1905: On this day in history

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Famous birthdays, deaths and events of 1905

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Birthdays

January 1 - Stanisław Mazur, Polish mathematician (d. 1981)
January 1 - Kamatari Fujiwara, Japanese actor (d. 1985)
January 2 - Lev Schnirelmann, Russian mathematician (d. 1938)
January 2 - Luigi Zampa, Italian film director and screenwriter (d. 1991)
January 2 - Michael Tippett, English composer (d. 1998)
January 3 - Anna May Wong, American actress (d. 1961)
January 3 - Ray Milland, Welsh actor (d. 1986)
January 6 - Idris Davies, Welsh poet (d. 1953)
January 8 - Giacinto Scelsi, Italian composer (d. 1988)
January 8 - Franjo Cardinal Seper, Croatian Catholic cardinal (d. 1981)
January 11 - Clyde Kluckhohn, American anthropologist (d. 1960)
January 11 - Manfred B Lee, U.S. writer
January 12 - James Bennett Griffin, American archaeologist (d. 1997)
January 12 - Tex Ritter, American country singer and actor (d. 1974)
January 14 - Takeo Fukuda, 67th Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1995)
January 14 - Sterling Holloway, American Character Actor (d. 1992)
January 15 - Torin Thatcher, English actor (d. 1981)
January 16 - Ernesto Halffter, Spanish composer and conductor (d. 1989)
January 17 - Guillermo Stábile, Argentine footballer (d. 1966)
January 17 - Peggy Gilbert, American jazz saxophonist and bandleader (d. 2007)
January 17 - Ray Cunningham, American baseball player (d. 2005)
January 18 - Joseph Bonanno, Italian-born gangster (d. 2002)
January 19 - Stanley Hawes, British-born Australian film producer
January 21 - Christian Dior, French fashion designer (d. 1957)
January 21 - Karl Wallenda, German acrobat (d. 1978)
January 24 - J. Howard Marshall, American billionaire (d. 1995)
January 25 - Maurice Roy, French Canadian Roman Catholic cardinal
January 26 - Charles Lane, American actor (d. 2007)
January 26 - Maria von Trapp, Austrian-born singer (d. 1987)
January 27 - Howard McNear, American actor (d. 1969)
January 29 - Barnett Newman, American painter (d. 1970)
January 31 - John O'Hara, American writer (d. 1970)
February 1 - Emilio G. Segrè, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1989)
February 2 - Ayn Rand, Russian-born American author and philosopher (d. 1982)
February 3 - Arne Beurling, American mathematician(d. 1986)
February 4 - Hylda Baker, English comedy actress (d. 1986)
February 6 - Władysław Gomułka, Polish leader (d. 1982)
February 7 - Ulf von Euler, Swedish physiologist
February 7 - Paul Nizan, French author (d. 1940)
February 15 - Harold Arlen, American composer (d. 1986)
February 27 - Franchot Tone, American actor (d. 1968)
March 1 - Doris Hare, Welsh actress (d. 2000)
March 6 - Bob Wills, American singer (d. 1975)
March 10 - Betty Amann, German-American actress. (d. 1990)
March 10 - Richard Haydn, English actor (d. 1985)
March 14 - Raymond Aron, French philosopher (d. 1983)
March 15 - Berthold von Stauffenberg, German lawyer and Nazi opponent (d. 1944)
March 16 - Elisabeth Flickenschildt, German actress (d. 1977)
March 16 - Marlin Perkins, American naturalist (d. 1986)
March 18 - Robert Donat, English actor (d. 1958)
March 18 - Thomas Townsend Brown, American scientist (d. 1985)
March 19 - Albert Speer, Nazi official (d. 1981)
March 20 - Jean Galia, French rugby footballer (d. 1949)
March 23 - Lale Andersen, German singer and cabaretist (d. 1972)
March 23 - Joan Crawford, American actress (d. 1977)
March 24 - Pura Santillan-Castrence, Filipino writer and diplomat (d. 2007)
