List of Famous people who died in 1905

Edward George Dannreuther was a German pianist and writer on music, resident from 1863 in England. His father had crossed the Atlantic, moving to Cincinnati, and there established a piano manufacturing business. Young Edward, under pressure from his father to enter banking as a career, a prospect he found uncongenial, escaped to Leipzig in 1859.

Mary Catherine Guinness Ferguson (1823–1905) was an author and biographer in Dublin, Ireland.

Jan Mikulicz-Radecki was an ethnic Polish surgeon who worked mainly in the German Empire. He was born on 16 May 1850 in Czerniowce in the Austrian Empire and died on 4 June 1905 in Breslau, German Empire. He was professor in Kraków, Wrocław, and Królewiec (Königsberg). He was the inventor of new operating techniques and tools, and is one of the pioneers of antiseptics and aseptic techniques. In Poland he is regarded as one of the founders of the Kraków school of surgery.

Prince Nikolaus Wilhelm of Nassau, was the only son of William, Duke of Nassau by his second wife Princess Pauline of Württemberg.

Jean-Jacques Henner was a French painter, noted for his use of sfumato and chiaroscuro in painting nudes, religious subjects, and portraits.

Henry John Douglas-Scott-Montagu, 1st Baron Montagu of Beaulieu JP, DL, styled Lord Henry Scott until 1885, was a British Conservative Party politician.

Georg Meissner was a German anatomist and physiologist born in Hanover.

Paul Cérésole was a Swiss politician, judge of the Supreme Court (1867–1870) and member of the Swiss Federal Council (1870–1875).

William St Paul Gellibrand was an Australian politician.