On This Day — December 5
3882 noted people were born and 2025 died on December 5 in our archive, including Nekane Balluerka, Paul Kogerman and Abbas Araghchi.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on December 5
Nekane Balluerka
b. 1966
Paul Kogerman
1891 – 1951
Abbas Araghchi
b. 1962
Anne-Marie Descôtes
b. 1959
Arnold Sommerfeld
1868 – 1951
Barbara J. Ford
b. 1946
Cecil Frank Powell
1903 – 1969
David Manning
b. 1949
Diane Humetewa
b. 1964
Edwin Dun
1842 – 1931
Francis Bouygues
1922 – 1993
Friedrich von Hermann
1795 – 1868
Fuat Köprülü
1890 – 1966
Giuseppe Occhialini
1907 – 1993
Hans Heinrich Landolt
1831 – 1910
Henri d'Arbois de Jubainville
1827 – 1910
Hilary Koprowski
1916 – 2013
Isabelle Mansuy
b. 1965
James Duderstadt
1942 – 2024
Jean-François Bergier
1931 – 2009
Jean-Pierre Mazery
b. 1942
Joachim Lambek
1922 – 2014
José Luis Escrivá Belmonte
b. 1960
Julius Wess
1934 – 2007
Józef Piłsudski
1867 – 1935
Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg
b. 1971
Luis Miró Quesada de la Guerra
1880 – 1976
Mark Robert Showalter
b. 1957
Paul Painlevé
1863 – 1933
Peter Norvig
b. 1956
Peter Walter
b. 1954
Pieter Oud
1886 – 1968
Rafael Termes
1918 – 2005
S. C. Jain
1926 – 2009
Sheldon Glashow
b. 1932
Solange Ghernaouti
b. 1958
Viktor Shudegov
1952 – 2020
Vítězslav Novák
1870 – 1949
Werner Heisenberg
1901 – 1976
Yelena Perminova
b. 1960
Abdul Rahman Taib
b. 1942
Aleksandr Golovin
1949 – 2023
Alesʹ Razanaŭ
1947 – 2021
Alim Latrèche
b. 1979
Alois Brandstetter
b. 1938
Alun Gwynne Jones, Baron Chalfont
1919 – 2020
Amanda Labarca
1886 – 1975
Anabela Rodrigues
b. 1953
Anastasio Somoza Debayle
1925 – 1980
Anna Świderkówna
1925 – 2008
Antti Aarne
1867 – 1925
António Filipe Pimentel
b. 1959
Ari Kelman
b. 1968
Arthur Chioro
b. 1963
Betty Meggers
1921 – 2012
Bhumibol Adulyadej
1927 – 2016
Bolesław Woytowicz
1899 – 1980
Bruce E. Melnick
b. 1949
Cai Qi
b. 1955
Camille Janssen
1837 – 1926
Carl Ferdinand Cori
1896 – 1984
Carlos Brewer
1890 – 1976
Charity Adams Earley
1918 – 2002
Charles Du Cane
1825 – 1889
Charles Mackellar
1844 – 1926
Clinton Hart Merriam
1855 – 1942
Cyril Cameron
1857 – 1941
Daniel Woolf
b. 1958
David Griffiths
b. 1942
Denise Drysdale
b. 1948
Edmond Le Bœuf
1809 – 1888
Edward Rubenstein
1924 – 2019
Elbrus Tedeyev
b. 1974
Eliab Harvey
1758 – 1830
Elizabeth Beikiriize Karungi
b. 1976
Ellen D. Williams
b. 1953
Ernest Cormier
1885 – 1980
Eva Joly
b. 1943
Evelyn Stokes
1936 – 2005
Francesco D'Ovidio
1849 – 1925
Francis Zamora
b. 1977
Frank Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford
1905 – 2001
Fritz Lang
1890 – 1976
Gershom Scholem
1897 – 1982
Gábor Béla Fodor
1915 – 2000
Günther Förg
1952 – 2013
Han Woong, Yeom
b. 1966
Hanif Kureishi
b. 1954
Hans Kuhn
1919 – 2012
Hans-Ueli Vogt
b. 1969
Haviva Pedaya
b. 1957
Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière
1829 – 1908
Henry Drummond
1786 – 1860
Herbert Girton Deignan
1906 – 1968
Hryhir Tiutiunnyk
1931 – 1980
Hussain Al Baharna
1932 – 2025
Idzi Drzycimski
1933 – 2025
