Born on March 5
March 5 birthdays & history
If you were born on March 5, you share a birthday with Rosa Luxemburg, Zhou Enlai and Daniel Kahneman. March 5 babies are Pisces, with aquamarine as their birthstone and the daffodil as their birth flower. March 5 is the 65th day of the year in leap years (64th in other years).
Famous people born on March 5
- 1871Rosa Luxemburg, Polish-Russian economist and philosopher
- 1898Zhou Enlai, Chinese politician, 1st Premier of the People's Republic of China
- 1934Daniel Kahneman, Israeli-American economist and psychologist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1974Eva Mendes, American model and actress
- 1512Gerardus Mercator, Flemish mathematician, cartographer, and philosopher
- 1993Harry Maguire, English footballer
- 1949Bernard Arnault, French businessman, philanthropist, and art collector
- 1696Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian painter
- 1862Siegbert Tarrasch, German chess player and theoretician
- 1918James Tobin, American economist and academic
What happened on March 5
- 1836Samuel Colt establishes his first factory to produce the recently patented production-model revolver, the .34-caliber "Paterson".
- 1850The Britannia Bridge across the Menai Strait between the island of Anglesey and the mainland of Wales is opened.
- 1860Parma, Tuscany, Modena and Romagna vote in referendums to join the Kingdom of Sardinia.
- 1868Mefistofele, an opera by Arrigo Boito, receives its premiere performance at La Scala.
- 1872George Westinghouse patents the air brake.
- 1931The British Raj: Gandhi–Irwin Pact is signed.
- 1960Indonesian President Sukarno dismisses the Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat (DPR), 1955 democratically elected parliament, and replaces it with DPR-GR, the parliament of his own selected members.
- 1978The Landsat 3 is launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
- 1979Soviet probes Venera 11, Venera 12 and the German-American solar satellite Helios II all are hit by "off the scale" gamma rays leading to the discovery of soft gamma repeaters.
- 1981The ZX81, a pioneering British home computer, was launched by Sinclair Research, and went on to sell more than 1.5 million units around the world.
- 1982Soviet probe Venera 14 lands on Venus.
- 2023The 2023 Estonian parliamentary election is held, with two centre-right liberal parties gaining an absolute majority for the first time.
Also observed on March 5
- Learn from Lei Feng Day (China)
- St Piran's Day (Cornwall)
Questions, answered
What star sign is March 5?
People born on March 5 are Pisces. Their birthstone is aquamarine and their birth flower is the daffodil.
Which famous people were born on March 5?
Rosa Luxemburg (1871), Zhou Enlai (1898), Daniel Kahneman (1934), Eva Mendes (1974), Gerardus Mercator (1512), Harry Maguire (1993) were all born on March 5.
What happened on March 5 in history?
Among other things: in 1981, The ZX81, a pioneering British home computer, was launched by Sinclair Research, and went on to sell more than 1.5 million units around the world; in 1982, Soviet probe Venera 14 lands on Venus; in 2023, The 2023 Estonian parliamentary election is held, with two centre-right liberal parties gaining an absolute majority for the first time.
Can I get a newspaper front page from March 5?
Yes. The Birthday Gazette makes a personalised vintage-style front page for any March 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, “March 5”, English Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0 (shortened and filtered). Ranking uses Wikidata (CC0). Sources.