List of Famous people who died in 2005

Maximilian Adolph Otto Siegfried Schmeling was a German boxer who was heavyweight champion of the world between 1930 and 1932. His two fights with Joe Louis in 1936 and 1938 were worldwide cultural events because of their national associations. Schmeling is the only boxer to win the world heavyweight championship on a foul.

Cheryl Barrymore was an English dancer and talent manager, most famous as the ex-wife of Michael Barrymore.

Ahmed Hoosen Deedat was a South African writer and public speaker of Indian descent. He was best known for inviting people to Islam and held numerous inter-religious public debates with evangelical Christians, as well as video lectures on Islam, Christianity, and the Bible. Deedat established the IPCI, an international Islamic missionary organisation, and wrote several widely distributed booklets on Islam and Christianity. He was awarded the King Faisal International Prize in 1986 for his fifty years of missionary work. He wrote and lectured in English.

Dame Cicely Mary Strode Saunders was an English nurse, social worker, physician and writer. She is noted for her work in terminal care research and her role in the birth of the hospice movement, emphasising the importance of palliative care in modern medicine.

Jean Charles da Silva e de Menezes was a Brazilian man killed by officers of the London Metropolitan Police Service at Stockwell station on the London Underground, after he was wrongly deemed to be one of the fugitives involved in the previous day's failed bombing attempts. These events took place two weeks after the London bombings of 7 July 2005, in which 52 people were killed.

José Roberto Hill was a Mexican actor.

Aslan (Khalid) Aliyevich Maskhadov was a politician who served as the third President of the unrecognized Chechen Republic of Ichkeria.

André Pousse was a noted French actor and, in his youth, also a notable cyclist.

Peter Zvi Malkin was an Israeli secret agent and member of the Mossad intelligence agency. He was part of the team that captured Adolf Eichmann in Argentina in 1960 and brought him to Israel to stand trial.

Akira Ohgi was a professional Japanese baseball player, coach, and manager. He was elected to the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame in 2004.