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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 5th of December 0663 | EVENT | Fourth Council of Toledo takes place. |
| 5th of December 0771 | EVENT | Charlemagne becomes the sole King of the Franks after the death of his brother Carloman. |
| 5th of December 1082 | EVENT | Ramon Berenguer II, Count of Barcelona is assassinated. |
| 5th of December 1408 | EVENT | Emir Edigu of Golden Horde reaches Moscow. |
| 5th of December 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 most oppressive witch hunts in European history. |
| 5th of December 1492 | EVENT | Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to set foot on the island of Hispaniola, now Haiti and the Dominican Republic. |
| 5th of December 1496 | EVENT | King Manuel I of Portugal issues a decree of expulsion of "heretics" from the country. |
| 5th of December 1590 | EVENT | Niccolo Sfondrati becomes Pope Gregory XIV. |
| 5th of December 1746 | EVENT | Revolt in Genoa against Spanish rule. |
| 5th of December 1757 | EVENT | Seven Years' War: Battle of Leuthen : Frederick II of Prussia leads Prussian forces to a decisive victory over Austrian forces under Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine. |
| 5th of December 1766 | EVENT | In London, James Christie holds his first sale. |
| 5th of December 1775 | EVENT | At Fort Ticonderoga, Henry Knox begins his historic transport of artillery to Cambridge, Massachusetts. |
| 5th of December 1776 | EVENT | At The College of William and Mary, Phi Beta Kappa is founded and becomes the first American College Fraternity. |
| 5th of December 1815 | EVENT | Foundation of Maceio in Brazil. |
| 5th of December 1831 | EVENT | Former US President John Quincy Adams takes his seat in the House of Representatives. |
| 5th of December 1847 | EVENT | Jefferson Davis is elected to the US senate, his first political post. |
| 5th of December 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. |
| 5th of December 1865 | EVENT | Chincha Islands War: Peru allies with Chile against Spain. |
| 5th of December 1876 | EVENT | Brooklyn Theater Fire kills at least 278 people in Brooklyn, NY. |
| 5th of December 1914 | EVENT | The Italian Parliament proclaims the neutrality of the country. |
| 5th of December 1920 | EVENT | Dimitrios Rallis forms a government in Greece. |
| 5th of December 1932 | EVENT | German-born Swiss physicist Albert Einstein is granted an American visa. |
| 5th of December 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 made the manufacture, sale, or transportation of alcohol illegal in the United States). |
| 5th of December 1934 | EVENT | Abyssinia Crisis: Italian troops attack Wal Wal in Abyssinia, taking four days to capture the city. |
| 5th of December 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. |
| 5th of December 1941 | EVENT | World War II: Great Britain declares war on Finland, Hungary and Romania. |
| 5th of December 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. |
| 5th of December 1943 | EVENT | World War II: U.S. Army Air Force begins attacking Germany's secret weapons bases in Operation Crossbow . |
| 5th of December 1944 | EVENT | World War II: Allied troops occupy Ravenna. |
| 5th of December 1945 | EVENT | Flight 19 is lost in the Bermuda Triangle. |
| 5th of December 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. |
| 5th of December 1955 | EVENT | The American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations merge and form the AFL-CIO. |
| 5th of December 1955 | EVENT | E.D. Nixon and Rosa Parks lead the Montgomery Bus Boycott. |
| 5th of December 1957 | EVENT | Sukarno expels all Dutch people from Indonesia. |
| 5th of December 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. |
| 5th of December 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. |
| 5th of December 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. |
| 5th of December 1974 | EVENT | In American football, the Birmingham Americans would win what would eventually be the only World Bowl in World Football League history. |
| 5th of December 1976 | EVENT | The United Nations General Assembly adopts Pakistan's resolution on security of non-Nuclear States. |
| 5th of December 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. |
| 5th of December 1978 | EVENT | The Soviet Union signs a "friendship treaty" with the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan. |
| 5th of December 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. |
| 5th of December 1983 | EVENT | Dissolution of the Military Junta in Argentina. |
| 5th of December 1983 | EVENT | ICIMOD is established and inaugurated with its headquarters in Kathmandu, Nepal, and legitimised through an Act of Parliament in Nepal in the same year. |
| 5th of December 1993 | EVENT | The mayor of Wien (Vienna), Helmut Zilk, is wounded by a letter bomb. |
