July 5
July 5 is the 186th day of the year (187th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 179 days remaining until the end of the year.
Events
Up to 1900
- 967 - Emperor Murakami of Japan (b. 926)
- 1080 – Isleifur Gissurarson, Bishop of Iceland and Greenland (b. 1006)
- 1316 - Ferdinand of Majorca (b. 1278)
- 1539 - Anthony Maria Zaccaria, Italian saint (b. 1502)
- 1572 - Longqing Emperor of China (b. 1537)
- 1666 - Albert VI, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1584)
- 1676 - Carl Gustaf Wrangel, Swedish commander and politician (b. 1613)
- 1773 - Francisco José Freire, Portuguese historian and philologist (b. 1719)
- 1816 - Dorothea Jordan, Irish actress and mistress to King George IV of the United Kingdom (b. 1761)
- 1819 - William Cornwallis, English admiral and politician (b. 1744)
- 1826 – Stamford Raffles, British colonial statesman, founder of Singapore (b. 1781)
- 1833 – Nicéphore Niépce, French inventor and photography pioneer (b. 1765)
- 1859 - Charles Cagniard de la Tour, French physicist and engineer (b. 1777)
- 1863 - Lewis Armistead, American general (b. 1817)
- 1875 - Maria Röhl, Swedish artist (b. 1801)
1901 – 2000
- 1904 – Abai Kunanbaiuli, Kazakh poet (b. 1845)
- 1908 – Jonas Lie, Norwegian writer (b. 1833)
- 1911 - Maria Pia of Savoy (b. 1847)
- 1920 – Max Klinger, artist (b. 1857)
- 1927 – Albrecht Kossel, German doctor, won the 1910 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1853)
- 1937 - Daniel Sawyer, American golfer (b. 1884)
- 1945 – John Curtin, fourteenth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1885)
- 1948 – Georges Bernanos, French writer (b. 1888)
- 1948 – Carole Landis, American actress (b. 1919)
- 1957 – Charles Sherwood Noble, inventor (b. 1873)
- 1966 – George de Hevesy, Hungarian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1885)
- 1969 – Walter Gropius, German architect (b. 1883)
- 1969 - Wilhelm Backhaus, German pianist (b. 1884)
- 1975 – Otto Skorzeny, German commando who rescued Benito Mussolini (b. 1908)
- 1983 – Harry James, American musician (b. 1916)
- 1991 – Howard Nemerov, poet (b. 1920)
- 1998 – Sid Luckman, American football player (b. 1916)
From 2001
- 2001 – Hannelore Kohl, wife of Chancellor of Germany Helmut Kohl (suicide) (b. 1933)
- 2002 – Katy Jurado, Mexican actress (b. 1924)
- 2002 – Ted Williams, American Baseball Hall of Famer (b. 1918)
- 2003 – Roman Lyashenko, Russian ice hockey player (b. 1979)
- 2004 – Hugh Shearer, 3rd Prime Minister of Jamaica (b. 1923)
- 2004 – Rodger Ward, auto racer (b. 1921)
- 2007 – George Melly, British singer (b. 1926)
- 2008 – René Harris, President of Nauru (b. 1947)
- 2010 – Cesare Siepi, Italian opera singer (b. 1923)
- 2010 – Nasr Abu Zayd, Egyptian-Dutch academic (b. 1943)
- 2010 – Bob Probert, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1965)
- 2010 – David Fanshawe, British composer (b. 1942)
- 2011 - Cy Twombly, American artist (b. 1928)
- 2012 - Gerrit Komrij, Dutch author, poet and playwright (b. 1944)
- 2013 - David Cargo, 22nd Governor of New Mexico (b. 1929)
- 2014 - Volodymyr Sabodan, Ukrainian church leader (b. 1935)
- 2014 - Rosemary Murphy, American actress (b. 1925)
- 2015 - Sakari Momoi, Japanese supercentenarian (b. 1903)
- 2015 - Yoichiro Nambu, Japanese-American physicist (b. 1921)
- 2016 - William L. Armstrong, American politician (b. 1937)
