Saturday, 5th July 2025 in London

On this day, 232 notable people were born on 5th July — spanning from 465 to 1999. From world leaders to artists and scientists, discover who shares this birthday.

05/07/1999

Suzan Lamens, Dutch tennis player

Suzan Lamens is a Dutch professional tennis player. Lamens has a best singles ranking of No. 57 by the WTA, achieved on 22 September 2025. Lamens is the current No. 1 Dutch singles player. Lamens has won one singles title on WTA Tour and one WTA 125 singles title.

---

Kang Hye-won, South Korean actress and singer

Kang Hye-won is a South Korean actress and singer. She is a former member of the South Korean–Japanese girl group Iz*One, formed by CJ E&M through Mnet's 2018 reality competition television show Produce 48.

---

05/07/1998

Emily Fox, American soccer player

Emily Ann Fox is an American professional soccer player who plays as a right back for Women's Super League club Arsenal and the United States national team. Prior to her move to the English club, she played for American teams Racing Louisville and North Carolina Courage.

---

05/07/1996

Aamir Jamal, Pakistani cricketer

Aamir Jamal is a Pakistani cricketer who plays as a right-arm fast-medium bowler for the Pakistan national cricket team.

---

05/07/1994

Jeon Jong-seo, South Korean actress

Jeon Jong-seo, also known as Rachel Jun, is a South Korean actress. She made her acting debut in a leading role in the acclaimed thriller film Burning (2018). She next starred in the film The Call (2020) for which she won the Baeksang Arts Award for Best Actress. She starred in the English language film Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon (2021) and in the Netflix series Money Heist: Korea – Joint Economic Area (2022).

---

Shohei Ohtani, Japanese baseball player

Shohei Ohtani is a Japanese professional baseball designated hitter and pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers of Major League Baseball (MLB). Nicknamed "Shotime", he has previously played in MLB for the Los Angeles Angels and in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters. Because of his contributions as a hitter and as a pitcher, which make him a rare two-way player, Ohtani's prime seasons have been considered among the greatest in baseball history, with some likening them to the early career of Babe Ruth.

---

05/07/1993

Yaroslav Kosov, Russian ice hockey player

Yaroslav Alekseyevich Kosov is a Russian professional ice hockey player. He is currently an unrestricted free agent who most recently played with Avangard Omsk in the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). Kosov was selected by the Florida Panthers in the 5th round of the 2011 NHL entry draft.

---

Jorge Polanco, Dominican baseball player

Jorge Luis Pacheco Polanco is a Dominican professional baseball infielder and designated hitter for the New York Mets of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Minnesota Twins and Seattle Mariners. Polanco made his MLB debut in 2014 and was an MLB All-Star in 2019.

---

05/07/1992

Alberto Moreno, Spanish footballer

Alberto Moreno Pérez is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a left-back for Serie A club Como.

---

Chiara Scholl, American tennis player

Chiara "Chichi" Scholl is an American tennis player.

---

05/07/1991

Jason Dolley, American actor, musician and Twitch streamer

Jason Scott Dolley is an American actor, musician, and Twitch streamer known for his roles in Disney Channel shows and movies. These include Newton "Newt" Livingston III on Cory in the House, Virgil Fox in Minutemen, Connor Kennedy in Read It and Weep, Pete Ivey in Hatching Pete, and PJ Duncan on Good Luck Charlie.

---

05/07/1990

Abeba Aregawi, Ethiopian-Swedish runner

Abeba Aregawi Gebretsadik is an Ethiopian-born Swedish middle-distance runner who specialised in the 1,500 metres. She won the silver medal in the 1,500 m at the 2012 Summer Olympics and a gold medal at the World Championships in 2013. She represented Ethiopia internationally until December 2012, and afterwards represented Sweden.

---

05/07/1989

Adam Cole, American wrestler

Austin Kirk Jenkins, known by the ring name Adam Cole, is an American professional wrestler. He is signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW), where he is the leader of The Paragon. He is also known for his tenures with WWE and Ring of Honor (ROH).

---

Georgios Efrem, Cypriot footballer

Georgios Efrem is a former Cypriot professional footballer who last played as a winger for Cypriot First Division club APOEL and the Cyprus national team.

---

05/07/1988

Samir Ujkani, Albanian footballer

Samir Ujkani is a former Kosovan professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper and is currently the sports director of the Kosovo national team.

---

05/07/1987

Ji Chang-wook, South Korean actor

Ji Chang-wook is a South Korean actor and singer. He rose to fame for playing the lead role of daily drama series Smile Again (2010–2011), and gained further prominence with television series Warrior Baek Dong-soo (2011), Empress Ki (2013–2014), Healer (2014–2015), The K2 (2016), Suspicious Partner (2017), The Worst of Evil (2023), Welcome to Samdal-ri (2023–2024), and film Fabricated City (2017).

---

Safiq Rahim, Malaysian footballer

Safiq bin Rahim is a Malaysian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder. He is also a former member of the Malaysia national team.

---

Alexander Kristoff, Norwegian cyclist

Alexander Kristoff is a Norwegian former road bicycle racer, who last rode for UCI ProTeam Uno-X Mobility and competed professionally from 2006 to 2025.

---

05/07/1986

Iurii Cheban, Ukrainian canoe sprinter

Yuriy Volodymyrovych Cheban is a retired Ukrainian sprint canoeist. He is the 2012 and 2016 Olympic champion in C-1 200 metres.

---

Piermario Morosini, Italian footballer (died 2012)

Piermario Morosini was an Italian professional footballer who played as a midfielder. On 14 April 2012, during a match between Pescara and Livorno, Morosini suffered a fatal cardiac arrest on the pitch.

---

Alexander Radulov, Russian ice hockey player

Alexander Valerievich Radulov is a Russian professional ice hockey player for Lokomotiv Yaroslavl of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). He had previously had two separate stints with the Nashville Predators, the NHL team which had drafted him, from 2006 to 2008 and again in 2012, as well one season with the Montreal Canadiens, five seasons with the Dallas Stars between 2016 and 2022, and eight seasons in the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL), split evenly between Salavat Yulaev Ufa and CSKA Moscow from 2008 to 2016.

---

05/07/1985

Alexandre R. Picard, Canadian ice hockey player

Alexandre Remi Picard is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman who played in the National Hockey League (NHL).

---

Megan Rapinoe, American soccer player

Megan Anna Rapinoe is an American former professional soccer player who played as a midfielder and winger. She spent most of her career playing for Seattle Reign FC of the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) and the United States national team. Winner of the Ballon d'Or Féminin and named The Best FIFA Women's Player in 2019, Rapinoe was a member of the national teams that won the FIFA Women's World Cup in 2015 and 2019, and the team that finished second in 2011. She also won gold at the Olympics in 2012. Rapinoe co-captained the national team alongside Carli Lloyd and Alex Morgan from 2018 to 2020. She previously played for the Chicago Red Stars, Philadelphia Independence, and magicJack in Women's Professional Soccer (WPS), as well as Lyon Women in France's Division 1 Féminine.

---

05/07/1984

Danay Garcia, Cuban actress

Danay García is an American actress of Cuban descent. She is best known for her roles as Sofía Lugo on Fox's drama series Prison Break (2007–2009) and Luciana Galvez on AMC's horror drama series Fear the Walking Dead (2016–2023).

---

Zack Miller, American golfer

Zack Miller is an American professional golfer who has played on the PGA Tour.

---

05/07/1983

Marco Estrada, Mexican baseball player

Marco René Estrada is a Mexican-American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Washington Nationals, Milwaukee Brewers, Toronto Blue Jays, and Oakland Athletics. He was an All-Star in 2016.

---

Jonás Gutiérrez, Argentinian footballer

Jonás Manuel Gutiérrez is an Argentine former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He acquired the nickname "Spider-Man" for his goal celebration of putting on a mask of the superhero. He also calls himself "El Galgo", which means "The Greyhound" in Spanish.

---

Zheng Jie, Chinese tennis player

Zheng Jie is a Chinese former professional tennis player. In May 2009, she achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 15.

---

Taavi Peetre, Estonian shot putter (died 2010)

Taavi Peetre was an Estonian shot putter and discus thrower. He represented his country at two Olympic Games and also took part in the World Championships in Athletics on two occasions. His personal best shot put mark of 20.33 m was then the second best after an Estonian record holder Heino Sild. His personal best in discus throw was 60.84 m, achieved in April 2010 in Denton, Texas, United States. He died in 2010 after a boat accident.

---

05/07/1982

Fabrício de Souza, Brazilian footballer

Fabrício de Souza or simply Fabrício is a Brazilian former footballer who played as a defensive midfielder.

---

Alexander Dimitrenko, Ukrainian-German boxer

Alexander Viktorovych "Sascha" Dimitrenko is a Ukrainian-born German former professional boxer who competed from 2001 to 2019, and held the European heavyweight title from 2010 to 2011.

---

Alberto Gilardino, Italian footballer

Alberto Gilardino is an Italian professional football manager and a former player who played as a striker; who was most recently the head coach of Serie B club Pisa.

---

Philippe Gilbert, Belgian cyclist

Philippe Gilbert is a Belgian former professional road bicycle racer, who is known for being a versatile rider who was able to win four of the five very different profile cycling monuments and also the World Road Race Championships in 2012, and for being one of two riders, along with Davide Rebellin, to have won the three Ardennes classics – the Amstel Gold Race, La Flèche Wallonne and Liège–Bastogne–Liège – in a single season, which he accomplished in 2011. Gilbert also finished the 2011 season as the overall winner of the UCI World Tour.

