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1905
1905 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar).
Events
January-April
May-October
November-December
Unknown dates
Births
January-February
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January 2 - Michael Tippett, composer (d. 1998)
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January 3 - Anna May Wong, actress (d. 1961)
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January 12 - Tex Ritter, actor, singer (d. 1974)
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January 18 - Joseph Bonanno, gangster (d. 2002)
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January 21 - Christian Dior, couturier (d. 1957)
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January 26 - Charles Lane, actor
- January 26 - Bernhard Minetti , actor
- January 26 - Maria von Trapp, singer (d. 1987)
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January 29 - Barnett Newman, painter (d. 1970)
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January 31 - John O'Hara, writer (d. 1970)
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February 2 - Ayn Rand, Author (d. 1982)
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February 7 - Paul Nizan, author (d. 1940)
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February 11 - Elizabeth Vuyk , Dutch/Indonesian writer (d. 1991)
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February 14 - Thelma Ritter, actress (d. 1969)
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February 23 - Derrick Henry Lehmer, mathematician (d. 1991)
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February 27 - Franchot Tone, actor (d. 1968)
March-August
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March 5 - Günther Lüders , actor and film director (d. 1975)
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March 6 - Bob Wills, country music singer (d. 1975)
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March 15 - Berthold Graf Schenk von Stauffenberg, lawyer and Nazi opponent (d. 1944)
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March 16 - Elisabeth Flickenschildt, actress (d. 1977)
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March 18 - Thomas Townsend Brown, scientist (d. 1985)
- March 18 - Robert Donat, actor (d. 1958)
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March 19 - Albert Speer, Nazi official (d. 1981)
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March 23 - Lale Andersen, singer and cabaretist (d. 1972)
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March 27 - Elsie MacGill, aeronautical engineer, "Queen of the Hurricanes" (d. 1980)
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May 3 - Sebastian Shaw, actor (d. 1994)
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May 8 - Red Nichols, jazz musician (d. 1965)
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May 15 - Joseph Cotten, actor (d. 1994)
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May 16 - Henry Fonda, actor (d. 1982)
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May 20 - Gerrit Achterberg , Dutch poet
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June 12 - Ray Barbuti, American athlete (d. 1988)
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July 12 - Prince John of the United Kingdom (d. 1919)
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July 22 - Doc Cramer, Major League Baseball center fielder (d. 1990)
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July 29 - Dag Hammarskjöld, Secretary-General of the United Nations (d. 1961)
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August 2 - Karl Amadeus Hartmann, composer (d. 1963)
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August 3 - Franz König, Roman Catholic archbishop of Vienna, important thinker at Vatican II and ultimately last surviving cardinal of John XXIII (d. 2004).
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August 11 - Erwin Chargaff, biochemist (d. 2002)
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August 16 - Marian Rejewski, mathematician, cryptologist (d. 1980)
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August 23 - Constant Lambert, composer (d. 1951)
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August 31 - Dore Schary, stage/motion picture personality (d. 1980)
September-December
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September 18 - Greta Garbo, Swedish actress (d. 1990)
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September 22 - Eugen Sänger, Austrian aerospace engineer (d. 1964)
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September 30 - Michael Powell, British director (d. 1990)
- September 30 - Savitri Devi, Greek author and ideologist (d. 1982)
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November 7 - William Alwyn, English composer (d. 1985)
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November 9 - Erika Mann, oldest daughter of Thomas Mann (d. 1969)
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November 15 - Mantovani, conductor and arranger (d. 1980)
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November 17 - Queen Astrid of Belgium (d. 1935)
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November 26 - Bob Johnson ("Indian Bob"), Major League Baseball player (d. 1982)
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December 24 - Howard Hughes, American film maker, industrialist, aircraft designer, and airline founder (d. 1976)
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December 30 - Jule Styne, composer (d. 1994)
Unknown dates
Deaths
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January 14 - Ernst Abbe, German physicist (b. 1840)
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January 19 - Debendranath Tagore, Indian philosopher (b. 1817)
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March 6 - John Henninger Reagan, American Confederate politician (b. 1818)
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March 24 - Jules Verne, French author (b. 1828)
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May 9 - Mrs. Jarvis, model for Mother's Day
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June 22 - Francis Lubbock, governor of Texas (b. 1815)
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July 8 - Walter Kittredge, American musician and composer (b. 1834)
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September 18 - George MacDonald, Scottish author and poet, Christian minister (b. 1824)
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October 13 - Henry Irving, English actor (b. 1838)
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October 29 - Étienne Desmarteau, Canadian athlete (b. 1873)
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Muhammad Abduh, Egyptian philosopher and jurist
Last updated: 10-14-2005 19:04:31
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