March 5

March 5 is the 64th day of the year (65th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 301 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

• 363 – Roman Emperor Julian moves from Antioch with an army of 90,000 to attack the Sassanid Empire, in a campaign which would bring about his own death.
• 1046 – Naser Khosrow begins the seven-year Middle Eastern journey which he will later describe in his book Safarnama.
• 1279 – The Livonian Order is defeated in the Battle of Aizkraukle by the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
• 1496 – King Henry VII of England issues letters patent to John Cabot and his sons, authorising them to explore unknown lands.
• 1616 – Nicolaus Copernicus's book De revolutionibus orbium coelestium is banned by the Catholic Church
• 1766 – Antonio de Ulloa, the first Spanish governor of Louisiana, arrives in New Orleans.
• 1770 – Boston Massacre: Five Americans, including Crispus Attucks, are fatally shot by British troops in an event that would contribute to the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War (also known as the American War of Independence) five years later.
• 1811 – Peninsular War: A French force under the command of Marshal Victor is routed while trying to prevent an Anglo-Spanish-Portuguese army from lifting the Siege of Cádiz in the Battle of Barrosa.
• 1824 – First Anglo-Burmese War: The British officially declare war on Burma.
• 1836 – Samuel Colt patents the first production-model revolver, the .34-caliber.
• 1850 – The Britannia Bridge across the Menai Strait between the island of Anglesey and the mainland of Wales is opened.
• 1860 – Parma, Tuscany, Modena and Romagna vote in referendums to join the Kingdom of Sardinia.
• 1868 – Mefistofele, an opera by Arrigo Boito receives its première performance at La Scala.
• 1872 – George Westinghouse patents the air brake.
• 1906 – Moro Rebellion: United States Army troops bring overwhelming force against the native Moros in the First Battle of Bud Dajo, leaving only six survivors.
• 1912 – Italo-Turkish War: Italian forces are the first to use airships for military purposes, employing them for reconnaissance behind Turkish lines.
• 1931 – The British Viceroy of India, Governor-General Edward Frederick Lindley Wood and Mohandas Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi) sign an agreement envisaging the release of political prisoners and allowing salt to be freely used by the poorest members of the population.
• 1933 – Great Depression: President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares a "bank holiday", closing all U.S. banks and freezing all financial transactions.
• 1933 – Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party receives 43.9% at the Reichstag elections. This later allows the Nazis to pass the Enabling Act and establish a dictatorship.
• 1936 – First flight of Supermarine Spitfire advanced monoplane fighter aircraft in the United Kingdom.
• 1940 – Six high-ranking members of Soviet politburo, including General Secretary Joseph Stalin, sign an order for the execution of 25,700 Polish intelligentsia, including 14,700 Polish POWs, in what will become known as the Katyn massacre.
• 1943 – First flight of Gloster Meteor jet aircraft in the United Kingdom.
• 1944 – World War II: The Red Army begins the Uman–Botoșani Offensive in the western Ukrainian SSR.
• 1946 – Winston Churchill coins the phrase "Iron Curtain" in his speech at Westminster College, Missouri.
• 1946 – Hungarian Communists and Social Democrats co-found the Left Bloc.
• 1960 – Cuban photographer Alberto Korda takes his iconic photograph of Marxist revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara.
• 1965 – March Intifada: A Leftist uprising erupts in Bahrain against British colonial presence.
• 1966 – BOAC Flight 911 crashes on Mount Fuji, Japan, killing 124.
• 1970 – The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty goes into effect after ratification by 43 nations.
• 1974 – Yom Kippur War: Israeli forces withdraw from the west bank of the Suez Canal.
• 1975 – First meeting of the Homebrew Computer Club
• 1978 – The Landsat 3 is launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
• 1979 – Soviet 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.
• 1979 – America's Voyager 1 spacecraft has its closest approach to Jupiter, 172,000 miles.
• 1981 – The ZX81, a pioneering British home computer, is launched by Sinclair Research and would go on to sell over 1.5 million units around the world.
• 1982 – Soviet probe Venera 14 landed on Venus.
• 1984 – Six thousand miners in the United Kingdom begin their strike at Cortonwood Colliery.
• 1998 – 1998 Winter Paralympics, the first Winter Paralympics to be held outside Europe, takes place in Nagano, Japan.
• 2003 – In Haifa, 17 Israeli civilians are killed by in the Haifa bus 37 suicide bombing.
• 2012 – Invisible Children launches the Stop Kony campaign with the release of Kony 2012.
