Anniversaries 5 February
Birth
![John Witherspoon photo]()
Scottish-American Presbyterian minister and a Founding Fath…
1723–1794
![James Otis Jr. photo]()
Lawyer in colonial Massachusetts
1725–1783
![Robert Peel photo]()
British Conservative statesman
1788–1850
![John Muir (indologist) photo]()
Scottish Sanskrit scholar and Indologist
1810–1882
![Henry Maudsley photo]()
British psychiatrist
1835–1918
![Dwight L. Moody photo]()
American evangelist and publisher
1837–1899
![Johann Most photo]()
German-American anarchist politician, newspaper editor, and…
1846–1906
![Joris-Karl Huysmans photo]()
French novelist and art critic
1848–1907
![Arthur Keith photo]()
anatomy, anthropology, geologist
1866–1955
![Frederick E. Morgan photo]()
British Army general
1894–1967
![Adlai Stevenson photo]()
mid-20th-century Governor of Illinois and Ambassador to the…
1900–1965
![William S. Burroughs photo]()
American novelist, short story writer, essayist, painter, a…
1914–1997
![Andrew M. Greeley photo]()
Irish-American Roman Catholic priest, sociologist, journali…
1928–2013
![Hank Aaron photo]()
Retired American baseball player
1934
![Don Cherry photo]()
ice hockey coach, television commentator
1934
![John Guare photo]()
1938; American playwright
1938
![Stephen J. Cannell photo]()
American television producer, writer, novelist and occasion…
1941–2010
![Nolan Bushnell photo]()
American entrepreneur
1943
![Errol Morris photo]()
American filmmaker and writer
1948
![Roger Swain photo]()
American television personality
1949
![David Wiesner photo]()
American children's illustrator and writer
1956
![Divine Ndhlukula photo]()
Zimbabwean businesswoman and farmer
1960
![Ameer Haider Khan Hoti photo]()
politician in Pakistan
1971
![Sara Evans photo]()
American country singer and songwriter
1971
![Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark photo]()
Crown Princess of Denmark
1972
![Chelsea Cain photo]()
American journalist and writer
1972
![Loke Siew Fook photo]()
Malaysian politician
1976
![Jo Swinson photo]()
British politician and leader of the Liberal Democrats
1980
![Cristiano Ronaldo photo]()
Portuguese association football player
1985
![Darren Criss photo]()
American actor and singer
1987
Death
![Thomas Carlyle photo]()
Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian…
1795–1881
![Pierre Bosquet photo]()
Marshal of France
1810–1861
![Anton Mauve photo]()
Dutch painter (1838–1888)
1838–1888
![Auguste Vaillant photo]()
French anarchist
1861–1894
![Addison Mizner photo]()
American architect
1872–1933
![Marianne Moore photo]()
American poet and writer
1887–1972
![Günter Reimann photo]()
German economist
1904–2005
![Wassily Leontief photo]()
Russian economist
1906–1999
![Pedro Arrupe photo]()
Twenty-eighth Superior General of the Society of Jesus
1907–1991
![Larry LeSueur photo]()
American journalist
1909–2003
![Joseph L. Mankiewicz photo]()
American film director, screenwriter, and producer
1909–1993
![Robert A. Dahl photo]()
American political scientist
1915–2014
![Kirk Douglas photo]()
American stage and film actor
1916–2020
![Maharishi Mahesh Yogi photo]()
Inventor of Transcendental Meditation, musician
1917–2008
![Val Logsdon Fitch photo]()
American physicist
1923–2015
![Harry Schwarz photo]()
South African activist
1924–2010
![Brian Jacques photo]()
British fiction writer known for Redwall animal fantasy nov…
1939–2011
![Sean Sellers photo]()
American murderer
1969–1999
