December 5th All Events |
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| December 5th, 2063 (December 05 2063) | Event | Cicero reads the last of his Catiline Orations. | Cicero Quotes |
| December 5th, 2007 (December 05 2007) | Event | Westroads Mall massacre: A gunman opens fire with a semi-automatic rifle at an Omaha, Nebraska mall, killing eight people before taking his own life. | |
| December 5th, 2007 (December 05 2007) | Death | Karlheinz Stockhausen, German composer (born in 1928) | Karlheinz Stockhausen Quotes |
| December 5th, 2007 (December 05 2007) | Death | Andrew Imbrie, American composer (born in 1921) | |
| December 5th, 2006 (December 05 2006) | Event | Commodore Frank Bainimarama overthrows the government in Fiji. | Frank Bainimarama Quotes |
| December 5th, 2006 (December 05 2006) | Death | David Bronstein, Ukrainian-born chess grandmaster (born in 1924) | |
| December 5th, 2005 (December 05 2005) | Event | The Lake Tanganyika earthquake causes significant damage, mostly in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. | |
| December 5th, 2005 (December 05 2005) | Event | The Civil Partnership Act comes into effect in the United Kingdom, and the first civil partnership is registered there. | |
| December 5th, 2005 (December 05 2005) | Death | Ed Masry, American lawyer (born in 1932) | |
| December 5th, 2005 (December 05 2005) | Death | Kevin "Big Kev" McQuay, Australian businessman (born in 1949) | |
| December 5th, 2005 (December 05 2005) | Death | Frits Philips, Dutch businessman (born in 1905) | |
| December 5th, 2002 (December 05 2002) | Death | Roone Arledge, American sports broadcasting pioneer (born in 1931) | |
| December 5th, 2002 (December 05 2002) | Death | Ne Win, Burmese leader (born in 1911) | |
| December 5th, 2001 (December 05 2001) | Death | Franco Rasetti, Italian physicist (born in 1901) | |
| December 5th, 1998 (December 05 1998) | Death | Al Gore, Sr., American politician (born in 1907) | |
| December 5th, 1995 (December 05 1995) | Event | The Sri Lankan government announces the conquest of Tamil stronghold of Jaffna. | |
| December 5th, 1995 (December 05 1995) | Death | Gwen Harwood, Australian poet (born in 1920) | |
| December 5th, 1995 (December 05 1995) | Death | Lisa McPherson, former Scientologist (born in 1959) | |
| December 5th, 1994 (December 05 1994) | Death | Harry Horner, American art director (born in 1910) | |
| December 5th, 1993 (December 05 1993) | Event | The mayor of Wien (Vienna), Helmut Zilk, is wounded by a letter bomb. | |
| December 5th, 1993 (December 05 1993) | Death | Doug Hopkins, American guitarist and songwriter (Gin Blossoms) (born in 1961) | |
| December 5th, 1992 (December 05 1992) | Birth | Giorgio Cantarini, Italian actor | |
| December 5th, 1991 (December 05 1991) | Death | Robert Karvelas, American actor (born in 1921) | |
| December 5th, 1991 (December 05 1991) | Death | Richard Speck, American mass murderer (born in 1941) | |
| December 5th, 1989 (December 05 1989) | Death | Sir John Pritchard, English conductor (born in 1921) | |
| December 5th, 1988 (December 05 1988) | Birth | Ross Bagley, American actor | |
| December 5th, 1986 (December 05 1986) | Death | Sir Edward Youde, Governor of Hong Kong (born in 1924) | |
| December 5th, 1985 (December 05 1985) | Birth | Frankie Muniz, American actor | |
| December 5th, 1985 (December 05 1985) | Birth | Josh Smith, American basketball player | |
| December 5th, 1985 (December 05 1985) | Birth | Nico Verdonck, Belgian racing driver | |
| December 5th, 1984 (December 05 1984) | Birth | Chris Solinsky, American distance runner | |
