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| 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, 1986 (December 05 1986) | Death | Sir Edward Youde, Governor of Hong Kong (born in 1924) | |
| 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, 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, 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, 1946 (December 05 1946) | Birth | Jose Carreras, Spanish tenor | |
| 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, 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, 1906 (December 05 1906) | Birth | Otto Preminger, Austrian-born film director, producer, and actor (died in 1986) | |
| December 5th, 1896 (December 05 1896) | Birth | Carl Ferdinand Cori, Austrian-born biochemist, Nobel laureate (died in 1984) | |
| 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, 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, 1766 (December 05 1766) | Event | In London, James Christie holds his first sale. | |
| December 5th, 1746 (December 05 1746) | Event | Revolt in Genoa against the Spanish rule. | |
| December 5th, 1496 (December 05 1496) | Event | King Manuel I of Portugal issues a decree of expulsion of "heretics" from the country. | |
