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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 5th of July 1295 | EVENT | Scotland and France form an alliance, the so-called "Auld Alliance", against England. |
| 5th of July 1316 | EVENT | Battle of Manolada between the Burgundian and Majorcan claimants of the Principality of Achaea. |
| 5th of July 1610 | EVENT | John Guy sets sail from Bristol with 39 other colonists for Newfoundland. |
| 5th of July 1687 | EVENT | Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, ushering in a tidal wave of changes in thought that would significantly accelerate the already ongoing scientific revolution by giving it tools that produced technologically valuable results, which had theretofore been otherwise unobtainable. |
| 5th of July 1770 | EVENT | The Battle of Chesma between the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire begins. |
| 5th of July 1775 | EVENT | The United States Congress adopts the Olive Branch Petition. |
| 5th of July 1803 | EVENT | The Convention of Artlenburg leads to the French occupation of Hanover (which had been ruled by the British king). |
| 5th of July 1809 | EVENT | The Battle of Wagram, the largest of the Napoleonic Wars. |
| 5th of July 1811 | EVENT | Venezuela declares independence from Spain. |
| 5th of July 1813 | EVENT | War of 1812: three weeks of British raids on Fort Schlosser, Black Rock and Plattsburgh, New York begin. |
| 5th of July 1814 | EVENT | War of 1812: Battle of Chippawa : American Major General Jacob Brown defeats British General Phineas Riall at Chippawa, Ontario. |
| 5th of July 1830 | EVENT | France invades Algeria. |
| 5th of July 1833 | EVENT | Admiral Charles Napier defeats the navy of the Portuguese usurper Dom Miguel at the third Battle of Cape St. Vincent. |
| 5th of July 1865 | EVENT | The Salvation Army is founded in the East End of London, England. |
| 5th of July 1878 | EVENT | The coat of arms of the Baku governorate is established. |
| 5th of July 1884 | EVENT | Germany takes possession of Cameroon. |
| 5th of July 1934 | EVENT | "Bloody Thursday" : Police open fire on striking longshoremen in San Francisco. |
| 5th of July 1935 | EVENT | The National Labor Relations Act, which governs labor relations in the United States, is signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. |
| 5th of July 1937 | EVENT | Spam, the luncheon meat, is introduced into the market by the Hormel Foods Corporation. |
| 5th of July 1940 | EVENT | World War II: the United Kingdom and the Vichy France government break off diplomatic relations. |
| 5th of July 1941 | EVENT | World War II: German troops reach the Dnieper River. |
| 5th of July 1943 | EVENT | Beginning of the Battle of Kursk, the largest full-scale battle in history and the world's largest tank battle at Prokhorovka village. |
| 5th of July 1943 | EVENT | World War II: An Allied invasion fleet sails for Sicily (Operation Husky, July 10, 1943). |
| 5th of July 1945 | EVENT | World War II: liberation of the Philippines declared. |
| 5th of July 1946 | EVENT | The bikini is re-introduced in Paris, France (it was a Roman invention). |
| 5th of July 1947 | EVENT | Larry Doby signs a contract with the Cleveland Indians baseball team, becoming the first black player in the American League. (Jackie Robinson had broken the color barrier with the Brooklyn Dodgers in the National League 11 weeks earlier.) |
| 5th of July 1948 | EVENT | National Health Service Acts created the national public health systems in the United Kingdom |
| 5th of July 1950 | EVENT | Korean War: Task Force Smith : First clash between American and North Korean forces in the Battle of Osan. |
| 5th of July 1950 | EVENT | Zionism: the Knesset passes the Law of Return which grants all Jews the right to immigrate to Israel. |
| 5th of July 1951 | EVENT | William Shockley invents the junction transistor. |
| 5th of July 1954 | EVENT | The BBC broadcasts its first television news bulletin. |
| 5th of July 1954 | EVENT | The Andhra Pradesh High Court is established. |
| 5th of July 1954 | EVENT | Elvis Presley records That's All Right, his first single to be released. |
| 5th of July 1962 | EVENT | Algeria becomes independent from France. |
| 5th of July 1962 | EVENT | The Late Late Show, the world's longest-running chat show by the same broadcaster, airs on RTE One for the first time. |
| 5th of July 1970 | EVENT | Air Canada Flight 621 crashes near Toronto International Airport killing 109 people. |
| 5th of July 1971 | EVENT | Right to vote: the Twenty-sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution, lowering the voting age from 21 to 18 years, is formally certified by President Richard Nixon. |