| December 5th, 1984 (December 05 1984) | Death | Adam Malik, Third Vice President of Indonesia (born in 1917) | |
| December 5th, 1983 (December 05 1983) | Event | Dissolution of the Military Junta in Argentina. | |
| December 5th, 1983 (December 05 1983) | Event | ICIMOD established and inaugurated with its headquarters in Kathmandu, Nepal, and legitimised through an Act of Parliament in Nepal in the same year. | |
| December 5th, 1983 (December 05 1983) | Death | Robert Aldrich, American film director (born in 1918) | |
| December 5th, 1982 (December 05 1982) | Birth | Eddy Curry, American basketball player | |
| December 5th, 1982 (December 05 1982) | Birth | Trai Essex, American football player | |
| December 5th, 1981 (December 05 1981) | Birth | Leila Tong, Hong Kong actress | |
| December 5th, 1980 (December 05 1980) | Birth | Shizuka Ito, Japanese voice actress (seiyu) | |
| December 5th, 1980 (December 05 1980) | Birth | Ibrahim Maalouf, Lebanese-born French trumpeter | |
| December 5th, 1979 (December 05 1979) | Event | Sonia Johnson is formally excommunicated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for her outspoken criticism of the church concerning the proposed Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. | Jesus Christ Quotes |
| December 5th, 1979 (December 05 1979) | Birth | Matteo Ferrari, Italian footballer | |
| December 5th, 1979 (December 05 1979) | Birth | Niklas Hagman, Finnish ice hockey player | |
| December 5th, 1979 (December 05 1979) | Birth | Evonne Hsu, Taiwanese singer | |
| December 5th, 1979 (December 05 1979) | Birth | Gareth McAuley, Northern Irish footballer | |
| December 5th, 1979 (December 05 1979) | Birth | Nick Stahl, American actor | |
| December 5th, 1978 (December 05 1978) | Event | The Soviet Union signs a "friendship treaty" with the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan. | |
| December 5th, 1978 (December 05 1978) | Birth | Olli Jokinen, Finnish ice hockey player | |
| December 5th, 1978 (December 05 1978) | Birth | Marcelo Zalayeta, Uruguayan footballer | |
| December 5th, 1977 (December 05 1977) | Event | Egypt breaks diplomatic relations with Syria, Libya, Algeria, Iraq and South Yemen. The move is in retaliation for the Declaration of Tripoli against Egypt. | |
| December 5th, 1977 (December 05 1977) | Death | Aleksandr Vasilevsky, Soviet military commander (born in 1895) | Aleksandr Vasilevsky Quotes |
| December 5th, 1976 (December 05 1976) | Event | The United Nations General Assembly adopts Pakistan s resolution on security of non-Nuclear States. | |
| December 5th, 1976 (December 05 1976) | Birth | Amy Acker, American actress | |
| December 5th, 1976 (December 05 1976) | Birth | Xavier Garbajosa, French rugby union footballer | |
| December 5th, 1975 (December 05 1975) | Birth | Ronnie O Sullivan, English snooker player | |
| December 5th, 1975 (December 05 1975) | Birth | Paula Patton, American actress | |
| December 5th, 1974 (December 05 1974) | Birth | Charlie Batch, National Football League quarterback | Charlie Batch Quotes |
| December 5th, 1973 (December 05 1973) | Birth | Shalom Harlow, Canadian supermodel and actress | |
| December 5th, 1973 (December 05 1973) | Birth | Lubos Motl, Czech physicist | |
| December 5th, 1973 (December 05 1973) | Birth | Danielle Winits, Brazilian Actress | |
| December 5th, 1973 (December 05 1973) | Death | Robert Watson-Watt, Scottish engineer, inventor of radar (born in 1892) | |
| December 5th, 1972 (December 05 1972) | Birth | Cliff Floyd, American baseball player | |