Ion Ciuntu
b. 1954
Issac Koga
1899 – 1982
Ivan Shchukin
1869 – 1908
Izabela Antos
b. 1986
Jacques Tarbé de Saint-Hardouin
1899 – 1956
Jim Tressel
b. 1952
Jimena Quirós
1899 – 1983
Joanna Stern
b. 1985
John Beresford, 5th Baron Decies
1866 – 1944
John Gellibrand
1872 – 1945
Josh Malihabadi
1898 – 1982
José Carreras
b. 1946
José Cura
b. 1962
José Joaquín Brunner
b. 1944
José Narro Robles
b. 1948
Jügderdemidiin Gürragchaa
b. 1947
Kim Sang-gon
b. 1949
Konrad Johann Martin Langenbeck
1776 – 1851
Laura Cha
b. 1949
Lim Jock Hoi
b. 1951
Lin Biao
1907 – 1971
Lina Bo Bardi
1914 – 1992
Luboš Motl
b. 1973
Mamady Doumbouya
b. 1984
Mamerto Urriolagoitía
1895 – 1974
Marcin Pałys
b. 1964
Martin Selmayr
b. 1970
Martin W. Clement
1881 – 1966
Mary Jo Nye
b. 1944
Matthew Taylor
b. 1960
Max Wilhelm Carl Weber
1852 – 1937
Megan Donahue
b. 1962
Melissa Little
b. 1963
Michael L. W. Thewalt
b. 1949
Minita Chico-Nazario
1939 – 2022
Moody Awori
b. 1927
Moshe Katsav
b. 1945
Motora Yūjirō
1858 – 1912
Nick Parkinson
1925 – 2001
Nicolae Văcăroiu
b. 1943
Nikaidō Tokuyo
1880 – 1941
Nikolai Kuznetsov
1864 – 1932
Oleksandr Yaroslavsky
b. 1959
Pascal Mailhos
b. 1958
Pearl Calahasen
b. 1952
Peter Pohl
b. 1940
Phumtham Wechayachai
b. 1953
Piero Sacerdoti
1905 – 1966
Pierre Rosenstiehl
1933 – 2020
Pilar Benejam Arguimbau
b. 1937
Péter Balázs
b. 1941
Rhoda Erdmann
1870 – 1935
Robert F. Willard
b. 1950
Roberto Arce
b. 1965
Roger Douglas
b. 1937
Roger Nathan, 2nd Baron Nathan
1922 – 2007
Russell Trood
1948 – 2017
Ruy Luís Gomes
1905 – 1984
Samuel Hole
1819 – 1904
Sara Jane Ho
b. 1985
Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah
1905 – 1982
Sherman Miles
1882 – 1966
Sidney Lee
1859 – 1926
Simon Power
b. 1969
Stanley Rogers Resor
1917 – 2012
Strom Thurmond
1902 – 2003
Sundararajan Padmanabhan
1940 – 2024
Thomas Dewar Weldon
1896 – 1958
Tim Hetherington
1970 – 2011
Victoria Rodríguez Arralde
b. 1972
Vincent Rivasseau
b. 1955
Vincenzo Vannutelli
1836 – 1930
Vladimir Dolgikh
1924 – 2020
Vladyslav Atroshenko
b. 1968
Víctor Manuel Rendón
1859 – 1940
Wheelock G. Veazey
1835 – 1898
Wojciech Skurkiewicz
b. 1969
Yi-Fu Tuan
1930 – 2022
Yoshinori Suematsu
b. 1956
Yoshitomo Nara
b. 1959
Yuri Nesterenko
b. 1946
Čestmír Řanda
1923 – 1986
A. J. Pollock
b. 1987
Aarne Saarinen
1913 – 2004
Aaron Doornekamp
b. 1985
Abdullah bin Hamad Al Attiyah
1952 – 2026
Abijah Bigelow
1775 – 1860
Abraham Van Vechten
1762 – 1837
Abram Fet
1924 – 2007
Adrienne Staples
1956 – 2026
Ahn Eak-tai
1906 – 1965
Albert Vanbuel
b. 1940
Alexander MacDuff
1816 – 1866
Alfred Manessier
1911 – 1993
Alfredo del Mazo Maza
b. 1978
Ali Jehangir Siddiqui
b. 1976
Almeda Eliza Hitchcock
1863 – 1895
Andrew Yeom Soo-jung
b. 1943
Andriy Zahorodniuk
b. 1976
Andrzej Łuczak
b. 1948
Anne Warner
b. 1945
Anne-Mari Virolainen
b. 1965
Annibale Marini
1940 – 2025
… and 3,682 more
Died on December 5
Nathan Jacobson
1910 – 1999
William Isaac Thomas
1863 – 1947
Alfred Barnard Basset
1854 – 1930
Charles Palache
1869 – 1954
Charlie Ross
1885 – 1950
