Birthdays for February the 5th:
1723 - John Witherspoon, clergyman & signer of Declaration of Independence
1744 - John Jeffries, colonial physician & meteorologist
1778 - Sir Robert Peel, (C) British P.M. (1834-46) & founder of Tories
1837 - Evangelist Dwight Lyman Moody
1840 - John Boyd Dunlop, developed pneumatic rubber tire
1848 - Belle Starr, of the wild west
1878 - Andre-Gustave Citron, French auto maker
1900 - Adlai Stevenson, (D) Ill gov & pres candidate
1906 - John Carradine, actor
1907 - Norton Simon, business executive
1914 - William Burroughs, U.S. novelist (Naked Lunch)
1919 - Red Buttons, comedian/Actor
1926 - Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, publisher (NY Times)
1934 - Hank Aaron, baseball player (record 755 HR's)
1939 - Jane Bryant Quinn, newscaster
1946 - Charlotte Rampling, in England
1948 - Barbara Hershey, in Atlanta Georgia
1951 - Elizabeth Swados, American composer & playwright