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==Events==
===Pre-1600===
* [[328]] – The official opening of [[Constantine's Bridge (Danube)|Constantine's Bridge]] built over the [[Danube]] between [[Sucidava]] ([[Corabia]], [[Romania]]) and [[Oescus]] ([[Gigen]], [[Bulgaria]]) by the [[Roman Empire|Roman]] architect Theophilus Patricius.
*[[1316]] – The [[Duchy of Burgundy|Burgundian]] and [[Kingdom of Majorca|Majorcan]] claimants of the [[Principality of Achaea]] meet in the [[Battle of Manolada]].
*[[1594]] – [[Portuguese Empire|Portuguese]] forces under the command of [[Pedro Lopes de Sousa]] begin an unsuccessful invasion of the [[Kingdom of Kandy]] during the [[Campaign of Danture]] in [[Sri Lanka]].
===1601–1900===
*[[1610]] – [[John Guy (governor)|John Guy]] sets sail from [[Bristol]] with 39 other [[colonists]] for [[Newfoundland (island)|Newfoundland]].
*[[1687]] – [[Isaac Newton]] publishes ''[[Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica]]''.
*[[1770]] – The [[Battle of Chesma]] between the [[Russian Empire]] and the [[Ottoman Empire]] begins.
*[[1775]] – The [[Second Continental Congress]] adopts the [[Olive Branch Petition]].
*[[1803]] – The [[Convention of Artlenburg]] is signed, leading to the French occupation of the [[Electorate of Hanover]] (which had been ruled by the British king).
*[[1807]] – In [[Buenos Aires]] the local militias repel the [[United Kingdom|British]] soldiers within the [[British invasions of the River Plate|Second English Invasion]].
*[[1809]] – The [[Battle of Wagram]] between the [[First French Empire|French]] and [[Austrian Empire]]s begins.
*[[1811]] – The [[Venezuelan Declaration of Independence]] is adopted by a congress of the provinces.
*[[1813]] – [[War of 1812]]: Three weeks of [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|British]] raids on [[Fort Schlosser]], [[Black Rock, Buffalo, New York|Black Rock]] and [[Plattsburgh (city), New York|Plattsburgh, New York]] commence.
*[[1814]] – War of 1812: [[Battle of Chippawa]]: American [[Major General]] [[Jacob Brown (general)|Jacob Brown]] defeats British General [[Phineas Riall]] at [[Chippawa, Ontario]].
*[[1833]] – [[Lê Văn Khôi]] along with 27 soldiers stage a mutiny taking over the [[Citadel of Saigon|Phiên An citadel]], developing into the [[Lê Văn Khôi revolt]] against Emperor [[Minh Mạng]].
* 1833 – [[Admiral]] [[Charles Napier (Royal Navy officer)|Charles Napier]] vanquishes the navy of the [[Kingdom of Portugal|Portuguese]] [[usurper]] [[Dom Miguel]] at the third [[Battle of Cape St. Vincent (1833)|Battle of Cape St. Vincent]].
*[[1841]] – [[Thomas Cook]] organises the first package excursion, from [[Leicester]] to [[Loughborough]].
*[[1852]] – [[Frederick Douglass]] delivers his "[[What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?]]" speech in [[Rochester, New York]].<ref>{{Cite magazine|title='What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?': The History of Frederick Douglass' Searing Independence Day Oration|url=https://time.com/5614930/frederick-douglass-fourth-of-july/|access-date=2022-01-10|magazine=Time|language=en}}</ref>
*[[1859]] – The United States discovers and claims [[Midway Atoll]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=On This Day - What Happened on July 5 {{!}} Britannica|url=https://www.britannica.com/on-this-day/July-5|access-date=2022-01-10|website=www.britannica.com|language=en}}</ref>
*[[1865]] – The [[United States Secret Service]] begins operation.<ref name=":0" />
*[[1884]] – [[German Empire|Germany]] takes possession of [[Kamerun|Cameroon]].
===1901–present===
*[[1915]] – The [[Liberty Bell]] leaves Philadelphia by special train on its way to the [[Panama–Pacific International Exposition]]. This is the last trip outside [[Philadelphia]] that the custodians of the bell intend to permit.
*[[1934]] – "[[1934 West Coast waterfront strike|Bloody Thursday]]": The [[San Francisco Police Department|police]] open fire on striking [[longshoremen]] in [[San Francisco]].
*[[1935]] – The [[National Labor Relations Act]], which governs labor relations in the United States, is signed into law by [[President of the United States|President]] [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]].
*[[1937]] – [[Spam (food)|Spam]], the luncheon meat, is introduced into the market by the [[Hormel|Hormel Foods Corporation]].
*[[1940]] – [[World War II]]: [[Foreign relations of Vichy France]] are severed with the United Kingdom.
*[[1941]] – World War II: [[Operation Barbarossa]]: [[Nazi Germany|German]] troops reach the [[Dnieper]] river.
*[[1943]] – World War II: An [[Allies of World War II|Allied]] invasion fleet sails for [[Sicily]] ([[Operation Husky]], [[July 10]], 1943).
* 1943 – World War II: German forces begin a massive offensive against the [[Soviet Union]] at the [[Battle of Kursk]], also known as Operation Citadel.
*[[1945]] – The [[United Kingdom]] holds its [[1945 United Kingdom general election|first general election]] in 10 years, which would be won by [[Clement Attlee]]'s [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=BBC Politics 97|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/special/politics97/background/pastelec/ge45.shtml|access-date=2022-01-10|website=www.bbc.co.uk}}</ref>
*[[1946]] – [[Micheline Bernardini]] models the first modern [[bikini]] at a swimming pool in Paris.
*[[1948]] – [[National Health Service]] Acts create the national public health system in the United Kingdom.
*[[1950]] – [[Korean War]]: [[Task Force Smith]]: American and [[North Korea]]n forces first clash, in the [[Battle of Osan]].
* 1950 – The [[Knesset]] of [[Israel]] passes the [[Law of Return]] which grants all Jews the right to immigrate to the Land of Israel.
*[[1954]] – The [[BBC]] broadcasts its first daily television news bulletin.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/5/newsid_3856000/3856397.stm |title=1954: BBC launches daily TV news |date=5 July 2008 |publisher=[[British Broadcasting Corporation]] |accessdate=5 July 2021}}</ref>
* 1954 – [[Elvis Presley]] records his first single, "[[That's All Right]]", at [[Sun Records]] in [[Memphis, Tennessee]].
*[[1962]] – The official [[Independence Day (Algeria)|independence]] of [[Algeria]] is proclaimed after an eight-year-long [[Algerian War|war]] with [[French colonial empire|France]].
*[[1970]] – [[Air Canada Flight 621]] crashes in [[Brampton]], [[Ontario]], [[Canada]], killing all 109 people on board.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Ranter|first=Harro|title=ASN Aircraft accident McDonnell Douglas DC-8-63 CF-TIW Toronto International Airport, ON (YYZ)|url=https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19700705-0|access-date=2021-07-04|website=aviation-safety.net|publisher=[[Aviation Safety Network]]}}</ref>
*[[1971]] – The [[Twenty-sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution]], lowering the [[voting age]] from 21 to 18 years, is formally certified by [[President of the United States|President]] [[Richard Nixon]].
*[[1973]] – A [[boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion]] (BLEVE) in [[Kingman, Arizona]], following a fire that broke out as [[propane]] was being transferred from a railroad car to a storage tank, [[Kingman Explosion|kills eleven firefighters]].
* 1973 – [[Juvénal Habyarimana]] seizes power over [[Rwanda]] in a [[1973 Rwandan coup d'état|coup d'état]].<ref>{{Cite news|date=1973-07-06|title=Military Coup in Rwanda Follows Tribal Dissension|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1973/07/06/archives/military-coup-in-rwanda-follows-tribal-dissension.html|access-date=2022-01-10|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
*[[1975]] – [[Arthur Ashe]] becomes the first black man to win the [[The Championships, Wimbledon|Wimbledon]] singles title.
* 1975 – [[Cape Verde]] gains its independence from Portugal.
*[[1977]] – The [[Pakistan Armed Forces]] under [[Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq]] seize power in [[Operation Fair Play]] and begin 11 years of martial law. [[Zulfikar Ali Bhutto]], the first elected [[Prime Minister of Pakistan]], is overthrown.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Pakistan's Black Day|url=https://thediplomat.com/2016/07/pakistans-black-day/|access-date=2022-01-10|website=thediplomat.com|language=en-US}}</ref>
*[[1980]] – Swedish tennis player [[Björn Borg]] wins his fifth Wimbledon final and becomes the first male tennis player to win the championships five times in a row (1976–1980).
*[[1984]] – The [[Supreme Court of the United States|United States Supreme Court]] gives its ''[[United States v. Leon]]'' decision providing a [[good-faith exception]] from the [[Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution|Fourth Amendment]] [[exclusionary rule]] against use of evidence obtained through defective warrants in criminal trials.<ref>{{Cite web|title=United States v. Leon, 468 U.S. 897 (1984)|url=https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/468/897/|access-date=2022-01-10|website=Justia Law|language=en}}</ref>
*[[1987]] – [[Sri Lankan Civil War]]: The [[Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam|LTTE]] uses suicide attacks on the [[Sri Lankan Army]] for the first time. The [[Black Tigers]] are born and, in the following years, will continue to kill with the tactic.
*[[1989]] – [[Iran–Contra affair]]: [[Oliver North]] is sentenced by [[U.S. District Judge]] [[Gerhard A. Gesell]] to a three-year suspended prison term, two years probation, $150,000 in fines and 1,200 hours community service. His convictions are later overturned.
*[[1994]] – [[Jeff Bezos]] founds [[Amazon (company)|Amazon.]]<ref>{{Cite web|last=Hamilton|first=Dominick Reuter, Isobel Asher|title=Jeff Bezos will step down as Amazon CEO in one week on July 5, a 'sentimental' date he picked because it was when the company was incorporated in 1994|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/jeff-bezos-steps-down-amazon-ceo-july-5-sentimental-date-2021-5|access-date=2022-01-10|website=Business Insider|language=en-US}}</ref>
*[[1995]] – [[Armenia]] adopts its [[Constitution of Armenia|constitution]], four years after its independence from the [[Soviet Union]].
*[[1996]] – [[Dolly (sheep)|Dolly the sheep]] becomes the first mammal cloned from an adult cell.
*[[1997]] – [[Sri Lankan Civil War]]: Sri Lankan Tamil MP [[A. Thangathurai]] is shot dead at [[Sri Shanmuga Hindu Ladies College]] in [[Trincomalee]].
* 1999 – U.S. President [[Bill Clinton]] imposes trade and economic [[United Nations Security Council Resolution 1267|sanctions against the Taliban regime in Afghanistan]].
*[[2003]] – The [[World Health Organization]] announces that the [[2002–2004 SARS outbreak]] has been contained.<ref>{{Cite web|title=World Health Organization declares SARS contained worldwide|url=https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/world-health-organization-declares-sars-contained-worldwide|access-date=2022-01-10|website=HISTORY|language=en}}</ref>
*[[2004]] – The first [[Direct election|direct]] [[Indonesian presidential election, 2004|Indonesian presidential election]] is held.
*[[2006]] – [[North Korea]] [[2006 North Korean missile test|tests four short-range missiles]], one medium-range missile and a long-range [[Taepodong-2]]. The long-range Taepodong-2 reportedly fails in mid-air over the [[Sea of Japan]].
*[[2009]] – A series of violent riots [[July 2009 Ürümqi riots|break out]] in [[Ürümqi]], the capital city of the [[Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region]] in China.<ref>{{cite news |date=6 July 2009 |title=Scores killed in China protests |work=[[BBC News]] |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8135203.stm |url-status=live |access-date=6 July 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120326003326/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8135203.stm |archive-date=26 March 2012}}</ref>
* 2009 – The largest hoard of [[Anglo-Saxon]] gold ever discovered in Britain, consisting of more than 1,500 items, [[Staffordshire Hoard|is found]] near the village of [[Hammerwich]], near [[Lichfield|Lichfield, Staffordshire]].
*[[2012]] – [[The Shard]] in London is inaugurated as the [[List of tallest buildings in Europe|tallest building in Europe]], with a height of 310 metres (1,020 ft).
*[[2016]] – The [[Juno (spacecraft)|Juno]] space probe arrives at [[Jupiter]] and begins a 20-month survey of the planet.
