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Born in 1905

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

  1. Douglas Everett

    ice hockey player

    1905–1996 · aged 91

    April 3 · 1905

    No external source identified

  2. Louis-Jean Guyot

    Catholic bishop, Catholic priest

    1905–1988 · aged 83

    July 7 · 1905

    Source: Fichier des personnes décédées mirror

  3. Joseph Levis

    fencer

    1905–2005 · aged 99

    July 20 · 1905

    No external source identified

  4. Jadwiga Szubartowicz

    1905–2017 · aged 111

    October 16 · 1905

    Source: historygreatest.com

  5. Ilya Trauberg

    screenwriter, director

    1905–1948 · aged 43

    December 3 · 1905

    No external source identified

  6. Luisa Carnés

    journalist, writer

    1905–1964 · aged 59

    January 3 · 1905

    Source: Spanish Biographical Dictionary

  7. Jeanne Bot

    accountant

    1905–2021 · aged 116

    January 14 · 1905

    Source: Fichier des personnes décédées mirror

  8. Heinrich Schläppi

    bobsledder

    1905–1958 · aged 52

    April 30 · 1905

    No external source identified

  9. Geoffrey Clough Ainsworth

    botanist, physician

    1905–1998 · aged 93

    October 9 · 1905

    Source: SNAC

  10. Hans Vinjarengen

    ski jumper, Nordic combined skier

    1905–1984 · aged 78

    August 20 · 1905

    No external source identified

  11. Wilhelmina Iwanowska

    university teacher, mathematician

    1905–1999 · aged 93

    September 2 · 1905

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  12. László Papp

    judge, athlete

    1905–1989 · aged 84

    January 4 · 1905

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  13. Günther Lüders

    actor, comedian

    1905–1975 · aged 69

    March 5 · 1905

    Source: Munzinger Personen

  14. Paul Wormser

    fencer, French resistance fighter

    1905–1944 · aged 39

    July 11 · 1905

    Source: memoiredeshommes.sga.defense.gouv.fr

  15. Conrad Vernon Morton

    botanical collector, scientific collector

    1905–1972 · aged 66

    October 24 · 1905

    No external source identified

  16. Heikki Aaltoila

    conductor, film score composer

    1905–1992 · aged 86

    December 11 · 1905

    Source: BnF authorities

  17. Fran Zwitter

    historian

    1905–1988 · aged 82

    October 24 · 1905

    Source: Croatian Encyclopedia

  18. Arne Rustadstuen

    cross-country skiing coach, cross-country skier

    1905–1978 · aged 72

    December 14 · 1905

    No external source identified

  19. Richard Corts

    sprinter, athletics competitor

    1905–1974 · aged 69

    July 16 · 1905

    No external source identified

  20. Joachim Büchner

    sprinter, athletics competitor

    1905–1978 · aged 72

    April 8 · 1905

    Source: BnF authorities

  21. Erwin Keller

    field hockey player

    1905–1971 · aged 66

    April 8 · 1905

    No external source identified

  22. Al Bates

    athletics competitor

    1905–1999 · aged 94

    April 24 · 1905

    No external source identified

  23. Maksimilijan Mihelčič

    association football player

    1905–1958 · aged 52

    July 29 · 1905

    No external source identified

  24. Raymond Passello

    association football player

    1905–1987 · aged 82

    January 12 · 1905

    Source: Transfermarkt

  25. Friedrich Benfer*

    entrepreneur, film actor

    Date disputed

    August 28 · 1905

    Source: IMDb

  26. Charles Delahaye

    ice hockey player

    1905–1973 · aged 67

    March 19 · 1905

    No external source identified

  27. Vera Zlatareva

    politician, women's rights activist

    1905–1977 · aged 71

    December 3 · 1905

    No external source identified

  28. Torajirō Saitō

    film director

    1905–1982 · aged 77

    January 30 · 1905

    Source: BnF authorities

  29. Raúl González Tuñón

    writer, poet

    1905–1974 · aged 69

    March 29 · 1905

    Source: cultura.gob.ar

  30. Georges Lemaire

    sport cyclist

    1905–1933 · aged 28

    April 3 · 1905

    No external source identified

  31. Ramón Torrado

    film director, screenwriter

    1905–1990

    April 5 · 1905

    Source: IMDb

  32. Lucia Valerio

    tennis player

    1905–1996 · aged 91

    February 28 · 1905

    No external source identified

  33. Rowland George

    rower

    1905–1997 · aged 92

    January 15 · 1905

    Source: World Rowing athlete database

  34. Maria Vierdag

    swimmer

    1905–2005 · aged 99

    September 22 · 1905

    No external source identified

  35. Jisaburo Ohwi

    scientific collector, botanist

