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• 1905–1993Myrna LoyAmerican actressAugust 2
• 1905–1994Joseph CottenAmerican actorMay 15
• 1905–1976Dalton TrumboAmerican screenwriterDecember 9
• 1905–1986Otto PremingerAustrian-American director, producer, and actorDecember 5
• 1905–1961Anna May WongAmerican actressJanuary 3
• 1905–1983Arthur KoestlerHungarian-British author and journalistSeptember 5
• 1905–1938Faustina KowalskaNun and saint from PolandAugust 25
• 1905–1977Fakhruddin Ali AhmedPresident of India from 1974 to 1977May 13
• 1905–1958Robert DonatEnglish actorMarch 18
• 1905–1935Astrid of SwedenQueen of the Belgians from 1934 to 1935November 17
• 1905–1993Félix Houphouët-BoignyFirst president of Ivory Coast, from 1960 to 1993October 18
• 1905–2005Max SchmelingGerman boxerSeptember 28
• 1905–2003Gertrude EderleAmerican swimmerOctober 23
• 1905–1979Dhyan ChandIndian field hockey playerAugust 29
• 1905–1974James J. BraddockAmerican boxerJune 7
• 1905–1966Guillermo StábileArgentine footballerJanuary 17
• 1905–1987Maria von TrappMatriarch of the Trapp Family SingersJanuary 26
• 1905–1990Joel McCreaAmerican actorNovember 5
• 1905–1994Elias CanettiGerman-language authorJuly 25
• 1905–1991Marcel LefebvreFrench traditionalist Catholic archbishopNovember 29
• 1905–1919Prince John of the United KingdomBritish princeJuly 12
• 1905–1984Mikhail SholokhovRussian writerMay 24
• 1905–1968Franchot ToneAmerican actor and directorFebruary 27
• 1905–1992Sterling HollowayAmerican actorJanuary 14
• 1905–1982Władysław GomułkaLeader of PolandFebruary 6
• 1905–1982Takashi ShimuraJapanese actorMarch 12
• 1905–1956Tommy DorseyAmerican jazz trombonist and bandleaderNovember 19
• 1905–1992Mohammad HidayatullahVice President of India from 1979 to 1984December 17
• 1905–1986Harold ArlenAmerican composerFebruary 15
• 1905–1974Tex RitterAmerican country singerJanuary 12
• 1905–1984Lillian HellmanAmerican dramatist and screenwriterJune 20
• 1905–1990Michael PowellEnglish film directorSeptember 30
• 1905–1992Albert PierrepointEnglish executionerMarch 30
• 1905–1983Felix BlochSwiss-American physicistOctober 23
• 1905–1989Robert Penn WarrenAmerican poet, novelist, and literary criticApril 24
• 1905–1969Erika MannGerman actress and writerNovember 9
• 1905–1994Mildred NatwickAmerican actressJune 19
• 1905–2002Joseph BonannoAmerican organized crime bossJanuary 18
• 1905–1983Raymond AronFrench philosopher, sociologist, journalist and political scientistMarch 14
• 1905–1999Wassily LeontiefSoviet-American economist and Nobel LaureateAugust 5
• 1905–1973Gerard KuiperDutch astronomerDecember 7
• 1905–1980Marian RejewskiPolish mathematician and cryptologistAugust 16
• 1905–1968Kay FrancisAmerican actressJanuary 13
• 1905–1994Sebastian ShawEnglish actor, director and writerMay 29
• 1905–1989Emilio SegrèItalian-American nuclear physicist and radiochemistFebruary 1
• 1905–1972Lale AndersenGerman singer-songwriterMarch 23
• 1905–1991Carl David AndersonAmerican physicistSeptember 3
• 1905–1993Severo OchoaSpanish biochemist and Nobel laureateSeptember 24
• 1905–1977Andy DevineAmerican actorOctober 7
• 1905–1980C. P. SnowEnglish novelist and physical chemistOctober 15
• 1905–1995J. William FulbrightAmerican politicianApril 9
• 1905–1970Abraham ZapruderWitness to the John F. Kennedy assassinationMay 15
• 1905–1970Barnett NewmanAmerican painterJanuary 29
• 1905–1995Takeo FukudaPrime Minister of Japan from 1976 to 1978January 14
• 1905–1942Daniil KharmsRussian writerDecember 30
• 1905–1983Mary RenaultBritish novelistSeptember 4
• 1905–1970John O'HaraAmerican novelist and short story writerJanuary 31
• 1905–1994Gilbert RolandAmerican actorDecember 11
• 1905–1934Jean VigoFrench film directorApril 26
• 1905–1996Pat BrownGovernor of California from 1959 to 1967April 21