---

Kate Gynther, Australian water polo player

Kate Maree Gynther is an Australian former water polo player. She played for the Brisbane Barracudas in the National Water Polo League. She represented Australia as a member of the women's senior national team at the 2004 Summer Olympics, the 2008 Summer Olympics and the 2012 Summer Olympics, winning a bronze medal at the 2008 and 2012 Games. She is a leading goalscorer in Olympic water polo history, with 30 goals. She was the joint top sprinter at the 2012 Olympics with 21 sprints won; and a leading sprinter in Olympic water polo history, with 39 sprints won. She has also won a bronze medal at the 2005 Super League Finals.

---

Dave Haywood, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

David Wesley Haywood is an American country musician and songwriter. He is one-third of the American country music band Lady A, in which he plays guitar, piano and mandolin, and sings backing vocals.

---

Paíto, Mozambican footballer

Martinho Martins Mukana, known as Paíto, is a Mozambican former professional footballer who played as a left-back.

---

Szabolcs Perenyi, Romanian-Hungarian footballer

Szabolcs Mihai Perényi is a Romanian-born Hungarian former professional football player.

---

Beno Udrih, Slovenian basketball player

Beno Udrih is a Slovenian former professional basketball player who is currently the head coach of the Wisconsin Herd of the NBA G League. He previously played in the NBA for the San Antonio Spurs, Sacramento Kings, Milwaukee Bucks, Orlando Magic, New York Knicks, Memphis Grizzlies, Miami Heat and Detroit Pistons. During his time with the Spurs, Udrih won two NBA titles in 2005 and 2007.

---

Tuba Büyüküstün, Turkish actress

Tuba Büyüküstün is a Turkish actress and model. She is the recipient of several awards and one of Turkey's most popular and highest paid actresses.

---

Junri Namigata, Japanese tennis player

Junri Namigata is a Japanese tennis player. Her career-high WTA singles ranking is 105, which she reached in February 2011. Her career-high doubles ranking is 101, achieved May 2015.

---

05/07/1980

Pauly D, American television personality

Paul Michael DelVecchio Jr., known as Pauly D and DJ Pauly D, is an American television personality and DJ. He is best known for being a cast member of MTV's reality show Jersey Shore.

---

David Rozehnal, Czech footballer

David Rozehnal is a Czech former professional footballer who played as a centre-back. He played for a host of European clubs, making over 400 appearances in a career spanning almost two decades, and retired from the professional game in April 2018. Internationally Rozehnal made 60 appearances for the Czech Republic, appearing in three major tournaments: Euro 2004, the 2006 FIFA World Cup and Euro 2008.

---

Mads Tolling, Danish-American violinist and composer

Mads Tolling is a Danish-American violinist, violist, composer and two-time Grammy Award-Winner.

---

05/07/1979

Shane Filan, Irish singer-songwriter

Shane Steven Filan is an Irish singer best known for being a member and one of the lead singers of the pop vocal group Westlife.

---

Amélie Mauresmo, French-Swiss tennis player

Amélie Simone Mauresmo is a French former professional tennis player, tennis coach, and tournament director. She was ranked as the world No. 1 in women's singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) for 39 weeks. Mauresmo won 25 WTA Tour-level singles titles, including two majors, at the 2006 Australian Open and the 2006 Wimbledon Championships, as well as the 2005 WTA Tour Championships. She also won an Olympic silver medal in singles at the 2004 Athens Olympics. Mauresmo was known for her powerful one-handed backhand and strong net play.

---

Stiliyan Petrov, Bulgarian footballer and manager

Stiliyan Alyoshev Petrov is a Bulgarian former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. Petrov joined Celtic from CSKA Sofia in 1999, and won ten trophies in his time at Celtic Park, including four Scottish Premier League titles. In 2006, he moved to Aston Villa in the Premier League, along with his former manager Martin O'Neill. Petrov became club captain at Villa Park, and was an inductee to the Aston Villa Hall of Fame in 2013 having made 219 competitive appearances for the club.

---

05/07/1978

Britta Oppelt, German rower

Britta Oppelt is a German Olympic-medal winning sculler.

---

Allan Simonsen, Danish race car driver (died 2013)

Allan Weel Simonsen was a Danish racing driver, born in Odense. He died after a crash during the third lap of the 2013 24 Hours of Le Mans.

---

İsmail YK, German-Turkish singer-songwriter

İsmail YK, born as İsmail Yurtseven, is a German Turk pop singer. YK stands for Yurtseven Kardeşler, the siblings group he was a member of at the start of his career. A number of his albums have been top sellers in Turkey. His first solo album Şappur Şuppur sold 1.2 million copies. In 2006 his second album Bombabomba.com was the best selling Turkish album with over 600,000 copies. In 2008, his third album Bas Gaza sold 450,000 copies. İsmail YK has won many awards including Best Turkish singer that he won 3 times consecutively in 2006, 2007 and 2008. İsmail YK, who accelerated his works after a long break, released his album Kıyamet on Valentine's Day 2015. The album consisted of 12 songs, including the song "Yaralıyım" from the album Haydi Bastır which was rerecorded with Hatice. The song "Çıkmam Seneye" which he had written at the age of 12 was included in the album as well. İsmail YK rerecorded the rock version of the song "Allah Belanı Versin" (2006) and released a music video for it. In its 2006 music video he used an Alfa Romeo 164 while for the new music video he used a Ferrari F430 car. The songs and its music video were among the most discussed subjects on music news in Turkey within the first 3 days of its release. As to why he damaged the car in the music video he said that "he wanted to send this message that instead of hurting someone it's better to cause damage to materialistic things". He is speaker the television programme in partner of Aysun Kayacı in Şen-Şakrak-Show and YK Show in broadcasting Kanaltürk television channel in 2011.

---

05/07/1977

Nicolas Kiefer, German tennis player

Nicolas Kiefer is a German former professional tennis player. He reached the semifinals of the 2006 Australian Open and won a silver medal in men's doubles with partner Rainer Schüttler at the 2004 Athens Olympics. Kiefer's career-high singles ranking was world No. 4, achieved in January 2000.

---

05/07/1976

Bizarre, American rapper

Rufus Johnson, better known by his stage name Bizarre, is an American rapper, best known as a member of the Detroit-based hip hop group D12.

---

Nuno Gomes, Portuguese footballer

Nuno Miguel Soares Pereira Ribeiro, known as Nuno Gomes, is a Portuguese former professional footballer who played as a striker.

---

05/07/1975

Hernán Crespo, Argentinian footballer and coach

Hernán Jorge Crespo is an Argentine professional football coach and former player. He is considered one of the best strikers in the history of the Argentina national team.

---

Ai Sugiyama, Japanese tennis player

Ai Sugiyama is a Japanese former tennis player. She reached the world No. 1 ranking in women's doubles on the WTA Tour and had a career-high singles ranking of world No. 8, achieved on February 9, 2004. In her career, she won six singles and 38 doubles titles, including three Grand Slam titles, and one Grand Slam mixed doubles title. Sugiyama held the all-time record, for both male and female players, for her 62 consecutive Grand Slam main-draw appearances, until she was surpassed by Roger Federer at the 2015 Wimbledon Championships.

---

05/07/1974

Márcio Amoroso, Brazilian footballer

Márcio Amoroso dos Santos is a Brazilian football pundit and former professional player who mainly played as a forward. He played for several teams in his home country as well as in Japan, Italy, Germany, Spain and Greece while also representing Brazil at international level, winning the 1999 Copa América. A talented striker with great dribbling skills and goalscoring ability, Amoroso was also capable of creating chances for teammates.

---

Sarah Taylor, Jersey squash player

Sarah Taylor is a former Jersey female squash player. She represented Jersey at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, where she had competed in the women's singles and mixed doubles. In the mixed doubles, she partnered her husband Nick Taylor during the multi-sport event. Sarah Taylor is regarded as a finest squash player to have represented Jersey at international competitions especially winning a silver medal at the 2011 Island Games in the women's singles event.

---

05/07/1973

Marcus Allbäck, Swedish footballer and coach

Marcus Christian Allbäck is a Swedish former professional footballer who played as a striker. He was known for his sharp finishing ability and represented clubs in Sweden, Denmark, Italy, the Netherlands, England, and Germany during a career that spanned between 1992 and 2009. A full international between 1999 and 2008, he won 74 caps for the Sweden national team and scored 30 goals. He represented Sweden at three UEFA European Championships as well as two FIFA World Cups.

---

Bengt Lagerberg, Swedish drummer

The Cardigans are a Swedish rock band formed in Jönköping, Sweden in 1992. The main lineup of the band consisted of guitarist Peter Svensson, bassist Magnus Sveningsson, drummer Bengt Lagerberg, keyboardist Lars-Olof Johansson and lead singer Nina Persson. Post-hiatus shows since 2012 have been with Oskar Humlebo on guitar instead of Svensson.

---

Róisín Murphy, Irish singer-songwriter and producer

Róisín Marie Murphy is an Irish singer, songwriter and record producer who first became known in the 1990s as one half of the pop duo Moloko alongside the English musician Mark Brydon. After the breakup of Moloko, Murphy embarked on a solo career and released her debut solo album Ruby Blue (2005), which she wrote and produced with the experimental musician Matthew Herbert, to critical praise. Her second solo album Overpowered was released in 2007.

---

05/07/1972

Matthew Birir, Kenyan runner

Matthew Kiprotich Birir is a former athlete from Kenya and a winner of the 3000 m steeplechase at the 1992 Summer Olympics.

