Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/December 5

Births

 * 1537 – Ashikaga Yoshiaki, last shogun of the Ashikaga shogunate (d. 1597)
 * 1894 – Charles Robberts Swart, 1st State President of South Africa (d. 1982)
 * 1896 – Carl Ferdinand Cori, Czech biochemist and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1984)
 * 1901 – Walt Disney, animator and co-founder of The Walt Disney Company (d. 1966)
 * 1911 – Władysław Szpilman, Polish pianist and composer (d. 2000) (pictured)
 * 1925 – Anastasio Somoza Debayle, 73rd President of Nicaragua (d. 1980)

Deaths

 * 1791 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian composer (b. 1756)
 * 1951 – Shoeless Joe Jackson, American baseball player (b. 1887)
 * 1926 – Claude Monet, French impressionist painter (b. 1840)
 * 1963 – Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy, 5th Prime Minister of Pakistan (b. 1892)
 * 1977 – Aleksandr Vasilevsky, Minister of Defence of the Soviet Union (b. 1895)
 * 2002 – Ne Win, 4th President of Burma (b. 1911)