Birthday twins
July 5 is the birthday of 53 notable people we've found so far, including athletes, politicians, entrepreneurs and authors, and 1 of them is a billionaire.
What the data says
Investor · Glencore · mining
1934 · United States
$1.2Bolder estimate, as of 2005 · Forbes
Pincus Green is an American oil and gas commodities trader.
Reported estimate as of 2005: $1.2B. Wealth changes; this is not a live figure.
Against the other 365
Ranks compare all 366 dates in the dataset; ties share a rank. See every July birthday · battle July 5 against another date · all rankings
The July 5 wealth profile
Ranked by the low end of each reported estimate; bars use a log scale.
Entrepreneur · YouTube
1968–2024 · United States
$765Molder estimate, as of 2022 · Forbes
Susan Diane Wojcicki was an American business executive who was the chief executive officer of YouTube from 2014 to 2023. Her net worth was estimated at $765 million in 2022.
TechCrunch, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Who shares July 5
Share of the 53 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Countries
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
Life timeline
Dated milestones from Wikidata (company foundings, awards, top jobs, notable works), placed at the age each person reached them. Add your birth year above to see the ones you have passed.
The standouts
Ordered by sourced wealth, then documented achievement and coverage.
Top tier
Actor
1963 · United States
Edith Falco is an American actress. Known for her performances on stage and screen, she has received numerous accolades including four Primetime Emmy Awards, five Actor Awards, and two Golden Globe Awards, as well as a nomination for a Tony Award.
Drama League from USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Scientist
1946 · Kingdom of the Netherlands
Gerardus "Gerard" 't Hooft is a Dutch theoretical physicist and professor emeritus at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. He shared the 1999 Nobel Prize in Physics with his thesis advisor Martinus J. G. Veltman "for elucidating the quantum structure of electroweak interactions."
Wammes Waggel, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Scientist
1936–2018 · United Kingdom
Sir James Alexander Mirrlees was a British economist and winner of the 1996 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. He was knighted in the 1997 Birthday Honours.
總統府, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Scientist
1891–1987 · United States
John Howard Northrop was an American biochemist who, with James Batcheller Sumner and Wendell Meredith Stanley, won the 1946 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The award was given for these scientists' isolation, crystallization, and study of enzymes, proteins, and viruses.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
American physiologist
1888–1963 · United States
Herbert Spencer Gasser was an American physiologist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1944 for his work with action potentials in nerve fibers while on the faculty of Washington University in St. Louis, awarded jointly with Joseph Erlanger.
Esselte, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur
1810–1891 · United States
Phineas Taylor Barnum was an American showman, businessman, and politician remembered for promoting celebrated hoaxes and founding the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus with James Anthony Bailey.
Brady-Handy Photograph Collection (Library of Congress), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Builders
Entrepreneur · De Beers · retail
1853–1902 · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Cecil John Rhodes was a British mining magnate and politician in southern Africa who served as Prime Minister of the Cape Colony from 1890 to 1896.
unattributed, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur
1985 · United States
Megan Anna Rapinoe is an American former professional soccer player who played as a midfielder and winger. She spent most of her career playing for Seattle Reign FC of the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) and the United States national team.
Daniel Nickson, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur
1966 · United States
Claudia Wells is an American actress, best known for playing Jennifer Parker in the 1985 film Back to the Future.
Montclair Film, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur
1860–1919 · United States
Robert Bacon was an American athlete, banker, businessman, statesman, diplomat and Republican Party politician who served as the 39th United States Secretary of State in the Theodore Roosevelt administration from January to March 1909.
Wikimedia Commons, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur
1969 · Brazil
Eduardo Corrêa Riedel is a Brazilian politician who is the 12th and current Governor of Mato Grosso do Sul.
Agência Brasília from Brasília, Brasil, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur
1945 · Serbia
Miroslav Mišković is a Serbian oligarch, business magnate, investor and owner of Delta Holding.
Voice of America, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
July 5 in history
Events from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
More birthday twins
Actor
1969 · United States
Robert Fitzgerald Diggs, better known by his stage name RZA or the RZA, is an American rapper, record producer, composer, actor, and filmmaker. He is the de facto leader of the hip-hop group Wu-Tang Clan, having produced most of the group's albums and those of its members.
Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1975 · Italy
Hernán Jorge Crespo is an Argentine professional football coach and former player. He is considered one of the best strikers in the history of the Argentina national team. He is the current head coach of Atlas in Liga MX.
Omgosh30, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1889–1963 · France
Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau was a French poet, playwright, novelist, designer, film director, visual artist and critic. He was one of the foremost avant-garde artists of the 20th century and highly influential on the Surrealist and Dadaist movements, among others.
Agence de presse Meurisse, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1966 · Italy
Gianfranco Zola is an Italian football executive, manager, and former footballer who played predominantly as a forward. He is currently vice-president of the Lega Pro, the Italian Serie C football league.
@cfcunofficial (Chelsea Debs) London from London, UK, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
1911–1974 · France
Georges Jean Raymond Pompidou was President of France from 1969 until his death in 1974. He had previously served from 1962 to 1968 as Prime Minister of France under President Charles de Gaulle, with whom he was closely associated throughout his career.
Farabola, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1936–2020 · United States
Shirley Enola Knight Hopkins was an American actress, active in theatre, film, and television from the 1960s through the 2010s. She was a two-time Oscar nominee, a three-time Primetime Emmy Award winner, and a Golden Globe and Tony Award winner, among other accolades.
