In the year 1905, The Trans-Siberian Railway officially opens (Jan 1), Las Vegas, Nevada is founded when 110 acres (0.4 km²), in what later becomes downtown, are auctioned off (May 15), the Japanese fleet destroys the Russian fleet in a 2-day battle (May 27-28), the Norwegian Parliament declares the union with Sweden dissolved, and Norway achieves full independence (Jun 7), Albert Einstein publishes his theory of special relativity (Jun 30), Prince Carl of Denmark becomes King Haakon VII of Norway (Nov 18) - and all these fine people were born:

1905-xxxx  John Churchill Chase* cartoonist/  writer/known for his works on the history of New Orleans & Louisiana - New Orleans, LA USA (1986/c.81) 1905-0103 Anna May Wong* actress - Los Angeles, CA USA (1961/56) 1905-0112 Tex Ritter* country music singer/actor/father of John Ritter - Murvaul, TX USA (1974/68) 1905-0115 Grace Greenwood Ames* (b Greenwood) artist/ social realism muralist - Brooklyn, NY USA (1979/74) 1905-0121 Karl Wallenda* high wire artist/founder of The Flying Wallendas - Magdeburg, Prussia, German Empire (1978/73) 1905-0124 J. Howard Marshall* businessman/attorney - Germantown, PA USA (1995/90) 1905-0131 Eva Hart* one of the last remaining survivors of RMS Titanic (age 7)/singer/magistrate  - Ilford, Essex, England (1996/91) 1905-0201 Emilio Segrè* physicist/N - Tivoli, Italy (1989/84) 1905-0202 Ayn Rand* (b Alisa Rosenbaum) Russian-American novelist/philosopher/to U.S. at age 21 - St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (1982/77) 1905-0205 Robert Newbegin II* diplomat - Bangor, ME USA (1991/86) 1905-0209 Adolf Ehrnrooth* soldier/ general - Helsinki, GD of Finland (2004/99) 1905-0210 1905-0218 Queenie Leonard* (b Pearl Walker) actress - Manchester, Lancashire, England (2002/96) 1905-0219 Toimi Tulikoura* (b Brandstaka) lawyer/ sports official - Vehkalahti, GD of Finland (1983/78) 1905-0220 1905-0227 Charley Eugene Johns* politician/ Governor of Florida - Starke, FL USA (1990/84) 1905-0301 1905-0308 Eva Dickson* (b Lindström) rally driver/aviator/ travel writer - Steninge Slott, Sigtuna, Sweden (1938/33) 1905-0308 Albert Levan* botanist/ geneticist - Gothenburg, Sweden (1998/93) 1905-0308 Aleksandr Rodimtsev* Red Army general - Sharlyk, Orenburg Governorate, Russian Empire (1977/72) 1905-0310 Levan Gotua* writer - Tbilisi, Georgia (1973/67) 1905-0318 Robert Donat* actor/father of Richard and Peter Donat - Withington, Manchester, England (1958/53) 1905-0320 1905-0330 Albert Pierrepoint* public executioner - Clayton, West Riding of Yorkshire, England (1992/87) 1905-0401 Gaston Eyskens* politician/PM - Lier, Belgium (1988/82) 1905-0410 1905-0412 Benjamin B. Rubinstein* Finnish-American physician/  psychoanalyst - Helsinki, GD of Finland (1989/84) 1905-0413 Rae Johnstone* jockey - New Lambton, NSW Australia (1964/59) 1905-0415 Serge Lifar* (b Serhіy Mуkhailovуch Lуfar) Ukrainian-French ballet dancer/ choreographer/director - Kiev, Ukraine, Russian Empire (1986/81) 1905-0418 George H. Hitchings* physician/N - Hoquiam, WA USA (1998/92) 1905-0426 Raúl Leoni* politician/P - El Manteco, Bolívar State, Venezuela (1972/67) 1905-0430 Sergey Nikolsky* mathematician - Talitsa, Perm Governorate, Russian Empire (2012/107) 1905-0505 Floyd Gottfredson* cartoonist (Mickey Mouse comic strip) - Kaysville, UT USA (1986/81) 1905-0510 1905-0515 Joseph Cotten* actor - Petersburg, VA USA (1994/88) 1905-0515 Abraham Zapruder* Ukrainian-American clothing manufacturer/ witness of JFK murder - Kovel, Russian Empire 1905-0516 Henry Fonda* actor - Grand Island, NE USA (1982/77) 1905-0528 Sada Abe* 阿部 定 geisha/convicted killer - Tokyo, Empire of Japan (1971+/c.66) 1905-0601 Robert Newton* actor (Treasure Island) - Shaftesbury, Dorset, England (1956/50) 1905-0603 Tupua Tamasese Mea’ole* Western Samoan paramount chief - Vaimoso, German