---

Robert Esmie, Canadian sprinter

Robert Esmie is a Canadian retired sprinter, who was a member of the gold medal-winning Canadian 4 × 100 m relay team at the 1996 Summer Olympics.

---

Gary Shteyngart, American writer

Gary Shteyngart is a Soviet-born American writer. He is the author of six novels, and a memoir. Much of his work is satirical.

---

05/07/1971

Derek McInnes, Scottish footballer and manager

Derek John McInnes is a Scottish professional football manager and former player who is the head coach of Scottish Premiership club Heart of Midlothian. In his playing career, his longest spells were with Greenock Morton, Rangers, West Bromwich Albion and Dundee United. He won two caps for the Scotland national team while with West Brom.

---

05/07/1970

Mac Dre, American rapper and producer, founded Thizz Entertainment (died 2004)

Andre Louis Hicks, known professionally as Mac Dre, was an American rapper, songwriter, and record producer from Vallejo, California. He was an instrumental figure in the emergence of hyphy, a cultural movement in the Bay Area hip-hop scene that emerged in the early 2000s. Hicks is considered one of the movement's key pioneers that fueled its popularity into mainstream, releasing songs with fast-paced rhymes and basslines that inspired a new style of dance. As the founder of the independent record label Thizz Entertainment, Hicks recorded dozens of albums and gave aspiring rappers an outlet to release albums locally.

---

Valentí Massana, Spanish race walker

Valentín Massana Gracia is a Spanish race walker, and the Spanish national record holder in the men's 50 km walk (3:38:43) in Ourense, March 20, 1994.

---

05/07/1969

Jenji Kohan, American screenwriter and producer

Jenji Leslie Kohan is an American television writer and producer. She is best known as the creator and showrunner of the Showtime comedy-drama series Weeds and the Netflix comedy-drama series Orange Is the New Black. She has received nine Emmy Award nominations, winning one as supervising producer of the comedy series Tracey Takes On....

---

John LeClair, American ice hockey player

John Clark LeClair is an American former professional ice hockey player. He played 16 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Montreal Canadiens, Philadelphia Flyers, and Pittsburgh Penguins from 1991 to 2006. LeClair was a member of the Montreal Canadiens' Stanley Cup winning team in 1993, scoring two overtime game-winning goals in consecutive games during the Final. With the Flyers, LeClair became the first American-born player to score 50 goals in three consecutive NHL seasons while playing on the Legion of Doom line with Eric Lindros and Mikael Renberg.

---

RZA, American rapper, producer, actor, and director

Robert Fitzgerald Diggs, better known by his stage name RZA or the RZA, is an American rapper, record producer, composer, actor, and filmmaker. He is the de facto leader of the hip-hop group Wu-Tang Clan, having produced most of the group's albums and those of its members. Known for his signature use of soul samples, sparse beats, and cinematic elements, his production style has been widely influential in hip-hop. The Source and Vibe both ranked him among the greatest hip-hop producers of all time, while NME included him on its list of the 50 Greatest Producers Ever, spanning all genres.

---

05/07/1968

Ken Akamatsu, Japanese illustrator

Ken Akamatsu is a Japanese manga artist and politician who has served since 2022 as a member of the House of Councillors. He made his professional manga debut in 1993, and is best known as the author of Love Hina (1998–2001) and Negima! Magister Negi Magi (2003–2012), both serialized in Weekly Shōnen Magazine; a sequel to Negima!, UQ Holder!, was serialized from 2013 to 2022. In 2011, Akamatsu founded J-Comi, a free digital distributor of out-of-print manga.

---

Kenji Ito, Japanese pianist and composer

Kenji Ito , also known by the nickname Itoken (イトケン), is a Japanese video game composer and musician. He is best known for his work on the Mana and SaGa series, though he has worked on over 30 video games throughout his career as well as composed or arranged music for over 15 other albums, concerts, and plays. He learned to play several instruments at a young age, and joined Square directly out of college as a composer in 1990 at the advice of a professor. He worked there for over a decade, composing many of his best-known scores. In 2001, he left Square to become a freelance composer, but has since continued to collaborate with the company.

---

Nardwuar, Canadian celebrity journalist and musician

Nardwuar the Human Serviette is a Canadian journalist and musician. He formed the Vancouver-based garage rock band the Evaporators in 1986, for which he serves as lead singer and keyboardist. He is best known for his in-depth interviews with musicians, celebrities, and politicians.

---

Hedi Slimane, French fashion designer and photographer

Hedi Slimane is a French photographer and couturier. From 2000 to 2007, he was the creative director for Dior Homme. From 2012 to 2016, he was the creative director for Yves Saint Laurent. From February 2018 to October 2024, Slimane was the creative, artistic and image director of Celine.

---

Alex Zülle, Swiss cyclist

Alex Zülle is a Swiss former professional road bicycle racer. During the 1990s he was one of the most successful cyclists in the world, winning the 1996 and 1997 Vuelta a España, taking second place in the 1995 and the 1999 Tour de France. He was world time-trial champion in Lugano in 1996. He admitted doping with EPO and raced for the three most notorious doping teams in 1997–9.

---

Susan Wojcicki, Polish-American technology executive (died 2024)

Susan Diane Wojcicki was an American business executive who was the chief executive officer of YouTube from 2014 to 2023. Her net worth was estimated at $765 million in 2022.

---

05/07/1967

Mustafa Al-Kadhimi, Iraqi politician, 80th Prime Minister of Iraq

Mustafa Abdul Latif Mishatat al-Gharibawi, known as Mustafa al-Kadhimi is an independent Iraqi politician, lawyer, bureaucrat and former intelligence officer who served as the prime minister of Iraq from 7 May 2020 to 27 October 2022. He was nominated as prime minister in May 2020 following the 2019 Iraqi protests and the resignation of Adel Abdul Mahdi. He previously served as columnist for several news outlets and the Director of the Iraqi National Intelligence Service, originally appointed in June 2016. He briefly served as Iraqi Minister of Foreign Affairs in an acting capacity in 2020. The latter part of his tenure closely followed the 2022 Iraqi political crisis. Following the conclusion of his term as prime minister in 2022, he spent over two years abroad, returning to Baghdad in February 2025. During his time away, he resided in London and the United Arab Emirates. His return was at the invitation of current Iraqi political leaders who sought his assistance in addressing the country's economic challenges.

---

05/07/1966

Susannah Doyle, English actress, director, and playwright

Susannah Doyle is an English actress, notable for her roles as Joy Merryweather in Drop The Dead Donkey (1991–1998), and as Avril Burke in Ballykissangel (2001).

---

Gianfranco Zola, Italian footballer and coach

Gianfranco Zola is an Italian football executive, manager, and former footballer who played predominantly as a forward. He is currently vice-president of the Lega Pro, the Italian Serie C football league.

---

05/07/1964

Ronald D. Moore, American screenwriter and producer

Ronald Dowl Moore is an American screenwriter and television producer. He is best known for his work on Star Trek, as well as on the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica television series, for which he won a Peabody Award, and on Outlander, based on the novels of the same name by Diana Gabaldon. In 2019, he created and wrote the series For All Mankind for Apple TV+.

---

05/07/1963

Edie Falco, American actress

Edith Falco is an American actress. She is known for her roles on stage and screen and has received numerous accolades including four Primetime Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and five Screen Actors Guild Awards, as well as a nomination for a Tony Award. She is the most nominated performer in the Screen Actors Guild Awards history.

---

05/07/1962

Sarina Hülsenbeck, German swimmer

Sarina Hülsenbeck is an East German swimmer who competed in the late 1970s and early 1980s. She won a gold medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow in the women's 4 × 100 m freestyle and competed in the 4 × 100 m medley relay qualifying round, but not in the final.

---

05/07/1959

Marc Cohn, American singer-songwriter and keyboard player

Marc Craig Cohn is an American singer-songwriter. He is best known for the song "Walking in Memphis", which was a top 40 hit from his 1991 album Marc Cohn and was nominated for Song of the Year and Best Pop Vocal at the 34th Annual Grammy Awards. Cohn won the Grammy Award for Best New Artist in 1992. His other charting singles include "Silver Thunderbird" (1991), "True Companion" (1991), and "Walk Through the World" (1993).

---

05/07/1958

Veronica Guerin, Irish journalist (died 1996)

Veronica Guerin Turley was an Irish investigative journalist focusing on organised crime in Ireland, who was murdered in a contract killing believed to have been ordered by a South Dublin-based drug cartel. Born in Dublin, she was an athlete in school and later played on the Irish national teams for both Association football and basketball. After studying accountancy she ran a public-relations firm for seven years, before working for Fianna Fáil and as an election agent for Seán Haughey. She became a reporter in 1990, writing for the Sunday Business Post and Sunday Tribune. In 1994 she began writing articles about the Irish criminal underworld for the Sunday Independent. In 1996, after pressing charges for assault against major organised crime figure John Gilligan, Guerin was ambushed and fatally shot in her vehicle while waiting at a traffic light. The shooting caused national outrage in Ireland. Investigation into her death led to a number of arrests and convictions.

---

Bill Watterson, American author and illustrator

William Boyd Watterson II is an American cartoonist who authored the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes. The strip was syndicated from 1985 to 1995. Watterson concluded Calvin and Hobbes with a short statement to newspaper readers that he felt he had achieved all he could in the medium. Watterson is known for his negative views on comic syndication and licensing, his efforts to expand and elevate the newspaper comic as an art form, and his move back into private life after Calvin and Hobbes ended.

