5 December: today's birthdays

• Ricard Bofill - Catalan architect. He is considered one of the prominent exponents of Postmodernism
• J.J. Cale - John Weldon Cale, American singer-songwriter. He composed After Midnight and Cocaine for Eric Clapton
• Josep Carreras - Catalan tenor. He is one of The Three Tenors along with Plácido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti
• Joan Didion - American journalist, author and essayist. She wrote Slouching Towards Bethlehem, a collection of essays 
• Walt Disney - American animator, cartoonist and filmmaker, born Walter Elias Disney. For his animated films, he won 26 Oscars
• Sheldon Lee Glashow - American physicist
• Werner Heisenberg - German physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics 1932
• Hanif Kureishi - English author and playwright of Pakistani descent. He wrote the novel The Buddha of Suburbia
• Fritz Lang - Austrian film director and screenwriter. He directed Metropolis, a science-fiction movie of the silent era
• Marcelo Zalayeta - Uruguayan soccer player