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

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

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

* 2005 – Robert Coldwell Wood, American political scientist and educator ( b. 1923 )

* Scientific American Magazine ( September 2005 Issue ) Can Extreme Poverty Be Eliminated?

* Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story, a 2005 American documentary film

* 1916 – Wellington Mara, American businessman ( d. 2005 )

* 1929 – Gene Scott, American pastor and broadcaster ( d. 2005 )

* Adrian Rogers ( 1931 – 2005 ), American pastor, conservative, author

* 1926 – Joe Jones, American singer-songwriter ( d. 2005 )

* 1924 – Chris Schenkel, American sportscaster ( d. 2005 )

* 1937 – Dick Radatz, American baseball player ( d. 2005 )

* 1953 – Debralee Scott, American actress ( d. 2005 )

* 1924 – Clarence " Gatemouth " Brown, American blues musician ( d. 2005 )

* 1983 – Cristina Nardozzi, American model, Miss Massachusetts USA 2005

According to Strmiska and Sigurvinsson ( 2005 ), American Asatruar tend to prefer a more devotional form of worship and a more emotional conception of the Nordic gods than Scandinavian practitioner, reflecting the parallel tendency of highly emotional forms of Christianity prevalent in the United States.

* 1927 – Jimmy Martin, American blugrass vocalist and guitarist ( d. 2005 )

* 1943 – Jimmy Griffin, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( Bread, Black Tie, and The Remingtons ) ( d. 2005 )

* 1909 – Saunders Mac Lane, American mathematician ( d. 2005 )

* 1928 – Vassar Clements, American musician ( Old and in the Way ) ( d. 2005 )

Northampton, MA-based indie rock band Winterpills have a song on their 2005 debut album Winterpills called Threshing Machine.

* The 2005 album Illinoise from indie musician Sufjan Stevens features a track entitled " The Man of Metropolis Steals Our Hearts.

Existing indie bands that were now able to enter the mainstream included more musically and emotionally complex bands including Modest Mouse ( whose 2004 album Good News for People Who Love Bad News reached the US top 40 and was nominated for a Grammy Award ), Bright Eyes ( who in 2004 had two singles at the top of the Billboard magazine Hot 100 Single Sales ) and Death Cab for Cutie ( whose 2005 album Plans debuted at number four in the US, remaining on the Billboard charts for nearly one year and achieving platinum status and a Grammy nomination ).

She also performed the title song, " Sunny Valentine " along with Terrence Quaites for the indie film, Rockin ' Meera directed by Param Gill in 2005.

In 2005, two popular indie music publications, Pitchfork Media and Stylus Magazine, independently named Kid A the best album of the past five years.

He starred as a heroin-addicted ex-rugby league player in the 2005 Australian indie film Little Fish, opposite Cate Blanchett.

In 2005, the indie band The Happy Bullets recorded an album and song using the same title, but changed the institution into a British prep school with tongue-in-cheek references to climbing the social ladder of European high society.

* In 2005, Springfield, Illinois indie band Resident Genius recorded a tribute song called " Calvin J ", which contains the line " International Pop Underground / unknowingly broke fresh new ground "

The song was also used on As If, Holiday Showdown, Wife Swap, That'll Teach ' Em and Grumpy Old Men, and in 2005 was included in VH2's list of the best indie songs of all time.

In 2005, Good co-starred in the horror film Venom as well as the well-received indie noir Brick.

* SMC Recordings, an indie hip-hop record label founeded in 2005, located in San Francisco, California

* Fourth of July ( band ), an American indie band since 2005

Their second album You Are Being Lied to was released in June 2005 on the indie label Captains of Industry.

In 2005, cult British indie band Half Man Half Biscuit-best known for " The Trumpton Riots " and " Dickie Davies Eyes ", featured a song entitled " For What Is Chatteris ..." on their award-winning Achtung Bono album.

In 2005, he put together a one man electro show, playing at some of Melbourne's indie clubs, before being invited to showcase at NxNE in Toronto, 2006, where he received excellent reviews.

In recent years many Pointer Sisters songs have been covered by contemporary artists, such as " Jump ( for My Love )" by Girls Aloud, which reached number two at the UK singles chart in 2003, " Dare Me " was turned into the dance smash " Stupidisco " by Belgian DJ Junior Jack, indie band Le Tigre covered in 2004 " I'm So Excited " on their third album This Island, and French DJ Muttonheads sampled " Back In My Arms " on his 2005 club hit " I'll Be There ".

Street also produced the first two albums for ska-influenced British indie band The Ordinary Boys, also on the B-Unique label, Over The Counter Culture in 2004 and Brassbound in 2005, to high critical acclaim.

In April 2010, the band's 2005 song " Joy Division Oven Gloves " from Achtung Bono was the subject of a Facebook campaign to get it to No. 6 on the chart for 12 April 2010, in response to the rumoured closure of indie station BBC 6 Music.

In 2005, a " benefit spoof " of this song was released by " The North American Halloween Prevention Initiative " made up of a wide variety of indie artists.

In 2005 the label acquired New York City indie label Startime International, with whom they co-released albums from The French Kicks and The Futureheads.

* Pitchfork e-zine tells indie fans what's hot and what's not ( Chicago Tribune reprint, published 8 May 2005 ).

The song " Let's Go " from the band's second album " Good Earth " is featured on the soundtrack of Noah Baumbach's 2005 quirky indie film " The Squid and the Whale ".

Although known mostly for his work under prosthetic makeup, such as the zombie Billy Butcherson in the Disney Halloween film Hocus Pocus, or the lead Spy Morlock in the 2002 remake of the 1960 film The Time Machine, he has also performed without prosthetics in such films as Adaptation, Mystery Men and Batman Returns, and indie projects such as Stefan Haves ' Stalled, AntiKaiser Productions ' Three Lives, Phil Donlon's A Series of Small Things and as Cesare in David Fisher's 2005 remake of the 1920 silent classic The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.

In 2005, leggings made a " comeback " into high fashion, particularly in indie culture, with capri-length leggings being worn with mini skirts and dresses.