Who was born on July 5?
– 182 – Sun Xuan (252) – the first ruler of the Wu Kingdom during the Three Kingdoms period in China (229-252).
– 1704 – Jack Broughton (1789) – English boxer, creator of the first boxing rules, inventor of the boxing glove.
– 1753 – Jonathan Hornblower (1815) – creator of the two-cylinder engine.
– 1793 – Pavel Pestel (1826) – Russian officer, Decembrist, leader of the “Southern Secret Society”.
– 1802 – Pavel Nakhimov (1855) – Russian naval commander, admiral.
– 1820 – William Rankin (1872) – English physicist, founder of the theory of thermodynamics and steam engines.
– 1853 – Cecil John Rhodes (1919) – English and South African politician, businessman, founder of De Beers.
– 1857 – Clara Zetkin (1933) – German and international communist activist.
– 1879 – Dwight Davis (1945) – American tennis player.
– 1888 – Herbert Gasser (1963) – American physiologist, Nobel Prize winner (1944).
– 1891 – John Howard Northrop (1987) – American biochemist, scientist who discovered the enzymes pepsin and trypsin, Nobel Prize winner (1946).
– 1911 – Georges Pompadour (1974) – President of France from 1969 to 1974.
– 1930 – Kadir Fozilkhodjayev (2001) – historian, Honored Scientist of Uzbekistan (1980), Doctor of Historical Sciences (1969).
– 1936 – James Mirrlees – English economist, Nobel Prize winner (1996).
– 1946 – Gerard Hooft – Dutch theoretical physicist, Nobel Prize winner (1999).
– 1950 – Dilafroz Jabborova – dancer, People’s Artist of Uzbekistan (1984).
– 1974 – Tutta Larsen – Russian TV and radio presenter, journalist, actress.
– 1975 – Hernan Crespo – Argentine football player, one of the best football players in the world.
– 1982 – Hatice Tuba Buyukustyun – famous Turkish theater and film actress, model.
– 1986 – Alexander Radulov – Russian hockey player, two-time world champion (2008, 2009).
– 1989 – Ikhtiyor Navrozov – Uzbek freestyle wrestler.
