Notable people who died on July 5 include: Cui Yuan, Dugu Sun, Lu Yi, Pei Shu, Wang Pu.

Notable Deaths on July 5

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Gerrit Komrij, Dutch author, poet, and playwright (born 1944)

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Dutch author, poet, and playwright (born 1944)

July 5 has seen 90 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 905 – 2024. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.

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Notable Deaths 90 people 905 – 2024

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Hooft Award (1993), and from 2000 to 2004, he was the Dutch Dichter des Vaderlands

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He rose to prominence in the early 1970s, writing poetry that sharply contrasted with the free-form poetry of his contemporaries

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He acquired a reputation for his prose in the late 1970s, writing acerbic essays and columns often critical of writers, television programs, and politicians

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Gerrit Jan Komrij was a Dutch poet, novelist, translator, critic, polemic journalist and playwright

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Those anthologies and a steady stream of prose and poetry publications solidified his reputation as one of the country's leading writers and critics; he was awarded the highest literary awards including the P

Cui Yuan

Chinese chancellor

Cui Yuan (崔遠), courtesy name Changzhi (昌之), formally the Baron of Boling (博陵男), was an official of the Chinese Tang dynasty, serving two terms as chancellor during the reigns of Emperor Zhaozong and Emperor Zhaozong's…

905

Dugu Sun

Chinese chancellor

Dugu Sun, courtesy name Yousun (又損), was an official of the Chinese Tang dynasty, serving as a chancellor during the reigns of Emperor Zhaozong and Emperor Zhaozong's son Emperor Ai, near the end of the dynasty. He was…

905

Lu Yi

Chinese chancellor (born 847)

Lu Yi (陸扆), né Lu Yundi (陸允迪), courtesy name Xiangwen (祥文), formally the Duke of Wu Commandery (吳郡公), was an official of the Chinese Tang dynasty, who served as chancellor twice during the reign of Emperor Zhaozong.

905

Pei Shu

Chinese chancellor (born 841)

Pei Shu (裴樞), courtesy name Jisheng (紀聖) or Huasheng (化聖), was an official of the Chinese Tang dynasty, who served two terms as chancellor during the reigns of Emperor Zhaozong and Emperor Zhaozong's son Emperor Ai,…

905

Wang Pu

Chinese chancellor

Wang Pu (王溥), courtesy name Derun (德潤), was an official of the Chinese dynasty Tang dynasty, serving as a chancellor from 901 to 903, during the reign of Emperor Zhaozong. He was killed in a purge of high-level Tang…

905

Xu Ji

Chinese official and chancellor

Xu Ji (許寂), courtesy name Xianxian (閑閑), was an official of the Chinese Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period state Former Shu, serving as a chancellor during the reign of its last emperor Wang Zongyan.

936

Murakami

Japanese emperor (born 926)

Emperor Murakami was the 62nd emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession.

967

Ísleifur Gissurarson

Icelandic bishop (born 1006)

Ísleifur Gissurarson, an Icelandic clergyman, became the first bishop of Iceland, following the adoption of Christianity in 1000 AD.

1080

William of Hirsau

German abbot

William of Hirsau was a Benedictine abbot and monastic reformer. He was abbot of Hirsau Abbey, for whom he created the Constitutiones Hirsaugienses, based on the uses of Cluny, and was the father of the Hirsau Reforms,…

1091

Ferdinand

prince of Majorca (born 1278)

Ferdinand of Majorca was an infante of the Kingdom of Majorca; he was born at Perpignan, the third son of King James II. He was Viscount of Aumelas and Lord of Frontignan from 1311 and claimed the title of Prince of…

1316

Charles III

French nobleman (born 1337)

Charles III of Alençon was a French nobleman of the Capetian House of Valois. He was count of Alençon and Perche from 1346 until 1361, when he became a Dominican friar, and archbishop of Lyon from 1365 until his death.

1375

Musa Çelebi

Ottoman prince and co-ruler

Musa Çelebi was an Ottoman prince and a co-ruler of the empire for three years during the Ottoman Interregnum.

1413

Crinitus

Italian scholar and academic (born 1475)

Pietro Crinito, known as Crinitus, or Pietro Del Riccio Baldi, was a Florentine humanist scholar and poet who was a disciple of Poliziano.