| 5th of July 1973 | EVENT | Catastrophic BLEVE (Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosion) in Kingman, Arizona, following a fire that broke out as propane is being transferred from a railroad car to a storage tank, kills 11 firefighters. |
| 5th of July 1975 | EVENT | Arthur Ashe becomes the first black man to win the Wimbledon singles title. |
| 5th of July 1975 | EVENT | Cape Verde gains its independence from Portugal. |
| 5th of July 1977 | EVENT | Military coup in Pakistan: Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, the first elected Prime Minister of Pakistan, is overthrown. |
| 5th of July 1987 | EVENT | First instance of the LTTE using suicide attacks on Sri Lankan Army. The Black Tigers are born and in the following years continue to use it to deadly effect. |
| 5th of July 1989 | EVENT | 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. |
| 5th of July 1995 | EVENT | Armenia adopts its constitution, four years after their independence from the Soviet Union |
| 5th of July 1996 | EVENT | Dolly the sheep becomes the first mammal cloned from an adult cell. |
| 5th of July 1998 | EVENT | Japan launches a probe to Mars, and thus joins the United States and Russia as a space exploring nation. |
| 5th of July 1999 | EVENT | Wolverhampton, England is hit by storms which include a tornado. The area is hit again with severe storms on August 1. |
| 5th of July 1999 | EVENT | U.S. President Bill Clinton imposes trade and economic sanctions against the Taliban regime in Afghanistan. |
| 5th of July 2003 | EVENT | SARS is declared to be contained by the WHO. |
| 5th of July 2004 | EVENT | The first Indonesian presidential election is held. |
| 5th of July 2006 | EVENT | North Korea launches at least two short-range Nodong-2 missiles, one SCUD missile and one long-range Taepodong-2 missile. |
| 5th of July 2009 | EVENT | Roger Federer wins a record 15th Grand Slam title in tennis, winning a five set match against Andy Roddick at Wimbledon. |
| 5th of July 2009 | EVENT | A series of violent riots break out in Urumqi, the capital city of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in China. |
| 5th of July 2009 | EVENT | The largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold ever discovered, consisting of more than 1,500 items, is found near the village of Hammerwich, near Lichfield, in Staffordshire, England. |
| 5th of July 1029 | BIRTHDAY | Ma'ad al-Mustansir Billah, Egyptian Caliph (d. 1094) |
| 5th of July 1321 | BIRTHDAY | Joan of The Tower, Queen consort of Scotland, wife of King David II of Scotland (d. 1362) |
| 5th of July 1547 | BIRTHDAY | Garzia de' Medici, Prince of Tuscany (d. 1562) |
| 5th of July 1549 | BIRTHDAY | Francesco Maria Del Monte, Italian diplomat (d. 1627) |
| 5th of July 1586 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Hooker, English Connecticut colonist (d. 1647) |
| 5th of July 1653 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Pitt, British Governor of Madras (d. 1726) |
| 5th of July 1670 | BIRTHDAY | Countess Palatine Dorothea Sophie of Neuburg, German-born Duchess of Parma (d. 1748) |
| 5th of July 1675 | BIRTHDAY | Mary Walcott, American accuser at the Salem witch trials (d. after 1719) |
| 5th of July 1717 | BIRTHDAY | Peter III of Portugal, consort of Queen Maria I of Portugal (d. 1786) |
| 5th of July 1718 | BIRTHDAY | Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford, English Viceroy of Ireland (d. 1794) |
| 5th of July 1745 | BIRTHDAY | Carl Arnold Kortum, German physician (d. 1824) |
| 5th of July 1755 | BIRTHDAY | Sarah Siddons, British actress (d. 1831) |
| 5th of July 1780 | BIRTHDAY | Francois Carlo Antommarchi, French physician (d. 1838) |
| 5th of July 1793 | BIRTHDAY | Pavel Pestel, Russian revolutionary (d. 1826) |
| 5th of July 1794 | BIRTHDAY | Sylvester Graham, American nutritionist (d. 1851) |
| 5th of July 1801 | BIRTHDAY | David Farragut, American naval commander (d. 1870) |
| 5th of July 1802 | BIRTHDAY | Pavel Nakhimov, Russian admiral (d. 1855) |
| 5th of July 1805 | BIRTHDAY | Robert FitzRoy, British naval officer, Captain of the HMS Beagle and metereologist (d. 1865) |
| 5th of July 1805 | BIRTHDAY | Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte, French prince (d. 1870) |
| 5th of July 1810 | BIRTHDAY | P.T. Barnum, American circus owner (d. 1891) |
| 5th of July 1820 | BIRTHDAY | William John Macquorn Rankine, Scottish engineer and physicist (d. 1872) |
| 5th of July 1829 | BIRTHDAY | Ignacio Mariscal, Mexican writer and diplomat (d. 1910) |
| 5th of July 1832 | BIRTHDAY | Pavel Chistyakov, Russian painter (d. 1919) |
| 5th of July 1841 | BIRTHDAY | William C. Whitney, American financier (d. 1904) |
| 5th of July 1853 | BIRTHDAY | Cecil Rhodes, British founder of Rhodesia (d. 1902) |
| 5th of July 1857 | BIRTHDAY | Clara Zetkin, German socialist (d. 1933) |
| 5th of July 1860 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Bacon, American politician (d. 1919) |
| 5th of July 1872 | BIRTHDAY | Edouard Herriot, French politician (d. 1957) |
| 5th of July 1874 | BIRTHDAY | Eugen Fischer, German physician (d. 1967) |
| 5th of July 1879 | BIRTHDAY | Wanda Landowska, Polish harpsichordist (d. 1959) |
| 5th of July 1879 | BIRTHDAY | Dwight F. Davis, American tennis player and politician (d. 1945) |
| 5th of July 1880 | BIRTHDAY | Jan Kubelik, Czech violinist (d. 1940) |
| 5th of July 1882 | BIRTHDAY | Inayat Khan, Indian sufi (d. 1927) |
| 5th of July 1885 | BIRTHDAY | Blas Infante, Spanish politician (d. 1936) |
| 5th of July 1885 | BIRTHDAY | Andre Lhote, French painter (d. 1962) |
| 5th of July 1886 | BIRTHDAY | Willem Drees, Dutch Politician, Prime Minister and Centenarian (d. 1988) |
| 5th of July 1888 | BIRTHDAY | Herbert Spencer Gasser, American physiologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1963) |
| 5th of July 1889 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Cocteau, French writer (d. 1963) |
| 5th of July 1890 | BIRTHDAY | Frederick Lewis Allen, American social historian (d. 1954) |
| 5th of July 1891 | BIRTHDAY | John Howard Northrop, American chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1987) |
| 5th of July 1891 | BIRTHDAY | Tin Ujevic, Croatian poet (d. 1955) |
| 5th of July 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Gordon Jacob, English composer (d. 1984) |
| 5th of July 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Marcel Achard, French playwright, screenwriter and author (d. 1974) |
| 5th of July 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Yoshimaro Yamashina, Japanese ornithologist (d. 1989) |
| 5th of July 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Sergey Obraztsov, Soviet puppet master (d. 1992) |
| 5th of July 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., American diplomat (d. 1985) |
| 5th of July 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Harold Acton, American writer and dilettante (d. 1994) |
| 5th of July 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Ernst Mayr, American biologist (d. 2005) |
| 5th of July 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Milburn Stone, American actor (d. 1980) |
| 5th of July 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Myles Horton, American educator and Civil Rights Movement teacher (d. 1990) |
| 5th of July 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Georges Vedel, French public law professor (d. 2002) |
| 5th of July 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Robert K. Merton, American sociologist (d. 2003) |
| 5th of July 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Georges Pompidou, French politician (d. 1974) |
| 5th of July 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Mack David, American lyricist (d. 1993) |
| 5th of July 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Smiley Lewis, American rhythm and blues vocalist and guitarist (d. 1966) |
| 5th of July 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Gerda Gilboe, Danish actress (d. 2009) |
| 5th of July 1915 | BIRTHDAY | John Woodruff, American 800m runner (d. 2007) |
| 5th of July 1918 | BIRTHDAY | George Rochberg, American composer (d. 2005) |
| 5th of July 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Rene Lecavalier, French-Canadian radio host and television sportscaster (d. 1999) |
| 5th of July 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Mary Louise Hancock, American politician and activist |
| 5th of July 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Niels Jannasch, Canadian historian and museum curator (d. 2001) |
| 5th of July 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Janos Starker, Hungarian cellist |
| 5th of July 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Pierre Mauroy, French politician |
| 5th of July 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Warren Oates, American actor (d. 1982) |
| 5th of July 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Katherine Helmond, American actress |
| 5th of July 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Ismail Mahomed, South African and Namibian Chief Justice (d. 2000) |
| 5th of July 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Billy Laughlin, American actor (d. 1948) |
| 5th of July 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Gyula Horn, Hungarian politician, 3rd Prime Minister of the Republic of Hungary |
| 5th of July 1935 | BIRTHDAY | John Gilmore, American true crime author |
| 5th of July 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Shirley Knight, American actress |
| 5th of July 1936 | BIRTHDAY | James Mirrlees, Scottish economist, Nobel laureate |
