On this day: July 5th
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328 The official opening of Constantine's Bridge (Danube) built over the Danube between Sucidava (Corabia, Romania) and Oescus (Gigen, Bulgaria) by the Roman Empire architect Theophilus Patricius.
1316 The Duchy of Burgundy and Kingdom of Majorca claimants of the Principality of Achaea meet in the Battle of Manolada.
1594 Portuguese Empire forces under the command of Pedro Lopes de Sousa begin an unsuccessful invasion of the Kingdom of Kandy during the Campaign of Danture in Sri Lanka.
1610 John Guy (governor) sets sail from Bristol with 39 other colonists for Newfoundland (island).
1687 Isaac Newton publishes ''Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica''.
1770 The Battle of Chesma between the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire begins.
1775 The Second Continental Congress adopts the Olive Branch Petition.
1803 The Convention of Artlenburg is signed, leading to the French occupation of the Electorate of Hanover (which had been ruled by the British king).
1807 In Buenos Aires the local militias repel the United Kingdom soldiers within the British invasions of the River Plate.
1809 The Battle of Wagram between the First French Empire and Austrian Empires begins.
1811 The Venezuelan Declaration of Independence is adopted by a congress of the provinces.
1813 War of 1812: Three weeks of United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland raids on Fort Schlosser, Black Rock, Buffalo, New York and Plattsburgh (city), New York commence.
1814 War of 1812: Battle of Chippawa: American Major General Jacob Brown (general) defeats British General Phineas Riall at Chippawa, Ontario.
1833 Lê Văn Khôi along with 27 soldiers stage a mutiny taking over the Citadel of Saigon, developing into the Lê Văn Khôi revolt against Emperor Minh Mạng.
1833 Admiral Charles Napier (Royal Navy officer) vanquishes the navy of the Kingdom of Portugal usurper Dom Miguel at the third Battle of Cape St. Vincent (1833).
1841 Thomas Cook organises the first package excursion, from Leicester to Loughborough.
1852 Frederick Douglass delivers his "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?" speech in Rochester, New York.
1859 The United States discovers and claims Midway Atoll.
1865 The United States Secret Service begins operation.
1884 German Empire takes possession of Kamerun.
1915 The Liberty Bell leaves Philadelphia by special train on its way to the Panama–Pacific International Exposition. This is the last trip outside Philadelphia that the custodians of the bell intend to permit.
1934 "1934 West Coast waterfront strike": The San Francisco Police Department open fire on striking longshoremen in San Francisco.
1935 The National Labor Relations Act, which governs labor relations in the United States, is signed into law by President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt.
1937 Spam (food), the luncheon meat, is introduced into the market by the Hormel.
1940 World War II: Foreign relations of Vichy France are severed with the United Kingdom.
1941 World War II: Operation Barbarossa: Nazi Germany troops reach the Dnieper river.
1943 World War II: An Allies of World War II invasion fleet sails for Sicily (Operation Husky, July 10, 1943).
1943 World War II: German forces begin a massive offensive against the Soviet Union at the Battle of Kursk, also known as Operation Citadel.
1945 The United Kingdom holds its 1945 United Kingdom general election in 10 years, which would be won by Clement Attlee's Labour Party (UK).
1946 Micheline Bernardini models the first modern bikini at a swimming pool in Paris.
1948 National Health Service Acts create the national public health system in the United Kingdom.
1950 Korean War: Task Force Smith: American and North Korean forces first clash, in the Battle of Osan.
1950 The Knesset of Israel passes the Law of Return which grants all Jews the right to immigrate to the Land of Israel.
1954 The BBC broadcasts its first daily television news bulletin.
1954 Elvis Presley records his first single, "That's All Right", at Sun Records in Memphis, Tennessee.
1962 The official Independence Day (Algeria) of Algeria is proclaimed after an eight-year-long Algerian War with French colonial empire.
1970 Air Canada Flight 621 crashes in Brampton, Ontario, Canada, killing all 109 people on board.
1971 The Twenty-sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution, lowering the voting age from 21 to 18 years, is formally certified by President of the United States Richard Nixon.
