* 1917 – Will Eisner, American illustrator and cartoonist ( d. 2005 )

* 1915 – André François, French cartoonist ( d. 2005 )

* 2005: Mike Luckovich, editorial cartoonist for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

** André François, French cartoonist ( d. 2005 )

Todd McFarlane is also the cartoonist responsible for the cover art of the albums Ten Thousand Fists, released in September 2005 and Indestructible, released June 2008 by metal band Disturbed, and the art in their single " Land of Confusion ", as well as that of metal band Iced Earth's 1996 Spawn-based concept album The Dark Saga and Korn's third studio album Follow the Leader, which was released in 1998.

A 2005 obituary by The Guardian of its pocket cartoonist David Austin said " Newspaper readers instinctively look to the pocket cartoon to reassure them that the disasters and afflictions besetting them each morning are not final.

In 2005, when US President George W. Bush nominated Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court, political cartoonist Steve Sack drew a cartoon depicting Bush brushing a pony toy with false eyelashes with the title " My Little Crony " shortly after the dismissal of Michael D. Brown for failing to handle the Hurricane Katrina crisis.

As a cartoonist, he generally worked under the name of ' Trog ' until failing eyesight forced him to retire from cartooning in 2005 at the age of 81 to concentrate solely on his clarinet playing.

* Jud Hurd ( 1913 – 2005 ), cartoonist

Subsequently, Zapiro started out as the editorial cartoonist for South newspaper in 1987, and after his stint in New York he was the editorial cartoonist for the Sowetan from 1994 to 2005.

He has been the editorial cartoonist for the Mail & Guardian since 1994, the Sunday Times since 1998 and since September 2005 he has appeared three times a week in the Cape Times, the Star, the Mercury and the Pretoria News.

* Dudu Geva ( 1950 – 2005 ), Israeli artist, writer, cartoonist, illustrator, and comic book creator

In 2005, cartoonist Nick Anderson won the paper's 10th Pulitzer, but when he left for the Houston Chronicle, the paper did not replace him, instead relying largely on submissions from local cartoonists.

The Center for Cartoon Studies was founded by cartoonist James Sturm and Michelle Ollie in 2004, with its first class of 18 students beginning their schooling in the Fall of 2005.

Son of the Mask is a 2005 American fantasy family-comedy film directed by Lawrence Guterman, starring Jamie Kennedy as Tim Avery, an aspiring cartoonist from Fringe City who has just had his first child born with the powers of the Mask.

Edmund S. Valtman ( May 31, 1914 – January 12, 2005 ) was an Estonian-American editorial cartoonist and winner of the 1962 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning.

Lou Myers ( 1915 – November 20, 2005 ) was a cartoonist and short story writer.

Emil Samuel Zekley ( February 11, 1915 – April 28, 2005 ), better known as Zeke Zekley, was an American cartoonist who worked on several comic strips, notably George McManus ' Bringing Up Father.

* Lou Myers ( 1915 – 2005 ), U. S. cartoonist and short story writer

Mallard's politics are very close, if not one and the same, to cartoonist Bruce Tinsley's ; as Tinsley told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review that " Mallard really is about as close to me as you can get ," in an October 2005 interview.

Willem Louis Joseph Boost ( 2 July 1918, Breda-1 August 2005, Breukelen ), was a Dutch cartoonist, using the alias WiBo.

* December 4, 2005: Pakisatini based group Jamaat-e-Islami, have placed a price of around € 7, 000 upon the head of what it believes to be one cartoonist of 12 cartoons.

* December 18, 2005: Cuban cartoonist Rafael Fornes Collado dies.

The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin ( 2005 ), influential intellectual history by leading historian.

* 1904 – George F. Kennan, American historian and diplomat ( d. 2005 )

* 1916 – Shelby Foote, American historian ( d. 2005 )

Moreover, further debate about colonialism, which is linked to immigration, continued in France ; historian Benjamin Stora noted that colonialism is an important " memory " stake influencing how communities, and the nation, itself, represent themselves, because official state history has accepted French historic crimes and errors with great difficulty ; the historian Olivier LeCour Grandmaison also criticized the 23 February 2005 law.

