List of Famous people who died in 1905

Edward Crossley was an English businessman, Liberal Party politician and astronomer.

Debendranath Tagore was a Hindu philosopher and religious reformer, active in the Brahmo Samaj. He was the founder in 1848 of the Brahmo religion, which today is synonymous with Brahmoism. Born in Shilaidaha, his father was the industrialist Dwarkanath Tagore; he himself had 14 children, many of whom, including Nobel-prize winning poet Rabindranath Tagore, made significant artistic or literary contributions to society.

Princess Caroline Reuss of Greiz was the first wife of Wilhelm Ernst, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach.

Étienne Desmarteau was a Canadian athlete, winner of the weight throwing event at the 1904 Summer Olympics.

Frederick Octavius Pickard-Cambridge was an English arachnologist. He is sometimes confused with his uncle, Octavius Pickard-Cambridge (1828–1917), who was also an arachnologist and from whom F. O. Pickard-Cambridge picked up his enthusiasm for the study of spiders.

Reverend Henry Bligh was an English clergyman and cricketer. He played eight first-class cricket matches between 1853 and 1860, five for Kent County Cricket Club, two for the Gentlemen of Kent and one for Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC).

Jane Elizabeth Lathrop Stanford was a co-founder of Stanford University in 1885 along with her husband, Leland Stanford, as a memorial to their only child, Leland Stanford Jr., who died in 1884 at the age of 15. After her husband's death in 1893, she funded and operated the university almost single-handedly until her unsolved murder by poisoning in 1905.

Paul Meurice was a French novelist and playwright best known for his friendship with Victor Hugo.

Jean-Frédéric Émile Oustalet was a French zoologist.