1973 A boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion (BLEVE) in Kingman, Arizona, following a fire that broke out as propane was being transferred from a railroad car to a storage tank, Kingman Explosion.
1973 Juvénal Habyarimana seizes power over Rwanda in a 1973 Rwandan coup d'état.
1975 Arthur Ashe becomes the first black man to win the The Championships, Wimbledon singles title.
1975 Cape Verde gains its independence from Portugal.
1977 The Pakistan Armed Forces under Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq seize power in Operation Fair Play and begin 11 years of martial law. Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the first elected Prime Minister of Pakistan, is overthrown.
1980 Swedish tennis player Björn Borg wins his fifth Wimbledon final and becomes the first male tennis player to win the championships five times in a row (1976–1980).
1984 The Supreme Court of the United States gives its ''United States v. Leon'' decision providing a good-faith exception from the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution exclusionary rule against use of evidence obtained through defective warrants in criminal trials.
1987 Sri Lankan Civil War: The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam uses suicide attacks on the Sri Lankan Army for the first time. The Black Tigers are born and, in the following years, will continue to kill with the tactic.
1989 Iran–Contra affair: Oliver North is sentenced by U.S. District Judge Gerhard A. Gesell to a three-year suspended prison term, two years probation, $150,000 in fines and 1,200 hours community service. His convictions are later overturned.
1994 Jeff Bezos founds Amazon (company)
1995 Armenia adopts its Constitution of Armenia, four years after its independence from the Soviet Union.
1996 Dolly (sheep) becomes the first mammal cloned from an adult cell.
1997 Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Tamil MP A. Thangathurai is shot dead at Sri Shanmuga Hindu Ladies College in Trincomalee.
1999 U.S. President Bill Clinton imposes trade and economic United Nations Security Council Resolution 1267.
2003 The World Health Organization announces that the 2002–2004 SARS outbreak has been contained.
2004 The first Direct election Indonesian presidential election, 2004 is held.
2006 North Korea 2006 North Korean missile test, one medium-range missile and a long-range Taepodong-2. The long-range Taepodong-2 reportedly fails in mid-air over the Sea of Japan.
2009 A series of violent riots July 2009 Ürümqi riots in Ürümqi, the capital city of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in China.
2009 The largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold ever discovered in Britain, consisting of more than 1,500 items, Staffordshire Hoard near the village of Hammerwich, near Lichfield.
2012 The Shard in London is inaugurated as the List of tallest buildings in Europe, with a height of 310 metres (1,020 ft).
2016 The Juno (spacecraft) space probe arrives at Jupiter and begins a 20-month survey of the planet.
2022 British government ministers Sajid Javid and Rishi Sunak resign from the second Johnson ministry, beginning the July 2022 United Kingdom government crisis.
465 Ahkal Mo' Naab' I, Mayan ruler (d. 524)
980 Mokjong of Goryeo, Korean king (d. 1009)
1029 Al-Mustansir Billah, Fatimid caliph (d. 1094)
1321 Joan of the Tower, English consort of David II of Scotland (d. 1362)
1466 Giovanni Sforza, Italian nobleman (d. 1510)
1547 Garzia de' Medici, Tuscan son of Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1562)
1549 Francesco Maria del Monte, Italian cardinal and art collector (d. 1627)
1554 Elisabeth of Austria, Queen of France, French queen (d. 1592)
1580 Carlo Contarini, doge of Venice (d. 1656)
1586 Thomas Hooker, English-born founder of the Colony of Connecticut (d. 1647)