Vikings appear in several books by the Danish American writer Poul Anderson, while British explorer, historian and writer Tim Severin authored a trilogy of novels in 2005 about a young Viking adventurer Thorgils Leifsson, who travels around the world.

** Maurice Cowling, British historian ( d. 2005 )

In 2005, Wollongong-based historian and politician Michael Organ had examined a print of the film in the National Film Archive of New Zealand.

During a research trip into the cave on January 15, 2005, Park Ranger Amy Wallace, History Professor Joe Douglas, local historian Billyfrank Morrison, and Geologist Larry E. Matthews, discovered Indian Glyphs on the walls of the cave.

In October, 2005 the New York Times reported that Robert J. Hanyok, a historian for the U. S. National Security Agency, had concluded that the NSA deliberately distorted the intelligence reports that it had passed on to policy-makers regarding the August 4, 1964 incident.

A manifesto entitled " Development through Democracy " issued by the party in February 2005 was signed by a broad range of Polish intellectuals and artists, including Paweł Huelle ( writer ), Marek Edelman ( physician, last surviving leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Rising ), Agnieszka Holland ( director ), Marek Kondrat ( actor ), Kazimierz Kutz ( director ), Jan Miodek ( linguist ), Daniel Olbrychski ( actor ), Jerzy Pilch ( writer ), Henryk Samsonowicz ( historian ), Jerzy Szacki ( sociologist ).

* David Ratner, PA paid legal defense fees of 1948 Tantura affair historian, Haaretz online, article undated, retrieved February 25, 2005.

In March 2005, Hochhuth became embroiled in controversy when, during an interview with the German weekly Junge Freiheit, he defended David Irving, describing him as a " pioneer of modern history who has written magnificent books " and an " historian to equal someone like Joachim Fest ".

Geographer and historian David Harvey in a series of works from the 1970s onwards ( Social Justice and the City, 1973 ; The Limits to Capital, 1982 ; The Urbanization of Capital, 1985 ; Spaces of Hope, 2000 ; Spaces of Capital, 2001 ; Spaces of Neoliberalization, 2005 ; The Enigma of Capital and the Crises of Capitalism, 2010 ), elaborated Marx's thought on the systemic contradictions of capitalism, particularly in relation to the production of the urban environment ( and to the production of space more broadly ).

* Sir William Deakin ( 1913 – 2005 ), historian and diplomat

Among the major writers of the period were Guo Moruo ( 郭沫若 ) ( 1892 – 1978 ), a poet, historian, essayist, and critic ; Mao Dun ( 茅盾 ) ( 1896 – 1981 ), the first of the novelists to emerge from the " League of Left-Wing Writers " and one whose work reflected the revolutionary struggle and disillusionment of the late 1920s ; satirist and novelist Lao She ( 老舍 ) ( 1899 – 1966 ); and Ba Jin ( 巴金 ) ( 1904 – 2005 ), a novelist whose work was influenced by Ivan Turgenev and other Russian writers.

However, U. S. National Park Service historian Jerome Green, in his 2005 history of the siege, The Guns of Independence, concurs with the 1881 centennial account by Johnston, noting simply that when Brigadier General O ' Hara presented the sword to Major General Lincoln, " he held it for a moment and immediately returned it to O ' Hara.

Suomen historian käännekohtia autonomiasta nykypäivään ( an upper-secondary school history textbook ), Helsinki: Otava, 2005 – 2006 ).

*" An historian critiques the book The Secret Relationship between Blacks and Jews " by David Walter Leinweber, H Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online, retrieved April 3, 2005

The complete Russian translation by art historian Boris Sokolov is now in progress, of which the " Cythera Island " part was published in 2005 and is available online.

In October 2005, it was revealed that an original typescript of the deciphered Zimmermann Telegram had recently been discovered by an unnamed historian who was researching and preparing an official history of the United Kingdom's Government Communications Headquarters ( GCHQ ).

The 2005 research by the Head of Scientific Department at Majdanek Museum, historian Tomasz Kranz indicates that there were 79, 000 victims, 59, 000 of whom were Jews.

In 1976 historian and former editor of Studies on the Left, James Weinstein ( 1926 – 2005 ) launched the politically progressive journal In These Times.

* George F. Kennan ( 1904 – 2005 ), American diplomat, political scientist and historian