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August 5th

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562 Notable birthdays

Suzuka Ohgo

Japanese actress.

Born August 5th, 1993 (age 32 years) in Kanagawa Prefecture.

Terry Cooke

English footballer (born 1976).

Born August 5th, 1976 (age 49 years) in Marston Green.

Mark O'Connor

American fiddle player.

Born August 5th, 1961 (age 64 years) in Seattle.

Cho Seung-youn

South korean singer.

Born August 5th, 1996 (age 29 years) in Gyeonggi Province.

Sharon Salzberg

American writer.

Born August 5th, 1952 (age 73 years) in New York City.

Zakes Mokae

South african actor (1934–2009).

Born August 5th, 1934 in Johannesburg.

Died September 11th, 2009 at 75 years old in Las Vegas, Las Vegas Valley (stroke). [ref]

Ben Osborn

English association football player.

Born August 5th, 1994 (age 31 years) in Derby.

Louise of the Netherlands

Queen consort of sweden and queen consort of norway from 1859 to 1871.

Born August 5th, 1828 in The Hague.

Died March 30th, 1871 at 42 years old in Stockholm Palace (pneumonia).

Abbé Pierre

French catholic priest, founder of the emmaus movement, subject of sexual abuse scandals.

Born August 5th, 1912 in 4th arrondissement of Lyon. [ref]

Died January 22nd, 2007 at 94 years old in 5th arrondissement of Paris (pneumonia). [ref]

Efraim Zuroff

American historian.

Born August 5th, 1948 (age 77 years) in New York City.

Piero Sraffa

Italian economist (1898–1983).

Born August 5th, 1898 in Turin.

Died September 3rd, 1983 at 85 years old in Cambridge.

Deodoro da Fonseca

President of brazil (1827-1892).

Born August 5th, 1827 in Marechal Deodoro.

Died August 23rd, 1892 at 65 years old in Barra Mansa.

Estavana Polman

Dutch handball player.

Born August 5th, 1992 (age 33 years) in Arnhem.

Michael Ballhaus

German cinematographer (1935–2017).

Born August 5th, 1935 in Berlin.

Died April 12th, 2017 at 81 years old in Berlin. [ref]

Damir Skomina

Slovenian football referee.

Born August 5th, 1976 (age 49 years) in Koper.

Conrad Aiken

American novelist and poet (1889–1973).

Born August 5th, 1889 in Savannah.

Died August 17th, 1973 at 84 years old in Savannah, Brewster.

Joe Boyd

American record producer and writer (born 1942).

Born August 5th, 1942 (age 83 years) in Boston.

Ethan Erickson

American actor.

Born August 5th, 1973 (age 52 years) in Minneapolis.

Don Chaffey

British film director, screenwriter, producer and art director (1917–1990).

Born August 5th, 1917 in Hastings.

Died November 13th, 1990 at 73 years old in Kawau Island (heart failure).

Billy Bingham

Northern irish footballer and manager (1931–2022).

Born August 5th, 1931 in Belfast.

Died June 9th, 2022 at 90 years old in Birkdale. [ref]

Naum Gabo

Russian-american sculptor (1890–1977).

Born August 5th, 1890 in Bryansk. [ref]

Died August 23rd, 1977 at 87 years old in Waterbury. [ref]

Valdis Dombrovskis

11th prime minister of latvia.

Born August 5th, 1971 (age 54 years) in Riga.

J-Ax

Italian rapper, singer-songwriter and record producer (born 1972).

Born August 5th, 1972 (age 53 years) in Milan. [ref]

Rensis Likert

American statistician (1903–1981).

Born August 5th, 1903 in Cheyenne.

Died September 3rd, 1981 at 78 years old in Ann Arbor.

Mark Cendrowski

American television director.

Born August 5th, 1959 (age 66 years) in Detroit.

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