August 5

August 5 is the 217th day of the year (218th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar.
==Births==
* 1907: Roger Loyer (d. 1988)
* 1930: Richie Ginther (d. 1989)
* 1943: Leo Kinnunen (d. 2017)
* 1946: Alain Dassas
* 1972: Niels Wittich
* 1974: Angela Cullen
* 1991: Esteban Gutiérrez
* 1992: Alex Fontana
==Deaths==
* 1994: Alain de Changy (b. 1922)
* 1996: Chas Mortimer (b. 1913) 
==Races==
(Italics incidates a non-championship race)
* 1951: 
* 1956: 
* 1973: 
* 1984: 
* 2007: 
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