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

* 2005 – Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is elected the 265th Pope of the Catholic Church following the death of Pope John Paul II.

* 2005 – Prime Minister Paul Martin announces that Michaëlle Jean will be Canada's 27th Governor General.

* Thagard, Paul ( 2nd, 2005 ).

Paul Hester 1959 – 2005. Following the 1996 break-up of Crowded House, the members embarked upon a variety of projects.

On 26 March 2005 Paul Hester was found dead, after hanging himself from a tree in a park near his home in Melbourne.

In 2005, Elwes played the young Pope John Paul II in the CBS television film Pope John Paul II.

In 2005, Cronenberg would say that he was upset that Paul Haggis had chosen the same name for his Academy Award winning film Crash, feeling it was " stupid " and " very disrespectful.

* 1913 – Paul Ricoeur, French philosopher ( d. 2005 )

Father Christmas appears in many English-language works of fiction, including Robin Jones Gunn's Father Christmas Series ( 2007 ), Catherine Spencer's A Christmas to Remember ( 2007 ), Debbie Macomber's There's Something About Christmas ( 2005 ), Richard Paul Evans's The Gift ( 2007 ), C. S.

* Franks, Paul, All or Nothing: Systematicity, Transcendental Arguments, and Skepticism in German Idealism, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2005

* John Cornforth, Early Georgian Interiors, ( Paul Mellon Centre ) 2005.

Several heads of state and their consorts, as the foremost representatives of their nations, gather at the Funeral of Pope John Paul II | funeral for the late Pope John Paul II in 2005.

Garner was replaced in May 2003 by L. Paul Bremer, who was himself replaced by John Negroponte on April 19, 2004 who left Iraq in 2005.

* 1959 – Paul Hester, Australian drummer ( Crowded House and Split Enz ) ( d. 2005 )

Voight gave critically acclaimed biographical performances during the 2000s ( decade ), appearing as sportscaster Howard Cosell in Ali ( 2001 ), as Nazi officer Jürgen Stroop in Uprising ( 2001 ), and as Pope John Paul II in the television miniseries of the same name ( 2005 ).

In the critically acclaimed CBS miniseries Pope John Paul II, released in December 2005, Voight, who was raised a Catholic, portrayed the pontiff from the time of his election until his death, garnering an Emmy nomination for the role.

The only non-Hindu PM was Paul Raymond Bérenger who spent 22 months in office from 2003 to 2005 thanks to an understanding between his party, the MMM, and Sir Aneerood Jugnauth's party, the MSM, prior to the 2000 elections.

In 2005, Mötley Crüe was involved in an animation-comedy spoof Disaster !, which was written by Paul Benson and Matt Sullivan and which was used as the introduction film to concerts on their Carnival of Sins tour.

* 1920 – Pope John Paul II ( d. 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 ).

Funeral of Pope John Paul II at the Vatican in 2005, presided over by Cardinal Ratzinger, the future Pope Benedict XVI

# John Paul II ( 1978 – 2005 ): 26 years, 5 months and 18 days ( 9, 665 days ).

In 2005, De Jeugd van Tegenwoordig (" The youth of today ") were successful with " Watskeburt?!

* 1947 – Henk van Woerden, Dutch painter and writer ( d. 2005 )

), in collaboration with Antoine Faivre, Roelof van den Broek, Jean-Pierre Brach, Dictionary of Gnosis and Western Esotericism, Leiden / Bristol: Brill, 2005, 2 vols., 1228 p. ISBN 90-04-14187-1.

* van der Eijk P. Medicine and Philosophy in Classical Antiquity: Doctors and Philosophers on Nature, Soul, Health and Disease. Cambridge University Press, 2005 ISBN 0-521-81800-1, ISBN 978-0-521-81800-1

In late 2005, Suzuki introduced the APV ( All-Purpose Vehicle ) the first luxury family van in Pakistan.

* 2005 – A. E. van Vogt, The Weapon Shops of Isher

Koolhaas's design won the Architekturpreis Berlin in 2003 and the Mies van der Rohe Award for European Architecture in 2005.

* Hesselt van Dinter, Maarten ( 2005 ) The World of Tattoo ; An Illustrated History.

* December 20 – Marinus van der Goes van Naters, Dutch politician ( d. 2005 )

De Papoea ’ s van westelijk Nieuw-Guinea en de grenzen van het zelfbeschikkingsrecht ( Amsterdam 2005 ).

In another case, two PETA employees were acquitted in 2007 of animal cruelty after at least 80 euthanized animals were left in dumpsters in a shopping center in Ashoskie over the course of a month in 2005 ; the two employees were seen leaving behind 18 dead animals, and 13 more were found inside their van.

He played in the gold medal-winning Dutch team at the European Team Chess Championships in Gothenburg in 2005, alongside Loek van Wely, Ivan Sokolov, Sergei Tiviakov, and Erik van den Doel.

The then recognized oldest person in the world, Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper, lived in Hoogeveen until her death in August 2005.

Ford Motor Company had the Lorain Assembly Plant in the city, mostly known for assembling the Ford Econoline ( E-series ) van, Ford Torino and Mercury Montego, and beginning in 1975 the Ford Thunderbird and Mercury Cougar ( through 1997 ); the plant ceased all production on December 14, 2005 because the UAW and Ford management were unable to come to terms on a new contract.

* 2005 " Begijnendijk, dorp van kerkenbouwers "

* Willem van Genk ( 1927 – 2005 ) is the best known Dutch representative of outsider art.

William Joseph " Billy " Baldwin ( born February 21, 1963 ) is an American actor, producer, and writer, known for his starring roles in such films as Flatliners ( 1990 ), Backdraft ( 1991 ), Sliver ( 1993 ), Fair Game ( 1995 ), Virus ( 1999 ), Double Bang ( 2001 ), as Johnny 13 in Danny Phantom ( 2004 – 2007 ), Art Heist ( 2004 ), The Squid and the Whale ( 2005 ), as himself in Forgetting Sarah Marshall, as Senator Patrick Darling in the TV drama Dirty Sexy Money ( 2007 – 2009 ) on ABC, Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths ( 2010 ), and now Baldwin is currently a regular guest on Gossip Girl as William van der Woodsen and Parenthood as Gordon Flint.

In 2005, van Creveld made headlines when he said in an interview that the 2003 invasion of Iraq was " the most foolish war since Emperor Augustus in 9

* Dutch producer Maarten van der Vleuten / In-Existence released a song titled " Mare Tranquillitatis " on his album Vow Of Silence released on Tonefloat in 2005.

* van der Meer, John Henry ( 2005 ) " Review of Bartolomeo Cristofori: La Spinetta Ovale del 1690: Studi e richerche, edited by Gabriele Rossi Rognoni.

On December 23, 2005, a Dutch court sentenced Frans van Anraat, a businessman who bought chemicals on the world market and sold them to Saddam's regime, to 15 years in prison.