Portal:Germany/Anniversaries/December/December 5


 * 1868 – Birth of theoretical physicist Arnold Sommerfeld
 * 1897 – Birth of philosopher and historian Gershom Scholem
 * 1901 – Birth of physicist Werner Heisenberg (pictured), winner of the 1932 Nobel Prize in Physics
 * 1963 – Death of composer Karl Amadeus Hartmann