# 1905

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 | ཤིང་ཕོ་འབྲུག་ལོ་ (male Wood-Dragon) 2031 or 1650 or 878     *— to —* ཤིང་མོ་སྦྲུལ་ལོ་ (female Wood-Snake) 2032 or 1651 or 879 |

**1905** (MCMV) was a common year starting on Sunday in the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Saturday in the Julian calendar.

## 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)

### October

### November

### 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)