March 26 - Viktor Frankl, Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist (d. 1997)
March 26 - Monty Berman, British film and television producer (d. 2006)
March 27 - Elsie MacGill, Canadian aeronautical engineer (d. 1980)
March 28 - Marlin Perkins, American naturalist and television host (d. 1986)
March 28 - Pandro S. Berman, American film producer (d. 1996)
March 29 - Philip Ahn, American actor (d. 1978)
March 30 - Albert Pierrepoint, English executioner (d. 1992)
April 3 - Robert Frederick Sink, United States Army Officer (d. 1965)
April 4 - Eugene Bozza, French modern composer (d. 1991)
April 7 - Queenie Leonard, American actress (d. 2002)
April 8 - Helen Joseph, South African anti-apartheid activist (d. 1992)
April 8 - Erwin Keller, German field hockey player (d. 1971)
April 9 - J. William Fulbright, U.S. Senator from Arkansas (d. 1995)
April 11 - József Attila, Hungarian poet (d. 1937)
April 14 - Elizabeth Huckaby, American educator (d. 1999)
April 16 - Frits Philips, Dutch businessman (d. 2005)
April 17 - Arthur Lake, American actor (d. 1987)
April 18 - George H. Hitchings, American scientist
April 21 - Pat Brown, American politician (d. 1996)
April 22 - Robert Choquette, French Canadian novelist
April 24 - Robert Penn Warren, American poet (d. 1989)
April 25 - George Nepia, New Zealand rugby player (d. 1986)
May 1 - Henry Koster, German film director (d. 1988)
May 1 - Paul Desruisseaux, French Canadian lawyer
May 3 - Werner Fenchel, German mathematician (d. 1988)
May 3 - Sebastian Shaw, English actor (d. 1994)
May 8 - Red Nichols, American musician (d. 1965)
May 10 - Markos Vamvakaris, Greek rebetiko musician and songwriter (d. 1972)
May 14 - Jean Daniélou, French cardinal (d. 1974)
May 14 - Herbert Morrison, American radio announcer (d. 1989)
May 15 - Joseph Cotten, American actor (d. 1994)
May 16 - Henry Fonda, American actor (d. 1982)
May 18 - Hedley Verity, English cricketer (d. 1943)
May 24 - Michail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov, Russian writer
May 29 - Sebastian Shaw, English actor (d. 1994)
May 31 - Florence Desmond, English actress and comedian (d. 1993)
June 3 - Martin Gottfried Weiss, German
June 5 - John Abbott, British actor (d. 1996)
June 12 - Ray Barbuti, American athlete (d. 1988)
June 14 - Steve Broidy, American motion picture executive (d. 1991)
June 19 - Mildred Natwick, American actress (d. 1994)
June 20 - Lillian Hellman, American playwright (d. 1984)
June 21 - Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher and writer
June 23 - Jack Pickersgill, Canadian politician (d. 1997)
June 27 - Armand Mondou, French Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1976)
July 4 - Irving Johnson, American adventurer (d. 1991)
July 5 - Myles Horton, American educator and Civil Rights Movement teacher (d. 1990)
July 8 - Leonid Amalrik, Russian animator (d. 1997)
July 9 - Clarence Campbell, Canadian hockey executive (d. 1984)
July 10 - Thomas Gomez, American actor (d. 1971)
July 10 - Wolfram Sievers, Nazi physician (d. 1948)
July 13 - Alfredo M. Santos, First Four-star General of the Armed Forces of the Philippines
July 15 - Dorothy Fields, American librettist and lyricist (d. 1974)
July 22 - Doc Cramer, American baseball player (d. 1990)
July 25 - Elias Canetti, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1994)
July 25 - Denys Watkins-Pitchford, writer and illustrator (d. 1990)
July 27 - Leo Durocher, American baseball player and manager (d. 1991)
July 29 - Clara Bow, American actress (d. 1965)