*[[2022]] – British government ministers [[Sajid Javid]] and [[Rishi Sunak]] resign from the [[second Johnson ministry]], beginning the [[July 2022 United Kingdom government crisis]].<ref>{{cite web |date=5 July 2022 |title=Rishi Sunak resigns as chancellor in devastating blow to Boris Johnson |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/rishi-sunak-resigns-chancellor-boris-johnson-b2116399.html |access-date=7 July 2022 |website=The Independent |archive-date=5 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220705174013/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/rishi-sunak-resigns-chancellor-boris-johnson-b2116399.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
==Births==
===Pre-1600===
* [[465]] – [[Ahkal Mo' Naab' I]], Mayan ruler (d. 524)
* [[980]] – [[Mokjong of Goryeo]], Korean king (d. 1009)
*[[1029]] – [[Al-Mustansir Billah]], Fatimid caliph (d. 1094)<ref>Holt, P. M., and M. W. Daly. "A History of the Sudan: From the Coming of Islam to the Present Day." Taylor & Francis Group, 2014. Page 16</ref>
*[[1321]] – [[Joan of the Tower]], English consort of [[David II of Scotland]] (d. 1362)<ref>Panton, James. ''Historical Dictionary of the British Monarchy''. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2011. {{ISBN|978-0810857797}} Page 281.</ref>
*[[1466]] – [[Giovanni Sforza]], Italian nobleman (d. 1510)
*[[1547]] – [[Garzia de' Medici]], Tuscan son of [[Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany]] (d. 1562)
*[[1549]] – [[Francesco Maria del Monte]], Italian cardinal and art collector (d. 1627)
*[[1554]] – [[Elisabeth of Austria, Queen of France|Elisabeth of Austria]], French queen (d. 1592)<ref>{{cite book|last=Williamson|first=David|title=Debrett's Kings and Queens of Europe|location=Exeter|publisher=Webb & Bower|year=1988|isbn=978-0-86350-194-4|page=80}}</ref>
*[[1580]] – [[Carlo Contarini]], doge of Venice (d. 1656)
*[[1586]] – [[Thomas Hooker]], English-born founder of the [[Colony of Connecticut]] (d. 1647)
*[[1593]] – [[Achille d'Étampes de Valençay]], French military leader (d. 1646)<ref>"Achilles to Étampes-Valencay" in Marie-Nicolas Bouillet and Alexis CHASSANG (dir.), Dictionnaire universel d'histoire et de géographie, 1878</ref>
===1601–1900===
*[[1653]] – [[Thomas Pitt]], English businessman and politician (d. 1726)<ref>{{cite web |title=Thomas Pitt {{!}} British merchant |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Pitt |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=20 September 2021 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[1670]] – [[Countess Palatine Dorothea Sophie of Neuburg|Dorothea Sophie of Neuburg]], countess palatine (d. 1748)
*[[1675]] – [[Mary Walcott (Salem witch trials)|Mary Walcott]], American accuser and witness at the [[Salem witch trials]] (d. 1719)
*[[1709]] – [[Étienne de Silhouette]], French translator and politician, [[Controller-General of Finances]] (d. 1767)
*[[1717]] – [[Peter III of Portugal|Peter III]], Portuguese king (d. 1786)<ref>{{cite book| last = Sousa| first = António Caetano de| language = pt| title = História genealógica da Casa Real portuguesa| volume = VIII| publisher = Silviana| location = Lisbon| pages = 369–70}}</ref>
*[[1718]] – [[Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford]], English politician, [[Lord Lieutenant of Ireland]] (d. 1794)
*[[1745]] – [[Carl Arnold Kortum]], German physician and poet (d. 1824)
*[[1755]] – [[Sarah Siddons]], English actress (d. 1831)<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle=Siddons, Sarah}}</ref>
*[[1780]] – [[François Carlo Antommarchi]], French physician (d. 1838)
*[[1781]] – [[Stamford Raffles]], English politician, founded [[Singapore]] (d. 1826) <ref>{{Cite book|last1=Raffles|first1=Lady Sophia|author-link1=Sophia Hull|last2=Raffles|first2=Thomas Stamford|author-link2=Thomas Stamford Raffles|date=1830|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B-tdAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA2|title=Memoir of the life and public services of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, F.R.S. &c.; particularly in the government of Java, 1811–1816; and of Bencoolen and its dependencies, 1817–1824; with details of the commerce and resources of the Eastern archipelago; and selections from his correspondence|language=en-gb|location=[[London]], England|publisher=[[John Murray (publishing house)|John Murray]] ([[John Murray III]])|via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref>
*[[1793]] – [[Pavel Pestel]], Russian officer (d. 1826)
*[[1794]] – [[Sylvester Graham]], American minister and activist (d. 1851)
*[[1801]] – [[David Farragut]], American admiral (d. 1870)
*[[1802]] – [[Pavel Nakhimov]], Russian admiral (d. 1855)
*[[1803]] – [[George Borrow]], British writer (d. 1881)
*[[1805]] – [[Robert FitzRoy]], English captain, meteorologist, and politician, 2nd [[Governor of New Zealand]] (d. 1865)
*[[1810]] – [[P. T. Barnum]], American businessman, co-founded [[Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus]] (d. 1891)
*[[1820]] – [[William John Macquorn Rankine]], Scottish physicist, mathematician, and engineer (d. 1872)
*[[1829]] – [[Ignacio Mariscal]], Mexican politician and diplomat, [[Secretary of Foreign Affairs (Mexico)|Secretary of Foreign Affairs for Mexico]] (d. 1910)
*[[1832]] – [[Pavel Chistyakov]], Russian painter and educator (d. 1919)
*[[1841]] – [[William Collins Whitney]], American financier and politician, 31st [[United States Secretary of the Navy]] (d. 1904)
*[[1849]] – [[William Thomas Stead]], English journalist (d. 1912)
*[[1853]] – [[Cecil Rhodes]], English-South African businessman and politician, 6th [[Prime Minister of the Cape Colony]] (d. 1902)
*[[1857]] – [[Clara Zetkin]], German theorist and activist (d. 1933)
* 1857 – [[Julien Tiersot]], French musicologist and composer (d. 1936)
*[[1860]] – [[Robert Bacon]], American colonel and politician, 39th [[United States Secretary of State]] (d. 1919)
* 1860 – [[Mathieu Jaboulay]], French surgeon (d. 1913)
*[[1862]] – [[George Nuttall]], American-British bacteriologist (d. 1937)
* 1862 – [[Horatio Caro]], English chess master (d. 1920)
*[[1864]] – [[Stephan Krehl]], German composer (d. 1924)
*[[1867]] – [[A. E. Douglass]], American astronomer (d. 1962)
*[[1872]] – [[Édouard Herriot]], French lawyer and politician, [[Prime Minister of France]] (d. 1957)
*[[1874]] – [[Eugen Fischer]], German physician and academic (d. 1967)
*[[1879]] – [[Dwight F. Davis]], American tennis player and politician, 49th [[United States Secretary of War]] (d. 1945)
* 1879 – [[Wanda Landowska]], Polish-French [[harpsichord]] player and educator (d. 1959)
*[[1880]] – [[Jan Kubelík]], Czech violinist and composer (d. 1940)
* 1880 – [[Constantin Tănase]], Romanian actor and playwright (d. 1945)
*[[1882]] – [[Inayat Khan]], Indian mystic and educator (d. 1927)
*[[1883]] – [[Gustave Lanctot]], Canadian historian, author, and academic (d. 1975)
*[[1884]] – [[Enrico Dante]], Italian cardinal (d. 1967)
*[[1885]] – [[Blas Infante]], Spanish historian and politician (d. 1936)
* 1885 – [[André Lhote]], French sculptor and painter (d. 1962)
*[[1886]] – [[Willem Drees]], Dutch politician and historian, [[Prime Minister of the Netherlands]] (1948–1958) (d. 1988)
* 1886 – [[Prince John Konstantinovich of Russia]] (d. 1918)
*[[1888]] – [[Herbert Spencer Gasser]], American physiologist and academic, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. 1963)
* 1888 – [[Louise Freeland Jenkins]], American astronomer and academic (d. 1970)
*[[1889]] – [[Jean Cocteau]], French novelist, poet, and playwright (d. 1963)
*[[1890]] – [[Frederick Lewis Allen]], American historian and journalist (d. 1954)
*[[1891]] – [[John Howard Northrop]], American chemist and academic, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. 1987)
* 1891 – [[Tin Ujević]], Croatian poet and translator (d. 1955)
*[[1893]] – [[Anthony Berkeley Cox]], English writer (d. 1971)
* 1893 – [[Giuseppe Caselli]], Italian painter (d. 1976)
*[[1894]] – [[Ants Lauter]], Estonian actor and director (d. 1973)
*[[1896]] – [[Thomas Playford IV]], Australian politician, 33rd [[Premier of South Australia]] (d. 1981)
*[[1898]] – [[Georgios Grivas]], Greek general (d. 1974)
*[[1899]] – [[Marcel Achard]], French playwright, screenwriter, and author (d. 1974)
*[[1900]] – [[Yoshimaro Yamashina]], Japanese ornithologist, founded the [[Yamashina Institute for Ornithology]] (d. 1989)
* 1900 – [[Bernardus Johannes Alfrink]], Dutch cardinal (d. 1987)
===1901–present===
*[[1901]] – [[Julio Libonatti]], Italian-Argentinian footballer (d. 1981)
*[[1902]] – [[Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.]], American colonel and politician, 3rd [[United States Ambassador to the United Nations]] (d. 1985)
*[[1904]] – [[Harold Acton]], English scholar and author (d. 1994)
* 1904 – [[Ernst Mayr]], German-American biologist and ornithologist (d. 2005)
* 1904 – [[Milburn Stone]], American actor (d. 1980)
*[[1905]] – [[Madeleine Sylvain-Bouchereau]], Haitian sociologist and educator (d. 1970)<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780199935796.001.0001/acref-9780199935796-e-2028 |title=Sylvain-Bouchereau, Madeleine |encyclopedia=Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro–Latin American Biography |year=2016 |isbn=978-0-19-993579-6 |editor=Franklin W. Knight |editor2=Henry Louis Gates Jr |language=en |access-date=2018-05-25 |url-access=subscription}}</ref>
*[[1908]] – [[Henri, Count of Paris (1908–1999)|Henri of Orléans]], (d. 1999)
* 1908 – [[Lyman S. Ayres II]], American businessman (d. 1996)
*[[1910]] – [[Georges Vedel]], French lawyer and academic (d. 2002)
*[[1911]] – [[Endel Aruja]], Estonian-Canadian physicist and academic (d. 2008)
* 1911 – [[Haydn Bunton, Sr.]], Australian footballer and coach (d. 1955)
* 1911 – [[Giorgio Borġ Olivier]], Maltese lawyer and politician, 7th [[Prime Minister of Malta]] (d. 1980)
* 1911 – [[Georges Pompidou]], French banker and politician, 19th [[President of France]] (d. 1974)
*[[1913]] – [[George Costakis]], Russian art collector (d. 1990)
* 1913 – [[Smiley Lewis]], American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1966)
*[[1914]] – [[John Thomas Dunlop]], American administrator and labor scholar (d. 2003)
*[[1914]] – [[Annie Fischer]], Hungarian pianist and composer (d. 1995)
*[[1915]] – [[Babe Paley]], American socialite (d. 1978)
* 1915 – [[John Woodruff (athlete)|John Woodruff]], American runner and commander (d. 2007)
* 1915 – [[Al Timothy]], Trinidadian musician and songwriter (d. 2000)
*[[1916]] – [[Lívia Rév]], Hungarian classical pianist (d. 2018)
* 1916 – [[Ivor Powell]], Welsh footballer (d. 2012)<ref>{{cite book|last=Kent|first=Jeff|title=Port Vale Personalities|publisher=Witan Books|page=237|year=1996|isbn=0-9529152-0-0}}</ref>
*[[1918]] – [[K. Karunakaran]], Indian lawyer and politician, 7th [[Chief Minister of Kerala]] (d. 2010)
* 1918 – [[Brian James (actor)|Brian James]], Australian actor (d. 2009)
* 1918 – [[Zakaria Mohieddin]], Egyptian general and politician, 33rd [[Prime Minister of Egypt]] (d. 2012)
* 1918 – [[George Rochberg]], American composer and educator (d. 2005)
*[[1921]] – [[Viktor Kulikov]], Russian marshal (d. 2013)
* 1921 – [[Nanos Valaoritis]], Greek author, poet, and playwright (d. 2019)
*[[1923]] – [[George Moore (jockey)|George Moore]], Australian jockey (d. 2008)
* 1923 – [[Mitsuye Yamada]], Japanese American activist
*[[1924]] – [[János Starker]], Hungarian-American cellist and educator (d. 2013)
