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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 Avatar film series (2009–2025).
Notable Deaths on July 5
2024 — Jon Landau
American film producer (born 1960)
July 5 has 85 recorded notable deaths across history, from 905 to 2024. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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Notable Deaths
85 source records
905 – 2024
Today in history
Major events on July 5
See what else happened on this day in history.
- 1977 The Pakistan Armed Forces under Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq seize power in Operation Fair Play and begin 11 years of martial law. Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the first elected Prime Minister of Pakistan, is overthrown. Source
- 2024 Keir Starmer is appointed Prime Minister by Charles III, becoming the first Labour prime minister since Gordon Brown in 2010 and the first one to win a general election since Tony Blair at the 2005 general election. Source
- 2009 The Staffordshire Horde, the largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold ever discovered in Britain, is found near the village of Hammerwich, near Lichfield, Staffordshire. Source
- 1995 Armenia adopts its constitution, four years after its independence from the Soviet Union. Source
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Katy Jurado was the first Latin American actress nominated for an Oscar, as Best Supporting Actress for her work in Broken Lance (1954), and was the first to win a Golden Globe Award, for her performance in High Noon (1952).
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Kenneth Lay was heavily involved in Enron's accounting scandal that unraveled in 2001 into the largest bankruptcy ever to that date.
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In 1959, he won the AIA Gold Medal, one of the most prestigious awards in architecture.
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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.
More major people who died on July 5
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
2002
Katy Jurado
Mexican actress (born 1924)
María Cristina Estela Marcela Jurado García, known professionally as Katy Jurado, was a Mexican actress.
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.
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.
1983
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.
1929
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.
1969
Tom Mboya
Kenyan politician, 1st Kenyan Minister of Justice (born 1930)
Thomas Joseph Odhiambo Mboya was a Kenyan politician and labour leader. He was one of the founding fathers of the Republic of Kenya.
1957
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.
1948
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.
2012
Gerrit Komrij
Dutch author, poet, and playwright (born 1944)
Gerrit Jan Komrij was a Dutch poet, novelist, translator, critic, polemic journalist and playwright.
1819
William Cornwallis
English admiral and politician (born 1744)
Admiral Sir William Cornwallis, was a Royal Navy officer and politician.
2007
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.
1863
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.
1920
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…
1945
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.
2002
Ted Williams
American baseball player and manager (born 1918)
Theodore Samuel Williams was an American professional baseball player and manager.
2010
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.
1826
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.
1833
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.
1991
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.