Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/June 5

• 1723¹ - Adam Smith, (pictured) Scottish economist and philosopher (d. 1790)
• 1850 - Pat Garrett, American Western lawman (d. 1908)
• 1878 - Pancho Villa, Mexican revolutionary (d. 1923)
• 1883 - John Maynard Keynes, English economist (d. 1946)
• 1898 - Federico García Lorca, Spanish lyricist and dramatist (d. 1936)
• 1900 - Dennis Gabor, Hungarian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1979)
• 1939 - Joe Clark, sixteenth Prime Minister of Canada
• 1956 - Kenny G, American saxophonist
• 1979 - Pete Wentz, American musician (Fall Out Boy)
• 1981 - Jade Goody, British television personality (d. 2009)

• 1900 - Stephen Crane, American author (b. 1871)
• 1910 - O. Henry, American author (b. 1862)
• 2002 - Dee Dee Ramone, American bassist (The Ramones) (b. 1951)
• 2004 - Ronald Reagan, former President of the United States (b. 1911)

¹Actually his baptismal date.

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