The 95th day of the year, the 96th in a leap year
Born on 5 April
Every 5 April birthday from 1920 to 2026 was Aries, in every time zone.
- Star sign
- AriesFire, cardinal, ruled by Mars.
- Birthstone
- DiamondThe same as on the 1912 list.
- Birth flower
- Daisy, Sweet peaUsually taken today to mean innocence and blissful pleasure.
- Most common weekdays
- Tuesday and Sunday16 times each between 1920 and 2026.
Your year
Without JavaScript, the pages for each birth year give the generation and Chinese animal for a birth on 5 April in any year.
Which weekday 5 April falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 5 April falls on every day of the week: Tuesday 16, Sunday 16, Monday 15, Wednesday 15, Thursday 15, Saturday 15, Friday 15.
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How common a birthday 5 April is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,741 babies were born on 5 April in each year of the twenty, making it the 355th most common of the 366 dates, where 26 September came first with 1,974 and 26 December last with 1,359.
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Born on 5 April
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Thomas Hobbes | 1588–1679 | English philosopher |
| Bette Davis | 1908–1989 | American actress |
| Gregory Peck | 1916–2003 | American actor |
| Pope Urban VIII | 1568–1644 | pope of the Catholic Church from 1623 to 1644 |
| Gloria Macapagal Arroyo | 1947– | Filipino politician, president of the Philippines from 2001 to 2010 |
| Spencer Tracy | 1900–1967 | American actor |
| Colin Powell | 1937–2021 | American general and diplomat |
| Agnetha Fältskog | 1950– | Swedish singer |
| Joseph Lister | 1827–1912 | British surgeon and antiseptic pioneer |
| Herbert von Karajan | 1908–1989 | Austrian conductor |
| Roman Herzog | 1934–2017 | former President of the Federal Republic of Germany |
| Akira Toriyama | 1955–2024 | Japanese manga artist and character designer |
| Ivar Giaever | 1929–2025 | Norwegian-American physicist |
| Pharrell Williams | 1973– | American record producer and songwriter |
| Booker T. Washington | 1856–1915 | African-American educator, author, orator, and advisor |
| Algernon Charles Swinburne | 1837–1909 | English poet, playwright and novelist |
| Jean-Honoré Fragonard | 1732–1806 | French painter |
| Nguyễn Văn Thiệu | 1923–2001 | president of South Vietnam from 1965–75 |
Died on 5 April
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Chiang Kai-shek | 1887–1975 | Chinese military leader, President of the Republic of China from 1948 to 1975 |
| Kurt Cobain | 1967–1994 | American rock musician, singer and songwriter |
| Saul Bellow | 1915–2005 | Canadian-American writer |
| Douglas MacArthur | 1880–1964 | United States Army general in WWI, WWII and Korea |
| Allen Ginsberg | 1926–1997 | American poet and writer |
| Charlton Heston | 1923–2008 | American actor |
| Georges Danton | 1759–1794 | French revolutionary |
| Howard Hughes | 1905–1976 | American aviator, engineer, industrialist, and film producer |
| Sydney Brenner | 1927–2019 | South African-British biologist, Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine 2002 |
| Baruch Samuel Blumberg | 1925–2011 | American physician, geneticist and Nobel prize winner |
| Hermann Joseph Muller | 1890–1967 | American biologist |
| Bingu wa Mutharika | 1934–2012 | Malawian politician, President of Malawi from 2004 to 2012 |
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