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Notable Birthdays for June 5

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Those born on this date include:

- British furniture maker Thomas Chippendale in 1718
- Scottish economist Adam Smith in 1723
- Lincoln County, N.M., Sheriff Pat Garrett, who shot Billy the Kid, in 1850
- Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa in 1878
- actor William Boyd (Hopalong Cassidy) in 1895
- Italian shoemaker Salvatore Ferragamo in 1898
- Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca in 1898
- author/illustrator Richard Scarry in 1919
- actor Robert Lansing in 1928
- journalist/commentator Bill Moyers in 1934 (age 86)
- British novelist Margaret Drabble in 1939 (age 81)
- New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft in 1941 (age 79)
- Olympic athlete John Carlos in 1945 (age 75)
- Welsh author Ken Follett in 1949 (age 71)
- financial adviser Suze Orman in 1951 (age 69)
- producer Kathleen Kennedy in 1953 (age 67)
- entertainer Kenny G in 1956 (age 64)
- author Rick Riordan in 1964 (age 56)
- singer Brian McKnight in 1969 (age 51)
- actor/producer Mark Wahlberg in 1971 (age 49)
- actor Chad Allen in 1974 (age 46)
- actor Liza Weil in 1977 (age 43)
- actor Nick Kroll in 1978 (age 42)
- musician Pete Wentz in 1979 (age 41)
- Russian Olympic figure skater Yulia Lipnitskaya in 1998 (age 22).

 


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