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August 5 is the 217th day of the year (218th in leap years) ... Danish-born Russian explorer (d. 1741) 1694 – Leonardo Leo, Italian composer (d. 1744) [27]
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Adam Yauch (August 5, 1964 –May 4, 2012), (a.k.a. MCA) American rapper of Beastie Boys fame, would have turned 60 this year.; Pete Burns (August 5, 1959 –October 23, 2016), Frontman for new wave music act, Dead or Alive, would have turned 65 this year.
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Celebrity birthdays for the week of Aug. 4-10: Aug. 4: Actor Tina Cole (“My Three Sons”) is 81. Actor Billy Bob Thornton is 69. Actor Kym Karath (“The Sound of Music”) is 66.
August 9: International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples; National Women's Day in South Africa First Smokey Bear poster 1821 – The statue of A'a from Rurutu was presented to members of the London Missionary Society on the south Pacific island of Ra'iatea .
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Patrick Aloysius Ewing Sr. (born August 5, 1962) is a Jamaican-American basketball coach and former professional player who is a basketball ambassador for the New York Knicks of the National Basketball Association (NBA) where he played most of his career as the starting center before ending his playing career with brief stints with the Seattle SuperSonics and Orlando Magic.