Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/December 5

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[edit] Births

• 1782 - Martin Van Buren, 8th President of the United States (d. 1862)
• 1879 - Clyde Cessna, American airplane manufacturer (d. 1954)
• 1890 - Fritz Lang, Austrian-born film director (d. 1976)
• 1901 - Walt Disney, American animated film producer (d. 1966) (pictured)
• 1932 - Little Richard (Richard Wayne Penniman), American singer and pianist
• 1934 - Joan Didion, American writer

[edit] Deaths

• 1784 - Phillis Wheatley, British poet (b. 1753)
• 1791 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian composer (b. 1756)
• 1926 - Claude Monet, French impressionist painter (b. 1840)
• 1951 - Shoeless Joe Jackson, American baseball player (b. 1889)