Anniversaries 5 December
Birth
![Pope Julius II photo]()
pope from 1503 to 1513
1443–1513
![Martin Van Buren photo]()
American politician, 8th President of the United States (in…
1782–1862
![Sidney Lee photo]()
English biographer and critic
1859–1926
![Józef Piłsudski photo]()
Polish politician and Prime Minister
1867–1935
![Flora Thompson photo]()
English author and poet
1876–1947
![Rose Wilder Lane photo]()
American journalist
1886–1968
![Carl Ferdinand Cori photo]()
Czech Nobel prize laureate and scientist
1896–1984
![Gershom Scholem photo]()
German-born Israeli philosopher and historian
1897–1982
![Milton H. Erickson photo]()
American psychiatrist
1901–1980
![Walt Disney photo]()
American film producer and businessman
1901–1966
![Werner Heisenberg photo]()
German theoretical physicist
1901–1976
![William Barclay photo]()
Church of Scotland minister and academic
1907–1978
![Abraham Polonsky photo]()
American politician
1910–1999
![Tex Atchison photo]()
American musician
1912–1982
![Abul Hasan Ali Hasani Nadwi photo]()
Indian islamic scholar
1913–1999
![Jagan Nath Azad photo]()
Indian writer (1918-2004)
1918–2004
![Benjamin Creme photo]()
artist, author, esotericist
1922–2016
![Bhumibol Adulyadej photo]()
King of Thailand
1927–2016
![Yi-Fu Tuan photo]()
Chinese-American geographer
1930
![Little Richard photo]()
American pianist, singer and songwriter
1932
![Sheldon L. Glashow photo]()
American theoretical physicist
1932
![James Lee Burke photo]()
Novelist, short story writer
1936
![Robert Hand photo]()
American astrologer and writer
1942
![Mike Rosen photo]()
American political pundit
1944
![Ray Comfort photo]()
New Zealand-born Christian minister and evangelist
1949
![Tomson Highway photo]()
Canadian and Cree writer
1951
![Hanif Kureishi photo]()
English playwright, screenwriter, novelist
1954
![Tom Vu photo]()
Americnan poker player
1957
![Elizabeth S. Anderson photo]()
professor of philosophy and womens' studies
1959
![Danny Yamashiro photo]()
American radio evangelist
1967
![Margaret Cho photo]()
American stand-up comedian
1968
![Lewis Pugh photo]()
Environmental campaigner, maritime lawyer and endurance swi…
1969
![Luboš Motl photo]()
Czech physicist and translator
1973
Death
![Abu al-Hassan al-Kharaqani photo]()
Iranian Sufi (963–1033)
963–1033
![Nicolas Steno photo]()
Pioneer in anatomy and geology, bishop
1638–1686
![Abdul-Qādir Bedil photo]()
Persian writer,poet
1644–1720
![Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart photo]()
Austrian Romantic composer
1756–1791
![Louis Poinsot photo]()
French mathematician and physicist
1777–1859
![Alexandre Dumas photo]()
French writer and dramatist, father of the homonym writer a…
1802–1870
![George Whyte-Melville photo]()
Scottish writer
1821–1878
![Claude Monet photo]()
French impressionist painter
1840–1926
![Sri Aurobindo photo]()
Indian nationalist, freedom fighter, philosopher, yogi, gur…
1872–1950
![Joe Jackson photo]()
American baseball player
1887–1951
![Lyndall Urwick photo]()
British management consultant
1891–1983
![Aleksandr Vasilevsky photo]()
Soviet military commander
1895–1977
![Caryl Brahms photo]()
English critic, novelist, and journalist
1901–1982
![Oscar Niemeyer photo]()
Brazilian architect
1907–2012
![Amrita Sher-Gil photo]()
Hungarian Indian artist
1913–1941
![Nelson Mandela photo]()
President of South Africa, anti-apartheid activist
1918–2013
![Michael I of Romania photo]()
King of Romania (1927-1930, 1940-1947)
1921–2017
![Clair Cameron Patterson photo]()
American chemist and geochemist
1922–1995
![Edward Lewis Wallant photo]()
American writer
1926–1962
![George Brecht photo]()
American artist and composer
1926–2008
![Karlheinz Stockhausen photo]()
German composer
1928–2007
![Jim Rohn photo]()
American motivational speaker
1930–2009
![Cynthia Eagle Russett photo]()
American historian
1937–2013
![Jayalalithaa photo]()
Indian politician and actress
1948–2016
