Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/July 5

Births

 * 1810 – P. T. Barnum, American circus owner (d. 1891) (pictured)
 * 1889 – Jean Cocteau, French writer (d. 1963)
 * 1950 – Huey Lewis, American musician
 * 1958 – Bill Watterson, American cartoonist
 * 1966 – Gianfranco Zola, Italian footballer`
 * 1968 – Nardwuar, Canadian interviewer
 * 1970 – Mac Dre, American rapper (d. 2004)
 * 1976 – Nuno Gomes, Portuguese footballer
 * 1979 – Amélie Mauresmo, French tennis player
 * 1982 – Alberto Gilardino, Italian footballer
 * 1985 – Stephanie McIntosh, Australian actress
 * 1985 – Nick O'Malley, English musician

Deaths

 * 1945 – John Curtin, 14th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1885)
 * 1965 – Porfirio Rubirosa, Dominican diplomat and international playboy (b. 1909)
 * 1966 – George de Hevesy, Hungarian chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate (b. 1885)
 * 1969 – Walter Gropius, German architect (b. 1883)
 * 2002 – Ted Williams, American baseball player (b. 1918)