December 5 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on December 5, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♐︎ Sagittarius
Nov 22 – Dec 21
Birth stone
Turquoise
Birth flower
Narcissus
How common
#122 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous December 5 birthdays
Fyodor Tyutchev · Russian poet1803
Christina Rossetti · English poet1830
Józef Piłsudski · Polish politician, First Marshall, and Prime Minister1867
Arnold Sommerfeld · German physicist1868
Fritz Lang · Austrian filmmaker1890
Walt Disney · American animator1901
Werner Heisenberg · German theoretical physicist and nobel prize winner1901
Strom Thurmond · American politician1902
C. F. Powell · British physicist1903
Otto Preminger · Austrian-American director, producer, and actor1905
Bhumibol Adulyadej · Former King of Thailand1927
Sheldon Glashow · American theoretical physicist1932
Little Richard · American musician1932
Joan Didion · American writer1934
JJ Cale · American musician1938
José Carreras · Spanish tenor1946
Paula Patton · American actress1975
Amy Acker · American actress1976
Keri Hilson · American R&B singer1982
Frankie Muniz · American actor1985
On this day in history
1775American Revolutionary War: Continental Army colonel Henry Knox arrived at Fort Ticonderoga in New York to arrange the transport of 60 tons of artillery to support the siege of Boston.
1958Britain's first motorway, the Preston Bypass, opened to the public.
1965The "glasnost meeting" took place in Moscow, becoming the first demonstration in the Soviet Union after World War II and marking the beginning of the civil rights movement in the country.
1972Gough Whitlam took office as the 21st Prime Minister of Australia and formed a duumvirate with his deputy Lance Barnard, ending 23 years of Liberal–Country Party government.
1933The Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, repealing Prohibition in the United States.
1935Mary McLeod Bethune founds the National Council of Negro Women in New York City.
1936The 1936 Soviet constitution, also known as the "Stalin constitution", was adopted.
1955The American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations merge and form the AFL–CIO.
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