    1905–1977 · aged 71

    September 18 · 1905

    No external source identified

  36. Pierre Jaccoud

    lawyer, politician

    1905–1996 · aged 90

    November 24 · 1905

    No external source identified

  37. René Lemoine

    fencer

    1905–1995 · aged 89

    December 29 · 1905

    Source: GeneaStar

  38. Vilém Závada

    editing staff, essayist

    1905–1982 · aged 77

    May 22 · 1905

    Source: REGO

  39. Hemaiag Bedros XVII Ghedighian

    Catholic priest, Catholic bishop

    1905–1998 · aged 93

    October 2 · 1905

    No external source identified

  40. Friedl Iby

    artistic gymnast

    1905–1960 · aged 55

    April 6 · 1905

    No external source identified

  41. Enrico Colombari

    association football coach, association football player

    1905–1983 · aged 78

    January 31 · 1905

    No external source identified

  42. Åke Ohberg

    screenwriter, director

    1905–1975 · aged 69

    July 20 · 1905

    Source: Swedish church birth records

  43. Roy Henkel

    ice hockey player

    1905–1981 · aged 76

    August 22 · 1905

    No external source identified

  44. Edmund Black

    hammer thrower

    1905–1996 · aged 91

    May 3 · 1905

    No external source identified

  45. Gerard Hallock

    ice hockey player

    1905–1996 · aged 90

    June 4 · 1905

    No external source identified

  46. Günther Krupkat

    science fiction writer, author

    1905–1990 · aged 84

    July 5 · 1905

    Source: filmportal.de

  47. Raúl Fernández Robert

    basketball player

    1905–1982 · aged 76

    September 17 · 1905

    Source: FIBA database

  48. Abdulla Sabir

    prose writer, playwright

    1905–1972 · aged 67

    September 18 · 1905

    No external source identified

  49. Petronella van Randwijk

    artistic gymnast

    1905–1978 · aged 73

    September 14 · 1905

    No external source identified

  50. Garnet Ault

    swimmer

    1905–1993 · aged 87

    November 1 · 1905

    No external source identified

  51. Erik Larsson

    ice hockey player

    1905–1970 · aged 65

    January 18 · 1905

    No external source identified

  52. Marvin Stalder*

    rower

    Date disputed

    December 9 · 1905

    Source: Sports-Reference.com

  53. Edmond Loichot

    association football player

    1905–1989

    July 12 · 1905

    No external source identified

  54. Pierre Magne

    sport cyclist

    1905–1980 · aged 75

    November 9 · 1905

    Source: Mémoire du cyclisme

  55. Sadig Dadashov

    architect

    1905–1946 · aged 41

    April 15 · 1905

    No external source identified

  56. Alajos Keserű

    water polo player, coach

    1905–1965 · aged 60

    March 8 · 1905

    No external source identified

  57. Burhan Atak

    association football coach, association football player

    1905–1987 · aged 82

    January 27 · 1905

    No external source identified

  58. Maurice Raizman

    engineer, chess player

    1905–1974 · aged 69

    February 26 · 1905

    Source: death certificate

  59. Henri Guérin

    fencer

    1905–1967 · aged 62

    May 20 · 1905

    Source: birth certificate

  60. Betty Astor

    film actor, actor

    1905–1972 · aged 67

    April 21 · 1905

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  61. Armando Lombardi

    Catholic priest, Catholic bishop

    1905–1964 · aged 58

    May 12 · 1905

    No external source identified

  62. Valentino Degani

    association football coach, association football player

    1905–1974 · aged 69

    February 14 · 1905

    No external source identified

  63. Abdelhamid Abdou

    association football player

    1905–1972 · aged 66

    December 20 · 1905

    Source: olympedia.org

  64. Anna Schchian

    botanist

    1905–1990 · aged 84

    July 9 · 1905

    No external source identified

  65. Guy Dugdale

    bobsledder, Olympic champion

    1905–1982 · aged 77

    April 9 · 1905

    Source: The Peerage

  66. René Bondoux

    lawyer, athlete

    1905–2001 · aged 95

    May 26 · 1905

    Source: Roglo

  67. Georgia Lind

    film actor, stage actor

    1905–1984 · aged 79

    November 20 · 1905

    Source: filmportal.de

  68. Erich Herker

    ice hockey player

    1905–1990 · aged 84

    September 25 · 1905

    No external source identified

  69. Giacomo Gaioni

    sport cyclist

    1905–1988 · aged 83

    April 26 · 1905

    No external source identified

  70. Rodolfo Choperena

    basketball player

    1905–1969 · aged 64

    February 11 · 1905

    Source: FIBA database

  71. Joseph Crockett

    sport shooter

