June 5

June 5 is the 156th day of the year (157th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 209 days remaining after June 5 until the end of the year.

[change] Births

• 1341  – Edmund of Langley, a younger son of King Edward III of England (d. 1402)
• 1493  – Justus Jonas, German Protestant reformer (d. 1555)
• 1606  – Pierre Corneille, French playwright (d. 1684)
• 1718  – Thomas Chippendale, English furniture maker (d. 1779)
• 1723  – Adam Smith, Scottish economist (d. 1790)
• 1757  – Pierre Jean George Cabanis, French physiologist (d. 1808)
• 1771  – King Ernest I of Hanover (d. 1851)
• 1781  – Christian August Lobeck, German classical scholar (d. 1860)
• 1819  – John Couch Adams, English mathematician and astronomer (d. 1892)
• 1850  – Pat Garrett, American Western lawman (d. 1908)
• 1862  – Allvar Gullstrand, Swedish opthalmologist, won the 1911 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, (d. 1930)
• 1876  – Tony Jackson, American musician (d. 1920)
• 1878  – Pancho Villa, Mexican revolutionary (d. 1923)
• 1879  – Robert Mayer, philanthropist (d. 1985)
• 1883  – John Maynard Keynes, English economist (d. 1946)
• 1884  – Ralph Benatzky, composer (d. 1957)
• 1894  – Roy Thomson, Lord Thomson of Fleet, English publisher(d. 1976)
• 1895  – William Boyd, American actor (d. 1972)
• 1898  – Federico García Lorca, Spanish lyricist and dramatist (d. 1936)
• 1900  – Dennis Gabor, Hungarian-born physicist (d. 1979)
• 1912  – Josef Neckermann, entrepreneur and dressage equestrian (d. 1992)
• 1919  – Richard Scarry, children's author (d. 1994)
• 1925  – Art Donovan, American football star
• 1925  – Boy Gobert, actor (d. 1986)
• 1928  – Robert Lansing, actor (d. 1994)
• 1928  – Tony Richardson, British actor (d. 1991)
• 1931  – Jacques Demy, French playwright (d. 1990)
• 1932  – Christy Brown, author (d. 1981)
• 1934  – Bill Moyers, American journalist
• 1938  – Karin Balzer, East German hurdler
• 1939  – Joe Clark, sixteenth Prime Minister of Canada
• 1939  – Margaret Drabble, English novelist
• 1941  – Martha Argerich, Argentine pianist
• 1941  – Spalding Gray, American actor, screenwriter, and monologue artist (d. 2004)
• 1942  – Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, President of Equatorial Guinea
• 1944  – Tommie Smith, American athlete
• 1947  – Kevin Schon, American actor
• 1947  – Laurie Anderson, American performance artist, actress, composer
• 1949  – Ken Follett, Welsh author
• 1951  – Jill Biden, American educator and wife of Vice-President Joe Biden
• 1954  – Nicko McBrain, English musician (Iron Maiden)
• 1955  – Edinho, Brazilian footballer
• 1956  – Kenny G, American musician
• 1958  – Ahmed Abdallah Sambi, Comorian President
• 1962  – Princess Astrid of Belgium
• 1967  – Joe DeLoach, American athlete
• 1970  – Martin Gelinas, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1971  – Mark Wahlberg ("Marky Mark"), American singer, actor
• 1972  – Mike Bucci (Nova, Simon Dean), American professional wrestler
• 1979  – David Bisbal, Spanish singer
• 1979  – Pete Wentz, American musician (Fall Out Boy)
• 1981  – Jade Goody, British TV personality (d. 2009)
• 1981  – Sebastien Lefebvre, Canadian musician (Simple Plan)
• 1984  – Mark Wilson, Scottish footballer

[change] Deaths

• 1316  – King Louis X of France (b. 1289)
• 1625  – Orlando Gibbons, English composer (b. 1583)
• 1866  – John McDouall Stuart, Australian explorer (b. 1815)
• 1900  – Stephen Crane, American author (b. 1871)
• 1906  – Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann, German philosopher (b. 1842)
• 1916  – Lord Horatio Kitchener, British field marshal (b. 1850)
• 1993  – Conway Twitty, American musician (b. 1933)
• 2000  – Franco Rossi, Italian film director and producer (b. 1919)
• 2002  – Dee Dee Ramone, American musician (The Ramones) (b. 1951)
• 2004  – Ronald Reagan, actor and 40th President of the United States (b. 1911).
• 2007  – Povel Ramel, Swedish entertainer (b. 1922)

[change] Events

• 1849  – Denmark becomes a constitutional monarchy.
• 1915  – Denmark amends its constitution to give women the right to vote.
• 1947  – George Marshall calls for aid to war-torn Europe.
• 1963  – British politician John Profumo resigns in a sex scandal.
• 1967  – The Six-Day War begins.
• 1977  – A coup occurs in the Seychelles.
• 1989  – The Unknown Rebel halts a line of tanks in an act of defiance at the Chinese government's violent crackdown at Tiananmen Square in Beijing.
• 1998  – A seven-week strike begins at General Motors.
• 2001  – Tropical Storm Allison hits Texas.
• 2002  – Elizabeth Smart, a teenager is kidnapped from her home in Utah.
• 2003  – A heatwave in India and Pakistan reaches its height with temperatures of over 50 degrees Celsius (122 degrees Fahrenheit).
• 2006  – Serbia declares independence from the Union of Serbia and Montenegro.

[change] Observances

• Constitution Day (Denmark)
• World Environment Day