| 5th of December 1995 | EVENT | The Sri Lankan government announces the conquest of Tamil stronghold of Jaffna. |
| 5th of December 2005 | EVENT | The Lake Tanganyika earthquake causes significant damage, mostly in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. |
| 5th of December 2005 | EVENT | The Civil Partnership Act comes into effect in the United Kingdom, and the first civil partnership is registered there. |
| 5th of December 2006 | EVENT | Commodore Frank Bainimarama overthrows the government in Fiji. |
| 5th of December 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. |
| 5th of December 2010 | EVENT | The Harlem Globetrotters Played their famous "Four Point Game" against the Generals. |
| 5th of December 1377 | BIRTHDAY | Jianwen Emperor of China (d. 1402) |
| 5th of December 1443 | BIRTHDAY | Pope Julius II (d. 1513) |
| 5th of December 1495 | BIRTHDAY | Nicolas Cleynaerts, Flemish grammarian (d. 1542) |
| 5th of December 1537 | BIRTHDAY | Ashikaga Yoshiaki, Japanese shogun (d. 1597) |
| 5th of December 1539 | BIRTHDAY | Fausto Paolo Sozzini, Italian theologian (d. 1604) |
| 5th of December 1547 | BIRTHDAY | Ubbo Emmius, Dutch historian and geographer (d. 1625) |
| 5th of December 1595 | BIRTHDAY | Henry Lawes, English composer (d. 1662) |
| 5th of December 1661 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer, English statesman (d. 1724) |
| 5th of December 1687 | BIRTHDAY | Francesco Geminiani, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1762) |
| 5th of December 1782 | BIRTHDAY | Martin Van Buren, 8th President of the United States (d. 1862) |
| 5th of December 1803 | BIRTHDAY | Fyodor Ivanovich Tyutchev, Russian poet (d. 1873) |
| 5th of December 1820 | BIRTHDAY | Afanasy Fet, Russian poet (d. 1892) |
| 5th of December 1822 | BIRTHDAY | Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz, American college president (d. 1907) |
| 5th of December 1829 | BIRTHDAY | Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbiniere, French Canadian politician (d. 1908) |
| 5th of December 1830 | BIRTHDAY | Christina Rossetti, English poet (d. 1894) |
| 5th of December 1839 | BIRTHDAY | George Armstrong Custer, American general (d. 1876) |
| 5th of December 1841 | BIRTHDAY | Marcus Daly, American mining tycoon (d. 1900) |
| 5th of December 1855 | BIRTHDAY | Clinton Hart Merriam, American ornithologist (d. 1942) |
| 5th of December 1859 | BIRTHDAY | John Jellicoe, British admiral (d. 1935) |
| 5th of December 1863 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Painleve, French mathematician and Prime Minister (d. 1933) |
| 5th of December 1867 | BIRTHDAY | Antti Aarne, Finnish folklorist (d. 1925) |
| 5th of December 1867 | BIRTHDAY | Jozef Pi?sudski, Polish revolutionary and statesman (d. 1935) |
| 5th of December 1868 | BIRTHDAY | Arnold Sommerfeld, German physicist (d. 1951) |
| 5th of December 1869 | BIRTHDAY | Ellis Parker Butler, American author (d. 1937) |
| 5th of December 1870 | BIRTHDAY | Vitezslav Novak, Czech composer (d. 1949) |
| 5th of December 1871 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Pickett, American rodeo performer (d. 1932) |
| 5th of December 1872 | BIRTHDAY | Harry Nelson Pillsbury, American chess player (d. 1906) |
| 5th of December 1875 | BIRTHDAY | Sir Arthur Currie, Canadian soldier (d. 1933) |
| 5th of December 1879 | BIRTHDAY | Clyde Cessna, American airplane manufacturer (d. 1954) |
| 5th of December 1886 | BIRTHDAY | Rose Wilder Lane, American writer and reporter, daughter of 'Little House' books writer Laura Ingalls Wilder (d. 1968) |
| 5th of December 1890 | BIRTHDAY | Fritz Lang, Austrian-born film director (d. 1976) |
| 5th of December 1890 | BIRTHDAY | David Bomberg, English painter (d. 1957) |
| 5th of December 1892 | BIRTHDAY | Ferdinand Schorner, German field marshal (d. 1973) |
| 5th of December 1894 | BIRTHDAY | C.R. Swart, South African politician (d. 1982) |
| 5th of December 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Elbert Frank Cox, American mathematician (d. 1969) |
| 5th of December 1896 | BIRTHDAY | Carl Ferdinand Cori, Austrian-born biochemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1984) |
| 5th of December 1897 | BIRTHDAY | Nunnally Johnson, American screenwriter and producer (d. 1977) |
| 5th of December 1897 | BIRTHDAY | Gershom Scholem, German-born Israeli Jewish philosopher and historian (d. 1982) |
| 5th of December 1898 | BIRTHDAY | Grace Moore, American soprano (d. 1947) |
| 5th of December 1898 | BIRTHDAY | Josh Malihabadi, Urdu poet of India and Pakistan (d. 1982) |
| 5th of December 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Sonny Boy Williamson II, American blues musician (d. 1965) |
| 5th of December 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Walt Disney, American animated film producer (d. 1966) |
