Born this Day: February 5

1964: Laura Linney, actress.
1963: Steven Shainberg, director.
1959: Jennifer Granholm, politician.
1954: Cliff Martinez, musician.
1953: John Beilein, basketball coach.
1948: Barbara Hershey, actress.
1948: Christopher Guest, actor.
1944: Al Kooper, musician.


1943: Michael Mann, director.
1943: Nolan Bushnell, video game pioneer.
1941: David Selby, actor.
1941: Jane Bryant Quinn, journalist.
1930: John A. Gambling, radio show host.
1928: Andrew Greeley, priest and novelist.
1927: Ruth Fertel, entrepreneur.
1923: Claude King, musician.
1919: Tim Holt, actor.
1919: Red Buttons, actor.
1915: Robert Hofstadter, Nobel Prize Laureate.
1914: william S. Burroughs, author.
1906: John Carradine, actor.
1900: Adlai Stevenson, politician.


1848: Belle Starr, outlaw.


1840: Hiram Stevens Maxim, inventor.
1837: Dwight L. Moody, evangelist.
1725: James Otis, lawyer and patriot.