Birthdates Which Occur on February 5:
1589 Honorat de Brueil seigneur de Racan French playwright/poet
1626 Marie de S‚vign‚ Paris, letter-writer (Portrait in Letters)
1662 Giuseppi Vignola composer
1711 Joseph Umstatt composer
1723 John Witherspoon clergyman/signed Declaration of Independence
1732 Nathanael Gottfried Gruner composer
1744 John Jeffries colonial physician/meteorologist
1748 Christian Gottlob Neefe German composer/conductor/tutor of Beethoven
1753 Coert L van Beyma thoe Kingma Frisian regent/patriot
1770 Alexandre Brongniart Paris, mineralogist/geologist (Tertiary)
1775 Margaretha J de Neufville author (Small Pligten)
1778 Robert Peel British PM (1834-46)/founder (Tories)
1779 Frans van Campenhout Belgian vocalist/composer (Braban‡onne)
1788 Karoly Kisfaludy Hungarian literary (A Tat rok Magyarorsz gon)
and Robert "Bobbie" Peel British conservative premier/founder (Bobbies)
1804 Johan Ludvig Runeberg Finland, poet
1810 Ole Bull composer
1833 John Watkinson founder of British Chess Magazine (oldest chess mag)
1837 Dwight Lyman Moody US, evangelist (Student Volunteer Movement)
1840 Hiram Stevens Maxim inventor (automatic single-barrel rifle)
and John Boyd Dunlop Scotland, developer (pneumatic rubber tire)
1848 Belle Starr [Myra Belle Shirley] US female outlaw (wild west)
and Joris-Karl Huysmans France, writer (Against the Grain)
1860 Jackson Showalter 1st US chess champion (1888-92, 1895-97, 1906-0?)
1862 Felipe Villanueva y Guti‚rrez Mexico, composer
1863 Armand Parent composer
1864 Carl Tieke composer
1865 Harvey Worthington Loomis composer
1866 Henri [Hendrik J] Hall Dutch comic
and Rossetter Gleason Cole composer
1868 Lodewijk Mortelmans composer
1871 Jovan Ducic Serb poet (Blue Legends)
1878 Andr‚-Gustave Citro‰n France, auto maker
1879 Edward Rigby England, actor (Star Look Down, Young & Innocent)
1882 Felice Lattuada composer
1889 Ioan Dumitru Chirescu composer
1891 Elizabeth Ryan Anaheim Calif, doubles tennis champ (6 time Wimbled)
1893 Roman Ingarden Polish philosopher (Studia philosophica)
1897 Dirk U Stikker director (Heineken)/Dutch foreign minister/NATO
19-- Jason Bieler rock guitarist (Saigon Kick-New World)
and Natasha XXX actress (Con Job)
1900 Adlai E Stevenson (Gov-D-Ill), pres candidate (D) (1952, 1956)
1902 Bronislaw Kaper composer
1903 Ivan Galamian Tabriz Persia, violinist
and Joan Whitney Payson owner (NY Mets & horse stables)
and Nathaniel Owings Indianapolis, architect (Oak Ridge, TN; Sears)
1906 John Carradine Greenwich Village NY, actor (Grapes of Wrath, Howling)
1907 Jan Klaasesz Dutch governor Suriname (1949-56)
and Norton Simon business executive (Simon & Schuster)
and Pierre E J Pflimlin premier France
1909 Grazyna Bacewicz composer
1912 Willard Parker NYC, actor (Kiss Me Kate, What A Woman)
and Zoltan Pongracz composer
1914 Alan Hodgkin British physicist
and William S Burroughs St Louis, novelist (Naked Lunch)
1915 Robert Hofstadter US atomic physicist
1917 Zsa Zsa Gabor Budapest Hungary, actress (Queen of Outer Space)
1918 Charles J "Tim" Holt US actor (Treasure of Sierra Madre)
and Kara Abulfazogli Karayev composer
and Tim Holt Beverly Hills CA, actor (Stagecoach, Hitler's Children)
1919 Andrea Papandreou Greek premier (1981-89, 93- )
and Red Buttons [Aaron Chwatt], Bronx NYC, comedian/actor (Sayonara)
