July 5
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- 1681 - Feodor Aleksejevitch, Tsar of Russia
- 1833 - Nicéphore Niépce, French inventor
- 1904 - Abai Kunanbaiuli, Kazakh poet
- 1908 - Jonas Lie, Norwegian author
- 1920 - Max Klinger, artist
- 1945 - John Curtin, fourteenth Prime Minister of Australia
- 1948 - Georges Bernanos, French writer (b. 1888)
- 1957 - Charles Sherwood Noble, inventor
- 1966 - George de Hevesy, Hungarian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1885)
- 1969 - Walter Gropius, German architect (b. 1883)
- 1975 - Otto Skorzeny, German commando who rescued Benito Mussolini
- 1983 - Harry James, musician
- 1991 - Howard Nemerov, poet (b. 1920)
- 1998 - Sid Luckman, American football player
- 2001 - Hannelore Kohl, wife of Chancellor of Germany Helmut Kohl (suicide)
- 2002 - Katy Jurado, actress
- 2002 - Ted Williams, Baseball Hall of Famer (b. 1918)
- 2003 - Roman Lyashenko, hockey player
- 2004 - Rodger Ward, auto racer (b. 1921)
