Anniversaries 5 August
Birth
![Joseph Merrick photo]()
English man with severe deformities
1862–1890
![Wesley Clair Mitchell photo]()
American statistician
1874–1948
![Bruce Fairchild Barton photo]()
American author, politician and advertising executive
1886–1967
![Conrad Aiken photo]()
American novelist and poet
1889–1973
![Naum Gabo photo]()
Russian sculptor
1890–1977
![Piero Sraffa photo]()
Italian economist
1898–1983
![Matvei Zakharov photo]()
Soviet military commander
1898–1972
![Rensis Likert photo]()
American statistician
1903–1981
![George Novack photo]()
American politician
1905–1992
![Wassily Leontief photo]()
Russian economist
1906–1999
![Harold Holt photo]()
Australian politician, 17th Prime Minister of Australia
1908–1967
![Harold Powers photo]()
American academic
1928–2007
![Al Alvarez photo]()
English poet, novelist, essayist and critic
1929–2019
![Neil Armstrong photo]()
American astronaut; first person to walk on the moon
1930–2012
![Brian G. Marsden photo]()
British astronomer
1937–2010
![James H. Cone photo]()
American theologian
1938–2018
![Migdia Chinea Varela photo]()
American actress, screenwriter, and TV personality
1947
![Peter McWilliams photo]()
American author and civil liberties advocate
1949–2000
![Khalid Rehmat photo]()
Pakistani Catholic apostolic vicariate
1968
![Marine Le Pen photo]()
French lawyer and politician
1968
![Rachel Scott photo]()
American murder victim
1981–1999
![Jo Ankier photo]()
British athlete and television personality
1982
Death
![Sabuktigin photo]()
Founder of the Ghaznavid Empire
942–997
![Adin Ballou photo]()
American minister
1803–1890
![Friedrich Engels photo]()
German social scientist, author, political theorist, and ph…
1820–1895
![James Pierpont (musician) photo]()
American composer whose songs include "Jingle Bells"
1822–1893
![Philip Sheridan photo]()
United States Army general
1831–1888
![Anna Yesipova photo]()
Russian pianist
1851–1914
![Edgar Guest photo]()
American writer
1881–1959
![Francis Pegahmagabow photo]()
World War I sniper
1891–1952
![Richard Peirse photo]()
Royal Air Force air marshal
1892–1970
![Jerzy Neyman photo]()
Polish statistician
1894–1981
![Joan Robinson photo]()
English economist
1903–1983
![Soichiro Honda photo]()
Japanese businessman
1906–1991
![Banesh Hoffmann photo]()
American mathematician and physicist
1906–1986
![Todor Zhivkov photo]()
communist head of state of the People's Republic of Bulgaria
1911–1998
![Budd Schulberg photo]()
American novelist and screenwriter
1914–2009
![George E. Mendenhall photo]()
American academic
1916–2016
![Robert Muldoon photo]()
Prime Minister of New Zealand, politician
1921–1992
![Marilyn Monroe photo]()
American actress, model, and singer
1926–1962
![Jean-Marie Cardinal Lustiger photo]()
French Catholic cardinal
1926–2007
![Toni Morrison photo]()
American writer
1931–2019
![Gerald Cohen photo]()
Canadian philosopher
1941–2009
![John Blair Moore photo]()
American comic book writer
1948–2018