| December 5th, 1972 (December 05 1972) | Birth | Mike Mahoney, American baseball player | |
| December 5th, 1972 (December 05 1972) | Birth | Angela Shelton, American actress & writer | |
| December 5th, 1971 (December 05 1971) | Birth | Kali Rocha, American actress | |
| December 5th, 1970 (December 05 1970) | Event | Premiere of Dario Fo s Morte accidentale di un anarchico. | |
| December 5th, 1970 (December 05 1970) | Birth | Kevin Haller, Canadian ice hockey player | |
| December 5th, 1969 (December 05 1969) | Event | Life Magazine reports the My Lai Massacre . | |
| December 5th, 1969 (December 05 1969) | Birth | Morgan J. Freeman, American film director | |
| December 5th, 1969 (December 05 1969) | Birth | Lewis Gordon Pugh, English swimmer, polar explorer and motivational speaker | |
| December 5th, 1969 (December 05 1969) | Death | Claudius Dornier, German aircraft designer (born in 1884) | |
| December 5th, 1968 (December 05 1968) | Birth | Margaret Cho, American comedian and actress | Margaret Cho Quotes |
| December 5th, 1968 (December 05 1968) | Birth | Lisa Marie, American model and actress | |
| December 5th, 1968 (December 05 1968) | Death | Fred Clark, American actor (born in 1914) | |
| December 5th, 1967 (December 05 1967) | Birth | Gary Allan, American country musician | |
| December 5th, 1967 (December 05 1967) | Birth | Konstantin-Assen, Prince of Vidin, titular Bulgarian royal family | |
| December 5th, 1966 (December 05 1966) | Birth | Patricia Kaas, French singer | |
| December 5th, 1966 (December 05 1966) | Death | Sylvere Maes, Belgian cyclist (born in 1909) | |
| December 5th, 1965 (December 05 1965) | Birth | Johnny Rzeznik, American singer, songwriter and guitarist (Goo Goo Dolls) | |
| December 5th, 1965 (December 05 1965) | Birth | Wayne Smith, Jamaican reggae musician | |
| December 5th, 1965 (December 05 1965) | Death | Joseph Erlanger, American physiologist, Nobel laureate (born in 1874) | |
| December 5th, 1964 (December 05 1964) | Event | Vietnam War: For his heroism in battle earlier in the year, Captain Roger Donlon is awarded the first Medal of Honor of the war. | |
| December 5th, 1963 (December 05 1963) | Birth | Doctor Dre, American radio personality | |
| December 5th, 1963 (December 05 1963) | Birth | Eddie "the Eagle" Edwards, English ski jumper | |
| December 5th, 1963 (December 05 1963) | Birth | Carrie Hamilton, American actress (died in 2002) | |
| December 5th, 1963 (December 05 1963) | Death | Karl Amadeus Hartmann, German composer (born in 1905) | |
| December 5th, 1963 (December 05 1963) | Death | Sri Deep Narayan Mahaprabhuji, Indian Hindu mystic | |
| December 5th, 1963 (December 05 1963) | Death | Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy, Prime Minister of Pakistan (born in 1892) | |
| December 5th, 1962 (December 05 1962) | Birth | Jose Cura, Argentine tenor | |
| December 5th, 1960 (December 05 1960) | Birth | Jack Russell, American singer (Great White) | |
| December 5th, 1958 (December 05 1958) | Event | Subscriber Trunk Dialling (STD) is inaugurated in the UK by Queen Elizabeth II when she speaks to the Lord Provost in a call from Bristol to Edinburgh. | |
| December 5th, 1958 (December 05 1958) | Event | The Preston bypass, the UK s first stretch of motorway, opens to traffic for the first time. It is now part of the M6 and M55 motorways. | |
| December 5th, 1958 (December 05 1958) | Birth | Dean Erickson, American actor | |
| December 5th, 1957 (December 05 1957) | Event | Sukarno expels all Dutch people from Indonesia. | |
| December 5th, 1957 (December 05 1957) | Birth | Art Monk, American football player | |
