July 5



Events

Up to 1900 
 1295 – Scotland and France create an alliance, known in Scotland as the "Auld Alliance".
 1316 - The Burgundian and Majorcan claimants of the Principality of Achaea meet in the Battle of Manolada.
 1601 - During the Dutch War of Independence, the Spanish lay siege to Oostende.
 1610 - John Guy sets sail of Bristol with 39 other colonists for Newfoundland.
 1687 - Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica by Isaac Newton is published.
 1770 - The Battle of Chesma between the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire begins.
 1811 – Venezuela declares independence from Spain.
 1814 - War of 1812: Battle of Chippewa - American major General Jacob Brown defeats British General Phineas Riall at Chippewa, Ontario, Canada.
 1884 – Germany takes control of Cameroon and Togo.

1901  2000 
 1934 - Police shoot at striking longshoremen in San Francisco, California.
 1937 - Spam, the luncheon meat, is introduced into the market by the Hormel Food Corporation.
 1940 - World War II: The United Kingdom and the Vichy Government of France break off diplomatic relations.
 1941 - World War II: Operation Barbarossa - German troops reach the Dnieper River.
 1943 - World War II: An Allied invasion fleet sets sail for Sicily.
 1943 - World War II: German forces begin a massive offensive against the Soviet Union in the Battle of Kursk.
 1945 - World War II: The Liberation of the Philippines is declared.
 1946 – The Bikini is introduced in France.
 1948 – The UK's NHS (National Health Service) is founded.
 1950 - Korean War: Task Force Smith - American and North Korean forces first clash, in the Battle of Osan.
 1950 - Zionism: The Israeli Knesset passes the Law of Return, which grants all Jews the right to immigrate to Israel. 
 1954 – The BBC's first News bulletin is broadcast.
 1954 - Elvis Presley records his first single - That's All Right - at Sun Records in Memphis, Tennessee.
 1962 – Algeria becomes independent from France.
 1970 – Air Canada Flight 621 crashes near Toronto, killing 109 people.
 1971 - The US lowers its voting age from 21 to 18.
 1975 – Tennis: Arthur Ashe becomes the first African American men's singles Wimbledon champion.
 1975 – Cape Verde becomes independent from Portugal.
 1977 - Prime Minister of Pakistan Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto is removed from power in a military coup.
 1987 - The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam use suicide attacks on the Sri Lankan army for the first time.
 1989 - Iran-Contra affair: Oliver North is sentenced to a three-year suspended prison term.
 1989 - The sitcom Seinfeld is first broadcast.
 1991 – Nelson Mandela is chosen as President of the African National Congress.
 1995 – Armenia adopts its Constitution.
 1996 – The first cloned mammal, Dolly the Sheep is born.
 1999 - President of the United States Bill Clinton imposes trade and economic sanctions on the Taliban regime in Afghanistan.

From 2001 
 2002 - A bomb attack in Larbaa, Algeria, kills 50 people.
 2003 – The SARS virus is declared contained by the WHO.
 2006 - North Korea tests four short-range missiles, one medium range missile and a long-range Taepodong-2.
 2009 – At Wimbledon, Roger Federer wins his 15th Grand Slam singles Tennis title in a five-set match against Andy Roddick, breaking the men's record previously held by Pete Sampras.
 2009 – Ethnic rioting occurs in Ürümqi, Xinjiang, People's Republic of China.
 2009 - The largest-known hoard of Anglo-Saxon hoard of gold ever is discovered, consisting of over 1,500 items, in Staffordshire, England.
 2012 - Inauguration of The Shard in London - Britain's tallest, and Europe's second tallest, building.
 2015 - The United States wins the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup, defeating Japan 5-2 in the final in Vancouver, Canada.
 2016 - The Juno spacecraft enters into orbit around the planet Jupiter.

