Anniversaries 5 August

Birth

Guy De Maupassant59

French writer 1850–1893

Joseph Merrick5

English man with severe deformities 1862–1890

Wesley Clair Mitchell4

American statistician 1874–1948

Bruce Fairchild Barton15

American author, politician and advertising executive 1886–1967

Conrad Aiken70

American novelist and poet 1889–1973

Naum Gabo23

Russian sculptor 1890–1977

Piero Sraffa1

Italian economist 1898–1983

Matvei Zakharov3

Soviet military commander 1898–1972

Rensis Likert16

American statistician 1903–1981

George Novack1

American politician 1905–1992

Wassily Leontief10

Russian economist 1906–1999

Harold Holt7

Australian politician, 17th Prime Minister of Australia 1908–1967

Haim Ginott4

psychologist 1922–1973

Harold Powers8

American academic 1928–2007

Al Alvarez5

English poet, novelist, essayist and critic 1929–2019

Neil Armstrong32

American astronaut; first person to walk on the moon 1930–2012

Wendell Berry189

author 1934

Brian G. Marsden6

British astronomer 1937–2010

James H. Cone32

American theologian 1938–2018

Polycarp Pengo1

Catholic cardinal 1944

Loni Anderson1

actress 1945

Migdia Chinea Varela1

American actress, screenwriter, and TV personality 1947

Peter McWilliams5

American author and civil liberties advocate 1949–2000

Uttam Khobragade3

bureaucrat 1951

David Baldacci6

American author 1960

Khalid Rehmat1

Pakistani Catholic apostolic vicariate 1968

Marine Le Pen12

French lawyer and politician 1968

Rachel Scott6

American murder victim 1981–1999

Jo Ankier4

British athlete and television personality 1982

Dawn Richard2

American musician 1983

Death

Sabuktigin8

Founder of the Ghaznavid Empire 942–997

Adin Ballou4

American minister 1803–1890

Friedrich Engels87

German social scientist, author, political theorist, and ph… 1820–1895

James Pierpont (musician)2

American composer whose songs include "Jingle Bells" 1822–1893

Philip Sheridan2

United States Army general 1831–1888

Anna Yesipova1

Russian pianist 1851–1914

Edgar Guest61

American writer 1881–1959

Francis Pegahmagabow3

World War I sniper 1891–1952

Richard Peirse1

Royal Air Force air marshal 1892–1970

Jerzy Neyman4

Polish statistician 1894–1981

Joan Robinson46

English economist 1903–1983

Soichiro Honda3

Japanese businessman 1906–1991

Banesh Hoffmann2

American mathematician and physicist 1906–1986

Todor Zhivkov3

communist head of state of the People's Republic of Bulgaria 1911–1998

Budd Schulberg1

American novelist and screenwriter 1914–2009

Alec Guinness2

English actor 1914–2000

George E. Mendenhall7

American academic 1916–2016

Robert Muldoon3

Prime Minister of New Zealand, politician 1921–1992

Richard Burton28

Welsh actor 1925–1984

Marilyn Monroe149

American actress, model, and singer 1926–1962

Jean-Marie Cardinal Lustiger2

French Catholic cardinal 1926–2007

Toni Morrison184

American writer 1931–2019

Gerald Cohen10

Canadian philosopher 1941–2009

John Blair Moore1

American comic book writer 1948–2018