On this day: 5 February
Events, births and deaths on 5 February. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Irv Gotti
10 years ago2016
- Births · Jigme Namgyel Wangchuck
- Events · Waitangi dildo incident
100 years ago1926
Within 10 years of that
- 1919 · Events · United Artists
- 1934 · Births · Hank Aaron
- 1919 · Births · Andreas Papandreou
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 976 · Births · Sanjō
- 1015 · Deaths · Adelaide, Abbess of Vilich
- 1037 · Deaths · Alfred Aetheling
Events · 13
- 249Incident at Gaoping Tombs — Coup d'état in the state of Cao Wei (249)
- 17831783 Calabrian earthquakes — earthquake in Calabria, Italy in 1783
- 1810Siege of Cádiz — 1810–1812 siege during the Peninsular War
- 1905General Hospital of Mexico — hospital in Mexico
- 1919United Artists — American moving image production and distribution company (founded 1919)
- 1941Battle of Keren — 1941 battle in Africa
- 19581958 Tybee Island mid-air collision — aircraft collision that involved the loss of a nuclear bomb
- 1981Operation Soap — raid by the Metropolitan Toronto Police against four gay bathhouses in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, which took place on February 5, 1981
- 1994Markale massacres — two bombardments by the Army of the Republika Srpska on civilians during the Siege of Sarajevo in the Bosnian War
- 2000Novye Aldi massacre — Massacre in Chechnya
- 20042004 Morecambe Bay cockling disaster — mass drowning incident
- 2016Waitangi dildo incident — 2016 protest action in Waitangi, New Zealand
- 2020Pegasus Airlines Flight 2193 — 5 February 2020 aviation accident
Births · 60
- 976(Julian date)Sanjō — Emperor of Japan
- 1626Madame de Sévigné — French noble and epistolarian writer (1626–1696)
- 1788Robert Peel — Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1788–1850)
- 1804Johan Ludvig Runeberg — Finland’s national poet, author of Finland’s national anthem, Swedish-speaking writer and poet (1804–77)
- 1808Carl Spitzweg — German painter (1808–1885)
- 1810
- 1840John Boyd Dunlop — Scottish inventor
- 1840Hiram Stevens Maxim — American-born inventor (1840-1916)
- 1848Joris-Karl Huysmans — French novelist and art critic (1848–1907)
- 1852Terauchi Masatake — Japanese general (1852-1919)
- 1878André Citroën — French businessman (1878-1935)
- 1900Adlai Stevenson II — American politician and diplomat (1900–1965); 31st governor of Illinois from 1949 to 1953 (1900–1965)
- 1906John Carradine — American actor (1906-1988)
- 1910Francisco Varallo — Argentine footballer (1910-2010)
- 1914William S. Burroughs — American novelist, short story writer, essayist, painter, and spoken word performer (1914–1997)
- 1914Alan Lloyd Hodgkin — physiologist and biophysicist (1914-1998)
- 1915Robert Hofstadter — American physicist and Nobel laureate (1915-1990)
- 1919Andreas Papandreou — Greek economist and politician (1919–1996)
- 1919Red Buttons — American comedian and actor (1919–2006)
- 1929Fred Sinowatz — Austrian historian and chancellor (1929-2008)
- 1932Cesare Maldini — Italian footballer and manager (1932-2016)
- 1934Hank Aaron — American baseball player (1934–2021)
- 1940H. R. Giger — Swiss artist (1940–2014)
- 1943Michael Mann — American film director, screenwriter, and producer (born 1943)
- 1943Nolan Bushnell — American entrepreneur (born 1943)
Deaths · 60
- 1015(Julian date)Adelaide, Abbess of Vilich — Abbess of Vilich and Christian saint (c.970-c.1015)
- 1037(Julian date)Alfred Aetheling — Son of English king Æthelred II and his second wife Emma of Normandy; brother of Edward the Confessor
- 1578Giovanni Battista Moroni — Italian painter (1525-1578)
- 1597Paul Miki — Roman Catholic Japanese Jesuit seminarian and martyr
- 1661Shunzhi Emperor — Qing Dynasty emperor of China (1638–1661)
- 1705Philipp Jakob Spener — German theologian, founder of pietism (1635-1705)
- 1766Leopold Joseph von Daun — Austrian marshal
- 1790William Cullen — Scottish physician, chemist and agriculturalist; (1710-1790)
- 1807Pasquale Paoli — Corsican leader (1725–1807)
- 1818Charles XIII of Sweden — King of Sweden (1809-1818) and King of Norway (1814-1818)
- 1881Thomas Carlyle — Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher (1795–1881)
- 1892Emilie Flygare-Carlén — Swedish novelist (1807-1892)
- 1917Jaber II Al-Sabah — Sheikh of Kuwait (1860-1917)
- 1922Slavoljub Eduard Penkala — Croatian engineer and inventor (1871–1922)
- 1927Inayat Khan — founder of the Sufi Order in the West in 1914 and teacher of Universal Sufism
- 1931Athanasios Eftaxias — Greek politician (1849-1931)
- 1937Lou Andreas-Salomem — German-Russian essayist, philosopher, and psychoanalyst (1861–1937)
- 1938Hans Litten — German lawyer (1903–1938)
- 1941Otto Strandman — Estonian politician (1875–1941)
- 1941Andrew Barton Paterson — Australian journalist, author and poet (1864 - 1941)
- 1946George Arliss — English actor, author, playwright and filmmaker (1868–1946)
- 1948Johannes Blaskowitz — German general (1883–1948)
- 1962Jacques Ibert — French composer
- 1969Thelma Ritter — American actress and vaudevillian (1902-1969)
- 1971Paul Fildes — British pathologist and microbiologist (1882–1971)
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