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1905 (MCMV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar.

Art, music, theatre, literature[change | change source]

• October 15 – Little Nemo in Slumberland debuts in American newspapers.
• A Little Princess is published

Events[change | change source]

• January 22 – "Bloody Sunday" in St. Petersburg (Russia). First Russian Revolution has started.
• April 1 – SOS, the Morse code signal for distress, is created by Germany.
• June 7 – Norway becomes an independent country.
• October 28 – Cardiff, Wales becomes a city in the United Kingdom.
• Albert Einstein publishes his special theory of relativity.
• A workers' revolt, supported by the crew of the Russian battleship Potemkin, takes place in Odessa, Russia.

Births[change | change source]

January[change | change source]

• January 2 – Michael Tippett, English composer (d. 1998)
• January 14 – Takeo Fukuda, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1995)
• January 21 – Christian Dior, French fashion designer (d. 1957)

February[change | change source]

• February 1 - Emilio G. Segre, Italian-American physicist (d. 1989)
• February 2 – Ayn Rand, American writer (d. 1982)

March[change | change source]

• March 9 – Rex Warner, English writer (d. 1986)
• March 12 – Takashi Shimura, Japanese actor (d. 1982)
• March 19 – Albert Speer, German architect (d. 1981)
• March 25 – Pote Sarasin, Prime Minister of Thailand (d. 2000)

April[change | change source]

• April 21 – Pat Brown, 32nd Governor of California (d. 1996)

May[change | change source]

• May 15 – Joseph Cotten, American actor (d. 1994)
• May 16 – Henry Fonda, American actor (d. 1982)
• May 26 – Seni Pramoj, Prime Minister of Thailand (d. 1997)

June[change | change source]

• June 21 – Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher (d. 1980)

July[change | change source]

• July 15 – Chaudhry Muhammad Ali, Prime Minister of Pakistan (d. 1980)
• July 29 – Clara Bow, American actress (d. 1965)
• July 29 – Dag Hammarskjöld, 2nd Secretary-General of the United Nations (d. 1961)

August[change | change source]

• August 24 – Arthur Crudup, American blues musician (d. 1976)
• August 25 – Faustyna Kowalska, Polish nun and mystic (d. 1938)

September[change | change source]

• September 18 – Greta Garbo, Swedish actress (d. 1990)

October[change | change source]

November[change | change source]

December[change | change source]

• December 4 – Emílio Garrastazu Médici, President of Brazil (d. 1985)
• December 5 – John Whedon, American screenwriter (d. 1991)
• December 11 – Erskine Hamilton Childers, 4th President of Ireland (d. 1974)
• December 21 – Anthony Powell, English writer (d. 2000)
• December 22 – Kenneth Rexroth, American poet (d. 1982)

Deaths[change | change source]

• March 24 – Jules Verne, French writer (b. 1828)