Births

Up to 1900 
 465 - Ahkal Mo' Naab' I, Mayan ruler (d. 524)
 1321 – Joan of the Tower, Queen of Scotland (d. 1362)
 1547 - Garzia de' Medici, Tuscan nobleman (d. 1562)
 1549 - Francesco Maria del Monte, Italian cardinal (d. 1627)
 1554 - Elizabeth of Austria, Queen of France (d. 1592)
 1580 - Carlo Contarini, 100th Doge of Venice (d. 1656)
 1586 - Thomas Hooker, English Puritan settler in Connecticut (d. 1647)
 1670 - Countess Palatine Dorothea Sophie of Neuburg (d. 1748)
 1717 – King Peter III of Portugal (d. 1786)
 1720 - Philip II, Count of Schaumburg-Lippe (d. 1787)
 1755 - Sarah Siddons, British theatre actress (d. 1831)
 1780 - François Carlo Antommarchi, French physician (d. 1838)
 1781 – Thomas Stamford Raffles, founder of Singapore (d. 1826)
 1791 - Samuel Bailey, British philosopher (d. 1870)
 1801 - David Farragut, American admiral (d. 1870)
 1802 - Pavel Nakhimov, Russian admiral (d. 1855)
 1805 – Robert FitzRoy, British naval officer and meteorologist (d. 1865)
 1810 – P. T. Barnum, American circus owner (d. 1891)
 1817 - Carl Vogt, German scientist, philosopher and politician (d. 1895)
 1820 - William John Macquorn Rankine, Scottish physicist, mathematician and engineer (d. 1872)
 1829 - Ignacio Marisal, Mexican diplomat (d. 1910)
 1832 - Pavel Chistyakov, Russian painter (d. 1919)
 1841 - William Collins Whitney, 31st United States Secretary of the Navy (d. 1904)
 1845 - August Wilhelm Heinrich Blasius, German ornithologist (d. 1912)
 1849 - William Thomas Stead, English journalist (d. 1912)
 1853 – Cecil Rhodes, British colonial politician (d. 1902)
 1857 – Clara Zetkin, German socialist (d. 1933)
 1860 - Robert Bacon, 39th United States Secretary of State (d. 1919)
 1872 - Edouard Herriot, Prime Minister of France (d. 1957)
 1879 – Wanda Landowska, Polish harpsichordist (d. 1959)
 1879 - Dwight F. Davis, American tennis player (d. 1945)
 1880 - Jan Kubelík, Czech violinist and composer (d. 1940)
 1882 - Inayat Khan, Indian educator (d. 1927)
 1885 - Blas Infante, Spanish politician (d. 1936)
 1886 – Willem Drees, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (d. 1988)
 1888 – Herbert Gasser, American doctor, won the 1944 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1963)
 1889 – Jean Cocteau, French writer, director and painter (d. 1963)
 1891 – John Howard Northrop, American chemist (d. 1987)
 1893 – Giuseppe Caselli, Italian painter (b. 1976)
 1894 - Ants Lauter, Estonian actor and theatre director (d. 1973)
 1898 - Georgios Grivas, Greek army officer (d. 1974)
 1899 - Marcel Achard, French playwright, screenwriter and author (d. 1974)

1901  1950 
 1902 - Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., American colonel and politician (d. 1985)
 1903 - Bernardus Jan Alfrink, Dutch cardinal and Archbishop of Utrecht (d. 1987)
 1904 – Ernst Mayr, German-American biologist (d. 2005)
 1907 - Ethel Smith, Canadian athlete (d. 1979)
 1907 – Yang Shangkun, President of China (d. 1998)
 1908 - Henri, Count of Paris (d. 1999)
 1911 – Georges Pompidou, President of France (d. 1974)
 1911 - Giorgio Borg Olivier, 7th Prime Minister of Malta (d. 1980)
 1914 - Gerda Gilboe, Danish actress (d. 2009)
 1915 - John Woodruff, American athlete (d. 2007)
 1918 - Zakaria Mohieddin, 33rd Prime Minister of Egypt (d. 2012)
 1918 – K. Karunakaran, Indian politician (d. 2010)
 1919 - Bep Voskuijl, Dutch helper of Anne Frank (d. 1983)
 1921 – Viktor Kulikov, Marshal of the Soviet Union (d. 2013)
 1924 - Janos Starker, Hungarian-American cellist (d. 2013)
 1925 - Fernando de Szyszlo, Peruvian sculptor (d. 2018)
 1925 - Jean Raspail, French author and explorer
 1926 – Salvador Jorge Blanco, President of the Dominican Republic (d. 2010)
 1926 – Diana Lynn, American actress (d. 1971)
 1926 - Viola Harris, American actress (d. 2017)
 1926 - Ivo Pitanguy, Brazilian plastic surgeon (d. 2016)
 1927 - Thomas Fleming, American novelist (d. 2017)
 1927 - Beverly Tyler, American singer and actress (d. 2005)
 1928 - Pierre Mauroy, Prime Minister of France (d. 2013)
 1928 - Warren Oates, American actor (d. 1982)
 1928 – Juris Hartmanis, Latvian computer scientist and computational theorist
 1929 – Katherine Helmond, American actress 
 1932 – Gyula Horn, former Prime Minister of Hungary (d. 2013)
 1932 - Kazimiera Utrata, Polish actress (d. 2018)
 1933 – Jean-Paul Pier, Luxembourgian mathematician (d. 2016)
 1934 – Yoshio Furukawa, Japanese football player 
 1935 - Brendan McCann, American basketball player
 1935 - Michael Wenning, American minister (d. 2011)
 1936 - Frederick Ballantyne, Governor-General of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
 1936 – James Mirrlees, Scottish economist
 1936 - Piet Fransen, Dutch footballer (d. 2015)
 1939 – Pavel Morozenko, Soviet movie and theatre actor (d. 1991)
 1940 - James Herbert Brennan, Irish writer
 1940 - Chuck Close, American painter, artist and photographer
 1941 - Epeli Nailatikau, Fijian politician
 1942 – Hannes Löhr, German footballer (d. 2016)
 1945 - Michael Blake, American writer (d. 2015)
 1946 – Gerardus 't Hooft, Dutch physicist
 1946 - Giuseppe Furino, Italian footballer
 1946 - Pierre-Marc Johnson, 24th Premier of Quebec
 1950 – Huey Lewis, American singer

