Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/August 5

Births

 * 1802 - Niels Henrik Abel, Norwegian mathematician (d. 1829)
 * 1850 - Guy de Maupassant, French author (d. 1893)
 * 1877 - Tom Thomson, Canadian painter (d. 1917)
 * 1906 - John Huston, American director (d. 1987)
 * 1908 - Harold Holt, 17th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1967)
 * 1923 - Devan Nair, President of Singapore (d. 2005)
 * 1930 - Neil Armstrong, (pictured) American astronaut (d. 2012)
 * 1946 - Loni Anderson, American actress
 * 1962 - Patrick Ewing, American basketball player
 * 1980 - Wayne Bridge, English footballer

Deaths

 * 1895 - Friedrich Engels, German philosopher (b. 1820)
 * 1911 - Bob Caruthers, baseball player (b. 1864)
 * 1962 - Marilyn Monroe, American actress (b. 1926)

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