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 - Philosophiae 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 Urumqi, 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 - Francois 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 Kubelik, 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 (d. 2019)
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 Lohr, 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
1967 - Mustafa Al-Kadhimi, Prime Minister of Iraq
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 - Hernan 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 - Amelie 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 Jose 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 - Nicephore Niepce, 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 Rohl, 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 - Rene 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)
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 - Francois 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