List of Famous people who died in 2005

Dieter Wellershoff was a German admiral and Chief of Federal Armed Forces Staff from 1986 until 1991.

Melih Kibar was a Turkish composer.

Jiří Kodet was a Czech actor. He appeared in more than ninety films between 1951 and 2003. His mother Jiřina Steimarová and his daughter Barbora Kodetová are also actresses.

Thomas Patrick John Anson, 5th Earl of Lichfield was an English photographer from the Anson family. He inherited the Earldom of Lichfield in 1960 from his paternal grandfather. In his professional practice he was known as Patrick Lichfield.

Uli Derickson, was a German American flight attendant best known for her role in helping protect 152 passengers and crew members during the June 14, 1985, hijacking of TWA Flight 847 by members of Amal, a terrorist group with alleged links to Hezbollah.

Humphrey William Bouverie Carpenter was an English biographer, writer, and radio broadcaster. He is known especially for his biographies of J. R. R. Tolkien and other members of the literary society, the Inklings.

Abuzar Abdulhakimovich Aydamirov, Russian: Абузар Абдулхакимович Айдамиров was a Chechen novelist and poet, author of a historical trilogy dedicated to Caucasian Wars and of the Anthem of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria.