* Animal ( 2005 film ), US film by David J. Burke with Ving Rhames and Terrance Howard

* Is there an afterlife: a comprehensive overview of the evidence by David Fontana, O Books 2005.

* 1942 – David Lange, New Zealand politician ( d. 2005 )

* 1948 – David Ingram, American musician, songwriter, and arranger ( AnExchange and Love Song ) ( d. 2005 )

Baseball Before We Knew It: A Search for the Roots of the Game ( 2005 ), by David Block, suggests that the game originated in England ; recently uncovered historical evidence supports this position.

The range of times and places in which the horrors of the Mythos can be encountered was also expanded in late 2005 onwards with the addition of Cthulhu Dark Ages by Stéphane Gesbert, which gives a framework for playing games set in eleventh-century Europe, Secrets of Japan by Michael Dziesinski for gaming in modern day Japan, and Secrets of Kenya by David Conyers for gaming in interwar period Africa.

Media attention was renewed by the January 2005 suicide of David Berg's adopted and abused son / heir apparent Ricky Rodriguez ( who had also left the group several years earlier ) after he murdered a former member.

* David Cronenberg Profile by The New York Times Magazine ( September 2005 )

* Vanden Berghe, Marc, Plesca, Ioana, Lepelletier de Saint-Fargeau sur son lit de mort par Jacques-Louis David: saint Sébastien révolutionnaire, miroir multiréférencé de Rome, Brussels ( 2005 )-online on www. art-chitecture. net / publications. php

* Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute 2005 exhibition, Jacques-Louis David: Empire to Exile

During the 2005 Conservative leadership contest, eventual winner David Cameron pledged to withdraw the Conservatives from the EPP-ED coalition, while opponent David Davis argued in a letter to the editor of the Daily Telegraph that the current ED arrangement allowed the Conservatives to maintain suitable distance from EPP while still having influence in the largest parliamentary grouping.

It was sold at Christie's on 19 May 2005 for £ 420, 000 (£ 478, 400 including auction fees and taxes ) to David Gold, the then joint chairman of Birmingham City.

* Penchansky, David, " Twilight of the gods: polytheism in the Hebrew Bible " ( Westminster John Knox Press, 2005 )

* 1915 – David Diamond, American composer ( d. 2005 )

Owing to his controversial research that has sparked political debates, including Ontario's premier David Peterson calling Rushton a racist, in 2005 The Ottawa Citizen described Rushton as the most famous university professor in Canada.

In the original series, which ran on Radio 4 from 1973 – 83, no adaptation was made of the seminal Gaudy Night, perhaps because the leading character in this novel is Harriet and not Peter ; this was corrected in 2005 when a version specially recorded for the BBC Radio Collection was released starring Carmichael and Joanna David.

* Hempton, David ( 2005 ) Methodism: Empire of the Spirit, Yale University Press, ISBN 0-300-10614-9

* 1919 – David Kossoff, British actor ( d. 2005 )

* 2005 – David Westheimer, American novelist ( b. 1917 )

David Cameron famously used the phrase in a December 2005 speech.

Drawing from Jameson and other theorists, David Beard and Kenneth Gloag argue that, in music, postmodernism is not just an attitude but also an inevitability in the current cultural climate of fragmentation ( Beard and Gloag 2005, 141 – 45 ).

* Dalin, David G. 2005.

In particular, catering manager David Harwood received the Cambridge Catering Award in 2005 for his " outstanding quality and affordable prices ".

David McLetchie announced his resignation as Scottish Conservative Party leader on 31 October 2005, after it was revealed he had spent £ 11, 500 of taxpayers ' money on taxi fares, more than any other MSP.

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

The current President of Burundi is Pierre Nkurunziza, a former rebel leader of the Hutu National Council for the Defense of Democracy-Forces for the Defense of Democracy who was elected unopposed as the new President of Burundi by the parliament on 19 August 2005.

In December 2005, jailed Intifada leader Marwan Barghouti broke ranks with the party and announced that he had formed a new political list to run in the elections called the al-Mustaqbal (" The Future "), mainly composed of members of Fatah's " Young Guard.

In 2005, Lucas gave US $ 1 million to help build the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial on the National Mall in Washington D. C. to commemorate American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.

Around this time, Joschka Fischer emerged as the unofficial leader of the party, which he remained until resigning all leadership posts following the 2005 federal election.

* 1945 – Harold Cardinal, Cree political leader ( d. 2005 )

* 2005 – James Forman, American civil rights leader ( b. 1928 )

On 10 July 2005 interim President and opposition People's Movement leader Kurmanbek Bakiyev won the presidential election in a landslide victory.

As of 2005, its commander was Hasan al-Kabir al-Gaddafi, a cousin of the former Libyan leader.

The Communist Party retained political control after winning the March 2005 parliamentary elections and re-elected its leader, Vladimir Voronin, as president in collaboration with the opposition.

In 2005, Merlin appeared as leader of the Woads of Britton and father to Guinevere in King Arthur.

Frankel ( 2005 ) shows the Bismarck cult fostered and legitimized a new style of right-wing politics, and made possible the post-Bismarckian crisis of leadership, both real and perceived, that had Germans seeking the strongest possible leader and asking, " What Would Bismarck Do?

* 1951 – Aslan Maskhadov, Chechen rebel leader, 3rd President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria ( d. 2005 )

The 2005 Padres featured bright spots, however, including ace pitcher Jake Peavy, the NL strikeout leader, and closer Trevor Hoffman, who claimed his 400th save.

Newstalk ZB is the New Zealand market leader, but Radio Live is continuing to try to establish itself with a greater presence in the talk radio market since its inception in 2005.

President Saleh was reported to have decided in 2005 not to run for another term in office, but was later convinced by a public demonstration calling him to continue as leader of the country to run again.

Abbas won the January 2005 presidential election by a comfortable margin, solidifying himself as the successor to Arafat as leader of the Palestinians.

* January 27 – Harold Cardinal, Cree political leader, writer, and lawyer ( d. 2005 )

* March 11 – Ron Todd, British trade union leader ( d. 2005 )

On 4 April 2005, President Rüütel nominated Reform party leader Andrus Ansip as Prime Minister designate by and asked him to form a new government, the 8th in 12 years.

The Nigerian government accuses MASSOB of violence ; MASSOB's leader, Ralph Uwazuruike, was arrested in 2005 and is being detained on treason charges ; MASSOB is calling for his release.

On September 22, 2005, the statue of Po ' pay, ( Popé ) the leader of the Pueblo Revolt, was unveiled in the Capitol Rotunda in Washington D. C.

In particular, Evo Morales of Bolivia ( elected in December 2005 ) was a coca growers union leader.

Fiji Labour Party leader Mahendra Chaudhry joined the ADB on 31 December 2005, saying that foreign companies repatriated much of the profit made in Fiji, rather than investing it locally, while taking advantage of the infrastructure funded by Fijian taxpayers without paying any taxes themselves.