List of Famous people who died in 2005

Jocelyn Brando was an American actress and writer. She is best known for her role as Katie Bannion in the film noir The Big Heat (1953).

Karen Lancaume was a French pornographic film actress. She appeared in over 83 pornographic films between 1996 and 2000, all but one being on video. She starred as Nadine in the 2000 film, Baise-moi, a mainstream film in which she performed unsimulated penetration and fellatio.

Marc Eyraud was a French film actor. He appeared in 60 films between 1956 and 1995.

Erika Fuchs, née Petri, was a German translator. She is largely known in Germany due to her translations of American Disney comics, especially Carl Barks' stories about Duckburg and its inhabitants.

Camillo Jean Nicolas Felgen was a Luxembourgish singer, lyricist, disc jockey, and television presenter, who represented Luxembourg in the Eurovision Song Contest 1960 and in 1962.

Sergei Vasilyevich Ryakhovsky was a Soviet-Russian serial killer, convicted for the killing of 18 people in the Moscow area between 1988 and 1993.

Carl Amery, the pen name of Christian Anton Mayer, was a German writer and environmental activist. Born in Munich, he studied at the University of Munich. He was a participant of Gruppe 47. He died in Munich.

Hans-Jürgen Wischnewski was a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD).

Ba Jin was a Chinese and Esperanto author. He wrote three original works in Esperanto. As a political activist he also wrote The Family in the 20th century.

John Richard "Jack" Nichols Jr. was an American gay rights activist. He co-founded the Washington, D.C. branch of the Mattachine Society in 1961 with Franklin E. Kameny. He appeared in the 1967 CBS documentary, CBS Reports: The Homosexuals, under the pseudonym Warren Adkins.