1921 John M Pritchard London England, conductor
1922 Bernard Kalb State Dept spokesman
1926 Arthur Ochs Sulzberger publisher (NY Times)
1927 Robert Brown Herbrides Is, actor (Here Come the Brides, Primus)
and Val Dufour New Orleans LA, actor (Eugenie Grandet)
1929 Fred Sinowatz (SP™), chancellor of Austria (1983-86)
1933 J”rn Donner Helsinki Finland, director (Anna, Tenderness)
and Nick Georgiade NYC, actor (Untouchables, Run Buddy Run)
and Ron Wilson US percussionist (Joy of Cooking)
1934 Hank Aaron baseball player (record 755 HRs, 1957 NL MVP)
1935 Alex Harvey rocker
and John J "Jannie" Geldenhuys supreme commander S Africa army 1980- )
1937 Cocky van Oost [Kommertje van Vliet], Dutch dancer (Sylphides)
and Gaston Roelants Belgium, world cross-country champion
and Stuart Damon Bkln NY, actor (Alan Quartermaine-General Hospital)
1938 Dick van Niehoff Dutch vocalist (Fouryo)
and John Guare US writer
1939 Jane Bryant Quinn newscaster/financial writer (Everyone's Money Book)
1941 Barrett Strong Detroit, vocalist (Money, That's What I Want)
and David Selby Morganstown WV, actor (Falcon Crest, Flamingo Road)
and Rick Laird rocker
and Stephen J Cannell producer (Rockford Files)
1942 Cory Wells Buffalo NY, rock vocalist (3 Dog Night-Joy to the World)
and Roger Staubach NFL quarterback (Dallas Cowboys)
and Susan Hill English playwright (Magic Apple Tree)
1943 Charles Winfield Penn, rocker (Blood Sweat & Tears-Spinning Wheel)
and Craig Morton Flint Mich, NFL quarterback (Dallas, Denver)
and Ivan Alexandrovich Tcherepnin composer
and Larry Tamblyn rocker (Standells-Dirty Water)
and Michael Mann Chicago IL, actor/director (Sexpot, Close Friends)
and Sven Johnson rocker (Tangerine Dream
1944 Al Kooper rock keyboards/vocalist (Blood Sweat & Tears-When I Die)
and J R Cobb Birmingham Ala, rocker (Atlanta Rhythm Section, Classic IV)
1946 Charlotte Rampling England, actress (Zardoz, Night Porter, Verdict)
1947 Mary L Cleave Southampton NY, PhD/astronaut (STS 61B, STS-30)
1948 Barbara Hershey [Herzstein], Atlanta, (Stuntman, Shy People)
and Christopher Guest NYC, actor (SNL, Heartbeeps, This is Spinal Tap)
and David Denny rock guitarist (Steve Miller Band-Abracadabra)
and Elco [LC] Brinkman Dutch minister WVC (CDA)
and Nigel Tufnel rocker (Spinal Tap)
1949 David Sullivan English softporno/newspaper publisher (Sunday Sport)
and M Ganzorig Mongolia, cosmonaut
and Nigel Olsson rocker (Elton John Band)
1950 Ann Sexton US vocalist (You're Gone too Long)
1951 Elizabeth Swados US, composer/playwright (1972 TONY)
1954 Roseanne Katan Jamacia, playmate (Sep, 1978)
1955 Debra Jo Fondren Los Angeles Cal, playmate of year (September, 1977)
1957 Craig Wilson Beeville TX, US water polo goalie (Olym-silver-84, 88)
1958 Jennifer Jason Leigh [Morrow], LA Cal, actress (Single White Female)
1962 Duff McKagan [Michael], Seattle Wash, bassist (Guns & Roses)
and Tommy Skeoch rock vocalist (Tesla-Psychotic Supper)
1965 Ben Lee Rangoon Burma, US badminton player (Olympic-92)
1968 Chris Barron rocker (Spin Doctors)
1969 Bobby Brown Roxbury Ma, vocalist (Ghostbusters, Don't Be Cruel)
1971 Marcus Redman actor (Raymond-Doogie Howser)
1973 Diego Serrano Quito Ecuador, actor (Tomas Rivera-Another World)
1975 Giovanni van Bronckhorst soccer player (Feyenoord)
and John L'Ami soccer player (Willem II)
Deaths Which Occured February 5:
