The 217th day of the year, the 218th in a leap year
Born on 5 August
Every 5 August birthday from 1920 to 2026 was Leo, in every time zone.
- Star sign
- LeoFire, fixed, ruled by the Sun.
- Birthstone
- Peridot, Spinel, SardonyxThe 1912 list gave Sardonyx and Peridot.
- Birth flower
- Gladiolus, PoppyUsually taken today to mean strength of character and remembrance.
- Most common weekdays
- Friday and Wednesday16 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 August in any year.
Which weekday 5 August falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 5 August falls on every day of the week: Friday 16, Wednesday 16, Thursday 15, Saturday 15, Sunday 15, Tuesday 15, Monday 15.
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How common a birthday 5 August is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,853 babies were born on 5 August in each year of the twenty, making it the 84th 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 August
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Neil Armstrong | 1930–2012 | American astronaut and lunar explorer |
| Guy de Maupassant | 1850–1893 | French writer |
| Marine Le Pen | 1968– | French politician |
| Niels Henrik Abel | 1802–1829 | Norwegian mathematician |
| Ilya Repin | 1844–1930 | Ukrainian-born Russian painter |
| Vitus Bering | 1681–1741 | Danish-born Russian explorer |
| Kajol | 1974– | Indian film actress |
| John Huston | 1906–1987 | American film director, screenwriter, and actor |
| Wassily Leontief | 1905–1999 | Russian economist |
| Gavi | 2004– | Spanish association football player |
| Ivar Aasen | 1813–1896 | Norwegian linguist and poet, dubbed the father of Nynorsk |
| Deodoro da Fonseca | 1827–1892 | President of Brazil |
| Mark Strong | 1963– | British actor |
| Guillaume Du Fay | 1397–1474 | composer of the Renaissance |
| Salomon Kalou | 1985– | Ivorian association football player |
| Valdis Dombrovskis | 1971– | Latvian politician and European Commissioner, Prime Minister of Latvia from 2009 to 2014 |
| Harold Holt | 1908–1967 | Australian politician, 17th Prime Minister of Australia |
| Wayne Bridge | 1980– | English footballer |
Died on 5 August
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Friedrich Engels | 1820–1895 | German philosopher, sociologist and economist |
| Toni Morrison | 1931–2019 | African American novelist, essayist, and academic |
| Richard Burton | 1925–1984 | Welsh actor |
| Alec Guinness | 1914–2000 | British actor |
| Todor Zhivkov | 1911–1998 | Leader of the People's Republic of Bulgaria from 1956 to 1989 |
| Heinrich Otto Wieland | 1877–1957 | German Nobel laureate in Chemistry |
| Carmen Miranda | 1909–1955 | Brazilian singer |
| Louis III of France | 863–882 | King of France |
| Thomas Newcomen | 1664–1729 | English inventor, ironmonger and Baptist lay preacher |
| Victoria, Princess Royal | 1840–1901 | British princess, Empress of Germany and Queen consort of Prussia from March to June 1888 |
| Soichiro Honda | 1906–1991 | Japanese engineer and industrialist |
| Wilhelm Marx | 1863–1946 | German politician |
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