* 1924 – [[Edward Cassidy]], Australian Roman Catholic cardinal priest (d. 2021)
*[[1925]] – [[Fernando de Szyszlo]], Peruvian painter and sculptor (d. 2017)
* 1925 – [[Jean Raspail]], French author and explorer (d. 2020)
*[[1926]] – [[Diana Lynn]], American actress (d. 1971)
*[[1928]] – [[Pierre Mauroy]], French educator and politician, [[Prime Minister of France]] (d. 2013)
* 1928 – [[Warren Oates]], American actor (d. 1982)
*[[1929]] – [[Jimmy Carruthers]], Australian boxer (d. 1990)
* 1929 – [[Katherine Helmond]], American actress and director (d. 2019)
* 1929 – [[Tony Lock]], English cricketer (d. 1995)
* 1929 – [[Jovan Rašković]], Serbian psychiatrist, academic, and politician (d. 1992)
* 1929 – [[Jiří Reynek]], Czech poet and graphic artist (d. 2014)
*[[1931]] – [[Ismail Mahomed]], South African lawyer and politician, 17th [[Chief Justice of South Africa]] (d. 2000)
*[[1932]] – [[Gyula Horn]], Hungarian politician, 37th [[Prime Minister of Hungary]] (d. 2013)
*[[1933]] – [[Paul-Gilbert Langevin]], French musicologist, critic and physicist (d. 1986)
*[[1935]] – [[John Schoenherr]], American illustrator (d. 2010)<ref>{{cite news|last=Fox|first=Margalit|title=John Schoenherr, Children's Book Illustrator, Dies at 74|work=The New York Times|date=April 15, 2010|accessdate=January 27, 2024|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/15/arts/15schoenherr.html}}</ref>
*[[1936]] – [[Shirley Knight]], American actress (d. 2020)
* 1936 – [[James Mirrlees]], Scottish economist and academic, [[Nobel Prize in Economics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. 2018)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/sep/24/sir-james-mirrlees-obituary|title=Sir James Mirrlees obituary|date=24 September 2018|author=Mark Littlewood|website=The Guardian|access-date=August 20, 2021}}</ref>
*[[1938]] – [[Ronnie Self]], American singer-songwriter (d. 1981)
*[[1940]] – [[Chuck Close]], American painter and photographer (d. 2021)<ref>{{cite book | last = Warren | first = Lynne | title = Encyclopedia of twentieth-century photography | publisher = Routledge | location = New York | year = 2006 | isbn = 9781135205362 | pages=287–8}}</ref>
*[[1941]] – [[Epeli Nailatikau]], Fijian [[Ratu|chief]], [[President of Fiji]]
*[[1942]] – [[Matthias Bamert]], Swiss composer and conductor
* 1942 – [[Hannes Löhr]], German footballer, coach, and manager (d. 2016)
*[[1943]] – [[Curt Blefary]], American baseball player and coach (d. 2001)
* 1943 – [[Mark Cox (tennis)|Mark Cox]], English tennis player, coach and sportscaster
* 1943 – [[Robbie Robertson]], Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor (d. 2023)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/2023/music/news/robbie-robertson-dead-the-band-1235692172/|title=Robbie Robertson, Leader of The Band, Dies at 80|last=Morris|first=Chris|website=Variety|date=August 9, 2023}}</ref>
*[[1944]] – [[Leni Björklund]], Swedish politician, 28th [[Minister for Defence (Sweden)|Swedish Minister of Defence for Sweden]]
*[[1945]] – [[Michael Blake (author)|Michael Blake]], American author and screenwriter (d. 2015)
* 1945 – [[Humberto Benítez Treviño]], Mexican lawyer and politician, [[Attorney General of Mexico]]
*[[1946]] – [[Pierre-Marc Johnson]], Canadian lawyer, physician, and politician, 24th [[Premier of Quebec]]
* 1946 – [[Paul Smith (fashion designer)|Paul Smith]], English fashion designer
* 1946 – [[Gerard 't Hooft]], Dutch physicist and academic, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1999/thooft/facts/|title=Gerardus 't Hooft - Facts|website=nobelprize.org|access-date=20 August 2021}}</ref>
* 1946 – [[Vladimir Mikhailovich Zakharov]], Russian dancer and choreographer (d. 2013)
*[[1949]] – [[Ludwig G. Strauss]], German physician and academic (d. 2013)
*[[1950]] – [[Carlos Caszely]], Chilean footballer
* 1950 – [[Huey Lewis]], American singer-songwriter and actor
*[[1951]] – [[Goose Gossage]], American baseball player<ref>{{cite web |title=Rich Gossage |url=https://www.mlb.com/player/rich-gossage-114989 |publisher=[[Major League Baseball]] |access-date=4 July 2023}}</ref>
*[[1953]] – [[Caryn Navy]], American mathematician and computer scientist
*[[1954]] – [[Jimmy Crespo]], American guitarist and songwriter
* 1954 – [[John Wright (cricketer, born 1954)|John Wright]], New Zealand cricketer and coach
*[[1955]] – [[Tony Hadley (footballer)|Tony Hadley]], English footballer
* 1955 – [[Peter McNamara]], Australian tennis player and coach (d. 2019)
*[[1956]] – [[Horacio Cartes]], Paraguayan businessman and politician, [[President of Paraguay]]
* 1956 – [[James Lofton]], American football player and coach
*[[1957]] – [[Carlo Thränhardt]], German high jumper
* 1957 – [[Doug Wilson (ice hockey)|Doug Wilson]], Canadian-American ice hockey player and manager
*[[1958]] – [[Veronica Guerin]], Irish journalist (d. 1996)
* 1958 – [[Bill Watterson]], American author and illustrator
*[[1959]] – [[Marc Cohn]], American singer-songwriter and keyboard player
*[[1962]] – [[Sarina Hülsenbeck]], German swimmer
*[[1963]] – [[Edie Falco]], American actress
*[[1964]] – [[Ronald D. Moore]], American screenwriter and producer
*[[1966]] – [[Susannah Doyle]], English actress, director, and playwright
* 1966 – [[Gianfranco Zola]], Italian footballer and coach
*[[1967]] – [[Mustafa Al-Kadhimi]], Iraqi politician, 80th [[Prime Minister of Iraq]]<ref name="JannahNews">{{cite news |title=Is Mustafa Al-Kadhimi Sunni or Shiite?|url=https://karistina.com/munuaeat/42991.html|work=Jannah News|date=8 November 2021 |access-date=24 May 2022}}</ref>
*[[1968]] – [[Ken Akamatsu]], Japanese illustrator
* 1968 – [[Kenji Ito]], Japanese pianist and composer
* 1968 – [[Hedi Slimane]], French fashion designer and photographer
* 1968 – [[Alex Zülle]], Swiss cyclist
* 1968 – [[Susan Wojcicki]], Polish-American technology executive
*[[1969]] – [[Jenji Kohan]], American screenwriter and producer
* 1969 – [[John LeClair]], American ice hockey player
* 1969 – [[RZA]], American rapper, producer, actor, and director
*[[1970]] – [[Mac Dre]], American rapper and producer, founded [[Thizz Entertainment]] (d. 2004)
* 1970 – [[Valentí Massana]], Spanish race walker
*[[1971]] – [[Derek McInnes]], Scottish footballer and manager
*[[1972]] – [[Matthew Birir]], Kenyan runner
* 1972 – [[Robert Esmie]], Canadian sprinter
* 1972 – [[Gary Shteyngart]], American writer
*[[1973]] – [[Marcus Allbäck]], Swedish footballer and coach
* 1973 – [[Bengt Lagerberg]], Swedish drummer
* 1973 – [[Róisín Murphy]], Irish singer-songwriter and producer
*[[1974]] – [[Márcio Amoroso]], Brazilian footballer
* 1974 – [[Sarah Taylor (squash player)|Sarah Taylor]], Jersey squash player<ref>{{cite web |title=Glasgow 2014 - Sarah Taylor Profile |url=http://g2014results.thecgf.com/athlete/squash/1023660/s_taylor.html |website=g2014results.thecgf.com |access-date=17 October 2020}}</ref>
*[[1975]] – [[Hernán Crespo]], Argentinian footballer and coach
* 1975 – [[Ai Sugiyama]], Japanese tennis player
*[[1976]] – [[Bizarre (rapper)|Bizarre]], American rapper
* 1976 – [[Nuno Gomes]], Portuguese footballer
*[[1978]] – [[Britta Oppelt]], German rower
* 1978 – [[Allan Simonsen (racing driver)|Allan Simonsen]], Danish race car driver (d. 2013)
* 1978 – [[İsmail YK]], German-Turkish singer-songwriter
*[[1979]] – [[Shane Filan]], Irish singer-songwriter
* 1979 – [[Amélie Mauresmo]], French-Swiss tennis player
* 1979 – [[Stiliyan Petrov]], Bulgarian footballer and manager
*[[1980]] – [[Pauly D]], American television personality<ref>{{cite web |last1=Arellano |first1=Jennifer |title=Happy Birthday, Pauly D! This 'Jersey Shore' kid is all grown up |url=https://www.cnn.com/2013/07/05/showbiz/tv/pauly-d-jersey-shore-birthday/index.html |website=[[CNN]] |publisher=[[Entertainment Weekly]] |access-date=4 July 2023 |date=5 July 2013}}</ref>
* 1980 – [[David Rozehnal]], Czech footballer
* 1980 – [[Mads Tolling]], Danish-American violinist and composer
*[[1982]] – [[Fabrício de Souza]], Brazilian footballer
* 1982 – [[Alexander Dimitrenko]], Ukrainian-German boxer
* 1982 – [[Alberto Gilardino]], Italian footballer
* 1982 – [[Philippe Gilbert]], Belgian cyclist
* 1982 – [[Kate Gynther]], Australian water polo player<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ausport.gov.au/ais/sports/waterpolo/athletes?sq_content_src=%2BdXJsPWh0dHAlM0ElMkYlMkZtYXRyaXh0dW5uZWwlMkZTcG9ydCUyRjMwJTJGU3F1YWQlMkZQcm9maWxlJTJGQXRobGV0ZSUyRkRldGFpbCUyRjI2Njk2NzImYWxsPTE%3D|access-date=1 March 2012|title=AIS Women's Water Polo - Kate Gynther|author=Australian Institute of Sport|location=Canberra|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120326121017/http://www.ausport.gov.au/ais/sports/waterpolo/athletes?sq_content_src=%2BdXJsPWh0dHAlM0ElMkYlMkZtYXRyaXh0dW5uZWwlMkZTcG9ydCUyRjMwJTJGU3F1YWQlMkZQcm9maWxlJTJGQXRobGV0ZSUyRkRldGFpbCUyRjI2Njk2NzImYWxsPTE%3D|archive-date=26 March 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* 1982 – [[Dave Haywood]], American singer-songwriter and guitarist
* 1982 – [[Paíto]], Mozambican footballer
* 1982 – [[Szabolcs Perenyi]], Romanian-Hungarian footballer
* 1982 – [[Beno Udrih]], Slovenian basketball player
* 1982 – [[Tuba Büyüküstün]], Turkish actress<ref>{{cite web |title=Tuba Büyüküstün Profile |url=https://www.sabah.com.tr/tuba-buyukustun |website=sabah.com.tr |access-date=7 January 2021}}</ref>
* 1982 – [[Junri Namigata]], Japanese tennis player<ref>{{cite web |title=Junri Namigata Japan |url=https://www.billiejeankingcup.com/en/players/player.aspx?id=800201254 |website=billiejeankingcup.com |access-date=8 January 2021}}</ref>
*[[1983]] – [[Marco Estrada (baseball)|Marco Estrada]], Mexican baseball player
* 1983 – [[Jonás Gutiérrez]], Argentinian footballer
* 1983 – [[Zheng Jie]], Chinese tennis player
* 1983 – [[Taavi Peetre]], Estonian shot putter (d. 2010)
*[[1984]] – [[Danay Garcia]], Cuban actress
* 1984 – [[Zack Miller]], American golfer
*[[1985]] – [[Alexandre R. Picard]], Canadian ice hockey player
* 1985 – [[Megan Rapinoe]], American soccer player<ref>{{cite web |title=Megan Rapinoe Stats, News, Bio |url=https://www.espn.co.uk/football/player/_/id/158775/megan-rapinoe |website=ESPN |access-date=6 July 2020 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[1986]] – [[Iurii Cheban]], Ukrainian canoe sprinter<ref>{{cite web|title=Iurii Cheban|date=21 September 2019|url=https://www.canoeicf.com/athlete/iurii-cheban|publisher=International Canoe Federation|access-date=8 February 2020}}</ref>
* 1986 – [[Piermario Morosini]], Italian footballer (d. 2012)
* 1986 – [[Alexander Radulov]], Russian ice hockey player
*[[1987]] – [[Ji Chang-wook]], South Korean actor
* 1987 – [[Safiq Rahim]], Malaysian footballer
* 1987 – [[Alexander Kristoff]], Norwegian cyclist<ref>{{ProCyclingStats|140749}}</ref>
*[[1988]] – [[Samir Ujkani]], Albanian footballer
*[[1989]] – [[Adam Cole]], American wrestler<ref>{{cite web |last1=Harris |first1=Jeffrey |title=Adam Cole Reaches 400 Days as NXT Champion, Celebrates Birthday |url=https://411mania.com/wrestling/adam-cole-celebrates-major-milestone-400-days/ |publisher=[[411Mania]] |access-date=4 July 2023 |date=5 July 2020}}</ref>
* 1989 – [[Georgios Efrem]], Cypriot footballer
*[[1990]] – [[Abeba Aregawi]], Ethiopian-Swedish runner<ref>{{cite web|url=https://worldathletics.org/athletes/sweden/abeba-aregawi-14360651|title=Abeba Aregawi|website=World Athletics|access-date=27 November 2023}}</ref>
*[[1992]] – [[Alberto Moreno]], Spanish footballer