Samoa (1963/57) 1905-0603 Martin Gottfried Weiss* Nazi commandant ant of the Dachau concentration camp - Weiden in der Oberpfalz, Kingdom of Bavaria (1946/40) 1905-0607 James J. Braddock* boxer - Hell’s Kitchen, NY USA (1974/69) 1905-0611 Paul Wormser* French fencer/OB - Colmar, German Empire (1944/39) 1905-0614 Arthur Davis* animator/reputed to have been the first in-betweener in the animation industry - Yonkers, NY USA (2000/94) 1905-0619 Mildred Natwick* actress - Baltimore, MD USA(1994/89) 1905-0619 George Voskovec* Czech-American actor - Sázava, Bohemia (1981/76) 1905-0621 Jean-Paul Sartre* philosopher/political activist - Paris, France (1980/74) 1905-0707 Marie-Louise Dubreil-Jacotin* mathematician - Paris, France (1972/67) 1905-0713 Edvin Laine* film director - Iisalmi, GD of Finland (1989/84) 1905-0720 1905-0722 Wolfgang Paalen* Austrian-Mexican painter/sculptor/art philosopher - Vienna, Austria-Hungary (1959/54) 1905-0725 Elias Canetti*author/N - Ruse, Bulgaria (1994/89) 1905-0729 Dag Hammarskjöld* economist/ diplomat/UN Secretary-General /N- Jönköping, Sweden-Norway (1961/56) 1905-0801 Helen Sawyer Hogg* astronomer - Lowell, MA USA (1993/87) 1905-0802 Myrna Loy* actress - Radensburg, MT USA (1993/88) 1905-0803 Maggie Kuhn* social activist/founder of the Grey Panthers movement - Buffalo, NY USA (1995/89) 1905-0813 Gareth Jones* investigative journalist/reporter of the Stalin age famine in Soviet Union - Barry, Glamorgan, Wales (1935/29) 1905-0816 Sara Hildén* entrepreneur/art collector/patron - Tampere, Finland (1993/88) 1905-0823 Roland af Hällström* writer/film director - Lempäälä, GD of Finland (1956/50) 1905-0901 1905-0903 Carl David Anderson* physicist/N - New York, NY USA (1991/85) 1905-0910 1905-0918 Greta Garbo* actress - Stockholm, Sweden (1990/84) 1905-0920 1905-0926 Arvo Lennart Kivi** son of Carl Fredrik Kivi/died at war - Tuusula, GD of Finland (1940/34) 1905-0926 Juliana Young Koo* (b Yen Yu-yun) Chinese-American diplomat/supercentenarian - Tientsin, China (2017/111) 1905-0926 Millito Navarro* baseball player/the first Puerto Rican to play baseball in the American Negro leagues - Patillas, Puerto Rico (2011/105) 1905-0930 1905-1001 1905-1003 Caroline Brady* American philologist - Tientsin, China (1980/75) 1905-1003 Fuller Warren* attorney/ politician/Governor of Florida - Blountstown, FL USA (1973/67) 1905-1010 1905-1014 Pentti Haanpää* author - Piippola, GD of Finland (1955/49) 1905-1020 1905-1022 Karl Guthe Jansky* physicist/ radio astronomer - Norman, Oklahoma Territory (1950/44) 1905-1023 Felix Bloch* physicist/N - Zürich, Switzerland (1983/77) 1905-1030 1905-1102 Isobel Andrews* Scottish-New Zealand playwright/novelist/poet - Glasgow, Scotland (1990/84) 1905-1108 Ada Mae Vaughn* actress - Ashland, KY USA (1943/37) 1905-1115 Annunzio Mantovani* conductor - Venice, Italy (1980/74) 1905-1117 Astrid of Sweden* Queen of the Belgians as the first wife of King Leopold III - Stockholm, Sweden (1935/29) 1905-1119 Tommy Dorsey* jazz trombonist/composer/ bandleader - Shenandoah, PA USA (1956/51) 1905-1201 1905-1205 Otto Preminger* Austrian-American film and theater director - Wiznitz, Austria-Hungary (1986/80) 1905-1207 Gerard Kuiper* astronomer/planetary scientist - Tuitjenhorn, Netherlands (1973/68) 1905-1209 Angie Turner King* chemis/mathematician/ educator - Elkhorn, WV USA (2004/98) 1905-1210 1905-1216 Piet Hein* polymath - Copenhagen, Denmark (1996/90) 1905-1217 Simo Häyhä* sniper - Rautjärvi, Viipuri, GD of Finland (2002/96) 1905-1220 1905-1224 Howard Hughes* industrialist/producer/aviator - Houston, TX USA (1976/70) 1905-1224 George Cardinal LeGros* theosophist/astrologer - Vincennes, IN USA (1988/82) 1905-1225 Fernand Gravey* actor - Brussels, Belgium (1970/64) 1905-1231 1905-0 1905-0 1905-0 Updated 2025-0505 Helsinki Search for another year here