* John Arnold Austin ( 1905 – 1941 ), American sailor

However, Ancient Egyptian is highly divergent from Proto-Afroasiatic ( Trombetti 1905: 1 – 2 ), and considerable time must have elapsed in between them.

* 1905 – Sergey Nikolsky, Russian mathematician

* 1905 – Aris Velouchiotis, Greek military leader ( d. 1945 )

In 1905 England's captain Stanley Jackson not only won the series 2 – 0, but also won the toss in all five matches and headed both the batting and the bowling averages.

* 1905 – Karl Amadeus Hartmann, German composer ( d. 1963 )

* 1905 – Myrna Loy, American actress ( d. 1993 )

* 2002 – Simo Häyhä, Finnish sniper ( b. 1905 )

* 1905 – Dolores del Río, Mexican actress ( d. 1983 )

* 1905 – Franz König, Austrian cardinal ( d. 2004 )

* 1990 – Betty Amann, German-American actress ( b. 1905 )

Casa Milà (), better known as La Pedrera (, meaning the ' The Quarry '), is a building designed by the Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí and built during the years 1905 – 1910, being considered officially completed in 1912.

* 1905 – André Jolivet, French composer ( d. 1974 )

* 1905 – Frits Philips, Dutch businessman ( d. 2005 )

* 1905 – Emile St. Godard, Canadian dog sled racer ( d. 1948 )

* 1905 – Mary Faustina Kowalska, Polish nun, mystic, and saint ( d. 1938 )

* Alexander, Prince of Lippe ( 1831 – 1905 ), prince of Lippe

* Robert Nisbet Bain, The First Romanovs 1613 – 1725 ( London, 1905 ; reprint, New York, 1967 ).

* 1905 – Constant Lambert, English composer and conductor ( d. 1951 )

By French aristocrat Mélanie de Gaufridy de Dortan ( 1876 – 1937 ), he had Roger Marie Vincent Philippe Lévêque de Vilmorin ( 12 September 1905 – 20 July 1980 )

* Alfons Goppel ( 1905 – 1991 ), German politician

* 1905 – Cyril Walters, England cricketer ( d. 1992 )

* 1905 – Dhyan Chand, Indian hockey player ( d. 1979 )

* Arndt, Karl J. R. The Harmony Society from its Beginnings in Germany in 1785 to its Liquidation in the United States in 1905.

* 1941 – Arndt Pekurinen, Finnish pacifist ( b. 1905 )

Arndt Juho Pekurinen ( August 29, 1905 in Juva, Finland – November 5, 1941 in Kalevala district, Soviet Union, now Russia ) was a Finnish pacifist and conscientious objector.

** Adolf Ehrnrooth, Finnish general ( b. 1905 )

Svinhufvud played a key role in the birth of a new parliamentary system in 1905 and he was elected as a Young Finnish Party member of the new Parliament in 1906.

Amidst administrative reforms following the 1905 uprising, Finnish women's demand for both the right to vote ( universal and equal suffrage ) and the right to stand for election were met in 1906.

Albert Gustaf Aristides Edelfelt ( 21 July 1854 – 18 August 1905 ) was a Swedish-speaking Finnish painter.

In Finland the unrest was expressed in the Finnish general strike of 1905.

At the time of Vyborg Manifesto, Mechelin was already the leader of the Finnish government (" Mechelin's senate " ( 1905 – 1908 )), which implemented the universal right to vote and freedoms of expression, press, congregation and association.

The Russification of Finland ( 1899 – 1905, 1908 – 1917, sortokaudet ( times of oppression in Finnish ) was a governmental policy of the Russian Empire aimed at the termination of Finland ’ s autonomy.

The policy of Russification of Finland ( 1899 – 1905 and 1908 – 1917, called sortokaudet / sortovuodet ( times / years of oppression ) in Finnish and förtrycksperioderna in Swedish ) was a governmental policy of the Russian Empire aimed at limiting the special status of the Grand Duchy of Finland and possibly the termination of its political autonomy and cultural uniqueness.

* Adolf Ehrnrooth, Finnish general ( 1905 – 2004 )

Failed Russian actions to terminate Finnish autonomy and cultural uniqueness ( 1899 – 1905 and 1908 – 1917 ) contributed greatly to both the anti-Russian feelings in Finland.

