Year 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).
Events of 1905
January
February
- February - In Austin, Texas and San Antonio, TX, it is the coldest February on record, with average monthly temperature of 42.3°F and 43.9°F degrees (the previous record was -1°F and 4°F on February 12, 1899).
- February 12 - In Christchurch, New Zealand, the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament is opened.
- February 16 - At Haulbowline Base in Ireland, two explosions onboard the HM Submarine A5, due to petrol fumes after refueling, kill 6 of 11 crew.
- February 17 - At Fremantle, Western Australia, the R.M.S. Orizaba wrecks, but all 160 passengers and the mail are saved.
- February 19 - In Manchuria, the Battle of Mukden begins, the largest world battle of that era.
- February 23 - Rotary founded.
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
Undated
Ongoing
Overview
As the second year of the massive Russo-Japanese War, more than 100,000 would die in the largest world battles of that era, and the war chaos lead to a revolution against the Tsar. Canada and the U.S. expanded west, with the Alberta and Saskatchewan provinces and the founding of Las Vegas. The April earthquake in India, killing 20,000, foreshadowed the 1906 earthquakes. Year 1905 was also the annus mirabilis of Albert Einstein, publishing papers that laid the foundations of quantum physics, introduced the special theory of relativity, explained Brownian motion and proved the existence of atoms.
Births
January-February
- January 2 - Michael Tippett, English composer (d. 1998)
- January 3
- 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 (d. 1982)
- February 4 - Hylda Baker, English comedy actress (d. 1986)
- February 7 - Paul Nizan, French author (d. 1940)
- 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)
March-April
May-June
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, First Four-star General of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (d. 1990)
- July 15 - Dorothy Fields, American songwriter (d. 1988)
- July 22 - Doc Cramer, Major League Baseball player (d. 1990)
- July 23 - Leopold Engleitner, 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, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Vienna (d. 2004)
- August 5 - Wassily Leontief, Russian economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999)
- August 8 - André Jolivet, French composer (d. 1974)
- August 11 - Erwin Chargaff, Austrian biochemist (d. 2002)
- August 16 - Marian Rejewski, Polish mathematician and cryptologist (d. 1980)
- August 20 - Jean Gebser, author, linguist and poet (d. 1973)
- August 21 - Friz Freleng, American animator (d. 1995)
- August 23 - Constant Lambert, British composer (d. 1951)
- August 29 - Dhyan Chand, Indian hockey legend. (d. 1979)
- August 31 - Dore Schary, American film writer, director, and producer (d. 1980)
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)
November-December
- November 4 - Dragutin Tadijanović, Croatian poet (d. 2007)
- November 7 - William Alwyn, English composer (d. 1985)
- November 9 - Erika Mann, oldest daughter of Thomas Mann (d. 1969)
- November 15 - Mantovani, Italian-born conductor and arranger (d. 1980)
- November 17 - Queen Astrid of Belgium (d. 1935)
- November 26 - Bob Johnson, baseball player (d. 1982)
- December 11 - Gilbert Roland, Mexican-born American actor (d. 1994)
- December 17 - Simo Häyhä, sniper (d. 2002)
- December 21 - Anthony Powell, British author (d. 2000)
- December 22 - Kenneth Rexroth, American poet (d. 1982)
- December 24 - Howard Hughes, American film maker, industrialist, aircraft designer, and airline founder (d. 1976)
- December 27 - Leonard Goldenson, American television executive (d. 1999)
- December 30 - Jule Styne, English-born composer (d. 1994)
- date unknown - Sada Abe, Japanese actress (d. 1970)
Deaths
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 20 - Jeremiah W. Farnham, American merchant captain
- March 6 - John Henninger Reagan, American Confederate politician (b. 1818)
- March 24 - Jules Verne, French author (b. 1828)
- March 26 - Maurice Barrymore, actor (b. 1849)
- March 28 - Huang Zunxian, Chinese poet and writer
- May 9 - Anna Jarvis, founder of Mother's Day in the USA
- June 1 - Émile Delahaye, French automotive pioneer (b. 1843)
- June 3 - James Hudson Taylor, founder of the China Inland Mission (b. 1832)
- June 22 - Francis Lubbock, Governor of Texas (b. 1815)
July - December
- July 8 - Walter Kittredge, American musician and composer (b. 1834)
- July 11 - Muhammad Abduh, Egyptian philosopher and jurist (b. 1849)
- August 14 - Simeon Solomon, British artist (b. 1840)
- September 13 - René Goblet, French politician (b. 1828)
- September 14 - Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza, explorer (b. 1852)
- September 18 - George MacDonald, Scottish author and poet, 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)
Nobel Prizes
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