1507

Anthony Maria Zaccaria

Italian saint (born 1502)

Anthony Maria Zaccaria, CRSP was an Italian Catholic priest and early leader of the Counter-Reformation. He was the founder of the Barnabites and a promoter of devotion to the Passion of Christ and the Eucharist and of…

1539

Sir Hugh Speke

1st Baronet

Sir Hugh Speke, 1st Baronet was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1661.

1661

Albert VI

German nobleman (born 1584)

Albert VI of Bavaria son of William V, Duke of Bavaria and Renata of Lorraine, born and died in Munich.

1666

Carl Gustaf Wrangel

Swedish field marshal and politician (born 1613)

Fältmarskalk Carl Gustaf Wrangel was a Swedish statesman and military commander who commanded the Swedish forces in the Thirty Years' War, as well as the Torstenson, Bremen, Second Northern and Scanian Wars.

1676

Charles Ancillon

French jurist and diplomat (born 1659)

Charles Ancillon was a French jurist and diplomat.

1715

Meinhardt Schomberg

3rd Duke of Schomberg, German-English general (born 1641)

General Meinhardt Schomberg, 3rd Duke of Schomberg, 1st Duke of Leinster, KG, was a German-born military officer and peer who served as Commander-in-Chief of the Forces in 1691. He spent the majority of his military…

1719

Francisco José Freire

Portuguese historian and philologist (born 1719)

Francisco José Freire was a Portuguese historian and philologist.

1773

William Cornwallis

English admiral and politician (born 1744)

Admiral Sir William Cornwallis, was a Royal Navy officer and politician. Cornwallis took part in a number of decisive battles including the siege of Louisbourg in 1758, when he was 14, and the Battle of the Saintes but…

1819

Stamford Raffles

English politician, founded Singapore (born 1782)

Sir Thomas Stamford Bingley Raffles was a British colonial official who served as the governor of the Dutch East Indies between 1811 and 1816 and lieutenant-governor of Bencoolen between 1818 and 1824. Raffles was…

1826

Nicéphore Niépce

French inventor, created the first known photograph (born 1765)

Joseph Nicéphore Niépce was a French inventor and one of the pioneers of photography. Niépce developed heliography, a technique he used to create the world's oldest surviving products of a photographic process. In the…

1833

Charles Cagniard de la Tour

French physicist and engineer (born 1777)

Baron Charles Cagniard de la Tour was a French engineer and physicist.

1859

Heinrich Georg Bronn

German geologist and paleontologist (born 1800)

Heinrich Georg Bronn was a German geologist and paleontologist. He was the first to translate Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species into German in 1860, although not without introducing his own interpretations, as…

1862

Lewis Armistead

Confederate general (born 1817)

Lewis Addison Armistead was a career United States Army officer who became a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. On July 3, 1863, as part of Pickett's Charge during the Battle…

1863

Victor Massé

French composer (born 1822)

Victor Massé was a French composer.

1884

Jonas Lie

Norwegian author, poet, and playwright (born 1833)

Jonas Lauritz Idemil Lie was a Norwegian novelist, poet, and playwright who, together with Henrik Ibsen, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson and Alexander Kielland, is considered one of the Four Greats of 19th-century Norwegian…

1908

Max Klinger

German painter and sculptor (born 1857)

Max Klinger was a German artist who produced significant work in painting, sculpture, prints and graphics, as well as writing a treatise articulating his ideas on art and the role of graphic arts and printmaking in…

1920

Albrecht Kossel

German physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1853)

Ludwig Karl Martin Leonhard Albrecht Kossel was a German biochemist and pioneer in the study of genetics. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1910 for his work in determining the chemical…

1927

Henry Johnson

American sergeant (born 1897)

William Henry Johnson, commonly known as Henry Johnson, was a United States Army soldier who performed heroically in the first African American unit of the United States Army to engage in combat in World War I. On watch…

1929

Sasha Chorny

Russian poet and author (born 1880)

Alexander Mikhailovich Glikberg, better known as Sasha Chorny or Cherny, was a Russian poet, satirist and children's writer.

1932

Bernard de Pourtalès

Swiss captain and sailor (born 1870)

Bernard Alexandre George Edmond de Pourtalès was a Swiss infantry captain and sailor who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics.

1935

Daniel Sawyer

American golfer (born 1884)

Daniel Edward "Ned" Sawyer was an American golfer who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics.

