List of Famous people who died in 2005

Stanley Joel Korsmeyer was an American oncologist. Through his studies of apoptosis, Korsmeyer helped develop the concepts of the role of programmed cell death in carcinogenesis. In 1989 Korsmeyer was among the first to confirm that a particular form of lymphoma arose in certain B cells because they had a genetic flaw that caused them to overexpress a gene, Bcl-2, that was involved in the body's normal process for getting rid of them. He then conducted a number of studies defining the activity of a number of related genes and their role in apoptosis.

René Le Hénaff was a French film editor and director. As a film editor he collaborated with directors Marcel Carné, René Clair, and Géza von Radványi among others. His three films with Carné in the late 1930s — Port of Shadows, Hôtel du Nord, and Le Jour Se Lève — are widely admired examples of poetic realism. He also directed films from 1935 to 1950. Perhaps the best-known is Colonel Chabert (1943), which was a film adaptation of a famous novella by Honoré de Balzac. Le Hénaff retired from filmmaking in 1968.

Juan Zanotto was an Italian-born Argentine comic book artist who worked both in Europe and Argentina.

Cesare Mansueto Giulio Lattes, also known as César Lattes, was a Brazilian experimental physicist, one of the discoverers of the pion, a composite subatomic particle made of a quark and an antiquark.

Eugénio de Andrade was the pseudonym of GOSE, GCM José Fontinhas, Portuguese poet. He is revered as one of the leading names in contemporary Portuguese poetry.

Mikko Juhani Ala-Leppilampi was a Finnish middle-distance runner. He competed in the men's 3000 metres steeplechase at the 1972 Summer Olympics.