* 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 – Arndt Pekurinen, Finnish activist ( d. 1941 )

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

The Reverend William Arthur Phillips of the Nyasa Industrial Mission in Blantyre had established a Baptist mission there in 1905, serving an area of and 50, 000 souls.

Through nudism, Gardner made a number of notable friends, including James Laver ( 1899 – 1975 ), who became the Keeper of Prints and Drawings at the Victoria and Albert Museum, and Cottie Arthur Burland ( 1905 – 1983 ), who was the Curator of the Department of Ethnography at the British Museum.

Scots played a major part in the leadership of UK political parties producing a Conservative Prime Minister in Arthur Balfour ( 1902 – 05 ) and a Liberal one in Henry Campbell-Bannerman ( 1905 – 08 ).

* 1905 – Russo-Japanese War: The Russian garrison surrenders at Port Arthur, China.

* 1905 – Irish nationalist Arthur Griffith founds Sinn Féin as a political party with the main aim of establishing a dual monarchy in Ireland.

* 1905 – Arthur Koestler, Hungarian-English author and journalist ( d. 1983 )

The photon concept was introduced by Albert Einstein in 1905, but it was not broadly accepted until 1922, when Arthur Compton confirmed it by the scattering of X-rays from electrons.

* May 28 – Arthur Brough, British actor ( b. 1905 )

* January 9 – Arthur Lake, American actor ( b. 1905 )

Sinn Féin was a previously non-violent separatist party founded by Arthur Griffith in 1905.

* American ( U. S. A .)— Abelle, Victor: " Pierrot and Pierrette " ( 1906 ; piano ); Foote, Arthur: " Pierrot " and " Pierrette ", from Five Bagatelles ( c. 1894 ; piano ); Hoiby, Lee: " Pierrot " ( 1950 ; # 2 of Night Songs for voice and piano ; text by Adelaide Crapsey above under # Poetry | Poetry ); Neidlinger, William Harold: Piano Sketches ( 1905 ; # 5: " Pierrot "; # 7: " Columbine "); Oehmler, Leo: " Pierrot and Pierrette – Petite Gavotte " ( 1905 ; violin and piano ).

And finally, by 27 May 1905, Admiral Tōgō and his men had two battleship fleet actions under their belts, which amounted to over 4 hours of combat experience in battleship to battleship combat at Port Arthur and the Yellow Sea — experience which would eliminate the miscalculations and rash decisions made during those battles, while applying the learned lessons from those sea engagements with both finesse and ruthlessness at Tsushima.

** English translation by J. P. Arthur, The Founders of the New Devotion, ( 1905 )

Arthur Floyd Gottfredson ( May 5, 1905 – July 22, 1986 ) was an American cartoonist best known for his defining work on the Mickey Mouse comic strip.

* Somerset Arthur Maxwell ( 1905 – 1942 ), MP for King's Lynn

After the Conservative government of Arthur Balfour fell in December 1905 there was some speculation that Asquith and his allies Richard Haldane and Sir Edward Grey would refuse to serve unless Campbell-Bannerman accepted a peerage, which would have left Asquith as the real leader in the House of Commons.

* Arthur Balfour, Prime Minister, 1902 – 1905

1890 Lee Fox built the first sawmill within the Lake Arthur corporate limits ; it was destroyed by fire in 1905, as was the Brewer, Reynolds and Streater Mill that had been built on the lake front in 1900.

William died in 1894 and Arthur in 1905.

FitzAlan was elected Member of Parliament for Chichester in 1894, a seat he held until 1921, and served briefly under Arthur Balfour as a Lord of the Treasury in 1905 and under H. H. Asquith and later David Lloyd George as Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury from 1915 to 1921 ( jointly from December 1916 onwards ).

During the Russo-Japanese War, Tōgō engaged the Russian navy at Port Arthur and the Yellow Sea in 1904, and destroyed the Russian Baltic Fleet at the Battle of Tsushima in 1905, a battle which shocked the world.

When Japan and Russia fought the Russo-Japanese War in 1904 – 1905, many key battles took place in Liaoning, including the Battle of Port Arthur and the Battle of Mukden, which was, to that point, the largest land battle ever fought.

Arthur Balfour's refusal to recommend an earldom for Curzon in 1905 was repeated by Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, the Liberal Prime Minister, who formed his government the day after Curzon returned to England.