Anniversaries 5 July

Birth

Sylvester Graham1

United States reformer 1794–1851

George Borrow11

English author 1803–1881

P.T. Barnum17

American showman and businessman 1810–1891

William John Macquorn Rankine28

civil engineer 1820–1872

Paul Gabriël12

painter (1828-1903) 1828–1903

Mandell Creighton6

English historian and ecclesiastic 1843–1901

Cecil Rhodes9

British businessman, mining magnate and politician in South… 1853–1902

Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka6

painter from Hungary 1853–1919

Clara Zetkin1

German politician 1857–1933

Wanda Landowska2

Polish-French classical harpsichordist 1879–1959

Everett Dean Martin58

1880–1941

Hazrat Inayat Khan37

Indian Sufi 1882–1927

Jean Cocteau123

French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager … 1889–1963

Frederick Lewis Allen2

American historian and editor of Harper's Magazine 1890–1954

Ernst Mayr8

German-American Evolutionary Biologist 1904–2005

Andrei Gromyko2

Soviet diplomat 1909–1989

Paul K. Benedict2

American anthropologist, mental health professional, and li… 1912–1997

Edwin Thompson Jaynes2

American physicist 1922–1998

John McKay5

American football player and coach 1923–2001

James Mirrlees4

Scottish economist 1936–2018

Chuck Close2

American artist 1940–2021

Herbie Brennan2

Irish Author 1940

Michael Blake1

American writer 1945–2015

Эббе Сковдал1

1945

Gerardus 't Hooft8

Dutch theoretical physicist and Nobel Prize winner 1946

Andrew Bacevich13

United States Army officer 1947

Todd Akin6

American politician 1947

Nancy Springer3

American author of fantasy, young adult literature, mystery… 1948

Samir Nassar1

1950

Gordon G. Chang1

American lawyer 1951

Steve Rattner3

American private equity and venture capital investor 1952

Don Stark1

American actor 1954

Mia Couto5

Mozambican writer 1955

Sebastian Barry6

Irish author 1955

Avigdor Lieberman5

Israeli politician 1958

Bill Watterson165

American comic artist 1958

Meredith Ann Pierce3

American writer 1958

Edie Falco2

American actress 1963

RZA2

American rapper, record producer, actor, screenwriter, auth… 1969

Gary Shteyngart7

american journalist and writer 1972

Scarlett Thomas4

British writer 1972

Jim Geraghty7

American journalist 1975

Soleil Sorge2

American naturalized Italian model, television presenter, t… 1994

Death

Richard Sibbes2

English theologian 1577–1635

Joseph Tiefenthaler1

Austrian missionary 1710–1785

James Townley2

English clergyman and dramatist 1714–1778

Stamford Raffles1

British statesman who founded Singapore 1781–1826

Austen Henry Layard2

British politician (1817–1894) 1817–1894

Charles Fillmore15

American mystic 1854–1948

Walter Gropius5

German architect (1883-1969) and founder of the Bauhaus Sch… 1883–1969

Wilhelm Backhaus1

German pianist, Knight Commander of Merit 1884–1969

Bruce Fairchild Barton15

American author, politician and advertising executive 1886–1967

Georges Bernanos46

French writer 1888–1948

H. Richard Niebuhr18

American theologian 1894–1962

Otto Skorzeny7

Austrian SS-Standartenführer (colonel) in the German Waffen… 1908–1975

Ted Williams6

American professional baseball player 1918–2002

Howard Nemerov3

Poet 1920–1991

Yoichiro Nambu2

American physicist 1921–2015

Cy Twombly18

American painter 1928–2011

Theodore Roszak43

American social historian, social critic, writer 1933–2011

Robert Maxwell Young2

American medical historian 1935–2019