However, recent classifications have abandoned Mon – Khmer as a taxon, either reducing it in scope or making it synonymous with the larger family ( Diffloth 2005, Sidwell 2009 ).

Sidwell ( 2005 ) reconstructs the consonant inventory of Proto-Mon – Khmer as follows:

** Atlas III was a US launch vehicle ( 2000 – 2005 )

The debate continues unabated – e. g. S. Georg 2004, A. Vovin 2005, S. Georg 2005 ( anti-Altaic ); S. Starostin 2005, V. Blažek 2006, M. Robbeets 2007, A. Dybo and G. Starostin 2008 ( pro-Altaic ).

* 2005 – Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani becomes Iraqi president ; Shiite Arab Ibrahim al-Jaafari is named premier the next day.

* 1929 – Willis Hall, English playwright and writer ( d. 2005 )

* 1932 – Lakshman Kadirgamar, Sri Lankan politician ( d. 2005 )

* 1923 – Percy Heath, American jazz musician ( Modern Jazz Quartet ) ( d. 2005 )

* 1911 – Kay Walsh, English actress ( d. 2005 )

* 1939 – Edward Patten, American singer-songwriter and producer ( Gladys Knight & the Pips ) ( d. 2005 )

* 1928 – Herb Moford, American baseball player ( d. 2005 )

* 1921 – J. James Exon, American politician ( d. 2005 )

* 2005 – Caylee Anthony, American murder victim ( d. 2008 )

* 1925 – Benny Bailey, American trumpet player, songwriter, and producer ( Kenny Clarke / Francy Boland Big Band ) ( d. 2005 )

With several England players having retired or been injured after the 2005 series, Australia regained The Ashes in the 2006 – 07 series with a convincing 5 – 0 victory, the second time an Ashes series has been won by that margin.

* 2005 – Air France Flight 358, lands at Toronto Pearson International Airport, and runs off the runway causing the plane to burst into flames leaving 12 injuries and no fatalities.

* 1924 – Joe Harnell, American pianist, composer, and arranger ( d. 2005 )

* 1944 – Jim Capaldi, English singer-songwriter and drummer ( Traffic ) ( d. 2005 )

* 2005 – Paul Bomani, Tanzanian politician and ambassador ( b 1925 )

* 2005 – Alexander Brott, Canadian violinist and composer ( b. 1915 )

* 2005 – Harald Juhnke, German actor ( b. 1929 )

* 2005 – Jack Keller, American songwriter ( b. 1936 )

* Margherita Dolcevita ( 2005 )

* Margherita Carosio, Italian operatic soprano ( 1908 – 2005 )

The three comuni, along with their 2005 census populations, are Margherita di Savoia ( 12, 749 ), San Ferdinando di Puglia ( 14, 457 ), and Trinitapoli ( 14, 414 ).

Margherita Carosio ( June 7, 1908January 10, 2005 ) was an Italian operatic soprano.

Carosio retired from the operatic stage in 1959 and for the next 40 years pursued a second career as journalist and music critic in her hometown, where she died in 2005, aged 96.

* 2005 – The final piece of the Obelisk of Axum is returned to Ethiopia after being stolen by the invading Italian army in 1937.

* 1924 – Franco Mannino, Italian composer, playwright, and novelist ( d. 2005 )

In November 2005, the Italian Ministry of Defense and the US Department of Defense signed a Memorandum of Agreement on the joint development of the AGM-88E AARGM missile.

The upgrade is being carried out by Embraer and Elbit ; it includes a new avionics suite, a full glass cockpit with three MFDs, HOTAS configuration and a new multimode radar, the Italian Grifo F. The first F-5EM was handed over on September 21, 2005, and it is scheduled at a rate of two aircraft being delivered each month from that date onwards.

* 2005 – Alberto Lattuada, Italian director ( b. 1914 )

She is a key character in the opera La conquista ( 2005 ) by Italian composer Lorenzo Ferrero.

* 1914 – Carlo Maria Giulini, Italian conductor ( d. 2005 )

The Mars Society Italian chapter ( Italian Mars Society ) was founded in 2005.

* Emanuela Orlandi, " disappeared " in the 1980s, maybe in relation to Gladio and Propaganda Due ; Archbishop Paul Marcinkus has been alleged to be part of the kidnapping, which may have been done in order to press the Pope to ask for Mehmet Ali Ağca's liberation to the Italian state ( according to Mehmet Ali's 2005 interview to La Repubblica ).

* 2005 – Nicola Calipari, Italian secret service agent ( b. 1953 )

* " Power Law Tails in the Italian Personal Income Distribution ", F. Clementi, M. Gallegati, Physica A, volume 350, pages 427 – 438, 2005.

Romano Scarpa ( September 27, 1927, Venice – April 23, 2005, Málaga ) was one of the most famous Italian creators of Disney comics.

* 1927 – Romano Scarpa, Italian writer and illustrator ( d. 2005 )

* July 4 – Corrado Bafile, Italian Catholic cardinal ( d. 2005 )

** Ferruccio Valcareggi, Italian football player and manager ( d. 2005 )

** Pietro Consagra, Italian sculptor ( d. 2005 )

* October 15 – Luigi Giussani, Italian Catholic priest ( d. 2005 )

The Rome concert of Live 8 ( July 2, 2005 ) was held there, as was the Italian World Cup 2006 victory celebration.

* Liberal Reformers, a dissenting Italian radical party formed in 2005

In 2005, the Italian Radicals joined Italian Democratic Socialists and founded the Rose in the Fist electoral coalition.

His many essays on Iran, published in the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, only appeared in French in 1994 and then in English in 2005.

* According to the last available data, in 2005 the production of dioxin by the steel industry ILVA in Taranto ( Italy ) accounted for 90. 3 per cent of the overall Italian emissions, and 8. 8 per cent of the European emissions.