---

05/07/1957

Carlo Thränhardt, German high jumper

Carlo Thränhardt is a retired German high jumper. He excelled at indoor competitions, setting the world indoor record on three occasions between 1984 and 1988. His best mark of 2.42 metres ranks him second on the indoor all-time list one-centimetre behind world record holder Javier Sotomayor of Cuba. The only superior outdoor performances are Sotomayor's world record of 2.45 m, and Mutaz Essa Barshim's clearance of 2.43 m in 2014. Like all modern high jumpers, Thränhardt used the Fosbury Flop style, but of the 16 men in history to have cleared 2.40 m or higher, he was only the second to do so jumping off his right leg. The first was Igor Paklin. At the European Indoor Championships, he won a gold medal in 1983 and four silver medals. Outdoors, his best championship result was winning a bronze medal at the 1986 European Championships. He also reached the Olympic finals in 1984 and 1988.

---

Doug Wilson, Canadian-American ice hockey player and manager

Douglas Frederick Wilson is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman, who later served as general manager of the San Jose Sharks of the National Hockey League, and is currently Senior Advisor of Hockey Operations with the Pittsburgh Penguins. He won the 1984 Canada Cup with Team Canada.

---

05/07/1956

Horacio Cartes, Paraguayan businessman and politician, President of Paraguay

Horacio Manuel Cartes Jara is a Paraguayan politician and businessman who is serving as president of the Colorado Party since 2023, having previously served as president of Paraguay from 2013 to 2018.

---

James Lofton, American football player and coach

James David Lofton is an American former professional football player and coach. He played in the National Football League (NFL) as a wide receiver for the Green Bay Packers (1978–1986), Los Angeles Raiders (1987–1988), the Buffalo Bills (1989–1992), Los Angeles Rams (1993) and Philadelphia Eagles (1993). He was also the NCAA champion in the long jump in 1978 while attending Stanford University.

---

05/07/1955

Tony Hadley, English footballer

Anthony Paul Frederick Hadley is an English former professional footballer, who played as a central defender.

---

Peter McNamara, Australian tennis player and coach (died 2019)

Peter McNamara was an Australian tennis player and coach.

---

05/07/1954

Jimmy Crespo, American guitarist and songwriter

Jimmy Crespo is an American guitarist. He was the lead guitarist for Aerosmith from 1979 until 1984. He co-wrote "Rock in a Hard Place" with Steven Tyler, and has performed or recorded with Rod Stewart, Billy Squier, Meat Loaf, Stevie Nicks, Robert Fleischman, Rough Cutt, Renegade, Flame and others.

---

John Wright, New Zealand cricketer and coach

John Geoffrey Wright is a former international cricketer who represented – and captained – New Zealand. He made his international debut in 1978 against England.

---

05/07/1953

David Morrow, Australian radio host and sportscaster (died 2024)

David William Morrow was an Australian sports radio and television broadcaster/commentator, best known for his association with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and 2GB, and his calling of horse racing and the NRL, but also other sport and his coverage of the Olympics and Commonwealth Games.

---

Caryn Navy, American mathematician and computer scientist

Caryn Linda Navy is an American mathematician and computer scientist. Blind since childhood, she is chiefly known for her work in set-theoretic topology and Braille technology.

---

05/07/1951

Goose Gossage, American baseball player

Richard Michael "Goose" Gossage is an American former professional baseball pitcher who played 22 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) between 1972 and 1994. He pitched for nine different teams, spending his best years with the New York Yankees and San Diego Padres.

---

05/07/1950

Carlos Caszely, Chilean footballer

Carlos Humberto Caszely Garrido is a Chilean former professional footballer, nicknamed "Rey del metro cuadrado", who played as a forward.

---

Huey Lewis, American singer-songwriter and actor

Hugh Anthony Cregg III, known professionally as Huey Lewis, is an American actor and former singer-songwriter.

---

05/07/1949

Ludwig G. Strauss, German physician and academic (died 2013)

Ludwig Georg Strauss was a German nuclear medicine physician and professor of radiology at the University of Heidelberg.

---

Jill Murphy, British children's author (died 2021)

Jill Frances Murphy was a British author and illustrator of children's books. First published by Allison & Busby in 1974, she was best known for the Worst Witch novels and Large Family picture books, with sales amounting to several millions. Her books were adapted for stage and television. She was called "one of the most engaging writers and illustrators for children in the land".

---

05/07/1946

Pierre-Marc Johnson, Canadian lawyer, physician, and politician, 24th Premier of Quebec

Pierre Marc Johnson is a Canadian lawyer, physician and politician. He was the 24th premier of Quebec from October 3 to December 12, 1985, making him the province's shortest-serving premier, and the first Baby Boomer to hold the office.

---

Paul Smith, English fashion designer

Sir Paul Brierley Smith is an English fashion designer, best known for his eponymous luxury brand. Founded by Smith in 1970, it has since expanded to 130 stores in more than 60 countries. The brand sells clothing and accessories through both physical shops and online. Its fluorescent pink flagship store in Los Angeles has become a widely photographed landmark.

---

Gerard 't Hooft, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate

Gerardus "Gerard" 't Hooft is a Dutch theoretical physicist and professor emeritus at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. He shared the 1999 Nobel Prize in Physics with his thesis advisor Martinus J. G. Veltman "for elucidating the quantum structure of electroweak interactions."

---

Vladimir Mikhailovich Zakharov, Russian dancer and choreographer (died 2013)

Vladimir Mikhailovich Zakharov was a Russian choreographer, founder, Chief Choreographer and Artistic Director of Moscow National Academic Theater of Dance Gzhel and Moscow Ballet Academy Gzhel, Ph.D. in Study of Culture, Academician, Director of the University of Dance under the Academy of Slavic Culture, People's Artist of the Russian Federation, Honoured Artist of Dagestan Republic, People's Artist of The North Ossetia-Alaniya Republic.

---

05/07/1945

Michael Blake, American author and screenwriter (died 2015)

Michael Lennox Blake was an American author, best known for the film adaptation of his novel Dances With Wolves, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.

---

Humberto Benítez Treviño, Mexican lawyer and politician, Attorney General of Mexico

Humberto Benítez Treviño is a Mexican lawyer and politician. He was Attorney General of México from 1994 to 1996.

---

05/07/1944

Leni Björklund, Swedish politician, 28th Swedish Minister of Defence for Sweden

Leni Christina Elisabeth Björklund is a Swedish Social Democratic politician. She served as Minister for Defence from 2002 to 2006.

---

05/07/1943

Curt Blefary, American baseball player and coach (died 2001)

Curtis Leroy "Clank" Blefary was an American professional baseball left fielder who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Baltimore Orioles (1965–1968), Houston Astros (1969), New York Yankees (1970–1971), Oakland Athletics (1971–1972) and the San Diego Padres (1972). A native of Brooklyn, New York, he batted left-handed and threw right-handed.

---

Mark Cox, English tennis player, coach and sportscaster

Mark Cox is a former tennis player from England, who played professional and amateur tennis in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. He was ranked as high as world No. 12 on the ATP rankings, achieving that ranking in October 1977.

---

Robbie Robertson, Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor (died 2023)

Jaime Royal "Robbie" Robertson was a Canadian musician, composer, and producer. Robertson was the onetime lead guitarist for Bob Dylan's backing band. He was also the guitarist and primary songwriter of the Band from its inception until his 1976 departure. In his later solo career, Robertson released six albums.

---

05/07/1942

Matthias Bamert, Swiss composer and conductor

Matthias Bamert is a Swiss conductor and composer.

---

Hannes Löhr, German footballer, coach, and manager (died 2016)

Johannes Löhr was a German professional football player and manager.

---

05/07/1941

Epeli Nailatikau, Fijian chief, President of Fiji (died 2026)

Brigadier-General Ratu Epeli Nailatikau,, often referred to as Na Turaga Mai Naisogolaca, was a Fijian chief who was President of Fiji from 2009 to 2015. He had a long career in the Military, diplomatic service, and government. From 2001 to 2006 he served as Speaker of the House of Representatives – the lower and more powerful chamber of the Fijian Parliament. He was also the chairman of the Parliamentary Appropriations Committee and of the House Committee. On 8 January 2007, he was appointed the interim Minister for Foreign Affairs and External Trade; he was moved to the post of interim Minister for Provincial Development and Multi-Ethnic Affairs in September 2008. In October 2008, he became Indigenous Affairs Minister "and effectively Great Council of Chiefs chairman". On 17 April 2009, he was appointed Vice-President by the military government.

---

05/07/1940

Chuck Close, American painter and photographer (died 2021)

Charles Thomas Close was an American painter, visual artist, and photographer who made massive-scale photorealist and abstract portraits of himself and others. Close also created photo portraits using a very large format camera. He adapted his painting style and working methods in 1988, after being paralyzed by an occlusion of the anterior spinal artery.

---

05/07/1938

Ronnie Self, American singer-songwriter (died 1981)

Ronnie Self was an American singer-songwriter and performer best known for his 1957 single “Bop-A-Lena,” which appeared on the Billboard charts in the United States and Australia. Self was known for his energetic performance style and aggressive vocal delivery, combining elements of country music, rockabilly, and rock 'n' roll, which earned him the nickname “Mr. Frantic.” Although he had limited commercial success as a performer, he worked extensively as a songwriter for other artists, including through his association with Decca Records. His recordings and songwriting have been retrospectively cited as an influence on later developments in garage rock and proto-punk, due to their raw sound and intensity.