* Finnish Chancellor of Justice, Eliel Soisalon-Soininen ( assassinated in 1905 by student Lennart Hohenthal )

* Benjamin B. Rubinstein ( 1905 – 1989 ), Finnish – American psychoanalyst.

He was a member of the Finnish parliament 1877 – 1905, and minister of education 1905 – 1908.

* 1905 – Myles Horton, American educator and activist ( d. 1990 )

Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (; ; 21 June 1905 – 15 April 1980 ) was a French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic.

* 1832 – Ann Jarvis, American activist, co-founded Mother's Day ( d. 1905 )

Honecker was born on Max-Braun-Straße in Neunkirchen, now Saarland, as the son of Wilhelm Honecker, a coal miner and political activist, who in 1905 had married Caroline Catharina Weidenhof.

In 1905, together with Sun Yat-sen, Song helped found, and was a leading activist in, the Tongmenghui, which was an organization dedicated to the overthrow of the Qing Dynasty and the formation of a republic.

His acclaimed " Architectural Studies " ( 1904 – 1905 ) – the dozens of paintings he completed of fortresses, monasteries, churches, and other monuments during two long trips through Russia — inspired his decades-long career as an activist on behalf of artistic and architectural preservation.

Maggie Kuhn ( August 3, 1905 – April 22, 1995 ) was an American activist known for founding the Gray Panthers movement in August 1970, after being forced into retirement by the Presbyterian Church.

Emile Driant, a French officer and political activist, wrote under the pen name of Capitaine Danrit The Yellow Invasion in 1905.

Socialist Labour Party activist Tom Bell, then a 24-year old in charge of the party's literature department remembered in his autobiography about the 1905 decision to endorse the IWW:

* Maksymilian Jackowski ( 1815 – 1905 ), Polish activist, secretary-general of the Central Economic Society ( Centralne Towarzystwo Gospodarcze ), patron of the agricultural circles

* Allan MacDonald ( poet ) ( 1859 – 1905 ), a Roman Catholic priest, Scottish Gaelic poet, and activist in favour of crofters ' rights.

* Maggie Kuhn ( 1905 – 1995 ), American activist, founder of the Gray Panthers

* John P. Davis ( 1905 – 1973 ), African-American activist and writer

There is general agreement that Russian-French writer and political activist Matvei Golovinski fabricated the text for Okhrana, the secret police of the Russian Empire, as a work of counter-revolutionary propaganda prior to the 1905 Russian Revolution, by plagiarizing it, almost word for word in some passages, from The Dialogue in Hell Between Machiavelli and Montesquieu, a 19th century satire against Napoleon III of France written by French political satirist and Legitimist militant Maurice Joly.

Wanda Wasilewska (; 21 January 1905 – 29 July 1964 ) was a Polish and Soviet novelist and communist political activist who played an important role in the creation of a Polish division of the Soviet Red Army during World War II and the formation of the People's Republic of Poland.

Lawyer and civil rights activist Moorfield Storey was president from 1905 until the League dissolved in 1921.

* Pádraig A. Ó Síocháin S. C. ( 1905 – 1995 ), author and Irish language activist

During the 1905 Revolution, Päts was already an activist on self-government reform, where he supported national autonomy in the Baltic governorates.

* Augusta Jane Chapin ( 1836 – 1905 ), US female religious figure and women's rights activist

* Zenon Nowak ( 1905 – 1980 ), Polish trade union activist and politician

* Ramarshi Dev Trivedi ( 1905 – 1976 ), Indian independence activist

Maksymilian Jackowski ( 11 October 1815, Slupia, Grand Duchy of Posen – 14 January 1905, Posen ) was a Polish activist, secretary-general of the Central Economic Society ( Centralne Towarzystwo Gospodarcze ), patron of the agricultural circles.

Helen Joseph ( née Fennell ) ( 8 April 1905 – 25 December 1992 ), a South African anti-apartheid activist, was born in Easebourne near Midhurst West Sussex, England and graduated from King's College London, in 1927.

* John Wilhelm Rowntree ( 1868 – 1905 ), chocolate manufacturer and Quaker activist