On This Day — April 5
4297 noted people were born and 2049 died on April 5 in our archive, including Eben Upton, Frank Gaffney and Gad al-Haq.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on April 5
Eben Upton
b. 1978
Frank Gaffney
b. 1953
Gad al-Haq
1917 – 1996
Alain Pompidou
1942 – 2024
Ali Tayebnia
b. 1960
Anastas Ishirkov
1868 – 1937
Andrzej Schinzel
1937 – 2021
Andy Harter
b. 1961
Arnold Heeney
1902 – 1970
Bernhard Danckelmann
1831 – 1901
Colin Powell
1937 – 2021
Daniel Schneidermann
b. 1958
Dean Brown
b. 1943
Der-Tsai Lee
b. 1949
Donald Lynden-Bell
1935 – 2018
Franz Eckert
1852 – 1916
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
1886 – 1957
Félix Dujardin
1801 – 1860
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
b. 1947
Hattie Alexander
1901 – 1968
Hiroyuki Hosoda
1944 – 2023
Hryhoriy Nemyria
b. 1960
I. A. Benediktov
1902 – 1983
Ivar Giæver
1929 – 2025
Jack Edmonds
b. 1934
Janet Rowley
1925 – 2013
Jean-Gabriel Ganascia
b. 1955
John Carey
1934 – 2025
Joseph Lister
1827 – 1912
Marcin Krupa
b. 1976
Maryan Street
b. 1955
Matthias Jacob Schleiden
1804 – 1881
Nedim Gürsel
b. 1951
Nima Arkani-Hamed
b. 1972
Noriko Miyagawa
1979 – 2019
Rochelle P. Walensky
b. 1969
Roel Kuiper
b. 1962
Roman Herzog
1934 – 2017
Samuel Cate Prescott
1872 – 1962
Sara Danius
1962 – 2019
Sergey Chaplygin
1869 – 1942
Sigmund Exner
1846 – 1926
Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baronet
1810 – 1895
Stanisław Grabski
1871 – 1949
Walter E. Massey
b. 1938
Yoshiko Shiotani
b. 1939
Abul Kashem Khan
1905 – 1991
Aleksey Sorokin
b. 1972
Aleksy Ćwiakowski
1895 – 1953
Aloysio Nunes
b. 1945
Amir H. Hoveyda
b. 1959
Ana Luísa Amaral
1956 – 2022
Andrey Troshev
b. 1962
Anthony Tyson
b. 1940
Arisaka Nariakira
1852 – 1915
Arthur Kennedy
1809 – 1883
Axel von Fersen the Elder
1719 – 1794
Barbara Romanowicz
b. 1950
Barend Biesheuvel
1920 – 2001
Bette Davis
1908 – 1989
Booker T. Washington
1856 – 1915
Boris Shchukin
1894 – 1939
Brad Anderson
b. 1964
Béla Zsedényi
1894 – 1955
Carme Artigas
b. 1968
Caterina Mieras i Barceló
b. 1947
Chatchai Chunhawan
1920 – 1998
Christian Lorenzi
b. 1968
Dale R. Corson
1914 – 2012
David Sherrill
b. 1970
Deborah Harkness
b. 1965
Diamond Dallas Page
b. 1956
Dieter Oesterlen
1911 – 1994
Elihu Yale
1649 – 1721
Elizabeth Steiner Hayward
b. 1963
Eric Chan
b. 1959
Florian Ștefănescu-Goangă
1881 – 1958
Franklin Chang-Díaz
b. 1950
Friedhelm Eicker
1927 – 2022
Garnie W. McGinty
1900 – 1984
Gary Gait
b. 1967
Georg Apenes
1940 – 2016
Georg Faber
1877 – 1966
George Forbes
1849 – 1936
Georgy Vitsin
1917 – 2001
Giulio Battistini
1912 – 2004
Greg Mathis
b. 1960
H. C. Schwan
1819 – 1905
Hanna Arkhipova
b. 1939
Henry St. George Tucker III
1853 – 1932
Herbert von Karajan
1908 – 1989
Horst Kessler
b. 1940
Igor Babushkin
b. 1970
Igor Makarov
b. 1962
Igor Smirnov
1951 – 2004
Irmgard Schwaetzer
b. 1942
Ismael Tocornal
1850 – 1929
Jaan Ross
1957 – 2026
Johan Ludvig Nathansen
