1905 (MCMV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). [edit] Overview As the second year of the massive Russo-Japanese War begins, more than 100,000 die in the largest world battles of that era, and the war chaos leads to a revolution against the Tsar. (Shostakovich's 11th Symphony is subtitled "The Year 1905" to commemorate this.) Canada and the U.S. expand west, with the Alberta and Saskatchewan provinces and the founding of Las Vegas. 1905 is also the annus mirabilis of Albert Einstein, publishing papers which lay the foundations of quantum physics, introduced the special theory of relativity, explained Brownian motion, and established mass-energy equivalence. [edit] Events of 1905 [edit] January [edit] February [edit] September [edit] October [edit] November [edit] December [edit] Undated [edit] Ongoing [edit] Births [edit] January–February - January 2 – Michael Tippett, English composer (d. 1998)
- January 3 – Anna May Wong, American actress (d. 1961)
- January 4 – Sterling Holloway, American actor (d. 1992)
- January 8 – Giacinto Scelsi, Italian composer (d. 1988)
- January 12
- January 18 – Joseph Bonanno, American gangster (d. 2002)
- January 19 – Stanley Hawes, British-born Australian film producer, director and administrator (d. 1991)
- January 21 – Christian Dior, French couturier (d. 1957)
- January 26
- January 29 – Barnett Newman, American painter (d. 1970)
- January 31 – John O'Hara, American writer (d. 1970)
- February 1 – Emilio G. Segrè, Italian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1989)
- February 2 – Ayn Rand, American author (The Fountainhead) (d. 1982)
- February 4 – Hylda Baker, English actress (d. 1986)
- February 7 – Paul Nizan, French author (d. 1940)
- February 10 – Walter A. Brown, American basketball and ice hockey pioneer (d. 1964)
- February 14 – Thelma Ritter, American actress (d. 1969)
- February 15 – Harold Arlen, American composer of popular music (d. 1986)
- February 23 – Derrick Henry Lehmer, American mathematician (d. 1991)
- February 27 – Franchot Tone, American actor (d. 1968)
[edit] March–April - March 1 – Doris Hare, English Actress (d. 2000)
- March 3 – Marie Glory, French silent screen actress (d. 2009)
- March 6 – Bob Wills, American singer (d. 1975)
- March 15
- March 16 – Elisabeth Flickenschildt, German actress (d. 1977)
- March 18
- March 19 – Albert Speer, German Nazi official and architect (d. 1981)
- March 20
- March 23
- March 25 – Pura Santillan-Castrence, Filipino writer and diplomat (d. 2007)
- March 27 – Elsie MacGill, Canadian aeronautical engineer (d. 1980)
- March 30 – Mikio Oda, Japanese athlete (d. 1998)
- April 7 – Queenie Leonard, American actress (d. 2002)
- April 21 – Edmund G. Brown, Governor of California (d. 1996)
- April 30 – Sergey Nikolsky, Russian mathematician
[edit] May–June [edit] July–August - July 4 – Irving Johnson, American sail training pioneer (d. 1991)
- July 5 – Jock Cameron, South African cricketer (d. 1935)
- July 8 – Leonid Amalrik, Russian animator (d. 1997)
- July 12
- July 13 – Alfredo M. Santos, Philippino general (d. 1990)
- July 15 – Dorothy Fields, American songwriter (d. 1988)
- July 22 – Doc Cramer, American baseball player (d. 1990)
- July 23 – Leopold Engleitner, Austrian Holocaust survivor
- July 25 – Elias Canetti, Bulgarian-born British writer (d. 1994)
- July 29 – Dag Hammarskjöld, Swedish United Nations Secretary-General (d. 1961)
- August 2 – Karl Amadeus Hartmann, German composer (d. 1963)
- August 3 – Franz König, Austrian Roman Catholic archbishop (d. 2004)
- August 5 – Wassily Leontief, Russian economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999)
- August 8 – André Jolivet, French composer (d. 1974)
- August 9 – Leo Genn, English actor (d. 1978)
- August 11 – Erwin Chargaff, Austrian biochemist (d. 2002)
- August 16 – Marian Rejewski, Polish mathematician and cryptologist (d. 1980)
- August 20 – Jean Gebser, German-born author, linguist and poet (d. 1973)
- August 23 – Constant Lambert, British composer (d. 1951)
- August 29 – Dhyan Chand, Indian hockey player (d. 1979)
