July 5

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

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

### From 2001 
* 2002 &ndash; A bomb attack in Larbaa, Algeria, kills 50 people.
* 2003 &ndash; The SARS virus is declared contained by the WHO.
* 2006 &ndash; North Korea tests four short-range missiles, one medium range missile and a long-range *Taepodong-2*.
* 2009 &ndash; 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 &ndash; Ethnic rioting occurs in Ürümqi, Xinjiang, People's Republic of China.
* 2009 &ndash; The largest-known hoard of Anglo-Saxon hoard of gold ever is discovered, consisting of over 1,500 items, in Staffordshire, England.
* 2012 &ndash; Inauguration of The Shard in London – Britain's tallest, and Europe's second tallest, building.
* 2015 &ndash; The United States wins the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup, defeating Japan 5–2 in the final in Vancouver, Canada.
* 2016 &ndash; The Juno spacecraft enters into orbit around the planet Jupiter.
* 2024 &ndash; Keir Starmer has been the 58th Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

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

### 1901 &ndash; 1950 
* 1902 &ndash; Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., American colonel and politician (d. 1985)
* 1903 &ndash; Bernardus Jan Alfrink, Dutch cardinal and Archbishop of Utrecht (d. 1987)
* 1904 &ndash; Ernst Mayr, German-American biologist (d. 2005)
* 1907 &ndash; Ethel Smith, Canadian athlete (d. 1979)
* 1907 &ndash; Yang Shangkun, President of China (d. 1998)
* 1908 &ndash; Henri, Count of Paris (d. 1999)
* 1911 &ndash; Georges Pompidou, President of France (d. 1974)
* 1911 &ndash; Giorgio Borg Olivier, 7th Prime Minister of Malta (d. 1980)
* 1914 &ndash; Gerda Gilboe, Danish actress (d. 2009)
* 1915 &ndash; John Woodruff, American athlete (d. 2007)
* 1918 &ndash; Zakaria Mohieddin, 33rd Prime Minister of Egypt (d. 2012)
* 1918 &ndash; K. Karunakaran, Indian politician (d. 2010)
* 1919 &ndash; Bep Voskuijl, Dutch helper of Anne Frank (d. 1983)
* 1921 &ndash; Viktor Kulikov, Marshal of the Soviet Union (d. 2013)
* 1924 &ndash; Janos Starker, Hungarian-American cellist (d. 2013)
* 1925 &ndash; Fernando de Szyszlo, Peruvian sculptor (d. 2018)
* 1925 &ndash; Jean Raspail, French writer and explorer
* 1926 &ndash; Salvador Jorge Blanco, President of the Dominican Republic (d. 2010)
* 1926 &ndash; Diana Lynn, American actress (d. 1971)
* 1926 &ndash; Viola Harris, American actress (d. 2017)
* 1926 &ndash; Ivo Pitanguy, Brazilian plastic surgeon (d. 2016)
* 1927 &ndash; Thomas Fleming, American novelist (d. 2017)
* 1927 &ndash; Beverly Tyler, American singer and actress (d. 2005)
* 1928 &ndash; Pierre Mauroy, Prime Minister of France (d. 2013)
* 1928 &ndash; Warren Oates, American actor (d. 1982)
* 1928 &ndash; Juris Hartmanis, Latvian computer scientist and computational theorist
* 1929 &ndash; Katherine Helmond, American actress (d. 2019)
* 1932 &ndash; Gyula Horn, former Prime Minister of Hungary (d. 2013)
* 1932 &ndash; Kazimiera Utrata, Polish actress (d. 2018)
* 1933 &ndash; Jean-Paul Pier, Luxembourgian mathematician (d. 2016)
* 1934 &ndash; Yoshio Furukawa, Japanese football player 
* 1935 &ndash; Brendan McCann, American basketball player
* 1935 &ndash; Michael Wenning, American minister (d. 2011)
* 1936 &ndash; Frederick Ballantyne, Governor-General of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
* 1936 &ndash; James Mirrlees, Scottish economist
* 1936 &ndash; Piet Fransen, Dutch footballer (d. 2015)
* 1939 &ndash; Pavel Morozenko, Soviet movie and theatre actor (d. 1991)
* 1940 &ndash; James Herbert Brennan, Irish writer
* 1940 &ndash; Chuck Close, American painter, artist and photographer
* 1941 &ndash; Epeli Nailatikau, Fijian politician
* 1942 &ndash; Hannes Löhr, German footballer (d. 2016)
* 1945 &ndash; Michael Blake, American writer (d. 2015)
* 1946 &ndash; Gerardus 't Hooft, Dutch physicist
* 1946 &ndash; Giuseppe Furino, Italian footballer
* 1946 &ndash; Pierre-Marc Johnson, 24th Premier of Quebec
* 1950 &ndash; Huey Lewis, American singer

### 1951 &ndash; 1975 
* 1954 &ndash; Jimmy Crespo, American guitarist and songwriter (Aerosmith)
* 1954 &ndash; Don Stark, American actor
* 1955 &ndash; Sebastian Barry, Irish playwright, novelist and poet
* 1955 &ndash; Mia Couto, Mozambican writer
* 1955 &ndash; Peter McNamara, Australian tennis player
* 1956 &ndash; Horacio Cartes, President of Paraguay
* 1956 &ndash; Terry Chimes, English drummer
* 1957 &ndash; Doug Wilson, Canadian-American ice hockey player and manager
* 1958 &ndash; Veronica Guerin, Irish journalist (d. 1996)
* 1958 &ndash; Bill Watterson, American cartoonist
* 1960 &ndash; Pruitt Taylor Vince, American actor
* 1962 &ndash; Amrozi bin Nurhasyim, Indonesian terrorist (d. 2008)
* 1963 &ndash; Edie Falco, American actress
* 1964 &ndash; Piotr Nowak, Polish footballer
* 1966 &ndash; Gianfranco Zola, Italian footballer
* 1967 &ndash; Mustafa Al-Kadhimi, Prime Minister of Iraq
* 1968 &ndash; Hedi Slimane, French fashion designer
* 1968 &ndash; Michael Stuhlbarg, American actor
* 1968 &ndash; Nardwuar, Canadian interviewer and musician
* 1969 &ndash; Michael O'Neill, Northern Irish footballer and manager
* 1969 &ndash; RZA, American rapper, producer, actor and director
* 1970 &ndash; Mac Dre, American rapper
* 1971 &ndash; Derek McInnes, Scottish footballer
* 1971 &ndash; Nicola Stephenson, English actress
* 1972 &ndash; Nia Roberts, Welsh actress
* 1973 &ndash; Marcus Allback, Swedish footballer
* 1973 &ndash; Bengt Lagerberg, Swedish drummer (The Cardigans)
* 1973 &ndash; Spencer Kelly, English technology journalist
* 1975 &ndash; Hernán Crespo, Argentine footballer

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

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

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

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