August 5: Today's Notable Birthdays

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August 5th was the birth date of several notable individuals. Here they are:

August 5th Birthdays: Famous Artists

Italian Baroque composer Pietro Antonio Cesti (La Dori, Orontea and Il Pomo D'Oro) was born on August 5, 1623.

Naum Neemia Gabo Pevsner, Russian-American Kinetic sculptor (), was born on August 5, 1890.

Irene Rice Pereira, American geometric abstract painter, was born on August 5, 1907.

August 5th Birthdays: Famous Athletes

Patrick Ewing, Jamaican-American basketball player and Olympic gold medalist (1992), was born on August 5, 1962.

Frankie Hejduk, American soccer defender and Olympic gold medalist (1996), was born on August 5, 1974.

Hayes Wendell Jones, American hurdler and Olympic gold medalist (1964), was born on August 5, 1938.

John McCartan, American ice hockey player and Olympic gold medalist (1960), was born on August 5, 1935.

August 5, 1950 Rosi Mittermaier, German slalom skier and Olympic gold medalist (1976), was born on August 5, 1950.

August 5th Birthdays: Famous Authors and Journalists

American author and Pulitzer Prize winner (1929) Conrad Aiken (Blue Voyage, Brownstone Eclogues, The Charnel Rose, The Clerk's Journal, Collected Poems, Great Circles, A Letter from Li Po, A Reviewer's ABC, A Seizure of Limericks and Selected Poems) was born on August 5, 1899.

American historian and author Mary Ritter Beard (America Through Women's Eyes, On Understanding Women, The Rise of American Civilization and Woman As Force In History: A Study in Traditions and Realities) was born on August 5, 1876.

Wendell Berry, American poet and author (Another Turn of the Crank, Citizenship Papers, Findings, The Gift of Gravity, Given, Grace, The Hidden Wound, Horses, In the Presence of Fear, Kentucky River, Late Harvest, The Long-Legged Horse, Nathan Coulter, Openings, A Place on Earth, That Distant Land, Three on Community, Window Poems and A World Lost), was born on August 5, 1934.

French novelist Guy de Maupassant (Bel-Ami, Notre Coeur, Piette et Jean and Une Vie) was born on August 5, 1850.

Ruth Sawyer Durand, American children's storyteller and author (Daddles; The Story of a Plain Hound Dog, The Enchanted Schoolhouse, The Primrose Ring, Roller Skates, The Way of the Storyteller, The Year of Jubilo, The Year of the Christmas Dragon and This Way to Christmas), was born on August 5, 1880.

Jacquetta Hawkes, British archaeologist and author (The Archaeology of Jersey, Early Britain, Journey Down the Rainbow, A Land, Prehistoric Britain, Shell Guide to British Archaeology, Symbols and Speculations and The World of the Past), was born on August 5, 1910.

John Huston, American screenwriter and film director (The African Queen, The Asphalt Jungle, Beat the Devil, Chinatown, Fat City, The Maltese Falcon, The Misfits, Moby Dick, Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Under the Volcano and Wise Blood), was born on August 5, 1906.

Wassily Wassilyovitch Leontief, Russian-American economist and Nobel Prize winner (1973), was born on August 5, 1906.

August 5th Birthdays: Famous Business Leaders

Bruce Fairchild Barton, American author (The Man Nobody Knows), politician, advertising executive and creator of Betty Crocker, was born on August 5, 1886.

August 5th Birthdays: Famous Performers

Loni Kaye Anderson, American actress (All Dogs Go to Heaven, Coins in the Fountain, The Lonely Guy, A Night at the Roxbury, Partners in Crime, Stroker Ace and WKRP in Cincinnati), was born on August 5, 1944.

American actress Josie Bissett (Book of Love, The Doors, Melrose Place and The Secret Life of the American Teenager) was born on August 5, 1970.

Spangler Arlington (Robert Taylor) Brugh, American actor (Billy the Kid, Camille, Death Valley Days, The Fighting Lady, Handy Andy, Ivanhoe, Johnny Eager, Knights of the Round Table, Magnificent Obsession, Many Rivers to Cross, Quo Vadis, Waterloo Bridge and A Yank at Oxford), was born on August 5, 1911.

Ernestine (Tiny) Davis, American jazz vocalist and trumpeter, was born on August 5, 1907.

American actress Ja'net Dubois (Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, Good Times, I'm Gonna Git You Sucka, Moesha and The Steve Harvey Show) was born on August 5, 1938.

Ami Foster, American actress (Circus of the Stars and Punky Brewster), was born on August 5, 1975.

Cheryl (Samantha Sang) Gray, Australian singer ("Emotion," "The Love of a Woman" and "You Made Me What I Am"), was born on August 5, 1953.

Rick Huxley, British guitarist (Dave Clark 5), was born on August 5, 1942.

American actress Tawny Kitaen (America's Funniest People, Bachelor Party, Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, The New WKRP in Cincinnati, The Surreal Life and Witchboard) was born on August 5, 1961.

Maureen Denise McCormick, American actress (The Brady Bunch, Get to the Heart: The Barbara Mandrell Story and Gone Country), was born on August 5, 1956.

Eddie (Fingers) Ojeda, American musician (Twisted Sister), was born on August 5, 1954.

Carmine (John Saxon) Orrico, American actor (The Appaloosa, The Bionic Woman, Black Christmas, Enter the Dragon, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Planet Earth, Shalimar, The Six Million Dollar Man, Strange New World, Tenebrae and The Time Tunnel), was born on August 5, 1935.

British actor John Reginald Owen (Bedknobs and Broomsticks, A Christmas Carol, Mary Poppins, Sherlock Holmes and A Study in Scarlet) was born on August 5, 1887.

Holly Palance, American actress (Bret Maverick, The Comeback, The Omen and Ripley's Believe It or Not), was born on August 5, 1950.

Terri (Terri Clark) Lynne Sauson, Canadian country musician ("Better Things to Do," "Girls Lie Too" and "I Just Wanna Be Mad"), was born on August 5, 1968.

American actor Jonathan Silverman (Brighton Beach Memoirs, Caddyshack II, Gimme a Break, Girls Just Want to Have Fun, Little Big League, The Single Guy and Weekend at Bernie's) was born on August 5, 1966.

Jewwel Faye (Sammi) Smith, American country singer ("Help Me Make It Through the Night"), was born on August 5, 1943.

American actress Joan Louise Weldon (Cheyenne, Deep in My Heart, Have Gun - Will Travel, Perry Mason and The Missionaire) was born on August 5, 1933.

James Wilder, American actor (Burning Down the House, Charades, Heart of Stone, Knight Club, Man of the Year and Melrose Place), was born on August 5, 1963.

American rapper Adam (MCA) Yauch (The Beastie Boys) was born on August 5, 1964.

August 5th Birthdays: Famous Scientists

Niels Henrik Abel, Norwegian mathematician (Abelian Theorem) was born on August 5, 1802.

American astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, was born on August 5, 1930.

Audrey Blood Hillman, British horticulturalist and natural plant scientist, was born on August 5, 1952.

American physicist and U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Commissioner Shirley Ann Jackson was born on August 5, 1946.

Happy Birthday, August 5th.

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