- 2016 - Beatrice de Cardi, English archaeologist (b. 1914)
- 2016 - Valentino Zeichen, Italian poet and author (b. 1938)
- 2017 - Pierre Henry, French composer (b. 1927)
- 2017 - Joachim Meisner, German cardinal (b. 1933)
- 2017 - Willi Reschke, German military officer (b. 1922)
- 2017 - John Rodriguez, Guyanese-born Canadian politician (b. 1937)
- 2017 - Irina Ratushinskaya, Russian poet (b. 1954)
- 2017 - Roger Wootton, English aeronautical engineer and balloonist (b. 1944)
- 2018 - François Budet, French singer-songwriter and novelist (b. 1940)
- 2018 - Adamu Ciroma, Nigerian politician and banker (b. 1934)
- 2018 - Claude Lanzmann, French filmmaker (b. 1925)
- 2018 - Ed Schultz, American television-radio personality and political commentator (b. 1954)
- 2018 - Jean-Louis Tauran, French cardinal (b. 1943)
- 2020 - Nick Cordero, Canadian actor (b. 1978)
Births
1901 – 1950
- 1902 - Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., American colonel and politician (d. 1985)
- 1903 - Bernardus Jan Alfrink, Dutch cardinal and Archbishop of Utrecht (d. 1987)
- 1904 – Ernst Mayr, German-American biologist (d. 2005)
- 1907 - Ethel Smith, Canadian athlete (d. 1979)
- 1907 – Yang Shangkun, President of China (d. 1998)
- 1908 - Henri, Count of Paris (d. 1999)
- 1911 – Georges Pompidou, President of France (d. 1974)
- 1911 - Giorgio Borg Olivier, 7th Prime Minister of Malta (d. 1980)
- 1914 - Gerda Gilboe, Danish actress (d. 2009)
- 1915 - John Woodruff, American athlete (d. 2007)
- 1918 - Zakaria Mohieddin, 33rd Prime Minister of Egypt (d. 2012)
- 1918 – K. Karunakaran, Indian politician (d. 2010)
- 1919 - Bep Voskuijl, Dutch helper of Anne Frank (d. 1983)
- 1921 – Viktor Kulikov, Marshal of the Soviet Union (d. 2013)
- 1924 - Janos Starker, Hungarian-American cellist (d. 2013)
- 1925 - Fernando de Szyszlo, Peruvian sculptor (d. 2018)
- 1925 - Jean Raspail, French author and explorer
- 1926 – Salvador Jorge Blanco, President of the Dominican Republic (d. 2010)
- 1926 – Diana Lynn, American actress (d. 1971)
- 1926 - Viola Harris, American actress (d. 2017)
- 1926 - Ivo Pitanguy, Brazilian plastic surgeon (d. 2016)
- 1927 - Thomas Fleming, American novelist (d. 2017)
- 1927 - Beverly Tyler, American singer and actress (d. 2005)
- 1928 - Pierre Mauroy, Prime Minister of France (d. 2013)
- 1928 - Warren Oates, American actor (d. 1982)
- 1928 – Juris Hartmanis, Latvian computer scientist and computational theorist
- 1929 – Katherine Helmond, American actress (d. 2019)
- 1932 – Gyula Horn, former Prime Minister of Hungary (d. 2013)
- 1932 - Kazimiera Utrata, Polish actress (d. 2018)
- 1933 – Jean-Paul Pier, Luxembourgian mathematician (d. 2016)
- 1934 – Yoshio Furukawa, Japanese football player
- 1935 - Brendan McCann, American basketball player
- 1935 - Michael Wenning, American minister (d. 2011)
- 1936 - Frederick Ballantyne, Governor-General of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- 1936 – James Mirrlees, Scottish economist
- 1936 - Piet Fransen, Dutch footballer (d. 2015)
- 1939 – Pavel Morozenko, Soviet movie and theatre actor (d. 1991)
- 1940 - James Herbert Brennan, Irish writer
- 1940 - Chuck Close, American painter, artist and photographer
- 1941 - Epeli Nailatikau, Fijian politician
- 1942 – Hannes Löhr, German footballer (d. 2016)
- 1945 - Michael Blake, American writer (d. 2015)
- 1946 – Gerardus 't Hooft, Dutch physicist
