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Born in 1905

1,043 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity

  1. Fred Trump

    real estate developer, entrepreneur

    1905–1999 · aged 93

    October 11 · 1905

    Source: GeneaStar

  2. Howard Hughes*

    entrepreneur, military flight engineer

    Date disputed

    December 24 · 1905

    Source: SNAC

  3. Ayn Rand

    essayist, novelist

    1905–1982 · aged 77

    February 2 · 1905

    Source: BnF authorities

  4. Henry Fonda

    film producer, television actor

    1905–1982 · aged 77

    May 16 · 1905

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  5. Joan Crawford*

    film actor, businessperson

    Date disputed

    March 23 · 1905

    No external source identified

  6. Jean-Paul Sartre

    philosopher, literary critic

    1905–1980 · aged 74

    June 21 · 1905

    Source: Internet Broadway Database

  7. Albert Speer

    politician, architect

    1905–1981 · aged 76

    March 19 · 1905

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  8. Simo Häyhä

    dog breeder, sniper

    1905–2002 · aged 96

    December 17 · 1905

    No external source identified

  9. Greta Garbo

    stage actor, actor

    1905–1990 · aged 84

    September 18 · 1905

    Source: Munzinger Personen

  10. Viktor Frankl

    university teacher, aircraft pilot

    1905–1997 · aged 92

    March 26 · 1905

    Source: Proleksis Encyclopedia

  11. Christian Dior

    fashion designer, grand couturier

    1905–1957 · aged 52

    January 21 · 1905

    Source: Internet Broadway Database

  12. Ellsworth Raymond Johnson

    drug trafficker

    1905–1968 · aged 62

    October 31 · 1905

    Source: Find a Grave

  13. Dag Hammarskjöld

    poet, philosopher

    1905–1961 · aged 56

    July 29 · 1905

    Source: GeneaStar

  14. Maria von Trapp

    singer, writer

    1905–1987 · aged 82

    January 26 · 1905

    Source: filmportal.de

  15. Clara Bow

    actor, film actor

    1905–1965 · aged 60

    July 29 · 1905

    Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online

  16. Myrna Loy

    stage actor, film actor

    1905–1993 · aged 88

    August 2 · 1905

    Source: BnF authorities

  17. James J. Braddock

    boxer

    1905–1974 · aged 69

    June 7 · 1905

    Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online

  18. Dalton Trumbo

    film producer, film director

    1905–1976 · aged 70

    December 9 · 1905

    Source: Internet Broadway Database

  19. Anna May Wong*

    film actor, actor

    Date disputed

    January 3 · 1905

    Source: Internet Broadway Database

  20. Joseph Cotten

    film screenwriter, writer

    1905–1994 · aged 88

    May 15 · 1905

    Source: Munzinger Personen

  21. Prince John of the United Kingdom

    1905–1919 · aged 13

    July 12 · 1905

    Source: Find a Grave

  22. Albert Pierrepoint

    executioner

    1905–1992 · aged 87

    March 30 · 1905

    Source: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

  23. Joseph Bonanno

    criminal

    1905–2002 · aged 97

    January 18 · 1905

    Source: IMDb

  24. Sterling Holloway

    television actor, stage actor

    1905–1992 · aged 87

    January 14 · 1905

    Source: familysearch.org

  25. Gertrude Ederle

    swimmer, open water swimmer

    1905–2003 · aged 98

    October 23 · 1905

    Source: Czech National Authority Database

  26. Santa Faustina Kowalska

    mystic, writer

    1905–1938 · aged 33

    August 25 · 1905

    Source: GCatholic.org

  27. Otto Preminger

    director, film producer

    1905–1986 · aged 80

    December 5 · 1905

    Source: Find a Grave

  28. Joel McCrea

    actor, television actor

    1905–1990 · aged 84

    November 5 · 1905

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  29. Marcel Lefebvre

    theologian, Catholic deacon

    1905–1991 · aged 85

    November 29 · 1905

    Source: Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana

