List of Famous people who died in 2005

Claude Simon was a French novelist, and the 1985 Nobel Laureate in Literature.

Nicole Renee DeHuff was an American actress.

Álvaro Carlos Alsogaray was an Argentine politician and economist. He was Minister of Economy and was the principal proponent of classical liberalism in Argentina.

Sheila Anne Syme Gash, known professionally as Sheila Gish, was an English stage and screen actress. For her role in the 1995 London revival of the Stephen Sondheim musical Company, she won the Olivier Award for Best Supporting Performance in a Musical.

Alfonso Carrasquel Colón, better known as Chico Carrasquel, was a Venezuelan professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a shortstop for the Chicago White Sox (1950–1955), Cleveland Indians (1956–1958), Kansas City Athletics (1958) and the Baltimore Orioles (1959). Carrasquel was the first in a long line of Major League shortstops from Venezuela including, Luis Aparicio, Dave Concepción, Ozzie Guillén and Omar Vizquel among others. He was notable for his excellent defensive abilities and for being the first Latin American in MLB history to start in an All-Star Game.

Hans "Jean" Löring was a German football player and entrepreneur best known for his role as chairman of SC Fortuna Köln, a role he filled for over 30 years, from 1967 to 2001.

Ibrahim Ferrer was a Cuban singer who played with Los Bocucos for nearly forty years. He also performed with Conjunto Sorpresa, Chepín y su Orquesta Oriental and Mario Patterson. After his retirement in 1991, he was brought back in the studio to record with the Afro-Cuban All Stars and Buena Vista Social Club in March 1996. He then toured internationally with these revival groups and recorded several solo albums for World Circuit before his death in 2005.

Harunori Takahashi was a Japanese billionaire property developer and the head of EIE International Corp.

Viktor Fyodorovich Stepanov was a Russian actor. He appeared in more than fifty films from 1964 to 2005.

Leonardo Rodríguez Alcaine was a Mexican trade union leader and a long-serving legislator of the Institutional Revolutionary Party. He presided over the Confederation of Mexican Workers (CTM) from July 21, 1997, until his death at the age of 86.