Famous People Born In 1905
Discover the most famous people born in 1905. The list includes people like Howard Hughes, Ayn Rand, Jean-Paul Sartre, Joan Crawford, Henry Fonda and many more. This list of celebrities is loosely sorted by popularity. People featured on this list, include journalists, political leaders, directors and playwrights born in 1905. This list includes people from United States, United Kingdom, Germany & France and many more countries.
Howard Hughes(Entrepreneur, Aerospace Engineer, Filmmaker, Inventor, Aviator, Philanthropist)
24th December
American
Ayn Rand(Author, Screenwriter, Playwright, Developer of a philosophical system named by her as Objectivism)
2nd February
American,Russian
James J. Braddock(Boxer)
7th June
American
Viktor Frankl(Surgeon, Psychotherapist, Psychologist, Psychiatrist, Physician, Educationist, University teacher, Neurologist)
26th March
Austrian
Sterling Holloway(Voice actor, Film actor, Stage actor, Television actor)
4th January
American
Joseph Bonanno(Criminal)
18th January
Italian,American
Max Schmeling(Boxer)
28th September
German,American
Dolores del Río(singer, dancer, stage actor, film actor, television actor)
3rd August
Mexican
Sada Abe(Geisha, Criminal)
28th May
Japanese
Harry Harlow(Psychologist)
31st October
American
Michael Powell(Film director, Actor, Screenwriter, Film producer, Writer)
30th September
British
Anna May Wong(Film actor, Stage actor, Television actor)
3rd January
American
Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed(President, Politician)
13th May
Indian
Leo Durocher(writer, Baseball Player)
27th July
American
Bob Wills(Songwriter, Singer)
30th November
Erwin Chargaff(Biochemist, Chemist, Writer)
11th August
American
Robert Penn Warren(poet, novelist, writer, literary critic, journalist)
24th April
American
Barnett Newman(Painter, Sculptor, Visual artist, Architect)
29th January
American
Harold Arlen(Composer, Songwriter, Music arranger, Film producer, Singer, Pianist, Film score composer)
15th February
American
Astrid of Sweden17th November
Swedish
Mohammad Hidayatullah(Lawyer, Academician, Vice President)
17th December
Indian
Raymond Cattell(Psychologist, University teacher)
20th March
British,American
Marlin Perkins(Zoologist)
28th March
American
Karl Wallenda(Artist, Circus performer)
21st January
German,American
Marcel Lefebvre(Theologian, Catholic priest)
29th November
French
Abraham Zapruder(Tailor)
15th May
American
Félix Houphouët-Boigny(Former President of the Ivory Coast)
18th October
Ivorian
Gertrude Ederle(swimmer)
23rd October
American
Doris Hare(Stage actor, Film actor)
1st March
British
Hans Urs von Balthasar(Theologian, Writer, Catholic priest)
12th August
Swiss
Marian Rejewski(Mathematician, Cryptologist)
16th August
Polish
Chen Yun(Politician)
13th June
Elias Canetti(Writer, Aphorist, Playwright, Chemist, Essayist)
25th July
British
Jule Styne(Composer, Songwriter, Musician, Film score composer)
31st December
British,American
Tommy Flowers(Technician, Engineer, Computer scientist)
22nd December
British
Takashi Shimura(Actor, Film actor)
12th March
Japanese
Raymond Aron(Journalist, Philosopher, Writer, Political scientist, Sociologist, Professor, Economist)
14th March
French
Ivan Serov25th August
Russian
Elmyr de Hory(art forger, painter)
14th April
Hungarian
Kurt Gerstein(Military personnel)
11th August
German
Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff(Military personnel)
27th March
German
Anthony Powell(Writer, Novelist, Diarist, Literary critic)
21st December
British
George Nakashima(Architect)
24th May
Japanese,American
Lois Mailou Jones(Painter, Educator)
3rd November
American
Bosley Crowther(Journalist, Film critic)
13th July
American
Lionel Trilling(Literary critic, Writer, Novelist, University teacher, Journalist)
4th July
American
Arthur Crudup(musician, singer, guitarist, composer)
24th August
American
Daniil Kharms(writer, playwright, children's writer, poet)
17th December
Russian
Gerhard Klopfer(Judge, Politician, Jurist, Lawyer)
18th February
German
Wolfram Sievers(Politician)
10th July
German
Nikolai Tikhonov(Politician, Engineer, Metallurgist)
14th May
Russian
Jean Vigo(Film director, Film editor, Screenwriter)
26th April
French
Attila József(Hungarian poet)
11th April
Hungarian
Ashley Montagu(Anthropologist, University teacher)
28th June
British,American
Roger Hollis(Journalist)
2nd December
British
Helen Wills(Tennis player, Writer, Autobiographer, Poet)
6th October
American
Guy Mollet(Politician)
31st December
French
Carl Gustav Hempel(Mathematician, Computer scientist, Philosopher, Essayist, University teacher)
8th January
German,American
Albert W. Tucker(Mathematician, Topologist, University teacher)
28th November
Canadian,American
Heinz Lammerding(Engineer)
27th August
German
David Cecil, 6th Marquess of Exeter(Politician, Athletics competitor)
9th February
British
Rex Whistler(Painter)
24th June
British
Henry Green(Writer, Novelist)
29th October
British
Giacinto Scelsi(Composer, Poet)
8th January
Italian
Jan Werich(Actor, Singer, Writer, Playwright, Jazz musician, Screenwriter)
6th February
Mikio Naruse(Film director, Writer, Film producer, Screenwriter)
20th August
Japanese
Myles Horton(Environmental Activist, Civil Rights Activist)
30th November