Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/July 5

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[edit] Births

• 1810 - Phineas Taylor "P. T." Barnum, (pictured) American circus owner (d. 1891)
• 1889 - Jean Cocteau, French writer (d. 1963)
• 1950 - Huey Lewis, American musician
• 1958 - Bill Watterson, American cartoonist
• 1966 - Gianfranco Zola, Italian footballer`
• 1968 - Nardwuar the Human Serviette, Canadian Interviewer
• 1970 - Mac Dre, American rapper
• 1976 - Nuno Gomes, Portuguese footballer
• 1979 - Amélie Mauresmo, French tennis player
• 1982 - Alberto Gilardino, Italian footballer
• 1985 - Stephanie McIntosh, Australian actress

[edit] Deaths

• 1945 - John Curtin, 14th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1885)
• 1965 - Porfirio Rubirosa, Dominican diplomat and international playboy (b. 1909)
• 1966 - George de Hevesy, Hungarian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1885)
• 1969 - Walter Gropius, German architect (b. 1883)
• 2002 - Ted Williams, baseball player (b. 1918)

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