List of Famous people who died in 2005

William Henry Weatherspoon was an American songwriter and record producer, best known for his work for Motown Records in the 1960s. He co-wrote "What Becomes of the Brokenhearted", an international hit for Jimmy Ruffin, and many other hit songs.

Willem Gerrit "Wim" van der Gijp was a Dutch football player and manager. He gained one cap for the Netherlands national team in 1954.

John Bromfield was an American film and television actor.

Jacqueline Pierreux was a French film and television actress. From the early 1970s onwards she also enjoyed success as a producer. She was the wife of scenarist Pierre Leaud and the mother of prolific film actor Jean-Pierre Leaud who starred in Francois Truffaut's "The 400 Blows" and "Day For Night".

Dmitry Nelyubin was a Soviet-Russian track cyclist. At the age of 17 Nelyubin, together with teammates Viatcheslav Ekimov, Artūras Kasputis and Gintautas Umaras, won the 4000 meter team pursuit event at the 1988 Summer Olympics held in Seoul. Nelyubin was killed in a street fight on the New Year night of 1 January 2005. Murder suspects, natives of Kabardino-Balkaria, were arrested four years later, in December 2008; the trial began in May 2009 and in September 2009 the jury declared one of the suspects guilty of murder.

Derek Reginald Lamb was a British animation filmmaker and producer. While serving as executive producer of the National Film Board of Canada's English Animation Studio from 1976 to 1982, he produced the Oscar-winner Special Delivery, directed by John Weldon and Eunice Macaulay, and produced and scripted Eugene Fedorenko's Every Child. He also created numerous animated sketches for Sesame Street, sometimes in collaboration with John Canemaker.

Aldo Aniasi, OMRI was an Italian politician.

Carla Voltolina, later Carla Pertini, was a journalist, Italian partisan, and psychotherapist. She undertook investigations into prostitution in Italy and provided therapy at hospitals and addiction-treatment clinics across Italy.