Frank Driggs Collection, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1989 · Croatia
Dejan Lovren is a Croatian professional footballer who plays as a centre-back.
Vyacheslav Yevdokimov, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1982 · Italy
Alberto Gilardino is an Italian professional football manager and a former player who played as a striker; who was most recently the head coach of Serie B club Pisa.
Christophe95, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
1857–1933 · Germany
Clara Zetkin was a German Marxist theorist, communist activist, and advocate for women's rights.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1979 · France
Amélie Simone Mauresmo is a French former professional tennis player, tennis coach, and tournament director. She was ranked as the world No. 1 in women's singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) for 39 weeks.
Carine06, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
1908–1989 · Soviet Union
Andrei Andreyevich Gromyko was a Soviet politician and diplomat during the Cold War. He served as Minister of Foreign Affairs (1957–1985) and as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (1985–1988).
Actor
1982 · Turkey
Hatice Tuba Büyüküstün is a Turkish actress and model. She is the recipient of several awards and one of Turkey's most popular and highest paid actresses.
Athlete
1959–1996 · Ireland
Veronica Guerin Turley was an Irish investigative journalist focusing on organised crime in Ireland, who was murdered in a contract killing believed to have been ordered by a South Dublin-based drug cartel.
William Murphy, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1979 · Bulgaria
Stiliyan Alyoshev Petrov is a Bulgarian former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. Petrov joined Celtic from CSKA Sofia in 1999, and won ten trophies in his time at Celtic Park, including four Scottish Premier League titles.
Biso, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1992 · Spain
Alberto Moreno Pérez is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a left-back for RCD Mallorca.
Gabriel Corbacho, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1976 · Portugal
Nuno Miguel Soares Pereira Ribeiro, known as Nuno Gomes, is a Portuguese former professional footballer who played as a striker.
Web Summit, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Chief executive
1958 · Israel
Avigdor Lieberman is an Israeli politician who served as Minister of Finance between 2021 and 2022, having previously served twice as Deputy Prime Minister of Israel from 2006 to 2008 and 2009 to 2012.
Jim Mattis, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1994 · Germany
Robin Everardus Gosens is a German professional footballer who plays as a left-back or left wing-back for Bundesliga club Schalke 04 on loan from Serie A club Fiorentina, and the Germany national team.
Ago76, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Creator
1945–2015 · United States
Michael Lennox Blake was an American author, best known for the film adaptation of his novel Dances With Wolves, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.
Terryballard, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
1805–1865 · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Vice-Admiral Robert FitzRoy was an English officer of the Royal Navy, politician and scientist who served as the second governor of New Zealand between 1843 and 1845.
Hemus, Charles 1849?-1925, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1986–2012 · Italy
Piermario Morosini was an Italian professional footballer who played as a midfielder. On 14 April 2012, during a match between Pescara and Livorno, Morosini suffered a fatal cardiac arrest on the pitch.
Prof.Quatermass, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
1967 · Iraq
Mustafa Abdul Latif Mishatat al-Gharibawi, known as Mustafa al-Kadhimi is an independent Iraqi politician, lawyer, bureaucrat and former intelligence officer who served as the prime minister of Iraq from 7 May 2020 to 27 October 2022.
Athlete
1983 · Argentina
Jonás Manuel Gutiérrez is an Argentine former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He acquired the nickname "Spider-Man" for his goal celebration of putting on a mask of the superhero. He also calls himself "El Galgo", which means "The Greyhound" in Spanish.
Мысякин Александр, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Musician
1882–1927 · British Raj
Inayat Khan Rehmat Khan, was an Indian professor of musicology, singer, exponent of the sarasvati vina, poet, philosopher, writer, and pioneer of the transmission of Sufism to the West.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1974 · Brazil
Márcio Amoroso dos Santos is a Brazilian football pundit and former professional player who mainly played as a forward.
Investor
1904–2005 · United States
Ernst Walter Mayr was a German-American evolutionary biologist. He was also a renowned taxonomist, tropical explorer, ornithologist, philosopher of biology, and historian of science.
Author
1849–1912 · United Kingdom
William Thomas Stead was an English newspaper editor who, as a pioneer of investigative journalism, became a controversial figure of the Victorian era.
Wikimedia Commons, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1755–1831 · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Sarah Siddons was a Welsh actress, the best-known tragedienne of the 18th century. Contemporaneous critic William Hazlitt dubbed Siddons as "tragedy personified".
Thomas Gainsborough, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
1932–2013 · Hungary
Gyula János Horn was a Hungarian politician who was the Prime Minister of Hungary from 1994 to 1998.
Entrepreneur
1958–2019 · United States
Chris Cline was an American coal baron and philanthropist. He had been the majority owner of Foresight Reserves LP, headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri.
This page lists 53 people born on July 5, every one traced to a Wikidata record and, where shown, a Wikipedia summary (CC BY-SA) and a licensed Wikimedia Commons photo. 2 of them carry a dated net-worth estimate citing Forbes or Bloomberg; combined wealth is the sum of the low end of those estimates, the newest as of 2022. Rankings compare all 366 dates in the dataset built on 2026-09-28. Milestone ages come from dated Wikidata statements; a tilde marks year-only dates. Nothing on this page is a prediction about anyone born on July 5. Read the full methodology.
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