    1905–2001 · aged 96

    February 16 · 1905

    No external source identified

  72. Eva Verona

    librarian

    1905–1996 · aged 91

    February 1 · 1905

    Source: Croatian Encyclopedia

  73. Einar Snitt

    association football player

    1905–1973 · aged 68

    October 13 · 1905

    Source: EU-Football.info

  74. Bertil Rönnmark

    sport shooter

    1905–1967 · aged 61

    December 24 · 1905

    No external source identified

  75. Haas Visser 't Hooft

    field hockey player

    1905–1977 · aged 71

    September 20 · 1905

    No external source identified

  76. Frida Palmér

    astronomer

    1905–1966 · aged 61

    February 14 · 1905

    No external source identified

  77. Juan Alfonso Valle

    association football coach, association football player

    Born 1905

    January 1 · 1905

    No external source identified

  78. William Miller

    rower

    1905–1985

    March 16 · 1905

    Source: Sports-Reference.com

  79. Erich Zander

    field hockey player

    1905–1991 · aged 86

    April 11 · 1905

    No external source identified

  80. Oleksandr Markevych

    zoologist

    1905–1999 · aged 94

    March 19 · 1905

    No external source identified

  81. Harry Fry

    rower

    1905–1985

    September 13 · 1905

    Source: Sports-Reference.com

  82. Alice Săvulescu

    botanist, scientific collector

    1905–1970 · aged 64

    October 29 · 1905

    No external source identified

  83. Otto Cordes

    water polo player, swimmer

    1905–1970 · aged 65

    August 31 · 1905

    Source: Nazi Party Membership Database Lookup

  84. Piatro Hliebka

    writer, translator

    1905–1969 · aged 64

    July 6 · 1905

    No external source identified

  85. Eileen Adelaide Bruce

    botanical collector, botanist

    1905–1955

    February 15 · 1905

    Source: The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science

  86. Jaap Meijer

    sport cyclist, track cyclist

    1905–1943 · aged 38

    April 20 · 1905

    No external source identified

  87. José Beltrão

    equestrian

    1905–1948

    November 27 · 1905

    No external source identified

  88. Earl Eastwood

    rower

    1905–1968 · aged 62

    November 2 · 1905

    Source: Sports-Reference.com

  89. Trygve Brodahl

    cross-country skier

    1905–1996 · aged 90

    August 20 · 1905

    Source: Cemeteries in Norway

  90. Dragutin Ciotti

    artistic gymnast

    1905–1974 · aged 68

    October 19 · 1905

    No external source identified

  91. Inge Wersin-Lantschner

    alpine skier

    1905–1997 · aged 92

    January 26 · 1905

    Source: biografiA: Lexikon österreichischer Frauen

  92. Ambrogio Morelli

    sport cyclist

    1905–2000 · aged 94

    December 4 · 1905

    No external source identified

  93. Ruggero Maregatti

    sprinter

    1905–1963 · aged 58

    July 14 · 1905

    No external source identified

  94. Lawrence Knapp

    field hockey player

    1905–1976 · aged 71

    May 30 · 1905

    No external source identified

  95. Jean-Pierre Weisgerber

    association football player

    1905–1994 · aged 89

    March 28 · 1905

    Source: sports-reference.com

  96. Baruch Osnia

    lawyer, jurist

    1905–1994 · aged 88

    September 19 · 1905

    Source: knesset.gov.il

  97. Armand Apell

    boxer

    1905–1990 · aged 85

    January 16 · 1905

    Source: Nouveau dictionnaire de biographie alsacienne

  98. André Giriat

    rower

    1905–1967 · aged 61

    August 20 · 1905

    Source: Sports-Reference.com

  99. Carlheinz Neumann

    coxswain

    1905–1983 · aged 77

    November 27 · 1905

    Source: World Rowing athlete database

  100. Włodzimierz Zonn*

    university teacher, astronomer

    Date disputed

    July 14 · 1905

    No external source identified

  101. Lew Wyld

    sport cyclist

    1905–1974 · aged 68

    July 15 · 1905

    No external source identified

  102. Héctor Lucchetti

    fencer

    1905–date unavailable

    March 9 · 1905

    No external source identified

  103. Edgar Bruun

    racewalker, hairdresser

    1905–1985 · aged 80

    August 4 · 1905

    Source: Great Norwegian Encyclopedia

  104. Siegfried Lerdon

    fencer

    1905–1964 · aged 59

    August 8 · 1905

    No external source identified

  105. Karl Köther

    sport cyclist

    1905–1986 · aged 80

    May 28 · 1905

    No external source identified

  106. Fritz Kaufmann

    ski jumper, Nordic combined skier

    1905–1941 · aged 35

    April 15 · 1905

    No external source identified

  107. Alfred Haemerlinck

    sport cyclist