July 29 - Dag Hammarskjöld, Swedish 2nd UN Secretary-General
July 29 - Thelma Todd, American actress (d. 1935)
July 29 - Stanley Kunitz, American poet (d. 2006)
August 2 - Karl Amadeus Hartmann, German composer (d. 1963)
August 2 - Myrna Loy, American actress (d. 1993)
August 3 - Dolores del Rio, Mexican-born actress (d. 1983)
August 3 - Franz Cardinal König, Austrian Catholic archbishop (d. 2004)
August 8 - André Jolivet, French composer (d. 1974)
August 10 - Era Bell Thompson, American journalist (d. 1986)
August 11 - Erwin Chargaff, Austrian biochemist (d. 2002)
August 20 - Jean Gebser, German-born author
August 20 - Jack Teagarden, American musician (d. 1964)
August 23 - Constant Lambert, British composer (d. 1951)
August 24 - Arthur Crudup, American singer and guitarist (d. 1976)
August 24 - Siaka Stevens, President of Sierra Leone (d. 1988)
August 25 - Faustina Kowalska, Polish mystic (d. 1938)
August 28 - Cyril Walters, England cricketer (d. 1992)
August 29 - Dhyan Chand, Indian hockey player (d. 1979)
August 31 - Sanford Meisner, American actor and teacher (d. 1997)
September 1 - Elvera Sanchez, Puerto Rican dancer (d. 2000)
September 3 - Carl David Anderson, American physicist
September 3 - John Mills, New Zealand cricketer (d. 1972)
September 4 - Mary Renault, English novelist (d. 1983)
September 5 - Arthur Koestler, Hungarian writer (d. 1983)
September 5 - Maurice Challe, French general (d. 1979)
September 5 - Justiniano Montano, Filipino politician (d. 2005)
September 9 - Hussain Sha,
September 16 - Vladimír Holan, Czech poet (d. 1980)
September 18 - Eddie Anderson, American actor (d. 1977)
September 18 - Agnes de Mille, American choreographer (d. 1993)
September 18 - Greta Garbo, Swedish actress (d. 1990)
September 19 - Leon Jaworski, American Watergate scandal special prosecutor (d. 1982)
September 21 - Robert Lebel, French Canadian ice hockey executive (d. 1999)
September 22 - Eugen Sänger, Austrian aerospace engineer (d. 1964)
September 24 - Severo Ochoa, Nobel Laureate (d. 1993)
September 26 - Emilio Navarro, Puerto Rican baseball player
September 28 - Max Schmeling, German boxer (d. 2005)
September 30 - Nevill Francis Mott, English physicist
October 5 - Harriet E. MacGibbon, American actress (d. 1987)
October 6 - Helen Wills Moody, American tennis player (d. 1998)
October 7 - Andy Devine, American actor (d. 1977)
October 11 - Fred Trump, American real estate developer
October 15 - C. P. Snow, British writer (d. 1980)
October 18 - Jan Gies, Dutch resistance fighter (d. 1993)
October 20 - Ellery Queen, pseudonym of two American writers (d. 1982)
October 22 - Joseph Kosma, Hungarian-born composer (d. 1969)
October 23 - Felix Bloch, Swiss physicist
October 23 - Gertrude Ederle, American swimmer (d. 2003)
October 26 - George Flahiff, Canadian Cardinal (d. 1989)
November 1 - Paul-Émile Borduas, Quebec painter (d. 1960)
November 2 - James Dunn, American actor (d. 1967)
November 5 - Joel McCrea, American actor (d. 1990)
November 7 - William Alwyn, English composer (d. 1985)
November 9 - Erika Mann, German writer (d. 1969)
November 14 - John Henry Barbee, American guitarist and singer (d. 1964)
November 15 - Mantovani, Italian-born composer (d. 1980)
November 16 - Eddie Condon, American musician (d. 1973)
November 17 - Queen Astrid of the Belgians, (d. 1935)
November 17 - Mischa Auer, American actor (d. 1967)
November 19 - Tommy Dorsey, American bandleader (d. 1956)
November 20 - François, 9th duc de Noailles
November 26 - Bob Johnson, American baseball player (d. 1982)