1870 – 1922
John Goodall
b. 1970
John Pope Hennessy
1834 – 1891
Josif Pančić
1814 – 1888
Juan Pablo Paz
b. 1959
Judith Resnik
1949 – 1986
Jules Cambon
1845 – 1935
Jules Ferry
1832 – 1893
Julio Ángel Fernández
b. 1946
János Martonyi
b. 1944
Katherine Harris
b. 1957
Kazim Ali
b. 1971
Kent Gudmundsen
b. 1978
Kirsan Ilyumzhinov
b. 1962
Klaus Weber
1936 – 2016
Lawrence Dale Bell
1894 – 1956
Leonardo Bianchi
1848 – 1927
Leonid Drachevsky
b. 1942
Lisa Mispley Fortier
b. 1981
Louis Purnell
1920 – 2001
Mark Strolenberg
b. 1979
Martin Eichtinger
b. 1961
Martin Hellwig
b. 1949
Marty Golubitsky
b. 1945
Mary Elizabeth Bass
1876 – 1956
Menachem Mendel Schneerson
1902 – 1994
Michael A. Keller
b. 1945
Mikhail Diterikhs
1874 – 1937
Moses Ali
1939 – 2026
Nellie Neilson
1873 – 1947
Notis Marias
b. 1957
Ofer Lahav
b. 1959
Pascal Couchepin
b. 1942
Paula Cole
b. 1968
Pavel A. Pevzner
b. 1956
Paweł Woźny
b. 1971
Pedro Rosselló
b. 1944
Percy Royds
1874 – 1955
Peter Overton
b. 1966
Philip C.J. Donoghue
b. 1971
Pierre Le Roy de Boiseaumarié
1890 – 1967
Piotr Ostaszewski
b. 1964
Qobul Berdiyev
b. 1955
Randeep Guleria
b. 1959
Reinhold Bocklet
1943 – 2025
Reinhold Seeberg
1859 – 1935
Robert K. Ritner
1953 – 2021
Roger Corman
1926 – 2024
Romke de Jong
b. 1984
Sanji Mutō
1867 – 1934
Sanya Dharmasakti
1907 – 2002
Sarah Dobbe
b. 1979
Serhiy Tatusyak
b. 1955
Siegfried Knemeyer
1909 – 1979
Soia Mentschikoff
1915 – 1984
Stephen Bloomer Balch
1747 – 1833
Subbayya Sivasankaranarayana Pillai
1901 – 1950
Søren Absalon Larsen
1871 – 1957
Thierry Repentin
b. 1963
Thomas Potter
1774 – 1845
Tristan Garcia
b. 1981
Tumwesigye Elioda
b. 1964
Vicente Pastinha
1889 – 1981
Vincenz Fohmann
1794 – 1837
Vincenzo Viviani
1622 – 1703
Vlastimil Rada
1895 – 1962
Wilhelm Olssøn
1844 – 1915
William Copeland Borlase
1848 – 1899
Wolfgang Bauer
b. 1959
Zhang Boling
1876 – 1951
Éric Bellot des Minières
b. 1964
Abedin Dino
1838 – 1906
Abraham Phineas Grant
1804 – 1871
Adnan Terzić
b. 1960
Adrienne Lecouvreur
1692 – 1730
Afzal Khan
b. 1958
Agaath Witteman
1942 – 2026
Agnes Devanadera
b. 1950
Agustí Montal Costa
1934 – 2017
Albert Guérisse
1911 – 1989
Albert Roussel
1869 – 1937
Aldridge Bousfield
1941 – 2020
Alex Davies-Jones
b. 1989
Alexander Muir
1830 – 1906
Alexander Warburton
1852 – 1929
Alexander of Battenberg
1857 – 1893
Alfred Newman
1834 – 1898
Alison Levine
b. 1966
Alpheus Hyatt
1838 – 1902
Ana Ristović
b. 1972
Andrea Arnold
b. 1961
Andreu Rabasa i Negre
1931 – 2022
Andrew McIntosh
b. 1955
Andrijana Cvetkovik
b. 1981
Anna Sophia Berglund
b. 1986
Anthony Horowitz
b. 1955
Antoine-François Peyre
1739 – 1823
Antonio Ferri
1912 – 1975
Antônio Augusto de Lima
1859 – 1934
Aram Mp3
b. 1984
Ariel Rios
1954 – 1982
Arnold Jackson
1891 – 1972
… and 4,097 more
Died on April 5
Hjalmar Mellin
1854 – 1933
Margaret Burbidge
1919 – 2020
Ahmad Fathi Sorour
1932 – 2024
Angelo Messedaglia
1820 – 1901
Baruch Samuel Blumberg
1925 – 2011