1593 Achille d'Étampes de Valençay, French military leader (d. 1646)
1653 Thomas Pitt, English businessman and politician (d. 1726)
1670 Countess Palatine Dorothea Sophie of Neuburg, countess palatine (d. 1748)
1675 Mary Walcott (Salem witch trials), American accuser and witness at the Salem witch trials (d. 1719)
1709 Étienne de Silhouette, French translator and politician, Controller-General of Finances (d. 1767)
1717 Peter III of Portugal, Portuguese king (d. 1786)
1718 Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (d. 1794)
1745 Carl Arnold Kortum, German physician and poet (d. 1824)
1755 Sarah Siddons, English actress (d. 1831)
1780 François Carlo Antommarchi, French physician (d. 1838)
1781 Stamford Raffles, English politician, founded Singapore (d. 1826)
1793 Pavel Pestel, Russian officer (d. 1826)
1794 Sylvester Graham, American minister and activist (d. 1851)
1801 David Farragut, American admiral (d. 1870)
1802 Pavel Nakhimov, Russian admiral (d. 1855)
1803 George Borrow, British writer (d. 1881)
1805 Robert FitzRoy, English captain, meteorologist, and politician, 2nd Governor of New Zealand (d. 1865)
1810 P. T. Barnum, American businessman, co-founded Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus (d. 1891)
1820 William John Macquorn Rankine, Scottish physicist, mathematician, and engineer (d. 1872)
1829 Ignacio Mariscal, Mexican politician and diplomat, Secretary of Foreign Affairs (Mexico) (d. 1910)
1832 Pavel Chistyakov, Russian painter and educator (d. 1919)
1841 William Collins Whitney, American financier and politician, 31st United States Secretary of the Navy (d. 1904)
1849 William Thomas Stead, English journalist (d. 1912)
1853 Cecil Rhodes, English-South African businessman and politician, 6th Prime Minister of the Cape Colony (d. 1902)
1857 Clara Zetkin, German theorist and activist (d. 1933)
1857 Julien Tiersot, French musicologist and composer (d. 1936)
1860 Robert Bacon, American colonel and politician, 39th United States Secretary of State (d. 1919)
1860 Mathieu Jaboulay, French surgeon (d. 1913)
1862 George Nuttall, American-British bacteriologist (d. 1937)
1862 Horatio Caro, English chess master (d. 1920)
1864 Stephan Krehl, German composer (d. 1924)
1867 A. E. Douglass, American astronomer (d. 1962)
1872 Édouard Herriot, French lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of France (d. 1957)
1874 Eugen Fischer, German physician and academic (d. 1967)
1879 Dwight F. Davis, American tennis player and politician, 49th United States Secretary of War (d. 1945)
1879 Wanda Landowska, Polish-French harpsichord player and educator (d. 1959)
1880 Jan Kubelík, Czech violinist and composer (d. 1940)
1880 Constantin Tănase, Romanian actor and playwright (d. 1945)
1882 Inayat Khan, Indian mystic and educator (d. 1927)
1883 Gustave Lanctot, Canadian historian, author, and academic (d. 1975)
1884 Enrico Dante, Italian cardinal (d. 1967)
1885 Blas Infante, Spanish historian and politician (d. 1936)
1885 André Lhote, French sculptor and painter (d. 1962)
1886 Willem Drees, Dutch politician and historian, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (1948–1958) (d. 1988)
1886 Prince John Konstantinovich of Russia (d. 1918)
1888 Herbert Spencer Gasser, American physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (d. 1963)
1888 Louise Freeland Jenkins, American astronomer and academic (d. 1970)
1889 Jean Cocteau, French novelist, poet, and playwright (d. 1963)
1890 Frederick Lewis Allen, American historian and journalist (d. 1954)
1891 John Howard Northrop, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate (d. 1987)
1891 Tin Ujević, Croatian poet and translator (d. 1955)
1893 Anthony Berkeley Cox, English writer (d. 1971)
1893 Giuseppe Caselli, Italian painter (d. 1976)
1894 Ants Lauter, Estonian actor and director (d. 1973)
