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Famous people born on December 5

This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives December 5 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1687 (Francesco Geminiani) and the most recent is 2006 (Silia Kapsis). The most common fields on this date: football, politician, singer.

Who was born on December 5?

1. Walt Disney 1901 American animator, producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor and entrepreneur,…
2. Martin Van Buren 1782 President of the United States from 1837 to 1841
3. Bhumibol Adulyadej 1927 Former King of Thailand
4. Werner Heisenberg 1901 German theoretical physicist and nobel prize winner
5. Józef Piłsudski 1867 Polish politician, First Marshall, and Prime Minister
6. Arnold Sommerfeld 1868 German physicist
7. Fritz Lang 1890 Austrian filmmaker
8. Cecil Frank Powell 1903 British physicist
9. Sheldon Glashow 1932 American theoretical physicist
10. Little Richard 1932 American musician
11. José Carreras 1946 Spanish tenor
12. Christina Rossetti 1830 English poet
13. Moshe Katsav 1945 8th President of Israel
14. Ronnie O'Sullivan 1975 English snooker player
15. George Armstrong Custer 1839 United States cavalry commander
16. Carl Ferdinand Cori 1896 Czech Nobel prize laureate and scientist
17. Anthony Martial 1995 French footballer
18. Tsukasa Shiotani 1988 Japanese association football player
19. Joan Didion 1934 American writer
20. Lin Biao 1907 Chinese Communist military commander and politician
21. Ross Barkley 1993 English association football player
22. Amy Acker 1976 American actress
23. Władysław Szpilman 1911 Polish pianist, composer, Holocaust survivor
24. Johannes Heesters 1903 Dutch actor, singer and entertainer
25. Otto Preminger 1905 Austrian-American director, producer, and actor
26. Anastasio Somoza Debayle 1925 Dictador of Nicaragua (1967–72, 1974–79)
27. André-Pierre Gignac 1985 French footballer
28. Alexander Sørloth 1995 Norwegian association football player
29. Rustam Kasimdzhanov 1979 Uzbekistani chess player
30. Randal Kolo Muani 1998 French footballer
31. Frankie Muniz 1985 American actor
32. Abbas Araghchi 1962 Iranian diplomat, Minister of Foreign Affairs
33. Keri Hilson 1982 American R&B singer
34. Alexander Rodchenko 1891 Russian artist, sculptor, photographer, and graphic designer (1891—1955)
35. Paula Patton 1975 American actress
36. J.J. Cale 1938 American musician
37. Armando Diaz 1861 Italian general
38. Rumi Utsugi 1988 Japanese association football player
39. Ján Mucha 1982 Slovak association football player
40. Sajid Javid 1969 British politician
41. Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg 1971 German politician (CSU), former Minister of Economics, Minister of Defense
42. Timothy Castagne 1995 Belgian association football player
43. Antti Aarne 1867 Finnish folklorist
44. Paul Painlevé 1863 French mathematician and politician
45. Ondrej Duda 1994 Slovak association football player
46. Strom Thurmond 1902 American politician
47. Hanif Kureishi 1954 English writer
48. Nicolae Văcăroiu 1943 55th Prime Minister of Romania
49. Luciano Vietto 1993 Argentine association football player
50. Konstantin Korovin 1861 Russian artist
51. Sorin Grindeanu 1973 65th Prime Minister of Romania (2017)
52. Klaus Allofs 1956 German football player and executive
53. Camarón de la Isla 1950 Spanish flamenco singer
54. Conan Gray 1998 American singer-songwriter Mateo's boyfriend
55. Eva Joly 1943 French politician
56. John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe 1859 Royal Navy officer
57. Óscar Míguez 1927 Uruguayan footballer
58. Nick Stahl 1979 American actor
59. Jeroen Krabbé 1944 Dutch actor, film director
60. Gareth McAuley 1979 Northern Irish association football player
61. Grace Moore 1898 American operatic soprano and actress in musical theatre and film
62. Louise Bryant 1885 American activist and journalist
63. Ricardo Bofill 1939 Catalan architect
64. Matteo Ferrari 1979 Italian footballer
65. Miralem Sulejmani 1988 Serbian footballer
66. Sofi Marinova 1975 Bulgarian singer
67. Jügderdemidiin Gürragchaa 1947 Mongolian cosmonaut
68. Krystian Zimerman 1956 Polish classical pianist
69. Kwon Yu-ri 1989 South Korean singer and actress
70. Marcelo Zalayeta 1978 Uruguayan footballer
71. Rosalía Arteaga Serrano 1956 Writer and former President of Ecuador
72. Margaret Cho 1968 American comedian and actress
73. Gershom Scholem 1897 German-Israeli philosopher
74. Francesco Geminiani 1687 Italian composer and violinist
75. Linet Masai 1989 Kenyan long-distance runner
76. Pamela Jelimo 1989 Kenyan middle distance runner
77. Phumtham Wechayachai 1953 Acting Prime Minister of Thailand from 14 to 16 August 2024 and from July to September…
78. Vítězslav Novák 1870 Czech composer and pedagogue
79. Fred Rutten 1962 Dutch footballer and manager
80. Andrés de Santa Cruz 1792 Supreme protector of the Peru–Bolivian Confederation
81. Abdelkader Ghezzal 1984 Algerian and French footballer
82. Gabriel Luna 1982 American actor
83. Josh Smith 1985 American basketball player
84. Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight 1953 American Wikipedia editor, focused on closing its gender gap; Knight of Serbia
85. Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah 1905 Kashmiri politician
86. Omar Elabdellaoui 1991 Norwegian professional footballer Of Moroccan origin
87. Charles Robberts Swart 1894 South African politician
88. Walt Dohrn 1970 American animator
89. Andrew Yeom Soo-jung 1943 Archbishop from South Korea
90. Emeric Pressburger 1902 Hungarian-British screenwriter, director and producer
91. Yury Vlasov 1935 Soviet weightlifter
92. Foued Kadir 1983 Algerian footballer
93. Harry Nelson Pillsbury 1872 American chess player
94. Oswaldo de Oliveira 1950 Brazilian association football player and manager
95. Shalom Harlow 1973 Canadian model and actress
96. Silia Kapsis 2006 Greek-Cypriot-Australian singer
97. Knez 1967 Montenegrin singer
98. Hilary Koprowski 1916 Polish physician, virologist, immunologist and medical researcher
99. Fazu Aliyeva 1932 Russian poet

Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on December 5 share the 5th of December as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.

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