| 137551 | December 5 | Birth | 1945 – Serge Chapleau, Canadian cartoonist |
| 137552 | December 5 | Birth | 1945 – Moshe Katsav, Iranian-Israeli educator and politician, 8th President of Israel |
| 137553 | December 5 | Birth | 1946 – José Carreras, Spanish tenor and actor |
| 137554 | December 5 | Birth | 1946 – Andy Kim, Canadian singer-songwriter |
| 137555 | December 5 | Birth | 1946 – Sarel van der Merwe, South African race car driver |
| 137556 | December 5 | Birth | 1947 – Bruce Golding, Jamaican politician, 8th Prime Minister of Jamaica |
| 137557 | December 5 | Birth | 1947 – Tony Gregory, Irish educator and politician (d. 2009) |
| 137558 | December 5 | Birth | 1947 – Jim Messina, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Buffalo Springfield, Loggins and Messina, and Poco) |
| 137559 | December 5 | Birth | 1947 – Jim Plunkett, American football player and radio host |
| 137560 | December 5 | Birth | 1947 – Don Touhig, Welsh journalist and politician |
| 137561 | December 5 | Birth | 1947 – Rick Wills, English bass player (Foreigner, Small Faces, Bad Company, Jokers Wild, and The Jones Gang) |
| 137562 | December 5 | Birth | 1947 – Rudy Fernandez, Filipino triathlete |
| 137563 | December 5 | Birth | 1949 – John Altman, English composer and conductor |
| 137564 | December 5 | Birth | 1949 – David Manning, English diplomat, British Ambassador to the United States |
| 137565 | December 5 | Birth | 1949 – Abdullah Senussi, Sudanese-Libyan general |
| 137566 | December 5 | Birth | 1950 – Camarón de la Isla, Spanish singer and guitarist (d. 1992) |
| 137567 | December 5 | Birth | 1950 – James Knaggs, American Salvation Army officer |
| 137568 | December 5 | Birth | 1951 – Morgan Brittany, American actress |
| 137569 | December 5 | Birth | 1951 – Link Byfield, Canadian journalist and author (d. 2015) |
| 137570 | December 5 | Birth | 1951 – Anne-Mie van Kerckhoven, Belgian painter and illustrator |
| 137571 | December 5 | Birth | 1951 – Larry Zbyszko, American wrestler |
| 137572 | December 5 | Birth | 1952 – Bobby Barth, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Blackfoot) |
| 137573 | December 5 | Birth | 1953 – Sachiko Kobayashi, Japanese singer and voice actress |
| 137574 | December 5 | Birth | 1953 – Gwen Lister, South African-Namibian journalist, publisher, and activist |
| 137575 | December 5 | Birth | 1954 – Hanif Kureishi, English author and playwright |
| 137576 | December 5 | Birth | 1954 – Gary Roenicke, American baseball player |
| 137577 | December 5 | Birth | 1955 – Juha Tiainen, Finnish hammer thrower (d. 2003) |
| 137578 | December 5 | Birth | 1956 – Klaus Allofs, German footballer and manager |
| 137579 | December 5 | Birth | 1956 – Brian Backer, American actor |
| 137580 | December 5 | Birth | 1956 – Adam Thorpe, French-English author, poet, and playwright |