* 1992 – [[Chiara Scholl]], American tennis player<ref>{{cite web |title=Chiara Scholl |url=https://www.eurosport.co.uk/tennis/chiara-scholl_prs292221/person.shtml |website=www.eurosport.com |access-date=6 July 2020}}</ref>
*[[1993]] – [[Yaroslav Kosov]], Russian ice hockey player
* 1993 – [[Jorge Polanco]], Dominican baseball player<ref>{{cite web |title=Jorge Polanco |url=https://www.mlb.com/player/jorge-polanco-593871 |publisher=[[Major League Baseball]] |access-date=4 July 2023}}</ref>
*[[1998]] – [[Emily Fox (soccer)|Emily Fox]], American soccer player<ref>{{Cite web|title=Emily Fox - Women's Soccer|url=https://goheels.com/sports/womens-soccer/roster/emily-fox/16150|access-date=2021-01-14|website=University of North Carolina Athletics|language=en}}</ref>
*[[1999]] – [[Suzan Lamens]], Dutch tennis player<ref>{{Cite web |title=Suzan Lamens {{!}} Player Stats & More – WTA Official |url=https://www.wtatennis.com/players/324898/suzan-lamens |access-date=2022-10-21 |website=Women's Tennis Association |language=en}}</ref>
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==Deaths==
===Pre-1600===
* [[905]] – [[Cui Yuan (died 905)|Cui Yuan]], Chinese [[Chancellor of the Tang dynasty|chancellor]]
* 905 – [[Dugu Sun]], Chinese chancellor
* 905 – [[Lu Yi (Tang dynasty)|Lu Yi]], Chinese chancellor (b. 847)
* 905 – [[Pei Shu]], Chinese chancellor (b. 841)
* 905 – [[Wang Pu (Tang dynasty)|Wang Pu]], Chinese chancellor
* [[936]] – [[Xu Ji]], Chinese official and chancellor
* [[967]] – [[Emperor Murakami|Murakami]], Japanese emperor (b. 926)
*[[1080]] – [[Ísleifur Gissurarson]], Icelandic bishop (b. 1006)
*[[1091]] – [[William of Hirsau]], German abbot
*[[1316]] – [[Ferdinand of Majorca|Ferdinand]], prince of Majorca (b. 1278)
*[[1375]] – [[Charles III, Count of Alençon|Charles III]], French nobleman (b. 1337)
*[[1413]] – [[Musa Çelebi]], Ottoman prince and co-ruler
*[[1507]] – [[Crinitus]], Italian scholar and academic (b. 1475)
*[[1539]] – [[Anthony Maria Zaccaria]], Italian saint (b. 1502)
===1601–1900===
*[[1661]] – [[Sir Hugh Speke, 1st Baronet]]<ref name=Cockayne>{{cite web| url = https://archive.org/stream/cu31924092524390#page/n55/mode/2up| title = George Edward Cokayne ''Complete Baronetage, Volume 3'' 1900| year = 1900}}</ref>
*[[1666]] – [[Albert VI, Duke of Bavaria|Albert VI]], German nobleman (b. 1584)
*[[1676]] – [[Carl Gustaf Wrangel]], Swedish field marshal and politician (b. 1613)
*[[1715]] – [[Charles Ancillon]], French jurist and diplomat (b. 1659)
*[[1719]] – [[Meinhardt Schomberg, 3rd Duke of Schomberg]], German-English general (b. 1641)
*[[1773]] – [[Francisco José Freire]], Portuguese historian and philologist (b. 1719)
*[[1819]] – [[William Cornwallis]], English admiral and politician (b. 1744)
*[[1826]] – [[Stamford Raffles]], English politician, founded [[Singapore]] (b. 1782)
*[[1833]] – [[Nicéphore Niépce]], French inventor, created the first known [[View from the Window at Le Gras|photograph]] (b. 1765)
*[[1859]] – [[Charles Cagniard de la Tour]], French physicist and engineer (b. 1777)
*[[1862]] – [[Heinrich Georg Bronn]], German geologist and paleontologist (b. 1800)
*[[1863]] – [[Lewis Armistead]], Confederate general (b. 1817)
*[[1884]] – [[Victor Massé]], French composer (b. 1822)
===1901–present===
*[[1908]] – [[Jonas Lie (writer)|Jonas Lie]], Norwegian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1833)
*[[1920]] – [[Max Klinger]], German painter and sculptor (b. 1857)
*[[1927]] – [[Albrecht Kossel]], German physician and academic, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. 1853)
*[[1929]] – [[Henry Johnson (World War I soldier)|Henry Johnson]], American sergeant (b. 1897)
*[[1932]] – [[Sasha Chorny]], Russian poet and author (b. 1880)
*[[1935]] – [[Bernard de Pourtalès]], Swiss captain and sailor (b. 1870)
*[[1937]] – [[Daniel Sawyer]], American golfer (b. 1884)
*[[1943]] – [[Kazimierz Junosza-Stępowski]], Polish actor (b. 1880)
* 1943 – [[Karin Swanström]], Swedish actress, director, and producer (b. 1873)
*[[1945]] – [[John Curtin]], Australian journalist and politician, 14th [[Prime Minister of Australia]] (b. 1885)
*[[1948]] – [[Georges Bernanos]], French soldier and author (b. 1888)
* 1948 – [[Carole Landis]], American actress (b. 1919)
* 1948 – [[Piet Aalberse]], Dutch politician (b. 1871)
*[[1957]] – [[Anugrah Narayan Sinha]], Indian lawyer and politician, 1st [[Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar]] (b. 1887)
*[[1965]] – [[Porfirio Rubirosa]], Dominican race car driver, polo player, and diplomat (b. 1909)
*[[1966]] – [[George de Hevesy]], Hungarian-German chemist and academic, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. 1885)
*[[1969]] – [[Wilhelm Backhaus]], German pianist and educator (b. 1884)
* 1969 – [[Walter Gropius]], German architect, designed the [[John F. Kennedy Federal Building]] and [[Werkbund Exhibition (1914)|Werkbund Exhibition]] (b. 1883)
* 1969 – [[Tom Mboya]], Kenyan politician, 1st [[Minister of Justice (Kenya)|Kenyan Minister of Justice]] (b. 1930)
* 1969 – [[Leo McCarey]], American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1898)
*[[1975]] – [[Gilda dalla Rizza]], Italian soprano and actress (b. 1892)
*[[1976]] – [[Walter Giesler]], American soccer player and referee (born 1910)<ref name="SLP July 6, 1976">{{cite news | title=Walter Geiser dies after heart attack | newspaper=St. Louis Post-Dispatch | date=July 6, 1976 | url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/139474756/?terms=Walter%20Giesler&match=1 | access-date=October 11, 2021 }}</ref>
*[[1983]] – [[Harry James]], American trumpet player and actor (b. 1916)
*[[1984]] – [[Chic Murray (politician)|Chic Murray]], Canadian politician, 2nd [[Mayor of Mississauga]] (b. 1914)
*[[1991]] – [[Howard Nemerov]], American poet and essayist (b. 1920)
*[[1995]] – [[Jüri Järvet]], Estonian actor and screenwriter (b. 1919)
*[[1997]] – [[A. Thangathurai]], Sri Lankan Tamil lawyer and politician (b. 1936)
*[[1998]] – [[Sid Luckman]], American football player (b. 1916)
*[[2002]] – [[Katy Jurado]], Mexican actress (b. 1924)
* 2002 – [[Ted Williams]], American baseball player and manager (b. 1918)
*[[2004]] – [[Hugh Shearer]], Jamaican journalist and politician, 3rd [[Prime Minister of Jamaica]] (b. 1923)
* 2004 – [[Rodger Ward]], American race car driver and sportscaster (b. 1921)
*[[2005]] – [[James Stockdale]], American admiral (b. 1923)
*[[2006]] – [[Gert Fredriksson]], Swedish canoe racer (b. 1919)
* 2006 – [[Thirunalloor Karunakaran]], Indian poet and scholar (b. 1924)
* 2006 – [[Kenneth Lay]], American businessman (b. 1942)
* 2006 – [[Amzie Strickland]], American actress (b. 1919)
*[[2007]] – [[Régine Crespin]], French soprano (b. 1927)
* 2007 – [[George Melly]], English singer-songwriter and critic (b. 1926)
*[[2008]] – [[Hasan Doğan]], Turkish businessman (b. 1956)
*[[2010]] – [[Bob Probert]], Canadian ice hockey player and radio host (b. 1965)
*[[2011]] – [[Cy Twombly]], American-Italian painter, sculptor, and photographer (b. 1928)
*[[2012]] – [[Rob Goris]], Belgian cyclist (b. 1982)
* 2012 – [[Gerrit Komrij]], Dutch author, poet, and playwright (b. 1944)
* 2012 – [[Colin Marshall, Baron Marshall of Knightsbridge]], English businessman and politician (b. 1933)
* 2012 – [[Ruud van Hemert]], Dutch actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1938)
*[[2013]] – [[Bud Asher]], American lawyer and politician (b. 1925)
* 2013 – [[David Cargo]], American politician, 22nd [[Governor of New Mexico]] (b. 1929)
* 2013 – [[Lambert Jackson Woodburne]], South African admiral (b. 1939)
*[[2014]] – [[Rosemary Murphy]], American actress (b. 1925)
* 2014 – [[Volodymyr Sabodan]], Ukrainian metropolitan (b. 1935)
* 2014 – [[Hans-Ulrich Wehler]], German historian and academic (b. 1931)
* 2014 – [[Brett Wiesner]], American soccer player (b. 1983)
*[[2015]] – [[Uffe Haagerup]], Danish mathematician and academic (b. 1949)
* 2015 – [[Yoichiro Nambu]], Japanese-American physicist and academic, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. 1921)
*[[2020]] – [[Nick Cordero]], Canadian actor and singer (b. 1978)<ref>{{Cite web|last=Truitt|first=Brian|title=Broadway star Nick Cordero dies at 41 after coronavirus struggle highlighted by wife Amanda Kloots|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/movies/2020/07/05/broadway-star-nick-cordero-dies-after-coronavirus-battle/5232813002/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200726155852/https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/movies/2020/07/05/broadway-star-nick-cordero-dies-after-coronavirus-battle/5232813002/|archive-date=2020-07-26|access-date=2021-07-05|website=[[USA TODAY]]|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Broadway Star Nick Cordero Dies|url=https://people.com/theater/nick-cordero-dead-coronavirus-complications/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200707223851/https://people.com/theater/nick-cordero-dead-coronavirus-complications/|archive-date=2020-07-07|access-date=2021-07-05|website=[[People.com]]|language=en}}</ref>
*[[2021]] – [[Raffaella Carrà]], Italian singer, dancer, television presenter and actress (b. 1943)
* 2021 – [[Richard Donner]], American film director (b. 1930)<ref>{{Cite web|last=Hipes|first=Patrick|date=2021-07-05|title=Richard Donner Dies: 'Superman', 'Lethal Weapon' And 'The Goonies' Director Was 91|url=https://deadline.com/2021/07/richard-donner-dead-superman-lethal-weapon-director-1234786372/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210708080822/https://deadline.com/2021/07/richard-donner-dead-superman-lethal-weapon-director-1234786372/|archive-date=2021-07-08|access-date=2021-07-11|website=Deadline|language=en-US}}</ref>
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==Holidays and observances==
*[[1934 West Coast waterfront strike|Bloody Thursday]] ([[International Longshore and Warehouse Union]])
*Christian [[feast day]]:
**[[Anthony Maria Zaccaria]], priest (d. 1539)
**[[Saints Cyril and Methodius|Cyril and Methodius]] (a public holiday in [[Czech Republic]] and [[Slovakia]])
**[[Zoe of Rome]] ([[Roman Catholic Church]])
**[[July 5 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)]]
*[[Constitution Day (Armenia)]]
*[[Fifth of July (New York)]], historic celebration of the abolition of slavery in New York in 1827.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Levine|first=Robert S.|editor-last=Carretta |editor-first=Vincent |url= |title=Genius in Bondage: Literature of the Early Black Atlantic |editor-last2=Gould |editor-first2=Philip |date=2014-10-17 |publisher=University Press of Kentucky |isbn=978-0-8131-5946-1 |pages=242–60 |language=en |chapter=Fifth of July: Nathaniel Paul and the Construction of Black Nationalism |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ka0fBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA242}}</ref>
*[[Independence Day (Algeria)]], celebrating the independence of Algeria from France in 1962.
*[[Independence Day (Cape Verde)]], celebrating the independence of Cape Verde from Portugal in 1975.
*[[Independence Day (Venezuela)]], celebrating the independence of Venezuela from Spain in 1811; also National Armed Forces Day.
*[[Tynwald Day]], if July 5 is on a weekend, the holiday is the following Monday. ([[Isle of Man]])
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==Events==
===Pre-1600===
* [[328]] – The official opening of [[Constantine's Bridge (Danube)|Constantine's Bridge]] built over the [[Danube]] between [[Sucidava]] ([[Corabia]], [[Romania]]) and [[Oescus]] ([[Gigen]], [[Bulgaria]]) by the [[Roman Empire|Roman]] architect Theophilus Patricius.
