December 5th, 1947

Born on December 5th, 1947

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 27,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 99 days, exactly on August 2nd, 2024, people who were born on December 5th, 1947 will be 28,000 days old!

... in seconds, minutes and hours

What happened on December 5th?

December 5th, 2007

A nineteen-year-old gunman went on a shooting spree at a shopping mall in Omaha, Nebraska, U.S., killing nine people, including himself.

December 5th, 1995

Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 56 crashed shortly after takeoff from Nakhchivan Airport, killing 52 people on board.

December 5th, 1974

The Birmingham Americans won the only World Bowl in World Football League history.

December 5th, 1972

Gough Whitlam took office as the 21st Prime Minister of Australia and formed a duumvirate with his deputy Lance Barnard, ending 23 years of Liberal-Country Party government.

December 5th, 1958

Britain's first motorway, the Preston By-pass, opened to the public.

December 5th, 1952

The "Great Smog of London" began and lasted for five days, causing 12,000 deaths and leading to the Clean Air Act 1956.

December 5th, 1945

Flight 19, a squadron of five U.S. Navy torpedo bombers, disappeared over the Bermuda Triangle.

December 5th, 1939

The remains of Pedro II of Brazil, who was ousted and exiled in a republican coup, were buried after being repatriated.

December 5th, 1933

The prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States at the federal level ended when the Twenty-first Amendment to the Constitution was ratified, repealing the Eighteenth Amendment.

December 5th, 1916

Amid the First World War and following his loss of support in Parliament, British Prime Minister H. H. Asquith resigned.

December 5th, 1914

The Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition began in an attempt to make the first land crossing of Antarctica.

December 5th, 1807

Napoleonic Wars: British ships began a raid on Griessie after the Dutch captain refused a British demand for surrender.

December 5th, 1775

American Revolutionary War: Continental Army colonel Henry Knox arrived at Fort Ticonderoga in New York to arrange the transport of 60 tons of artillery (depicted) to support the siege of Boston.

December 5th, 1757

Seven Years' War: Prussian troops under Frederick the Great defeated Austrian forces at the Battle of Leuthen (pictured).

December 5th, 1484

Pope Innocent VIII issued the papal bull Summis desiderantes affectibus, which gave the Dominican inquisitor Heinrich Kramer the explicit authority to prosecute witchcraft in Germany.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on December 5th

Born on December 5th, 1947

76

Viviane Ventura

Formerly British actress and now worldwide entertainment booking agent

*December 5th, 1947, London

76

Jim Messina

American musician, songwriter, singer, guitarist, recording engineer and record producer

*December 5th, 1947, Maywood

76

Valery Likhachov

Russian cyclist

*December 5th, 1947, Yaña Çişmä

76

Jügderdemidiin Gürragchaa

Mongolian cosmonaut

*December 5th, 1947, Gurvanbulag

76

Bruce Golding

Jamaican politician; Prime Minister of Jamaica

*December 5th, 1947, Chapelton

76

Jim Plunkett

American football player (born 1947)

*December 5th, 1947, San Jose

75

Kim Simmonds

British rock musician (1947–2022)

*December 5th, 1947, Newbridge †December 13th, 2022

76

Egberto Gismonti

Brazilian musician and composer

*December 5th, 1947, Carmo

76

Mayako Kubo

Pianist and composer

*December 5th, 1947, Kobe

76

Don Touhig

British politician (born 1947)

*December 5th, 1947, Abersychan

61

Tony Gregory

1947-2009, Irish Independent politician

*December 5th, 1947, Dublin †January 2nd, 2009, Dublin

76

Arthur Duncan

Scottish footballer (born 1947)

*December 5th, 1947, Falkirk

69

Jørgen Kosmo

Norwegian politician (1947-2017)

*December 5th, 1947, Valnesfjord †July 24th, 2017

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52

Kali Rocha

American actress

*December 5th, 1971, Memphis

25

Conan Gray

American singer-songwriter

*December 5th, 1998, Lemon Grove

88

Bhumibol Adulyadej

Former King of Thailand

*December 5th, 1927, Mount Auburn Hospital †October 13th, 2016, Siriraj Hospital

77

José Carreras

Spanish opera singer

*December 5th, 1946, Sants

65

Walt Disney

American animator and producer (1901–1966)

