05 January: today's birthdays

• Konrad Adenauer - German politician. He was Chancellor of West Germany
• Alvin Ailey - American dancer and choreographer
• Bradley Cooper - American actor. He starred in Limitless and Silver Linings Playbook
• Lucienne Day - English textile designer
• Robert Duvall - American actor and film director. He won an Oscar for Best Actor for his role as Mac Sledge  in the film Tender Mercies (1983)
• Umberto Eco - Italian semiotician, philosopher and novelist. He wrote The Name of the Rose (Il nome della rosa) and Foucault's Pendulum ( Il pendolo di Foucault)
• Rudolf Christoph Eucken - German philosopher and writer, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1908
• King Camp Gillette - American inventor and entrepreneur
• Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos - Spanish author, philosopher and politician
• Juan Carlos - King of Spain born in Italy
• Nikola Kalinić - Croatian soccer player
• Diane Keaton - American actress, film director and producer, born Diane Hall. She won an Oscar for Best Actress for her role as Annie Hall in the homonymous film directed by Woody Allen
• László Krasznahorkai - Hungarian novelist and screenwriter. He wrote the novels Satantango e Melancolia 
• Marilyn Manson - American singer and musician, born Brian Hugh Warner
• Hadewych Minis - Dutch actress
• Hayao Miyazaki - Japanese film director, producer and cartoonist
• Yves Tanguy - French painter
• Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o -  Kenyan poet and writer, born James Ngugi. He wrote Weep Not, Child and Decolonising the Mind