The 156th day of the year, the 157th in a leap year
Born on 5 June
Every 5 June birthday from 1920 to 2026 was Gemini, in every time zone.
- Star sign
- GeminiAir, mutable, ruled by Mercury.
- Birthstone
- Pearl, Moonstone, AlexandriteThe 1912 list gave Pearl and Moonstone.
- Birth flower
- Rose, HoneysuckleUsually taken today to mean love and bonds of affection.
- Most common weekdays
- Sunday and Friday16 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 June in any year.
Which weekday 5 June falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 5 June falls on every day of the week: Sunday 16, Friday 16, Saturday 15, Monday 15, Tuesday 15, Thursday 15, Wednesday 15.
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How common a birthday 5 June is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,834 babies were born on 5 June in each year of the twenty, making it the joint 117th 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 June
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| John Maynard Keynes | 1883–1946 | British economist |
| Federico García Lorca | 1898–1936 | Spanish poet, dramatist and prose writer |
| Mark Wahlberg | 1971– | American actor |
| Dennis Gabor | 1900–1979 | Nobel Prize-winning physicist and inventor of holography |
| Pancho Villa | 1878–1923 | Mexican revolutionary |
| Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo | 1942– | Equatoguinean politician, President of Equatorial Guinea since 1979 |
| Allvar Gullstrand | 1862–1930 | Swedish ophthalmologist |
| John Couch Adams | 1819–1892 | English mathematician and astronomer |
| Ruth Benedict | 1887–1948 | American anthropologist and folklorist |
| Yulia Lipnitskaya | 1998– | Russian figure skater |
| James Connolly | 1868–1916 | Irish republican, trade unionist and socialist revolutionary |
| John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough | 1650–1722 | English soldier and statesman; born 5 June in the Gregorian calendar, 26 May in the Julian |
| Martha Argerich | 1941– | Argentine pianist |
| Ken Follett | 1949– | British novelist |
| Avigdor Lieberman | 1958– | Israeli politician, member of the Knesset |
| Rick Riordan | 1964– | American author |
| Jeff Garlin | 1962– | American comedian and actor |
| Troye Sivan | 1995– | Australian singer-songwriter and actor |
Died on 5 June
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Ronald Reagan | 1911–2004 | president of the United States from 1981 to 1989 and actor |
| Ray Bradbury | 1920–2012 | American author and screenwriter |
| O. Henry | 1862–1910 | American short story writer |
| Carl Maria von Weber | 1786–1826 | German Romantic composer |
| Louis X of France | 1289–1316 | King of France from 1314 to 1316 |
| Stephen Crane | 1871–1900 | American novelist, short story writer, poet, and journalist |
| Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener | 1850–1916 | British Army officer and colonial administrator |
| Tariq Aziz | 1936–2015 | Iraqi Foreign Minister under Saddam Hussein |
| Saint Boniface | 675–754 | Anglo-Saxon missionary and Archbishop of Mainz |
| Astrud Gilberto | 1940–2023 | Brazilian-American singer and songwriter |
| Giovanni Paisiello | 1740–1816 | Italian composer of the Classical era |
| Georges Feydeau | 1862–1921 | French writer |
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