45 -BC- Cato Roman patriot & philosopher, commits suicide
1578 Giovanni B Moroni Italian portrait painter, dies
1591 Gerard de Jode Flemish publisher, dies
1658 Maria Margaretha van Angels prior to Oirschot, dies at 52
1679 Joost van den Vondel poet (Gysbreght van Aemstel), dies
1685 Charles II king of England (1660-85)/Nell Gwynns lover, dies at 54?
1705 Jean Gilles composer, dies at 37
1721 James Stanhope 1st earl of Stanhope English general, dies at 47
1738 Georg Reidel composer, dies at 62
1745 Coelestin Praelisauer composer, dies at 50
1754 Nicolaas S Cruquius hydraulic engineer, (Haarlemmermeer), dies at 75
1758 Bernhard Christian Weber composer, dies at 45
1807 Pasquale Paoli Corsican freedom fighter, dies at 80
1812 Franz Schneider composer, dies at 74
1822 Ali pasja van Janina (Napoleon/Lord Byron), dies
1825 Pierre Gaveaux composer, dies at 64
1831 John CJ van Speijk commits suicide at 29
1838 Philippe Libon composer, dies at 62
1867 Salomon Munk published Arabic edition of Maimounides, dies
1881 Thomas Carlyle historian/essayist, dies in London at 85
1888 Anton Mauve painter/cousin of Vincent of Gogh, dies at 49
1897 Hoss Radbourn pitcher won 60 games in 1884, dies at 42
1907 Ludwig Thuille composer, dies at 45
1911 Petrus A Cronj‚ Transvaal Boer general, dies
1917 Paul Rubens composer, dies at 41
1919 Vasili V Rozanov Russian philosopher/writer, dies at 62
1922 Christiaan R de Wet South African Boer general, dies at 67
James William Tate composer, dies at 46
1924 Alexis Hollander composer, dies at 83
1926 Andre Gedalge composer, dies at 69
1929 Siegfried Ochs composer, dies at 70
1937 Lou [Andreas-]Salom‚ Russian/German author (That Eroticism), dies
1943 H Seyffardt Lt-Gen/NSB-"minister", killed by resistance
Wim Gertenbach printer of opposition newspaper [Slogan], dies
1944 Robert E Park sociologist (human ecology, marginal men), dies at 79
1946 George Arliss actor/writer (Dr Syn, Voltaire), dies at 77
1947 Ganzefles Jew fighter, executed
1948 Johann Blaskowitz German gen (surrendered to Wageningen), dies
1949 Juozas Tallat-Kelpsa composer, dies at 50
1954 Vittorio Gnecchi composer, dies at 77
1956 Savilly Tartakower Austrian/Polish/French chess player, dies at 74
1958 Henry M Tomlinson British writer (Under red ensign), dies
1959 Gwili Andre actress (No Other Woman, Roar of the Dragon), dies
1960 Rudolf Nelson composer, dies at 81
1961 Anthony G de Rothschild British philanthropist, dies at 73
1962 Jacques Ibert composer, dies at 71
1965 Irving Bacon actor (Fort Ti, Petticoat Fever), dies at 71
1966 Ludwig Binswanger Swiss psychiatrist (šber Ideenflucht), dies at 84
1967 Herman Teirlinck Belgian writer (Jokaste against God), dies at 87
1968 Luckey Roberts composer, dies at 80
Nick Adams actor (Johnny Yuma-Rebel), dies at 36
1969 Thelma Ritter actress (Miracle on 34th Street), dies at 63
1971 M ty s R kosi Hungarian premier (1952-53), dies at 78
1972 Marianne Moore US poetess (Pulitzer 1951), dies at 84
1973 George Morrison dies at 82
L C William Nolde last US soldier killed in Vietnam, funeral
1976 Roger Livesey actor (Drum, Vice Versa, Col Blimp), dies at 69
1977 Izaak Boleslavski Russian chess player, dies at 67
1978 Annie [Anna HM] Romein-Verschoor historical (Omzien), dies at 83
French van Immerseel Belgian graphic artist, dies