  30. Max Schmeling

    musician, actor

    1905–2005 · aged 99

    September 28 · 1905

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  31. Tex Ritter

    politician, stage actor

    1905–1974 · aged 68

    January 12 · 1905

    Source: Find a Grave

  32. Neville Goddard

    lecturer, author

    1905–1972 · aged 67

    February 19 · 1905

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  33. Savitri Devi

    activist, animal rights advocate

    1905–1982 · aged 77

    September 30 · 1905

    Source: BnF authorities

  34. Major Dhyan Chand Singh

    field hockey player, autobiographer

    1905–1979 · aged 74

    August 29 · 1905

    Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online

  35. Robert Donat

    director, stage actor

    1905–1958 · aged 53

    March 18 · 1905

    Source: filmportal.de

  36. Arthur Koestler

    screenwriter, philosopher

    1905–1983 · aged 77

    September 5 · 1905

    Source: NooSFere

  37. Astrid of Sweden

    aristocrat, consort

    1905–1935 · aged 29

    November 17 · 1905

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  38. Franchot Tone

    stage actor, film producer

    1905–1968 · aged 63

    February 27 · 1905

    Source: Internet Broadway Database

  39. Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed

    lawyer, politician

    1905–1977 · aged 71

    May 13 · 1905

    Source: Munzinger Personen

  40. Nannie Doss

    serial killer, criminal

    1905–1965 · aged 59

    November 4 · 1905

    No external source identified

  41. Sada Abe

    geisha, criminal

    1905–1979

    May 28 · 1905

    No external source identified

  42. Andy Devine

    television actor, film actor

    1905–1977 · aged 71

    October 7 · 1905

    Source: BnF authorities

  43. Cliff Arquette*

    television actor, lyricist

    Date disputed

    December 27 · 1905

    No external source identified

  44. Lillian Hellman

    writer, playwright

    1905–1984 · aged 79

    June 20 · 1905

    Source: BnF authorities

  45. Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah

    chemist, writer

    1905–1982

    December 5 · 1905

    Source: Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana

  46. Harry Harlow

    university teacher, psychologist

    1905–1981 · aged 76

    October 31 · 1905

    Source: SNAC

  47. Richard Haydn

    television actor, film actor

    1905–1985 · aged 80

    March 10 · 1905

    Source: SNAC

  48. Félix Houphouët-Boigny*

    politician

    Date disputed

    October 18 · 1905

    Source: Babelio

  49. Robert Newton

    actor, television actor

    1905–1956 · aged 50

    June 1 · 1905

    Source: filmportal.de

  50. Guillermo Stábile*

    association football coach, association football player

    Date disputed

    January 17 · 1905

    No external source identified

  51. Robert Sink

    military personnel

    1905–1965 · aged 60

    April 3 · 1905

    Source: archive.org

  52. Aldo Gucci

    businessperson, entrepreneur

    1905–1990 · aged 84

    May 26 · 1905

    No external source identified

  53. Princess Margarita of Greece and Denmark

    aristocrat

    1905–1981 · aged 76

    April 18 · 1905

    Source: The Peerage

  54. Elias Canetti

    psychologist, chemist

    1905–1994 · aged 89

    July 25 · 1905

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  55. Tommy Dorsey

    jazz musician, film actor

    1905–1956 · aged 51

    November 19 · 1905

    Source: Find a Grave

  56. Harold Arlen

    composer, songwriter

    1905–1986 · aged 81

    February 15 · 1905

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  57. Kay Francis

    stage actor, film actor

    1905–1968 · aged 63

    January 13 · 1905

    Source: Find a Grave

  58. Sebastian Shaw

    film actor, stage actor

    1905–1994 · aged 89

    May 29 · 1905

    Source: Internet Broadway Database

  59. Michael Powell

    film director, film producer

    1905–1990 · aged 84

