What happened on April 5 ?

1288 - Emperor Go-Fushimi of Japan (d. 1336)

1472 - Bianca Maria Sforza, wife of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1510)

1479 - Guru Amar Das, third Sikh Guru (d. 1574)

1523 - Blaise de Vigenère, French cryptographer (d. 1596)

1588 - Thomas Hobbes, English philosopher (d. 1679)

1604 - Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine (d. 1675)

1622 - Vincenzo Viviani, Italian mathematician (d. 1703)

1649 - Elihu Yale, American benefactor of Yale University (d. 1721)

1692 - Adrienne Lecouvreur, French actress (d. 1730)

1732 - Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French artist (d. 1806)

1784 - Louis Spohr, German violinist (d. 1859)

1816 - Samuel Freeman Miller, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1890)

1827 - Joseph Lister, English surgeon (d. 1912)

1832 - Jules Ferry, French statesman (d. 1893)

1837 - Algernon Charles Swinburne, English poet (d. 1909)

1856 - Booker T. Washington, American educator (d. 1915)

1871 - Mirko Seljan, Croatian explorer

1875 - Mistinguett, French vaudeville performer (d. 1956)

1893 - Clas Thunberg, Finnish speed skater (d. 1973)

1900 - Spencer Tracy, American actor (d. 1967)

1901 - Melvyn Douglas, American actor (d. 1981)

1908 - Bette Davis, American actress (d. 1989)

1908 - Herbert von Karajan, Austrian conductor (d. 1989)

1908 - Jagjivan Ram, Indian politician (d. 1986)

1909 - Albert R. Broccoli, American film producer (d. 1996)

1912 - John Le Mesurier, British actor (d. 1983)

1916 - Gregory Peck, American actor (d. 2003)

1917 - Robert Bloch, American author (d. 1994)

1920 - Arthur Hailey, American writer (d. 2004)

1920 - Rafique Zakaria, Indian author (d. 2005)

1922 - Christopher Hewett, British actor (d. 2001)

1922 - Gale Storm, American singer

1923 - Michael V. Gazzo, American actor (d. 1995)

1923 - Nguyen Van Thieu, President of South Vietnam (d. 2001)

1926 - Roger Corman, American film director

1929 - Ivar Giaever, Norwegian physicist, Nobel laureate

1929 - Nigel Hawthorne, British actor (d. 2001)

1929 - Hugo Claus, Belgian writer

1933 - Larry Felser, American sports columnist

1934 - Frank Gorshin, American actor (d. 2005)

1934 - Roman Herzog, German politician

1935 - Peter Grant, British manager (Led Zeppelin,Bad Company) (d. 1995)

1937 - Colin Powell, U.S. Secretary of State

1941 - Michael Moriarty, American actor

1942 - Peter Greenaway, Welsh film director

1943 - Max Gail, American actor

1944 - Pedro Rossello, Puerto Rican politician

1945 - Tommy Smith, English footballer

1946 - Jane Asher, British actress

1947 - Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, 14th President of the Philippines

1948 - Dave Holland, British musician (Judas Priest)

1949 - Judith Resnik, astronaut (d. 1986)

1950 - Agnetha Fältskog, Swedish singer (ABBA)

1952 - Mitch Pileggi, American actor

1954 - Stan Ridgway, American musician (Wall of Voodoo)

1955 - Janice Long, English broadcaster

1955 - Akira Toriyama, Japanese manga artist

1961 - Lisa Zane, American actress

1962 - Lana Clarkson, American actress (d. 2003)

1964 - Christopher "Kid" Reid, American rapper (Kid 'n Play)

1965 - Mike McCready, American musician (Pearl Jam)

1968 - Paula Cole, American musician

1973 - Pharrell Williams, American producer (The Neptunes)

1976 - Fernando Morientes, Spanish footballer

1976 - Kim Collins, Nevisian sprinter

1978 - Stephen Jackson, American basketball player

1978 - Franziska van Almsick, German swimmer