1937

Kazimierz Junosza-Stępowski

Polish actor (born 1880)

Kazimierz Junosza-Stępowski was a Polish stage and film actor. He was a legendary figure in Polish cinema who had appeared in the earliest Polish films in 1902. Junosza-Stępowski was killed while trying to protect his…

1943

Karin Swanström

Swedish actress, director, and producer (born 1873)

Karin Swanström was a Swedish actress, producer and director.

1943

John Curtin

Australian journalist and politician, 14th Prime Minister of Australia (born 1885)

John Curtin was an Australian politician who served as the 14th prime minister of Australia from 1941 until his death in 1945. He held office as the leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP), having been most notable…

1945

Georges Bernanos

French soldier and author (born 1888)

Louis Émile Clément Georges Bernanos was a French author, and a soldier in World War I. A Catholic with monarchist leanings, he was critical of elitist thought and was opposed to what he identified as defeatism. He…

1948

Carole Landis

American actress (born 1919)

Carole Landis was an American actress. She worked as a contract player for Twentieth Century-Fox in the 1940s. Her breakout role was as the female lead in the 1940 film One Million B.C. from United Artists. She was…

1948

Piet Aalberse

Dutch politician (born 1871)

Petrus Josephus Mattheus "Piet" Aalberse Sr. was a Dutch politician of the General League of Roman Catholic Electoral Associations, later the Roman Catholic State Party (RKSP) and later co-founder of the Catholic…

1948

Thomas William Burgess

English swimmer and water polo player (born 1872)

Thomas William Burgess was the second person to successfully complete a swim of the English Channel after Matthew Webb, following sixteen attempts. Burgess was British but spent most of his life in France, and won a…

1950

Anugrah Narayan Sinha

Indian lawyer and politician, 1st Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar (born 1887)

Anugrah Narayan Sinha, known as Bihar Vibhuti, was an Indian nationalist politician, participant in Champaran Satyagraha, Gandhian, and one of the architects of modern Bihar. He served as the first Deputy Chief Minister…

1957

Porfirio Rubirosa

Dominican race car driver, polo player, and diplomat (born 1909)

Porfirio Rubirosa Ariza was a Dominican diplomat, race car driver, soldier and polo player. He was a supporter of dictator Rafael Trujillo, and was rumored to be a political assassin under his regime. Rubirosa made his…

1965

George de Hevesy

Hungarian-German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1885)

George Charles de Hevesy was a Hungarian radiochemist and Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate, recognized in 1943 for his key role in the development of radioactive tracers to study chemical processes such as in the…

1966

Wilhelm Backhaus

German pianist and educator (born 1884)

Wilhelm Backhaus was a German pianist and pedagogue. He was particularly well known for his interpretations of Mozart, Beethoven, Schumann, Chopin and Brahms. He was also much admired as a chamber musician.

1969

Walter Gropius

German architect, designed the John F. Kennedy Federal Building and Werkbund Exhibition (born 1883)

Walter Adolph Georg Gropius was a German-American architect and founder of the Bauhaus School, who is widely regarded as one of the pioneering masters of modernist architecture. He was a founder of Bauhaus in Weimar and…

1969

Tom Mboya

Kenyan politician, 1st Kenyan Minister of Justice (born 1930)

Thomas Joseph Odhiambo Mboya was a Kenyan trade unionist, educator, Pan-Africanist, author, independence activist, and statesman. He was one of the founding fathers of the Republic of Kenya. He led the negotiations for…

1969

Leo McCarey

American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1898)

Thomas Leo McCarey was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. He was involved in nearly 200 films, including the critically acclaimed Duck Soup, Make Way for Tomorrow, The Awful Truth, Going My Way, The…

1969

Gilda dalla Rizza

Italian soprano and actress (born 1892)

Gilda Dalla Rizza was an important Italian soprano.

1975

Walter Giesler

American soccer player and referee (born 1910)

Walter John Giesler was an American soccer administrator, and coach best known for coaching the United States men's national soccer team in the 1950 FIFA World Cup.

1976

Harry James

American trumpet player and actor (born 1916)

Harry Haag James was an American musician who is best known as a trumpet-playing band leader who led a big band to great commercial success from 1939 to 1946. He broke up his band for a short period in 1947, but shortly…

1983

Chic Murray

Canadian politician, 2nd Mayor of Mississauga (born 1914)

Charles Myron "Chic" Murray was a Canadian politician who served as the second Mayor of the Town of Mississauga, before it amalgamated with several surrounding towns to form the current City of Mississauga.