• 2012 – At least two people are killed and six injured after a shooting in a hair salon in Bucharest, Romania.
• 2013 – First winter ascent of Broad Peak by Maciej Berbeka, Adam Bielecki, Artur Małek and Tomasz Kowalski.

Births

• 1133 – Henry II of England (d. 1189)
• 1324 – David II of Scotland (d. 1371)
• 1326 – Louis I of Hungary (d. 1382)
• 1340 – Cansignorio della Scala Lord of Verona (d. 1375)
• 1512 – Gerardus Mercator, Flemish mathematician, cartographer, and philosopher (d. 1594)
• 1523 – Rodrigo de Castro Osorio, Cardinal-Bishop of Zamora (d. 1600)
• 1527 – Ulrich, Duke of Mecklenburg (d. 1603)
• 1563 – John Coke, English politician (d. 1644)
• 1574 – Frederick IV, Elector Palatine (d. 1610)
• 1575 – William Oughtred, English minister and mathematician (d. 1660)
• 1585 – John George I, Elector of Saxony (d. 1656)
• 1585 – Frederick I, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg (d. 1638)
• 1637 – Jan van der Heyden, Dutch painter, draughtsman, printmaker and inventor (d. 1712)
• 1658 – Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac, French explorer and politician, 3rd Colonial Governor of Louisiana (d. 1730)
• 1693 – Johann Jakob Wettstein, Swiss theologian and scholar (d. 1754)
• 1696 – Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian painter (d. 1770)
• 1703 – Vasily Trediakovsky, Russian poet and playwright (d. 1768)
• 1713 – Edward Cornwallis, English general and politician, Governor of Gibraltar (d. 1776)
• 1713 – Frederick Cornwallis, English archbishop (d. 1783)
• 1716 – Nicolò Pacassi, Italian-Austrian architect (d. 1790)
• 1723 – Princess Mary of Great Britain (d. 1773)
• 1733 – Vincenzo Galeotti, Italian-born Danish dancer, choreographer and ballet master (d. 1816)
• 1739 – Benjamin Ruggles Woodbridge, American colonel and physician (d. 1819)
• 1748 – Jonas Carlsson Dryander, Swedish botanist and biologist (d. 1810)
• 1748 – William Shield, English violinist and composer (d. 1829)
• 1750 – Jean-Baptiste Gaspard d'Ansse de Villoison, French scholar and academic (d. 1805)
• 1751 – Jan Křtitel Kuchař, Czech organist, composer, and educator (d. 1829)
• 1774 – Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse, Danish composer (d. 1842)
• 1779 – Benjamin Gompertz, British self-educated mathematician and actuary (d. 1865)
• 1785 – Carlo Odescalchi, Italian prince and archbishop of Ferrara (d. 1841)
• 1794 – Jacques Babinet, French physicist, mathematician, and astronomer (d. 1872)
• 1794 – Robert Cooper Grier, American lawyer and jurist (d. 1870)
• 1814 – Wilhelm von Giesebrecht, German historian and academic (d. 1889)
• 1800 – Georg Friedrich Daumer, German poet and philosopher (d. 1875)
• 1815 – John Wentworth, American journalist and politician, 19th Mayor of Chicago (d. 1888)
• 1817 – Austen Henry Layard, English archaeologist, academic, and politician, Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (d. 1894)
• 1817 – Angelo Genocchi, Italian mathematician (d. 1889)
• 1827 – Duke William of Mecklenburg-Schwerin(d. 1879)
• 1830 – Étienne-Jules Marey, French scientist, physiologist and chronophotographer (d. 1904)
• 1830 – Charles Wyville Thomson, Scottish natural historian and marine zoologist (d. 1882)
• 1834 – Félix de Blochausen, Luxembourgish politician (d. 1915)
• 1834 – Marietta Piccolomini, Italian soprano (d. 1899)
• 1836 – Charles Goodnight, American rancher and soldier (d. 1929)
• 1853 – Howard Pyle, American author and illustrator (d. 1911)
• 1855 – Archduchess Sophie of Austria(d. 1857)
• 1862 – Siegbert Tarrasch, German chess player (d. 1934)
• 1867 – Louis-Alexandre Taschereau, Canadian lawyer and politician, 14th Premier of Quebec (d. 1952)
• 1869 – Michael von Faulhaber, German cardinal (d. 1952)
• 1870 – Frank Norris, American journalist and author (d. 1902)
• 1870 – Evgeny Paton, Ukrainian and Soviet engineer (d. 1953)
• 1871 – Rosa Luxemburg, Polish-Russian economist and philosopher (d. 1919)
• 1871 – Konstantinos Pallis, Greek general (d. 1941)
• 1873 – Olav Bjaaland, Norwegian skier and explorer (d. 1961)
