05 August: today's birthdays

• Neil Armstrong - American astronaut. He has been the first man to walk on the Moon on July 20, 1969
• Håvard Bjerkeli - Norwegian cross-country skier
• Guy de Maupassant - French writer and poet. He wrote Bel Ami, Mont Oriol and Pierre et Jean
• Patrick Ewing - Jamaican-American basketball coach and former player
• John Huston - American actor, film director, and screenwriter, born John Marcellus Huston. He won an Oscar for Best Director and one for Writing Adapted Screenplay
• Helena Janeczek - German-born Italian writer of Polish descent
• Marine Le Pen - French politician, daughter of Jean-Marie Le Pen and leader of the French political party National Front 
• Janet McTeer - English actress. She starred in Tumbleweeds
• Federica Pellegrini - Italian swimmer
• John Whitaker - English jockey
• Franz Wieacker - Historian of Roman Law
• Adam Yauch - American rapper, songwriter and film director