1981 Barend Barendse sportscaster, dies
Kuda Bux Indian mystic (I'd Like to See), dies at 75
1982 Dolores Maran actress, dies at 56^
Neil Aggett South african worker's union leader, commits suicide
Wies [Aloisius CA] Moens Flemish writer/nazi (doodvonnis), dies
1983 Derk Roemers union leader/politician (soc dem), dies at 67
1991 Dean Jagger US actor (Mr Novak. Rawhide, Oscar), dies at 85
Pedro Arrupe Spanish priest/Jesuit, dies
1992 Donald Zimmerman editor, dies
Laura Liddell actress (Shakespeare Wallah), dies at 83
1993 Joseph L Mankiewicz US writer/director (All about Eve), dies at 83
Tip Tipping [Tim], stuntman, dies in sky-diving accident at 34
1994 Fred de Bruyne Flemish cyclist/gang leader (Paris-Nice), dies at 63
Hermann Abs German advisor to Hitler, dies at 92
1995 Doug Mcclure US rodeo rider/actor (Trampas-Virginian), dies at 59
Frans K”hler painter, dies at 59
Judithj Fluks Amsterdams activist, dies
Holidays Which Occur February 5:
Finland Runeberg Day (1804)
Japan Japanese Martyrs Day (26 martyrs-1597)
M‚xico Constitution Day (1857 & 1917)
Roman calendar Nonae Februarius
San Marino Liberation Day
Tanzania Birth of Afro Shirazi Party
Religious Observances on February 5:
Baptist Roger Williams Day
RC Albuinus, bishop of Brixen, South-Tirol
RC Modestus, Irish? apostle of Karinthi‰
251 RC Memorial of St Agatha, virgin/martyr of Sicily
1550 RC Commemoration of St Jeanne de Valois, French foundress
1597 Ang, Luth Commemoration of 26 martyrs of Japan killed by Tagosama
old RC Feast of St Philip of Jesus, 1st Christian martyr in Japan
Things to Remember for February 5:
Biorhythm Health Month-National Meat Month
Flowers-violet & primrose Gem-amethyst
National Cherry-American Heart-TV Sweeps & Black History Month
[Ancient Rome] Kalend‘ Februarius; Kalend Feb
[Plains Indians] Hunger Moon month
14 Days Astrological sign: Aquarius
Italian & French dates are Old Style to 1582, New Style thereafter
[Ancient Rome] Non' Februarius; Non' Feb
5 Days Alpha Aurigid meteor shower, radiant near î Aurigae
Highlights in History Which Occur February 5:
816 French emperor Louis grants archbishop Salzburg immunity
1428 King Alfonso V, orders Sicily's Jews to attend conversion sermons
1488 Roman catholic German emperor Maximilian I caught
1512 French troops under Gaston de Foix rescues Bologna
1555 Arch duke Ferdinand opens Parliament of Augsburg
1556 Kings Henri I & Philip II signs Treaty of Vaucelles
1572 Geuzen assault on Oisterwijk, 130 nuns driven out
1576 Henry of Navarre abjures Catholicism at Tours
1631 Rhode Island, founder, Roger Williams arrives in Boston from England
1644 1st US livestock branding law passed, by Connecticut
1649 Prince of Wales becomes king Charles II
1663 Earthquake in Canada
1679 German emperor Leopold I signs peace with France
1736 Methodists John & Charles Wesley arrive in Savannah, Georgia
1777 Georgia becomes 1st US state to abolish both entail & primogeniture
1778 Articles of Confederation ratified by 1st state, South Carolina
1782 Spanish take Minorca (western Mediterranean) from English
1783 Earthquakes ravage Calabria, killing 30,000
and Sweden recognizes US independence
1795 Zealand surrenders to French general Michaud
1816 Opera "Barber of Seville" is presented (Rome)