---

05/07/1937

Nita Lowey, American politician (died 2025)

Nita Sue Lowey was an American politician who served as a U.S. representative from New York from 1989 until 2021. She was a member of the Democratic Party. Lowey also served as co-dean of the New York congressional delegation, along with former U.S. Representative Eliot Engel. Lowey's district was numbered as the 20th from 1989 to 1993, as the 18th from 1993 to 2013, and as the 17th beginning in 2013. The district included many of New York City's inner northern suburbs, such as White Plains, Purchase, Tarrytown, Mount Kisco, and Armonk.

---

05/07/1936

Shirley Knight, American actress (died 2020)

Shirley Enola Knight Hopkins was an American actress, active in theatre, film, and television from the 1960s through the 2010's. She was a two-time Oscar nominee, a three-time Primetime Emmy Award winner, and a Golden Globe and Tony Award winner, among other accolades.

---

James Mirrlees, Scottish economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2018)

Sir James Alexander Mirrlees was a British economist and winner of the 1996 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. He was knighted in the 1997 Birthday Honours.

---

05/07/1935

John Schoenherr, American illustrator (died 2010)

John Carl Schoenherr was an American illustrator. He won the 1988 Caldecott Medal for U.S. children's book illustration, recognizing Owl Moon by Jane Yolen, which recounts the story of the first time a father takes his youngest child on a traditional outing to spot an owl. He was posthumously inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame in 2015.

---

Amnon Barzel, Israeli art critic (died 2025)

Amnon Barzel was an Israeli internationally known art curator and author.

---

05/07/1933

Paul-Gilbert Langevin, French musicologist, critic and physicist (died 1986)

Paul-Gilbert Langevin was a French musicologist, who was a specialist on Anton Bruckner, Franz Schubert and 19th-century classical music.

---

05/07/1932

Gyula Horn, Hungarian politician, 37th Prime Minister of Hungary (died 2013)

Gyula János Horn was a Hungarian politician who was the Prime Minister of Hungary from 1994 to 1998.

---

05/07/1931

Ismail Mahomed, South African lawyer and politician, 17th Chief Justice of South Africa (died 2000)

Ismail Mahomed SCOB SC was a South African lawyer and jurist who served as the first non-white Chief Justice of South Africa from January 1997 until his death in June 2000. He was also the Chief Justice of Namibia from 1992 to 1999 and the inaugural Deputy President of the Constitutional Court of South Africa from 1995 to 1996.

---

05/07/1929

Jimmy Carruthers, Australian boxer (died 1990)

James William Carruthers was an Australian boxer, who became the Undisputed Bantamweight World Champion in 1952.

---

Katherine Helmond, American actress and director (died 2019)

Katherine Marie Helmond was an American actress. Over an acting career spanning six decades, she was best known for her starring role as Jessica Tate on the sitcom Soap (1977–1981) and her co-starring role as Mona Robinson on Who's the Boss? (1984–1992). Helmond also played Doris Sherman on Coach (1995–1997) and Lois Whelan on Everybody Loves Raymond (1996–2004). She also appeared as a guest on several talk and variety shows.

---

Tony Lock, English cricketer (died 1995)

Graham Anthony Richard Lock was an English cricketer, who played primarily as a left-arm spinner. He played in 49 Test matches for England taking 174 wickets.

---

Jovan Rašković, Serbian psychiatrist, academic, and politician (died 1992)

Jovan Rašković was a Croatian Serb politician. He was leader of the Serb Democratic Party.

---

Jiří Reynek, Czech poet and graphic artist (died 2014)

Jiří Reynek was a Czech poet and graphic artist. A fluent French speaker, he translated the works of Henri Pourrat and Francis Jammes. He was the son of Suzanne Renaud and Bohuslav Reynek. Photographer Daniel Reynek was his older brother. The family spent winters in Grenoble and summers in Petrkov, where Reynek spent most of his adult life. The family farm was seized by Germany during World War II, then came under state control after Czechoslovakia transitioned to communism in the 1948 coup d'état.

---

05/07/1928

Pierre Mauroy, French educator and politician, Prime Minister of France (died 2013)

Pierre Mauroy was a French politician who was Prime Minister of France from 1981 to 1984 under President François Mitterrand. Mauroy also served as Mayor of Lille from 1973 to 2001 and President of the Socialist International from 1992 to 1999. At the time of his death, Mauroy was the emeritus mayor of the city of Lille.

---

Warren Oates, American actor (died 1982)

Warren Mercer Oates was an American actor. He was best known for his roles in Western and crime films, most notably in-collaboration with directors Sam Peckinpah and Monte Hellman. He had starring roles in Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch (1969) and Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974). Another of his most acclaimed performances was as officer Sam Wood in Norman Jewison's In the Heat of the Night (1967) and as Mr. Sargis in Terrence Malick's Badlands (1973).

---

05/07/1926

Diana Lynn, American actress (died 1971)

Diana Marie Lynn was an American actress. She built her career by starring in Paramount Pictures films and various television series during the 1940s and 1950s. Two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame are dedicated to her name.

---

05/07/1925

Fernando de Szyszlo, Peruvian painter and sculptor (died 2017)

Fernando de Szyszlo Valdelomar was a Peruvian painter, sculptor, printmaker and teacher. He was a key figure in advancing abstract art in Latin America since the mid-1950s, and one of the leading plastic artists in Peru.

---

Jean Raspail, French author and explorer (died 2020)

Jean Paul Raspail was a French explorer, novelist and travel writer. He was a recipient of the prestigious French literary awards Grand Prix du Roman and Grand Prix de littérature by the Académie Française. The French government honoured him in 2003 by appointing him to the Legion of Honour, with the grade of Officer. Although the majority of his books are travelogues or novels about historical figures, exploration and indigenous peoples, internationally, he is best known for his controversial 1973 novel The Camp of the Saints, which is about mass third-world immigration to Europe.

---

05/07/1924

János Starker, Hungarian-American cellist and educator (died 2013)

János Starker was a Hungarian-American cellist. From 1958 until his death, he taught at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where he held the title of Distinguished Professor. Starker is considered one of the greatest cellists of all time.

---

Edward Cassidy, Australian Roman Catholic cardinal priest (died 2021)

Edward Idris Cassidy AC was an Australian prelate of the Catholic Church who was president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity from 1989 to 2001. He headed the Commission of the Holy See for Religious Relations with the Jews. He spent most of his career in the diplomatic service of the Holy See both in Rome and overseas. He was made a cardinal in 1991.

---

05/07/1923

George Moore, Australian jockey (died 2008)

George Thomas Donald Moore OBE was an Australian jockey and Thoroughbred horse trainer. He began his career in racing in 1939 in Brisbane where he quickly became one of the top apprentice jockeys and where in 1943 he won the Senior Jockeys' Premiership. He then relocated to Sydney and in 1949 went to work for trainer Tommy J. Smith with whom he would have considerable success.

---

Mitsuye Yamada, Japanese American activist

Mitsuye Yamada is a Japanese American poet, essayist, and feminist and human rights activist. She is one of the first and most vocal Asian American women writers to write about the wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans.

---

05/07/1921

Viktor Kulikov, Russian marshal (died 2013)

Viktor Georgiyevich Kulikov was the Warsaw Pact commander-in-chief from 1977 to 1989. He was awarded the rank of the Marshal of the Soviet Union on 14 January 1977.

---

Nanos Valaoritis, Greek author, poet, and playwright (died 2019)

Ioannis (Nanos) Valaoritis was a Greek writer, widely published as a poet, novelist and playwright since 1939; his correspondence with George Seferis was a bestseller. The quality, the international appeal, and the influence of his work led Valaoritis to be described as the most important poet of the Hellenic diaspora since Constantine Cavafy.

---

05/07/1918

K. Karunakaran, Indian lawyer and politician, 7th Chief Minister of Kerala (died 2010)

Kannoth Karunakaran was an Indian politician, political strategist, decision maker and statesman who served as the chief minister of Kerala in 1977, from 1981 to March 1982, from May 1982 to 1987 and from 1991 to 1995. He is the founder of the Indian National Congress (INC)-led United Democratic Front (UDF) coalition, which governed the state in the periods of 1982-87, 1991–96, 2001–06 and 2011–16; and currently is the ruling alliance in Kerala since 2026. He has also served as the Union Minister for Industry from 1995 to 1996 and served as the Leader of the Opposition in the Kerala Legislative Assembly for four terms- 1967 to 1969, 1978 to 1979, 1980 to 1981 and 1987 to 1991. He also has the distinction of being one of the longest serving Congress Legislature Party (CLP) Leaders in the country, holding that post from 1967 to 1995.

---

Brian James, Australian actor (died 2009)

Brian James was an Australian radio, stage, television and film actor.

---

Zakaria Mohieddin, Egyptian general and politician, 33rd Prime Minister of Egypt (died 2012)

Zakaria Mohieddin was an Egyptian military officer, politician who served as the 3rd prime minister of Egypt and head of the first Intelligence body in Egypt, the Egyptian General Intelligence Directorate.

---

George Rochberg, American composer and educator (died 2005)

George Rochberg was an American composer of contemporary classical music. Long a serial composer, Rochberg abandoned the technique after his teenage son died in 1964, saying it had proved inadequate to express his grief and was empty of expressive power. By the 1970s, Rochberg's use of tonal passages in his music had provoked controversy among critics and fellow composers. A professor at the University of Pennsylvania until 1983, Rochberg chaired its music department until 1968. He became the first Annenberg Professor of the Humanities in 1978.

---

05/07/1916

Lívia Rév, Hungarian classical pianist (died 2018)

Lívia Rév was a Hungarian classical concert pianist.

---

Ivor Powell, Welsh footballer (died 2012)

Ivor Verdun Powell, MBE was a Welsh football player and manager. He won eight caps for Wales.

