Anniversaries 5 May

Birth

Pío Pico2

Governor of Alta California 1801–1894

Sören Kierkegaard309

Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism 1813–1855

Karl Marx290

German philosopher, economist, sociologist, journalist and … 1818–1883

Henry Nettleship1

British schoolteacher 1839–1893

William H. Crogman7

American classical philologist 1841–1931

Henryk Sienkiewicz38

Polish journalist, Nobel Prize-winning novelist, and philan… 1846–1916

Douglas Mawson2

Australian geologist, Antarctic explorer and academic 1882–1958

Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell7

senior officer of the British Army 1883–1950

Paul Eldridge1

American writer 1888–1982

Christopher Morley30

American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet 1890–1957

August Dvorak1

American scientist 1894–1975

Kenneth Burke11

American philosopher 1897–1993

James Beard4

American chef 1903–1985

Салли Стенфорд1

1903–1982

Pat Frank1

American writer 1908–1964

Zail Singh18

Indian politician and former President of India 1916–1994

Arthur Leonard Schawlow5

American physicist 1921–1999

Sergei Akhromeyev5

Soviet marshal 1923–1991

Leo Ryan4

American teacher and politician 1925–1978

Pat Carroll (actress)3

American actress 1927

Charles Rosen69

American pianist and writer on music 1927–2012

Ronald DeWolf17

American critic of Scientology 1934–1991

Adam Przeworski13

Polish-American academic 1940

J. Patrick Lewis1

American children's writer and poet 1942

Michael Palin16

British comedian, actor, writer and television presenter 1943

Marsha M. Linehan1

psychologist, professor, author 1943

John Rhys-Davies5

Welsh actor 1944

Linda Fairstein1

American writer 1947

David Toop1

British musician 1949

Todd Strasser3

American author of young-adult and middle grade novels 1950

Alex Webb (photographer)2

American photojournalist 1952

Brian Souter4

British businessman 1954

Mark Mirabello1

American writer 1955

Peter Hotez8

American academic 1958

Ian McCulloch23

singer, musician 1959

Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw6

American legal scholar 1959

Kaye Gibbons1

Novelist 1960

Scott Westerfeld147

American science fiction writer 1963

Max Tegmark24

Swedish-American cosmologist 1967

Devin Townsend5

Canadian musician 1972

Laurie Faria Stolarz12

American writer 1972

Gabriel Roth1

Argentine footballer 1979

Hank Green16

American vlogger 1980

Craig David7

English singer 1981

Adele (singer)13

British singer-songwriter 1988

Skye Sweetnam10

Canadian singer-songwriter 1988

Jessica Dubroff5

American child pilot trainee 1988–1996

Chris Brown3

American singer, songwriter, dancer, actor , and painter 1989

Tia Blanco5

1997

Death

Napoleon I of France259

French general, First Consul and later Emperor of the French 1769–1821

Charles Robert Leslie9

British painter (1794-1859) 1794–1859

Elbridge G. Spaulding10

American politician 1809–1897

William Ross Wallace2

American poet 1819–1881

Alexander Maclaren75

British minister 1826–1910

Bret Harte15

American author and poet 1836–1902

James Branch Cabell130

American author 1879–1958

Emanuel Moravec1

Czech military officer, writer, and politician 1893–1945

Ludwig Erhard5

German politician 1897–1977

Mário Quintana1

Brazilian writer 1906–1994

George Bird Evans30

American writer 1906–1998

Howard Zahniser3

American environmentalist 1906–1964

Frithjof Schuon82

Swiss philosopher 1907–1998

Mikhail Botvinnik1

Soviet chess player 1911–1995

Murray Kempton5

American journalist 1917–1997

Michael Shaara20

American writer 1928–1988

Umaru Yar'Adua2

President of Nigeria 1951–2010

Bobby Sands23

Irish volunteer of the Provisional Irish Republican Army 1954–1981

Helmin Wiels1

Curaçao politician 1958–2013

Ritsuko Okazaki11

Japanese singer 1959–2004