On This Day — August 5
4032 noted people were born and 1868 died on August 5 in our archive, including Wassily Leontief, Albert Eschenmoser and Ambroise Thomas.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on August 5
Wassily Leontief
1906 – 1999
Albert Eschenmoser
1925 – 2023
Ambroise Thomas
1811 – 1896
Amir Drori
1937 – 2005
Anne-Laure Dalibard
b. 1982
Bato-Zhargal Zhambalnimbuyev
b. 1948
Brian Sandoval
b. 1963
Carl Joseph Anton Mittermaier
1787 – 1867
Darrell Long
b. 1962
David Lordkipanidze
b. 1963
Deanna B. Marcum
1946 – 2022
Ewald Hering
1834 – 1918
France A. Córdova
b. 1947
Frank Strong
1859 – 1934
Gatewood Lincoln
1875 – 1957
Gustave Lanson
1857 – 1934
Guy Quaden
b. 1945
Hans-Peter Uhl
1944 – 2019
Janusz Majewski
1931 – 2024
Joan Beauchamp Procter
1897 – 1931
John Crabtree
b. 1949
Jules Petiet
1813 – 1871
Konstantin Yeryomenko
1970 – 2010
Ludwik Hirszfeld
1884 – 1954
M. A. Muthiah Chettiar
1905 – 1984
Miriam Rothschild
1908 – 2005
Mustafa Topchubashov
1895 – 1981
Nancy Tyson Burbidge
1912 – 1977
Naum Gabo
1890 – 1977
Niels Henrik Abel
1802 – 1829
Oleksandr Savchenko
b. 1957
Paolo Baffi
1911 – 1989
Rensis Likert
1903 – 1981
Richard Gordon
b. 1945
Roly Keating
b. 1961
Rudolf Schmitt
1830 – 1898
Sachin Bansal
b. 1981
Sergio Ramírez
b. 1942
Shirley Ann Jackson
b. 1946
Valdis Dombrovskis
b. 1971
Valeriu Moldovan
1875 – 1954
Virginio Rognoni
1924 – 2022
Wesley Clair Mitchell
1874 – 1948
Ángel Cabrera
b. 1967
Étienne Pariset
1770 – 1847
Abbé Pierre
1912 – 2007
Albrecht Dold
1928 – 2011
Alexander Abaza
1821 – 1895
Alexei Kuzmitsky
b. 1967
Alfredo Capelli
1855 – 1910
Anastase Stolojan
1836 – 1901
Andrew Aagesen
1826 – 1879
Andrey Selivanov
1847 – 1917
Andrii Biletskyi
b. 1979
Angela Cullen
b. 1974
Annabel Teh Gallop
b. 1961
Antony Cotton
b. 1975
Arvo Salminen
1896 – 1967
August R. Lindt
1905 – 2000
Auguste Vinchon
1789 – 1855
Betsy Jolas
b. 1926
Borys Antonenko-Davydovych
1899 – 1984
Brunangelo Falini
b. 1951
Carl Harries
1866 – 1923
Catherine McKenna
b. 1971
Catherine Pégard
b. 1954
Co Verdaas
b. 1966
Daniel Lacalle
b. 1967
David A. Wolfe
b. 1951
David Gill
b. 1957
David Saperstein
b. 1947
Deodoro da Fonseca
1827 – 1892
Doris Debenjak
1936 – 2013
Douglas Carter
1908 – 1988
Drew Johnson
b. 1979
Dzhamaladin Gasanov
b. 1964
Edward John Eyre
1815 – 1901
Emmanuel Chain
b. 1962
Erika Slezak
b. 1946
Ernst von Fleischl-Marxow
1846 – 1891
Felice Casson
b. 1953
Franck Vogel
b. 1977
François Joseph Naderman
1781 – 1835
Gilbert Bukenya
b. 1949
Gillespie V. Montgomery
1920 – 2006
Graham Clive Watts
b. 1956
Greg Feith
b. 1957
Hans Gál
1890 – 1987
Hans-Christoph Rademann
b. 1965
Harold Holt
1908 – 1967
Harold Turbott
1899 – 1988
Hassan Ghafourifard
1943 – 2023
Hayakawa Senkichirō
1863 – 1922
Henri Laugier
1888 – 1973
Henry Masauko Blasius Chipembere
1930 – 1974
Hermann Kobold
1858 – 1942
Hermann Köchly
1815 – 1876
Hiroyuki Yoshikawa
b. 1933
Hisatsune Sakomizu
1902 – 1977
Horace Brooks Marshall, 1st Baron Marshall of Chipstead