---

05/07/1915

Babe Paley, American socialite (died 1978)

Barbara Cushing Mortimer Paley was an American magazine editor and socialite. Affectionately known as Babe throughout her life, Paley made notable contributions to the field of magazine editing. In recognition of her distinctive fashion sense, she was inducted into the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame in 1958. Together with her two sisters, Minnie and Betsey, she was a popular debutante in her youth and the trio were dubbed "The Fabulous Cushing Sisters" in high society. She was married twice; first, to the sportsman Stanley G. Mortimer Jr. and second, to CBS founder William S. Paley.

---

John Woodruff, American runner and commander (died 2007)

John Youie "Long John" Woodruff was an American middle-distance runner, winner of the 800 meter event at the 1936 Summer Olympics.

---

Al Timothy, Trinidadian musician and songwriter (died 2000)

Albon Timothy was a Trinidadian jazz and calypso musician and songwriter who played numerous instruments but was best known for his tenor saxophone playing. His most successful hit as a songwriter was "Kiss Me, Honey Honey, Kiss Me", written with Michael Julien, which reached number 3 in 1959 in the charts sung by Shirley Bassey.

---

05/07/1914

John Thomas Dunlop, American administrator and labor scholar (died 2003)

John Thomas Dunlop was an American administrator, labor economist, and educator. Dunlop was the United States Secretary of Labor between 1975 and 1976 under President Gerald Ford. He was Director of the United States Cost of Living Council from 1973 to 1974, Chairman of the United States Commission on the Future of Worker-Management Relations from 1993 to 1995, which produced the Dunlop Report in 1994. He was also arbitrator and impartial chairman of various United States labor-management committees, and a member of numerous government boards on industrial relations disputes and economic stabilization.

---

Annie Fischer, Hungarian pianist and composer (died 1995)

Annie Fischer was a Hungarian classical pianist.

---

05/07/1913

George Costakis, Russian art collector (died 1990)

George Costakis was a Greek-Russian art collector who amassed one of the largest private collections of Russian avant-garde art in the world.

---

Smiley Lewis, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1966)

Overton Amos Lemons, known as Smiley Lewis, was an American New Orleans rhythm and blues singer and guitarist. The music journalist Tony Russell wrote that "Lewis was the unluckiest man in New Orleans. He hit on a formula for slow-rocking, small-band numbers like 'The Bells Are Ringing' and 'I Hear You Knocking' only to have Fats Domino come up behind him with similar music with a more ingratiating delivery. Lewis was practically drowned in Domino's backwash."

---

05/07/1911

Endel Aruja, Estonian-Canadian physicist and academic (died 2008)

Endel Aruja was an Estonian physicist specialising in X-ray crystallography, encyclopedian, librarian, supporter of libraries and a long-term Estonian expatriate activist.

---

Haydn Bunton, Sr., Australian footballer and coach (died 1955)

Haydn William Bunton was an Australian rules footballer who represented Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League (VFL), Subiaco in the West Australian Football League (WAFL), and Port Adelaide in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) during the 1930s and 1940s.

---

Giorgio Borġ Olivier, Maltese lawyer and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Malta (died 1980)

Giorgio Borg Olivier was a Maltese politician. He twice served as Prime Minister of Malta and as the Leader of the Nationalist Party. He was also Leader of the Opposition between 1955–1958, and again between 1971–1977.

---

Georges Pompidou, French banker and politician, 19th President of France (died 1974)

Georges Jean Raymond Pompidou was President of France from 1969 until his death in 1974. He had previously served from 1962 to 1968 as Prime Minister of France under President Charles de Gaulle, with whom he was closely associated throughout his career.

---

05/07/1910

Georges Vedel, French lawyer and academic (died 2002)

Georges Vedel was a French public law professor from Auch, France.

---

05/07/1908

Henri of Orléans, (died 1999)

Henri d'Orléans, was the Orléanist pretender to the defunct throne of France as Henry VI from 1940 until his death in 1999. Henri was the direct descendant of Philippe I, Duke of Orléans, son of Louis XIII. He was also a descendant of Louis XIV through a female line, from his legitimized daughter Françoise Marie de Bourbon, as well as the great-great-grandson, by four different lines of descent, of Louis Philippe I. He used the style of Count of Paris.

---

Lyman S. Ayres II, American businessman (died 1996)

Lyman Skinner Ayres II was president of L. S. Ayres and Company from 1954 to 1962 and its chairman of the board from 1962 to 1973. The flagship store in the Ayres family's Midwestern retail department store chain was founded by his grandfather, Lyman S. Ayres, in Indianapolis, Indiana, in 1872.

---

05/07/1905

Madeleine Sylvain-Bouchereau, Haitian sociologist and educator (died 1970)

Madeleine Sylvain-Bouchereau was a pioneering Haitian sociologist and educator. In 1934, she was one of the principal founders of the Ligue Féminine d'Action Sociale, the first feminist organization registered in Haiti.

---

05/07/1904

Harold Acton, English scholar and author (died 1994)

Sir Harold Mario Mitchell Acton was a British writer, scholar, and aesthete who was a prominent member of the Bright Young Things. He wrote fiction, biography, history and autobiography. During his stay in China, he studied the Chinese language, traditional drama, and poetry, some of which he translated.

---

Ernst Mayr, German-American biologist and ornithologist (died 2005)

Ernst Walter Mayr was a German-American evolutionary biologist. He was also a renowned taxonomist, tropical explorer, ornithologist, philosopher of biology, and historian of science. His work contributed to the conceptual revolution that led to the modern evolutionary synthesis of Mendelian genetics, systematics, and Darwinian evolution, and to the development of the biological species concept.

---

Milburn Stone, American actor (died 1980)

Hugh Milburn Stone was an American actor, best known for his role as "Doc" in the Western series Gunsmoke.

---

05/07/1902

Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., American colonel and politician, 3rd United States Ambassador to the United Nations (died 1985)

Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. was an American diplomat and politician who represented Massachusetts in the United States Senate and served as United States Ambassador to the United Nations in the administration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower. In 1960, he was the Republican nominee for Vice President. Lodge later served as a diplomat in the administrations of John F Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, and Gerald Ford. Lodge was a presidential contender in the 1964 primary campaign.

---

05/07/1901

Julio Libonatti, Italian-Argentinian footballer (died 1981)

Julio Libonatti was an Italian Argentine football manager and footballer who played as a forward for the Argentina and Italy national teams.

---

05/07/1900

Yoshimaro Yamashina, Japanese ornithologist, founded the Yamashina Institute for Ornithology (died 1989)

Marquis Yoshimaro Yamashina was a Japanese ornithologist. He was the founder of the Yamashina Institute for Ornithology.

---

Bernardus Johannes Alfrink, Dutch cardinal (died 1987)

Bernardus Johannes Alfrink was a Dutch Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Utrecht from 1955 to 1975, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1960.

---

05/07/1899

Marcel Achard, French playwright, screenwriter, and author (died 1974)

Marcel Achard was a French playwright and screenwriter whose popular sentimental comedies maintained his position as a highly recognizable name in his country's theatrical and literary circles for five decades. He was elected to the Académie française in 1959.

---

05/07/1898

Georgios Grivas, Greek general (died 1974)

Georgios Grivas, also known by his nickname Digenis, was a Greek Cypriot officer of the Hellenic Army and founder and leader of the Greek and Greek Cypriot paramilitary organisations Organization X (1942–1949), EOKA (1955–1959) and EOKA B (1971–1974). He was also the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces in Cyprus, then-known as the Supreme Military Defence Command of Cyprus (ASDAK), which in the event of war would lead the Cyprus National Guard and the Hellenic Force in Cyprus (ELDYK).

---

05/07/1896

Thomas Playford IV, Australian politician, 33rd Premier of South Australia (died 1981)

Sir Thomas Playford was an Australian politician from the state of South Australia. He served as Premier of South Australia and leader of the Liberal and Country League (LCL) from 5 November 1938 to 10 March 1965. Though controversial, it was the longest term of any elected government leader in Australian history. His tenure as premier was marked by a period of population and economic growth unmatched by any other Australian state. He was known for his parochial style in pushing South Australia's interests, and was known for his ability to secure a disproportionate share of federal funding for the state as well as his shameless haranguing of federal leaders. His string of election wins was supported by a system of malapportionment later dubbed the "Playmander".

---

05/07/1894

Ants Lauter, Estonian actor and director (died 1973)

Ants Lauter was an Estonian actor, theatre director and pedagogue, People's Artist of the USSR (1948). He was born in the parish of Velise within Veski, Wiek County, and died, aged 79, in Tallinn, Estonian SSR, Soviet Union.

---

05/07/1893

Anthony Berkeley Cox, English writer (died 1971)

Anthony Berkeley Cox was an English crime writer. He wrote under several pen-names, including Francis Iles, Anthony Berkeley and A. Monmouth Platts. He was a founder of the Detection Club, and his novel Before the Fact (1932) was filmed as the Alfred Hitchcock classic Suspicion (1941).

---

Giuseppe Caselli, Italian painter (died 1976)

Giuseppe Ugo Caselli was an Italian painter.

---

05/07/1891

John Howard Northrop, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1987)

John Howard Northrop was an American biochemist who, with James Batcheller Sumner and Wendell Meredith Stanley, won the 1946 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The award was given for these scientists' isolation, crystallization, and study of enzymes, proteins, and viruses. Northrop was a Professor of Bacteriology and Medical Physics, Emeritus, at University of California, Berkeley.

