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
05 April 1976
Humble, Texas, US
American
Capricorn
Ayn Rand(Author, Screenwriter, Playwright, Developer of a philosophical system named by her as Objectivism)
2nd February
06 March 1982
Saint Petersburg
American,Russian
Aquarius
Dalton Trumbo(Screenwriter, Novelist)
9th December
10 September 1976
Montrose, Colorado
American
Sagittarius
Dag Hammarskjöld(Second Secretary-General of the United Nations)
29th July
18 September 1961
Jönköping
Swedish
Leo
Lillian Hellman(Dramatist and Screenwriter)
20th June
30 June 1984
New Orleans, Louisiana
American
Gemini
Robert Donat(Actor)
18th March
09 June 1958
Withington, Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK
British
Pisces
Agnes de Mille(American dancer and choreographer)
18th September
07 October 1993
New York City
American
Virgo
Carl David Anderson(Physicist)
3rd September
11 January 1991
New York City, New York, USA
American
Virgo
Ulf von Euler(Physiologist and Pharmacologist)
7th February
09 March 1983
Stockholm, Sweden
Swedish
Aquarius
George H. Hitchings(Physiologist)
18th April
27 February 1998
Hoquiam, Washington, United States
American
Aries
Fred Trump(Property developer, Investor)
11th October
25 June 1999
Woodhaven
American
Libra
Viktor Frankl(Surgeon, Psychotherapist, Psychologist, Psychiatrist, Physician, Educationist, University teacher, Neurologist)
26th March
02 September 1997
Vienna
Austrian
Aries
James J. Braddock(Boxer)
7th June
29 November 1974
New York City
American
Gemini
Sada Abe(Geisha, Criminal)
28th May
Kanda
Japanese
Gemini
Sterling Holloway(Voice actor, Film actor, Stage actor, Television actor)
4th January
22 November 1992
Georgia
American
Capricorn
Dolores del Río(singer, dancer, stage actor, film actor, television actor)
3rd August
11 April 1983
Durango
Mexican
Leo
Joseph Bonanno(Criminal)
18th January
11 May 2002
Castellammare del Golfo
Italian,American
Capricorn
Anna May Wong(Film actor, Stage actor, Television actor)
3rd January
03 February 1961
Los Angeles
American
Capricorn
Max Schmeling(Boxer)
28th September
02 February 2005
Klein Luckow
German,American
Libra
Harry Harlow(Psychologist)
31st October
06 December 1981
Fairfield
American
Scorpio
Erwin Chargaff(Biochemist, Chemist, Writer)
11th August
20 June 2002
Chernivtsi
American
Leo
Leo Durocher(writer, Baseball Player)
27th July
07 October 1991
American
Leo
Doris Hare(Stage actor, Film actor)
1st March
30 May 2000
Bargoed
British
Pisces
Bob Wills(Songwriter, Singer)
30th November
1975 AD
Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed(President, Politician)
13th May
11 February 1977
Delhi
Indian
Taurus
Harold Arlen(Composer, Songwriter, Music arranger, Film producer, Singer, Pianist, Film score composer)
15th February
23 April 1986
New York
American
Aquarius
Mohammad Hidayatullah(Lawyer, Academician, Vice President)
17th December
18 September 1992
Lucknow
Indian
Sagittarius
Astrid of Sweden17th November
29 August 1935
Stockholm
Swedish
Scorpio
Barnett Newman(Painter, Sculptor, Visual artist, Architect)
29th January
04 July 1970
New York City
American
Aquarius
Marlin Perkins(Zoologist)
28th March
14 June 1986
Missouri
American
Aries
Robert Penn Warren(poet, novelist, writer, literary critic, journalist)
24th April
1989 AD
Todd County
American
Taurus
Abraham Zapruder(Tailor)
15th May
30 August 1970
Kovel
American
Taurus
Michael Powell(Film director, Actor, Screenwriter, Film producer, Writer)
30th September
19 February 1990
Kent
British
Libra
Raymond Cattell(Psychologist, University teacher)
20th March
02 February 1998
West Bromwich
British,American
Pisces
Karl Wallenda(Artist, Circus performer)
21st January
22 March 1978
Magdeburg
German,American
Aquarius
Gertrude Ederle(swimmer)
23rd October
30 November 2003
New York City
American
Libra
Elias Canetti(Writer, Aphorist, Playwright, Chemist, Essayist)
25th July
14 August 1994
Rousse
British
Leo
Marcel Lefebvre(Theologian, Catholic priest)
29th November
25 March 1991
Tourcoing
French
Sagittarius
