List of Famous people born on August 5th

Vladimir Ivanovich Fedoseyev is a Soviet and Russian conductor, accordionist, teacher. People's Artist of the USSR (1980). Laureate of the USSR State Prize (1989) and the Glinka State Prize of the RSFSR (1970). Full Commander of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland". Artistic director and chief conductor of the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra since 1974.

Asha Jaquilla Degree went missing at the age of nine from Shelby, North Carolina, United States. In the early morning hours of February 14, 2000, for reasons unknown, she packed her bookbag, left her family home north of the city and began walking along nearby North Carolina Highway 18 despite heavy rain and wind. Several passing motorists saw her; when one turned around at a point 1.3 miles (2.1 km) from her home and began to approach her, she left the roadside and ran into a wooded area. In the morning, her parents discovered her absence. No one has seen her since.

Patryk Klimala is a Polish professional footballer who plays as a striker for Celtic.

Salvador Cabañas Ortega is a Paraguayan former professional footballer who played as a striker.

Bastien Lachaud is a French politician representing La France insoumise. He was elected to the French National Assembly on 18 June 2017, representing the department of Seine-Saint-Denis.

Marcus Johnson is an American football wide receiver for the Tennessee Titans of the National Football League (NFL). After playing college football for Texas, he was signed by the Philadelphia Eagles as an undrafted free agent following the 2016 NFL Draft. He helped win Super Bowl LII with the Eagles, defeating the New England Patriots.

Ashley Moyer-Gleich is an American professional basketball referee in the National Basketball Association (NBA), wearing number 13. Moyer-Gleich became the fourth woman to be a full-time NBA referee. Moyer-Gleich played college basketball at Millersville University in Millersville, Pennsylvania. Moyer-Gleich previously refereed in NBA Gatorade League for two seasons and the 2018 WNBA season before becoming a full-time referee for the 2018-19 NBA season. On October 22, 2018, Moyer-Gleich made her NBA official debut referring a regular season contest between Indiana Pacers and Minnesota Timberwolves at Target Center. On November 15, 2018, the NBA announced that Moyer-Gleich was promoted to a full-time member of the league's officiating staff which she previously officiated three regular-season games and two preseason games as a non-staff referee.

Andriy Yevheniyovych Biletsky is a Ukrainian far-right politician. He is the leader of political party National Corps. He was the first commander of the volunteer militia Azov Battalion, and a co-founder of the nationalist movement Social-National Assembly. From 2014 until 2019 Biletsky was a Member of Ukrainian Parliament.

David Jonathan Healy, MBE is a Northern Irish former footballer and now football manager who is in charge at NIFL Premiership club Linfield.

Arthur Gregg Sulzberger is an American journalist.