1951  1975 
 1954 – Jimmy Crespo, American guitarist and songwriter (Aerosmith)
 1954 – Don Stark, American actor
 1955 – Sebastian Barry, Irish playwright, novelist and poet
 1955 – Mia Couto, Mozambican writer
 1955 – Peter McNamara, Australian tennis player
 1956 – Horacio Cartes, President of Paraguay
 1956 – Terry Chimes, English drummer
 1957 – Doug Wilson, Canadian-American ice hockey player and manager
 1958 – Veronica Guerin, Irish journalist (d. 1996)
 1958 – Bill Watterson, American cartoonist
 1960 – Pruitt Taylor Vince, American actor
 1962 – Amrozi bin Nurhasyim, Indonesian terrorist (d. 2008)
 1963 – Edie Falco, American actress
 1964 – Piotr Nowak, Polish footballer
 1966 – Gianfranco Zola, Italian footballer
 1968 – Hedi Slimane, French fashion designer
 1968 – Michael Stuhlbarg, American actor
 1968 – Nardwuar, Canadian interviewer and musician
 1969 – Michael O'Neill, Northern Irish footballer and manager
 1969 – RZA, American rapper, producer, actor and director
 1970 – Mac Dre, American rapper
 1971 – Derek McInnes, Scottish footballer
 1971 – Nicola Stephenson, English actress
 1972 – Nia Roberts, Welsh actress
 1973 – Marcus Allback, Swedish footballer
 1973 – Bengt Lagerberg, Swedish drummer (The Cardigans)
 1973 – Spencer Kelly, English technology journalist
 1975 – Hernán Crespo, Argentine footballer

From 1976 
 1976 – Nuno Gomes, Portuguese footballer
 1976 - Bizarre, American rapper
 1977 – Nicolas Kiefer, German tennis player
 1977 - Royce da 5'9'', American rapper
 1978 - Allan Simonsen, Danish racing driver (d. 2013)
 1979 – Amélie Mauresmo, French tennis player
 1979 – Stiliyan Petrov, Bulgarian footballer
 1979 – Shane Filan, Irish singer (Westlife)
 1980 – Eva Green, French actress
 1980 - Zayed Khan, Indian actor
 1980 - Hannes Reichelt, Austrian skier
 1980 – David Rozehnal, Czech footballer
 1981 - Gianne Albertoni, Brazilian model and actress
 1981 - Ryan Hansen, American actor
 1982 – Alberto Gilardino, Italian footballer
 1982 - Philippe Gilbert, Belgian cyclist
 1982 - Vladimir Fedotov, Russian footballer
 1982 - Dave Haywood, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Lady Antebellum)
 1983 – Zheng Jie, Chinese tennis player
 1984 - Zack Miller, American golfer
 1984 - Yu Yamada, Japanese model, actress and singer
 1985 - Nick O'Malley, English bass player (Arctic Monkeys)
 1985 - Stephanie McIntosh, Australian singer and actress
 1985 - Megan Rapinoe, American soccer player
 1986 - Piermario Morosini, Italian footballer (d. 2012)
 1986 - Samuel Honrubia, French handball player
 1986 - Alexander Radulov, Russian ice hockey player
 1986 - Adam Young, American singer-songwriter and musician (Owl City)
 1989 - Charlie Austin, English footballer
 1989 - Dejan Lovren, Croatian footballer
 1989 - Hiroyuki Abe, Japanese footballer
 1991 - Jason Dolley, American actor
 1992 - Alberto Moreno, Spanish footballer
 1995 - Giovanni Simeone, Argentine footballer
 1996 – Dolly the Sheep, first cloned mammal (d. 2003)