---

Tin Ujević, Croatian poet and translator (died 1955)

Augustin Josip "Tin" Ujević was a Croatian poet, considered by many to be the greatest poet in 20th-century Croatian literature.

---

05/07/1890

Frederick Lewis Allen, American historian and journalist (died 1954)

Frederick Lewis Allen was the editor of Harper's Magazine and also notable as an American historian of the first half of the twentieth century. His specialty was writing about recent and popular history.

---

05/07/1889

Jean Cocteau, French novelist, poet, and playwright (died 1963)

Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau was a French poet, playwright, novelist, designer, film director, visual artist and critic. He was one of the foremost avant-garde artists of the 20th century and highly influential on the Surrealist and Dadaist movements, among others. The National Observer suggested that "of the artistic generation whose daring gave birth to Twentieth Century Art, Cocteau came closest to being a Renaissance man".

---

05/07/1888

Herbert Spencer Gasser, American physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1963)

Herbert Spencer Gasser was an American physiologist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1944 for his work with action potentials in nerve fibers while on the faculty of Washington University in St. Louis, awarded jointly with Joseph Erlanger.

---

Louise Freeland Jenkins, American astronomer and academic (died 1970)

Louise Freeland Jenkins was an American astronomer who compiled a valuable catalogue of stars within 10 parsecs of the sun, as well as editing the 3rd edition of the Yale Bright Star Catalogue.

---

05/07/1886

Willem Drees, Dutch politician and historian, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (1948–1958) (died 1988)

Willem Drees Sr. was a Dutch politician of the Social Democratic Workers' Party (SDAP) and later co-founder of the Labour Party (PvdA) and historian who served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 7 August 1948 to 22 December 1958.

---

Prince John Konstantinovich of Russia (died 1918)

Prince of the Imperial Blood John Konstantinovich of Russia, formerly Grand Duke John Konstantinovich of Russia, sometimes also known as Prince Ivan, Prince Ioann or Prince Johan, was the eldest son of Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich of Russia and Yelizaveta Mavrikievna, née Princess Elisabeth of Saxe-Altenburg. He was described by contemporaries as a gentle, religious person, nicknamed "Ioannchik" by his relatives.

---

05/07/1885

Blas Infante, Spanish historian and politician (died 1936)

Blas Infante Pérez de Vargas was an Andalusian socialist politician, Georgist, writer, historian and musicologist. He is considered the "father of Andalusia" by Andalusian nationalists.

---

André Lhote, French sculptor and painter (died 1962)

André Lhote was a French Cubist painter of figure subjects, portraits, landscapes, and still life. He was also active and influential as a teacher and writer on art.

---

05/07/1884

Enrico Dante, Italian cardinal (died 1967)

Enrico Dante was an Italian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Papal Master of Ceremonies from 1947 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1965.

---

05/07/1883

Gustave Lanctot, Canadian historian, author, and academic (died 1975)

Gustave Lanctot, also spelled Gustave Lanctôt, was a Canadian historian and archivist.

---

05/07/1882

Inayat Khan, Indian mystic and educator (died 1927)

Inayat Khan Rehmat Khan, was an Indian professor of musicology, singer, exponent of the sarasvati vina, poet, philosopher, writer, and pioneer of the transmission of Sufism to the West. At the urging of his students, and on the basis of his ancestral Sufi tradition and four-fold training and authorisation at the hands of Sayyid Abu Hashim Madani of Hyderabad, he established an order of Sufism in London in 1914. By the time of his death in 1927, centers had been established throughout Europe and North America, and multiple volumes of his teachings had been published.

---

05/07/1880

Jan Kubelík, Czech violinist and composer (died 1940)

Jan Kubelík was a Czech violinist and composer.

---

Constantin Tănase, Romanian actor and playwright (died 1945)

Constantin Tănase was a Romanian actor and writer for stage, a key figure in the revue style of theater in Romania.

---

05/07/1879

Dwight F. Davis, American tennis player and politician, 49th United States Secretary of War (died 1945)

Dwight Filley Davis Sr. was an American tennis player and politician. He is best remembered as the founder of the Davis Cup international tennis competition. He was the Assistant Secretary of War from 1923 to 1925 and Secretary of War from 1925 to 1929.

---

Wanda Landowska, Polish-French harpsichord player and educator (died 1959)

Wanda Aleksandra Landowska was a Polish and French harpsichordist and pianist whose performances, teaching, writings and especially her many recordings played a large role in reviving the popularity of the harpsichord in the early 20th century. She was the first person to record Johann Sebastian Bach's Goldberg Variations on the harpsichord in 1933. She became a naturalized French citizen in 1938.

---

05/07/1874

Eugen Fischer, German physician and academic (died 1967)

Eugen Fischer was a German professor of medicine, anthropology, and eugenics, and a member of the Nazi Party. He served as director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Anthropology, Human Heredity, and Eugenics, and also served as rector of the Frederick William University of Berlin.

---

05/07/1872

Édouard Herriot, French lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of France (died 1957)

Édouard Marie Herriot was a French Radical politician of the Third Republic who served three times as Prime Minister and twice as President of the Chamber of Deputies. He led the first Cartel des Gauches. Under the Fourth Republic, he served as President of the National Assembly until 1954. A historian by occupation, Herriot was elected to the Académie Française's eighth seat in 1946. He served as Mayor of Lyon for more than 45 years, from 1905 until his death, except for a brief period from 1940 to 1945, when he saw his movements variously restricted for opposing the Vichy regime.

---

05/07/1867

A. E. Douglass, American astronomer (died 1962)

A. E. Douglass was an American astronomer and archaeologist. He discovered a correlation between tree rings and the sunspot cycle, and founded the discipline of dendrochronology, which is a method of dating wood by analyzing the growth ring pattern. He started his discoveries in this field in 1894 when he was working at the Lowell Observatory. During this time he was an assistant to Percival Lowell, but fell out with him when his experiments made him doubt the existence of artificial "canals" on Mars and visible spokes on Venus.

---

05/07/1864

Stephan Krehl, German composer (died 1924)

Stephan Krehl was a German composer, teacher, and theoretician. His writings include Traité général de la musique and Théorie de la musique et de science de la composition. His pupils included Didia Saint Georges, Pablo Sorozábal, Maurice Besly, and Else Streit.

---

05/07/1862

George Nuttall, American-British bacteriologist (died 1937)

George Henry Falkiner Nuttall FRS was an American-British bacteriologist who contributed much to the knowledge of parasites and of insect carriers of diseases. He made significant innovative discoveries in immunology, about life under aseptic conditions, in blood chemistry, and about diseases transmitted by arthropods, especially ticks. He carried out investigations into the distribution of Anopheline mosquitoes in England in relation to the previous prevalence of malaria there. With William Welch he identified the organism responsible for causing gas gangrene.

---

Horatio Caro, English chess master (died 1920)

Horatio Caro was an English-German chess player, of world-class Master strength for about a decade, from the late 1880s to the late 1890s, a frequent winner of significant German events. He was a regular competitor for 30 years in Master events. Caro is principally known as the co-inventor of the Caro–Kann Defence, a heretofore virtually unknown opening variation, which he analyzed, published, and played from the mid 1880s.

---

05/07/1860

Robert Bacon, American colonel and politician, 39th United States Secretary of State (died 1919)

Robert Bacon was an American athlete, banker, businessman, statesman, diplomat and Republican Party politician who served as the 39th United States Secretary of State in the Theodore Roosevelt administration from January to March 1909. He also served as Assistant Secretary of State from 1905 to 1909 and Ambassador to France from 1909 to 1912.

---

Mathieu Jaboulay, French surgeon (died 1913)

Mathieu Jaboulay was a French surgeon born in Saint-Genis-Laval, a city in the department of Rhône. He is remembered for introduction of new surgical procedures, as well as his work involving techniques of vascular anastomosis.

---

05/07/1857

Clara Zetkin, German theorist and activist (died 1933)

Clara Zetkin was a German Marxist theorist, communist activist, and advocate for women's rights.

---

Julien Tiersot, French musicologist and composer (died 1936)

Julien Tiersot, was a French musicologist, composer and a pioneer in ethnomusicology.

---

05/07/1853

Cecil Rhodes, English-South African businessman and politician, 6th Prime Minister of the Cape Colony (died 1902)

Cecil John Rhodes was a British mining magnate and politician in southern Africa who served as Prime Minister of the Cape Colony from 1890 to 1896. He and his British South Africa Company founded the southern African territory of Rhodesia, which the company named after him in 1895. He also devoted much effort to realizing his vision of a Cape to Cairo Railway through British territory. Rhodes set up the Rhodes Scholarship, which is funded by his estate.

---

05/07/1849

William Thomas Stead, English journalist (died 1912)

William Thomas Stead was an English newspaper editor who, as a pioneer of investigative journalism, became a controversial figure of the Victorian era. Stead published a series of hugely influential campaigns whilst editor of The Pall Mall Gazette, including his 1885 series of articles, The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon. These were written in support of a bill, later dubbed the "Stead Act", that raised the age of consent from 13 to 16.

---

05/07/1841

William Collins Whitney, American financier and politician, 31st United States Secretary of the Navy (died 1904)

William Collins Whitney was an American political leader and financier and a prominent member of the Whitney family. He served as Secretary of the Navy in the first administration of President Grover Cleveland from 1885 through 1889. A conservative reformer, he was considered a Bourbon Democrat.

---

05/07/1832

Pavel Chistyakov, Russian painter and educator (died 1919)

Pavel Petrovich Chistyakov was a Russian painter and art teacher, active in St. Petersburg and Tsarskoye Selo from Tsar Alexander II's reign through the Civil War days. He is known for historical and genre scenes as well as portraits.

