Anniversaries 5 July
Birth
![Sylvester Graham photo]()
United States reformer
1794–1851
![P.T. Barnum photo]()
American showman and businessman
1810–1891
![Paul Gabriël photo]()
painter (1828-1903)
1828–1903
![Mandell Creighton photo]()
English historian and ecclesiastic
1843–1901
![Cecil Rhodes photo]()
British businessman, mining magnate and politician in South…
1853–1902
![Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka photo]()
painter from Hungary
1853–1919
![Clara Zetkin photo]()
German politician
1857–1933
![Wanda Landowska photo]()
Polish-French classical harpsichordist
1879–1959
![Jean Cocteau photo]()
French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager …
1889–1963
![Frederick Lewis Allen photo]()
American historian and editor of Harper's Magazine
1890–1954
![Ernst Mayr photo]()
German-American Evolutionary Biologist
1904–2005
![Andrei Gromyko photo]()
Soviet diplomat
1909–1989
![Paul K. Benedict photo]()
American anthropologist, mental health professional, and li…
1912–1997
![Edwin Thompson Jaynes photo]()
American physicist
1922–1998
![John McKay photo]()
American football player and coach
1923–2001
![James Mirrlees photo]()
Scottish economist
1936–2018
![Chuck Close photo]()
American artist
1940–2021
![Michael Blake photo]()
American writer
1945–2015
![Gerardus 't Hooft photo]()
Dutch theoretical physicist and Nobel Prize winner
1946
![Andrew Bacevich photo]()
United States Army officer
1947
![Nancy Springer photo]()
American author of fantasy, young adult literature, mystery…
1948
![Steve Rattner photo]()
American private equity and venture capital investor
1952
![Bill Watterson photo]()
American comic artist
1958
![RZA photo]()
American rapper, record producer, actor, screenwriter, auth…
1969
![Gary Shteyngart photo]()
american journalist and writer
1972
![Soleil Sorge photo]()
American naturalized Italian model, television presenter, t…
1994
Death
![Richard Sibbes photo]()
English theologian
1577–1635
![Joseph Tiefenthaler photo]()
Austrian missionary
1710–1785
![James Townley photo]()
English clergyman and dramatist
1714–1778
![Stamford Raffles photo]()
British statesman who founded Singapore
1781–1826
![Austen Henry Layard photo]()
British politician (1817–1894)
1817–1894
![Charles Fillmore photo]()
American mystic
1854–1948
![Walter Gropius photo]()
German architect (1883-1969) and founder of the Bauhaus Sch…
1883–1969
![Wilhelm Backhaus photo]()
German pianist, Knight Commander of Merit
1884–1969
![Bruce Fairchild Barton photo]()
American author, politician and advertising executive
1886–1967
![H. Richard Niebuhr photo]()
American theologian
1894–1962
![Otto Skorzeny photo]()
Austrian SS-Standartenführer (colonel) in the German Waffen…
1908–1975
![Ted Williams photo]()
American professional baseball player
1918–2002
![Yoichiro Nambu photo]()
American physicist
1921–2015
![Cy Twombly photo]()
American painter
1928–2011
![Theodore Roszak photo]()
American social historian, social critic, writer
1933–2011
![Robert Maxwell Young photo]()
American medical historian
1935–2019