1896 Thomas Playford IV, Australian politician, 33rd Premier of South Australia (d. 1981)
1898 Georgios Grivas, Greek general (d. 1974)
1899 Marcel Achard, French playwright, screenwriter, and author (d. 1974)
1900 Yoshimaro Yamashina, Japanese ornithologist, founded the Yamashina Institute for Ornithology (d. 1989)
1900 Bernardus Johannes Alfrink, Dutch cardinal (d. 1987)
1901 Julio Libonatti, Italian-Argentinian footballer (d. 1981)
1902 Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., American colonel and politician, 3rd United States Ambassador to the United Nations (d. 1985)
1904 Harold Acton, English scholar and author (d. 1994)
1904 Ernst Mayr, German-American biologist and ornithologist (d. 2005)
1904 Milburn Stone, American actor (d. 1980)
1905 Madeleine Sylvain-Bouchereau, Haitian sociologist and educator (d. 1970)
1908 Henri, Count of Paris (1908–1999), (d. 1999)
1908 Lyman S. Ayres II, American businessman (d. 1996)
1910 Georges Vedel, French lawyer and academic (d. 2002)
1911 Endel Aruja, Estonian-Canadian physicist and academic (d. 2008)
1911 Haydn Bunton, Sr., Australian footballer and coach (d. 1955)
1911 Giorgio Borġ Olivier, Maltese lawyer and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Malta (d. 1980)
1911 Georges Pompidou, French banker and politician, 19th President of France (d. 1974)
1913 George Costakis, Russian art collector (d. 1990)
1913 Smiley Lewis, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1966)
1914 John Thomas Dunlop, American administrator and labor scholar (d. 2003)
1914 Annie Fischer, Hungarian pianist and composer (d. 1995)
1915 Babe Paley, American socialite (d. 1978)
1915 John Woodruff (athlete), American runner and commander (d. 2007)
1915 Al Timothy, Trinidadian musician and songwriter (d. 2000)
1916 Lívia Rév, Hungarian classical pianist (d. 2018)
1916 Ivor Powell, Welsh footballer (d. 2012)
1918 K. Karunakaran, Indian lawyer and politician, 7th Chief Minister of Kerala (d. 2010)
1918 Brian James (actor), Australian actor (d. 2009)
1918 Zakaria Mohieddin, Egyptian general and politician, 33rd Prime Minister of Egypt (d. 2012)
1918 George Rochberg, American composer and educator (d. 2005)
1921 Viktor Kulikov, Russian marshal (d. 2013)
1921 Nanos Valaoritis, Greek author, poet, and playwright (d. 2019)
1923 George Moore (jockey), Australian jockey (d. 2008)
1923 Mitsuye Yamada, Japanese American activist
1924 János Starker, Hungarian-American cellist and educator (d. 2013)
1924 Edward Cassidy, Australian Roman Catholic cardinal priest (d. 2021)
1925 Fernando de Szyszlo, Peruvian painter and sculptor (d. 2017)
1925 Jean Raspail, French author and explorer (d. 2020)
1926 Diana Lynn, American actress (d. 1971)
1928 Pierre Mauroy, French educator and politician, Prime Minister of France (d. 2013)
1928 Warren Oates, American actor (d. 1982)
1929 Jimmy Carruthers, Australian boxer (d. 1990)
1929 Katherine Helmond, American actress and director (d. 2019)
1929 Tony Lock, English cricketer (d. 1995)
1929 Jovan Rašković, Serbian psychiatrist, academic, and politician (d. 1992)
1929 Jiří Reynek, Czech poet and graphic artist (d. 2014)
1931 Ismail Mahomed, South African lawyer and politician, 17th Chief Justice of South Africa (d. 2000)
1932 Gyula Horn, Hungarian politician, 37th Prime Minister of Hungary (d. 2013)
1933 Paul-Gilbert Langevin, French musicologist, critic and physicist (d. 1986)
1935 John Schoenherr, American illustrator (d. 2010)
1936 Shirley Knight, American actress (d. 2020)
1936 James Mirrlees, Scottish economist and academic, Nobel Prize in Economics laureate (d. 2018)
1938 Ronnie Self, American singer-songwriter (d. 1981)
1940 Chuck Close, American painter and photographer (d. 2021)
1941 Epeli Nailatikau, Fijian Ratu, President of Fiji
1942 Matthias Bamert, Swiss composer and conductor
1942 Hannes Löhr, German footballer, coach, and manager (d. 2016)
