* 1924 – Ephraim Kishon, Israeli writer ( d. 2005 )

* 2005 – Ezer Weizman, Israeli politician ( b. 1924 )

In February 2005, the Israeli government voted to implement a unilateral disengagement plan from the Gaza Strip.

On 12 September 2005 the Israeli cabinet formally declared an end to Israeli military occupation of the Gaza Strip.

In 2003, the Israeli government issued a plan for total withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and part of the northern West Bank by late 2005.

Many Israelis opposed the plan, and tensions were very high in Israel before and after the Disengagement Plan was approved by the Israeli Knesset on 16 February 2005.

In August 2005, the Israel Defense Forces and Israeli police forcibly removed all settlers from the Gaza Strip.

* Second Intifada, a period of intensified Palestinian – Israeli violence, which began in late September 2000 and ended around 2005

Israel dismantled 18 settlements in the Sinai Peninsula in 1982, and all 21 in the Gaza Strip and 4 in the West Bank in 2005, but continues to both expand its settlements and settle new areas in the West Bank in spite of the Oslo Accords which barred both Israeli and Palestinians from undertaking unilateral actions that would alter the status quo.

* 2005 – Ephraim Kishon, Israeli satirist ( b. 1924 )

On December 27, 2005 Katyusha rockets fired from Hezbollah territory smashed into houses in the Israeli village of Kiryat Shmona wounding three people.

In 2005, he was voted the 4th-greatest Israeli of all time, in a poll by the Israeli news website Ynet to determine whom the general public considered the 200 Greatest Israelis.

* 1936 – Dahlia Ravikovitch, Israeli poet ( d. 2005 )

In 2005, he was voted the 7th-greatest Israeli of all time, in a poll by the Israeli news website Ynet to determine whom the general public considered the 200 Greatest Israelis.

On August 4, 2005, Eden Natan-Zada, an AWOL Israel Defense Forces soldier, killed four Israeli Arab citizens and wounded several others when he opened fire on a bus in the northern Israeli town of Shfaram.

In September 2005 an Israeli AIDS expert claimed that Arafat bore all the symptoms of AIDS based on obtained medical records.

* November 17 – Dahlia Ravikovitch, Israeli poet ( d. 2005 )

During August 2005, Israel forcibly transferred all Israeli settlers ( 10, 000 ) from the Gaza Strip and northern West Bank, as part of its Unilateral Disengagement Plan.

In 2005, he was voted the greatest Israeli of all time, in a poll by the Israeli news website Ynet to determine whom the general public considered the 200 Greatest Israelis.

In 2005, he was voted the 11th-greatest Israeli of all time, in a poll by the Israeli news website Ynet to determine whom the general public considered the 200 Greatest Israelis.

* 2005 – Gloria Lasso, French-Spanish singer ( b. 1922 )

* 1922 – Grigoris Bithikotsis, Greek singer ( d. 2005 )

* 2005 – Tyrone Davis, American soul singer ( b. 1938 )

* 1934 – Harold ' Hal ' Kalin, American singer ( d. 2005 )

Like Hardcore Logo, the 2005 Canadian film The Life and Hard Times of Guy Terrifico, about a country rock singer, was also done as a fake documentary with appearances by Kris Kristofferson, Ronnie Hawkins, Merle Haggard and Levon Helm playing themselves.

Garth Brooks remarried on December 10, 2005, to Trisha Yearwood, a leading country singer.

* 2005 – A jury in Santa Maria, California acquits pop singer Michael Jackson of molesting 13-year-old Gavin Arvizo at his Neverland Ranch.

* 1967 – Jackie Neal, American singer ( d. 2005 )

* 1942 – Danny Williams, South African singer ( d. 2005 )

* 1917 – John Raitt, American singer and actor ( d. 2005 )

In September 2005, Kid Rock filled in for Johnny Van Zant, the lead singer of Lynyrd Skynyrd on the band's hit " Sweet Home Alabama " at the Hurricane Katrina benefit concert.

* 2005 – Monica Zetterlund, Swedish singer and actress ( b. 1937 )

* 1943 – Vicky Moscholiou, Greek singer ( d. 2005 )

* 2005 – Thurl Ravenscroft, American voice actor and singer ( b. 1914 )

* 2005 – Link Wray, American rock and roll guitarist, songwriter and singer ( b. 1929 )

* 1922 – Gloria Lasso, French-born Spanish singer ( d. 2005 )

* 1920 – Camillo Felgen, Luxembourgish singer ( d. 2005 )

* 1926 – Oscar Brown Jr, American singer, songwriter, playwright, poet, civil rights activist, and actor ( d. 2005 )

* 2005 – Shirley Horn, American singer ( b. 1934 )

* 1925 – Bhanumathi Ramakrishna, Indian actress, singer, and director ( d. 2005 )

* 1934 – Little Milton, American singer and guitarist ( d. 2005 )

* 1924 – Bobby Short, American singer and pianist ( d. 2005 )

Their original lead singer, Steve Hill, died in October 2005, aged 52, of liver cancer.

He wrote lyrics for a number of tracks on the IAMX albums " Kiss + Swallow " and " The Alternative " and released the album All These Lines Make Noises in 2005 as singer / songwriter / lyricist with the band transporter.

In 2005, Waits sued Adam Opel AG, claiming that, after having failed to sign him to sing in their Scandinavian commercials, they had hired a sound-alike singer.