*December 5th, 1901, Chicago †December 15th, 1966, Burbank

63

Hennes Weisweiler

German association football player and manager (1919–1983)

*December 5th, 1919, Lechenich †July 5th, 1983, Aesch

78

Moshe Katsav

Israeli politician, 8th president of Israel

*December 5th, 1945, Yazd

68

Karin Neugebauer

East German swimmer

*December 5th, 1955, Leipzig

77

Michael Canavan

American military official

*December 5th, 1946, Quincy

74

Werner Heisenberg

German theoretical physicist and nobel prize winner

*December 5th, 1901, Würzburg †February 1st, 1976, Munich

38

André-Pierre Gignac

French association football player

*December 5th, 1985, Martigues

79

Jeroen Krabbé

Dutch actor, film director

*December 5th, 1944, Amsterdam

77

Tadeusz Sławek

Polish writer

*December 5th, 1946, Katowice

91

Sheldon Glashow

American theoretical physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics (1979)

*December 5th, 1932, New York City

75

Ernst Schwanhold

German politician

*December 5th, 1948, Osnabrück

101

Ren Xinmin

Chinese scientist

*December 5th, 1915, Ningguo †February 12th, 2017, Beijing

79

Martin Van Buren

President of the United States from 1837 to 1841

*December 5th, 1782, Kinderhook †July 24th, 1862, Kinderhook

67

Klaus Allofs

German football player and executive

*December 5th, 1956, Düsseldorf

73

Jean-Luc Petitrenaud

French circus performer

*December 5th, 1950, Clermont-Ferrand

73

Nick Jameson

American actor

*December 5th, 1950, Columbia

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76

Rodney Williams

Governor-General of Antigua and Barbuda (born 1947)

*November 2nd, 1947, Swetes

76

Hillary Clinton

American politician and diplomat (born 1947)

*October 26th, 1947, Edgewater Hospital

77

Ulf Brunnberg

Actor

*April 7th, 1947, Bromma parish

69

Gregg Allman

American musician

*December 8th, 1947, Saint Thomas Hospital †May 27th, 2017, Richmond Hill

76

Hans-Jürgen Kreische

German association football player and manager

*July 19th, 1947, Dresden

69

David Bowie

English musician and actor (1947–2016)

*January 8th, 1947, Brixton †January 10th, 2016, Manhattan

77

Wiranto

Indonesian politician

*April 4th, 1947, Yogyakarta City

76

Stephen King

American writer (born 1947)

*September 21st, 1947, Portland

76

Angry Anderson

Australian rock singer

*August 5th, 1947, Melbourne

76

Kjell Magne Bondevik

33rd Prime Minister of Norway

*September 3rd, 1947, Molde Municipality

76

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Austrian and American actor, bodybuilder, and politician (born 1947)

*July 30th, 1947, Thal

76

Paul Yule

German-American archaeologist

*August 18th, 1947, Minneapolis

77

Mitt Romney

United States Senator from Utah since 2019

*March 12th, 1947, Detroit

76

Dilma Rousseff

President of Brazil from 2011 to 2016 (born 1947)

*December 14th, 1947, Belo Horizonte

77

Ulrich Manthe

German legal scientist and legal historian

*April 8th, 1947, Homburg

76

Françoise Barré-Sinoussi

French virologist and Nobel laureate, co-discoverer of HIV

*July 30th, 1947, Paris

77

Robert Kiyosaki

American finance author and investor

*April 8th, 1947, Hilo

68

Johan Cruyff

Dutch footballer and manager (1947–2016)

*April 25th, 1947, Amsterdam †March 24th, 2016, Barcelona

77

Glenn Close

American actress

*March 19th, 1947, Greenwich

77

Edward James Olmos

American actor

*February 24th, 1947, Los Angeles

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No: With 365 days 1947 is a normal year and no leap year.

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