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| 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 |
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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
- 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
- February 1 - Emilio G. Segre, Italian-American physicist (d. 1989)
- February 2 – Ayn Rand, American writer (d. 1982)
March
- 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
- 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
- June 21 – Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher (d. 1980)
July
- 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
- September 18 – Greta Garbo, Swedish actress (d. 1990)
October
November
December
- 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)