List of Famous people born on February 5th

Antonio Sánchez Pecino was the father of famed flamenco guitarists Paco de Lucía, Ramón de Algeciras, and flamenco singer/songwriter Pepe de Lucía. He was also a well-known flamenco guitarist and songwriter in his own right, producing and writing most of the songs that appeared on the early albums by Camarón de la Isla and Paco de Lucía.

Dušan Uhrin is a Czech and Slovak football coach and former player. He was the coach of Slovan Bratislava. Although he was born in the Nitra District in the Slovak part of Czechoslovakia, he has lived in Prague since the age of 16.

Robert Hofstadter was an American physicist. He was the joint winner of the 1961 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his pioneering studies of electron scattering in atomic nuclei and for his consequent discoveries concerning the structure of nucleons".

Dame Susan Hill, is an English author of fiction and non-fiction works. Her novels include The Woman in Black, The Mist in the Mirror, and I'm the King of the Castle, for which she received the Somerset Maugham Award in 1971.

Samuel Phillips Jr. was an American merchant, manufacturer, politician, and the founder of Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. Phillips is considered a pioneer in American education.