1984

Howard Nemerov

American poet and essayist (born 1920)

Howard Nemerov was an American poet. Nemerov was the Edward Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor of English and Distinguished Poet in Residence at Washington University in St. Louis. He was twice Poet…

1991

Jüri Järvet

Estonian actor and screenwriter (born 1919)

Jüri Järvet, born Georgi Kuznetsov, was an Estonian actor.

1995

A. Thangathurai

Sri Lankan Tamil lawyer and politician (born 1936)

Arunasalam Thangathurai was a Sri Lankan Tamil lawyer, politician and Member of Parliament.

1997

Sid Luckman

American football player (born 1916)

Sidney Luckman was an American professional football quarterback who played for the Chicago Bears of the National Football League (NFL) from 1939 through 1950. During his 12 seasons with the Bears, he led them to four…

1998

Katy Jurado

Mexican actress (born 1924)

María Cristina Estela Marcela Jurado García, known professionally as Katy Jurado, was a Mexican actress. She followed in the footsteps of earlier Mexican actresses in Hollywood, including Dolores Del Rio, Lupe Velez,…

2002

Ted Williams

American baseball player and manager (born 1918)

Theodore Samuel Williams was an American professional baseball player and manager. He played his entire 19-year Major League Baseball (MLB) career, primarily as a left fielder, for the Boston Red Sox from 1939 to 1960;…

2002

Hugh Shearer

Jamaican journalist and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Jamaica (born 1923)

Hugh Lawson Shearer was a Jamaican trade unionist and politician, who served as the 3rd Prime Minister of Jamaica, from 1967 to 1972. He was also Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade…

2004

Rodger Ward

American race car driver and sportscaster (born 1921)

Rodger Morris Ward was an American racing driver best known for his open-wheel career. He is generally regarded as one of the finest drivers of his generation, and is best known for winning two National Championships,…

2004

James Stockdale

American admiral (born 1923)

James Bond Stockdale was a U.S. Navy vice admiral, aviator, and Stoic philosopher who received the Medal of Honor in 1976 for his leadership as a POW for more than seven years during the Vietnam War.

2005

Gert Fredriksson

Swedish canoe racer (born 1919)

Gert Fridolf Fredriksson was a Swedish sprint canoeist. Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won eight medals including six golds, one silver, and one bronze. At the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Fredriksson was head…

2006

Thirunalloor Karunakaran

Indian poet and scholar (born 1924)

Thirunalloor Karunakaran was a poet, scholar, teacher and leftist intellectual of Kerala, India.

2006

Kenneth Lay

American businessman (born 1942)

Kenneth Lee Lay was an American businessman and political donor who was the founder, chief executive officer and chairman of Enron. He was heavily involved in Enron's accounting scandal that unraveled in 2001 into the…

2006

Amzie Strickland

American actress (born 1919)

Amzie Ellen Strickland was an American character actress who began in radio, made some 650 television appearances, had roles in two dozen films, appeared in numerous television movies, and also worked in TV commercials.

2006

Régine Crespin

French soprano (born 1927)

Régine Crespin was a French soprano who had a major international career in opera and on the concert stage between 1950 and 1989. She started her career singing roles in the dramatic soprano and spinto soprano…

2007

George Melly

English singer-songwriter and critic (born 1926)

Alan George Heywood Melly was an English jazz and blues singer, critic, writer, and lecturer. From 1965 to 1973, he was a film and television critic for The Observer; he also lectured on art history, with an emphasis on…

2007

Hasan Doğan

Turkish businessman (born 1956)

Hasan Doğan was the 37th president of the Turkish Football Federation. He died of a heart attack in Bodrum, a popular tourist destination in the southwest Turkish Riviera, where he was on vacation. He was incumbent for…

2008

Bob Probert

Canadian ice hockey player and radio host (born 1965)

Robert Alan Probert was a Canadian professional ice hockey forward. Probert played for the National Hockey League's Detroit Red Wings and Chicago Blackhawks. While a successful player by some measures, including being…

2010

Cy Twombly

American-Italian painter, sculptor, and photographer (born 1928)

Edwin Parker "Cy" Twombly Jr. was an American painter, sculptor, and photographer.

