Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/November 5
Births
[edit]- 1549 - Philippe de Mornay, French writer (d. 1623)
- 1855 - Eugene V. Debs, American socialist leader (d. 1926)
- 1911 - Roy Rogers, American actor (d. 1998)
- 1913 - Vivien Leigh, English actress (d. 1967)
- 1941 - Art Garfunkel, American musician
- 1959 - Bryan Adams, Canadian musician
- 1965 - Famke Janssen, Dutch model and actress
- 1973 - Johnny Damon, baseball player
Deaths
[edit]- 1879 - James Clerk Maxwell, Scottish physicist (b. 1831)
- 1942 - George M. Cohan, American musician, actor, writer, and composer (b. 1878)
- 1956 - Art Tatum, American musician (b. 1909)
- 1977 - Guy Lombardo, Canadian conductor (b. 1902)
- 1979 - Al Capp, American cartoonist (b. 1909)
- 1991 - Fred MacMurray, American actor (b. 1908)