Takashi Shimura(Actor, Film actor)
12th March
11 February 1982
Asago
Japanese
Pisces
Chen Yun(Politician)
13th June
10 April 1995
Qingpu District
Gemini
Tommy Flowers(Technician, Engineer, Computer scientist)
22nd December
28 October 1998
Poplar
British
Sagittarius
Jule Styne(Composer, Songwriter, Musician, Film score composer)
31st December
20 September 1994
London
British,American
Capricorn
Hans Urs von Balthasar(Theologian, Writer, Catholic priest)
12th August
26 June 1988
Lucerne
Swiss
Leo
Ivan Serov25th August
01 July 1990
Sokolsky District, Vologda Oblast
Russian
Virgo
Raymond Aron(Journalist, Philosopher, Writer, Political scientist, Sociologist, Professor, Economist)
14th March
17 October 1983
Paris
French
Pisces
Lois Mailou Jones(Painter, Educator)
3rd November
09 June 1998
Boston
American
Scorpio
Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff(Military personnel)
27th March
27 January 1980
Lubin
German
Aries
Anthony Powell(Writer, Novelist, Diarist, Literary critic)
21st December
28 March 2000
London
British
Sagittarius
George Nakashima(Architect)
24th May
15 June 1990
Spokane
Japanese,American
Gemini
Lionel Trilling(Literary critic, Writer, Novelist, University teacher, Journalist)
4th July
05 November 1975
Queens
American
Cancer
Helen Wills(Tennis player, Writer, Autobiographer, Poet)
6th October
01 January 1998
Fremont
American
Libra
Gerhard Klopfer(Judge, Politician, Jurist, Lawyer)
18th February
29 January 1987
Schreibersdorf
German
Aquarius
Elmyr de Hory(art forger, painter)
14th April
11 December 1976
Budapest
Hungarian
Aries
Kurt Gerstein(Military personnel)
11th August
25 July 1945
Münster
German
Leo
Nikolai Tikhonov(Politician, Engineer, Metallurgist)
14th May
01 June 1997
Kharkiv
Russian
Taurus
Albert W. Tucker(Mathematician, Topologist, University teacher)
28th November
25 January 1995
Ontario
Canadian,American
Sagittarius
Heinz Lammerding(Engineer)
27th August
13 January 1971
Dortmund
German
Virgo
Roger Hollis(Journalist)
2nd December
26 October 1973
Wells
British
Sagittarius
Wolfram Sievers(Politician)
10th July
02 June 1948
Hildesheim
German
Cancer
David Cecil, 6th Marquess of Exeter(Politician, Athletics competitor)
9th February
22 October 1981
Stamford
British
Aquarius
Daniil Kharms(writer, playwright, children's writer, poet)
17th December
02 February 1942
Saint Petersburg
Russian
Sagittarius
Bosley Crowther(Journalist, Film critic)
13th July
07 March 1981
Maryland
American
Cancer
Arthur Crudup(musician, singer, guitarist, composer)
24th August
28 March 1974
Mississippi
American
Virgo
Ashley Montagu(Anthropologist, University teacher)
28th June
26 November 1999
London
British,American
Cancer
Guy Mollet(Politician)
31st December
03 October 1975
Flers
French
Capricorn
Jean Vigo(Film director, Film editor, Screenwriter)
26th April
05 October 1934
Paris
French
Taurus
Carl Gustav Hempel(Mathematician, Computer scientist, Philosopher, Essayist, University teacher)
8th January
09 November 1997
Oranienburg
German,American
Capricorn
Henry Green(Writer, Novelist)
29th October
13 December 1973
Tewkesbury
British
Scorpio
Mikio Naruse(Film director, Writer, Film producer, Screenwriter)
20th August
02 July 1969
Tokyo
Japanese
Leo
Giacinto Scelsi(Composer, Poet)
8th January
09 August 1988
La Spezia
Italian
Capricorn
P. Kunhiraman Nair4th October
27 May 1978
Ajanur
Indian
Libra
Rex Whistler(Painter)
24th June
18 July 1944
Eltham
British
Cancer
Frits Philips(Entrepreneur)
16th April
05 December 2005
Eindhoven
Aries
Jan Werich(Actor, Singer, Writer, Playwright, Jazz musician, Screenwriter)
6th February
31 October 1980
Smíchov
Aquarius
Myles Horton(Environmental Activist, Civil Rights Activist)
30th November
1990 AD
Stanley Kunitz(Educator, Poet)
29th July
14 May 2006
Worcester
American
Leo
Floyd Gottfredson(Comics artist)
5th May
22 July 1986
Kaysville
American
Taurus
Takeo Fukuda(Prime Minister)
14th January
05 July 1995
Gunma, Japan
Japanese
Capricorn
Karl Amadeus Hartmann(Composer)
2nd August
05 December 1963
Munich
German
Leo