    September 30 · 1905

    Source: SNAC

  60. Erika Mann

    stage actor, writer

    1905–1969 · aged 63

    November 9 · 1905

    Source: filmportal.de

  61. Takashi Shimura

    actor, radio drama actor

    1905–1982 · aged 76

    March 12 · 1905

    Source: BnF authorities

  62. Mohammad Hidayatullah

    judge, politician

    1905–1992 · aged 86

    December 17 · 1905

    No external source identified

  63. Mildred Natwick

    film actor, stage actor

    1905–1994 · aged 89

    June 19 · 1905

    Source: Find a Grave

  64. Abraham Zapruder

    film director, tailor

    1905–1970 · aged 65

    May 15 · 1905

    Source: Find a Grave

  65. Vasily Grossman

    novelist, prose writer

    1905–1964 · aged 58

    December 12 · 1905

    Source: Concise Literary Encyclopedia

  66. Mikhail Sholokhov

    short story writer, novelist

    1905–1984 · aged 78

    May 24 · 1905

    Source: BnF authorities

  67. John Roselli

    gangster

    1905–1976 · aged 71

    July 4 · 1905

    No external source identified

  68. Mulk Raj Anand

    translator, non-fiction writer

    1905–2004 · aged 98

    December 12 · 1905

    Source: Proleksis Encyclopedia

  69. Durga Khote

    film actor, autobiographer

    1905–1991 · aged 86

    January 13 · 1905

    Source: IMDb

  70. Robert Penn Warren

    poet, journalist

    1905–1989 · aged 84

    April 24 · 1905

    Source: The Fine Art Archive

  71. J. William Fulbright

    banker, farmer

    1905–1995 · aged 89

    April 9 · 1905

    Source: SNAC

  72. Pat Brown

    politician, governor

    1905–1996 · aged 90

    April 21 · 1905

    Source: Munzinger Personen

  73. Nikolay Aleksandrovich Tikhonov

    metallurgist, politician

    1905–1997 · aged 92

    May 14 · 1905

    Source: Find a Grave

  74. Władysław Gomułka

    politician, trade unionist

    1905–1982 · aged 77

    February 6 · 1905

    Source: filmportal.de

  75. Karl Wallenda

    artist, tightrope walker

    1905–1978 · aged 73

    January 21 · 1905

    Source: Find a Grave

  76. Albert Dekker

    film actor, politician

    1905–1968 · aged 62

    December 20 · 1905

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  77. Bob Wills

    bandleader, violinist

    1905–1975 · aged 70

    March 6 · 1905

    Source: GeneaStar

  78. Erskine Hamilton Childers

    politician

    1905–1974 · aged 68

    December 11 · 1905

    Source: Proleksis Encyclopedia

  79. Charles Lane

    actor, film actor

    1905–2007 · aged 102

    January 26 · 1905

    Source: Find a Grave

  80. Gilbert Roland

    screenwriter, television actor

    1905–1994 · aged 88

    December 11 · 1905

    Source: filmportal.de

  81. John Hoyt*

    film actor, actor

    Date disputed

    October 5 · 1905

    Source: Find a Grave

  82. Howard McNear

    voice actor, actor

    1905–1969 · aged 63

    January 27 · 1905

    Source: Find a Grave

  83. Eleanor Audley

    actor, voice actor

    1905–1991 · aged 86

    November 19 · 1905

    Source: IMDb

  84. Chen Yun

    politician

    1905–1995 · aged 89

    June 13 · 1905

    Source: BnF authorities

  85. Gareth Jones

    journalist

    1905–1935 · aged 29

    August 14 · 1905

    No external source identified

  86. Hans Urs von Balthasar

    translator, writer

    1905–1988 · aged 82

    August 12 · 1905

    Source: BeWeB

  87. Eva Hart

    politician

    1905–1996 · aged 91

    January 31 · 1905

    Source: Encyclopedia Titanica

  88. Leo Durocher

    baseball player, writer

    1905–1991 · aged 86

    July 27 · 1905

    Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online

  89. Sanford Meisner

    drama teacher, actor

    1905–1997

    August 31 · 1905

    Source: SNAC

  90. D. R. Kaprekar

    mathematician

    1905–1986 · aged 81

    January 17 · 1905

    Source: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive

  91. Duke Albrecht, Duke of Bavaria

    aristocrat

    1905–1996 · aged 91

