Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/February 5

Births

• 1788 - Robert Peel, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1850) (pictured)
• 1900 - Adlai Stevenson, American politician (d. 1965)
• 1906 - John Carradine, American actor (d. 1988)
• 1919 - Red Buttons, American actor (d. 2006)
• 1934 - Hank Aaron, baseball player (d. 2021)
• 1948 - Christopher Guest, American actor
• 1962 - Jennifer Jason Leigh, American actress

Deaths

• 1790 - William Cullen, Scottish physician and chemist (b. 1710)
• 1881 - Thomas Carlyle, Scottish writer and historian (b. 1795)
• 1941 - Banjo Paterson, Australian poet, author of "Walzing Matilda" (b. 1864)
• 1967 - Leon Leonwood Bean, American department store founder (b. 1872)