List of Famous people who died in 2005

Arman was a French-born American artist. Born Armand Fernandez in Nice, France, Arman was a painter who moved from using objects for the ink or paint traces they leave to using them as the painting itself. He is best known for his "accumulations" and destruction/recomposition of objects.

Bill Kaysing was an American writer and scientist who claimed that the six Apollo Moon landings between July 1969 and December 1972 were hoaxes, and so a founder of the Moon landing conspiracy theories.

Peter Stafford Hayden Lawrence was a master at Eton College and The Doon School, India and an author. He was, until his death, the last surviving master at Eton to have served in the Second World War.

Dame Henriette Alice, Lady Abel Smith, was a Lady-in-Waiting to Queen Elizabeth II from 1949 to 1987.

Pierre Seel was a gay Holocaust survivor and the only French person to have testified openly about his experience of deportation during World War II due to his homosexuality.

Harrison Richard Young was an American character actor.

Princess Stéphanie of Windisch-Graetz was the daughter of Prince Otto Weriand of Windisch-Graetz (1873–1952) and Archduchess Elisabeth Marie of Austria (1883–1963), only child of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria and Princess Stéphanie of Belgium. She was the great-grandchild of Emperor Franz-Joseph and Empress Elisabeth ('Sissi') of Austria. She was also the great-grandchild of King Leopold II of Belgium.