Charlotte Fitch Roberts
1859 – 1917
Claude Ambrose Rogers
1920 – 2005
David K. E. Bruce
1898 – 1977
Demetrio Volcic
1931 – 2021
Edoardo Amaldi
1908 – 1989
Ernest Hébert
1817 – 1908
Ernst Albert Gäumann
1893 – 1963
Frederick Dainton, Baron Dainton
1914 – 1997
Frits Philips
1905 – 2005
Giovanni Battista Morgagni
1682 – 1771
Girija Shankar Bajpai
1891 – 1954
Ignatius IV of Antioch
1920 – 2012
Jacques Tits
1930 – 2021
James Stirling
1692 – 1770
Jean Bayet
1892 – 1969
Jean d'Ormesson
1925 – 2017
Johannes Wislicenus
1835 – 1902
Kenneth W. Ford
1926 – 2025
Louis Poinsot
1777 – 1859
Richard Lyons, 1st Viscount Lyons
1817 – 1887
Robert Watson-Watt
1892 – 1973
Timothy Field Allen
1837 – 1902
Vladimir Leontyevich Komarov
1869 – 1945
William Everett Potter
1905 – 1988
Abanindranath Tagore
1871 – 1951
Adam Anderson
1783 – 1846
Ahmad Zaidi Adruce
1924 – 2000
Alan Lind
1913 – 1988
Albert Gore Sr.
1907 – 1998
Aleksandr Vasilevsky
1895 – 1977
Alfred Hrdlicka
1928 – 2009
Alice Louise Reynolds
1873 – 1938
Amin Ahmed
1899 – 1991
Antoine Alexandre Barbier
1765 – 1825
Apostol Kostanda
1817 – 1898
August Ames
1994 – 2017
Auguste Caristie
1783 – 1862
Augustus Voelcker
1822 – 1884
Bob Dole
1923 – 2021
Bruce Eastick
1927 – 2025
Chester Dewey
1784 – 1867
Clair Cameron Patterson
1922 – 1995
Cosmo Gordon Lang
1864 – 1945
Ernest Mallet
1863 – 1956
Evgeny Velikhov
1935 – 2024
Fabiola of Belgium
1928 – 2014
Francis Willis
1718 – 1807
Franco Rasetti
1901 – 2001
Frank Gehry
1929 – 2025
Friedrich Christoph Dahlmann
1785 – 1860
Frits Clausen
1893 – 1947
Gaspard Bauhin
1560 – 1624
George Howard, 7th Earl of Carlisle
1802 – 1864
George Scratchley Brown
1918 – 1978
Ghulam Dastagir Alam
1933 – 2000
Grigory Ginzburg
1904 – 1961
Guo Yonghuai
1909 – 1968
Günther Förg
1952 – 2013
Harry W. Shlaudeman
1926 – 2018
Heneage Finch
1580 – 1631
Herbert H. Lehman
1878 – 1963
Ildikó Pécsi
1940 – 2020
Jakab Bleyer
1874 – 1933
Jayaram Jayalalithaa
1948 – 2016
Jean de Tinguy du Pouët
1875 – 1951
Jirō Minami
1874 – 1955
John Beckwith
1927 – 2022
John Hely-Hutchinson, 5th Earl of Donoughmore
1848 – 1900
John Robinson
1919 – 1983
John Walter Huddleston
1815 – 1890
Jorge Hourton
1926 – 2011
Joseph Erlanger
1874 – 1965
Joseph Vivien
1657 – 1734
Józef Chałasiński
1904 – 1979
Kaarel Parts
1873 – 1940
Karl Amadeus Hartmann
1905 – 1963
Karl Clausen
1904 – 1972
Karl von Hegel
1813 – 1901
Karlheinz Stockhausen
1928 – 2007
Keith Runcorn
1922 – 1995
Kendall Taylor
1905 – 1999
Mark Rudinshtein
1946 – 2021
Mati Hint
1937 – 2019
Maurice Green
1926 – 2017
Maximilian Daublebsky von Sterneck
1829 – 1897
Michael Hoskin
1930 – 2021
Miloš Đurić
1892 – 1967
Ne Win
1911 – 2002
Nelson Mandela
1918 – 2013
Nina Foch
1924 – 2008
Norman Lear
1922 – 2023
Oscar Niemeyer
1907 – 2012
Otto Graf Lambsdorff
1926 – 2009
Paul Dibble
1943 – 2023
Peter Alliss
1931 – 2020
Petrit Dume
1920 – 1975
Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye
1685 – 1749
Raluca Ripan
1894 – 1972
Ronald Collet Norman
1873 – 1963
Roy Welensky
1907 – 1991
