Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/March 5

Births

 * 1512 - Gerardus Mercator, Flemish cartographer (d. 1594) (pictured)
 * 1874 - Henry Travers, British actor (d. 1965)
 * 1898 - Zhou Enlai, Premier of the People's Republic of China (d. 1976)
 * 1908 - Sir Rex Harrison, English actor (d. 1990)

Deaths

 * 1695 - Henry Wharton, English writer (b. 1664)
 * 1827 - Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist (b. 1745)
 * 1953 - Sergei Prokofiev, Russian composer, (b. 1891)
 * 1953  - Joseph Stalin, Georgian leader of the Soviet Union (b. 1879)
 * 1963 - Patsy Cline, American singer (b. 1932)
 * 1982 - John Belushi, American actor (b. 1949)