• 1874 – Henry Travers, English-American actor (d. 1965)
• 1876 – Thomas Inskip, 1st Viscount Caldecote (d. 1947)
• 1879 – William Beveridge, Bangladeshi-English economist and academic (d. 1963)
• 1879 – Andres Larka, Estonian general and politician, 1st Estonian Minister of War (d. 1943)
• 1880 – Sergei Natanovich Bernstein, Russian and Soviet mathematician (d. 1968)
• 1882 – Dora Marsden, English author and activist (d. 1960)
• 1883 – Marius Barbeau, Canadian ethnographer and academic (d. 1969)
• 1883 – Pietro Bianchi, Italian gymnast (d. 1965)
• 1886 – Dong Biwu, Chinese judge and politician, Chairman of the People's Republic of China (d. 1975)
• 1886 – Freddie Welsh, Welsh lightweight boxing champion (d. 1927)
• 1887 – Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazilian guitarist and composer (d. 1959)
• 1894 – Henry Daniell, English actor (d. 1963)
• 1897 – Set Persson, Swedish politician (d. 1960)
• 1897 – Gunta Stölzl, German textile artist (d. 1983)
• 1898 – Zhou Enlai, Chinese politician, 1st Premier of the People's Republic of China (d. 1976)
• 1898 – Soong May-ling, Chinese wife of Chiang Kai-shek, 2nd First Lady of China (d. 2003)
• 1898 – Misao Okawa, Japanese super-centenarian (d. 2015)
• 1901 – Louis Kahn, American architect and academic (d. 1974)
• 1901 – Friedrich Günther, Prince of Schwarzburg (d. 1971)
• 1901 – Julian Przyboś, Polish poet, essayist and translator (d. 1970)
• 1904 – Karl Rahner, German priest and theologian (d. 1984)
• 1905 – William Anstruther-Gray, Baron Kilmany, Scottish soldier and politician (d. 1985)
• 1905 – László Benedek, Hungarian film director (d. 1992)
• 1908 – Irving Fiske, American author and playwright (d. 1990)
• 1908 – Rex Harrison, English-American actor and singer (d. 1990)
• 1908 – Fritz Fischer, German historian (d. 1999)
• 1908 – Ludwig Goldbrunner, German footballer and football manager (d. 1981)
• 1909 – Josef Bergmaier, German footballer (d. 1943)
• 1910 – Momofuku Ando, Taiwanese-Japanese businessman, founded Nissin Foods (d. 2007)
• 1910 – Ennio Flaiano, Italian screenwriter and journalist (d. 1972)
• 1911 – Bruno Heim, the Vatican's first Apostolic Nuncio to Britain (d. 2003)
• 1913 – Gangubai Hangal, Indian singer (d. 2009)
• 1914 – Philip Farkas, American horn player (d. 1992)
• 1914 – Ursula Reit, German actress (d. 1998)
• 1915 – Henry Hicks, Canadian academic and politician; 16th Premier of Nova Scotia (d. 1990)
• 1915 – Laurent Schwartz, French mathematician and academic (d. 2002)
• 1916 – Jack Hamm, American illustrator (d. 1996)
• 1918 – Tadahiko Hayashi, Japanese photographer (d. 1990)
• 1918 – Milt Schmidt, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager
• 1918 – Red Storey, Canadian football player, referee, and sportscaster (d. 2006)
• 1918 – James Tobin, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2002)
• 1919 – Myron H. Bright, American captain and judge
• 1920 – José Aboulker, Algerian surgeon and activist (d. 2009)
• 1920 – Virginia Christine, American actress (d. 1996)
• 1920 – Leontine T. Kelly, American bishop (d. 2012)
• 1921 – Elmer Valo, American baseball player and coach (d. 1998)
• 1922 – James Noble, American actor and producer
• 1922 – Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1975)
• 1923 – Juan A. Rivero, Puerto Rican biologist and academic, founded Dr. Juan A. Rivero Zoo (d. 2014)
• 1923 – Laurence Tisch, American businessman, co-founded the Loews Corporation (d. 2003)
• 1923 – Andrea Aureli, Italian actor
• 1924 – Roger Marche, French footballer (d. 1997)
• 1927 – Jack Cassidy, American actor and singer (d. 1976)
• 1927 – Robert Lindsay, 29th Earl of Crawford, Scottish hereditary peer and Conservative politician
• 1928 – J. Hillis Miller, American academic and critic
• 1928 – Harry Birrell, American news reporter (d. 2013)
• 1929 – Erik Carlsson, Swedish race car driver (d. 2015)
• 1929 – J. B. Lenoir, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1967)
• 1929 – Takao Saito, Japanese cinematographer (d. 2014)
• 1930 – John Ashley, Canadian ice hockey player and referee (d. 2008)