| December 5th, 1956 (December 05 1956) | Birth | Klaus Allofs, German footballer | |
| December 5th, 1956 (December 05 1956) | Birth | Brian Backer, American actor | |
| December 5th, 1956 (December 05 1956) | Birth | Krystian Zimerman, Polish pianist | |
| December 5th, 1955 (December 05 1955) | Event | The American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations merge and form the AFL-CIO. | |
| December 5th, 1955 (December 05 1955) | Event | E.D. Nixon and Rosa Parks lead the Montgomery Bus Boycott. | |
| December 5th, 1955 (December 05 1955) | Death | Glenn L. Martin, American aviation pioneer (born in 1886) | |
| December 5th, 1953 (December 05 1953) | Birth | Larry Zbyszko, American professional wrestler | |
| December 5th, 1953 (December 05 1953) | Death | Jorge Negrete, Mexican singer and actor (born in 1911) | |
| December 5th, 1952 (December 05 1952) | Event | Great Smog of 1952: A cold fog descends upon London, combining with air pollution and killing at least 12,000 in the weeks and months that follow. | |
| December 5th, 1952 (December 05 1952) | Birth | Andy Kim, Canadian singer, songwriter | |
| December 5th, 1951 (December 05 1951) | Birth | Morgan Brittany, American actress | |
| December 5th, 1951 (December 05 1951) | Birth | Anne-Mie van Kerckhoven, Belgian artist | |
| December 5th, 1951 (December 05 1951) | Death | "Shoeless" Joe Jackson, American baseball player (born in 1889) | |
| December 5th, 1951 (December 05 1951) | Death | Abanindranath Tagore, Indian writer (born in 1871) | |
| December 5th, 1950 (December 05 1950) | Birth | Camaron de la Isla, Spanish flamenco singer (died in 1992) | |
| December 5th, 1950 (December 05 1950) | Birth | Osvaldo Golijov, Argentine-born composer | |
| December 5th, 1950 (December 05 1950) | Death | Shri Aurobindo, Indian guru (born in 1872) | |
| December 5th, 1949 (December 05 1949) | Birth | Ray Comfort, New Zealand evangelist | |
| December 5th, 1947 (December 05 1947) | Birth | Bruce Golding, Jamaican politician | |
| December 5th, 1947 (December 05 1947) | Birth | Tony Gregory, Irish politician | |
| December 5th, 1947 (December 05 1947) | Birth | Jim Messina, American musician (Buffalo Springfield, Loggins and Messina) | |
| December 5th, 1947 (December 05 1947) | Birth | Jim Plunkett, American football player | |
| December 5th, 1946 (December 05 1946) | Birth | Jose Carreras, Spanish tenor | |
| December 5th, 1945 (December 05 1945) | Event | Flight 19 is lost in the Bermuda Triangle. | |
| December 5th, 1945 (December 05 1945) | Birth | Serge Chapleau, French Canadian caricaturist | |
| December 5th, 1944 (December 05 1944) | Event | World War II: Allied troops occupy Ravenna. | |
| December 5th, 1944 (December 05 1944) | Birth | Jeroen Krabbe, Dutch actor | |
| December 5th, 1943 (December 05 1943) | Event | World War II: U.S. Army Air Force begin attacking Germany s secret weapons bases in Operation Crossbow . | |
| December 5th, 1943 (December 05 1943) | Birth | Eva Joly, Norwegian-born French magistrate | |
| December 5th, 1941 (December 05 1941) | Event | World War II: In the Battle of Moscow Georgy Zhukov launches a massive Soviet counter-attack against the German army, with the biggest offensive launched against Army Group Centre. | Georgy Zhukov Quotes |
| December 5th, 1941 (December 05 1941) | Event | World War II: Great Britain declares war on Finland, Hungary and Romania. | |
| December 5th, 1940 (December 05 1940) | Birth | Boris Ignatyev, Russian footballer and manager | |
| December 5th, 1940 (December 05 1940) | Birth | Peter Pohl, Swedish writer | |
