March 5th, 1944

Born on March 5th, 1944

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What happened on March 5th, 1944?

March 5th, 1944

World War II: The Red Army begins the Uman–Botoșani offensive in the western Ukrainian SSR.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Army

What else happened on March 5th?

March 5th, 1981

The ZX81, a pioneering British home computer, was launched by Sinclair Research, and went on to sell more than 1.5 million units around the world.

March 5th, 1960

Cuban photographer Alberto Korda took his iconic photograph Guerrillero Heroico of Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara.

March 5th, 1943

World War II: The Gloster Meteor, the Allies' only operational jet aircraft, made its maiden flight.

March 5th, 1825

Roberto Cofresí, one of the last Caribbean pirates, was apprehended after his flagship sloop Anne was captured by authorities.

March 5th, 1824

The First Anglo-Burmese War began.

March 5th, 1811

Peninsular War: At the Battle of Barrosa, Anglo-Iberian forces trying to lift the Siege of Cádiz defeated a French attack but could not break the siege itself.

March 5th, 1770

American Revolution: British soldiers fired into a crowd in Boston, killing five people.

March 5th, 1496

King Henry VII of England issued letters patent to John Cabot and his sons, authorising them to explore undiscovered lands.

March 5th, 1279

The Livonian branch of the Teutonic Order suffered a great loss when 71 knights died in the Battle of Aizkraukle.

March 5th, 1936

The prototype (pictured) of the Supermarine Spitfire flew for the first time.

March 5th, 2011

An Antonov An-148 crashes in Russia's Alexeyevsky District, Belgorod Oblast during a test flight, killing all seven aboard.

March 5th, 2002

An earthquake in Mindanao, Philippines, kills 15 people and injures more than 100.

March 5th, 2001

In Mina, Saudi Arabia, 35 pilgrims are killed in a stampede on the Jamaraat Bridge during the Hajj.

March 5th, 1968

Air France Flight 212 crashes into La Grande Soufrière, killing all 63 aboard.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on March 5th

Born on March 5th, 1944

60

Charly Grosskost

French road bicycle racer

*March 5th, 1944, Eckbolsheim †June 19th, 2004, Saverne

80

Tom Flanagan

Author, academic, and political activist

*March 5th, 1944, Ottawa

80

Élisabeth Badinter

French author, historian, and professor

*March 5th, 1944, Boulogne-Billancourt

78

Peter Weibel

Austrian artist and theorist (1944-2023)

*March 5th, 1944, Odesa †March 1st, 2023, Karlsruhe

80

Roy Gutman

American journalist

*March 5th, 1944, New York City

80

Peter Brandes

Danish artist

*March 5th, 1944, Assens

80

Christoph Wonneberger

German theologian, one of the initiators of the monday-demonstrations in Leipzig and activist of the 1989 revolution in the GDR

*March 5th, 1944, Thermalbad Wiesenbad

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Who's birthday is on March 5th?

87

Olusegun Obasanjo

Nigerian president (1999-2007) and military leader (1976–79)

*March 5th, 1937, Abeokuta

87

Heinz Rennhack

German actor

*March 5th, 1937, Gdańsk

75

Bernard Arnault

French entrepreneur

*March 5th, 1949, Roubaix

36

Young Dolph

American rapper (1985–2021)

*March 5th, 1985, Chicago †November 17th, 2021, Memphis

55

Lucio Battisti

Italian singer-songwriter (1943-1998)

*March 5th, 1943, Poggio Bustone †September 9th, 1998, Molteno

67

Henning Krautmacher

German singer and actor

*March 5th, 1957, Leverkusen

39

Willem Viljoen

Badminton player

*March 5th, 1985, Bloemfontein

76

Jack Marshall

Prime Minister of New Zealand, politician (1912-1988)

*March 5th, 1912, Wellington †August 30th, 1988, Snape

60

Maria Bengtsson

Badminton player

*March 5th, 1964, Malmö

69

Penn Jillette

American magician

*March 5th, 1955, Greenfield

79

Lars Roar Langslet

Norwegian politician (1936-2016)

*March 5th, 1936, Nesbyen municipality †January 18th, 2016

55

Frank Forberger

East German rower (1943-1998)

*March 5th, 1943, Meissen †September 30th, 1998, Meissen

26

Leif Torbjørn Næsvold

Norwegian Nordic combined skier (born 1998)

*March 5th, 1998, Trondheim

75

Franz Josef Jung

German politician

*March 5th, 1949, Erbach

47

Rosa Luxemburg

German-Polish Marxist theorist, socialist philosopher, and revolutionary, editor (1871–1919)

*March 5th, 1871, Zamość †January 15th, 1919, Berlin

85

Wolf Bauer

German politician and member of the conservative CDU

*March 5th, 1939, Steinach

95

Henriette Walter

French linguist

*March 5th, 1929, Sfax

83

Alain Boublil

French musical theatre lyricist and librettist

*March 5th, 1941, Tunis

20

Liu Yutong

Badminton player

*March 5th, 2004, Cangzhou

90

Daniel Kahneman

Israeli-American psychologist and economist

*March 5th, 1934, Tel Aviv †March 27th, 2024

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Born in 1944

79

Udo Kier

German actor

*October 14th, 1944, Cologne

79

Dieter Planck

German archaeologist

*August 14th, 1944, Rottenburg am Neckar

79

Poul Michelsen

Faroese businessperson and politician

*July 22nd, 1944, Tórshavn

79

Nils Ole Oftebro

Norwegian actor

*December 1st, 1944, Sarpsborg Municipality

73

Jonathan Demme

American film director (1944–2017)

*February 22nd, 1944, Baldwin †April 26th, 2017, Manhattan

79

John Rhys-Davies

British actor

*May 5th, 1944, Ammanford

80

Syed Mohammed Arif

Badminton player and trainer

*January 29th, 1944, Hyderabad

80

Joachim Schimpke

Badminton player

*March 8th, 1944, Hohenstein-Ernstthal

79

Michael Douglas

American actor and film producer

*September 25th, 1944, New Brunswick

80

Gerhard Schröder

Chancellor of Germany from 1998 to 2005

*April 7th, 1944, Mossenberg-Wöhren

80

Gert Audring

German historian of classical antiquity

*February 6th, 1944, Śrem

80

Alice Walker

American author and activist (1944- )

*February 9th, 1944, Eatonton

79

Ban Ki-moon

8th Secretary-General of the United Nations

*June 13th, 1944, Eumseong County

77

Judi Rollick

Badminton player

*August 17th, 1944, Seattle †April 5th, 2022

80

Alexander Van der Bellen

President of Austria since 2017

*January 18th, 1944, Vienna

77

Volker Lechtenbrink

German actor and singer

*August 18th, 1944, Zelenogradsk †November 22nd, 2021, Hamburg

72

David Chandler

American chemist (1944-2017)

*October 15th, 1944, New York City †April 18th, 2017, Berkeley

72

Helena Štáchová

Czech actress, theatre director, manager and puppeteer

*November 18th, 1944, Prague †March 22nd, 2017, Prague

79

Serge Haroche

French physicist, Nobel laureate

*September 11th, 1944, Casablanca

79

Dieter Hertrampf

German musician, singer and guitarist

*November 29th, 1944, Berlin

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Yes: 1944 is a leap year, therefore has a 29th of February with an additional leap day and a total of 366 days (instead of the usual 365 days in a normal year).

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