*[[1316]] – The [[Duchy of Burgundy|Burgundian]] and [[Kingdom of Majorca|Majorcan]] claimants of the [[Principality of Achaea]] meet in the [[Battle of Manolada]].
*[[1594]] – [[Portuguese Empire|Portuguese]] forces under the command of [[Pedro Lopes de Sousa]] begin an unsuccessful invasion of the [[Kingdom of Kandy]] during the [[Campaign of Danture]] in [[Sri Lanka]].
===1601–1900===
*[[1610]] – [[John Guy (governor)|John Guy]] sets sail from [[Bristol]] with 39 other [[colonists]] for [[Newfoundland (island)|Newfoundland]].
*[[1687]] – [[Isaac Newton]] publishes ''[[Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica]]''.
*[[1770]] – The [[Battle of Chesma]] between the [[Russian Empire]] and the [[Ottoman Empire]] begins.
*[[1775]] – The [[Second Continental Congress]] adopts the [[Olive Branch Petition]].
*[[1803]] – The [[Convention of Artlenburg]] is signed, leading to the French occupation of the [[Electorate of Hanover]] (which had been ruled by the British king).
*[[1807]] – In [[Buenos Aires]] the local militias repel the [[United Kingdom|British]] soldiers within the [[British invasions of the River Plate|Second English Invasion]].
*[[1809]] – The [[Battle of Wagram]] between the [[First French Empire|French]] and [[Austrian Empire]]s begins.
*[[1811]] – The [[Venezuelan Declaration of Independence]] is adopted by a congress of the provinces.
*[[1813]] – [[War of 1812]]: Three weeks of [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|British]] raids on [[Fort Schlosser]], [[Black Rock, Buffalo, New York|Black Rock]] and [[Plattsburgh (city), New York|Plattsburgh, New York]] commence.
*[[1814]] – War of 1812: [[Battle of Chippawa]]: American [[Major General]] [[Jacob Brown (general)|Jacob Brown]] defeats British General [[Phineas Riall]] at [[Chippawa, Ontario]].
*[[1833]] – [[Lê Văn Khôi]] along with 27 soldiers stage a mutiny taking over the [[Citadel of Saigon|Phiên An citadel]], developing into the [[Lê Văn Khôi revolt]] against Emperor [[Minh Mạng]].
* 1833 – [[Admiral]] [[Charles Napier (Royal Navy officer)|Charles Napier]] vanquishes the navy of the [[Kingdom of Portugal|Portuguese]] [[usurper]] [[Dom Miguel]] at the third [[Battle of Cape St. Vincent (1833)|Battle of Cape St. Vincent]].
*[[1841]] – [[Thomas Cook]] organises the first package excursion, from [[Leicester]] to [[Loughborough]].
*[[1852]] – [[Frederick Douglass]] delivers his "[[What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?]]" speech in [[Rochester, New York]].<ref>{{Cite magazine|title='What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?': The History of Frederick Douglass' Searing Independence Day Oration|url=https://time.com/5614930/frederick-douglass-fourth-of-july/|access-date=2022-01-10|magazine=Time|language=en}}</ref>
*[[1859]] – The United States discovers and claims [[Midway Atoll]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=On This Day - What Happened on July 5 {{!}} Britannica|url=https://www.britannica.com/on-this-day/July-5|access-date=2022-01-10|website=www.britannica.com|language=en}}</ref>
*[[1865]] – The [[United States Secret Service]] begins operation.<ref name=":0" />
*[[1884]] – [[German Empire|Germany]] takes possession of [[Kamerun|Cameroon]].
===1901–present===
*[[1915]] – The [[Liberty Bell]] leaves Philadelphia by special train on its way to the [[Panama–Pacific International Exposition]]. This is the last trip outside [[Philadelphia]] that the custodians of the bell intend to permit.
*[[1934]] – "[[1934 West Coast waterfront strike|Bloody Thursday]]": The [[San Francisco Police Department|police]] open fire on striking [[longshoremen]] in [[San Francisco]].
*[[1935]] – The [[National Labor Relations Act]], which governs labor relations in the United States, is signed into law by [[President of the United States|President]] [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]].
*[[1937]] – [[Spam (food)|Spam]], the luncheon meat, is introduced into the market by the [[Hormel|Hormel Foods Corporation]].
*[[1940]] – [[World War II]]: [[Foreign relations of Vichy France]] are severed with the United Kingdom.
*[[1941]] – World War II: [[Operation Barbarossa]]: [[Nazi Germany|German]] troops reach the [[Dnieper]] river.
*[[1943]] – World War II: An [[Allies of World War II|Allied]] invasion fleet sails for [[Sicily]] ([[Operation Husky]], [[July 10]], 1943).
* 1943 – World War II: German forces begin a massive offensive against the [[Soviet Union]] at the [[Battle of Kursk]], also known as Operation Citadel.
*[[1945]] – The [[United Kingdom]] holds its [[1945 United Kingdom general election|first general election]] in 10 years, which would be won by [[Clement Attlee]]'s [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=BBC Politics 97|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/special/politics97/background/pastelec/ge45.shtml|access-date=2022-01-10|website=www.bbc.co.uk}}</ref>
*[[1946]] – [[Micheline Bernardini]] models the first modern [[bikini]] at a swimming pool in Paris.
*[[1948]] – [[National Health Service]] Acts create the national public health system in the United Kingdom.
*[[1950]] – [[Korean War]]: [[Task Force Smith]]: American and [[North Korea]]n forces first clash, in the [[Battle of Osan]].
* 1950 – The [[Knesset]] of [[Israel]] passes the [[Law of Return]] which grants all Jews the right to immigrate to the Land of Israel.
*[[1954]] – The [[BBC]] broadcasts its first daily television news bulletin.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/5/newsid_3856000/3856397.stm |title=1954: BBC launches daily TV news |date=5 July 2008 |publisher=[[British Broadcasting Corporation]] |accessdate=5 July 2021}}</ref>
* 1954 – [[Elvis Presley]] records his first single, "[[That's All Right]]", at [[Sun Records]] in [[Memphis, Tennessee]].
*[[1962]] – The official [[Independence Day (Algeria)|independence]] of [[Algeria]] is proclaimed after an eight-year-long [[Algerian War|war]] with [[French colonial empire|France]].
*[[1970]] – [[Air Canada Flight 621]] crashes in [[Brampton]], [[Ontario]], [[Canada]], killing all 109 people on board.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Ranter|first=Harro|title=ASN Aircraft accident McDonnell Douglas DC-8-63 CF-TIW Toronto International Airport, ON (YYZ)|url=https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19700705-0|access-date=2021-07-04|website=aviation-safety.net|publisher=[[Aviation Safety Network]]}}</ref>
*[[1971]] – The [[Twenty-sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution]], lowering the [[voting age]] from 21 to 18 years, is formally certified by [[President of the United States|President]] [[Richard Nixon]].
*[[1973]] – A [[boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion]] (BLEVE) in [[Kingman, Arizona]], following a fire that broke out as [[propane]] was being transferred from a railroad car to a storage tank, [[Kingman Explosion|kills eleven firefighters]].
* 1973 – [[Juvénal Habyarimana]] seizes power over [[Rwanda]] in a [[1973 Rwandan coup d'état|coup d'état]].<ref>{{Cite news|date=1973-07-06|title=Military Coup in Rwanda Follows Tribal Dissension|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1973/07/06/archives/military-coup-in-rwanda-follows-tribal-dissension.html|access-date=2022-01-10|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
*[[1975]] – [[Arthur Ashe]] becomes the first black man to win the [[The Championships, Wimbledon|Wimbledon]] singles title.
* 1975 – [[Cape Verde]] gains its independence from Portugal.
*[[1977]] – The [[Pakistan Armed Forces]] under [[Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq]] seize power in [[Operation Fair Play]] and begin 11 years of martial law. [[Zulfikar Ali Bhutto]], the first elected [[Prime Minister of Pakistan]], is overthrown.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Pakistan's Black Day|url=https://thediplomat.com/2016/07/pakistans-black-day/|access-date=2022-01-10|website=thediplomat.com|language=en-US}}</ref>
*[[1980]] – Swedish tennis player [[Björn Borg]] wins his fifth Wimbledon final and becomes the first male tennis player to win the championships five times in a row (1976–1980).
*[[1984]] – The [[Supreme Court of the United States|United States Supreme Court]] gives its ''[[United States v. Leon]]'' decision providing a [[good-faith exception]] from the [[Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution|Fourth Amendment]] [[exclusionary rule]] against use of evidence obtained through defective warrants in criminal trials.<ref>{{Cite web|title=United States v. Leon, 468 U.S. 897 (1984)|url=https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/468/897/|access-date=2022-01-10|website=Justia Law|language=en}}</ref>
*[[1987]] – [[Sri Lankan Civil War]]: The [[Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam|LTTE]] uses suicide attacks on the [[Sri Lankan Army]] for the first time. The [[Black Tigers]] are born and, in the following years, will continue to kill with the tactic.
*[[1989]] – [[Iran–Contra affair]]: [[Oliver North]] is sentenced by [[U.S. District Judge]] [[Gerhard A. Gesell]] to a three-year suspended prison term, two years probation, $150,000 in fines and 1,200 hours community service. His convictions are later overturned.
*[[1994]] – [[Jeff Bezos]] founds [[Amazon (company)|Amazon.]]<ref>{{Cite web|last=Hamilton|first=Dominick Reuter, Isobel Asher|title=Jeff Bezos will step down as Amazon CEO in one week on July 5, a 'sentimental' date he picked because it was when the company was incorporated in 1994|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/jeff-bezos-steps-down-amazon-ceo-july-5-sentimental-date-2021-5|access-date=2022-01-10|website=Business Insider|language=en-US}}</ref>
*[[1995]] – [[Armenia]] adopts its [[Constitution of Armenia|constitution]], four years after its independence from the [[Soviet Union]].
*[[1996]] – [[Dolly (sheep)|Dolly the sheep]] becomes the first mammal cloned from an adult cell.
*[[1997]] – [[Sri Lankan Civil War]]: Sri Lankan Tamil MP [[A. Thangathurai]] is shot dead at [[Sri Shanmuga Hindu Ladies College]] in [[Trincomalee]].
* 1999 – U.S. President [[Bill Clinton]] imposes trade and economic [[United Nations Security Council Resolution 1267|sanctions against the Taliban regime in Afghanistan]].
*[[2003]] – The [[World Health Organization]] announces that the [[2002–2004 SARS outbreak]] has been contained.<ref>{{Cite web|title=World Health Organization declares SARS contained worldwide|url=https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/world-health-organization-declares-sars-contained-worldwide|access-date=2022-01-10|website=HISTORY|language=en}}</ref>
*[[2004]] – The first [[Direct election|direct]] [[Indonesian presidential election, 2004|Indonesian presidential election]] is held.
*[[2006]] – [[North Korea]] [[2006 North Korean missile test|tests four short-range missiles]], one medium-range missile and a long-range [[Taepodong-2]]. The long-range Taepodong-2 reportedly fails in mid-air over the [[Sea of Japan]].
*[[2009]] – A series of violent riots [[July 2009 Ürümqi riots|break out]] in [[Ürümqi]], the capital city of the [[Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region]] in China.<ref>{{cite news |date=6 July 2009 |title=Scores killed in China protests |work=[[BBC News]] |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8135203.stm |url-status=live |access-date=6 July 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120326003326/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8135203.stm |archive-date=26 March 2012}}</ref>
* 2009 – The largest hoard of [[Anglo-Saxon]] gold ever discovered in Britain, consisting of more than 1,500 items, [[Staffordshire Hoard|is found]] near the village of [[Hammerwich]], near [[Lichfield|Lichfield, Staffordshire]].
*[[2012]] – [[The Shard]] in London is inaugurated as the [[List of tallest buildings in Europe|tallest building in Europe]], with a height of 310 metres (1,020 ft).
*[[2016]] – The [[Juno (spacecraft)|Juno]] space probe arrives at [[Jupiter]] and begins a 20-month survey of the planet.
