List of Famous people born on August 5th

William David Hungate is a bass guitarist, producer, and arranger noted as a member of Los Angeles pop-rock band Toto from 1977 to 1982 and again from 2014 to 2015. Along with most of his Toto bandmates, Hungate did sessions on a number of hit albums of the 1970s, including Boz Scaggs's Silk Degrees and Alice Cooper's From the Inside.

Gary Joseph Beban is an American former professional football player. Beban won the 1967 Heisman Trophy, narrowly beating out O.J. Simpson, and the Maxwell Award while playing quarterback for the UCLA Bruins. He played professional football for two seasons in the National Football League (NFL) with the Washington Redskins. Beban was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1988.

Kazunori Yamauchi is a Japanese game designer and professional racing driver. He is CEO of Polyphony Digital and producer of the Gran Turismo video game series.

Hans Hugo Klein is a German politician. He was a representative of the German Christian Democratic Union from 1983 to 1996 and he was judge at the Constitutional Court.

Antony Cotton is an English actor and comedian, best known as Sean Tully in Coronation Street and as Alexander Perry in the original Queer as Folk series. In 2007, Cotton secured his own talk show titled That Antony Cotton Show. In March 2013, he won Let's Dance for Comic Relief.