Bingu wa Mutharika
1934 – 2012
Charles Woeste
1837 – 1922
Claude Delvincourt
1888 – 1954
Douglas Maclagan
1812 – 1900
George Hay Brown
1910 – 1999
Giuseppe Attardi
1923 – 2008
Gustav Ränk
1902 – 1998
Heberto Castillo
1928 – 1997
Hermann Joseph Muller
1890 – 1967
Janusz Ziółkowski
1924 – 2000
John Tilley
1869 – 1952
Joseph Bertrand
1822 – 1900
Michel Parisse
1936 – 2020
Neil MacCormick
1941 – 2009
Saul Bellow
1915 – 2005
Sidney Altman
1939 – 2022
Sydney Brenner
1927 – 2019
Thomas Plumer
1753 – 1824
Tibor Szele
1918 – 1955
Victor Marijnen
1917 – 1975
Vitaly Sevastyanov
1935 – 2010
Walter Beaupré Townley
1863 – 1945
Wilder Penfield
1891 – 1976
Zori Balayan
1935 – 2026
Zyta Gilowska
1949 – 2016
A. Y. Jackson
1882 – 1974
Aklilu Lemma
1934 – 1997
Alain de Boissieu
1914 – 2006
Alla Tarasova
1898 – 1973
Allen Ginsberg
1926 – 1997
Archibald Macallum
1858 – 1934
Arthur Cyrille Albert Malouin
1857 – 1936
Arthur Lapworth
1872 – 1941
Arthur T. Ippen
1907 – 1974
August Pott
1802 – 1887
Camille Desmoulins
1760 – 1794
Cecil Clementi
1875 – 1947
Cecil Taylor
1929 – 2018
Charlton Heston
1923 – 2008
Cheng Chi'en
1882 – 1968
Chiang Kai-shek
1887 – 1975
Di McCarthy
Douglas MacArthur
1880 – 1964
Eduard Grüneisen
1877 – 1949
Edward Abbott
1841 – 1908
Emil Młynarski
1870 – 1935
Emmanuele Fergola
1830 – 1915
Erich Zeigner
1886 – 1949
François Souchon
1787 – 1857
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
1633 – 1695
Giuseppe Tucci
1894 – 1984
Graham Wilson
1895 – 1987
Hans Ernst August Buchner
1850 – 1902
Harriet Margaret Louisa Bolus
1877 – 1970
Harry Pröpper
1906 – 1995
Helen Ranney
1920 – 2010
Henri Marion
1846 – 1896
Henry Sherwood Lawrence
1916 – 2004
Herbert Hervey, 5th Marquess of Bristol
1870 – 1960
Hubert Leitgeb
1835 – 1888
Isao Takahata
1935 – 2018
Ivan Martos
1754 – 1835
James Lloyd
1769 – 1831
Jerzy Bordziłowski
1900 – 1983
Jim Marshall
1923 – 2012
Johannes Evangelist Haller
1825 – 1900
John Davis Pierce
1797 – 1882
John J. Douglass
1873 – 1939
John Laws
1945 – 2020
José Cubiles
1894 – 1971
José Santiago Rodríguez Zorrilla
1752 – 1832
Jōji Hayashi
1889 – 1960
Keisuke Serizawa
1895 – 1984
Khalid Naciri
1946 – 2023
Konstantinos Papadakis
1946 – 2009
Laurent Marqueste
1848 – 1920
Lawrence Kermit White
1912 – 2006
Levering Smith
1910 – 1993
Liguri Mosulishvili
1933 – 2010
Linda Eastman
1867 – 1963
Louis Miles Muggleton
1922 – 2015
Mahammed Dionne
1959 – 2024
Mahmoud Jibril
1952 – 2020
Makoto Ōoka
1931 – 2017
Maksim Kovalevsky
1851 – 1916
Marcelijus Martinaitis
1936 – 2013
Marshall Sahlins
1930 – 2021
María Soledad Mestre
1948 – 2012
Milton Bennion
1870 – 1953
Nigel Gresley
1876 – 1941
Nikolai Kovalyov
1949 – 2019
Osman Nuri Pasha
1832 – 1900
Paolo Savi
1798 – 1871
Paul Vidal de La Blache
1845 – 1918
Percy Clive
1873 – 1918
Peter Llewelyn Davies
1897 – 1960
Peter Sodann
1936 – 2024
Peter Tapsell
1930 – 2012
Philip K. Chapman
1935 – 2021
Pierre Guillaume Frédéric Le Play
1806 – 1882