- August 31 – Dore Schary, American film writer, director, and producer (d. 1980)
[edit] September–October - September 1 – Elvera Sanchez, Puerto Rican dancer (d. 2000)
- September 3 – Carl David Anderson, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1991)
- September 5 – Justiniano Montano, Filipino politician (d. 2005)
- September 18
- September 22
- September 24 – Severo Ochoa, Spanish–American biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1993)
- September 26 – Emilio Navarro, Puerto Rican baseball player
- September 28 – Max Schmeling, German boxer (d. 2005)
- September 30
- October 5 – Helen Wills Moody, American tennis player (d. 1998)
- October 23 – Felix Bloch, Swiss-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1983)
[edit] November–December - November 4 – Dragutin Tadijanović, Croatian poet (d. 2007)
- November 7 – William Alwyn, English composer (d. 1985)
- November 9 – Erika Mann, German author and war correspondent (d. 1969)
- November 15 – Mantovani, Italian-born conductor and arranger (d. 1980)
- November 17 – Queen Astrid of Belgium (d. 1935)
- November 26 – Bob Johnson, American baseball player (d. 1982)
- December 11 – Gilbert Roland, Mexican-born American actor (d. 1994)
- December 17 – Simo Häyhä, Finnish sniper (d. 2002)
- December 18 – Irving Kahn, American financial analyst and investor
- December 21 – Anthony Powell, British author (d. 2000)
- December 22 – Kenneth Rexroth, American poet (d. 1982)
- December 24 – Howard Hughes, American millionaire, aviation pioneer and film mogul (d. 1976)
- December 27 – Leonard Goldenson, American television executive (d. 1999)
- December 30 – Jule Styne, English-born composer (d. 1994)
[edit] Deaths [edit] January–June - January 14 – Ernst Abbe, German physicist (b. 1840)
- January 19 – Debendranath Tagore, Indian philosopher (b. 1817)
- February 4 – Louis-Ernest Barrias, French sculptor (b. 1841)
- February 15 – Lew Wallace, American writer, author of Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (b. 1827)
- February 17 – Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia, (b. 1857)
- February 20 – Jeremiah W. Farnham, American merchant captain (b. c. 1828)
- March 6 – John Henninger Reagan, American Confederate politician (b. 1818)
- March 15 – Meyer Guggenheim, Swiss-born patriarch of the Guggenheim family (b. 1828)
- March 24 – Jules Verne, French science fiction author (Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea) (b. 1828)
- March 26 – Maurice Barrymore, British actor (b. 1849)
- March 28 – Huang Zunxian, Chinese poet and writer (b. 1848)
- April 23 – Joseph Jefferson, American actor (b. 1829)
- May 13 – Sam S. Shubert, American theater owner (b. 1878)
- June 1 – Émile Delahaye, French automotive pioneer (b. 1843)
- June 3 – James Hudson Taylor, British missionary (b. 1832)
- June 22 – Francis Lubbock, Governor of Texas (b. 1815)
- June 27 – Grigory Vakulinchuk, Russian mutineer (b. 1877)
[edit] July–December - July 1 – John Hay, American diplomat and private secretary to Abraham Lincoln (b. 1838)
- July 8 – Walter Kittredge, American musician and composer (b. 1834)
- July 11 – Muhammad Abduh, Egyptian philosopher and jurist (b. 1849)
- August 1 – John Brown, Canadian politician (b. 1841)
- August 14 – Simeon Solomon, British artist (b. 1840)
- September 5 – Touch the Clouds, Minneconjou chief (b. c. 1838)
- September 13 – René Goblet, French politician (b. 1828)
- September 14 – Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza, Franco-Italian explorer (b. 1852)
- September 18 – George MacDonald, Scottish author, poet and Christian minister (b. 1824)
- September 19 – Thomas John Barnardo, Irish philanthropist (b. 1845)
- October 3 – José María de Heredia, French poet (b. 1842)
- October 13 – Sir Henry Irving, English actor (b. 1838)
- October 15 – Mikhail Ivanovich Dragomirov, Russian general (b. 1830)
- October 29 – Étienne Desmarteau, Canadian athlete (b. 1873)
- November 2 – Albert von Kölliker, Swiss anatomist (b. 1817)
- December 12 – Reimond Stijns, Belgian writer (b. 1850)
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