People born on July 5

Georges Pompidou

President of France from 1969 to 1974

Jean Cocteau

French writer and filmmaker (1889–1963)

P. T. Barnum

American showman and politician (1810–1891)

Cecil Rhodes

British businessman, mining magnate and politician in South Africa (1853-1902)

Hernán Crespo

Argentine footballer

Gerard 't Hooft

Dutch theoretical physicist

Andrei Gromyko

Soviet diplomat

Amélie Mauresmo

French tennis player

John Howard Northrop

American biochemist (1891-1987)

Horacio Cartes

49th President of Paraguay

Dolly

Cloned female sheep

Dejan Lovren

Croatian association football player

Alberto Gilardino

Italian association football player

Veronica Guerin

Irish crime reporter (1958-1996)

William John Macquorn Rankine

Civil engineer