Lista de Personas Famosas que murieron en 1905

José-Maria de Heredia Girard fue un poeta y traductor francés de origen cubano, una de las principales figuras del parnasianismo.

Nicolae Ionescu was a Romanian politician, jurist and publicist, brother of the agronomist Ion Ionescu de la Brad. He was leader of the Free and Independent Faction, serving several terms in Chamber and Senate, most often as a representative of Roman County, and was helped to establish several liberal coalitions in the 1860s and '70s. His career peaked just before the Romanian War of Independence, when he was Minister of Foreign Affairs in the cabinet of Ion Brătianu. Ionescu ended his career in politics with the National Liberal Party. A professor of law and a rector of Iași University, he was also one of the founding members of the Romanian Academy.

Mayer Carl Freiherr von Rothschild was a German Jewish banker and politician, as well as scion of the Rothschild family.

Henri Germain (1824–1905) was a French banker and politician.

Thomas James Churchill was an American politician who served as the 13th governor of Arkansas from 1881 to 1883. Prior to that, he was a senior officer of the Confederate States Army who commanded infantry in the Western and Trans-Mississippi theaters of the American Civil War.

Alexis Guillermo Ernesto Felipe de Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld fue el último Landgrave reinante de Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld.

Carl Kellner was a chemist, inventor, and industrialist. Born in Vienna, Austria, he made significant improvements to the sulfite process and was co-inventor of the Castner-Kellner process.

Henry Irving o John Henry Brodribb fue un actor de teatro inglés de la época victoriana. Fue el primer actor nombrado caballero.