* 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 ).

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 )

* August 21 – Constant Lambert, British composer ( b. 1905 )

Lambert was the father of Maurice ( 1901 – 1964 ), a noted sculptor and associate of the Royal Academy, and Constant, the British composer and conductor, born in London in 1905, and the grandfather of Kit Lambert.

* Gardiner, Robert & Lambert, Andrew, ( Editors ), Steam, Steel and Shellfire: The Steam Warship, 1815 – 1905 ( Conway's History of the Ship series ), Book Sales, 2001

This was devised by George Harry Grey, 7th Earl of Stamford to his great niece, Catherine Payne, who married Sir Henry Foley Lambert, 7th Baronet ( who took the surname Grey ) in 1905, and subsequently to his granddaughter.

With the proceeds from the books and a legacy from an aunt, Potter bought Hill Top Farm in Near Sawrey, a tiny village in the English Lake District near Ambleside in 1905.

Nicaragua's legal system also is a mixture of the English Common Law and the Civil Law through the influence of British administration of the Eastern half of the country from the mid-17th century until about 1905, the William Walker period from about 1855 through 1857, USA interventions / occupations during the period from 1909 to 1933, the influence of USA institutions during the Somoza family administrations ( 1933 through 1979 ) and the considerable importation between 1979 and the present of USA culture and institutions.

Founded in 1905, they play in the Premier League and have spent most of their history in the top tier of English football.

* 1905 – Robert Henriques, English writer ( d. 1967 )

* 1973 – Henry Green, English author ( b. 1905 )

** Drake: An English Epic ( 1905 – 1908 ), The Torch-Bearers ( 1917 – 1930 ) by Alfred Noyes

* Saxo Grammaticus, Gesta Danorum, Books I-IX, translated to English by Oliver Elton 1905.

His father, William Ford ( 1826 – 1905 ), was born in County Cork, Ireland, of a family originally from western England, who were among migrants to Ireland as the English created plantations.

* 1905 – Michael Tippett, English composer ( d. 1998 )

* 1905 – Torin Thatcher, English actor ( d. 1981 )

* 1905 – Robert Newton, English actor ( d. 1956 )

* 1905 – Sebastian Shaw, English actor ( d. 1994 )

* 1905 – Hedley Verity, English cricketer ( d. 1943 )

* 1905 – Richard Haydn, English actor ( d. 1985 )

* 1905 – Robert Donat, English actor ( d. 1958 )

* 1905 – William Alwyn, English composer ( d. 1985 )

* 1821 – George Williams, English founder of the YMCA ( d. 1905 )

* Queen ( English automobile ), built from 1904 to 1905

* George Robert Stephenson ( engineer ) ( 1819 – 1905 ), English civil engineer ( nephew of George Stephenson )

In Continental Europe, The Scarlet Pimpernel ( 1905 ) by Baroness Orczy chronicled an English aristocrat's derring-do in rescuing French aristocrats from the Reign of Terror of the populist French Revolution ( 1789 – 99 ).

* 1905 – Nevill Francis Mott, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1996 )

* 1905 – Michael Powell, English screenwriter, director, and producer ( d. 1990 )

* 1905 – Ivy Bean, English centenarian ( d. 2010 )

* August 8 – Nevill Francis Mott, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1905 )