1943 Curt Blefary, American baseball player and coach (d. 2001)
1943 Mark Cox (tennis), English tennis player, coach and sportscaster
1943 Robbie Robertson, Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor (d. 2023)
1944 Leni Björklund, Swedish politician, 28th Minister for Defence (Sweden)
1945 Michael Blake (author), American author and screenwriter (d. 2015)
1945 Humberto Benítez Treviño, Mexican lawyer and politician, Attorney General of Mexico
1946 Pierre-Marc Johnson, Canadian lawyer, physician, and politician, 24th Premier of Quebec
1946 Paul Smith (fashion designer), English fashion designer
1946 Gerard 't Hooft, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate
1946 Vladimir Mikhailovich Zakharov, Russian dancer and choreographer (d. 2013)
1949 Ludwig G. Strauss, German physician and academic (d. 2013)
1950 Carlos Caszely, Chilean footballer
1950 Huey Lewis, American singer-songwriter and actor
1951 Goose Gossage, American baseball player
1953 Caryn Navy, American mathematician and computer scientist
1954 Jimmy Crespo, American guitarist and songwriter
1954 John Wright (cricketer, born 1954), New Zealand cricketer and coach
1955 Tony Hadley (footballer), English footballer
1955 Peter McNamara, Australian tennis player and coach (d. 2019)
1956 Horacio Cartes, Paraguayan businessman and politician, President of Paraguay
1956 James Lofton, American football player and coach
1957 Carlo Thränhardt, German high jumper
1957 Doug Wilson (ice hockey), Canadian-American ice hockey player and manager
1958 Veronica Guerin, Irish journalist (d. 1996)
1958 Bill Watterson, American author and illustrator
1959 Marc Cohn, American singer-songwriter and keyboard player
1962 Sarina Hülsenbeck, German swimmer
1963 Edie Falco, American actress
1964 Ronald D. Moore, American screenwriter and producer
1966 Susannah Doyle, English actress, director, and playwright
1966 Gianfranco Zola, Italian footballer and coach
1967 Mustafa Al-Kadhimi, Iraqi politician, 80th Prime Minister of Iraq
1968 Ken Akamatsu, Japanese illustrator
1968 Kenji Ito, Japanese pianist and composer
1968 Nardwuar, Canadian celebrity journalist and musician
1968 Hedi Slimane, French fashion designer and photographer
1968 Alex Zülle, Swiss cyclist
1968 Susan Wojcicki, Polish-American technology executive
1969 Jenji Kohan, American screenwriter and producer
1969 John LeClair, American ice hockey player
1969 RZA, American rapper, producer, actor, and director
1970 Mac Dre, American rapper and producer, founded Thizz Entertainment (d. 2004)
1970 Valentí Massana, Spanish race walker
1971 Derek McInnes, Scottish footballer and manager
1972 Matthew Birir, Kenyan runner
1972 Robert Esmie, Canadian sprinter
1972 Gary Shteyngart, American writer
1973 Marcus Allbäck, Swedish footballer and coach
1973 Bengt Lagerberg, Swedish drummer
1973 Róisín Murphy, Irish singer-songwriter and producer
1974 Márcio Amoroso, Brazilian footballer
1974 Sarah Taylor (squash player), Jersey squash player
1975 Hernán Crespo, Argentinian footballer and coach
1975 Ai Sugiyama, Japanese tennis player
1976 Bizarre (rapper), American rapper
1976 Nuno Gomes, Portuguese footballer
1978 Britta Oppelt, German rower
1978 Allan Simonsen (racing driver), Danish race car driver (d. 2013)
1978 İsmail YK, German-Turkish singer-songwriter
1979 Shane Filan, Irish singer-songwriter
1979 Amélie Mauresmo, French-Swiss tennis player
1979 Stiliyan Petrov, Bulgarian footballer and manager
1980 Pauly D, American television personality
1980 David Rozehnal, Czech footballer
1980 Mads Tolling, Danish-American violinist and composer
1982 Fabrício de Souza, Brazilian footballer
1982 Alexander Dimitrenko, Ukrainian-German boxer
1982 Alberto Gilardino, Italian footballer
1982 Philippe Gilbert, Belgian cyclist
1982 Kate Gynther, Australian water polo player
1982 Dave Haywood, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1982 Paíto, Mozambican footballer
