July 5
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July 5 is the 186th day of the year (187th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 179 days remaining until the end of the year.
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Births [change]
- 1321 – Joan of the Tower, Queen of Scotland (d. 1362)
- 1554 – Elizabeth of Austria, Queen of France (d. 1592)
- 1717 – King Peter III of Portugal (d. 1786)
- 1805 – Robert FitzRoy, British naval officer and meteorologist (d. 1865)
- 1810 – P. T. Barnum, American circus owner (d. 1891)
- 1853 – Cecil Rhodes, British colonial politician (d. 1902)
- 1857 – Clara Zetkin, German socialist (d. 1933)
- 1879 – Wanda Landowska, Polish harpsichordist (d. 1959)
- 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)
- 1904 – Ernst Mayr, German-American biologist (d. 2005)
- 1907 – Yang Shangkun, President of China (d. 1998)
- 1911 – Georges Pompidou, President of France (d. 1974)
- 1918 – K. Karunakaran, Indian politician (d. 2010)
- 1926 – Salvador Jorge Blanco, President of the Dominican Republic (d. 2010)
- 1928 – Katherine Helmond, American actress
- 1932 – Gyula Horn, former Prime Minister of Hungary
- 1936 – James Mirrlees, Scottish economist
- 1942 – Hannes Loehr, German footballer
- 1946 – Gerardus 't Hooft, Dutch physicist
- 1950 – Huey Lewis, American singer
- 1958 – Bill Watterson, American cartoonist
- 1963 – Edie Falco, American actress
- 1964 – Piotr Nowak, Polish footballer
- 1966 – Gianfranco Zola, Italian footballer
- 1973 – Marcus Allback, Swedish footballer
- 1975 – Hernan Crespo, Argentine footballer
- 1976 – Nuno Gomes, Portuguese footballer
- 1977 – Nicolas Kiefer, German tennis player
- 1979 – Amelie Mauresmo, French tennis player
- 1979 – Stiliyan Petrov, Bulgarian footballer
- 1979 – Shane Filan, Irish singer (Westlife)
- 1980 – Eva Green, French actress
- 1980 – David Rozehnal, Czech footballer
- 1982 – Alberto Gilardino, Italian footballer
- 1983 – Zheng Jie, Chinese tennis player
- 1996 – Dolly the Sheep, first cloned mammal (d. 2003)
Deaths [change]
- 1080 – Isleifur Gissurarson, Bishop of Iceland and Greenland (b. 1006)
- 1826 – Stamford Raffles, British colonial statesman, founder of Singapore (b. 1781)
- 1833 – Nicéphore Niépce, French inventor (b. 1765)
- 1904 – Abai Kunanbaiuli, Kazakh poet (b. 1845)
- 1908 – Jonas Lie, Norwegian author (b. 1833)
- 1920 – Max Klinger, artist (b. 1857)
- 1927 – Albrecht Kossel, German doctor, won the 1910 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1853)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
Events [change]
- 1295 – Scotland and France create an alliance.
- 1811 – Venezuela declares independence from Spain.
- 1884 – Germany takes control of Cameroon and Togo.
- 1946 – The Bikini is introduced in France.
- 1948 – The UK's NHS (National Health Service) is founded.
- 1954 – The BBC's first News bulletin is broadcast.
- 1962 – Algeria becomes independent from France.
- 1970 – Air Canada Flight 621 crashes near Toronto, killing 109 people.
- 1975 – Tennis: Arthur Ashe becomes the first African American men's singles Wimbledon champion.
- 1975 – Cape Verde becomes independent from Portugal.
- 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.
- 2003 – The SARS virus is declared contained by the WHO.
- 2009 – At Wimbledon, Roger Federer wins his 15th Grand Slam singles Tennis title.
- 2009 – Ethnic rioting occurs in Ürümqi, Xinjiang, People's Republic of China.
Observances [change]
- Independence Day in Venezuela (1811), Algeria (1962), and Cape Verde (1975)
- Constitution Day in Armenia
- Tynwald Day (Isle of Man)
