The 248th day of the year, the 249th in a leap year
Born on 5 September
Every 5 September birthday from 1920 to 2026 was Virgo, in every time zone.
- Star sign
- VirgoEarth, mutable, ruled by Mercury.
- Birthstone
- SapphireThe same as on the 1912 list.
- Birth flower
- Aster, Morning gloryUsually taken today to mean patience and affection.
- Most common weekdays
- Monday and Saturday16 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 September in any year.
Which weekday 5 September falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 5 September falls on every day of the week: Monday 16, Saturday 16, Sunday 15, Tuesday 15, Wednesday 15, Friday 15, Thursday 15.
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How common a birthday 5 September is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,875 babies were born on 5 September in each year of the twenty, making it the 39th 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 September
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Louis XIV | 1638–1715 | King of France and Navarre from 1643 to 1715 |
| Freddie Mercury | 1946–1991 | British singer, songwriter and musician, frontman of the rock band Queen |
| Caspar David Friedrich | 1774–1840 | German Romantic landscape painter |
| Robert Walpole | 1676–1745 | British statesman and art collector, 1st Earl of Orford; born 5 September in the Gregorian calendar, 26 August in the Julian |
| Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan | 1888–1975 | Indian philosopher, President of India from 1962 to 1967 |
| Michael Keaton | 1951– | American actor |
| Werner Herzog | 1942– | German film director, producer, screenwriter, actor and opera director |
| Tommaso Campanella | 1568–1639 | Italian philosopher, theologian, astrologer, and poet |
| John Cage | 1912–1992 | American avant-garde composer |
| Louis VIII of France | 1187–1226 | King of France from 1223 to 1226 |
| Arthur Koestler | 1905–1983 | Hungarian-British author and journalist |
| Raquel Welch | 1940–2023 | American actress |
| Bukayo Saka | 2001– | English footballer |
| Johann Christian Bach | 1735–1782 | German composer |
| Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy | 1817–1875 | count, Russian poet, novelist and playwright |
| Bob Newhart | 1929–2024 | American stand-up comedian and actor |
| Paul Breitner | 1951– | German association football player |
| Leonardo Araújo | 1969– | Brazilian association football player |
Died on 5 September
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Mother Teresa | 1910–1997 | Albanian-Indian Catholic nun and missionary |
| Auguste Comte | 1798–1857 | French philosopher, mathematician and sociologist |
| Ludwig Boltzmann | 1844–1906 | Austrian physicist and philosopher |
| Rudolf Virchow | 1821–1902 | German doctor, anthropologist, public health activist, pathologist, prehistorian, biologist and politician |
| Nicolaas Bloembergen | 1920–2017 | Dutch-born American physicist |
| Crazy Horse | died 1877 | Oglala Sioux chief |
| Catherine Parr | 1512–1548 | sixth wife of Henry VIII of England; final queen consort of the House of Tudor |
| Pierre Choderlos de Laclos | 1741–1803 | French novelist, official and army general |
| Jochen Rindt | 1942–1970 | Racing driver who competed under the Austrian flag in Formula One |
| Georg Solti | 1912–1997 | Hungarian-British conductor |
| Neerja Bhanot | 1963–1986 | Indian flight attendant of Pan Am Flight 73 |
| Sérgio Mendes | 1941–2024 | Brazilian musician |
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