On this day: 5 December
Events, births and deaths on 5 December. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Frank Gehry
- Deaths · Bung Moktar Radin
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Jayaram Jayalalithaa
- Deaths · Big Syke
100 years ago1926
- Deaths · Claude Monet
- Births · Adetoun Ogunsheye
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 1082 · Deaths · Ramon Berenguer II, Count of Barcelona
- 1033 · Events · 1033 Jordan Rift Valley earthquake
Events · 19
- 633(Julian date)Fourth Council of Toledo — synod
- 1033(Julian date)1033 Jordan Rift Valley earthquake — earthquake in the Levant
- 1757Battle of Leuthen — 1757 battle of the Seven Years' War
- 1776Phi Beta Kappa Society — honor society for the liberal arts and sciences in the United States
- 1807Raid on Griessie — Part of the Napoleonic Wars
- 19181918 protest in Zagreb — event in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
- 1936Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic — union republic of the Soviet Union
- 19361936 Soviet Constitution — constitution of the Soviet Union
- 1945Flight 19 — U.S. Navy training flight of TBF Avengers which was lost in 1945
- 1952Great Smog of London — 1952 air pollution event in London, England
- 1955Montgomery bus boycott — protest campaign against racial segregation on buses in Montgomery, Alabama
- 1965Glasnost Meeting — 1965 Soviet civil rights protest
- 1972First Whitlam Ministry — 47th ministry of government of Australia
- 1994Budapest Memorandum — international treaty of Ukraine, the United States, Russia, and the United Kingdom
- 1995Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 56 — 1995 aviation accident
- 20052005 Lake Tanganyika earthquake — earthquake
- 2007Westroads Mall shooting — mass shooting in Omaha, Nebraska, USA
- 20092009 East Asian Games — Event in the annual East Asian Games
- 20132013 Sana'a attack — 2013 militant attck in Yemen
Births · 60
- 1377(Julian date)Jianwen Emperor — emperor of China from 1398 to 1402
- 1443(Julian date)Julius II — pope of the Catholic Church from 1503 to 1513 (1443–1513)
- 1782Martin Van Buren — president of the United States from 1837 to 1841
- 1830Christina Rossetti — English poet (1830–1894)
- 1839George Armstrong Custer — United States cavalry commander (1839–1876)
- 1859John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe — Royal Navy officer (1859-1935)
- 1861Konstantin Korovin — Russian artist (1861–1939)
- 1863Paul Painlevé — French mathematician and politician (1863-1933)
- 1867Józef Piłsudski — Polish politician, First Marshall, and Prime Minister (1867–1935)
- 1867Antti Aarne — Finnish folklorist (1867-1925)
- 1868Arnold Sommerfeld — German physicist (1868-1951)
- 1890Fritz Lang — Austrian filmmaker (1890–1976)
- 1896Carl Ferdinand Cori — Czech Nobel prize laureate and scientist (1896–1984)
- 1897Gershom Scholem — German-Israeli philosopher (1897–1982)
- 1898Grace Moore — American operatic soprano and actress in musical theatre and film (1898-1947)
- 1901Walt Disney — American animator, producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor and entrepreneur, founder of The Walt Disney Company (1901–1966)
- 1901Werner Heisenberg — German theoretical physicist and nobel prize winner (1901–1976)
- 1901Milton H. Erickson — American psychiatrist (1901–1980)
- 1902Strom Thurmond — American politician (1902–2003)
- 1903Cecil Frank Powell — British physicist
- 1903Johannes Heesters — Dutch actor, singer and entertainer (1903–2011)
- 1905Otto Preminger — Austrian-American director, producer, and actor (1905–1986)
- 1907Lin Biao — Chinese Communist military commander and politician
- 1911Władysław Szpilman — (1911-2000) Polish pianist, composer, Holocaust survivor
- 1925Anastasio Somoza Debayle — Dictador of Nicaragua (1967–72, 1974–79)
Deaths · 60
- 63 BCEPublius Cornelius Lentulus Sura — step-father of Mark Antony
- 902(Julian date)Ealhswith — Anglo Saxon royal consort
- 1082(Julian date)Ramon Berenguer II, Count of Barcelona — Spanish nobleman
- 1244Joan, Countess of Flanders — Countess of Flanders (1200-1244)
- 1355(Julian date)John III — Duke of Brabant (1300-1355)
- 1560(Julian date)Francis II of France — King of France from 1559 to 1560 (1544-1560)
- 1624Gaspard Bauhin — Swiss botanist (1560-1624)
- 1758Johann Friedrich Fasch — German violinist and composer
- 1770James Stirling — Scottish mathematician (*1692 – †1770)
- 1784Phillis Wheatley — first African-American poet (1753–1784)
- 1791Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Austrian composer of the Classical period (1756-1791)
- 1819Friedrich Leopold zu Stolberg-Stolberg — German poet, translator, lawyer, and politician
- 1870Alexandre Dumas — French writer and dramatist (1802–1870)
- 1891Pedro II of Brazil — 2nd and final Emperor of Brazil (r. 1831–89)
- 1919Elia Millosevich — Italian astronomer (1848-1919)
- 1925Władysław Reymont — Polish novelist (1867-1925)
- 1926Claude Monet — French painter (1840–1926)
- 1931Vachel Lindsay — American poet (1879–1931)
- 1940Jan Kubelík — Czech violinist and composer (1880–1940)
- 1941Amrita Sher-Gil — Hungarian-Indian painter (1913–1941)
- 1949Alfred J. Lotka — American mathematician (1880–1949)
- 1951Abanindranath Tagore — Indian painter and writer (1871–1951)
- 1963Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy — Bengali barrister and politician (1892–1963)
- 1963Karl Amadeus Hartmann — German composer (1905-1963)
- 1965Joseph Erlanger — American doctor (1874-1965)
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