    May 3 · 1905

    Source: The Peerage

  92. Frank Faylen

    film actor, television actor

    1905–1985 · aged 79

    December 8 · 1905

    Source: BnF authorities

  93. Mary Renault

    nurse, biographer

    1905–1983 · aged 78

    September 4 · 1905

    Source: Vegetti Catalog of Fantastic Literature

  94. Queen Genepil

    consort

    1905–1938

    1905

    No external source identified

  95. Raymond Aron

    journalist, writer

    1905–1983 · aged 78

    March 14 · 1905

    Source: Munzinger Personen

  96. Bosley Crowther

    author, journalist

    1905–1981 · aged 75

    July 13 · 1905

    Source: SNAC

  97. John O'Hara

    journalist, screenwriter

    1905–1970 · aged 65

    January 31 · 1905

    Source: The Fine Art Archive Db

  98. Emílio Garrastazu Médici

    military personnel, politician

    1905–1985 · aged 79

    December 4 · 1905

    Source: SNAC

  99. James Burnham

    philosopher, economist

    1905–1987 · aged 81

    November 22 · 1905

    Source: BnF authorities

  100. Marian Rejewski*

    inventor, cryptologist

    Date disputed

    August 16 · 1905

    Source: marianrejewski.pl

  101. Felix Bloch

    physicist, nuclear physicist

    1905–1983 · aged 77

    October 23 · 1905

    Source: BnF authorities

  102. Leo Genn

    television actor, film actor

    1905–1978 · aged 72

    August 9 · 1905

    Source: SNAC

  103. Philip Ahn

    film actor, actor

    1905–1978 · aged 72

    March 29 · 1905

    Source: Find a Grave

  104. Barnett Newman

    painter, sculptor

    1905–1970 · aged 65

    January 29 · 1905

    Source: The Fine Art Archive

  105. Edgar Snow

    writer, journalist

    1905–1972

    July 17 · 1905

    Source: Le Delarge

  106. Tommy Flowers

    engineer, computer scientist

    1905–1998 · aged 92

    December 22 · 1905

    Source: SNAC

  107. Ivan Serov

    intelligence officer, politician

    1905–1990 · aged 84

    August 25 · 1905

    Source: Who led the NKVD

  108. C. P. Snow

    politician, novelist

    1905–1980 · aged 74

    October 15 · 1905

    Source: BnF authorities

  109. Gerard Kuiper

    university teacher, astronomer

    1905–1973 · aged 68

    December 7 · 1905

    Source: nasonline.org

  110. William Alwyn

    writer, painter

    1905–1985

    November 7 · 1905

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  111. Shakhbut bin Sultan Al Nahyan

    politician

    1905–1989 · aged 83

    June 1 · 1905

    Source: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

  112. Gerhard Klopfer

    lawyer, jurist

    1905–1987 · aged 81

    February 18 · 1905

    Source: Dienstaltersliste der Schutzstaffel der NSDAP, Stand vom 1. Dezember 1936

  113. Heinz Heydrich

    journalist

    1905–1944 · aged 39

    September 29 · 1905

    No external source identified

  114. Anthony Powell

    writer, diarist

    1905–2000 · aged 94

    December 21 · 1905

    Source: Internet Speculative Fiction Database

  115. Artem Mikoyan

    inventor, military flight engineer

    1905–1970 · aged 65

    August 5 · 1905

    Source: Great Russian Encyclopedia

  116. Pierre Levegh

    racing automobile driver, motorcycle racer

    1905–1955 · aged 49

    December 22 · 1905

    Source: Roglo

  117. Mary Livingstone

    film actor, radio personality

    1905–1983 · aged 78

    June 23 · 1905

    Source: SNAC

  118. Pierre Gemayel

    association football player, politician

    1905–1984 · aged 78

    November 6 · 1905

    Source: SNAC

  119. Kurt Gerstein

    mining engineer, functionary

    1905–1945 · aged 39

    August 11 · 1905

    Source: Nuremberg Trials Project

  120. Jule Styne

    songwriter, musician

    1905–1994 · aged 88

    December 31 · 1905

    Source: Internet Broadway Database

  121. Heinz Lammerding

    engineer

    1905–1971 · aged 65

    August 27 · 1905

    Source: Dienstaltersliste der Schutzstaffel der NSDAP, Stand vom 1. Dezember 1936