| 5th of July 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Ronnie Self, American rock singer and songwriter (d. 1981) |
| 5th of July 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Booker Edgerson, American football player |
| 5th of July 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Chuck Close, American painter and photographer |
| 5th of July 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Johannes Lohr, German football player and coach |
| 5th of July 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Curt Blefary, American baseball player (d. 2001) |
| 5th of July 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Robbie Robertson, Canadian guitarist (The Band). |
| 5th of July 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Humberto Benitez Trevino, Mexican politician and Attorney General of Mexico. |
| 5th of July 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Pierre-Marc Johnson, Quebecois lawyer, physician and politician |
| 5th of July 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Gerardus 't Hooft, Dutch physicist, Nobel laureate |
| 5th of July 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Smith, British fashion designer |
| 5th of July 1948 | BIRTHDAY | William Hootkins, American actor (d. 2005) |
| 5th of July 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Huey Lewis, American singer (Huey Lewis and the News) |
| 5th of July 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Monarch, American guitarist (Steppenwolf) |
| 5th of July 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Keiko Fuji, Japanese enka singer |
| 5th of July 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Goose Gossage, American baseball player |
| 5th of July 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Roger Wicker, American politician, junior senator of Mississippi |
| 5th of July 1952 | BIRTHDAY | David Pinkney, British racing driver |
| 5th of July 1954 | BIRTHDAY | John Wright, New Zealand cricketer |
| 5th of July 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Leni Bjorklund, Swedish politician |
| 5th of July 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Jimmy Crespo, American guitarist (Aerosmith) |
| 5th of July 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Peter McNamara, Australian tennis player |
| 5th of July 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Patsy Pease, American actress |
| 5th of July 1956 | BIRTHDAY | James Lofton, American football player and coach |
| 5th of July 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Doug Wilson, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 5th of July 1957 | BIRTHDAY | David Hanson, politician |
| 5th of July 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Daniel, British opera and symphony conductor |
| 5th of July 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Watterson, American cartoonist |
| 5th of July 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Marc Cohn, American singer and songwriter |
| 5th of July 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Pruitt Taylor Vince, American actor |
| 5th of July 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Brad Loree, Canadian actor and stunt performer |
| 5th of July 1960 | BIRTHDAY | James M. Kelly, American politician |
| 5th of July 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Isabelle Poulenard, French soprano |
| 5th of July 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Patrizia Scianca, Italian voice actress |
| 5th of July 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Stockwell, Australian swimmer |
| 5th of July 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Russ Lorenson, American singer and actor |
| 5th of July 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Edie Falco, American actress |
| 5th of July 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Jimmy Demers, American singer and writer |
| 5th of July 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Eyran Katsenelenbogen, Israeli jazz pianist |
| 5th of July 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Susannah Doyle, British actress |
| 5th of July 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Kathryn Erbe, American actress |
| 5th of July 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Claudia Wells, American actress |
| 5th of July 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Gianfranco Zola, Italian football player and coach |
| 5th of July 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Silvia Ziche, Italian comics artist |
| 5th of July 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Ken Akamatsu, Japanese manga artist |
| 5th of July 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Kenji Ito, Japanese composer |
