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| align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
1902 1903 1904 - 1905 - 1906 1907 1908
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| align="center" colspan=2 | 1880s 1890s - 1900s ''' - 1910s 1920s 1930s
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| align="center" | - 20th Century ''' - 21st Century
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1905 was a Common Year Starting On Sunday (see link for calendar).
Events
January-April
May-October
November-December
Unknown dates
Births
January-April
- January 2 - Michael Tippett , English composer (d. 1998 )
- January 3 - Anna May Wong , American actress (d. 1961 )
- January 12 - Tex Ritter , American actor and singer (d. 1974 )
- January 18 - Joseph Bonanno , American gangster (d. 2002 )
- January 21 - Christian Dior , French couturier (d. 1957 )
- January 26 - Charles Lane , American actor
- January 26 - Maria Von Trapp , Austrian singer (d. 1987 )
- 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 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 6 - Bob Wills , American singer (d. 1975 )
- March 15 - Berthold Graf Schenk Von Stauffenberg , German lawyer and Nazi opponent (d. 1944 )
- March 16 - Elisabeth Flickenschildt , German actress (d. 1977 )
- March 18 - Thomas Townsend Brown , American scientist (d. 1985 )
- March 18 - Robert Donat , English actor (d. 1958 )
- March 18 - Benny Friedman , American football player (d. 1982 )
- March 19 - Albert Speer , Nazi official (d. 1981 )
- March 23 - Lale Andersen , German singer (d. 1972 )
- March 23 - Joan Crawford , American actress (d. 1977 )
- March 27 - Elsie MacGill , Canadian aeronautical engineer (d. 1980 )
- April 21 - Edmund G. Brown , Govenor of California (d. 1996 )
May-August
- May 3 - Sebastian Shaw , English actor (d. 1994 )
- May 8 - Red Nichols , American jazz musician (d. 1965 )
- May 15 - Joseph Cotten , American actor (d. 1994 )
- May 16 - Henry Fonda , American actor (d. 1982 )
- May 20 - Gerrit Achterberg , Dutch poet
- June 12 - Ray Barbuti , American athlete (d. 1975 )
- July 4 - Irving Johnson , American sail training pioneer (d. 1991 )
- July 5 - Jock Cameron , South African cricketer (d. 1935 )
- July 12 - Edward Bernds , American director (d. 2000 )
- --- Prince John Of The United Kingdom (d. 1919 )
- July 15 - Dorothy Fields , American songwriter (d. 1988 )
- July 22 - Doc Cramer , Major League Baseball player (d. 1990 )
- 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 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-December
- September 1 - Elvera Sanchez , Puerto Rican dancer (d. 2000 )
- September 3 - Carl David Anderson , American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1991 )
- September 5 - Rhea Latour , Canadian Legend (Today 100 Years Old )
- September 18 - Eddie Anderson , American actor (d. 1977 )
- September 18 - Greta Garbo , Swedish actress (d. 1990 )
- September 22 - Eugen Sänger , Austrian aerospace engineer (d. 1964 )
- September 24 - Severo Ochoa , Spanish–American biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1993 )
- September 30 - Savitri Devi , Greek writer and National Socialist philosopher (d. 1982 )
- September 30 - Nevill Francis Mott , English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1996 )
- September 30 - Michael Powell , British director (d. 1990 )
- October 5 - Helen Wills Moody , American tennis player (d. 1998 )
- October 23 - Felix Bloch , Swiss-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1983 )
- 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 Rowland , Mexican-born American actor (d. 1994 )
- 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 )
Unknown dates
Deaths
- 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 )
- March 6 - John Henninger Reagan , American Confederate politician (b. 1818 )
- March 24 - Jules Verne , French author (b. 1828 )
- May 9 - Mrs. Jarvis, model for Mother's Day
- June 22 - Francis Lubbock , Governor of Texas (b. 1815 )
- July 8 - Walter Kittredge , American musician and composer (b. 1834 )
- August 14 - Simeon Solomon , British artist (b. 1840 )
- September 18 - George MacDonald , Scottish author and poet, Christian minister (b. 1824 )
- October 13 - Henry Irving , English actor (b. 1838 )
- October 29 - Étienne Desmarteau , Canadian athlete (b. 1873 )
- Muhammad Abduh , Egyptian philosopher and jurist (b. 1849 )
Marriages
Nobel Prizes
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