Deaths

Up to 1900 
 967 - Emperor Murakami of Japan (b. 926)
 1080 – Isleifur Gissurarson, Bishop of Iceland and Greenland (b. 1006)
 1316 - Ferdinand of Majorca (b. 1278)
 1539 - Anthony Maria Zaccaria, Italian saint (b. 1502)
 1572 - Longqing Emperor of China (b. 1537)
 1666 - Albert VI, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1584)
 1676 - Carl Gustaf Wrangel, Swedish commander and politician (b. 1613)
 1773 - Francisco José Freire, Portuguese historian and philologist (b. 1719)
 1816 - Dorothea Jordan, Irish actress and mistress to King George IV of the United Kingdom (b. 1761) 
 1819 - William Cornwallis, English admiral and politician (b. 1744)
 1826 – Stamford Raffles, British colonial statesman, founder of Singapore (b. 1781)
 1833 – Nicéphore Niépce, French inventor and photography pioneer (b. 1765)
 1859 - Charles Cagniard de la Tour, French physicist and engineer (b. 1777)
 1863 - Lewis Armistead, American general (b. 1817)
 1875 - Maria Röhl, Swedish artist (b. 1801)

1901  2000 
 1904 – Abai Kunanbaiuli, Kazakh poet (b. 1845)
 1908 – Jonas Lie, Norwegian writer (b. 1833)
 1911 - Maria Pia of Savoy (b. 1847)
 1920 – Max Klinger, artist (b. 1857)
 1927 – Albrecht Kossel, German doctor, won the 1910 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1853)
 1937 - Daniel Sawyer, American golfer (b. 1884)
 1945 – John Curtin, fourteenth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1885)
 1948 – Georges Bernanos, French writer (b. 1888)
 1948 – Carole Landis, American actress (b. 1919)
 1957 – Charles Sherwood Noble, inventor (b. 1873)
 1966 – George de Hevesy, Hungarian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1885)
 1969 – Walter Gropius, German architect (b. 1883)
 1969 - Wilhelm Backhaus, German pianist (b. 1884)
 1975 – Otto Skorzeny, German commando who rescued Benito Mussolini (b. 1908)
 1983 – Harry James, American musician (b. 1916)
 1991 – Howard Nemerov, poet (b. 1920)
 1998 – Sid Luckman, American football player (b. 1916)

From 2001 
 2001 – Hannelore Kohl, wife of Chancellor of Germany Helmut Kohl (suicide) (b. 1933)
 2002 – Katy Jurado, Mexican actress (b. 1924)
 2002 – Ted Williams, American Baseball Hall of Famer (b. 1918)
 2003 – Roman Lyashenko, Russian ice hockey player (b. 1979)
 2004 – Hugh Shearer, 3rd Prime Minister of Jamaica (b. 1923)
 2004 – Rodger Ward, auto racer (b. 1921)
 2007 – George Melly, British singer (b. 1926)
 2008 – René Harris, President of Nauru (b. 1947)
 2010 – Cesare Siepi, Italian opera singer (b. 1923)
 2010 – Nasr Abu Zayd, Egyptian-Dutch academic (b. 1943)
 2010 – Bob Probert, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1965)
 2010 – David Fanshawe, British composer (b. 1942)
 2011 - Cy Twombly, American artist (b. 1928)
 2012 - Gerrit Komrij, Dutch author, poet and playwright (b. 1944)
 2013 - David Cargo, 22nd Governor of New Mexico (b. 1929)
 2013 - James McCoubrey, Canadian-American supercentenarian (b. 1901)
 2014 - Volodymyr Sabodan, Ukrainian church leader (b. 1935)
 2014 - Rosemary Murphy, American actress (b. 1925)
 2015 - Sakari Momoi, Japanese supercentenarian (b. 1903)
 2015 - Yoichiro Nambu, Japanese-American physicist (b. 1921)
 2016 - William L. Armstrong, American politician (b. 1937)
 2016 - Beatrice de Cardi, English archaeologist (b. 1914)
 2016 - Valentino Zeichen, Italian poet and author (b. 1938)
 2017 - Pierre Henry, French composer (b. 1927)
 2017 - Joachim Meisner, German cardinal (b. 1933)
 2017 - Willi Reschke, German military officer (b. 1922)
 2017 - John Rodriguez, Guyanese-born Canadian politician (b. 1937)
 2017 - Irina Ratushinskaya, Russian poet (b. 1954)
 2017 - Roger Wootton, English aeronautical engineer and balloonist (b. 1944)
 2018 - François Budet, French singer-songwriter and novelist (b. 1940)
 2018 - Adamu Ciroma, Nigerian politician and banker (b. 1934)
 2018 - Claude Lanzmann, French filmmaker (b. 1925)
 2018 - Ed Schultz, American television-radio personality and political commentator (b. 1954)
 2018 - Jean-Louis Tauran, French cardinal (b. 1943)
 2020 - Nick Cordero, Canadian actor (b. 1978)

Observances 
 Independence Day in Venezuela (1811), Algeria (1962), and Cape Verde (1975)
 Constitution Day in Armenia
 Tynwald Day (Isle of Man)

July 05