    1905–1993 · aged 87

    September 27 · 1905

    Source: BnF authorities

  108. Jiří Jesenský

    fencer, stomatologist

    1905–1942 · aged 37

    September 27 · 1905

    Source: Room of Names

  109. Marian Suski

    electrical engineer, scientist

    1905–1993 · aged 88

    November 2 · 1905

    No external source identified

  110. Henri Lefèbvre

    amateur wrestler

    1905–1970 · aged 64

    December 19 · 1905

    Source: birth certificate

  111. Fritz Bischoff

    sailor

    1905–1989 · aged 83

    December 6 · 1905

    No external source identified

  112. Herbert Kemmer

    field hockey player

    1905–1962 · aged 57

    May 13 · 1905

    No external source identified

  113. Karl Hipfinger

    weightlifter

    1905–1984 · aged 78

    October 28 · 1905

    No external source identified

  114. Giovanni Lattuada

    artistic gymnast

    1905–1984 · aged 79

    January 12 · 1905

    No external source identified

  115. Karel Hromádka

    ice hockey player, ice hockey coach

    1905–1978 · aged 72

    May 23 · 1905

    No external source identified

  116. Armand Carlsen

    sport cyclist, speed skater

    1905–1969 · aged 63

    October 20 · 1905

    Source: historical register of persons

  117. John Donnelly

    coxswain

    1905–1986 · aged 81

    March 19 · 1905

    Source: World Rowing athlete database

  118. Émile Lachapelle

    coxswain

    1905–1988

    September 12 · 1905

    Source: Sports-Reference.com

  119. Marceau Fourcade*

    rower

    Date disputed

    January 28 · 1905

    Source: birth certificate

  120. Erich Möller

    sport cyclist

    1905–1964 · aged 59

    May 3 · 1905

    No external source identified

  121. Paul McDowell

    rower

    1905–1962 · aged 57

    January 17 · 1905

    Source: Sports-Reference.com

  122. Masazō Nonaka

    businessperson

    1905–2019 · aged 113

    July 25 · 1905

    No external source identified

  123. Robert Carlson

    sailor

    1905–1965 · aged 60

    April 11 · 1905

    No external source identified

  124. Tracy Jaeckel

    fencer

    1905–1969 · aged 64

    February 5 · 1905

    No external source identified

  125. Mikko Husu

    ski jumper, cross-country skier

    1905–1977 · aged 71

    September 30 · 1905

    No external source identified

  126. Mircea Sfetescu

    rugby union player

    Born 1905

    1905

    Source: web.archive.org

  127. Jean-François Tournon

    fencer

    1905–1986 · aged 80

    August 6 · 1905

    Source: Fichier des personnes décédées mirror

  128. Stanley Stanyar

    rower

    1905–1983 · aged 77

    December 29 · 1905

    Source: Sports-Reference.com

  129. Hans Scherbart

    field hockey player

    1905–1993 · aged 87

    December 16 · 1905

    No external source identified

  130. Armand Marcelle

    rower

    1905–1974 · aged 69

    October 10 · 1905

    Source: Fichier des personnes décédées mirror

  131. Gérard Loncke

    sport cyclist

    1905–1979 · aged 74

    January 15 · 1905

    Source: firstcycling.com

  132. Manfred Metzger

    sailor

    1905–1986

    May 26 · 1905

    Source: lequipe.fr

  133. Paul Piaget

    coxswain

    Born 1905

    1905

    Source: Sports-Reference.com

  134. Birger Halvorsen

    high jumper

    1905–1976 · aged 71

    February 19 · 1905

    No external source identified

  135. Bernard Van Rysselberghe

    sport cyclist

    1905–1984 · aged 78

    October 5 · 1905

    Source: firstcycling.com

  136. Sadayoshi Kobayashi

    field hockey player

    1905–1997 · aged 92

    February 14 · 1905

    No external source identified

  137. George Dempsey

    sport cyclist

    1905–1985 · aged 79

    August 11 · 1905

    Source: BnF authorities

  138. Uno Wallentin

    sailor

    1905–1954 · aged 49

    April 15 · 1905

    No external source identified

  139. Eddie "Rochester" Anderson

    comedian, dancer

    1905–1977 · aged 71

    September 18 · 1905

    Source: Find a Grave

  140. Antônia da Santa Cruz

    1905–2022 · aged 116

    June 13 · 1905

    Source: grg.org

  141. Victor Borisovich Sochava

    botanist, university teacher

    1905–1978 · aged 73

    June 20 · 1905

    Source: Historical Encyclopedia of Siberia

  142. Tadeusz Breza

    writer, diplomat

    1905–1970 · aged 64

    December 31 · 1905

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  143. Tatyana Lukashevich

    screenwriter, film director

    1905–1972 · aged 66

    November 21 · 1905

    Source: Česko-Slovenská filmová databáze

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