| 5th of December 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Werner Heisenberg, German physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1976) |
| 5th of December 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Milton H. Erickson, American psychiatrist (d. 1980) |
| 5th of December 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Strom Thurmond, American politician (d. 2003) |
| 5th of December 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Johannes Heesters, Dutch singer and actor |
| 5th of December 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Cecil Frank Powell, English physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1969) |
| 5th of December 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Gus Mancuso, American baseball player (d. 1984) |
| 5th of December 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Otto Preminger, Austrian-born film director, producer, and actor (d. 1986) |
| 5th of December 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Giuseppe Occhialini, Italian physicist (d. 1993) |
| 5th of December 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Lin Biao, Chinese Communist military leader (d. 1971) |
| 5th of December 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Musashiyama Takeshi, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 33rd Yokozuna (d. 1969) |
| 5th of December 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Abraham Polonsky, American screenwriter (d. 1999) |
| 5th of December 1911 | BIRTHDAY | W?adys?aw Szpilman, Polish pianist (d. 2000) |
| 5th of December 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Hans Hellmut Kirst, German author (d. 1989) |
| 5th of December 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Hilary Koprowski, Polish virologist and immunologist |
| 5th of December 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Ken Downing, English racing driver (d. 2004) |
| 5th of December 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Wenche Foss, Norwegian actress |
| 5th of December 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Alvy Moore, American actor (d. 1997) |
| 5th of December 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Anastasio Somoza, President of Nicaragua (d. 1980) |
| 5th of December 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Bhumibol Adulyadej, King of Thailand |
| 5th of December 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Ladislav Novak, Czech footballer (d. 2011) |
| 5th of December 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Sheldon Lee Glashow, American physicist, Nobel laureate |
| 5th of December 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Little Richard, American singer and pianist |
| 5th of December 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Nikos Kourkoulos, Greek actor, artistic director of the National Theatre of Greece (d. 2007) |
| 5th of December 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Joan Didion, American writer |
| 5th of December 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Calvin Trillin, American writer |
| 5th of December 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Yury Vlasov, Soviet weightlifter |
| 5th of December 1936 | BIRTHDAY | James Lee Burke, American writer |
| 5th of December 1938 | BIRTHDAY | J. J. Cale, American songwriter |
| 5th of December 1938 | BIRTHDAY | J.D. McDuffie, American racecar driver (d. 1991) |
| 5th of December 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Minita Chico-Nazario, Filipino Supreme Court jurist |
| 5th of December 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Boris Ignatyev, Russian footballer and manager |
| 5th of December 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Pohl, Swedish writer |
| 5th of December 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Adrian Street, Welsh professional wrestler |
| 5th of December 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Eva Joly, Norwegian-born French magistrate |
| 5th of December 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Jeroen Krabbe, Dutch actor |
| 5th of December 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Loukas Sideras, Greek drummer (Aphrodite's Child) |
| 5th of December 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Serge Chapleau, French Canadian caricaturist |
| 5th of December 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Sarel van der Merwe, South African rally driver |
| 5th of December 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Jose Carreras, Spanish tenor |
| 5th of December 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Bruce Golding, Jamaican politician |
| 5th of December 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Messina, American musician (Buffalo Springfield, Loggins and Messina) |
| 5th of December 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Gregory, Irish politician |
| 5th of December 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Plunkett, American football player |
