May 5
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Births
- 1800 - Louis Hachette, French publisher
- 1813 - Søren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher and avant la lettre existentialist
- 1818 - Karl Marx, German activist
- 1944 - Jean-Pierre Léaud, French actor of the nouvelle vague
- 1949 - David Toop, English musician and author
Deaths
- 1821 - Napoleon I of France dies in exile.
- 1958 - James Branch Cabell, American writer of fantasy fiction and author of Jurgen, A Comedy of Justice
- 1982 - Cal Tjader, American Latin jazz musician
- 2004 - Sir Coxsone Dodd, Jamaican record producer and owner of Studio One
- 2004 - David Reimer, sex change patient in a famous gender identity case
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