• 1930 – Del Crandall, American baseball player and manager
• 1930 – David Garth, American political advertising consultant (d. 2014)
• 1931 – Fred, French author and illustrator (d. 2013)
• 1931 – Anthony Hedges, English composer and academic
• 1931 – Jean-Paul Roussillon, French actor (d. 2009)
• 1931 – Barry Tuckwell, Australian horn player and educator
• 1932 – Gertan Klauber, Czech-English actor (d. 2008)
• 1933 – Tommy Tucker, American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1982)
• 1933 – Walter Kasper, German Roman Catholic Cardinal and theologian
• 1934 – Daniel Kahneman, Israeli- American economist and psychologist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1934 – Halit Refiğ, Turkish director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2009)
• 1934 – James Sikking, American actor
• 1935 – Philip K. Chapman, Australian-American astronaut and engineer
• 1935 – Paul Sand, American actor
• 1935 – Letizia Battaglia, Italian photographer and photojournalist
• 1936 – Canaan Banana, Zimbabwean minister and politician, 1st President of Zimbabwe (d. 2003)
• 1936 – Dean Stockwell, American actor and singer
• 1937 – Olusegun Obasanjo, Nigerian general and politician, 5th President of Nigeria
• 1937 – Sal Borgese, Italian actor
• 1938 – Paul Evans, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1938 – Lynn Margulis, American biologist and academic (d. 2011)
• 1938 – Fred Williamson, American football player, actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1939 – Samantha Eggar, English actress and singer
• 1939 – Benyamin Sueb, Indonesian comedian, actor, and singer (d. 1995)
• 1939 – Peter Woodcock, Canadian murderer (d. 2010)
• 1939 – Pierre Wynants, Belgian chef
• 1940 – Tom Butler, English bishop
• 1940 – Graham McRae, New Zealand racing driver
• 1940 – Sepp Piontek, German footballer and manager
• 1941 – Des Wilson, New Zealand-English businessman and activist
• 1941 – Alain Boublil, Tunisian musical theatre lyricist and librettist
• 1942 – Felipe González, Spanish lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Spain
• 1942 – Mike Resnick, American author
• 1943 – Billy Backus, American boxer
• 1943 – Lucio Battisti, Italian singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1998)
• 1944 – Peter Brandes, Danish painter and sculptor
• 1944 – Roy Gutman, American journalist and author
• 1946 – Richard Bell, Canadian pianist (Full Tilt Boogie Band, The Band, Crowbar, and Blackie and the Rodeo Kings) (d. 2007)
• 1946 – Mem Fox, Australian author and academic
• 1946 – Murray Head, English actor and singer
• 1946 – Lova Moor, French singer and dancer
• 1946 – Michael Warren, American basketball player and actor
• 1946 – Guerrino Boatto, Italian illustrator and painter
• 1946 – Graham Hawkins, English former football player and manager
• 1947 – Eddie Hodges, American actor and singer
• 1947 – Clodagh Rodgers, Northern Irish singer and actress
• 1947 – Tom Russell, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1947 – Kent Tekulve, American baseball player and sportscaster
• 1948 – Paquirri, Spanish bullfighter (d. 1984)
• 1948 – Eddy Grant, Guyanese-English singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Equals)
• 1948 – Richard Hickox, English conductor and scholar (d. 2008)
• 1948 – Elaine Paige, English singer and actress
• 1948 – A. Rafiq, Indonesian singer and actor (d. 2013)
• 1948 – Robert Bauval, Belgian author and Ancient Egypt researcher
• 1948 – Jan van Beveren, Dutch footballer
• 1949 – Leszek Błażyński, Polish boxer (d. 1992)
• 1949 – Franz Josef Jung, German lawyer and politician, German Federal Minister of Defence
• 1949 – Bernard Arnault, French business magnate and art collector
• 1951 – Lat, Malaysian cartoonist
• 1952 – Alan Clark, English keyboard player (Dire Straits)
• 1952 – Mike Squires, American baseball player and scout
• 1952 – Petar Borota, Serbian footballer (d. 2010)
• 1953 – Michael Sandel, American philosopher and educator