| 5th of July 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Nardwuar the Human Serviette, Canadian journalist, singer and keyboardist (The Evaporators) |
| 5th of July 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Alex Zulle, Swiss cyclist |
| 5th of July 1969 | BIRTHDAY | RZA, American rapper (Wu-Tang Clan) |
| 5th of July 1969 | BIRTHDAY | John LeClair, American hockey player |
| 5th of July 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Jenji Kohan, American television writer and producer |
| 5th of July 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Jeremy Spake, English television personality |
| 5th of July 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Mac Dre, American rapper (d. 2004) |
| 5th of July 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Derek McInnes, Scottish footballer |
| 5th of July 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Esmie, Canadian athlete |
| 5th of July 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Marcus Allback, Swedish footballer |
| 5th of July 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Bengt Lagerberg, Swedish drummer (The Cardigans) |
| 5th of July 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Roisin Murphy, Irish singer-songwriter (Moloko) |
| 5th of July 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Rene Spies, German bobsledder |
| 5th of July 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Marcio Amoroso, Brazilian footballer |
| 5th of July 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Gunnar H. Thomsen, Faroese bassist (Tyr) |
| 5th of July 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Hernan Crespo, Argentinian footballer |
| 5th of July 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Kip Gamblin, Australian dancer and actor |
| 5th of July 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Ai Sugiyama, Japanese tennis player |
| 5th of July 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Diplo, American DJ, producer and songwriter |
| 5th of July 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Nuno Gomes, Portuguese footballer |
| 5th of July 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Bizarre, American rapper (D12) |
| 5th of July 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Royce Da 5'9", American rapper |
| 5th of July 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Nicolas Kiefer, German tennis player |
| 5th of July 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Tim Coly, German rugby player |
| 5th of July 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Stiliyan Petrov, Bulgarian footballer |
| 5th of July 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Amelie Mauresmo, French tennis player |
| 5th of July 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Shane Filan, Irish singer (Westlife) |
| 5th of July 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Eva Green, French actress |
| 5th of July 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Jason Wade, American singer, songwriter and guitarist (Lifehouse) |
| 5th of July 1980 | BIRTHDAY | David Rozehnal, Czech footballer |
| 5th of July 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Jesse Crain, Canadian baseball player |
| 5th of July 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Ryan Hansen, American actor |
| 5th of July 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Gianne Albertoni, Brazilian model |
| 5th of July 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Alberto Gilardino, Italian footballer |
| 5th of July 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Philippe Gilbert, Belgian cyclist |
| 5th of July 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Zheng Jie, Chinese tennis player |
| 5th of July 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Marion Trott, German skeleton racer |
| 5th of July 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Keegan, Irish footballer |
| 5th of July 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Danay Garcia, Cuban actress |
| 5th of July 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Yu Yamada, Japanese Ryukyuan model, actress and singer |
| 5th of July 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Stephanie McIntosh, Australian pop singer and actress |
| 5th of July 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Nick O'Malley, British bassist (Arctic Monkeys) |
| 5th of July 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Adriano Buzaid, Brazilian racing driver |
| 5th of July 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph King, American singer, songwriter and guitarist (Canvas, Deadbeat Darling) |
| 5th of July 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Dejan Lovren, Croatian footballer |