- 1946 - Giuseppe Furino, Italian footballer
- 1946 - Pierre-Marc Johnson, 24th Premier of Quebec
- 1950 – Huey Lewis, American singer
1951 – 1975
- 1954 – Jimmy Crespo, American guitarist and songwriter (Aerosmith)
- 1954 – Don Stark, American actor
- 1955 – Sebastian Barry, Irish playwright, novelist and poet
- 1955 – Mia Couto, Mozambican writer
- 1955 – Peter McNamara, Australian tennis player
- 1956 – Horacio Cartes, President of Paraguay
- 1956 – Terry Chimes, English drummer
- 1957 – Doug Wilson, Canadian-American ice hockey player and manager
- 1958 – Veronica Guerin, Irish journalist (d. 1996)
- 1958 – Bill Watterson, American cartoonist
- 1960 – Pruitt Taylor Vince, American actor
- 1962 – Amrozi bin Nurhasyim, Indonesian terrorist (d. 2008)
- 1963 – Edie Falco, American actress
- 1964 – Piotr Nowak, Polish footballer
- 1966 – Gianfranco Zola, Italian footballer
- 1967 – Mustafa Al-Kadhimi, Prime Minister of Iraq
- 1968 – Hedi Slimane, French fashion designer
- 1968 – Michael Stuhlbarg, American actor
- 1968 – Nardwuar, Canadian interviewer and musician
- 1969 – Michael O'Neill, Northern Irish footballer and manager
- 1969 – RZA, American rapper, producer, actor and director
- 1970 – Mac Dre, American rapper
- 1971 – Derek McInnes, Scottish footballer
- 1971 – Nicola Stephenson, English actress
- 1972 – Nia Roberts, Welsh actress
- 1973 – Marcus Allback, Swedish footballer
- 1973 – Bengt Lagerberg, Swedish drummer (The Cardigans)
- 1973 – Spencer Kelly, English technology journalist
- 1975 – Hernán Crespo, Argentine footballer
From 1976
- 1976 – Nuno Gomes, Portuguese footballer
- 1976 - Bizarre, American rapper
- 1977 – Nicolas Kiefer, German tennis player
- 1977 - Royce da 5'9, American rapper
- 1978 - Allan Simonsen, Danish racing driver (d. 2013)
- 1979 – Amélie Mauresmo, French tennis player
- 1979 – Stiliyan Petrov, Bulgarian footballer
- 1979 – Shane Filan, Irish singer (Westlife)
- 1980 – Eva Green, French actress
- 1980 - Zayed Khan, Indian actor
- 1980 - Hannes Reichelt, Austrian skier
- 1980 – David Rozehnal, Czech footballer
- 1981 - Gianne Albertoni, Brazilian model and actress
- 1981 - Ryan Hansen, American actor
- 1982 – Alberto Gilardino, Italian footballer
- 1982 - Philippe Gilbert, Belgian cyclist
- 1982 - Vladimir Fedotov, Russian footballer
- 1982 - Dave Haywood, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Lady Antebellum)
- 1983 – Zheng Jie, Chinese tennis player
- 1984 - Zack Miller, American golfer
- 1984 - Yu Yamada, Japanese model, actress and singer
- 1985 - Nick O'Malley, English bass player (Arctic Monkeys)
- 1985 - Stephanie McIntosh, Australian singer and actress
- 1985 - Megan Rapinoe, American soccer player
- 1986 - Piermario Morosini, Italian footballer (d. 2012)
- 1986 - Samuel Honrubia, French handball player
- 1986 - Alexander Radulov, Russian ice hockey player
- 1986 - Adam Young, American singer-songwriter and musician (Owl City)
- 1989 - Charlie Austin, English footballer
- 1989 - Dejan Lovren, Croatian footballer
- 1989 - Hiroyuki Abe, Japanese footballer
- 1991 - Jason Dolley, American actor
- 1992 - Alberto Moreno, Spanish footballer
- 1995 - Giovanni Simeone, Argentine footballer
- 1996 – Dolly the Sheep, first cloned mammal (d. 2003)
Deaths
Observances
- Independence Day in Venezuela (1811), Algeria (1962), and Cape Verde (1975)
- Constitution Day in Armenia
- Tynwald Day (Isle of Man)