| December 5th, 1940 (December 05 1940) | Birth | Adrian Street, Welsh professional wrestler | |
| December 5th, 1940 (December 05 1940) | Death | Mordechai Frizis, Jewish Greek military officer (born in 1893) | |
| December 5th, 1940 (December 05 1940) | Death | Jan Kubelik, Austro-Hungarian-born Czechoslovak violinist (born in 1880) | |
| December 5th, 1939 (December 05 1939) | Birth | Minita Chico-Nazario, Filipino Supreme Court jurist | |
| December 5th, 1938 (December 05 1938) | Birth | J. J. Cale, American songwriter | |
| December 5th, 1936 (December 05 1936) | Event | The Soviet Union adopts a new constitution and the Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic is established as a full Union Republic of the USSR. | |
| December 5th, 1936 (December 05 1936) | Birth | James Lee Burke, American writer | |
| December 5th, 1935 (December 05 1935) | Birth | Calvin Trillin, American writer | |
| December 5th, 1935 (December 05 1935) | Birth | Yury Vlasov, Soviet weightlifter | |
| December 5th, 1934 (December 05 1934) | Event | Abyssinia Crisis: Italian troops attack Wal Wal in Abyssinia, taking four days to capture the city. | |
| December 5th, 1934 (December 05 1934) | Birth | Joan Didion, American writer | Joan Didion Quotes |
| December 5th, 1934 (December 05 1934) | Birth | Nikos Kourkoulos, Greek actor, artistic director of the National Theatre of Greece (died in 2007) | |
| December 5th, 1933 (December 05 1933) | Event | Prohibition in the United States ends: Utah becomes the 36th U.S. state to ratify the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution, thus establishing the required 75% of states needed to enact the amendment (this overturned the 18th Amendment which had outlawed alcohol in the United States). | |
| December 5th, 1932 (December 05 1932) | Event | German-born Swiss physicist Albert Einstein is granted an American visa. | Albert Einstein Quotes |
| December 5th, 1932 (December 05 1932) | Birth | Sheldon Lee Glashow, American physicist, Nobel laureate | |
| December 5th, 1932 (December 05 1932) | Birth | Little Richard, American singer and pianist | |
| December 5th, 1931 (December 05 1931) | Death | Vachel Lindsay, American poet (born in 1879) | |
| December 5th, 1927 (December 05 1927) | Birth | Bhumibol Adulyadej, King of Thailand | |
| December 5th, 1926 (December 05 1926) | Event | Sergei Eisenstein s The Battleship Potemkin premieres. | |
| December 5th, 1926 (December 05 1926) | Death | Claude Monet, French impressionist painter (born in 1840) | |
| December 5th, 1925 (December 05 1925) | Birth | Anastasio Somoza, President of Nicaragua (died in 1980) | |
| December 5th, 1925 (December 05 1925) | Death | Wladyslaw Reymont, Polish writer and Nobel laureate (born in 1867) | |
| December 5th, 1921 (December 05 1921) | Birth | Alvy Moore, American actor (died in 1997) | |
| December 5th, 1920 (December 05 1920) | Event | Dimitrios Rallis forms a government in Greece. | |
| December 5th, 1917 (December 05 1917) | Birth | Ken Downing, English racing driver (died in 2004) | |
| December 5th, 1914 (December 05 1914) | Event | The Italian Parliament proclaims the neutrality of the country. | |
| December 5th, 1914 (December 05 1914) | Birth | Hans Hellmut Kirst, German author (died in 1989) | |
| December 5th, 1911 (December 05 1911) | Birth | Wladyslaw Szpilman, Polish pianist (died in 2000) | |
| December 5th, 1910 (December 05 1910) | Birth | Abraham Polonsky, American screenwriter (died in 1999) | Abraham Quotes |
| December 5th, 1907 (December 05 1907) | Birth | Giuseppe Occhialini, Italian physicist (died in 1993) | |
