| 137701 | December 5 | Death | 1082 – Ramon Berenguer II, Count of Barcelona (b. 1053) |
| 137702 | December 5 | Death | 1355 – John III, Duke of Brabant (b. 1300) |
| 137703 | December 5 | Death | 1560 – Francis II of France (b. 1544) |
| 137704 | December 5 | Death | 1570 – Johan Friis, Danish politician (b. 1494) |
| 137705 | December 5 | Death | 1624 – Gaspard Bauhin, Swiss botanist and physician (b. 1560) |
| 137706 | December 5 | Death | 1654 – Jean François Sarrazin, French author (b. 1611) |
| 137707 | December 5 | Death | 1663 – Severo Bonini, Italian organist and composer (b. 1582) |
| 137708 | December 5 | Death | 1749 – Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye, Canadian commander and explorer (b. 1685) |
| 137709 | December 5 | Death | 1758 – Johann Friedrich Fasch, German violinist and composer (b. 1688) |
| 137710 | December 5 | Death | 1770 – James Stirling, Scottish mathematician and surveyor (b. 1692) |
| 137711 | December 5 | Death | 1784 – Phillis Wheatley, Senegalese-American slave and poet (b. 1753) |
| 137712 | December 5 | Death | 1791 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian pianist and composer (b. 1756) |
| 137713 | December 5 | Death | 1819 – Friedrich Leopold zu Stolberg-Stolberg, German poet and lawyer (b. 1750) |
| 137714 | December 5 | Death | 1870 – Alexandre Dumas, French author and playwright (b. 1802) |
| 137715 | December 5 | Death | 1887 – Eliza R. Snow, American poet and songwriter (b. 1804) |
| 137716 | December 5 | Death | 1891 – Pedro II of Brazil (b. 1825) |
| 137717 | December 5 | Death | 1895 – Gall, American tribal chief (b. 1840) |
| 137718 | December 5 | Death | 1918 – Schalk Willem Burger, South African commander, lawyer, and politician, 6th President of the South African Republic (b. 1852) |
| 137719 | December 5 | Death | 1925 – Władysław Reymont, Polish author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1867) |
| 137720 | December 5 | Death | 1926 – Claude Monet, French painter (b. 1840) |
| 137721 | December 5 | Death | 1931 – Vachel Lindsay, American poet (b. 1879) |
| 137722 | December 5 | Death | 1940 – Jan Kubelík, Czech violinist and composer (b. 1880) |
| 137723 | December 5 | Death | 1941 – Amrita Sher-Gil, Hungarian-Pakistani painter (b. 1913) |
| 137724 | December 5 | Death | 1942 – Jock Delves Broughton, English captain (b. 1883) |
| 137725 | December 5 | Death | 1946 – Louis Dewis, Belgian-French painter (b. 1872) |
| 137726 | December 5 | Death | 1950 – Sri Aurobindo, Indian guru and poet (b. 1872) |
| 137727 | December 5 | Death | 1951 – Shoeless Joe Jackson, American baseball player and manager (b. 1887) |
| 137728 | December 5 | Death | 1951 – Abanindranath Tagore, Indian painter, author, and academic (b. 1871) |
| 137729 | December 5 | Death | 1953 – Jorge Negrete, Mexican-American singer and actor (b. 1911) |
| 137730 | December 5 | Death | 1953 – William Sterling Parsons, American admiral (b. 1901) |