• 1953 – Tokyo Sexwale, South African businessman and politician, 1st Premier of Gauteng
• 1953 – Katarina Frostenson, Swedish poet and writer
• 1953 – Richard Sanderson, English singer
• 1954 – Barry Lee Fairchild, American murderer (d. 1995)
• 1954 – Steve Prestwich, Australian drummer, musician and songwriter (Cold Chisel, Little River Band)
• 1954 – Jack Stamp, American conductor and composer
• 1954 – Marsha Warfield, American actress
• 1955 – Julien Dray, French politician
• 1955 – Penn Jillette, American magician, actor, and author
• 1956 – Adriana Barraza, Mexican actress and director
• 1956 – Teena Marie, American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2010)
• 1956 – Marco Paolini, Italian actor and author
• 1956 – Christopher Snowden, English engineer and academic
• 1956 – Donato Oliverio, Italian Bishop of the Eparchy of Lungro
• 1957 – Mark E. Smith, English singer-songwriter (The Fall and Von Südenfed)
• 1957 – Ray Suarez, American journalist and author
• 1958 – Andy Gibb, English-Australian singer (d. 1988)
• 1958 – Volodymyr Bezsonov, Ukrainian football manager and former footballer
• 1959 – Mike Byster, American mathematician and academic
• 1959 – David Fury, American screenwriter and producer
• 1959 – Tsukasa Hojo, Japanese illustrator
• 1959 – Vazgen Sargsyan, Armenian colonel and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Armenia (d. 1999)
• 1960 – Paul Drayson, Baron Drayson, English businessman and politician, Minister for Defence Equipment, Support and Technology
• 1960 – David Tibet, English singer-songwriter (Current 93 and Death in June)
• 1960 – Nick Launay, English record producer, composer and recording engineer
• 1962 – Jonathan Penner, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1962 – Charlie Reid, Scottish singer-songwriter (The Proclaimers)
• 1962 – Craig Reid, Scottish singer-songwriter (The Proclaimers)
• 1962 – Rosemarie Ford, English dancer, actress and television presenter
• 1963 – Joel Osteen, American pastor, author, and television host
• 1964 – Bertrand Cantat, French singer-songwriter (Noir Désir)
• 1964 – Gerald Vanenburg, Dutch footballer
• 1965 – José Semedo, Portuguese footballer
• 1965 – Johnny Ekström, Swedish footballer
• 1966 – Mark Z. Danielewski, American author
• 1966 – Oh Eun-sun, South-Korean mountaineer
• 1966 – Bob Halkidis, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1966 – Michael Irvin, American football player, sportscaster, and actor
• 1966 – Aasif Mandvi, Indian-American actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1966 – Gus Caesar, English footballer
• 1968 – Gordon Bajnai, Hungarian businessman and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Hungary
• 1968 – Theresa Villiers, English lawyer and politician, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
• 1969 – Paul Blackthorne, English actor
• 1969 – Danny King, English author and playwright
• 1969 – Moussa Saïb, Algerian footballer and manager
• 1969 – MC Solaar, Senegalese-French rapper
• 1969 – Rio Natsuki, Japanese voice actress
• 1970 – Rome, American singer
• 1970 – Mike Brown, American basketball player and coach
• 1970 – John Frusciante, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Red Hot Chili Peppers, Swahili Blonde, and Ataxia)
• 1970 – Yuu Watase, Japanese manga artist
• 1971 – Greg Berry, English footballer and coach
• 1971 – Jeffrey Hammonds, American baseball player and scout
• 1971 – Yuri Lowenthal, American voice actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1971 – Filip Meirhaeghe, Belgian cyclist
• 1971 – Scott Mosier, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1972 – Brian Grant, American basketball player
• 1972 – Luca Turilli, Italian guitarist and songwriter (Rhapsody of Fire, and Luca Turilli's Rhapsody, and Luca Turilli's Dreamquest)
• 1972 – James Moran, British screenwriter
• 1973 – Yannis Anastasiou, Greek footballer and manager
• 1973 – Nelly Arcan, Canadian author (d. 2009)
• 1973 – Ryan Franklin, American baseball player
• 1973 – Nicole Pratt, Australian tennis player and coach
