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1673 Friedrich Heinrich Reichsgraf von Seckendorff (5 July 1673 â 23 November 1763, aged 90) was a Franconian field marshal and diplomat, in the service of the imperial Habsburg monarchy of Austria. Later he served as commander of the Bavarian army and fought Austria.
1793 Colonel Pavel Ivanovich Pestel (5 July 1793 in Moscow â 25 July [O.S. 13 July] 1826 in Saint Petersburg) was a Russian revolutionary and ideologue of the Decembrists.
1801 David Glasgow Farragut ( July 5, 1801 â August 14, 1870) 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.[5][6] He is remembered for his order at the Battle of Mobile Bay usually paraphrased as “Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead” in U.S. Navy tradition.
1802 Pavel Stepanovich Nakhimov (July 5, 1802 â July 12, 1855), one of the most famous admirals in Russian naval history, is best remembered as the commander of naval and land forces during the Siege of Sevastopol (1854-1855) during the Crimean War.
1805 Vice-Admiral Robert FitzRoy FRS (5 July 1805 â 30 April 1865) was an English officer of the Royal Navy and a scientist. He achieved lasting fame as the captain of HMS Beagle during Charles Darwin’s famous voyage, FitzRoy’s second expedition to Tierra del Fuego and the Southern Cone.
1921 Viktor Georgiyevich Kulikov (5 July 1921 â 28 May 2013) 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.
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