  122. Daniil Kharms*

    prose writer, satirist

    Date disputed

    December 30 · 1905

    Source: ProDetLit

  123. Nobuhito, Prince Takamatsu

    politician, military personnel

    1905–1987 · aged 82

    January 3 · 1905

    No external source identified

  124. Thomas Gomez

    film actor, stage actor

    1905–1971 · aged 65

    July 10 · 1905

    Source: BnF authorities

  125. Emilio G. Segrè*

    physicist, writer

    Date disputed

    February 1 · 1905

    Source: Find a Grave

  126. Franz Ziereis

    concentration camp guard

    1905–1945 · aged 39

    August 13 · 1905

    No external source identified

  127. Takeo Fukuda

    politician

    1905–1995 · aged 90

    January 14 · 1905

    Source: Munzinger Personen

  128. Yen Chia-kan

    civil servant, politician

    1905–1993 · aged 88

    October 23 · 1905

    Source: Find a Grave

  129. Grant Withers

    journalist, actor

    1905–1959 · aged 54

    January 17 · 1905

    Source: Find a Grave

  130. George Voskovec

    director, playwright

    1905–1981 · aged 76

    June 19 · 1905

    Source: Regional Database of the Central Bohemian Research Library in Kladno

  131. H. E. Bates

    writer, essayist

    1905–1974

    May 16 · 1905

    Source: Internet Speculative Fiction Database

  132. Torin Thatcher

    actor, film actor

    1905–1981 · aged 76

    January 15 · 1905

    Source: Internet Broadway Database

  133. Jigme Wangchuck*

    politician

    Date disputed

    1905

    No external source identified

  134. Helen Wills

    poet, artist

    1905–1998 · aged 92

    October 6 · 1905

    Source: FemBio database

  135. Ernst Hermann Himmler

    engineer

    1905–1945 · aged 39

    December 23 · 1905

    No external source identified

  136. Thomas Townsend Brown

    physicist, inventor

    1905–1985 · aged 80

    March 18 · 1905

    No external source identified

  137. Arthur Crudup

    composer, guitarist

    1905–1974 · aged 68

    August 24 · 1905

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  138. Eileen O'Shaughnessy

    writer, poet

    1905–1945 · aged 39

    September 25 · 1905

    No external source identified

  139. Esmat Dowlatshahi

    1905–1995

    1905

    No external source identified

  140. Henry Wilcoxon

    actor, film producer

    1905–1984 · aged 78

    September 8 · 1905

    Source: Internet Broadway Database

  141. Carl David Anderson

    university teacher, physicist

    1905–1991 · aged 85

    September 3 · 1905

    Source: Proleksis Encyclopedia

  142. Clifford Dupont

    politician

    1905–1978 · aged 72

    December 6 · 1905

    Source: SNAC

  143. Sam Levene

    singer, stage actor

    1905–1980 · aged 75

    August 28 · 1905

    Source: Internet Broadway Database

  144. Arthur Lake

    film actor, actor

    1905–1987 · aged 81

    April 17 · 1905

    Source: SNAC

  145. Mantovani

    composer, conductor

    1905–1980

    November 15 · 1905

    Source: Discogs

  146. Ra'ana Liaquat Ali Khan

    diplomat, economist

    1905–1990 · aged 85

    February 13 · 1905

    No external source identified

  147. Alexandre Villaplane

    association football player

    1905–1944 · aged 39

    September 12 · 1905

    Source: GeneaStar

  148. Severo Ochoa

    physician, scientist

    1905–1993 · aged 88

    September 24 · 1905

    Source: Munzinger Personen

  149. Mikio Naruse

    film producer, film director

    1905–1969 · aged 63

    August 20 · 1905

    Source: Great Norwegian Encyclopedia

  150. Lale Andersen

    autobiographer, musician

    1905–1972 · aged 67

    March 23 · 1905

    Source: Munzinger Personen

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