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| March 5th, 2008 (March 05 2008) | Death | Joseph Weizenbaum, German-American professor of computer science (b.1923) | |
| March 5th, 1998 (March 05 1998) | Event | NASA announces that the Clementine probe orbiting the Moon has found enough water to support a human colony. | |
| March 5th, 1988 (March 05 1988) | Event | Constitution of Turks and Caicos Islands is restored and revised. | |
| March 5th, 1988 (March 05 1988) | Birth | Trevor Carson, Northern Irish footballer | |
| March 5th, 1988 (March 05 1988) | Birth | Bjarni Vi?arsson, Icelandic footballer | |
| March 5th, 1988 (March 05 1988) | Death | Alberto Olmedo, Argentine comedian (born in 1933) | |
| March 5th, 1978 (March 05 1978) | Event | The Landsat 3 is launched from Vandenberg AFB in California. | |
| March 5th, 1978 (March 05 1978) | Birth | Mike Hessman, American baseball player | |
| March 5th, 1978 (March 05 1978) | Birth | Kimberly McCullough, American actress | |
| March 5th, 1978 (March 05 1978) | Birth | Papoose, American rapper | |
| March 5th, 1958 (March 05 1958) | Event | The Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region is established. | |
| March 5th, 1958 (March 05 1958) | Event | Explorer 2 spacecraft launches and fails to reach Earth orbit. | |
| March 5th, 1958 (March 05 1958) | Birth | Andy Gibb, English-born Australian singer and teen idol (died in 1988) | |
| March 5th, 1948 (March 05 1948) | Birth | Eddy Grant, Guyana-born singer | |
| March 5th, 1948 (March 05 1948) | Birth | Richard Hickox, English musical conductor | |
| March 5th, 1948 (March 05 1948) | Birth | Elaine Paige, English singer and actress | Elaine Paige Quotes |
| March 5th, 1948 (March 05 1948) | Birth | Paquirri, Spanish bullfighter (died in 1984) | |
| March 5th, 1938 (March 05 1938) | Birth | Paul Evans, American singer and songwriter | Evans Quotes |
| March 5th, 1938 (March 05 1938) | Birth | Fred Williamson, American football player and actor | |
| March 5th, 1918 (March 05 1918) | Birth | Milt Schmidt, Canadian ice hockey player, coach and manager | |
| March 5th, 1918 (March 05 1918) | Birth | Red Storey, Canadian football player and ice hockey referee (died in 2006) | |
| March 5th, 1918 (March 05 1918) | Birth | James Tobin, American economist, Nobel laureate (died in 2002) | |
| March 5th, 1908 (March 05 1908) | Birth | Irving Fiske, American writer, playwright, (died in 1990) | Irving Fiske Quotes |
| March 5th, 1908 (March 05 1908) | Birth | Sir Rex Harrison, English actor (died in 1990) | |
| March 5th, 1898 (March 05 1898) | Birth | Zhou Enlai, Premier of the People s Republic of China (died in 1976) | |
| March 5th, 1898 (March 05 1898) | Birth | Soong May-ling, Chinese wife of Chiang Kai-Shek (died in 2003) | Soong May ling Quotes |
| March 5th, 1868 (March 05 1868) | Event | A court of impeachment is organized in the United States Senate to hear charges against President Andrew Johnson. | Andrew Johnson Quotes |
| March 5th, 1868 (March 05 1868) | Event | Mefistofele, an opera by Arrigo Boito premieres at La Scala. | |
| March 5th, 1848 (March 05 1848) | Event | Louis Antoine Garnier-Pages is named French minister of Finance. | |
| March 5th, 1778 (March 05 1778) | Death | Thomas Arne, English composer (born in 1710) | |
| March 5th, 1748 (March 05 1748) | Birth | Jonas C. Dryander, Swedish botanist (died in 1810) | |
| March 5th, 1748 (March 05 1748) | Birth | William Shield, English musician (died in 1829) | |
| March 5th, 1658 (March 05 1658) | Birth | Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, French explorer (died in 1730) | |