1817 1st US gas co incorporated, Baltimore (coal gas for street lights)
1825 Hannah Lord Montague of NY creates 1st detachable collar
1831 John van Speijk cannon boat sinks, killing about 30
1846 1st US newspaper published on Pacific Coast, Oregon Spectator
1850 Adding machine employing depressible keys patented, New Paltz, NY
and Push key adding machine patented
1855 British govt of Palmerston forms
1861 Kinematoscope patented by Coleman Sellers, Philadelphia
and Louisiana delegation except Mr Bouligny withdraws from Congress
and Peep show machine patented by Samuel Goodale of Cincinnati
1864 Federals occupy Jackson, Mississippi
1865 Battle of Hatcher's Run, VA (Armstrong's Mill, Dabney's Mill)
1870 1st motion picture shown to a theater audience, Philadelphia
1873 C H F Peters discovers asteroid #129 Antigone
1877 A Borrelly discovers asteroid #172 Baucis
1879 Joseph Swan demonstrates light bulb using carbon glow
1881 Phoenix, Az incorporates
1885 News of fall of Khartoum reaches London
1887 Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Otello" premieres at La Scala in Italy
and Snow falls on SF
1893 Alfred Naess skates world record 500m (49.4 sec)
1894 Female suffrage organization in Amsterdam forms
1897 Marcel Proust meets Jean Lorrain in a pistol duel
1900 British troops under Gen Buller occupy Vaal Krantz
1901 Loop-the-loop centrifugal RR (roller coaster) patented by Ed Prescot
1907 Arnold Sch”nberg's 1st string quartet premieres in Vienna
1911 Society of Dutch Composers forms in Amsterdam
1917 Congress overrides Wilson's veto, curtailing Asian immigration
and Present Mexican constitution adopted
1918 1st US pilot to down an enemy airplane, Stephen W Thompson
and Separation of church & state begins in USSR
1921 Yankees purchase 20 acres in Bronx for Yankee Stadium
1923 General mine strike against wage cuts in Saar
and Mass arrests of socialists & communists in Italy
1929 Jimmy Hatlo's "They'll Do It Every Time" cartoon debuts in SF
and K Reinmuth discovers asteroids #1106 Cydonia, #1109 Tata & #1346 Gotha
1931 Maxine Dunlap becomes 1st US women to earn a glider pilot license
1932 K Reinmuth discovers asteroids #2897 Ole Romer, #3263 & #3426 Seki
and R Schorr discovers asteroid #1240 Centenaria
1934 Reinmuth discovers asteroids #2346 Lilio, #2444 Lederle, #2957 & #3707
1937 FDR proposes enlarging Supreme Court, "court packing" plan failed
1938 Hans Engnestangen skates world record 500m (41.8 sec)
1940 Gen Winckelman replaces Gen Reijnders as Dutch supreme commander
and Glenn Miller & his Orchestra record "Tuxedo Junction"
1941 Dutch Premier De Geer returns from Lisbon to Netherlands
1943 Amsterdam opposition group CS-6 shoots down nazi general Seyffardt
and Clandestine Radio Atlantiksender, Germany, 1st transmission
1945 Big Racket becomes fastest race horse at 69t.6 kph (440 yd/20.8 s)
and British premier Churchill arrives in Yalta, the Krim
1947 Bolewet Beirut becomes president of Poland
1948 "Nature of Things" science show premieres on NBC prime time
and Dick Button becomes 1st US figure skating Olympic champion
and Gretchen Fraser becomes 1st US woman Olympic slalom champion
1949 Huaso sets official world equestrian high-jump record, 2.47 m, Chic
1953 Walt Disney's "Peter Pan" released
1954 WCDC TV channel 19 in Adams, MA (ABC) begins broadcasting
