December 5
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Art and culture
- 1830 - Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique premieres in Paris.
- 1926 - Sergei Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin premieres.
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Births
- 1830 - Christina Rossetti, British poet (d. 1894)
- 1867 - Antti Aarne, Finnish folklorist (Aarne-Thompson classification) (d. 1925)
- 1890 - Fritz Lang, Austrian-born film director (d. 1976)
- 1901 - Walt Disney, American animated film producer (d. 1966)
- 1906 - Otto Preminger, Austrian-born director, producer, and actor (d. 1986)
- 1932 - Little Richard (Richard Wayne Penniman), American singer and pianist (d. 2020)
- 1934 - Joan Didion, American writer (d. 2021)
- 1938 - J. J. Cale, American songwriter (d. 2013)
- 1939 - Ricardo Bofill, Spanish architect (d. 2022)
- 1954 - Hanif Kureishi, Pakistani-British writer
- 1965 - Wayne Smith, Jamaican reggae musician (d. 2014)
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Deaths
- 1784 - Phillis Wheatley, African-American poet (b. 1753)
- 1791 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian composer (b. 1756)
- 1870 - Alexandre Dumas, père, French writer (b. 1802)
- 1914 - André Brouillet, French painter (b. 1857)
- 1926 - Claude Monet, French impressionist painter (b. 1840)
- 1931 - Vachel Lindsay, American poet (b. 1879)
- 1950 - Albrecht Schaeffer, German writer (Josef Montfort) (b. 1885)
- 1977 - Rahsaan Roland Kirk, American jazz musician (b. 1936)
- 1983 - Robert Aldrich, American filmmaker (What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?) (b. 1918)
- 2013 - Colin Wilson, British writer (b. 1931)
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