On this day: 5 July
Events, births and deaths on 5 July. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
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100 years ago1926
- Births · Diana Lynn
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 967 · Deaths · Murakami
- 1029 · Births · Al-Mustansir
- 980 · Births · Mokjong
Events · 27
- 1316(Julian date)Battle of Manolada — 1316 battle
- 1413(Julian date)Battle of Çamurlu — 1413 internal battle of the Ottoman Empire Interregnum
- 1584Maronite College in Rome — Roman Catholic seminary in Rome
- 1594Campaign of Danture — 1594 Portuguese military campaign against the Kingdom of Kandy
- 1770(Julian date)Battle of Chesma — 1770 battle
- 1809Battle of Wagram — 1809 battle during the War of the Fifth Coalition
- 1811Venezuela — country in South America
- 1811Venezuela Declaration of Independence — the declaration of independence from the Spanish monarchy
- 1814Battle of Chippawa — war of 1812 battle
- 1833Battle of Cape St. Vincent — 1833 naval battle during the Portuguese Liberal Wars
- 1865United States Secret Service — U.S. federal law enforcement agency
- 192218 of the Copacabana Fort revolt — 1922 Brazilian revolt
- 1937Spam — brand of canned precooked meat product
- 1943Battle of Kursk — World War II battle that took place in 1943
- 19451945 United Kingdom general election — national election in the United Kingdom
- 1946bikini — two-piece women's swimwear
- 1948National Health Service — publicly-funded healthcare systems in the United Kingdom
- 1962Algeria — country in North Africa
- 1962Independence Day — national holiday in Algeria
- 1970Air Canada Flight 621 — 1970 plane crash in Brampton, Ontario, Canada
- 19731973 Rwandan coup d'état — 1973 military coup in Rwanda
- 1975Cape Verde — sovereign state comprising ten islands off the Western coast of Africa
- 19771977 Pakistani military coup — 1977 coup d'etat in Pakistan
- 1994Amazon — American multinational technology company
- 20042004 Indonesian presidential election — Indonesian presidential election that held in July 2004 and September 2004
- 2009July 2009 Ürümqi riots — protest events in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China
- 20222022 United Kingdom government crisis — crisis that led to the end of Boris Johnson's premiership
Births · 60
- 182(Julian date)Sun Quan — Emperor of Eastern Wu during the Three Kingdoms period
- 1717Pedro III of Portugal — king of Portugal
- 1755Sarah Siddons — Welsh actress (1755-1831)
- 1781Thomas Stamford Raffles — British statesman who founded Singapore (1781-1826)
- 1801David Farragut — United States Navy admiral (1801–1870)
- 1805Robert Fitzroy — Royal Navy officer and scientist (1805–1865)
- 1810P. T. Barnum — American showman and politician (1810–1891)
- 1820William John Macquorn Rankine — civil engineer (1820–1872)
- 1849William Thomas Stead — English newspaper editor (1849–1912)
- 1853Cecil John Rhodes — British businessman, mining magnate and politician in South Africa (1853-1902)
- 1857Clara Zetkin — Communist activist, and advocate for women's rights (1857–1933)
- 1872Édouard Herriot — French Radical politician (1872–1957)
- 1879Wanda Landowska — Polish-French harpsichordist (1879–1959)
- 1879Dwight Filley Davis Sr. — American politician and tennis player (1879–1945)
- 1882Inayat Khan — founder of the Sufi Order in the West in 1914 and teacher of Universal Sufism
- 1886Willem Drees — Dutch politician (1886–1988)
- 1888Herbert Spencer Gasser — American physiologist (1888-1963)
- 1889Jean Cocteau — French writer and film director (1889–1963)
- 1891John Howard Northrop — American biochemist (1891-1987)
- 1899Marcel Achard — French writer (1899-1974)
- 1904Ernst Mayr — German-American evolutionary biologist (1904-2005)
- 1911Georges Pompidou — President of France from 1969 to 1974
- 1928Pierre Mauroy — 86th Prime Minister of France (1928-2013)
- 1929Katherine Helmond — American actress (1929–2019)
- 1932Gyula Horn — Hungarian politician (1932–2013)
Deaths · 60
- 967(Julian date)Murakami — Emperor of Japan
- 1080(Julian date)Ísleifur Gissurarson — Icelandic bishop
- 1091William of Hirsau — German abbot and theologian
- 1316(Julian date)Ferdinand of Majorca — Prince of Majorca
- 1375(Julian date)Charles III, Count of Alençon — French archbishop
- 1413(Julian date)Musa Çelebi — Ottoman prince
- 1539(Julian date)Anthony Maria Zaccaria — Italian saint
- 1666Albert VI, Duke of Bavaria — Duke of Bavaria (lived 1584-1666)
- 1676Carl Gustaf Wrangel — Field Marshal of Sweden (1613-1676)
- 1715Charles Ancillon — French jurist/diplomat
- 1826Thomas Stamford Raffles — British statesman who founded Singapore (1781-1826)
- 1833Nicéphore Niépce — French inventor and photographer (1765-1833)
- 1859Charles Cagniard de la Tour — French physicist and imperial councillor
- 1862Heinrich Georg Bronn — German scientist (1800-1862)
- 1863Lewis Armistead — Confederate general (1817-1863)
- 1884Victor Massé — French composer (1822–1884)
- 1908Jonas Lie — Norwegian novelist (1833–1908)
- 1920Max Klinger — German painter, sculptor, printmaker, and writer (1857–1920)
- 1927Albrecht Kossel — German biochemist and pioneer in the study of genetics
- 1932Sasha Chorny — Russian poet, satirist and children's writer (1880–1932)
- 1935Bernard de Pourtalès — Swiss sailor (1870–1935)
- 1942Karin Swanström — Swedish actress (1873-1942)
- 1945John Curtin — Australian politician, 14th Prime Minister of Australia (1885-1945)
- 1948Georges Bernanos — French writer (1888–1948)
- 1948Carole Landis — American actress (1919–1948)
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