1865 – 1936
Inna Bohoslovska
b. 1960
István Stumpf
b. 1957
James Carlisle
b. 1937
James Gunn
b. 1966
James H. Cone
1938 – 2018
James Monroe Taylor
1848 – 1916
Janusz Tazbir
1927 – 2016
Jean Lecomte
1898 – 1979
Jean-François Jarrige
1940 – 2014
Jesper Brochmand
1585 – 1652
Jillian Skinner
b. 1944
Johann Baptist Metz
1928 – 2019
Johann Friedrich Struensee
1737 – 1772
Johann Mulzer
b. 1944
John Blackburne
1754 – 1833
John Huston
1906 – 1987
John Monks
b. 1945
John Randall
b. 1955
Joseph Justus Scaliger
1540 – 1609
José Constantino Nalda García
b. 1939
Juan Jiménez Mayor
b. 1964
Kaare Dybvad Bek
b. 1984
Katō Hiroyuki
1836 – 1916
Kenji Fukunaga
1910 – 1988
Kenneth V. Thimann
1904 – 1997
Klaas Wynne
b. 1964
Konstantinos Tsoukalas
1937 – 2026
Krista Fischer
b. 1970
Krista Kiuru
b. 1974
Larry Elmore
b. 1948
Lars Myraune
b. 1944
Laurynas Gucevičius
1753 – 1798
Leonid Kizim
1941 – 2010
Linda Gregerson
b. 1950
Malin Craig
1875 – 1945
Mariusz Kazana
1960 – 2010
María Muñiz de Urquiza
b. 1962
Matthew W. McFarland
b. 1967
Matvei Zakharov
1898 – 1972
Mercedes Aráoz
b. 1961
Michael F. Doyle
b. 1953
Michal Kováč
1930 – 2016
Mikhail Kuzmin
b. 1955
Neil Armstrong
1930 – 2012
Neil J. Gunther
b. 1950
Nelson W. Fisk
1854 – 1923
Nikolai Kolli
1894 – 1966
Nilakantha Das
1884 – 1967
Nils Eberhard Svedelius
1873 – 1960
Nils Oker-Blom
1919 – 1995
Peter Inge, Baron Inge
1935 – 2022
Piero Sraffa
1898 – 1983
Pierre Malinowski
b. 1987
Pierre Viénot
1897 – 1944
Prem Watsa
b. 1950
Raimon Obiols i Germà
b. 1940
Reid Hoffman
b. 1967
Reynold Ruffins
1930 – 2021
Rhys Carpenter
1889 – 1980
Riccardo Petrella
b. 1941
Richard Henneberg
1853 – 1925
Robustiano Patrón Costas
1878 – 1965
Ron Silliman
b. 1946
Ronald Wallace
1916 – 2008
Roy Folkman
b. 1975
Royal Skousen
b. 1945
Rufus Gifford
b. 1974
Sadie Gray Mays
1900 – 1969
Salvatore D. Morgera
b. 1946
Shigeru Ban
b. 1957
Talgat Bigeldinov
1922 – 2014
Tatjana Gennadevna Nesterenko
b. 1959
Teemu Keskisarja
b. 1971
Thomas Holcomb
1879 – 1965
Tom Healy
b. 1961
Toniann Pitassi
b. 1962
Télesphore Fournier
1823 – 1896
Vasyl Borodai
1917 – 2010
Vladimir Kvachkov
b. 1948
Vladimir Makei
1958 – 2022
Vlastimil Dlab
b. 1932
Wendell Berry
1934 – 2026
Zhou Ren
1892 – 1973
A. G. Sulzberger
b. 1980
Agus Setiawan
b. 1975
Ahn Chang-ho
b. 1957
Aksel Larsen
1897 – 1972
Alan McLeod McCulloch
1907 – 1992
Alexander Jagiellon
1460 – 1506
Alexander Prokopyev
b. 1986
Alexander Spiridovich
1873 – 1952
Alexander William Kinglake
1809 – 1891
Alexis McGill Johnson
b. 1972
Ali Moein Jaber
b. 1961
Alicia Hyndman
b. 1971
Alik Cavaliere
1926 – 1998
Andrea Seastrand
b. 1941
Andrei Pranevich
b. 1983
Anil Akkara
b. 1972
Anthony Edwards
b. 2001
… and 3,832 more
Died on August 5
Charles-Eugène Delaunay
1816 – 1872
Archibald Barr
1855 – 1931
Bart Bok
1906 – 1983
Bernard Stiegler
1952 – 2020
Charles Dickson, Lord Dickson
1850 – 1922
Dmitri Anosov
1936 – 2014
Dmytro Yavornytsky
1855 – 1940
Emil Abderhalden
1877 – 1950