| 5th of December 1949 | BIRTHDAY | John Altman, British film composer |
| 5th of December 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Ray Comfort, New Zealand evangelist |
| 5th of December 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Camaron de la Isla, Spanish flamenco singer (d. 1992) |
| 5th of December 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Osvaldo Golijov, Argentine-born composer |
| 5th of December 1950 | BIRTHDAY | James Knaggs, American-born Salvationist |
| 5th of December 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Morgan Brittany, American actress |
| 5th of December 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Anne-Mie van Kerckhoven, Belgian artist |
| 5th of December 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Andy Kim, Canadian singer, songwriter |
| 5th of December 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Larry Zbyszko, American professional wrestler |
| 5th of December 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Hanif Kureishi, English author and playwright |
| 5th of December 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Klaus Allofs, German footballer |
| 5th of December 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Backer, American actor |
| 5th of December 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Krystian Zimerman, Polish pianist |
| 5th of December 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Art Monk, American football player |
| 5th of December 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Raquel Argandona, Chilean television presenter, Miss Chile 1975 |
| 5th of December 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Dean Erickson, American actor |
| 5th of December 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Dynamite Kid, English professional wrestler |
| 5th of December 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Lee Chapman, English footballer |
| 5th of December 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Jack Russell, American singer (Great White) |
| 5th of December 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Frans Adelaar, Dutch football player and manager |
| 5th of December 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Jose Cura, Argentine tenor |
| 5th of December 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Pablo Morales, American swimmer |
| 5th of December 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Nivek Ogre, Canadian vocalist, (Skinny Puppy) |
| 5th of December 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Doctor Dre, American radio personality |
| 5th of December 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Carrie Hamilton, American actress (d. 2002) |
| 5th of December 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Eddie "the Eagle" Edwards, English ski jumper |
| 5th of December 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Johnny Rzeznik, American singer, songwriter and guitarist (Goo Goo Dolls) |
| 5th of December 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Wayne Smith, Jamaican reggae musician |
| 5th of December 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Patricia Kaas, French singer |
| 5th of December 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Lee Seung-Chul, South Korean singer |
| 5th of December 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Gary Allan, American country musician |
| 5th of December 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Konstantin-Assen, Prince of Vidin, titular Bulgarian royal family |
| 5th of December 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Lisa Marie, American model and actress |
| 5th of December 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Margaret Cho, American comedian and actress |
| 5th of December 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Lydia Millet, American writer |
| 5th of December 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Morgan J. Freeman, American film director |
| 5th of December 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Alex Kapp Horner, American actress |
| 5th of December 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Lewis Gordon Pugh, English swimmer, polar explorer and motivational speaker |
| 5th of December 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin Haller, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 5th of December 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Kali Rocha, American actress |
| 5th of December 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Kavus Torabi, Iranian-born British guitarist (The Monsoon Bassoon, Cardiacs, Guapo, Chrome Hoof) |
| 5th of December 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Cliff Floyd, American baseball player |
| 5th of December 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Mahoney, American baseball player |