| December 5th, 1906 (December 05 1906) | Birth | Otto Preminger, Austrian-born film director, producer, and actor (died in 1986) | |
| December 5th, 1905 (December 05 1905) | Birth | Gus Mancuso, American baseball player (died in 1984) | |
| December 5th, 1903 (December 05 1903) | Birth | Johannes Heesters, Dutch singer and actor | |
| December 5th, 1903 (December 05 1903) | Birth | Cecil Frank Powell, English physicist, Nobel laureate (died in 1969) | |
| December 5th, 1902 (December 05 1902) | Birth | Strom Thurmond, American politician (died in 2003) | |
| December 5th, 1901 (December 05 1901) | Birth | Walt Disney, American animated film producer (died in 1966) | Walt Disney Quotes |
| December 5th, 1901 (December 05 1901) | Birth | Milton H. Erickson, American psychiatrist (died in 1980) | |
| December 5th, 1901 (December 05 1901) | Birth | Werner Heisenberg, German physicist, Nobel laureate (died in 1976) | Werner Heisenberg Quotes |
| December 5th, 1899 (December 05 1899) | Birth | Sonny Boy Williamson II, American blues musician (died in 1965) | |
| December 5th, 1898 (December 05 1898) | Birth | Josh Malihabadi, Urdu poet of India and Pakistan (died in 1982) | |
| December 5th, 1898 (December 05 1898) | Birth | Grace Moore, American soprano (died in 1947) | |
| December 5th, 1897 (December 05 1897) | Birth | Nunnally Johnson, American screenwriter and producer (died in 1977) | |
| December 5th, 1896 (December 05 1896) | Birth | Carl Ferdinand Cori, Austrian-born biochemist, Nobel laureate (died in 1984) | |
| December 5th, 1895 (December 05 1895) | Birth | Elbert Frank Cox, American mathematician (died in 1969) | |
| December 5th, 1895 (December 05 1895) | Death | Chief Gall, Sioux chief (born in 1840) | |
| December 5th, 1894 (December 05 1894) | Birth | C.R. Swart, South African politician who served as justice minister under D.F. Malan, and later served as the last Governor-General and first State President of South Africa. (died in 1982) | |
| December 5th, 1893 (December 05 1893) | Event | First appearance of an electric car. | |
| December 5th, 1892 (December 05 1892) | Event | Sir John Thompson becomes the fourth Prime Minister of Canada. | |
| December 5th, 1892 (December 05 1892) | Birth | Ferdinand Schorner, German field marshal (died in 1973) | |
| December 5th, 1891 (December 05 1891) | Death | Emperor Pedro II of Brazil (born in 1825) | |
| December 5th, 1890 (December 05 1890) | Birth | David Bomberg, English painter (died in 1957) | |
| December 5th, 1890 (December 05 1890) | Birth | Fritz Lang, Austrian-born film director (died in 1976) | |
| December 5th, 1887 (December 05 1887) | Death | Eliza Roxcy Snow, American poet (born in 1804) | |
| December 5th, 1886 (December 05 1886) | Birth | Rose Wilder Lane, American writer and reporter, daughter of Little House books writer Laura Ingalls Wilder (died in 1968) | |
| December 5th, 1879 (December 05 1879) | Birth | Clyde Cessna, American airplane manufacturer (died in 1954) | |
| December 5th, 1875 (December 05 1875) | Birth | Sir Arthur Currie, Canadian soldier (died in 1933) | |
| December 5th, 1872 (December 05 1872) | Birth | Harry Nelson Pillsbury, American chess player (died in 1906) | |
| December 5th, 1871 (December 05 1871) | Birth | Bill Pickett, American rodeo performer (died in 1932) | |
| December 5th, 1870 (December 05 1870) | Birth | Vitezslav Novak, Czech composer (died in 1949) | |
| December 5th, 1870 (December 05 1870) | Death | Alexandre Dumas, pere, French writer (born in 1802) | Alexandre Dumas Quotes |
| December 5th, 1869 (December 05 1869) | Birth | Ellis Parker Butler, American author (died in 1937) | |