• 1973 – Juan Esnáider, Argentine football manager and former footballer
• 1974 – Larbi Benboudaoud, French judoka
• 1974 – Kevin Connolly, American actor and director
• 1974 – Jens Jeremies, German footballer
• 1974 – Matt Lucas, English comedian, actor, singer, and screenwriter
• 1974 – Eva Mendes, American actress and singer
• 1974 – Jill Ritchie, American actress
• 1975 – Jolene Blalock, American actress
• 1975 – Luciano Burti, Brazilian race car driver
• 1975 – Sergei Ivanov, Russian cyclist
• 1975 – Sasho Petrovski, Australian footballer
• 1975 – Niki Taylor, American model
• 1976 – Neil Jackson, English actor and writer
• 1976 – Šarūnas Jasikevičius, Lithuanian basketball player and coach
• 1976 – Paul Konerko, American baseball player
• 1976 – Chiwoniso Maraire, Zimbabwean singer-songwriter (d. 2013)
• 1976 – Tim Sylvia, American mixed martial artist and wrestler
• 1977 – Taismary Agüero, Cuban-born Italian volleyball player
• 1977 – Bryan Berard, American ice hockey player
• 1977 – Raphael Bove, Australian footballer
• 1977 – Mike MacDougal, American baseball player
• 1977 – Wally Szczerbiak, American basketball player and sportscaster
• 1978 – Jared Crouch, Australian footballer
• 1978 – Mike Hessman, American baseball player
• 1978 – Kimberly McCullough, American actress, singer, and dancer
• 1978 – Carlos Ochoa, Mexican footballer
• 1979 – Martin Axenrot, Swedish musician
• 1979 – Tang Gonghong, Chinese weightlifter
• 1979 – Lee Mears, English rugby union player
• 1980 – Shay Carl, American businessman, co-founded Maker Studios
• 1980 – Andrea Bari, Italian volleyball player
• 1980 – Jessica Boehrs, German singer and actress
• 1980 – Sabrina Buchholz, German biathlete
• 1980 – Renan Luce, French singer and songwriter
• 1981 – Hanna Alström, Swedish actress
• 1981 – Barret Jackman, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1981 – Paul Martin, American ice hockey player
• 1981 – Shugo Oshinari, Japanese actor
• 1981 – Andreas Wiig, Norwegian snowboarder
• 1982 – Daniel Carter, New Zealand rugby player
• 1982 – Giorgia Palmas, Italian model and television host
• 1982 – Du Li, Chinese sport shooter
• 1983 – Édgar Dueñas, Mexican footballer
• 1983 – Mickaël Antoine-Curier, French-born Guadeloupean footballer
• 1983 – Nik Xhelilaj, Albanian Film & Stage Actor
• 1984 – Aarthi Agarwal, American actress (d. 2015)
• 1984 – Ryan Crowley, Australian footballer
• 1984 – Branko Cvetković, Serbian basketball player
• 1984 – Guillaume Hoarau, French footballer
• 1985 – David Marshall, Scottish footballer
• 1985 – Kenichi Matsuyama, Japanese actor
• 1985 – Brad Mills, American baseball player
• 1986 – Matty Fryatt, English footballer
• 1986 – Kimberlee Green, Australian netball player
• 1986 – Carlos Quintero, Colombian cyclist
• 1986 – Ellen Whitaker, English horse rider
• 1986 – Alexandre Barthe, French footballer
• 1986 – Dominique McElligott, Irish actress
• 1987 – Anna Chakvetadze, Russian tennis player
• 1987 – Lua Blanco, Brazilian actress, singer, songwriter and model
• 1987 – Chris Cohen, English footballer
• 1987 – Ishmael Miller, English footballer
• 1988 – Trevor Carson, Irish footballer
• 1988 – Bjarni Viðarsson, Icelandic footballer
• 1988 – Jovana Brakočević, Serbian volleyball player
• 1988 – Liassine Cadamuro-Bentaïba, Algerian footballer
• 1988 – Illya Kvasha, Ukrainian diver
• 1989 – Sterling Knight, American actor and singer
• 1989 – Jake Lloyd, American actor
• 1989 – Jonathan Cristaldo, Argentine footballer
• 1990 – İlham Tanui Özbilen, Kenyan-Turkish runner
• 1990 – Alex Smithies, English footballer
• 1990 – Danny Drinkwater, English footballer
• 1991 – Daniil Trifonov, Russian pianist and composer
• 1991 – Ramiro Funes Mori, Argentine footballer
• 1993 – El-Hadji Ba, French footballer
• 1993 – Joshua Coyne, American violinist and composer
• 1993 – Alexa Dectis, American singer and actress
• 1993 – Artur Pikk, Estonian footballer
• 1993 – Bregje Heinen, Dutch model
• 1993 – Harry Maguire, English footballer
• 1994 – Daria Gavrilova, Russian tennis player
