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Famous people born on August 5

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Well-known people born on August 5 include Neil Armstrong (1930), Guy de Maupassant (1850), Marine Le Pen (1968) and Vitus Bering (1681). Our list below has 87 people for this date, most widely covered first.

This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives August 5 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1681 (Vitus Bering) and the most recent is 2005 (Obed Vargas). The most common fields on this date: football, actor, writer.

Who was born on August 5?

  1. Neil Armstrong 1930 American astronaut and lunar explorer
  2. Guy de Maupassant 1850 French writer
  3. Marine Le Pen 1968 French politician
  4. Vitus Bering 1681 Danish-born Russian explorer
  5. Kajol 1974 Indian film actress
  6. John Huston 1906 American film director, screenwriter, and actor
  7. Hun Sen 1952 Prime Minister of Cambodia (1985–1993; 1998–2023)
  8. Gavi 2004 Spanish association football player
  9. Ivar Andreas Aasen 1813 Norwegian linguist and poet, dubbed the father of Nynorsk
  10. Deodoro da Fonseca 1827 President of Brazil
  11. Fath-Ali Shah Qajar 1772 Second Qajar shah of Iran.
  12. Mark Strong 1963 British actor
  13. Valdis Dombrovskis 1971 11th Prime Minister of Latvia
  14. Salomon Kalou 1985 Ivorian association football player
  15. Daichi Kamada 1996 Japanese association football player
  16. Harold Holt 1908 Australian politician, 17th Prime Minister of Australia
  17. Wayne Bridge 1980 English footballer
  18. Helene Fischer 1984 German singer
  19. Joseph Merrick 1862 British man with severe deformities known as the Elephant Man
  20. James Gunn 1966 American screenwriter and filmmaker
  21. Genelia D'Souza 1987 Indian actress
  22. Pierre-Emile Højbjerg 1995 Danish association football player
  23. Ryan Bertrand 1989 English association football player
  24. Patrick Ewing 1962 Jamaican-American basketball player
  25. Robert Taylor 1911 American actor
  26. Loni Anderson 1945 American actress
  27. Ray Clemence 1948 English association football player
  28. Alvin Ceccoli 1974 Australian association football player
  29. Olivia Holt 1997 American actress and singer-songwriter
  30. Ettore Majorana 1906 Italian physicist (1906-1938?)
  31. Ruben Vargas 1998 Swiss association football player
  32. Conrad Aiken 1889 American novelist and poet
  33. Esteban Gutiérrez 1991 Mexican race car driver
  34. Baldwin Lonsdale 1948 Ni-Vanuatu politician and Anglican priest
  35. Damir Skomina 1976 Slovenian football referee
  36. John Saxon 1936 American actor
  37. Laurent Ciman 1985 Belgian association football player
  38. Go-Momozono 1758 Emperor of Japan
  39. Sverrir Ingi Ingason 1993 Icelandic footballer
  40. Federica Pellegrini 1988 Italian swimmer (1988)
  41. Manuel Pinto da Costa 1937 President of São Tomé and Príncipe, economist
  42. Stefano Sensi 1995 Italian association football player
  43. Vera Kholodnaya 1893 Ukrainian-born actress of Imperial Russian silent cinema
  44. Devan Nair 1923 Malaysian-Singaporean politician, 3rd President of Singapore
  45. Jesse Williams 1981 American actor, director, producer, and activist
  46. Johann Friedrich Struensee 1737 De facto regent of Denmark
  47. Louise of the Netherlands 1828 Queen Consort of Sweden and Queen Consort of Norway from 1859 to 1871
  48. Jason Culina 1980 Australian association football player
  49. Andreas Weimann 1991 Austrian association football player
  50. Rosi Mittermaier 1950 German alpine skier
  51. Naum Gabo 1890 Russian-American sculptor
  52. David Baldacci 1960 American author
  53. Ambroise Thomas 1811 French composer
  54. Shigeru Ban 1957 Japanese architect
  55. Reid Hoffman 1967 American co-founder of LinkedIn, venture capitalist, and author
  56. Shirley Ann Jackson 1946 American physicist
  57. Kim Gevaert 1978 Belgian athlete
  58. Princess Irene of the Netherlands 1939 Dutch princess; second child of Queen Juliana of the Netherlands and Prince Bernhard
  59. Marlene Favela 1976 Mexican model and actress
  60. Sergio Ramírez 1942 Nicaraguan writer and politician
  61. Leonid Kizim 1941 Soviet cosmonaut
  62. Polycarp Pengo 1944 Tanzanian Roman Catholic cardinal
  63. Ermir Lenjani 1989 Albanian association football player
  64. Wendell Berry 1934 American writer, activist, and poet from Kentucky
  65. Steven Knight 1959 British screenwriter and film director
  66. Chen Ding 1992 Chinese racewalker
  67. Piero Sraffa 1898 Italian economist
  68. Salvador Cabañas 1980 Paraguayan footballer
  69. Anthony Edwards 2001 American basketball player
  70. Leonardo Leo 1694 Italian composer
  71. David Healy 1979 Northern Irish footballer & manager
  72. Pat Smear 1959 American musician and actor
  73. Edward John Eyre 1815 British explorer and colonial administrator
  74. Daniëlle van de Donk 1991 Dutch footballer
  75. Marians Pahars 1976 Latvian footballer
  76. Wi Ha-jun 1991 South Korean actor
  77. Brian Sandoval 1963 29th Governor of Nevada and former United States District Judge
  78. Mary Ritter Beard 1876 American historian and women's suffrage activist
  79. Adam Yauch 1964 American musician
  80. Erich Kleiber 1890 Austrian conductor
  81. Brian G. Marsden 1937 British astronomer
  82. Kō Shibasaki 1981 Japanese actor and singer
  83. William Kamkwamba 1987 Malawian inventor and author
  84. Obed Vargas 2005 Mexican soccer player
  85. Mercedes Aráoz 1961 Peruvian economist and politician
  86. Prince Nicolae of Romania 1903 Romanian Royal, prince regent of Romania from 1927 to 1930
  87. Erkan Zengin 1985 Turkish-Swedish association football player

Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on August 5 share the 5th of August as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.

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