| December 5th, 1868 (December 05 1868) | Birth | Arnold Sommerfeld, German physicist (died in 1951) | |
| December 5th, 1867 (December 05 1867) | Birth | Jozef Pilsudski, Polish revolutionary and statesman (died in 1935) | |
| December 5th, 1867 (December 05 1867) | Birth | Antti Aarne, Finnish folklorist (died in February 2, 1925) | |
| December 5th, 1865 (December 05 1865) | Event | Chincha Islands War: Peru allies with Chile against Spain. | |
| December 5th, 1863 (December 05 1863) | Birth | Paul Painleve, French mathematician (died in 1933) | |
| December 5th, 1859 (December 05 1859) | Birth | John Jellicoe, British admiral (died in 1935) | |
| December 5th, 1855 (December 05 1855) | Birth | Clinton Hart Merriam, American ornithologist (died in 1942) | |
| December 5th, 1848 (December 05 1848) | Event | California Gold Rush: In a message before the U.S. Congress, US President James K. Polk confirms that large amounts of gold had been discovered in California. | James K. Polk Quotes |
| December 5th, 1847 (December 05 1847) | Event | Jefferson Davis is elected to the US senate, his first political post. | |
| December 5th, 1841 (December 05 1841) | Birth | Marcus Daly, American mining tycoon (died in 1900) | |
| December 5th, 1840 (December 05 1840) | Birth | Claude Monet Artist (died in 1926) | |
| December 5th, 1839 (December 05 1839) | Birth | George Armstrong Custer, American general (died in 1876) | |
| December 5th, 1831 (December 05 1831) | Event | Former US President John Quincy Adams takes his seat in the House of Representatives. | John Quincy Adams Quotes |
| December 5th, 1830 (December 05 1830) | Birth | Christina Rossetti, English poet (died in 1894) | Christina Rossetti Quotes |
| December 5th, 1829 (December 05 1829) | Birth | Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbiniere, French Canadian politician (died in 1908) | |
| December 5th, 1822 (December 05 1822) | Birth | Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz, American college president (died in 1907) | |
| December 5th, 1820 (December 05 1820) | Birth | Afanasy Fet, Russian poet (died in 1892) | |
| December 5th, 1819 (December 05 1819) | Death | Friedrich Leopold Graf zu Stolberg, German poet (born in 1750) | |
| December 5th, 1815 (December 05 1815) | Event | Foundation of Maceio in Brazil. | |
| December 5th, 1803 (December 05 1803) | Birth | Fyodor Ivanovich Tyutchev, Russian poet (died in 1873) | |
| December 5th, 1791 (December 05 1791) | Death | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian composer (born in 1756) | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Quotes |
| December 5th, 1784 (December 05 1784) | Death | Phillis Wheatley, African-American poet (born in 1753) | |
| December 5th, 1782 (December 05 1782) | Birth | Martin Van Buren, 8th President of the United States (died in 1862) | Martin Van Buren Quotes |
| December 5th, 1776 (December 05 1776) | Event | In the Apollo Room of the Raleigh Tavern in Williamsburg, Virginia, students from the College of William and Mary meet for the first time founding Phi Beta Kappa, the first scholastic fraternity in the United States. | Ted Williams Quotes |
| December 5th, 1775 (December 05 1775) | Event | At Fort Ticonderoga, Henry Knox begins his historic transport of artillery to Cambridge, Massachusetts. | |
| December 5th, 1770 (December 05 1770) | Death | James Stirling, Scottish mathematician (born in 1692) | |
| December 5th, 1766 (December 05 1766) | Event | In London, James Christie holds his first sale. | |