| 5th of December 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Angela Shelton, American actress & writer |
| 5th of December 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Shalom Harlow, Canadian supermodel and actress |
| 5th of December 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Lubos Motl, Czech physicist |
| 5th of December 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Mikelangelo Loconte, Italian singer |
| 5th of December 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Danielle Winits, Brazilian actress |
| 5th of December 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Charlie Batch, American football player |
| 5th of December 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Ronnie O'Sullivan, English snooker player |
| 5th of December 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Paula Patton, American actress |
| 5th of December 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Amy Acker, American actress |
| 5th of December 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Rachel Komisarz, American swimmer |
| 5th of December 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Xavier Garbajosa, French rugby union footballer |
| 5th of December 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Olli Jokinen, Finnish ice hockey player |
| 5th of December 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Marcelo Zalayeta, Uruguayan footballer |
| 5th of December 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Pachrapa Chaichua, Thai actress |
| 5th of December 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Matteo Ferrari, Italian footballer |
| 5th of December 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Gareth McAuley, Northern Irish footballer |
| 5th of December 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Evonne Hsu, Taiwanese singer |
| 5th of December 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Niklas Hagman, Finnish ice hockey player |
| 5th of December 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Nick Stahl, American actor |
| 5th of December 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Ibrahim Maalouf, Lebanese-born French trumpeter |
| 5th of December 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Shizuka Ito, Japanese voice actress (seiyu) |
| 5th of December 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Leila Tong, Hong Kong actress |
| 5th of December 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Eddy Curry, American basketball player |
| 5th of December 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Keri Hilson, American singer |
| 5th of December 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Trai Essex, American football player |
| 5th of December 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Tiffany Weimer, American soccer player |
| 5th of December 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Cooper Cronk, Australian rugby league footballer |
| 5th of December 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Solinsky, American distance runner |
| 5th of December 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Frankie Muniz, American actor |
| 5th of December 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Josh Smith, American basketball player |
| 5th of December 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Nico Verdonck, Belgian racing driver |
| 5th of December 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Tommy Fraser, English footballer |
| 5th of December 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Gregory Tyree Boyce, American actor |
| 5th of December 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Yuri (Kwon Yu-ri), South Korean singer (Girls' Generation) |
| 5th of December 0749 | DEATH | Saint John of Damascus |
| 5th of December 1082 | DEATH | Ramon Berenguer II, Count of Barcelona |
| 5th of December 1355 | DEATH | John III, Duke of Brabant (Born 1300) |
| 5th of December 1560 | DEATH | King Francis II of France (Born 1544) |
| 5th of December 1570 | DEATH | Johan Friis, Danish statesman (Born 1494) |
| 5th of December 1624 | DEATH | Gaspard Bauhin, Swiss botanist (Born 1560) |
| 5th of December 1654 | DEATH | Jean Francois Sarrazin, French writer |
| 5th of December 1663 | DEATH | Severo Bonini, Italian composer (Born 1582) |
| 5th of December 1749 | DEATH | Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de La Verendrye, French explorer and trader (Born 1685) |
| 5th of December 1758 | DEATH | Johann Friedrich Fasch, German composer (Born 1688) |
| 5th of December 1770 | DEATH | James Stirling, Scottish mathematician (Born 1692) |
| 5th of December 1784 | DEATH | Phillis Wheatley, American poet (Born 1753) |
| 5th of December 1791 | DEATH | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian composer (Born 1756) |
