List of Famous people who born in 1905

Máo Zétán was the younger brother of Mao Zedong. He joined the Communist Party of China in 1923. In 1927, he participated in the Nanchang Uprising, retreating with the Communists to the Jinggang Mountains at its completion. At the age of 29, he was captured and executed while fighting Kuomintang forces in Jiangxi, covering the withdrawal of the main Communist army during the Long March.

Count Alexander von Stauffenberg was a German aristocrat and historian. His twin brother Berthold Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg and younger brother Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg were among the leaders of the 20 July Plot against Hitler in 1944.

Hubert Beaumont Phipps was a Virginia publisher and editor as well as a breeder of thoroughbred horses and purebred cattle. He was a member of the prominent Phipps family who made a fortune in steel as partners with Andrew Carnegie in the steel-making business in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Beatrice Helen Beckett was the first wife of British politician Anthony Eden.

Francis Godfrey Bertram Arkwright was an English army officer and first-class cricketer. Arkwright was a right-handed batsman.

Lieutenant-Colonel Somerset Arthur Maxwell was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.