What day of the week was December 5, 2013?

The day of the week December 5th, 2013 fell on was a Thursday.

There were 20 days until Christmas. Last day of Hanukkah for Jewish people.

Fred Bassetti the American architect, founded Bassetti Architects (b. 1917) died on this day in 2013. As did Iryna Charnushenka-Stasiuk the Belarusian long jumper (b. 1979) , William B. Edmondson the American diplomat, United States Ambassador to South Africa (b. 1927) , Monte Fresco the English photographer (b. 1936) , Barry Jackson the English actor and stuntman (b. 1938) , Nelson Mandela the South African lawyer and politician, 1st President of South Africa, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918) , Danny Matt the German-Israeli general (b. 1927) .