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Born This Day: Dec. 5
| 1782 |
Martin Van Buren, 8th president of the United States (Kinderhook, NY; died 1862) |
| 1830 |
Christina Rossetti, poet (Britain; died 1894) |
| 1839 |
George Armstrong Custer, cavalry officer (New Rumley, OH; died 1876) |
| 1867 |
Józef Klemens Pilsudski, Polish revolutionary, independence fighter,
and dictator (Zulow—near present-day Vilnius, Lithuania; died 1935) |
| 1890 |
Fritz Lang, pioneering film director whose works included M and Metropolis (Vienna, Austria-Hungary; died 1976) |
| 1901 |
Walt Disney, animator/filmmaker and builder of an entertainment empire (Chicago, IL; died 1966) |
| Werner Heisenberg, German physicist and Nobel laureate (Würzburg, Germany; died 1976) |
| 1902 |
Strom Thurmond, SC senator (Edgefield, SC; died 2003) |
| 1906 |
Otto Preminger, director (Austria; died 1986) |
| 1925 |
General Anastasio Somoza Debayle, Nicaraguan president (Leon, Nicaragua; died 1980) |
| 1932 |
Little Richard (Penniman), singer/songwriter (Macon, GA) |
| 1934 |
Joan Didion, writer (Sacramento, CA) |
| 1935 |
Calvin Trillin, writer (Kansas City, MO) |
| 1936 |
Ismail Merchant, Indian-born film producer (Bombay—now Mumbai, India; died 2005) |
| 1946 |
José Carreras, opera singer (Barcelona, Spain) |
| 1947 |
Jim Messina, singer/songwriter (Maywood, CA) |
| 1952 |
Michael Dorn, actor (Luling, TX) |
| 1968 |
Margaret Cho, comedian (San Francisco, CA) |
| 1985 |
Frankie Muniz, actor (Ridgewood, NJ) |
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