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

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

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

* April 27 – August Wilson, American playwright ( d. 2005 )

* October 17 – Arthur Miller, American playwright ( d. 2005 )

Of the latter there has been the 1990 opera Ulrike Meinhof by Johann Kresnik, the 1993 play Leviathan by Dea Loher, the 2005 play La extraordinaria muerte de Ulrike M. by Spanish playwright Carlos Be and the 2006 play Ulrike Maria Stuart ( de ) by Austrian playwright Elfriede Jelinek.

In 2005, German playwright Botho Strauß adapted the play into Schändung: nach dem Titus Andronicus von Shakespeare ( Rape: After Titus Andronicus by Shakespeare ), also commonly known by its French name, Viol, d ' après Titus Andronicus de William Shakespeare.

* Christopher Fry born Christopher Fry Harris ( 1907 – 2005 ) — playwright

A 1993 survey for ' Plays and Players ' magazine cited Godber as the third most performed playwright in the UK, after Shakespeare and Alan Ayckbourn. In 2005 won 2 BAFTAs for ' Odd Squad ', written and directed on location in Hull and screened by BBC children's television.

* Willis Hall ( 1929 – 2005 ), English playwright and radio and television writer

* Arthur Miller: ( 1915 – 2005 ) American playwright

* Arthur Miller ( 1915 – 2005 ), playwright, Death of a Salesman.

In 2005, in Los Angeles, Native Voices at the Autry produced Kino and Teresa, an adaptation of Romeo and Juliet written by Taos Pueblo playwright James Lujan.

Athol Fugard ( born 11 June 1932 ) is a South African playwright, novelist, actor, and director who writes in English, best known for his political plays opposing the South African system of apartheid and for the 2005 Academy-Award winning film of his novel Tsotsi, directed by Gavin Hood .< ref name = McLuckie >

In 2005, playwright David Farr wrote and directed a " freely adapted " version for London's National Theatre called The UN Inspector, which transposed the action to a modern-day ex-Soviet republic.

Christopher Fry ( 18 December 1907 – 30 June 2005 ) was an English playwright.

Ossie Davis ( born Raiford Chatman Davis, December 18, 1917 – February 4, 2005 ) was an Emmy Award and Grammy Award-winning, American film, television and Broadway actor, director, poet, playwright, author, and social activist.

* Arthur Miller ( 1915 – 2005 ), playwright and essayist.

* Christopher Fry ( 1907 – 2005 ), playwright

The Atlantic Theatre Company ( New York, New York ) in 2005 mounted a new adaptation of The Cherry Orchard by Tom Donaghy, where much more of the comedy was present as the playwright had originally intended.

* TCM Remembers 2005: Sandra Dee, Virginia Mayo, John Vernon, cinematographer Tonino Delli Colli, Simone Simon, Eddie Albert, Marc Lawrence, playwright Arthur Miller, Ruth Hussey, Ossie Davis, screenwriter Gavin Lambert, Keith Andes, Geraldine Fitzgerald, screenwriter Evan Hunter, director Guy Green, Harold J.

US Latina playwright Caridad Svich's 2004 multimedia play Iphigenia Crash Land Falls on the Neon Shell That Was Once Her Heart ( a rave fable ) is published in the international theatre journal TheatreForum, and also in the anthology Divine Fire: Eight Contemporary Plays Inspired by the Greeks published in 2005 by BackStage Books.

* In 2005, she was in the West Coast premiere of Barbra's Wedding, starring opposite actor / playwright Daniel Stern, in a production staged at Falcon Theatre, in Burbank, California.

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In a 2005 U. S. governmental report, antisemitism is defined as " hatred toward Jews — individually and as a group — that can be attributed to the Jewish religion and / or ethnicity.

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

In January 2005, a federal law came into force in Germany – the Luftsicherheitsgesetz – that allowed " direct action by armed force " against a hijacked aircraft to prevent a 9 / 11-type attack.

Plans were also made for a new retractable-roof ballpark, Bank One Ballpark, nicknamed the BOB, ( renamed in 2005 to Chase Field ) to be built in an industrial / warehouse district on the southeast edge of downtown Phoenix, one block from the Suns ' America West Arena ( now US Airways Center ).

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* Telecom New Zealand — Operated an AMPS / TDMA network in New Zealand from 1987 until 2007 throughout the whole country and the network was renowned for its superb coverage, In 2000 Telecom announced that they would discontinue the AMPS network within 5 years ( 2005 ) to give customers an opportunity to transition to the CDMA2000 and later 1XRTT technologies that replaced it.

Anchorage, Alaska: Aleutian / Pribilof Islands Association, 2005.

Anchorage, Alaska: Aleutian / Pribilof Islands Association, 2005.

Today the harmonized ISO / IEC 80000-13: 2008 – Quantities and units — Part 13: Information science and technology standard cancels and replaces subclauses 3. 8 and 3. 9 of IEC 60027-2: 2005, namely those related to Information theory and Prefixes for binary multiples.

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The BBC Governors ' annual report for 2005 / 2006 reported that average audience figures for fifteen minute periods had reached 8. 6 % in multichannel homes, up from 7. 8 % in 2004 / 2005.

* U. S. Navy Historical C / The Bermuda Triangle: Startling New Secrets, Sci Fi Channel documentary ( November 2005 )

Also, by 1999, 38-40 % of the population of the Cayman Islands was of Jamaican origin and in 2004 / 2005 little over 50 % of the expatriates working in the Cayman Islands ( i. e. 8, 000 ) were Jamaicans ( with the next largest expatriate communities coming from the United States, United Kingdom and Canada ).

The Embassy reopened in January 2005 ; however, there currently is limited U. S. diplomatic / consular representation in the C. A. R.

: 17. 8 births / 1, 000 population ( 2005 – 2010 )

: 4. 1 deaths / 1, 000 population ( 2005 – 2010 )

: 9. 9 deaths / 1, 000 live births ( 2005 – 2010 )