| 5th of July 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Sean O'Pry, American male supermodel |
| 5th of July 1991 | BIRTHDAY | Jason Dolley, American actor |
| 5th of July 1316 | DEATH | Infante Ferdinand of Majorca (Born 1278) |
| 5th of July 1375 | DEATH | Charles III of Alencon, French archbishop (Born 1337) |
| 5th of July 1507 | DEATH | Crinitus, Florentine humanist (Born 1475) |
| 5th of July 1539 | DEATH | Anthony Maria Zaccaria, Italian saint (Born 1502) |
| 5th of July 1666 | DEATH | Albert VI of Bavaria (Born 1584) |
| 5th of July 1676 | DEATH | Carl Gustaf Wrangel, Swedish soldier (Born 1613) |
| 5th of July 1715 | DEATH | Charles Ancillon, French Huguenot pastor (Born 1659) |
| 5th of July 1719 | DEATH | Meinhardt Schomberg, 3rd Duke of Schomberg, German-born British soldier (Born 1641) |
| 5th of July 1773 | DEATH | Francisco Jose Freire, Portuguese historian and philologist (Born 1719) |
| 5th of July 1819 | DEATH | William Cornwallis, Royal Navy admiral (Born1744) |
| 5th of July 1826 | DEATH | Sir Stamford Raffles, British statesman (Born 1782) |
| 5th of July 1833 | DEATH | Nicephore Niepce, French inventor (Born 1765) |
| 5th of July 1859 | DEATH | Charles Cagniard de la Tour, French physicist (Born 1777) |
| 5th of July 1862 | DEATH | Heinrich Georg Bronn, German geologist (Born 1800) |
| 5th of July 1863 | DEATH | Lewis Addison Armistead, American Confederate General (Born 1817) |
| 5th of July 1884 | DEATH | Victor Masse, French composer (Born 1822) |
| 5th of July 1908 | DEATH | Jonas Lie, Norwegian novelist (Born 1833) |
| 5th of July 1920 | DEATH | Max Klinger, German painter, sculptor and printmaker (Born 1857) |
| 5th of July 1927 | DEATH | Albrecht Kossel, German physician, Nobel laureate (Born 1853) |
| 5th of July 1929 | DEATH | Henry Lincoln Johnson, American member of 369th regiment (aka Harlem Hell Fighters), the first American to receive the Croix de guerre (Born 1897) |
| 5th of July 1932 | DEATH | Sasha Cherny, Russian poet (Born 1880) |
| 5th of July 1937 | DEATH | Daniel Sawyer, American golfer (Born 1884) |
| 5th of July 1945 | DEATH | John Curtin, 14th Prime Minister of Australia (Born 1885) |
| 5th of July 1948 | DEATH | Carole Landis, American actress (Born 1919) |
| 5th of July 1948 | DEATH | Georges Bernanos, French writer (Born 1888) |
| 5th of July 1957 | DEATH | Charles Sherwood Noble, American-born inventor (Born 1873) |
| 5th of July 1965 | DEATH | Porfirio Rubirosa, Dominican diplomat and international playboy (Born 1909) |
| 5th of July 1966 | DEATH | George de Hevesy, Hungarian chemist, Nobel laureate (Born 1885) |
| 5th of July 1969 | DEATH | Walter Gropius, German architect (Born 1883) |
| 5th of July 1969 | DEATH | Wilhelm Backhaus, German pianist (Born 1884) |
| 5th of July 1969 | DEATH | Leo McCarey, American film director (Born 1898) |
| 5th of July 1969 | DEATH | Tom Mboya, Kenyan politician (Born 1930) |
| 5th of July 1975 | DEATH | Gilda dalla Rizza, Italian soprano (Born 1892) |
| 5th of July 1983 | DEATH | Harry James, American trumpeter (Born 1916) |
| 5th of July 1991 | DEATH | Howard Nemerov, American poet (Born 1920) |
| 5th of July 1996 | DEATH | Erik Wickberg, Swedish-born 9th General of the Salvation Army (Born 1904) |
| 5th of July 1997 | DEATH | Mrs. Elva Miller, American singer (Born 1907) |
| 5th of July 1998 | DEATH | Sid Luckman, American football player (Born 1916) |
| 5th of July 2001 | DEATH | Ernie K-Doe, American singer (Born 1936) |
| 5th of July 2002 | DEATH | Katy Jurado, Mexican actress (Born 1924) |
| 5th of July 2002 | DEATH | Ted Williams, American baseball player (Born 1918) |
| 5th of July 2003 | DEATH | Roman Lyashenko, Russian ice hockey player (Born 1979) |
| 5th of July 2004 | DEATH | Hugh Shearer, Jamaican politician, the 3rd Prime Minister of Jamaica (Born 1923) |
| 5th of July 2004 | DEATH | Rodger Ward, American race car driver (Born 1921) |
| 5th of July 2005 | DEATH | Shirley Goodman, American singer (Born 1936) |
| 5th of July 2005 | DEATH | James Stockdale, U.S. Navy vice admiral (Born 1923) |
| 5th of July 2006 | DEATH | Gert Fredriksson, Swedish canoer (Born 1919) |
| 5th of July 2006 | DEATH | Thirunalloor Karunakaran, Indian poet (Born 1924) |
| 5th of July 2006 | DEATH | Kenneth Lay, American businessman (Born 1942) |
| 5th of July 2007 | DEATH | Regine Crespin, French operatic soprano (Born 1927) |
| 5th of July 2007 | DEATH | George Melly, British jazz & blues musician (Born 1926) |
| 5th of July 2007 | DEATH | Kerwin Mathews, American actor (Born 1926) |
| 5th of July 2008 | DEATH | Hasan Dogan, the 37th president of the Turkish Football Federation (Born 1956) |
| 5th of July 2010 | DEATH | Bob Probert, Canadian professional ice hockey forward. (Born 1965) |