Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/March 5

Births

• 1512 - Gerardus Mercator, Flemish cartographer (d. 1594) (pictured)
• 1874 - Henry Travers, British actor (d. 1965)
• 1898 - Zhou Enlai, Premier of the People's Republic of China (d. 1976)
• 1908 - Sir Rex Harrison, English actor (d. 1990)

Deaths

• 1695 - Henry Wharton, English writer (b. 1664)
• 1827 - Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist (b. 1745)
• 1953 - Sergei Prokofiev, Russian composer, (b. 1891)
• 1953 - Joseph Stalin, Georgian leader of the Soviet Union (b. 1879)
• 1963 - Patsy Cline, American singer (b. 1932)
• 1982 - John Belushi, American actor (b. 1949)