- 25Liu Xiu proclaimed himself the monarch of the Han dynasty as Emperor Guangwu.
- 1100Henry I was crowned King of England in Westminster Abbey.
- 1816The British Admiralty dismisses Francis Ronalds's new invention of the first working electric telegraph as "wholly unnecessary", preferring to continue using the semaphore.
- 1858Cyrus West Field and others complete the first transatlantic telegraph cable after several unsuccessful attempts. It will operate for less than a month.
- 1860Charles XV of Sweden–Norway is crowned king of Norway in Trondheim.
- 1874Japan launches its postal savings system, modeled after a similar system in the United Kingdom.
- 1882Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, today known as ExxonMobil, is established officially. The company would later grow to become the holder of all Standard Oil companies and the entity at the center of the breakup of Standard Oil.
- 1884The cornerstone for the Statue of Liberty is laid on Bedloe's Island (now Liberty Island) in New York Harbor.
- 1888Bertha Benz made the first long-distance automobile trip, driving 106 km (66 mi) from Mannheim to Pforzheim, Germany, in a Benz Patent-Motorwagen.
- 1981U.S. president Ronald Reagan fired the 11,345 striking members of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization en masse.
- 1993Wizards of the Coast released Magic: The Gathering, the first trading card game.
- 2011NASA launched the Juno probe to Jupiter as part of the New Frontiers program.
Also observed on August 5
- Independence Day (Burkina Faso)
- Victory and Homeland Thanksgiving Day and the Day of Croatian defenders (Croatia)
Questions, answered
What star sign is August 5?
People born on August 5 are Leo. Their birthstone is peridot and their birth flower is the gladiolus.
Which famous people were born on August 5?
Neil Armstrong (1930), Guy de Maupassant (1850), Marine Le Pen (1968), Niels Henrik Abel (1802), Ilya Repin (1844), Vitus Bering (1681) were all born on August 5.
What happened on August 5 in history?
Among other things: in 1981, U.S. president Ronald Reagan fired the 11,345 striking members of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization en masse; in 1993, Wizards of the Coast released Magic: The Gathering, the first trading card game; in 2011, NASA launched the Juno probe to Jupiter as part of the New Frontiers program.
Can I get a newspaper front page from August 5?
Yes. The Birthday Gazette makes a personalised vintage-style front page for any August 5 birth year, with their name in the headline, events, famous birthdays and typical US prices. The preview is free and the print files cost $9.
Events, birthdays and observances are adapted from Wikipedia contributors, “August 5”, English Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0 (shortened and filtered). Ranking uses Wikidata (CC0). Sources.