Heinrich Otto Wieland
1877 – 1957
Heinz Krekeler
1906 – 2003
Hieronim Stroynowski
1752 – 1815
Hélène Carrère d'Encausse
1929 – 2023
Jerzy Neyman
1894 – 1981
John Alan Robinson
1930 – 2016
Juan David García Bacca
1901 – 1992
Michael Palairet
1882 – 1956
Solomon Kullback
1907 – 1994
Théodore Olivier
1793 – 1853
Toni Morrison
1931 – 2019
Vatroslav Jagić
1838 – 1923
Wiktor Zygmunt Przedpełski
1891 – 1941
Alan Rabinowitz
1953 – 2018
Ami Harten
1946 – 1994
Ana Luísa Amaral
1956 – 2022
António Mendes Belo
1842 – 1929
Aron Gurevich
1924 – 2006
Barthold Theodoor Willem van Hasselt
1896 – 1960
Bernard Flood Burke
1928 – 2018
Budd Schulberg
1914 – 2009
Béla Jankovich
1865 – 1939
Chester Emmons
1900 – 1985
Clarence M. Kelley
1911 – 1997
Didier Decoin
1945 – 2026
Dimitrios Rallis
1844 – 1921
Dionigi Tettamanzi
1934 – 2017
Dmitry Samokvasov
1843 – 1911
Edgardo Sogno
1915 – 2000
Ernest Fourneau
1872 – 1949
Ernst Gall
1888 – 1958
Erwin Axer
1917 – 2012
Eugen Suchoň
1908 – 1993
Felix Kolmer
1922 – 2022
Ferdinand Ritter von Hebra
1816 – 1880
Frederick North, 2nd Earl of Guilford
1732 – 1792
Frederick William Cumberland
1821 – 1881
Gelia T. Castillo
1928 – 2017
Gertrude Tuckwell
1861 – 1951
Gijsbert Karel van Hogendorp
1762 – 1834
Gopinath Bordoloi
1890 – 1950
Gustave Chancel
1822 – 1890
Hanns Seidel
1901 – 1961
Hans-Jürgen Appelrath
1952 – 2016
Harold J. Greene
1959 – 2014
Homer A. Jack
1916 – 1993
Hughie Edwards
1914 – 1982
Ion Iliescu
1930 – 2025
Iosif Apanasenko
1890 – 1943
Irina Berezhna
1980 – 2017
Ismail Berdiyev
1954 – 2024
Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes
1788 – 1868
James Devereux
1903 – 1988
James Hammond Trumbull
1821 – 1897
Jean Louis Conneau
1880 – 1937
Jean-Jacques Cassiman
1943 – 2022
Jean-Marie Lustiger
1926 – 2007
Jesse Leonard Steinfeld
1927 – 2014
Joan Robinson
1903 – 1983
John Kinard
1936 – 1989
John Verney
1699 – 1741
John Williams Calkin
1909 – 1964
Jordi Sabater Pi
1922 – 2009
Joséphine Boulay
1869 – 1925
Julius Petersen
1839 – 1910
Jędrzej Moraczewski
1870 – 1944
Kita Reikichi
1885 – 1961
Lesley B. Wells
1937 – 2025
Manuel d'Almeida Trindade
1918 – 2008
Maurice Dockrell
1850 – 1929
Michael Freilich
1954 – 2020
Michel Daerden
1949 – 2012
Mihajlo Rostohar
1878 – 1966
Millicent Garrett Fawcett
1847 – 1929
Minnie Lou Bradley
1931 – 2025
Mykola Nechyporuk
1952 – 2025
Márcia Kubitschek
1943 – 2000
Nina Starr Braunwald
1928 – 1992
Octavius Morgan
1803 – 1888
Ole Mørk Sandvik
1875 – 1976
Peter Schowtka
1945 – 2022
Philipp Foltz
1805 – 1877
Ralph W. Cousins
1915 – 2009
Ramón Pérez de Ayala
1880 – 1962
Richard Grosvenor, 1st Earl Grosvenor
1731 – 1802
Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe
1726 – 1799
Richard Trumka
1949 – 2021
Robert Muldoon
1921 – 1992
Roza Tamarkina
1920 – 1950
Samuel Gannett
1862 – 1939
Sergei Namyotkin
1876 – 1950
Sōichirō Honda
1906 – 1991
Virgil R. Miller
1900 – 1968
Vladimiro Zagrebelsky
1940 – 2025
Václav Kopecký
1897 – 1961
Walter Wangerin, Jr.