*[[2022]] – British government ministers [[Sajid Javid]] and [[Rishi Sunak]] resign from the [[second Johnson ministry]], beginning the [[July 2022 United Kingdom government crisis]].<ref>{{cite web |date=5 July 2022 |title=Rishi Sunak resigns as chancellor in devastating blow to Boris Johnson |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/rishi-sunak-resigns-chancellor-boris-johnson-b2116399.html |access-date=7 July 2022 |website=The Independent |archive-date=5 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220705174013/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/rishi-sunak-resigns-chancellor-boris-johnson-b2116399.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
==Births==
===Pre-1600===
* [[465]] – [[Ahkal Mo' Naab' I]], Mayan ruler (d. 524)
* [[980]] – [[Mokjong of Goryeo]], Korean king (d. 1009)
*[[1029]] – [[Al-Mustansir Billah]], Fatimid caliph (d. 1094)<ref>Holt, P. M., and M. W. Daly. "A History of the Sudan: From the Coming of Islam to the Present Day." Taylor & Francis Group, 2014. Page 16</ref>
*[[1321]] – [[Joan of the Tower]], English consort of [[David II of Scotland]] (d. 1362)<ref>Panton, James. ''Historical Dictionary of the British Monarchy''. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2011. {{ISBN|978-0810857797}} Page 281.</ref>
*[[1466]] – [[Giovanni Sforza]], Italian nobleman (d. 1510)
*[[1547]] – [[Garzia de' Medici]], Tuscan son of [[Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany]] (d. 1562)
*[[1549]] – [[Francesco Maria del Monte]], Italian cardinal and art collector (d. 1627)
*[[1554]] – [[Elisabeth of Austria, Queen of France|Elisabeth of Austria]], French queen (d. 1592)<ref>{{cite book|last=Williamson|first=David|title=Debrett's Kings and Queens of Europe|location=Exeter|publisher=Webb & Bower|year=1988|isbn=978-0-86350-194-4|page=80}}</ref>
*[[1580]] – [[Carlo Contarini]], doge of Venice (d. 1656)
*[[1586]] – [[Thomas Hooker]], English-born founder of the [[Colony of Connecticut]] (d. 1647)
*[[1593]] – [[Achille d'Étampes de Valençay]], French military leader (d. 1646)<ref>"Achilles to Étampes-Valencay" in Marie-Nicolas Bouillet and Alexis CHASSANG (dir.), Dictionnaire universel d'histoire et de géographie, 1878</ref>
===1601–1900===
*[[1653]] – [[Thomas Pitt]], English businessman and politician (d. 1726)<ref>{{cite web |title=Thomas Pitt {{!}} British merchant |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Pitt |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=20 September 2021 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[1670]] – [[Countess Palatine Dorothea Sophie of Neuburg|Dorothea Sophie of Neuburg]], countess palatine (d. 1748)
*[[1675]] – [[Mary Walcott (Salem witch trials)|Mary Walcott]], American accuser and witness at the [[Salem witch trials]] (d. 1719)
*[[1709]] – [[Étienne de Silhouette]], French translator and politician, [[Controller-General of Finances]] (d. 1767)
*[[1717]] – [[Peter III of Portugal|Peter III]], Portuguese king (d. 1786)<ref>{{cite book| last = Sousa| first = António Caetano de| language = pt| title = História genealógica da Casa Real portuguesa| volume = VIII| publisher = Silviana| location = Lisbon| pages = 369–70}}</ref>
*[[1718]] – [[Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford]], English politician, [[Lord Lieutenant of Ireland]] (d. 1794)
*[[1745]] – [[Carl Arnold Kortum]], German physician and poet (d. 1824)
*[[1755]] – [[Sarah Siddons]], English actress (d. 1831)<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle=Siddons, Sarah}}</ref>
*[[1780]] – [[François Carlo Antommarchi]], French physician (d. 1838)
*[[1781]] – [[Stamford Raffles]], English politician, founded [[Singapore]] (d. 1826) <ref>{{Cite book|last1=Raffles|first1=Lady Sophia|author-link1=Sophia Hull|last2=Raffles|first2=Thomas Stamford|author-link2=Thomas Stamford Raffles|date=1830|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B-tdAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA2|title=Memoir of the life and public services of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, F.R.S. &c.; particularly in the government of Java, 1811–1816; and of Bencoolen and its dependencies, 1817–1824; with details of the commerce and resources of the Eastern archipelago; and selections from his correspondence|language=en-gb|location=[[London]], England|publisher=[[John Murray (publishing house)|John Murray]] ([[John Murray III]])|via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref>
*[[1793]] – [[Pavel Pestel]], Russian officer (d. 1826)
*[[1794]] – [[Sylvester Graham]], American minister and activist (d. 1851)
*[[1801]] – [[David Farragut]], American admiral (d. 1870)
*[[1802]] – [[Pavel Nakhimov]], Russian admiral (d. 1855)
*[[1803]] – [[George Borrow]], British writer (d. 1881)
*[[1805]] – [[Robert FitzRoy]], English captain, meteorologist, and politician, 2nd [[Governor of New Zealand]] (d. 1865)
*[[1810]] – [[P. T. Barnum]], American businessman, co-founded [[Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus]] (d. 1891)
*[[1820]] – [[William John Macquorn Rankine]], Scottish physicist, mathematician, and engineer (d. 1872)
*[[1829]] – [[Ignacio Mariscal]], Mexican politician and diplomat, [[Secretary of Foreign Affairs (Mexico)|Secretary of Foreign Affairs for Mexico]] (d. 1910)
*[[1832]] – [[Pavel Chistyakov]], Russian painter and educator (d. 1919)
*[[1841]] – [[William Collins Whitney]], American financier and politician, 31st [[United States Secretary of the Navy]] (d. 1904)
*[[1849]] – [[William Thomas Stead]], English journalist (d. 1912)
*[[1853]] – [[Cecil Rhodes]], English-South African businessman and politician, 6th [[Prime Minister of the Cape Colony]] (d. 1902)
*[[1857]] – [[Clara Zetkin]], German theorist and activist (d. 1933)
* 1857 – [[Julien Tiersot]], French musicologist and composer (d. 1936)
*[[1860]] – [[Robert Bacon]], American colonel and politician, 39th [[United States Secretary of State]] (d. 1919)
* 1860 – [[Mathieu Jaboulay]], French surgeon (d. 1913)
*[[1862]] – [[George Nuttall]], American-British bacteriologist (d. 1937)
* 1862 – [[Horatio Caro]], English chess master (d. 1920)
*[[1864]] – [[Stephan Krehl]], German composer (d. 1924)
*[[1867]] – [[A. E. Douglass]], American astronomer (d. 1962)
*[[1872]] – [[Édouard Herriot]], French lawyer and politician, [[Prime Minister of France]] (d. 1957)
*[[1874]] – [[Eugen Fischer]], German physician and academic (d. 1967)
*[[1879]] – [[Dwight F. Davis]], American tennis player and politician, 49th [[United States Secretary of War]] (d. 1945)
* 1879 – [[Wanda Landowska]], Polish-French [[harpsichord]] player and educator (d. 1959)
*[[1880]] – [[Jan Kubelík]], Czech violinist and composer (d. 1940)
* 1880 – [[Constantin Tănase]], Romanian actor and playwright (d. 1945)
*[[1882]] – [[Inayat Khan]], Indian mystic and educator (d. 1927)
*[[1883]] – [[Gustave Lanctot]], Canadian historian, author, and academic (d. 1975)
*[[1884]] – [[Enrico Dante]], Italian cardinal (d. 1967)
*[[1885]] – [[Blas Infante]], Spanish historian and politician (d. 1936)
* 1885 – [[André Lhote]], French sculptor and painter (d. 1962)
*[[1886]] – [[Willem Drees]], Dutch politician and historian, [[Prime Minister of the Netherlands]] (1948–1958) (d. 1988)
* 1886 – [[Prince John Konstantinovich of Russia]] (d. 1918)
*[[1888]] – [[Herbert Spencer Gasser]], American physiologist and academic, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. 1963)
* 1888 – [[Louise Freeland Jenkins]], American astronomer and academic (d. 1970)
*[[1889]] – [[Jean Cocteau]], French novelist, poet, and playwright (d. 1963)
*[[1890]] – [[Frederick Lewis Allen]], American historian and journalist (d. 1954)
*[[1891]] – [[John Howard Northrop]], American chemist and academic, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. 1987)
* 1891 – [[Tin Ujević]], Croatian poet and translator (d. 1955)
*[[1893]] – [[Anthony Berkeley Cox]], English writer (d. 1971)
* 1893 – [[Giuseppe Caselli]], Italian painter (d. 1976)
*[[1894]] – [[Ants Lauter]], Estonian actor and director (d. 1973)
*[[1896]] – [[Thomas Playford IV]], Australian politician, 33rd [[Premier of South Australia]] (d. 1981)
*[[1898]] – [[Georgios Grivas]], Greek general (d. 1974)
*[[1899]] – [[Marcel Achard]], French playwright, screenwriter, and author (d. 1974)
*[[1900]] – [[Yoshimaro Yamashina]], Japanese ornithologist, founded the [[Yamashina Institute for Ornithology]] (d. 1989)
* 1900 – [[Bernardus Johannes Alfrink]], Dutch cardinal (d. 1987)
===1901–present===
*[[1901]] – [[Julio Libonatti]], Italian-Argentinian footballer (d. 1981)
*[[1902]] – [[Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.]], American colonel and politician, 3rd [[United States Ambassador to the United Nations]] (d. 1985)
*[[1904]] – [[Harold Acton]], English scholar and author (d. 1994)
* 1904 – [[Ernst Mayr]], German-American biologist and ornithologist (d. 2005)
* 1904 – [[Milburn Stone]], American actor (d. 1980)
*[[1905]] – [[Madeleine Sylvain-Bouchereau]], Haitian sociologist and educator (d. 1970)<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780199935796.001.0001/acref-9780199935796-e-2028 |title=Sylvain-Bouchereau, Madeleine |encyclopedia=Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro–Latin American Biography |year=2016 |isbn=978-0-19-993579-6 |editor=Franklin W. Knight |editor2=Henry Louis Gates Jr |language=en |access-date=2018-05-25 |url-access=subscription}}</ref>
*[[1908]] – [[Henri, Count of Paris (1908–1999)|Henri of Orléans]], (d. 1999)
* 1908 – [[Lyman S. Ayres II]], American businessman (d. 1996)
*[[1910]] – [[Georges Vedel]], French lawyer and academic (d. 2002)
*[[1911]] – [[Endel Aruja]], Estonian-Canadian physicist and academic (d. 2008)
* 1911 – [[Haydn Bunton, Sr.]], Australian footballer and coach (d. 1955)
* 1911 – [[Giorgio Borġ Olivier]], Maltese lawyer and politician, 7th [[Prime Minister of Malta]] (d. 1980)
* 1911 – [[Georges Pompidou]], French banker and politician, 19th [[President of France]] (d. 1974)
*[[1913]] – [[George Costakis]], Russian art collector (d. 1990)
* 1913 – [[Smiley Lewis]], American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1966)
*[[1914]] – [[John Thomas Dunlop]], American administrator and labor scholar (d. 2003)
*[[1914]] – [[Annie Fischer]], Hungarian pianist and composer (d. 1995)
*[[1915]] – [[Babe Paley]], American socialite (d. 1978)
* 1915 – [[John Woodruff (athlete)|John Woodruff]], American runner and commander (d. 2007)
* 1915 – [[Al Timothy]], Trinidadian musician and songwriter (d. 2000)
*[[1916]] – [[Lívia Rév]], Hungarian classical pianist (d. 2018)
* 1916 – [[Ivor Powell]], Welsh footballer (d. 2012)<ref>{{cite book|last=Kent|first=Jeff|title=Port Vale Personalities|publisher=Witan Books|page=237|year=1996|isbn=0-9529152-0-0}}</ref>
*[[1918]] – [[K. Karunakaran]], Indian lawyer and politician, 7th [[Chief Minister of Kerala]] (d. 2010)
* 1918 – [[Brian James (actor)|Brian James]], Australian actor (d. 2009)
* 1918 – [[Zakaria Mohieddin]], Egyptian general and politician, 33rd [[Prime Minister of Egypt]] (d. 2012)
* 1918 – [[George Rochberg]], American composer and educator (d. 2005)
*[[1921]] – [[Viktor Kulikov]], Russian marshal (d. 2013)
* 1921 – [[Nanos Valaoritis]], Greek author, poet, and playwright (d. 2019)
*[[1923]] – [[George Moore (jockey)|George Moore]], Australian jockey (d. 2008)
* 1923 – [[Mitsuye Yamada]], Japanese American activist
*[[1924]] – [[János Starker]], Hungarian-American cellist and educator (d. 2013)
* 1924 – [[Edward Cassidy]], Australian Roman Catholic cardinal priest (d. 2021)
