List of Famous people who died in 1905

Sir Edward Charles Blount was an English banker in Paris and promoter of French railways.

Prince Sergei Nikolaevich Trubetskoy (1862–1905) was a Russian religious philosopher. He was the son of Prince Nikolai Petrovitch Trubetskoy, co-founder of the Moscow Conservatory, and Sophia Alekseievna Lopouchina, who was a big influence on his religious thought. Trubetskoy and his brother, Evgenii Nikolaevitch Troubetzkoy (1863–1920), continued Vladimir Solovyov's work on developing a modern Christian philosophy of the world. He was also a professor of philosophy at Moscow University and a founding member of the underground discussion circle Beseda.

Hugh Boyle Ewing,, was a diplomat, author, attorney, and Union Army general during the American Civil War. He was a member of the prestigious Ewing family, son of Thomas Ewing, the eldest brother of Thomas Ewing, Jr. and Charles Ewing, and the foster brother and brother-in-law of William T. Sherman. General Ewing was an ambitious, literate, and erudite officer who held a strong sense of responsibility for the men under his command. He combined his West Point experience with the Civil War system of officer election.

Nikolay Ernestovich Bauman was a professional Russian revolutionary of the Bolshevik Party.

Carel Victor Gerritsen was a Dutch politician known for his radical views. The husband of Aletta Jacobs, he was a proponent of open government, fair wages and birth control. He helped found many radical organisations in the Netherlands including the Nieuw-Malthusiaansche Bond, Radicale Bond and Vrijzinnig-Democratisch Bond.

Admiral Sir John Bush, KCWE, commonly known as Captain Bush and sometimes by his Thai title Phraya Wisuth Sakoradith, was an English sea captain who served under the Siamese government during the reigns of Kings Mongkut and Chulalongkorn. He served as Bangkok's Harbour Master, captained royal vessels and managed the Bangkok Dock Company. Soi Charoen Krung 30, the street where he used to live, is also known as Soi Captain Bush after him.

Raffaele Pierotti O.P. – born Giovanni Antonio – was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who was the papal theologian from 1887 until his death. He was made a cardinal in 1896.

Countess Karoline Friederike Cäcilie Klothilde von Wartensleben was a German noblewoman. She was a paternal great-great-grandmother of King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands. She was a daughter of the 1841 marriage of Count Leopold von Wartensleben (1818-1846) with Mathilde Halbach (1822-1844), daughter of Arnold Halbach, an American industrialist whose family fortune became important in German munitions, but the question of her hereditary rank became an important issue in a 1905 dispute over succession to the throne of the principality of Lippe.