Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/April 5

Births

 * 1588 - Thomas Hobbes, English philosopher (d. 1679) (pictured)
 * 1856 - Booker T. Washington, American educator (d. 1915)
 * 1900 - Spencer Tracy, American actor (d. 1967)
 * 1908 - Bette Davis, American actress (d. 1989)
 * 1916 - Gregory Peck, American actor (d. 2003)
 * 1937 - Colin Powell, U.S. Secretary of State (d. 2021)

Deaths

 * 1794 - Georges Danton, French Revolutionary leader (b. 1759)
 * 1964 - General Douglas MacArthur, American general (b. 1880)
 * 1966 - General Arthur Ernest Percival, British Army officer (b. 1887)
 * 1975 - Chiang Kai-shek, 1st ～ 5th President of the Republic of China (b. 1887)
 * 1976 - Howard Hughes, American aviator (b. 1905)
 * 1994 - Kurt Cobain, American musician (Nirvana) (b. 1967)
 * 1997 - Allen Ginsberg, American poet (b. 1926)