*[[1925]] – [[Fernando de Szyszlo]], Peruvian painter and sculptor (d. 2017)
* 1925 – [[Jean Raspail]], French author and explorer (d. 2020)
*[[1926]] – [[Diana Lynn]], American actress (d. 1971)
*[[1928]] – [[Pierre Mauroy]], French educator and politician, [[Prime Minister of France]] (d. 2013)
* 1928 – [[Warren Oates]], American actor (d. 1982)
*[[1929]] – [[Jimmy Carruthers]], Australian boxer (d. 1990)
* 1929 – [[Katherine Helmond]], American actress and director (d. 2019)
* 1929 – [[Tony Lock]], English cricketer (d. 1995)
* 1929 – [[Jovan Rašković]], Serbian psychiatrist, academic, and politician (d. 1992)
* 1929 – [[Jiří Reynek]], Czech poet and graphic artist (d. 2014)
*[[1931]] – [[Ismail Mahomed]], South African lawyer and politician, 17th [[Chief Justice of South Africa]] (d. 2000)
*[[1932]] – [[Gyula Horn]], Hungarian politician, 37th [[Prime Minister of Hungary]] (d. 2013)
*[[1933]] – [[Paul-Gilbert Langevin]], French musicologist, critic and physicist (d. 1986)
*[[1935]] – [[John Schoenherr]], American illustrator (d. 2010)<ref>{{cite news|last=Fox|first=Margalit|title=John Schoenherr, Children's Book Illustrator, Dies at 74|work=The New York Times|date=April 15, 2010|accessdate=January 27, 2024|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/15/arts/15schoenherr.html}}</ref>
*[[1936]] – [[Shirley Knight]], American actress (d. 2020)
* 1936 – [[James Mirrlees]], Scottish economist and academic, [[Nobel Prize in Economics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. 2018)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/sep/24/sir-james-mirrlees-obituary|title=Sir James Mirrlees obituary|date=24 September 2018|author=Mark Littlewood|website=The Guardian|access-date=August 20, 2021}}</ref>
*[[1938]] – [[Ronnie Self]], American singer-songwriter (d. 1981)
*[[1940]] – [[Chuck Close]], American painter and photographer (d. 2021)<ref>{{cite book | last = Warren | first = Lynne | title = Encyclopedia of twentieth-century photography | publisher = Routledge | location = New York | year = 2006 | isbn = 9781135205362 | pages=287–8}}</ref>
*[[1941]] – [[Epeli Nailatikau]], Fijian [[Ratu|chief]], [[President of Fiji]]
*[[1942]] – [[Matthias Bamert]], Swiss composer and conductor
* 1942 – [[Hannes Löhr]], German footballer, coach, and manager (d. 2016)
*[[1943]] – [[Curt Blefary]], American baseball player and coach (d. 2001)
* 1943 – [[Mark Cox (tennis)|Mark Cox]], English tennis player, coach and sportscaster
* 1943 – [[Robbie Robertson]], Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor (d. 2023)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/2023/music/news/robbie-robertson-dead-the-band-1235692172/|title=Robbie Robertson, Leader of The Band, Dies at 80|last=Morris|first=Chris|website=Variety|date=August 9, 2023}}</ref>
*[[1944]] – [[Leni Björklund]], Swedish politician, 28th [[Minister for Defence (Sweden)|Swedish Minister of Defence for Sweden]]
*[[1945]] – [[Michael Blake (author)|Michael Blake]], American author and screenwriter (d. 2015)
* 1945 – [[Humberto Benítez Treviño]], Mexican lawyer and politician, [[Attorney General of Mexico]]
*[[1946]] – [[Pierre-Marc Johnson]], Canadian lawyer, physician, and politician, 24th [[Premier of Quebec]]
* 1946 – [[Paul Smith (fashion designer)|Paul Smith]], English fashion designer
* 1946 – [[Gerard 't Hooft]], Dutch physicist and academic, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1999/thooft/facts/|title=Gerardus 't Hooft - Facts|website=nobelprize.org|access-date=20 August 2021}}</ref>
* 1946 – [[Vladimir Mikhailovich Zakharov]], Russian dancer and choreographer (d. 2013)
*[[1949]] – [[Ludwig G. Strauss]], German physician and academic (d. 2013)
*[[1950]] – [[Carlos Caszely]], Chilean footballer
* 1950 – [[Huey Lewis]], American singer-songwriter and actor
*[[1951]] – [[Goose Gossage]], American baseball player<ref>{{cite web |title=Rich Gossage |url=https://www.mlb.com/player/rich-gossage-114989 |publisher=[[Major League Baseball]] |access-date=4 July 2023}}</ref>
*[[1953]] – [[Caryn Navy]], American mathematician and computer scientist
*[[1954]] – [[Jimmy Crespo]], American guitarist and songwriter
* 1954 – [[John Wright (cricketer, born 1954)|John Wright]], New Zealand cricketer and coach
*[[1955]] – [[Tony Hadley (footballer)|Tony Hadley]], English footballer
* 1955 – [[Peter McNamara]], Australian tennis player and coach (d. 2019)
*[[1956]] – [[Horacio Cartes]], Paraguayan businessman and politician, [[President of Paraguay]]
* 1956 – [[James Lofton]], American football player and coach
*[[1957]] – [[Carlo Thränhardt]], German high jumper
* 1957 – [[Doug Wilson (ice hockey)|Doug Wilson]], Canadian-American ice hockey player and manager
*[[1958]] – [[Veronica Guerin]], Irish journalist (d. 1996)
* 1958 – [[Bill Watterson]], American author and illustrator
*[[1959]] – [[Marc Cohn]], American singer-songwriter and keyboard player
*[[1962]] – [[Sarina Hülsenbeck]], German swimmer
*[[1963]] – [[Edie Falco]], American actress
*[[1964]] – [[Ronald D. Moore]], American screenwriter and producer
*[[1966]] – [[Susannah Doyle]], English actress, director, and playwright
* 1966 – [[Gianfranco Zola]], Italian footballer and coach
*[[1967]] – [[Mustafa Al-Kadhimi]], Iraqi politician, 80th [[Prime Minister of Iraq]]<ref name="JannahNews">{{cite news |title=Is Mustafa Al-Kadhimi Sunni or Shiite?|url=https://karistina.com/munuaeat/42991.html|work=Jannah News|date=8 November 2021 |access-date=24 May 2022}}</ref>
*[[1968]] – [[Ken Akamatsu]], Japanese illustrator
* 1968 – [[Kenji Ito]], Japanese pianist and composer
* 1968 – [[Hedi Slimane]], French fashion designer and photographer
* 1968 – [[Alex Zülle]], Swiss cyclist
* 1968 – [[Susan Wojcicki]], Polish-American technology executive
*[[1969]] – [[Jenji Kohan]], American screenwriter and producer
* 1969 – [[John LeClair]], American ice hockey player
* 1969 – [[RZA]], American rapper, producer, actor, and director
*[[1970]] – [[Mac Dre]], American rapper and producer, founded [[Thizz Entertainment]] (d. 2004)
* 1970 – [[Valentí Massana]], Spanish race walker
*[[1971]] – [[Derek McInnes]], Scottish footballer and manager
*[[1972]] – [[Matthew Birir]], Kenyan runner
* 1972 – [[Robert Esmie]], Canadian sprinter
* 1972 – [[Gary Shteyngart]], American writer
*[[1973]] – [[Marcus Allbäck]], Swedish footballer and coach
* 1973 – [[Bengt Lagerberg]], Swedish drummer
* 1973 – [[Róisín Murphy]], Irish singer-songwriter and producer
*[[1974]] – [[Márcio Amoroso]], Brazilian footballer
* 1974 – [[Sarah Taylor (squash player)|Sarah Taylor]], Jersey squash player<ref>{{cite web |title=Glasgow 2014 - Sarah Taylor Profile |url=http://g2014results.thecgf.com/athlete/squash/1023660/s_taylor.html |website=g2014results.thecgf.com |access-date=17 October 2020}}</ref>
*[[1975]] – [[Hernán Crespo]], Argentinian footballer and coach
* 1975 – [[Ai Sugiyama]], Japanese tennis player
*[[1976]] – [[Bizarre (rapper)|Bizarre]], American rapper
* 1976 – [[Nuno Gomes]], Portuguese footballer
*[[1978]] – [[Britta Oppelt]], German rower
* 1978 – [[Allan Simonsen (racing driver)|Allan Simonsen]], Danish race car driver (d. 2013)
* 1978 – [[İsmail YK]], German-Turkish singer-songwriter
*[[1979]] – [[Shane Filan]], Irish singer-songwriter
* 1979 – [[Amélie Mauresmo]], French-Swiss tennis player
* 1979 – [[Stiliyan Petrov]], Bulgarian footballer and manager
*[[1980]] – [[Pauly D]], American television personality<ref>{{cite web |last1=Arellano |first1=Jennifer |title=Happy Birthday, Pauly D! This 'Jersey Shore' kid is all grown up |url=https://www.cnn.com/2013/07/05/showbiz/tv/pauly-d-jersey-shore-birthday/index.html |website=[[CNN]] |publisher=[[Entertainment Weekly]] |access-date=4 July 2023 |date=5 July 2013}}</ref>
* 1980 – [[David Rozehnal]], Czech footballer
* 1980 – [[Mads Tolling]], Danish-American violinist and composer
*[[1982]] – [[Fabrício de Souza]], Brazilian footballer
* 1982 – [[Alexander Dimitrenko]], Ukrainian-German boxer
* 1982 – [[Alberto Gilardino]], Italian footballer
* 1982 – [[Philippe Gilbert]], Belgian cyclist
* 1982 – [[Kate Gynther]], Australian water polo player<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ausport.gov.au/ais/sports/waterpolo/athletes?sq_content_src=%2BdXJsPWh0dHAlM0ElMkYlMkZtYXRyaXh0dW5uZWwlMkZTcG9ydCUyRjMwJTJGU3F1YWQlMkZQcm9maWxlJTJGQXRobGV0ZSUyRkRldGFpbCUyRjI2Njk2NzImYWxsPTE%3D|access-date=1 March 2012|title=AIS Women's Water Polo - Kate Gynther|author=Australian Institute of Sport|location=Canberra|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120326121017/http://www.ausport.gov.au/ais/sports/waterpolo/athletes?sq_content_src=%2BdXJsPWh0dHAlM0ElMkYlMkZtYXRyaXh0dW5uZWwlMkZTcG9ydCUyRjMwJTJGU3F1YWQlMkZQcm9maWxlJTJGQXRobGV0ZSUyRkRldGFpbCUyRjI2Njk2NzImYWxsPTE%3D|archive-date=26 March 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* 1982 – [[Dave Haywood]], American singer-songwriter and guitarist
* 1982 – [[Paíto]], Mozambican footballer
* 1982 – [[Szabolcs Perenyi]], Romanian-Hungarian footballer
* 1982 – [[Beno Udrih]], Slovenian basketball player
* 1982 – [[Tuba Büyüküstün]], Turkish actress<ref>{{cite web |title=Tuba Büyüküstün Profile |url=https://www.sabah.com.tr/tuba-buyukustun |website=sabah.com.tr |access-date=7 January 2021}}</ref>
* 1982 – [[Junri Namigata]], Japanese tennis player<ref>{{cite web |title=Junri Namigata Japan |url=https://www.billiejeankingcup.com/en/players/player.aspx?id=800201254 |website=billiejeankingcup.com |access-date=8 January 2021}}</ref>
*[[1983]] – [[Marco Estrada (baseball)|Marco Estrada]], Mexican baseball player
* 1983 – [[Jonás Gutiérrez]], Argentinian footballer
* 1983 – [[Zheng Jie]], Chinese tennis player
* 1983 – [[Taavi Peetre]], Estonian shot putter (d. 2010)
*[[1984]] – [[Danay Garcia]], Cuban actress
* 1984 – [[Zack Miller]], American golfer
*[[1985]] – [[Alexandre R. Picard]], Canadian ice hockey player
* 1985 – [[Megan Rapinoe]], American soccer player<ref>{{cite web |title=Megan Rapinoe Stats, News, Bio |url=https://www.espn.co.uk/football/player/_/id/158775/megan-rapinoe |website=ESPN |access-date=6 July 2020 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[1986]] – [[Iurii Cheban]], Ukrainian canoe sprinter<ref>{{cite web|title=Iurii Cheban|date=21 September 2019|url=https://www.canoeicf.com/athlete/iurii-cheban|publisher=International Canoe Federation|access-date=8 February 2020}}</ref>
* 1986 – [[Piermario Morosini]], Italian footballer (d. 2012)
* 1986 – [[Alexander Radulov]], Russian ice hockey player
*[[1987]] – [[Ji Chang-wook]], South Korean actor
* 1987 – [[Safiq Rahim]], Malaysian footballer
* 1987 – [[Alexander Kristoff]], Norwegian cyclist<ref>{{ProCyclingStats|140749}}</ref>
*[[1988]] – [[Samir Ujkani]], Albanian footballer
*[[1989]] – [[Adam Cole]], American wrestler<ref>{{cite web |last1=Harris |first1=Jeffrey |title=Adam Cole Reaches 400 Days as NXT Champion, Celebrates Birthday |url=https://411mania.com/wrestling/adam-cole-celebrates-major-milestone-400-days/ |publisher=[[411Mania]] |access-date=4 July 2023 |date=5 July 2020}}</ref>
* 1989 – [[Georgios Efrem]], Cypriot footballer
*[[1990]] – [[Abeba Aregawi]], Ethiopian-Swedish runner<ref>{{cite web|url=https://worldathletics.org/athletes/sweden/abeba-aregawi-14360651|title=Abeba Aregawi|website=World Athletics|access-date=27 November 2023}}</ref>
*[[1992]] – [[Alberto Moreno]], Spanish footballer
* 1992 – [[Chiara Scholl]], American tennis player<ref>{{cite web |title=Chiara Scholl |url=https://www.eurosport.co.uk/tennis/chiara-scholl_prs292221/person.shtml |website=www.eurosport.com |access-date=6 July 2020}}</ref>
