Famous people born on 5 July

• Georges PompidouPresident of France from 1969 to 1974 · 1911–1974
  62 yrs
• Jean CocteauFrench writer and film director · 1889–1963
  74 yrs
• Clara ZetkinCommunist activist, and advocate for women's rights · 1857–1933
  75 yrs
• Cecil John RhodesBritish businessman, mining magnate and politician in South Africa · 1853–1902
  48 yrs
• P. T. BarnumAmerican showman and politician · 1810–1891
  80 yrs
• John Howard NorthropAmerican biochemist · 1891–1987
  95 yrs
• Veronica Guerin ↗Irish crime reporter · 1959–1996
  36 yrs
• William John Macquorn Rankine ↗Civil engineer · 1820–1872
  52 yrs
• Pedro III of Portugal ↗King of Portugal · 1717–1786
  68 yrs
• Ernst Mayr ↗German-American evolutionary biologist · 1904–2005
  100 yrs
• Manuel II Palaiologos ↗Byzantine emperor · 1350–1425
  75 yrs
• Pierre Mauroy ↗86th Prime Minister of France · 1928–2013
  84 yrs
• Thomas Stamford Raffles ↗British statesman who founded Singapore · 1781–1826
  45 yrs
• Susan Wojcicki ↗American business executive · 1968–2024
  56 yrs
• Willem Drees ↗Dutch politician · 1886–1988
  101 yrs
• Herbert Spencer Gasser ↗American physiologist · 1888–1963
  74 yrs
• Marcel Achard ↗French writer · 1899–1974
  75 yrs
• James Mirrlees ↗Scottish economist · 1936–2018
  82 yrs
• Édouard Herriot ↗French Radical politician · 1872–1957
  84 yrs
• Pavel Nakhimov ↗Russian fleet commander · 1802–1855
  53 yrs
• Robert Fitzroy ↗Royal Navy officer and scientist · 1805–1865
  59 yrs
• Gyula Horn ↗Hungarian politician · 1932–2013
  80 yrs
• David Farragut ↗United States Navy admiral · 1801–1870
  69 yrs
• Piermario Morosini ↗Italian association footballer · 1986–2012
  25 yrs
• Sarah Siddons ↗Welsh actress · 1755–1831
  75 yrs
• Yang Shangkun ↗4th President of the People's Republic of China · 1907–1998
  91 yrs
• Inayat Khan ↗Founder of the Sufi Order in the West in 1914 and teacher of Universal Sufism · 1882–1927
  44 yrs
• Shirley Knight ↗American actress · 1936–2020
  83 yrs
• William Thomas Stead ↗English newspaper editor · 1849–1912
  62 yrs
• Wanda Landowska ↗Polish-French harpsichordist · 1879–1959
  80 yrs
• Dwight Filley Davis Sr. ↗American politician and tennis player · 1879–1945
  66 yrs
• Salvador Jorge Blanco ↗President of the Dominican Republic · 1926–2010
  84 yrs
• Juris Hartmanis ↗Latvian computer scientist · 1928–2022
  94 yrs
• Robbie Robertson ↗Canadian singer, songwriter and guitarist · 1943–2023
  80 yrs
• Katherine Helmond ↗American actress · 1929–2019
  89 yrs

Only people with a known day of birth are listed, and only people who have died. Dates are from Wikidata (CC0), last updated 22 October 2026.

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