November 29 - Marcel Lefebvre, French Roman catholic bishop (d. 1991)
December 1 - Alexander Wilson, Canadian and Notre Dame athlete (d. 1994)
December 5 - Gus Mancuso, American baseball player (d. 1984)
December 6 - James J. Braddock, American boxer (d. 1974)
December 7 - Gerard Kuiper, Dutch-born American astronomer (d. 1973)
December 9 - Dalton Trumbo, American writer (d. 1976)
December 11 - Robert Henriques, English writer (d. 1967)
December 11 - Gilbert Roland, American actor (d. 1994)
December 12 - Manès Sperber, Austrian-born writer (d. 1984)
December 16 - Piet Hein, Danish mathematician and inventor (d. 1996)
December 17 - Simo Häyhä, Finnish sniper (d. 2002)
December 17 - Érico Lopes Veríssimo, Brazilian writer (d. 1975)
December 20 - Bill O'Reilly, Australian cricket player
December 21 - Anthony Powell, British author (d. 2000)
December 22 - Kenneth Rexroth, American poet (d. 1982)
December 22 - Pierre Brasseur, French actor (d. 1972)
December 24 - Howard Hughes, American film producer and inventor (d. 1976)
December 26 - William Loeb, American newspaper publisher
December 28 - Cliff Arquette, American actor (d. 1974)
December 31 - Jule Styne, English-born composer (d. 1994)

Deaths

January 10 - Kārlis Baumanis, Latvian composer (b. 1835)
January 11 - Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter, Hasidic rabbi (b. 1847)
January 13 - George Thorn, Premier of Queensland (b. 1838)
January 14 - Ernst Abbe, German physicist (b. 1840)
January 19 - Debendranath Tagore, Indian philosopher (b. 1817)
February 4 - Louis-Ernest Barrias, French sculptor (b. 1841)
February 13 - Konstantin Savitsky, Russian painter (b. 1844)
February 20 - Jeremiah W. Farnham, American merchant captain
March 6 - John Henninger Reagan, American Confederate politician (b. 1818)
March 24 - Jules Verne, French author (b. 1828)
March 26 - Maurice Barrymore, actor; patriarch of the Barrymore family (b. 1849)
April 23 - Gédéon Ouimet, Quebec politician (b. 1823)
April 28 - Fitzhugh Lee, American Confederate general (b. 1835)
June 22 - Francis Lubbock, Governor of Texas (b. 1815)
July 4 - Élisée Reclus, French anarchist (b. 1830)
July 8 - Walter Kittredge, American musician (b. 1834)
August 14 - Simeon Solomon, British artist (b. 1840)
September 10 - Pete Browning, American baseball player (b. 1861)
September 13 - René Goblet, French politician (b. 1828)
September 14 - Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza, Franco-Italian explorer (b. 1852)
September 18 - George MacDonald, Scottish writer and minister (b. 1824)
September 19 - Thomas John Barnardo, Irish philanthropist (b. 1845)
September 25 - Jacques Marie Eugène Godefroy Cavaignac, French politician (b. 1853)
October 13 - Sir Henry Irving, the first British actor to be knighted (b. 1838)
October 29 - Etienne Desmarteau, Canadian athlete (b. 1873)
November 2 - Albert von Kölliker, Swiss anatomist (b. 1817)
November 8 - Victor Borisov-Musatov, Russian painter (b. 1870)
November 17 - Adolphe of Luxembourg, (b. 1817)
December 31 - Alexander Popov, Russian physicist (b. 1859)

Events

January 2 - Russo-Japanese War: The Russian garrison surrenders at Port Arthur, China.
January 2 - The American anarcho-syndicalist union known as the Industrial Workers of the World forms.
January 9 - According to the Julian Calendar which was used at the time, Russian workers stage a march on the Winter Palace that ends in the massacre by Tsarist troops known as Bloody Sunday, setting off the Russian Revolution of 1905.