Ruben Simonov
1899 – 1968
Rudolf Mentzel
1900 – 1987
Samuel Abraham Poznański
1864 – 1921
Shūichi Katō
1919 – 2008
Siddhi Savetsila
1919 – 2015
Stanley Buckmaster, 1st Viscount Buckmaster
1861 – 1934
Stewart Symes
1882 – 1962
Tankut Öktem
1940 – 2007
Theodor Ludwig Wilhelm von Bischoff
1807 – 1882
Valentine Jackson Chapman
1910 – 1980
Valter Klauson
1913 – 1988
Viktor Borisov
1937 – 2013
Viktor Shklovsky
1893 – 1984
Vladimir Toporov
1928 – 2005
William Dunn Macray
1826 – 1916
Wojciech Zabłocki
1930 – 2020
Yosyf Semashko
1799 – 1868
Zaharia Stancu
1902 – 1974
A. Bernard Ackerman
1936 – 2008
Aghasadyg Garaybeyli
1897 – 1988
Aleksandr Sevastianov
1771 – 1824
Alessandro Marchetti
1884 – 1966
Alexander Bulatovich
1870 – 1919
Alexandre Dumas
1802 – 1870
Alexandre Trauner
1906 – 1993
Alexis Bachelot
1796 – 1837
Alfonso Carinci
1862 – 1963
Alfonso Ussía
1948 – 2025
Alfred J. Lotka
1880 – 1949
Alfred Wilkinson Johnson
1876 – 1963
Amy B. Lyman
1872 – 1959
Anca Parghel
1957 – 2008
Andrada Machado
1773 – 1845
Andreas Clemmensen
1852 – 1928
Andrew Taylor
1850 – 1937
Andrey Andreyev
1895 – 1971
Angelo Di Pietro
1828 – 1914
Anton Karl Simon von Wolkenstein-Trostburg
1832 – 1913
Antoni Rovira i Virgili
1882 – 1949
Antonio Rostagni
1903 – 1988
Arno Herman Luehman
1911 – 1989
Arumuka Navalar
1822 – 1879
Asım Orhan Barut
1926 – 1994
Aurelio Galfetti
1936 – 2021
Aurobindo Ghosh
1872 – 1950
Benjamin Holt
1849 – 1920
Beverly Garland
1926 – 2008
Carey Spicer
1909 – 1996
Caroline Burke
1913 – 1964
Caroline Burling Thompson
1869 – 1921
Cecil M. Harden
1894 – 1984
Charles H. Barth
1858 – 1926
Charles Mannay
1745 – 1824
Charles Tucker
1857 – 1928
Charles Wordsworth
1806 – 1892
Charles-Edgar de Mornay
1803 – 1878
Chen Chin-hsing
1933 – 2025
Christian Archibald Herter
1865 – 1910
Christopher Payne
1845 – 1925
Claudius Dornier
1884 – 1969
Clyde Martin
1918 – 2014
Constance McLaughlin Green
1897 – 1975
Daniel O. Morton
1815 – 1859
Dave Brubeck
1920 – 2012
David Bronstein
1924 – 2006
Duke Georg Alexander of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
1859 – 1909
Dynamite Kid
1958 – 2018
Edoardo Martino
1910 – 1999
Edouard Osy de Zegwaart
1832 – 1900
Edvard Petersen
1841 – 1911
Edward Youde
1924 – 1986
Einar Hoidale
1870 – 1952
Elisabeth Murdoch
1909 – 2012
Emil Haury
1904 – 1992
Eugene Siler
1900 – 1987
Fernando Gómez Martínez
1897 – 1985
Frances Lloyd George, Countess Lloyd-George
1888 – 1972
Francis II of France
1544 – 1560
Francis Vyvyan Jago Arundell
1780 – 1846
Frank Rice
1845 – 1914
Fred Churchill Leonard
1856 – 1921
Fred Clark
1914 – 1968
Freddie Cohen
1957 – 2021
Friedrich Christian Rosenthal
1780 – 1829
George Laurer
1925 – 2019
George Riddell, 1st Baron Riddell
1865 – 1934
George Walpole, 3rd Earl of Orford
1730 – 1791
Georges Bayrou
1883 – 1953
Gerd Arntz
1900 – 1988
Giacomo Savelli
1523 – 1587
Gian Giacomo Trivulzio
1440 – 1518
Glenn L. Martin
1886 – 1955
Glover H. Cary
1885 – 1936
Guido Schmidt
1901 – 1957
Gurbachan Singh Salaria
1935 – 1961
… and 1,825 more