1905

1905 (MCMV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1905th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 905th year of the 2nd millennium, the 5th year of the 20th century, and the 6th year of the 1900s decade. As of the start of 1905, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	19th century – 20th century – 21st century
Decades:	1870s  1880s  1890s  – 1900s –  1910s  1920s  1930s
Years:	1902 1903 1904 – 1905 – 1906 1907 1908

1905 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1905 MCMV
Ab urbe condita	2658
Armenian calendar	1354 ԹՎ ՌՅԾԴ
Assyrian calendar	6655
Bahá'í calendar	61–62
Balinese saka calendar	1826–1827
Bengali calendar	1312
Berber calendar	2855
British Regnal year	4 Edw. 7 – 5 Edw. 7
Buddhist calendar	2449
Burmese calendar	1267
Byzantine calendar	7413–7414
Chinese calendar	甲辰年 (Wood Dragon) 4601 or 4541     — to — 乙巳年 (Wood Snake) 4602 or 4542
Coptic calendar	1621–1622
Discordian calendar	3071
Ethiopian calendar	1897–1898
Hebrew calendar	5665–5666
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1961–1962
- Shaka Samvat	1826–1827
- Kali Yuga	5005–5006
Holocene calendar	11905
Igbo calendar	905–906
Iranian calendar	1283–1284
Islamic calendar	1322–1323
Japanese calendar	Meiji 38 (明治３８年)
Javanese calendar	1834–1835
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4238
Minguo calendar	7 before ROC 民前7年
Nanakshahi calendar	437
Thai solar calendar	2447–2448
Tibetan calendar	阳木龙年 (male Wood-Dragon) 2031 or 1650 or 878     — to — 阴木蛇年 (female Wood-Snake) 2032 or 1651 or 879

Art, music, theatre, literature

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

Events

• 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

January

Takeo Fukuda

• 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

Emilio G. Segre

Ayn Rand

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

March

Takashi Shimura

Albert Speer

• 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

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

May

Joseph Cotten

Henry Fonda

• 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

Jean-Paul Sartre

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

July

Clara Bow

Dag Hammarskjöld

• 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

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

September

Greta Garbo

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

December

Emílio Garrastazu Médici

• 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

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