About the day » Thursday December 5, 1940Calender converter

• Allan (Alwyn) MYLES (MOULD), Mandurah, Western Australia, Australia († 1990)
• Dale M. Lumley <sKsOb>1, Grand Saline, Van Zandt County, Texas († 2007)
• Johannes Jacobus Maria van Otterlo, Tilburg († 1995)
• Christianne KEUKELINCK, Knokke-Heist († 1997)
• Abe Bonnema († 2004)
• Hildegard Höfer, Köln († 2008)
• Agnes Kerkhoff, Amsterdam († 2001)
• Anneke Kakes, Bedum († 2010)
• Copal, Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1940)
• Gary Thurman Freshour, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, Verenigde Staten († 2012)

• Aalbarta van den Top (72), Barneveld
• Barbara Pfefferkorn (0), Missouri, Verenigde Staten
• Aaltien Rouw (21), Emmen, Drenthe, Netherlands
• Anna Maria Frenken (50), Mierlo
• Charles William Fellers (73), Fremont, Mahaska, Iowa
• Andradina de Godoy (71), Taubaté, São Paulo, Brasil
• Anna Maria SEGERS (76), Ieper,8900,Flandre Occidentale,Flandre,BELGIQUE
• Antonia van der Steen (84), Haaren, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Copal (0), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Antonia van der Steen (84), Haaren, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1936 » James Lee Burke, American journalist, author, and academic
• 1938 » J. J. Cale, American singer-songwriter and guitarist († 2013)
• 1940 » Boris Ignatyev, Russian footballer and manager
• 1940 » Frank Wilson, American singer-songwriter and producer († 2012)
• 1940 » Peter Pohl, Swedish author, director, and screenwriter
• 1940 » Tony Crafter, Australian cricket umpire
• 1942 » Bryan Murray, Canadian ice hockey coach († 2017)
• 1943 » Andrew Yeom Soo-jung, South Korean cardinal
• 1943 » Eva Joly, Norwegian-French judge and politician
• 1944 » Jeroen Krabbé, Dutch actor, director, and producer

• 1925 » Władysław Reymont, Polish novelist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1867)
• 1926 » Claude Monet, French painter (b. 1840)
• 1931 » Vachel Lindsay, American poet (b. 1879)
• 1940 » Jan Kubelík, Czech violinist and composer (b. 1880)
• 1941 » Amrita Sher-Gil, Hungarian-Pakistani painter (b. 1913)
• 1942 » Jock Delves Broughton, English captain (b. 1883)
• 1946 » Louis Dewis, Belgian-French painter and educator (b. 1872)
• 1951 » Abanindranath Tagore, Indian painter, author, and academic (b. 1871)
• 1951 » Shoeless Joe Jackson, American baseball player and manager (b. 1887)
• 1953 » William Sterling Parsons, American admiral (b. 1901)

• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1939 to September 3, 1940 the cabinet De Geer II, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from September 3, 1940 to July 27, 1941 the cabinet Gerbrandy I, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 8.8 million citizens.
• February 27 » Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discover carbon-14.
• February 29 » In a ceremony held in Berkeley, California, physicist Ernest Lawrence receives the 1939 Nobel Prize in Physics from Sweden's Consul General in San Francisco.
• September 7 » Romania returns Southern Dobruja to Bulgaria under the Treaty of Craiova.
• November 12 » World War II: Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov arrives in Berlin to discuss the possibility of the Soviet Union joining the Axis Powers.
• November 12 » World War II: The Battle of Gabon ends as Free French Forces take Libreville, Gabon, and all of French Equatorial Africa from Vichy French forces.
• November 20 » World War II: Hungary becomes a signatory of the Tripartite Pact, officially joining the Axis powers.

The temperature on December 5, 1940 was between 2.3 °C and 6.5 °C and averaged 4.8 °C. There was 9.8 mm of rain during 4.9 hours. There was 2.5 hours of sunshine (31%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the west.