Ralph Austin Bard
1884 – 1975
Ralph Landau
1916 – 2004
Richard Crossman
1907 – 1974
Ronnie Earle
1942 – 2020
Ruth Thompson
1887 – 1970
Samuel Galloway
1811 – 1872
Seymour Lubetzky
1898 – 2003
Sonny Carter
1947 – 1991
Tatsuji Miyoshi
1900 – 1964
Victor Hensen
1835 – 1924
Wilhelm Lübke
1826 – 1893
William Brouncker, 2nd Viscount Brouncker
1620 – 1684
William Derham
1657 – 1735
William Sidney, 1st Viscount De L'Isle
1909 – 1991
Yuri Zavadsky
1894 – 1977
Abe Fortas
1910 – 1982
Abijah Bigelow
1775 – 1860
Achille Locatelli
1856 – 1935
Adam Loftus
1533 – 1605
Alagappa Chettiar
1909 – 1957
Alexis-Marie de Rochon
1741 – 1817
Alice Standish Allen
1907 – 2002
Allison White
1816 – 1886
Alois Kolb
1875 – 1942
Alonso Lobo
1555 – 1617
Anatoly Ignashchenko
1930 – 2011
Ange-Félix Patassé
1937 – 2011
Attila Hazai
1967 – 2012
August Heckscher II
1913 – 1997
Avigdor Yitzhaki
1949 – 2025
Baptiste Bonnet
1844 – 1925
Basil Morris
1888 – 1975
Bengt Sundkler
1909 – 1995
Benjamin Bell
1749 – 1806
Bernhard Robert August Borggreve
1836 – 1914
Bjarni Tryggvason
1945 – 2022
Bobby Mitchell
1935 – 2020
Boris Brott
1944 – 2022
Caleb V. Haynes
1895 – 1966
Carlos Prío Socarrás
1903 – 1977
Charis Ursula Frankenburg
1892 – 1985
Charles Collett
1871 – 1952
Charles Erskine, Lord Tinwald
1680 – 1763
Charles Freer Andrews
1871 – 1940
Charles XI of Sweden
1655 – 1697
Chauncey Depew
1834 – 1928
Christian Pineau
1904 – 1995
Claude Basire
1764 – 1794
Cuthbert Burnup
1875 – 1960
Cyrus Peirce
1790 – 1860
Daki Jordanov
1893 – 1978
David A. Siegel
1935 – 2025
David Boswell Reid
1805 – 1863
David Gove
1978 – 2017
David Kilgour
1941 – 2022
David Taylor
1818 – 1891
Dezső Kolossváry
1854 – 1919
Domenico Bartolini
1880 – 1960
Donald N. Levine
1931 – 2015
Duško Gojković
1931 – 2023
Eduardo Jiménez de Aréchaga
1918 – 1994
Edward Owen
1728 – 1807
Edward Roper Curzon Clarkson
1852 – 1931
Edwin Leather
1919 – 2005
Eizzaldin al-Manasrah
1946 – 2021
Ellen Craswell
1932 – 2008
Encarna Sánchez
1935 – 1996
Eric Bristow
1957 – 2018
Erik Sandewall
1945 – 2024
Fabre d'Églantine
1750 – 1794
Felix Thomas
1815 – 1875
Ferdinand Alexander Porsche
1935 – 2012
Ferdinand Joachimsthal
1818 – 1861
Ferdinand de Meeûs
1798 – 1861
Francis Aidan Gasquet
1846 – 1929
Franciszek Kleeberg
1888 – 1941
Frank Hoffman
1904 – 1996
François Caron
1600 – 1673
Friedrich Harms
1819 – 1880
Friedrich Wilhelm Weber
1813 – 1894
Fujiro Katsurada
1867 – 1946
Furukawa Ichibei
1832 – 1903
Gaetano Coronaro
1852 – 1908
Gene Mullin
1937 – 2021
Gene Pitney
1940 – 2006
Georg Gölter
1938 – 2025
George Eckel Duckworth
1903 – 1972
George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon
1866 – 1923
George Holroyd, 2nd Earl of Sheffield
1802 – 1876
George I. Sánchez
1906 – 1972
George W. Maynard
1843 – 1923
Giuliano Dami
1683 – 1750
Giulio Einaudi
1912 – 1999
Giuseppe Pisanelli
1812 – 1879
Graciela Giannettasio
1950 – 2022
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