January 22 - Bloody Sunday in St. Petersburg, beginning of the 1905 revolution.
January 26 - The Cullinan Diamond is found near Pretoria, South Africa at the Premier Mine.
February 11 - Pope Pius X publishes the encyclical Vehementer nos.
February 23 - Chicago attorney Paul Harris and three other businessmen meet for lunch to form the Rotary Club, the world's first service club.
March 3 - Tsar Nicholas II of Russia agrees to create an elected assembly (the Duma).
March 5 - Russian troops begin to retreat from Mukden, Manchuria after losing 100,000 troops in three days.
March 10 - Eleftherios Venizelos asks the independence of Crete and its union with Greece again, starting the Cretan Revolution in Theriso.
April 4 - In India, an earthquake near Kangra kills 20,000.
April 11 - Albert Einstein reveals his Theory of Relativity (special relativity).
April 17 - The Supreme Court of the United States decides Lochner v. New York which held that the "right to free contract" was implicit in the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution.
May 15 - Las Vegas, Nevada, is founded when 110 acres (0.4 km²), in what later would become downtown, are auctioned off.
May 27 - Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima begins.
May 28 - Russo-Japanese War: the Battle of Tsushima ends with the destruction of the Russian Baltic Fleet by Admiral Togo Heihachiro and the Imperial Japanese Navy.
June 7 - Norway's parliament dissolves its union with Sweden, a vote that was confirmed by a national plebiscite on August 13 of that year.
June 15 - Princess Margaret of Connaught marries Gustav, Crown Prince of Sweden.
June 27 - (June 14 according to the Julian calendar): Battleship Potemkin uprising: sailors start a mutiny aboard the Battleship Potemkin, denouncing the crimes of autocracy, demanding liberty and an end to war.
June 30 - Albert Einstein publishes the article "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies", in which he introduces special relativity.
July 6 - Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the second time.
August 10 - Russo-Japanese War: Russian and Japanese peace negotiations begin in Portsmouth.
September 1 - Alberta and Saskatchewan join the Canadian confederation.
September 5 - Russo-Japanese War: In New Hampshire, USA, the Treaty of Portsmouth, mediated by US President Theodore Roosevelt, ends the war.
September 23 - Norway and Sweden sign the "Karlstad treaty", peacefully dissolving the Union between the two countries.
September 27 - The physics journal Annalen der Physik published Albert Einstein's paper "Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?", introducing the equation E=mc².
October 1 - František Pavlík is killed in a demonstration in Prague, inspiring Leoš Janáček to the piano composition 1. X. 1905.
October 5 - Wilbur Wright pilots Wright Flyer III in a flight of 24 miles in 39 minutes, a world record that stood until 1908.
October 16 - The Partition of Bengal in India takes place.
October 26 - Norway becomes independent from Sweden.
October 30 - Czar Nicholas II of Russia grants Russia's first constitution, creating a legislative assembly.
November 3 - Czar Nicholas II of Russia signs a document of amnesty for the political prisoners.
November 12 - (November 12 & November 13) Norway holds a referendum in favor of monarchy over republic.
November 17 - The Eulsa Treaty is signed between Japan and Korea.
November 18 - Prince Carl of Denmark becomes King Haakon VII of Norway.
November 21 - Albert Einstein's paper, "Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?", is published in the journal "Annalen der Physik". This paper reveals the relationship between energy and mass. This leads to the mass–energy equivalence formula E = mc².
November 25 - The Danish Prins Carl arrives in Norway to become King Haakon VII of Norway.
November 28 - Irish nationalist Arthur Griffith founds Sinn Féin as a political party with the main aim of establishing a dual monarchy in Ireland.
December 9 - In France, the law separating church and state is passed.
December 11 - A workers uprising occurs, establishing the Shuliavka Republic in Kiev.
December 15 - The Pushkin House is established in St. Petersburg to preserve the cultural heritage of Alexander Pushkin
December 30 - Former Governor Frank Steunenberg is assassinated near his home in Caldwell, Idaho.

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