What happened on March 5 ?

1133 - King Henry II of England (d. 1189)

1324 - King David II of Scotland (d. 1371)

1512 - Gerardus Mercator, Flemish cartographer (d. 1594)

1563 - John Coke, English politician (d. 1644)

1575 - William Oughtred, English mathematician (d. 1660)

1585 - John George I, Elector of Saxony (d. 1656)

1658 - Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, French explorer (d. 1730)

1693 - Johann Jakob Wettstein, Swiss theologian (d. 1754)

1696 - Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian painter (d. 1770)

1703 (N.S.) - Vasily Kirillovich Trediakovsky, Russian poet (d. 1768)

1748 - Jonas C. Dryander, Swedish botanist (d. 1810)

1748 - William Shield, English musician (d. 1829)

1750 - Jean-Baptiste Gaspard d'Ansse de Villoison, French classical scholar (d. 1805)

1794 - Jacques Babinet, French physicist (d. 1872)

1814 - Wilhelm von Giesebrecht, German historian (d. 1889)

1815 - John Wentworth, American politician (d. 1888)

1817 - Austen Henry Layard, English archaeologist (d. 1894)

1836 - Charles Goodnight, American cattle rancher (d. 1929)

1853 - Howard Pyle, American author and illustrator (d. 1911)

1867 - Louis-Alexandre Taschereau, Premier of Quebec (d. 1952)

1869 - Michael von Faulhaber, German cardinal and archbishop (d. 1952)

1870 - Frank Norris, American writer (d. 1902)

1871 - Rosa Luxemburg, Socialist revolutionary (d. 1919)

1873 - Olav Bjaaland, Norwegian explorer and cross-country skier (d. 1961)

1874 - Henry Travers, British actor (d. 1965)

1879 - Sir William Beveridge, British economist (d. 1963)

1886 - Dong Biwu, founder of the Communist Party of China (d. 1975)

1887 - Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazilian composer (d. 1959)

1897 - Set Persson, Swedish communist politician (d. 1960)

1898 - Zhou Enlai, Premier of the People's Republic of China (d. 1976)

1898 - Soong May-ling, Chinese wife of Chiang Kai-Shek (d. 2003)

1904 - Karl Rahner, German theologian (d. 1984)

1908 - Irving Fiske, American writer, playwright, (d. 1990)

1908 - Sir Rex Harrison, English actor (d. 1990)

1910 - Józef Marcinkiewicz, Polish mathematician (d. 1940)

1915 - Laurent Schwartz, French mathematician (d. 2002)

1918 - James Tobin, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2002)

1920 - Virginia Christine, American actress (d. 1996)

1921 - Elmer Valo, baseball player (d. 1998)

1922 - Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian writer and film director (d. 1975)

1923 - David Nathan, Welsh journalist (d. 1966)

1923 - Laurence Tisch, American investor

1927 - Jack Cassidy, American actor (d. 1976)

1934 - Daniel Kahneman, Israeli economist, Nobel Prize laureate

1934 - James B. Sikking, American actor

1936 - Canaan Banana, first President of Zimbabwe (d. 2003)

1936 - Dean Stockwell, American actor

1937 - Olusegun Obasanjo, leader of Nigeria

1938 - Fred Williamson, American football player and actor

1939 - Peter Woodcock, Canadian serial killer

1939 - Pierre Wynants, Belgian chef

1939 - Samantha Eggar, British actress

1942 - Felipe González Márquez, Prime Minister of Spain

1943 - Billy Backus, American boxer

1944 - Roy Gutman, American journalist, Pulitzer Prize Winner

1944 - Lucio Battisti, Italian singer (d. 1998)

1947 - Clodagh Rodgers, Irish singer

1948 - Eddy Grant, Guyana-born singer

1948 - Elaine Paige, English singer and actress

1954 - Marsha Warfield, American actress, comedienne

1955 - Penn Jillette, American magician and comedian

1957 - Mark E. Smith, Vocalist with The Fall

1958 - Andy Gibb, English singer (d. 1988)

1966 - Michael Irvin, American football player

1969 - MC Solaar, French hiphop artist

1970 - John Frusciante, American musician (The Red Hot Chili Peppers)

1971 - Evil Jared Hasselhoff, American Musician (Bloodhound Gang)

1972 - Luca Turilli, Italian musician (Rhapsody)

1974 - Jens Jeremies, German footballer

1974 - Eva Mendes, American actress

1975 - Jolene Blalock, American actress

1975 - Niki Taylor, American model

1976 - Sarunas Jasikevicius, Lithuanian basketball player

1976 - Paul Konerko, American baseball player

1977 - Bryan Berard, American hockey player

1977 - Wally Szczerbiak, American basketball player

1979 - Flick Shagwell, British porn actress

1982 - Daniel Carter, New Zealand rugby player

1986 - Matty Fryatt, English footballer

1989 - Jake Lloyd, American actor