July 5: Date

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.

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.

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 writer (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 writer 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 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
• 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 – 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)

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 writer, 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 writer (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)

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