*[[1993]] – [[Yaroslav Kosov]], Russian ice hockey player
* 1993 – [[Jorge Polanco]], Dominican baseball player<ref>{{cite web |title=Jorge Polanco |url=https://www.mlb.com/player/jorge-polanco-593871 |publisher=[[Major League Baseball]] |access-date=4 July 2023}}</ref>
* [[1995]] – [[Baby Lasagna]], Croatian singer-songwriter<ref> {{cute web. |title=Baby Lasagna
|url=https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_Lasagna </ref>
*[[1998]] – [[Emily Fox (soccer)|Emily Fox]], American soccer player<ref>{{Cite web|title=Emily Fox - Women's Soccer|url=https://goheels.com/sports/womens-soccer/roster/emily-fox/16150|access-date=2021-01-14|website=University of North Carolina Athletics|language=en}}</ref>
*[[1999]] – [[Suzan Lamens]], Dutch tennis player<ref>{{Cite web |title=Suzan Lamens {{!}} Player Stats & More – WTA Official |url=https://www.wtatennis.com/players/324898/suzan-lamens |access-date=2022-10-21 |website=Women's Tennis Association |language=en}}</ref>
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==Deaths==
===Pre-1600===
* [[905]] – [[Cui Yuan (died 905)|Cui Yuan]], Chinese [[Chancellor of the Tang dynasty|chancellor]]
* 905 – [[Dugu Sun]], Chinese chancellor
* 905 – [[Lu Yi (Tang dynasty)|Lu Yi]], Chinese chancellor (b. 847)
* 905 – [[Pei Shu]], Chinese chancellor (b. 841)
* 905 – [[Wang Pu (Tang dynasty)|Wang Pu]], Chinese chancellor
* [[936]] – [[Xu Ji]], Chinese official and chancellor
* [[967]] – [[Emperor Murakami|Murakami]], Japanese emperor (b. 926)
*[[1080]] – [[Ísleifur Gissurarson]], Icelandic bishop (b. 1006)
*[[1091]] – [[William of Hirsau]], German abbot
*[[1316]] – [[Ferdinand of Majorca|Ferdinand]], prince of Majorca (b. 1278)
*[[1375]] – [[Charles III, Count of Alençon|Charles III]], French nobleman (b. 1337)
*[[1413]] – [[Musa Çelebi]], Ottoman prince and co-ruler
*[[1507]] – [[Crinitus]], Italian scholar and academic (b. 1475)
*[[1539]] – [[Anthony Maria Zaccaria]], Italian saint (b. 1502)
===1601–1900===
*[[1661]] – [[Sir Hugh Speke, 1st Baronet]]<ref name=Cockayne>{{cite web| url = https://archive.org/stream/cu31924092524390#page/n55/mode/2up| title = George Edward Cokayne ''Complete Baronetage, Volume 3'' 1900| year = 1900}}</ref>
*[[1666]] – [[Albert VI, Duke of Bavaria|Albert VI]], German nobleman (b. 1584)
*[[1676]] – [[Carl Gustaf Wrangel]], Swedish field marshal and politician (b. 1613)
*[[1715]] – [[Charles Ancillon]], French jurist and diplomat (b. 1659)
*[[1719]] – [[Meinhardt Schomberg, 3rd Duke of Schomberg]], German-English general (b. 1641)
*[[1773]] – [[Francisco José Freire]], Portuguese historian and philologist (b. 1719)
*[[1819]] – [[William Cornwallis]], English admiral and politician (b. 1744)
*[[1826]] – [[Stamford Raffles]], English politician, founded [[Singapore]] (b. 1782)
*[[1833]] – [[Nicéphore Niépce]], French inventor, created the first known [[View from the Window at Le Gras|photograph]] (b. 1765)
*[[1859]] – [[Charles Cagniard de la Tour]], French physicist and engineer (b. 1777)
*[[1862]] – [[Heinrich Georg Bronn]], German geologist and paleontologist (b. 1800)
*[[1863]] – [[Lewis Armistead]], Confederate general (b. 1817)
*[[1884]] – [[Victor Massé]], French composer (b. 1822)
===1901–present===
*[[1908]] – [[Jonas Lie (writer)|Jonas Lie]], Norwegian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1833)
*[[1920]] – [[Max Klinger]], German painter and sculptor (b. 1857)
*[[1927]] – [[Albrecht Kossel]], German physician and academic, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. 1853)
*[[1929]] – [[Henry Johnson (World War I soldier)|Henry Johnson]], American sergeant (b. 1897)
*[[1932]] – [[Sasha Chorny]], Russian poet and author (b. 1880)
*[[1935]] – [[Bernard de Pourtalès]], Swiss captain and sailor (b. 1870)
*[[1937]] – [[Daniel Sawyer]], American golfer (b. 1884)
*[[1943]] – [[Kazimierz Junosza-Stępowski]], Polish actor (b. 1880)
* 1943 – [[Karin Swanström]], Swedish actress, director, and producer (b. 1873)
*[[1945]] – [[John Curtin]], Australian journalist and politician, 14th [[Prime Minister of Australia]] (b. 1885)
*[[1948]] – [[Georges Bernanos]], French soldier and author (b. 1888)
* 1948 – [[Carole Landis]], American actress (b. 1919)
* 1948 – [[Piet Aalberse]], Dutch politician (b. 1871)
*[[1957]] – [[Anugrah Narayan Sinha]], Indian lawyer and politician, 1st [[Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar]] (b. 1887)
*[[1965]] – [[Porfirio Rubirosa]], Dominican race car driver, polo player, and diplomat (b. 1909)
*[[1966]] – [[George de Hevesy]], Hungarian-German chemist and academic, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. 1885)
*[[1969]] – [[Wilhelm Backhaus]], German pianist and educator (b. 1884)
* 1969 – [[Walter Gropius]], German architect, designed the [[John F. Kennedy Federal Building]] and [[Werkbund Exhibition (1914)|Werkbund Exhibition]] (b. 1883)
* 1969 – [[Tom Mboya]], Kenyan politician, 1st [[Minister of Justice (Kenya)|Kenyan Minister of Justice]] (b. 1930)
* 1969 – [[Leo McCarey]], American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1898)
*[[1975]] – [[Gilda dalla Rizza]], Italian soprano and actress (b. 1892)
*[[1976]] – [[Walter Giesler]], American soccer player and referee (born 1910)<ref name="SLP July 6, 1976">{{cite news | title=Walter Geiser dies after heart attack | newspaper=St. Louis Post-Dispatch | date=July 6, 1976 | url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/139474756/?terms=Walter%20Giesler&match=1 | access-date=October 11, 2021 }}</ref>
*[[1983]] – [[Harry James]], American trumpet player and actor (b. 1916)
*[[1984]] – [[Chic Murray (politician)|Chic Murray]], Canadian politician, 2nd [[Mayor of Mississauga]] (b. 1914)
*[[1991]] – [[Howard Nemerov]], American poet and essayist (b. 1920)
*[[1995]] – [[Jüri Järvet]], Estonian actor and screenwriter (b. 1919)
*[[1997]] – [[A. Thangathurai]], Sri Lankan Tamil lawyer and politician (b. 1936)
*[[1998]] – [[Sid Luckman]], American football player (b. 1916)
*[[2002]] – [[Katy Jurado]], Mexican actress (b. 1924)
* 2002 – [[Ted Williams]], American baseball player and manager (b. 1918)
*[[2004]] – [[Hugh Shearer]], Jamaican journalist and politician, 3rd [[Prime Minister of Jamaica]] (b. 1923)
* 2004 – [[Rodger Ward]], American race car driver and sportscaster (b. 1921)
*[[2005]] – [[James Stockdale]], American admiral (b. 1923)
*[[2006]] – [[Gert Fredriksson]], Swedish canoe racer (b. 1919)
* 2006 – [[Thirunalloor Karunakaran]], Indian poet and scholar (b. 1924)
* 2006 – [[Kenneth Lay]], American businessman (b. 1942)
* 2006 – [[Amzie Strickland]], American actress (b. 1919)
*[[2007]] – [[Régine Crespin]], French soprano (b. 1927)
* 2007 – [[George Melly]], English singer-songwriter and critic (b. 1926)
*[[2008]] – [[Hasan Doğan]], Turkish businessman (b. 1956)
*[[2010]] – [[Bob Probert]], Canadian ice hockey player and radio host (b. 1965)
*[[2011]] – [[Cy Twombly]], American-Italian painter, sculptor, and photographer (b. 1928)
*[[2012]] – [[Rob Goris]], Belgian cyclist (b. 1982)
* 2012 – [[Gerrit Komrij]], Dutch author, poet, and playwright (b. 1944)
* 2012 – [[Colin Marshall, Baron Marshall of Knightsbridge]], English businessman and politician (b. 1933)
* 2012 – [[Ruud van Hemert]], Dutch actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1938)
*[[2013]] – [[Bud Asher]], American lawyer and politician (b. 1925)
* 2013 – [[David Cargo]], American politician, 22nd [[Governor of New Mexico]] (b. 1929)
* 2013 – [[Lambert Jackson Woodburne]], South African admiral (b. 1939)
*[[2014]] – [[Rosemary Murphy]], American actress (b. 1925)
* 2014 – [[Volodymyr Sabodan]], Ukrainian metropolitan (b. 1935)
* 2014 – [[Hans-Ulrich Wehler]], German historian and academic (b. 1931)
* 2014 – [[Brett Wiesner]], American soccer player (b. 1983)
*[[2015]] – [[Uffe Haagerup]], Danish mathematician and academic (b. 1949)
* 2015 – [[Yoichiro Nambu]], Japanese-American physicist and academic, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. 1921)
*[[2020]] – [[Nick Cordero]], Canadian actor and singer (b. 1978)<ref>{{Cite web|last=Truitt|first=Brian|title=Broadway star Nick Cordero dies at 41 after coronavirus struggle highlighted by wife Amanda Kloots|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/movies/2020/07/05/broadway-star-nick-cordero-dies-after-coronavirus-battle/5232813002/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200726155852/https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/movies/2020/07/05/broadway-star-nick-cordero-dies-after-coronavirus-battle/5232813002/|archive-date=2020-07-26|access-date=2021-07-05|website=[[USA TODAY]]|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Broadway Star Nick Cordero Dies|url=https://people.com/theater/nick-cordero-dead-coronavirus-complications/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200707223851/https://people.com/theater/nick-cordero-dead-coronavirus-complications/|archive-date=2020-07-07|access-date=2021-07-05|website=[[People.com]]|language=en}}</ref>
*[[2021]] – [[Raffaella Carrà]], Italian singer, dancer, television presenter and actress (b. 1943)
* 2021 – [[Richard Donner]], American film director (b. 1930)<ref>{{Cite web|last=Hipes|first=Patrick|date=2021-07-05|title=Richard Donner Dies: 'Superman', 'Lethal Weapon' And 'The Goonies' Director Was 91|url=https://deadline.com/2021/07/richard-donner-dead-superman-lethal-weapon-director-1234786372/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210708080822/https://deadline.com/2021/07/richard-donner-dead-superman-lethal-weapon-director-1234786372/|archive-date=2021-07-08|access-date=2021-07-11|website=Deadline|language=en-US}}</ref>
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==Holidays and observances==
*[[1934 West Coast waterfront strike|Bloody Thursday]] ([[International Longshore and Warehouse Union]])
*Christian [[feast day]]:
**[[Anthony Maria Zaccaria]], priest (d. 1539)
**[[Saints Cyril and Methodius|Cyril and Methodius]] (a public holiday in [[Czech Republic]] and [[Slovakia]])
**[[Zoe of Rome]] ([[Roman Catholic Church]])
**[[July 5 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)]]
*[[Constitution Day (Armenia)]]
*[[Fifth of July (New York)]], historic celebration of the abolition of slavery in New York in 1827.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Levine|first=Robert S.|editor-last=Carretta |editor-first=Vincent |url= |title=Genius in Bondage: Literature of the Early Black Atlantic |editor-last2=Gould |editor-first2=Philip |date=2014-10-17 |publisher=University Press of Kentucky |isbn=978-0-8131-5946-1 |pages=242–60 |language=en |chapter=Fifth of July: Nathaniel Paul and the Construction of Black Nationalism |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ka0fBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA242}}</ref>
*[[Independence Day (Algeria)]], celebrating the independence of Algeria from France in 1962.
*[[Independence Day (Cape Verde)]], celebrating the independence of Cape Verde from Portugal in 1975.
*[[Independence Day (Venezuela)]], celebrating the independence of Venezuela from Spain in 1811; also National Armed Forces Day.
*[[Tynwald Day]], if July 5 is on a weekend, the holiday is the following Monday. ([[Isle of Man]])
==References==
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==External links==
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* {{NYT On this day|month=07|day=05}}
* {{cite web |url=https://www.onthisday.com/events/july/5 |title=Historical Events on July 5 |publisher=OnThisDay.com}}
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