List of Famous people who died in 2005

Constance Cummings CBE was an American-British actress.

Deshamanya Chitrasena was a dancer from Sri Lanka, internationally known for his work in establishing a modern Sri Lankan tradition of dance and popularising traditional Sri Lankan dance forms worldwide. He was awarded the Deshamanya award by the Sri Lankan government in 1998.

Yuri Shmilevich Ayzenshpis was a Russian music manager and producer.

Kim Mu-saeng was a South Korean actor.

Simon Wiesenthal was a Jewish Austrian Holocaust survivor, Nazi hunter, and writer. He studied architecture and was living in Lwów at the outbreak of World War II. He survived the Janowska concentration camp, the Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp, the Gross-Rosen concentration camp, a death march to Chemnitz, Buchenwald, and the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp.

Io Murota is a Japanese women's professional shogi player ranked 2-dan.

James Bond Stockdale was a United States Navy vice admiral and aviator awarded the Medal of Honor in the Vietnam War, during which he was a prisoner of war for over seven years.

Bernard Adolph Schriever, also known as Bennie Schriever, was a United States Air Force general who played a major role in the Air Force's space and ballistic missile programs.

José Miguel Gallardo Vera known by his stage name Miguel Gallardo was a Spanish singer-songwriter. He was once married to the Spanish actress Pilar Velázquez. He had a second marriage with the ex Spanish model Elizabeth Irizarry.

Michael Sidney Luft was an American show business figure, the second husband of actress Lynn Bari and later the third husband of actress and singer Judy Garland.