| 5th of December 1819 | DEATH | Count Friedrich Leopold zu Stolberg, German poet (Born 1750) |
| 5th of December 1870 | DEATH | Alexandre Dumas, pere, French writer (Born 1802) |
| 5th of December 1887 | DEATH | Eliza Roxcy Snow, American poet (Born 1804) |
| 5th of December 1891 | DEATH | Emperor Pedro II of Brazil (Born 1825) |
| 5th of December 1895 | DEATH | Chief Gall, Sioux chief (Born 1840) |
| 5th of December 1918 | DEATH | Schalk Willem Burger, South African politician (Born 1852) |
| 5th of December 1925 | DEATH | W?adys?aw Reymont, Polish writer and Nobel laureate (Born 1867) |
| 5th of December 1926 | DEATH | Claude Monet, French impressionist painter (Born 1840) |
| 5th of December 1931 | DEATH | Vachel Lindsay, American poet (Born 1879) |
| 5th of December 1940 | DEATH | Jan Kubelik, Czech violinist (Born 1880) |
| 5th of December 1942 | DEATH | Jock Delves Broughton, British noble (Born 1883) |
| 5th of December 1946 | DEATH | Louis Dewis, Belgian post-impressionist painter (Born 1872) |
| 5th of December 1950 | DEATH | Shri Aurobindo, Indian spiritual figure (Born 1872) |
| 5th of December 1951 | DEATH | Shoeless Joe Jackson, American baseball player (Born 1889) |
| 5th of December 1951 | DEATH | Abanindranath Tagore, Indian writer (Born 1871) |
| 5th of December 1953 | DEATH | Jorge Negrete, Mexican singer and actor (Born 1911) |
| 5th of December 1955 | DEATH | Glenn Luther Martin, American aviation executive (Born 1886) |
| 5th of December 1961 | DEATH | Emil Fuchs, German-born American attorney and baseball team owner (Born 1878) |
| 5th of December 1963 | DEATH | Karl Amadeus Hartmann, German composer (Born 1905) |
| 5th of December 1963 | DEATH | Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy, Pakistani statesman (Born 1892) |
| 5th of December 1965 | DEATH | Joseph Erlanger, American physiologist, Nobel laureate (Born 1874) |
| 5th of December 1966 | DEATH | Sylvere Maes, Belgian cyclist (Born 1909) |
| 5th of December 1968 | DEATH | Fred Clark, American actor (Born 1914) |
| 5th of December 1969 | DEATH | Claudius Dornier, German aircraft designer (Born 1884) |
| 5th of December 1969 | DEATH | Princess Alice of Battenberg (Born 1885) |
| 5th of December 1973 | DEATH | Robert Watson-Watt, Scottish engineer and inventor (Born 1892) |
| 5th of December 1977 | DEATH | Aleksandr Vasilevsky, Soviet military commander (Born 1895) |
| 5th of December 1983 | DEATH | Robert Aldrich, American film director (Born 1918) |
| 5th of December 1984 | DEATH | Adam Malik, Third Vice President of Indonesia (Born 1917) |
| 5th of December 1986 | DEATH | Sir Edward Youde, Governor of Hong Kong (Born 1924) |
| 5th of December 1989 | DEATH | Sir John Pritchard, English conductor (Born 1921) |
| 5th of December 1991 | DEATH | Richard Speck, American mass murderer (Born 1941) |
| 5th of December 1991 | DEATH | Robert Karvelas, American actor (Born 1921) |
| 5th of December 1993 | DEATH | Doug Hopkins, American guitarist and songwriter (Gin Blossoms) (Born 1961) |
| 5th of December 1994 | DEATH | Harry Horner, American art director (Born 1910) |
| 5th of December 1995 | DEATH | Charles Evans, British mountaineer and surgeon (Born 1918) |
| 5th of December 1995 | DEATH | Gwen Harwood, Australian poet (Born 1920) |
| 5th of December 1995 | DEATH | Lisa McPherson, American alleged Scientology victim (Born 1959) |
| 5th of December 1998 | DEATH | Al Gore, Sr., American politician (Born 1907) |
| 5th of December 2001 | DEATH | Franco Rasetti, Italian physicist (Born 1901) |
| 5th of December 2002 | DEATH | Roone Arledge, American sports broadcaster (Born 1931) |
| 5th of December 2002 | DEATH | Ne Win, Burmese leader (Born 1911) |
| 5th of December 2005 | DEATH | Ed Masry, American lawyer (Born 1932) |
| 5th of December 2005 | DEATH | Kevin McQuay, Australian businessman (Born 1949) |
| 5th of December 2005 | DEATH | Frits Philips, Dutch businessman (Born 1905) |
| 5th of December 2006 | DEATH | David Bronstein, Ukrainian-born chess grandmaster (Born 1924) |
| 5th of December 2007 | DEATH | Karlheinz Stockhausen, German composer (Born 1928) |
| 5th of December 2007 | DEATH | Andrew Imbrie, American composer (Born 1921) |
| 5th of December 2008 | DEATH | Patriarch Alexy II of Russia, Russian religious figure (Born 1929) |
| 5th of December 2008 | DEATH | Constantin Ticu Dumitrescu, Romanian politician (Born 1928) |
| 5th of December 2008 | DEATH | Nina Foch, Dutch-born American actress (Born 1924) |
| 5th of December 2008 | DEATH | Anca Parghel, Romanian jazz singer and composer (Born 1957) |
| 5th of December 2009 | DEATH | Princess Vimolchatra of Thailand (Born 1921) |
| 5th of December 2010 | DEATH | Don Meredith, American football player and broadcaster (Born 1938) |
| 5th of December 2010 | DEATH | Alan Armer, American television producer and director (Born 1922) |
| 5th of December 2010 | DEATH | John Leslie, American pornographic actor and filmmaker (Born 1945) |