1982 Szabolcs Perenyi, Romanian-Hungarian footballer
1982 Beno Udrih, Slovenian basketball player
1982 Tuba Büyüküstün, Turkish actress
1982 Junri Namigata, Japanese tennis player
1983 Marco Estrada (baseball), Mexican baseball player
1983 Jonás Gutiérrez, Argentinian footballer
1983 Zheng Jie, Chinese tennis player
1983 Taavi Peetre, Estonian shot putter (d. 2010)
1984 Danay Garcia, Cuban actress
1984 Zack Miller, American golfer
1985 Alexandre R. Picard, Canadian ice hockey player
1985 Megan Rapinoe, American soccer player
1986 Iurii Cheban, Ukrainian canoe sprinter
1986 Piermario Morosini, Italian footballer (d. 2012)
1986 Alexander Radulov, Russian ice hockey player
1987 Ji Chang-wook, South Korean actor
1987 Safiq Rahim, Malaysian footballer
1987 Alexander Kristoff, Norwegian cyclist
1988 Samir Ujkani, Albanian footballer
1989 Adam Cole, American wrestler
1989 Georgios Efrem, Cypriot footballer
1990 Abeba Aregawi, Ethiopian-Swedish runner
1992 Alberto Moreno, Spanish footballer
1992 Chiara Scholl, American tennis player
1993 Yaroslav Kosov, Russian ice hockey player
1993 Jorge Polanco, Dominican baseball player
1994 Shohei Ohtani, Japanese baseball player
1998 Emily Fox (soccer), American soccer player
1999 Suzan Lamens, Dutch tennis player
905 Cui Yuan (died 905), Chinese Chancellor of the Tang dynasty
905 Dugu Sun, Chinese chancellor
905 Lu Yi (Tang dynasty), Chinese chancellor (b. 847)
905 Pei Shu, Chinese chancellor (b. 841)
905 Wang Pu (Tang dynasty), Chinese chancellor
936 Xu Ji, Chinese official and chancellor
967 Emperor Murakami, Japanese emperor (b. 926)
1080 Ísleifur Gissurarson, Icelandic bishop (b. 1006)
1091 William of Hirsau, German abbot
1316 Ferdinand of Majorca, prince of Majorca (b. 1278)
1375 Charles III, Count of Alençon, French nobleman (b. 1337)
1413 Musa Çelebi, Ottoman prince and co-ruler
1507 Crinitus, Italian scholar and academic (b. 1475)
1539 Anthony Maria Zaccaria, Italian saint (b. 1502)
1661 Sir Hugh Speke, 1st Baronet
1666 Albert VI, Duke of Bavaria, German nobleman (b. 1584)
1676 Carl Gustaf Wrangel, Swedish field marshal and politician (b. 1613)
1715 Charles Ancillon, French jurist and diplomat (b. 1659)
1719 Meinhardt Schomberg, 3rd Duke of Schomberg, German-English general (b. 1641)
1773 Francisco José Freire, Portuguese historian and philologist (b. 1719)
1819 William Cornwallis, English admiral and politician (b. 1744)
1826 Stamford Raffles, English politician, founded Singapore (b. 1782)
1833 Nicéphore Niépce, French inventor, created the first known View from the Window at Le Gras (b. 1765)
1859 Charles Cagniard de la Tour, French physicist and engineer (b. 1777)
1862 Heinrich Georg Bronn, German geologist and paleontologist (b. 1800)
1863 Lewis Armistead, Confederate general (b. 1817)
1884 Victor Massé, French composer (b. 1822)
1908 Jonas Lie (writer), Norwegian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1833)
1920 Max Klinger, German painter and sculptor (b. 1857)
1927 Albrecht Kossel, German physician and academic, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (b. 1853)
1929 Henry Johnson (World War I soldier), American sergeant (b. 1897)
1932 Sasha Chorny, Russian poet and author (b. 1880)
1935 Bernard de Pourtalès, Swiss captain and sailor (b. 1870)
1937 Daniel Sawyer, American golfer (b. 1884)
1943 Kazimierz Junosza-Stępowski, Polish actor (b. 1880)
1943 Karin Swanström, Swedish actress, director, and producer (b. 1873)
1945 John Curtin, Australian journalist and politician, 14th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1885)
1948 Georges Bernanos, French soldier and author (b. 1888)
1948 Carole Landis, American actress (b. 1919)
1948 Piet Aalberse, Dutch politician (b. 1871)
1957 Anugrah Narayan Sinha, Indian lawyer and politician, 1st Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar (b. 1887)