1944 – 2021
Yevhen Marchuk
1941 – 2021
Yoshiki Sasai
1962 – 2014
Adam Kuckhoff
1887 – 1943
Alan Bates
1945 – 2016
Alexander Asher
1835 – 1905
Alexander Moncrieff, Lord Moncrieff
1870 – 1949
Alphons Egli
1924 – 2016
Ana Hatherly
1929 – 2015
André Wogenscky
1916 – 2004
Anna Haining Bates
1846 – 1888
Anna Yesipova
1851 – 1914
Anthony Leonard Harris
1935 – 2025
Antoine Pesne
1683 – 1757
Antonio González de Balcarce
1774 – 1819
Arnold Frederic Wilkins
1907 – 1985
Arnold Horween
1898 – 1985
Art Ross
1886 – 1964
Arthur Meighen
1874 – 1960
Augustin Bourbonnais
1850 – 1923
Banesh Hoffmann
1906 – 1986
Benjamin F. Register
1930 – 2019
Bian Zhongyun
1916 – 1966
Blanca Rodríguez de Pérez
1926 – 2020
Britt Lindeborg
1928 – 1998
Carl Cotman
Carole Lacampagne
1933 – 2021
Caroline Pauwels
1964 – 2022
Charles Ewing
1780 – 1832
Charles James Blomfield
1786 – 1857
Charlotte Rae
1926 – 2018
Chiang Wei-shui
1891 – 1931
Chick Hearn
1916 – 2002
Clive Caldwell
1910 – 1994
Clive Steele
1892 – 1955
Cornelia C. Cameron
1911 – 1994
Cosmo Gordon, 3rd Duke of Gordon
1720 – 1752
Don P. Moon
1894 – 1944
Dutch Clark
1906 – 1978
Edgar Dawes
1902 – 1973
Edward Towle Brooks
1830 – 1897
Egbert Haverkamp Begemann
1923 – 2017
Eloise Greenfield
1929 – 2021
Emin Khachaturian
1930 – 2000
Ernst Ludwig Alfred Hegar
1830 – 1914
Fernando Primo de Rivera y Orbaneja
1879 – 1921
Florian Pittiș
1943 – 2007
Frances M. Hill
1799 – 1884
Francesco Serao
1702 – 1783
Francis James Jackson
1770 – 1814
Francis Leicester
1674 – 1742
Francisco Coloane
1910 – 2002
František Čelakovský
1799 – 1852
Fred LaCour
1938 – 1972
Frederick Cook
1865 – 1940
Friedrich Jung
1915 – 1997
Félix de Mûelenaere
1793 – 1862
Gaston Jèze
1869 – 1953
George Abbot
1562 – 1633
George Butterworth
1885 – 1916
George Dibbs
1834 – 1904
George Granfelt
1865 – 1917
Graham Thorpe
1969 – 2024
Grete Albrecht
1893 – 1987
Grigoris Giannaros
1936 – 1997
Gunnar Høst
1900 – 1983
Gustav von Wangenheim
1895 – 1975
Halbert Hains Britan
1874 – 1945
Harry Chan
1918 – 1969
Hassan Ayat
1938 – 1981
Hawa Abdi
1947 – 2020
Hazel Johnson-Brown
1927 – 2011
Heinz Sandauer
1911 – 1979
Henry Gollan
1868 – 1949
Henry M. Black
1827 – 1893
Henry Scrope, 3rd Baron Scrope of Masham
1376 – 1415
Herbert Ward
1863 – 1919
Hiram Barber
1835 – 1924
Homer Hulbert
1863 – 1949
Hugh McLeod
1843 – 1879
Issey Miyake
1938 – 2022
Ivan Blatný
1919 – 1990
Ivan Nikishov
1894 – 1958
J. M. Andrews
1871 – 1956
J. Marshall Brown
1924 – 1995
Jack Drummond
1891 – 1952
Jacques Brossard
1933 – 2010
Jacques Laurent Gilly
1769 – 1829
James Augustine Healy
1830 – 1900
James D. Black
1849 – 1938
James Forbes-Robertson
1884 – 1955
James Gibbs
1682 – 1754
James J. Lindsay
1932 – 2023
James M. Masters, Sr.
1911 – 1988
Jean-Baptiste de Santeul
1630 – 1697
Jennie Augusta Brownscombe
1850 – 1936
Jerzy Zagórski
1907 – 1984
… and 1,668 more