Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/August 5

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[edit] Births

• 1802 - Niels Henrik Abel, Norwegian mathematician (d. 1829)
• 1850 - Guy de Maupassant, French author (d. 1893)
• 1877 - Tom Thomson, Canadian painter (d. 1917)
• 1906 - John Huston, American director (d. 1987)
• 1908 - Harold Holt, 17th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1967)
• 1923 - Devan Nair, President of Singapore
• 1930 - Neil Armstrong, (pictured) astronaut
• 1946 - Loni Anderson, American actress
• 1962 - Patrick Ewing, American basketball player
• 1980 - Wayne Bridge, English footballer

[edit] Deaths

• 1895 - Friedrich Engels, German philosopher (b. 1820)
• 1911 - Bob Caruthers, baseball player (b. 1864)
• 1962 - Marilyn Monroe, American actress (b. 1926)

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