2011

Rob Goris

Belgian cyclist (born 1982)

Rob Goris was a Belgian professional road racing cyclist who rode for UCI Professional Continental Team team Accent.jobs–Willems Veranda's.

2012

Colin Marshall

Baron Marshall of Knightsbridge, English businessman and politician (born 1933)

Colin Marsh Marshall, Baron Marshall of Knightsbridge, was a British businessman and member of the House of Lords.

2012

Ruud van Hemert

Dutch actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1938)

Ruud van Hemert was a Dutch film director known especially for (dark) comedy. In the 1970s he helped produce and direct TV shows on VPRO before starting a career as a film director.

2012

Bud Asher

American lawyer and politician (born 1925)

Baron Henry "Bud" Asher was an American politician, football coach and former lawyer. Asher served as the mayor of Daytona Beach, Florida, for eight years from 1995 until 2003. Before becoming mayor, Asher was elected…

2013

David Cargo

American politician, 22nd Governor of New Mexico (born 1929)

David Francis Cargo was an American attorney and politician who served as the 22nd governor of New Mexico between 1967 and 1971.

2013

William Tebeau

American engineer, first African-American man to graduate from Oregon State University (born 1925)

William Henry Tebeau in 1948 became the first African-American man to graduate from Oregon State College (OSU). He was an engineer for the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) for 36 years. A residence hall at OSU…

2013

Lambert Jackson Woodburne

South African admiral (born 1939)

Vice Admiral Lambert Jackson Woodburne was Chief of the South African Navy from 1 July 1990 to 31 August 1992. He is one of only two people to have been awarded the Van Riebeeck Decoration, which he received for Special…

2013

Rosemary Murphy

American actress (born 1925)

Rosemary Murphy was an American actress of stage, film, and television. She was nominated for three Tony Awards for her stage work, as well as two Emmy Awards for television work, winning once, for her performance in…

2014

Volodymyr Sabodan

Ukrainian metropolitan (born 1935)

Metropolitan Vladimir was the Metropolitan of Kiev and the Exarch of Ukraine in the Patriarchate of Moscow, and, ex officio, the head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC-MP) from 1992 to 2014. He was styled "His…

2014

Hans-Ulrich Wehler

German historian and academic (born 1931)

Hans-Ulrich Wehler was a German left-liberal historian known for his role in promoting social history through the "Bielefeld School", and for his critical studies of 19th-century Germany.

2014

Brett Wiesner

American soccer player (born 1983)

Brett Valenciano Wiesner was an American soccer player.

2014

Uffe Haagerup

Danish mathematician and academic (born 1949)

Uffe Valentin Haagerup was a mathematician from Denmark.

2015

Yoichiro Nambu

Japanese-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1921)

Yoichiro Nambu was a Japanese-American physicist and professor at the University of Chicago.

2015

Nick Cordero

Canadian actor and singer (born 1978)

Nicholas Eduardo Alberto Cordero was a Canadian actor and singer. He was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical for his role as Cheech in the 2014 Broadway musical Bullets Over Broadway and…

2020

Raffaella Carrà

Italian singer, dancer, television presenter and actress (born 1943)

Raffaella Maria Roberta Pelloni, known professionally as Raffaella Carrà and sometimes mononymously as Raffaella, was an Italian singer, dancer, actress, television presenter and model. Widely considered a pop culture…

2021

Richard Donner

American film director (born 1930)

Richard Donner was an American filmmaker. Described as "one of Hollywood's most reliable makers of action blockbusters", Donner directed some of the most financially successful films of the 1970s and 1980s. His career…

2021

Jon Landau

American film producer (born 1960)

Jon Landau was an American film producer. Best known for his collaborations with filmmaker James Cameron, he co-produced Cameron's Titanic (1997)—for which he won the Academy Award for Best Picture—as well as Cameron's…

2024

Bengt I. Samuelsson

Swedish biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1934)

Bengt Ingemar Samuelsson was a Swedish biochemist. He shared with Sune K. Bergström and John R. Vane the 1982 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for discoveries concerning prostaglandins and related substances.

2024

Vic Seixas

American tennis player (born 1923)

Elias Victor Seixas Jr. was an American tennis player.

2024

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Known forHe rose to prominence in the early 1970s, writing poetry that sharply contrasted with the free-form poetry of his contemporaries

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