• 1994 – Sajjad Mashayekhi, Iranian basketball player
• 1994 – Aislinn Paul, Canadian actress
• 1995 – Jun Shison, Japanese actor
• 1998 – Vladislav Artemiev, Russian chess player
• 1999 – Madison Beer, American singer and actress

Deaths

• 254 – Pope Lucius I (b. 200)
• 1239 – Hermann Balk, German knight
• 1534 – Antonio da Correggio, Italian painter (b. 1489)
• 1539 – Nuno da Cunha, Portuguese admiral and politician, Governor of Portuguese India (b. 1487)
• 1611 – Shimazu Yoshihisa, Japanese daimyo (b. 1533)
• 1622 – Ranuccio I Farnese, Duke of Parma (b. 1569)
• 1695 – Henry Wharton, English librarian and author (b. 1664)
• 1726 – Evelyn Pierrepont, 1st Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull, English politician, Lord President of the Council (b. 1655)
• 1731 – Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulsi, Syrian scholar and author (b. 1641)
• 1770 – Crispus Attucks, American slave (b. 1723)
• 1776 – Yeongjo of Joseon (b. 1694)
• 1778 – Thomas Arne, English composer and educator (b. 1710)
• 1815 – Franz Mesmer, German physician and astrologist (b. 1734)
• 1827 – Pierre-Simon Laplace, French mathematician and astronomer (b. 1749)
• 1827 – Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist and academic (b. 1745)
• 1829 – John Adams, English sailor (b. 1766)
• 1849 – David Scott, Scottish painter (b. 1806)
• 1876 – Marie d'Agoult, German-French historian and author (b. 1805)
• 1893 – Hippolyte Taine, French historian and critic (b. 1828)
• 1895 – Nikolai Leskov, Russian author, playwright, and journalist (b. 1831)
• 1895 – Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baronet, English general and scholar (b. 1810)
• 1903 – George Francis Robert Henderson, English colonel and author (b. 1854)
• 1904 – John Lowther du Plat Taylor, English colonel (b. 1829)
• 1907 – Friedrich Blass, German philologist, scholar, and academic (b. 1843)
• 1923 – Dora Pejačević, Croatian composer (b. 1885)
• 1925 – Johan Jensen, Danish mathematician and engineer (b. 1859)
• 1926 – Clément Ader, French engineer, designed the Ader Avion III (b. 1841)
• 1927 – Franz Mertens, Polish-Austrian mathematician and academic (b. 1840)
• 1928 – Lidia Quaranta, Italian actress (b. 1891)
• 1929 – David Dunbar Buick, Scottish-American businessman, founded Buick (b. 1854)
• 1931 – Arthur Tooth, English priest (b. 1839)
• 1934 – Reşit Galip, Turkish academic and politician, 6th Turkish Minister of National Education (b. 1893)
• 1935 – Roque Ruaño, Spanish priest and engineer (b. 1877)
• 1940 – Cai Yuanpei, Chinese philosopher and academic (b. 1868)
• 1944 – Max Jacob, French poet and author (b. 1876)
• 1945 – Lena Baker, American murderer (b. 1901)
• 1947 – Alfredo Casella, Italian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1883)
• 1950 – Edgar Lee Masters American poet, author, and playwright (b. 1868)
• 1950 – Roman Shukhevych, Ukrainian general and politician (b. 1907)
• 1953 – Herman J. Mankiewicz, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1897)
• 1953 – Sergei Prokofiev, Russian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1891)
• 1953 – Joseph Stalin, Russian marshal and politician, 3rd leader of the Soviet Union (b. 1878)
• 1955 – Antanas Merkys, Lithuanian lawyer and politician, 14th Prime Minister of Lithuania (b. 1888)
• 1962 – Libero Liberati, Italian motorcycle racer (b. 1926)
• 1963 – Patsy Cline, American singer-songwriter (b. 1932)
• 1963 – Cowboy Copas, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1913)
• 1963 – Hawkshaw Hawkins, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1921)
• 1965 – Chen Cheng, Chinese general and politician, 27th Premier of the Republic of China (b. 1897)
• 1965 – Pepper Martin, American baseball player and manager (b. 1904)
• 1966 – Anna Akhmatova, Ukrainian-Russian poet, author, and translator (b. 1889)
• 1967 – Mohammad Mosaddegh, Iranian political scientist and politician, 60th Prime Minister of Iran (b. 1882)
• 1967 – Georges Vanier, Canadian general and politician, 19th Governor General of Canada (b. 1888)
