5 February

5 February (the Fifth of February, February 5th, &c.) is the thirty-sixth day of the year and the fifth day of the month of February under the Gregorian calendar, as first promulgated by Pope Gregory XIII, Bishop of Rome, in 1582 A.D., as well as the earlier Julian calendar, as first promulgated by Julius Caesar in 45 B.C. The date of 5 February is followed by either 329 days or 330 days during leap years, which are calculated differently in Gregorian and Julian calendars; in both calendars, regardless of its leap year status, the date that follows is 6 February and the date that precedes it is 4 February.

Note that for the purposes of the following indices, the Gregorian date trumps the Julian date, unless otherwise indicated.

Births

• Frank Podmore (1856-1910), parapsychologist
• Joe Simonton (1901-1972), contactee
• Mark Probert (1907-1969), medium
• Oscar Magocsi (1928-2002), contactee

Deaths

• William F. Lyon (1811-1887), Spiritualist
• Alexandre Saint-Yves d'Alveydre (1842-1909), poet and political thinker
• Henry Newman (1871-1942), journalist, coiner of the term Abominable Snowman
• Barnum Brown (1873-1963), fossil prospector
• Adele Darrah Fahey (1915-2008), contactee who reported meeting Ashtar in person