1956 7th Winter Olympic games close at Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy
1957 Dmitri Sjostakovitsj completes his 2nd Piano Concert
1958 Clifton R Wharton confirmed as 1st US black foreign minister (Romania)
and Gamel Abdel Nasser nominated 1st president of United Arab Republic
and Vanguard TV-3 back-up launches into Earth orbit; reaches 6 km
1962 French President de Gaulle calls for Algeria's independence
and Suit to bar Englewood NJ from "racial segregated" schools, filed
and Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter & Saturn within 16ø
1963 Maarten Schmidt discovers enormous red shifts in quasars
and Soviet lunar probe failure
1965 Beursschouwburg opens in Brussels
1966 BBC opens a relay radio station on Ascension Island
1967 "Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" premieres on CBS (later ABC, NBC)
and Anastasio Somoza becomes president of Nicaragua
and Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Robert Penn Warren
1968 KDTV TV channel 39 in Dallas-Fort Worth, TX (IND) begins broadcasting
and Skater Kees Verkerk wins olympic gold in the 1500m
1969 US population reaches 200 million
and Vince Lombardi, becomes part owner, vp, gm & head coach of Redskins
1970 WSCV TV channel 51 in Ft Lauderdale, FL (IND) suspends broadcasting
1971 Apollo 14, 3rd US manned Moon expedition, lands near Fra Mauro
Alan Shepard & Edward Mitchell (Apollo 14) walk on Moon for 4 hrs
1972 US airlines begin mandatory inspection of passengers & baggage
1973 Funeral for LC William Nolde, last US soldier killed in Vietnam War
and Juan Corona sentenced to 25 consecutive life terms for 25 murders
1974 British mine strike
and Mats Wermelin, Sweden, scores all points in 272-0 basketball win
and Maximum speed on Autobahn reduced to 100 kph
and US Mariner 10 returns 1st close-up photos of Venus' cloud structure
1977 General Mills Adventure Theater premieres on CBS radio
and Sugar Ray Leonard beats Luis Vega in 6 rounds in his 1st pro fight
1978 Fred Newman makes 88 consecutive basketball free throws blindfolded
1979 Costliest single periodical ad, $3.2 million, Gulf + Western in Time
and Sears Radio Theater premieres on CBS
1981 Milt jury in NC convicts Robert Garwood of collaborating with enemy
1982 Chin A Sen ends term as president of Suriname
and DEA announces seizure of 3,192 tons of marijuana, 495 people
and Laker Airways collapse owing œ270M ($351M)
1983 Former Nazi Gestapo official Klaus Barbie brought to trial
1984 E Bowell disc asteroid #3486 Fulchignoni, #3526 Jeffbell & #3590 Holst
1986 Corazon Aquino & Ferdinand Marcos appear on "Nightline"
1987 Dow Jones avg closes above 2,200 for 1st time
1988 1st prime-time wrestling match in 30 yrs-Andre beats Hulk Hogan
and Panamanian Gen Manuel Noriega indicted by US grant jury for drugs
1989 Kareem Abdul-Jabar becomes 1st NBA player to score 38,000 points
1993 Grenade explodes in Sarajevo, killing 63 & injuring 160
1994 Medgar Evers' murderer sentenced to life, 30 years after the crime
Your Special Reminders for February 5:
1918 -6øF lowest temperature for this date in NYC
and 1991 70øF highest temperature for this date in NYC
and 36th day of the year with 329 days left (Numerology = 7)
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