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Richard Wayne Penniman, better known by his stage name Little Richard, was an American singer-songwriter and pianist.
Famous Birthdays on December 5
1932 — Little Richard
American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor (died 2020)
December 5 has 244 recorded notable births across history, from 852 to 2009. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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852 – 2009
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Major events on December 5
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- 1991 Leonid Kravchuk is elected the first president of Ukraine. Source
- 1936 The Soviet Union adopts a new constitution and the Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic is established as a full Union Republic of the USSR. Source
- 1914 The Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition begins in an attempt to make the first land crossing of Antarctica. Source
- 1848 California Gold Rush: In a message to the United States Congress, U.S. President James K. Polk confirms that large amounts of gold had been discovered in California. Source
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Kwon Yu-ri debuted as a member of girl group Girls' Generation in August 2007, which went on to become one of the best-selling artists in South Korea and one of South Korea's most widely known girl groups worldwide.
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Gary Allan's third album, Smoke Rings in the Dark, was his first one for MCA Nashville and his first platinum album.
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Morgan Brittany began her career as a child appearing in the film Gypsy (1962), in a 1960 episode of The Twilight Zone entitled "Nightmare as a Child" and another in 1963 entitled "Valley of the Shadow".
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A 7 ft 0 in center, he came directly out of Thornwood High School in South Holland, Illinois, and was selected fourth overall in the 2001 NBA draft by the Chicago Bulls.
More major people born on December 5
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
1989
Kwon Yu-ri
South Korean singer-songwriter and actress
Kwon Yu-ri, known mononymously as Yuri, is a South Korean singer, actress, and songwriter.
1967
Gary Allan
American singer-songwriter and guitarist
Gary Allan Herzberg is an American country music singer. Signed to Decca Records in 1996, he made his country music debut with the release of his single "Her Man", the lead-off to his gold-certified debut album Used…
1951
Morgan Brittany
American actress
Morgan Brittany is an American actress. She began her career as a child appearing in the film Gypsy (1962), in a 1960 episode of The Twilight Zone entitled "Nightmare as a Child" and another in 1963 entitled "Valley of…
1982
Eddy Curry
American basketball player
Eddy Anthony Curry Jr. is an American former professional basketball player.
1897
Nunnally Johnson
American director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1977)
Nunnally Hunter Johnson was an American screenwriter, film director, producer and playwright. As a filmmaker, he wrote the screenplays to more than fifty films in a career that spanned from 1927 to 1967.
1978
Olli Jokinen
Finnish ice hockey player
Olli Veli Pekka Jokinen is a Finnish former professional ice hockey player. He was selected by the Los Angeles Kings third overall in the 1997 NHL entry draft, with whom he made his NHL debut.
1916
Hilary Koprowski
Polish-American virologist and immunologist, created the world's first effective live polio vaccine (died 2013)
Hilary Koprowski was a Polish virologist and immunologist. He was the first scientist to produce attenuated poliovirus and to conduct large-scale clinical research studies of an oral polio vaccine.
1903
Johannes Heesters
Dutch-German actor and singer (died 2011)
Johan Marius Nicolaas Heesters, known professionally as Johannes Heesters, was a Dutch-German actor of stage, television and film, as well as a vocalist of numerous recordings and performer on the concert stage with a…
1859
John Jellicoe
1st Earl Jellicoe, English admiral and politician, 2nd Governor-General of New Zealand (died 1935)
Admiral of the Fleet John Rushworth Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe was a Royal Navy officer.
1905
Francisco Javier Arana
Guatemalan Army colonel and briefly Guatemalan head of state (died 1949)
Francisco Javier Arana Castro was a Guatemalan military leader and one of the three members of the revolutionary junta that ruled Guatemala from 20 October 1944 to 15 March 1945 during the early part of the Guatemalan…
1935
Yury Vlasov
Ukrainian-Russian weightlifter and politician (died 2021)
Yury Petrovich Vlasov was a Soviet and Russian heavyweight weightlifter, writer and politician.
1875
Arthur Currie
Canadian general (died 1933)
General Sir Arthur William Currie was a senior officer of the Canadian Army who fought during World War I.
1938
J. J. Cale
American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2013)
John Weldon "JJ" Cale was an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter.
1916
Walt McPherson
American basketball player and coach (died 2013)
Walter James McPherson was an American basketball coach and was regarded as one of the best at San Jose State University, and former West Coast Athletic Conference commissioner.
1963
Alberto Nisman
Argentinian lawyer (died 2015)
Natalio Alberto Nisman was an Argentine lawyer who worked as a federal prosecutor, noted for being the chief investigator of the 1994 car bombing of a Jewish center in Buenos Aires, which killed 85 people, the deadliest…
1988
Tina Charles
American basketball player
Tina Alexandria Charles is an American former professional basketball player. Originally from Jamaica, Queens, New York City, Charles was drafted first overall in the 2010 WNBA draft by the Connecticut Sun.
1902
Strom Thurmond
American educator, general, and politician, 103rd Governor of South Carolina (died 2003)
James Strom Thurmond Sr. was an American politician who represented South Carolina in the United States Senate from late 1954 to early 2003, with a seven-month break in 1956.
1901
Walt Disney
American animator, director, producer, and screenwriter, co-founded The Walt Disney Company (died 1966)
Walter Elias Disney was an American animator, film producer, voice actor, and entrepreneur. A pioneer of the American animation industry, he introduced several developments in the production of cartoons.
1921
Alvy Moore
American actor and producer (died 1997)
Jack Alvin "Alvy" Moore was an American actor best known for his role as scatterbrained county agricultural agent Hank Kimball on the CBS television series Green Acres.