List of Famous people who died in 1905

John Gaspard Le Marchant Romilly, 3rd Baron Romilly was a British hereditary peer and soldier.

Hermann Karl Usener was a German scholar in the fields of philology and comparative religion.

Joseph Foster was an English genealogist whose transcriptions of records held by the Inns of Court and the University of Oxford are still important historical resources.

George Arbuthnot Burns, 2nd Baron Inverclyde was the owner of a Scottish shipping company. Burns was the elder son of John Burns, First Baron Inverclyde.

Jacques Marie Eugène Godefroy Cavaignac, known as Godefroy Cavaignac, French politician, was born in Paris. He was the son of Louis Eugène Cavaignac. He made public profession of his republican principles as a schoolboy at the Lycée Charlemagne by refusing in 1867 to receive a prize at the Sorbonne from the hand of the prince imperial.

Georgiana Bloomfield, Baroness Bloomfield, was a British courtier and author.

René Goblet was a French politician, Prime Minister of France for a period in 1886–1887.

Pietro Tacchini was an Italian astronomer.