| December 5th, 1758 (December 05 1758) | Death | Johann Friedrich Fasch, German composer (born in 1688) | |
| December 5th, 1757 (December 05 1757) | Event | Seven Years War: Battle of LeuthenFrederick II of Prussia leads Prussian forces to a decisive victory over Austrian forces under Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine. | Frederick II of Prussia Quotes |
| December 5th, 1749 (December 05 1749) | Death | Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de la Verendrye, New French explorer and trader (born in 1685) | |
| December 5th, 1746 (December 05 1746) | Event | Revolt in Genoa against the Spanish rule. | |
| December 5th, 1687 (December 05 1687) | Birth | Francesco Geminiani, Italian violinist and composer (died in 1762) | |
| December 5th, 1663 (December 05 1663) | Death | Severo Bonini, Italian composer (born in 1582) | |
| December 5th, 1661 (December 05 1661) | Birth | Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer, English statesman (died in 1724) | Robert Ley Quotes |
| December 5th, 1654 (December 05 1654) | Death | Jean Francois Sarrazin, French writer | |
| December 5th, 1624 (December 05 1624) | Death | Gaspard Bauhin, Swiss botanist (born in 1560) | |
| December 5th, 1595 (December 05 1595) | Birth | Henry Lawes, English composer (died in 1662) | |
| December 5th, 1590 (December 05 1590) | Event | Niccolo Sfondrati becomes Pope Gregory XIV. | |
| December 5th, 1570 (December 05 1570) | Death | Johan Friis, Danish statesman (born in 1494) | |
| December 5th, 1560 (December 05 1560) | Death | King Francis II of France (born in 1544) | |
| December 5th, 1547 (December 05 1547) | Birth | Ubbo Emmius, Dutch historian and geographer (died in 1625) | |
| December 5th, 1539 (December 05 1539) | Birth | Fausto Paolo Sozzini, Italian theologian (died in 1604) | |
| December 5th, 1537 (December 05 1537) | Birth | Ashikaga Yoshiaki, Japanese shogun (died in 1597) | |
| December 5th, 1496 (December 05 1496) | Event | King Manuel I of Portugal issues a decree of expulsion of "heretics" from the country. | |
| December 5th, 1495 (December 05 1495) | Birth | Nicolas Cleynaerts, Flemish grammarian (died in 1542) | |
| December 5th, 1492 (December 05 1492) | Event | Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to set foot on the island of Hispaniola. | Christopher Columbus Quotes |
| December 5th, 1484 (December 05 1484) | Event | Pope Innocent VIII issues the Summis desiderantes, a papal bull that deputizes Heinrich Kramer and James Sprenger as inquisitors to root out alleged witchcraft in Germany and leads to one of the severest witch hunts in European history. | |
| December 5th, 1443 (December 05 1443) | Birth | Pope Julius II (died in 1513) | |
| December 5th, 1408 (December 05 1408) | Event | Emir Edigu of Golden Horde reaches Moscow. | |
| December 5th, 1377 (December 05 1377) | Birth | Jianwen Emperor of China (died in 1402) | |
| December 5th, 1360 (December 05 1360) | Event | The French Franc is created. | |
| December 5th, 1355 (December 05 1355) | Death | John III, Duke of Brabant (born in 1300) | |
| December 5th, 1082 (December 05 1082) | Event | Ramon Berenguer II, Count of Barcelona is assassinated. | |
| December 5th, 1082 (December 05 1082) | Death | Ramon Berenguer II, Count of Barcelona | |
| December 5th, 0771 (December 05 0771) | Event | Charlemagne becomes the sole King of the Franks after the death of his brother Carloman. | Charlemagne Quotes |
| December 5th, 0749 (December 05 0749) | Death | Saint John of Damascus, theologian | |
| December 5th, 0663 (December 05 0663) | Event | Fourth Council of Toledo takes place. | |