---

05/07/1829

Ignacio Mariscal, Mexican politician and diplomat, Secretary of Foreign Affairs for Mexico (died 1910)

Ignacio Mariscal was a Mexican liberal lawyer, politician, writer, and diplomat. He was named Secretary of Foreign Affairs in 1871–72, for the first time during the Benito Juárez administration. During the Porfirio Díaz's government, he held the office in 1880–83 and 1885–1910. In 1909, he was the President of Mexican Academy of the Language.

---

05/07/1820

William John Macquorn Rankine, Scottish physicist, mathematician, and engineer (died 1872)

William John Macquorn Rankine was a Scottish mathematician and physicist. He was a founding contributor, with Rudolf Clausius and William Thomson, to the science of thermodynamics, particularly focusing on its First Law. He developed the Rankine scale, a Fahrenheit-based equivalent to the Celsius-based Kelvin scale of temperature.

---

05/07/1810

P. T. Barnum, American businessman, co-founded Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus (died 1891)

Phineas Taylor Barnum was an American showman, businessman, and politician remembered for promoting celebrated hoaxes and founding with James Anthony Bailey the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. He was also an author, publisher, and philanthropist, although he said of himself: "I am a showman by profession ... and all the gilding shall make nothing else of me." The adage "there's a sucker born every minute" has frequently been attributed to him, although no evidence exists that he had coined the phrase.

---

05/07/1805

Robert FitzRoy, English captain, meteorologist, and politician, 2nd Governor of New Zealand (died 1865)

Vice-Admiral Robert FitzRoy was an English officer of the Royal Navy, politician and scientist who served as the second governor of New Zealand between 1843 and 1845.

---

05/07/1803

George Borrow, British writer (died 1881)

George Henry Borrow was an English writer of novels and of travel based on personal experiences in Europe. His travels gave him a close affinity with the Romani people of Europe, who figure strongly in his work. His best-known books are The Bible in Spain and the novels Lavengro and The Romany Rye, set in his time with the English Romanichal (Gypsies).

---

05/07/1802

Pavel Nakhimov, Russian admiral (died 1855)

Pavel Stepanovich Nakhimov was a Russian admiral in the Imperial Russian Navy known for his victory in the Battle of Sinop and his leadership in the Siege of Sevastopol (1854–1855) during the Crimean War.

---

05/07/1801

David Farragut, American admiral (died 1870)

David Glasgow Farragut was a flag officer of the United States Navy during the American Civil War. He was the first rear admiral, vice admiral, and admiral in the United States Navy. He is remembered in U.S. Navy tradition for his bold order at the Battle of Mobile Bay, usually abbreviated to "Damn the torpedoes ... full speed ahead."

---

05/07/1794

Sylvester Graham, American minister and activist (died 1851)

Sylvester Graham was an American Presbyterian minister and dietary reformer. He was known for his emphasis on vegetarianism, the temperance movement, and eating whole-grain bread. His preaching inspired the graham flour, graham bread, and graham cracker products. Graham is often referred to as the "Father of Vegetarianism" in the United States of America. Graham's lectures caused riots on multiple occasions.

---

05/07/1793

Pavel Pestel, Russian officer (died 1826)

Colonel Pavel Ivanovich Pestel was a Russian revolutionary and ideologue of the Decembrists.

---

05/07/1781

Stamford Raffles, English politician, founded Singapore (died 1826)

Sir Thomas Stamford Bingley Raffles was a British colonial official who served as the governor of the Dutch East Indies between 1811 and 1816 and lieutenant-governor of Bencoolen between 1818 and 1824. Raffles was involved in the capture of the Indonesian island of Java from the Dutch during the Napoleonic Wars. It was returned under the Anglo–Dutch Treaty of 1824. He also wrote The History of Java in 1817, describing the history of the island from ancient times. The Rafflesia flowers were named after him.

---

05/07/1780

François Carlo Antommarchi, French physician (died 1838)

François Carlo Antommarchi was Napoleon's medical doctor from 1819 to his death in 1821.

---

05/07/1755

Sarah Siddons, English actress (died 1831)

Sarah Siddons was a Welsh actress, the best-known tragedienne of the 18th century. Contemporaneous critic William Hazlitt dubbed Siddons as "tragedy personified".

---

05/07/1745

Carl Arnold Kortum, German physician and poet (died 1824)

Carl Arnold Kortum was a German medical doctor, but best known for his writing and poetry.

---

05/07/1718

Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (died 1794)

Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford was a British courtier and politician who served as the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in 1765.

---

05/07/1717

Peter III, Portuguese king (died 1786)

Dom Peter III, nicknamed the Builder, was King of Portugal from 24 February 1777 to his death in 1786, by marriage to his niece Queen Dona Maria I.

---

05/07/1709

Étienne de Silhouette, French translator and politician, Controller-General of Finances (died 1767)

Étienne de Silhouette was a French Ancien Régime Controller-General of Finances under Louis XV.

---

05/07/1675

Mary Walcott, American accuser and witness at the Salem witch trials (died 1719)

Mary Walcott was one of the "afflicted" girls called as a witness at the Salem witch trials in early 1692-93.

---

05/07/1670

Dorothea Sophie of Neuburg, countess palatine (died 1748)

Dorothea Sophie of Neuburg was Duchess of Parma from 1696 to 1727 by marriage to Francesco, Duke of Parma. She served as Regent of the Duchy of Parma for her grandson Charles of Spain between 1731 and 1735.

---

05/07/1653

Thomas Pitt, English businessman and politician (died 1726)

Thomas Pitt was a British merchant, colonial administrator and politician who served as the president of Fort St. George from 1698 to 1709. Born in Blandford Forum, Dorset, he eventually went to the Indian subcontinent in the service of the English East India Company (EIC) and rose to a senior position in the Presidency of Fort St. George, administering the EIC's affairs within the region. After a lucrative career in India, Pitt returned to England and entered into a political career, being elected six times to the Parliament of Great Britain. His descendants would go on to found a political dynasty, with Pitt's grandson and great-grandson both serving as Prime Minister of Great Britain.

---

05/07/1593

Achille d'Étampes de Valençay, French military leader (died 1646)

Achille d'Étampes de Valençay was a French military leader, a Knight of Malta and later a Catholic cardinal.

---

05/07/1586

Thomas Hooker, English-born founder of the Colony of Connecticut (died 1647)

Thomas Hooker was a prominent English colonial leader and Congregational minister, who founded the Connecticut Colony after dissenting with Puritan leaders in Massachusetts. He was known as an outstanding speaker and an advocate of universal Christian suffrage.

---

05/07/1580

Carlo Contarini, doge of Venice (died 1656)

Carlo Contarini was the 100th Doge of Venice from 27 March 1655 until his death in 1656.

---

05/07/1554

Elisabeth of Austria, French queen (died 1592)

Elisabeth of Austria was Queen of France from 1570 to 1574 as the wife of King Charles IX. A member of the House of Habsburg, she was the daughter of Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor, and Maria of Spain.

---

05/07/1549

Francesco Maria del Monte, Italian cardinal and art collector (died 1627)

Francesco Maria del Monte, full name Francesco Maria Bourbon del Monte Santa Maria, was an Italian cardinal, diplomat, and connoisseur of the arts. His fame today rests on his early patronage of the important Baroque master Caravaggio, and on his art collection which provides provenance for many important works of the period.

---

05/07/1547

Garzia de' Medici, Tuscan son of Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (died 1562)

Garzia de' Medici was the son of Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, and Eleanor of Toledo. He was the subject of a famous painting by Bronzino when he was an infant. He was born in Florence and died of malaria along with his mother while traveling to Pisa, a few days after his brother, Cardinal Giovanni, also died of the disease.

---

05/07/1466

Giovanni Sforza, Italian nobleman (died 1510)

Giovanni Sforza d'Aragona was an Italian condottiero, lord of Pesaro and Gradara from 1483 until his death. He is best known as the first husband of Lucrezia Borgia. Their marriage was annulled on claims of his impotence in March 1497.

---

05/07/1321

Joan of the Tower, English consort of David II of Scotland (died 1362)

Joan of the Tower, daughter of Edward II of England and Isabella of France, was Queen of Scotland from 1329 to her death as the first wife of King David II.

---

05/07/1029

Al-Mustansir Billah, Fatimid caliph (died 1094)

Abū Tamīm Maʿad al-Mustanṣir bi'llāh was the eighth Fatimid Caliph from 1036 until 1094. He was one of the longest reigning Muslim rulers. His reign was the twilight of the Fatimid state. The start of his reign saw the continuation of competent administrators running the Fatimid state, overseeing the state's prosperity in the first two decades of al-Mustansir's reign. However, the break out of court infighting between the Turkish and Berber/Sudanese court factions following al-Yazuri's assassination, coinciding with natural disasters in Egypt and the gradual loss of administrative control over Fatimid possessions outside of Egypt, almost resulted in the total collapse of the Fatimid state in the 1060s, before the appointment of the Armenian general Badr al-Jamali, who assumed power as vizier in 1073, and became the de facto dictator of the country under the nominal rule of al-Mustansir.

---

05/07/0980

Mokjong of Goryeo, Korean king (died 1009)

Mokjong, personal name Wang Song, was the seventh ruler of the Goryeo dynasty of Korea.

---

05/07/0465

Ahkal Moʼ Nahb I, Mayan ruler (died 524)

Ahkal Moʼ Nahb I, also known as Chaacal and Akul Anab I, was an ajaw of the Maya city of Palenque. He ruled from June 5, 501 AD to his death.

---