People born on December 5

Walt Disney

American animator and producer (1901–1966)

Bhumibol Adulyadej

Former King of Thailand

Martin Van Buren

President of the United States from 1837 to 1841

Werner Heisenberg

German theoretical physicist and nobel prize winner

Lope de Vega

Spanish playwright and poet (1562-1635)

Józef Piłsudski

Polish politician, First Marshall, and Prime Minister (1867–1935)

Fyodor Tyutchev

Russian poet (1803-1873)

Fritz Lang

Austrian filmmaker (1890–1976)

Arnold Sommerfeld

German physicist

C. F. Powell

British physicist

Sheldon Glashow

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

Manuel I Komnenos

Byzantine Emperor

Little Richard

American musician (1932–2020)

José Carreras

Spanish opera singer

Dev Patel

British actor (born 1990)