Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/February 5

Births

 * 1788 - Robert Peel, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1850) (pictured)
 * 1900 - Adlai Stevenson, American politician (d. 1965)
 * 1906 - John Carradine, American actor (d. 1988)
 * 1919 - Red Buttons, American actor (d. 2006)
 * 1934 - Hank Aaron, baseball player (d. 2021)
 * 1948 - Christopher Guest, American actor
 * 1962 - Jennifer Jason Leigh, American actress

Deaths

 * 1790 - William Cullen, Scottish physician and chemist (b. 1710)
 * 1881 - Thomas Carlyle, Scottish writer and historian (b. 1795)
 * 1941 - Banjo Paterson, Australian poet, author of "Walzing Matilda" (b. 1864)
 * 1967 - Leon Leonwood Bean, American department store founder (b. 1872)