1965 Porfirio Rubirosa, Dominican race car driver, polo player, and diplomat (b. 1909)
1966 George de Hevesy, Hungarian-German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate (b. 1885)
1969 Wilhelm Backhaus, German pianist and educator (b. 1884)
1969 Walter Gropius, German architect, designed the John F. Kennedy Federal Building and Werkbund Exhibition (1914) (b. 1883)
1969 Tom Mboya, Kenyan politician, 1st Minister of Justice (Kenya) (b. 1930)
1969 Leo McCarey, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1898)
1975 Gilda dalla Rizza, Italian soprano and actress (b. 1892)
1976 Walter Giesler, American soccer player and referee (born 1910)
1983 Harry James, American trumpet player and actor (b. 1916)
1984 Chic Murray (politician), Canadian politician, 2nd Mayor of Mississauga (b. 1914)
1991 Howard Nemerov, American poet and essayist (b. 1920)
1995 Jüri Järvet, Estonian actor and screenwriter (b. 1919)
1997 A. Thangathurai, Sri Lankan Tamil lawyer and politician (b. 1936)
1998 Sid Luckman, American football player (b. 1916)
2002 Katy Jurado, Mexican actress (b. 1924)
2002 Ted Williams, American baseball player and manager (b. 1918)
2004 Hugh Shearer, Jamaican journalist and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Jamaica (b. 1923)
2004 Rodger Ward, American race car driver and sportscaster (b. 1921)
2005 James Stockdale, American admiral (b. 1923)
2006 Gert Fredriksson, Swedish canoe racer (b. 1919)
2006 Thirunalloor Karunakaran, Indian poet and scholar (b. 1924)
2006 Kenneth Lay, American businessman (b. 1942)
2006 Amzie Strickland, American actress (b. 1919)
2007 Régine Crespin, French soprano (b. 1927)
2007 George Melly, English singer-songwriter and critic (b. 1926)
2008 Hasan Doğan, Turkish businessman (b. 1956)
2010 Bob Probert, Canadian ice hockey player and radio host (b. 1965)
2011 Cy Twombly, American-Italian painter, sculptor, and photographer (b. 1928)
2012 Rob Goris, Belgian cyclist (b. 1982)
2012 Gerrit Komrij, Dutch author, poet, and playwright (b. 1944)
2012 Colin Marshall, Baron Marshall of Knightsbridge, English businessman and politician (b. 1933)
2012 Ruud van Hemert, Dutch actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1938)
2013 Bud Asher, American lawyer and politician (b. 1925)
2013 David Cargo, American politician, 22nd Governor of New Mexico (b. 1929)
2013 Lambert Jackson Woodburne, South African admiral (b. 1939)
2014 Rosemary Murphy, American actress (b. 1925)
2014 Volodymyr Sabodan, Ukrainian metropolitan (b. 1935)
2014 Hans-Ulrich Wehler, German historian and academic (b. 1931)
2014 Brett Wiesner, American soccer player (b. 1983)
2015 Uffe Haagerup, Danish mathematician and academic (b. 1949)
2015 Yoichiro Nambu, Japanese-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate (b. 1921)
2020 Nick Cordero, Canadian actor and singer (b. 1978)
2021 Raffaella Carrà, Italian singer, dancer, television presenter and actress (b. 1943)
2021 Richard Donner, American film director (b. 1930)
1934 West Coast waterfront strike (International Longshore and Warehouse Union)
Christian feast day:
- Anthony Maria Zaccaria, priest (d. 1539)
- Saints Cyril and Methodius (a public holiday in Czech Republic and Slovakia)
- Zoe of Rome (Roman Catholic Church)
- July 5 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Constitution Day (Armenia)
Fifth of July (New York), historic celebration of the abolition of slavery in New York in 1827.
Independence Day (Algeria), celebrating the independence of Algeria from France in 1962.
Independence Day (Cape Verde), celebrating the independence of Cape Verde from Portugal in 1975.
Independence Day (Venezuela), celebrating the independence of Venezuela from Spain in 1811; also National Armed Forces Day.
Tynwald Day, if July 5 is on a weekend, the holiday is the following Monday. (Isle of Man)