• 1971 – Allan Nevins, American journalist and author (b. 1890)
• 1973 – Michael Jeffery, English talent manager (b. 1933)
• 1973 – Robert C. O'Brien, American journalist and author (b. 1918)
• 1974 – John Samuel Bourque, Canadian colonel and politician (b. 1894)
• 1974 – Billy De Wolfe, American actor (b. 1907)
• 1974 – Sol Hurok, Ukrainian-American businessman (b. 1888)
• 1976 – Otto Tief, Estonian lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Estonia (b. 1889)
• 1977 – Tom Pryce, Welsh race car driver (b. 1949)
• 1980 – Jay Silverheels, Canadian-American actor (b. 1912)
• 1980 – Winifred Wagner, English-German wife of Siegfried Wagner (b. 1897)
• 1981 – Yip Harburg, American songwriter and composer (b. 1896)
• 1981 – Vidrik Rootare, Estonian chess player (b. 1906)
• 1982 – John Belushi, American actor, singer, and screenwriter (The Blues Brothers) (b. 1949)
• 1984 – Pierre Cochereau, French organist and composer (b. 1924)
• 1984 – Tito Gobbi, Italian actor and singer (b. 1915)
• 1984 – William Powell, American actor and singer (b. 1892)
• 1988 – Alberto Olmedo, Argentinian comedian and actor (b. 1933)
• 1990 – Gary Merrill, American actor and director (b. 1915)
• 1993 – Cyril Collard, French author, actor, and director (b. 1957)
• 1995 – Gregg Hansford, Australian motorcycle racer (b. 1952)
• 1995 – Vivian Stanshall, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band and Grimms) (b. 1943)
• 1996 – Whit Bissell, American actor (b. 1909)
• 1997 – Samm Sinclair Baker, American author (b. 1909)
• 1997 – Jean Dréville, French director and screenwriter (b. 1906)
• 1999 – Richard Kiley, American actor and singer (b. 1922)
• 2000 – Rena Dor, Greek actress and singer (b. 1917)
• 2000 – Lolo Ferrari, French porn actress and singer (b. 1962)
• 2004 – Walt Gorney, Polish-American actor (b. 1912)
• 2006 – Richard Kuklinski, American murderer (b. 1935)
• 2007 – Ivan Supek, Croatian physicist, philosopher and writer; President of the Croatian Academy of Arts and Sciences (1991-1997) (b. 1915)
• 2008 – Joseph Weizenbaum, German computer scientist and author (b. 1923)
• 2011 – Manolis Rasoulis, Greek singer-songwriter (b. 1945)
• 2012 – Paul Haines, New Zealand-Australian author (b. 1970)
• 2012 – William Heirens, American serial killer (b. 1928)
• 2012 – Philip Madoc, Welsh-English actor (b. 1934)
• 2012 – Robert B. Sherman, American songwriter and screenwriter (b. 1925)
• 2012 – William O. Wooldridge, American sergeant (b. 1922)
• 2013 – Rajasulochana, Indian actress and dancer (b. 1935)
• 2013 – Paul Bearer, American wrestler and manager (b. 1954)
• 2013 – Hugo Chávez, Venezuelan colonel and politician, President of Venezuela (b. 1954)
• 2013 – Duane Gish, American biochemist and academic (b. 1921)
• 2013 – Gorō Naya, Japanese voice actor and director (b. 1929)
• 2014 – Geoff Edwards, American actor and game show host (b. 1931)
• 2014 – David Garth; American political advertising consultant (b. 1930)
• 2014 – Ailsa McKay, Scottish economist and academic (b. 1963)
• 2014 – Leopoldo María Panero, Spanish poet and translator (b. 1948)
• 2014 – Dave Sampson, English singer (b. 1941)
• 2015 – Vlada Divljan, Serbian singer-songwriter and guitarist (Idoli and Apartchiks) (b. 1958)
• 2015 – Edward Egan, American cardinal (b. 1932)
• 2015 – Albert Maysles, American director and producer (b. 1926)
• 2015 – Jim McCann, Irish singer and guitarist (The Dubliners and The Ludlows) (b. 1944)
• 2015 – Dirk Shafer, American model, actor, and director (b. 1962)

Holidays and observances

• Christian feast day:
  • John Joseph of the Cross
  • Ciarán of Saigir (Irish calendar)
  • Theophilus, bishop of Caesarea
  • Thietmar of Minden
  • March 5 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Custom Chief's Day (Vanuatu)
• Lantern Festival (China)
• Learn from Lei Feng Day (China)
• National Tree Planting Day (Iran)
• St Piran's Day (Cornwall)
• Purim ends

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to March 5.

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada