2005
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2005
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2005 (MMV ) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar , the 2005th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 5th year of the 3rd millennium , the 5th year of the 21st century , and the 6th year of the 2000s decade.
2005
2005 was designated as the International Year for Sport and Physical Education and the International Year of Microcredit . 2005 was also the end of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous People (1995–2005).
Events
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
August 12 – The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is launched from Cape Canaveral , designed to explore Mars .[24]
August 14 – Helios Airways Flight 522 , en route from Larnaca, Cyprus to Prague, Czech Republic via Athens, crashes in the hills near Grammatiko , Greece, killing 121 passengers and crew.
August 16 – West Caribbean Airways Flight 708 crashes into a mountain in Venezuela , killing 160 passengers and crew.[25]
August 18 – Peace Mission 2005 , the first joint China–Russia military exercise , begins its eight-day training on the Shandong Peninsula .[26]
August 29 – Hurricane Katrina makes landfall along the U.S. Gulf Coast , causing severe damage and killing over a thousand people and dealing an estimated $108 billion in damage.[27]
August 31 – A stampede at the Al-Aaimmah bridge in Baghdad, Iraq , kills 953 Shia Muslim pilgrims who were celebrating a religious festival.[28]
September
October
November
December
Births
January 4 – Dafne Keen , British and Spanish actress
January 11 – Roksana Węgiel , Polish singer, winner of Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2018
February – Alma Deutscher , English composer, violinist, pianist and child prodigy
February 10 – Rio Suzuki , Japanese actress and tarento
February 21 – Hong Hwa-ri , South Korean actress
February 25 – Noah Jupe , English actor
March 26 – Ella Anderson , American actress
April 29 – Prince Dipangkorn Rasmijoti of Thailand , son of King Maha Vajiralongkorn , Rama X of Thailand and his wife Srirasmi Suwadee
June 26 – Princess Alexia of the Netherlands , daughter of Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands and his wife Queen Maxima of the Netherlands
July 25 – Pierce Gagnon , American actor
August 10 – Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu , Indian chess player
August 10 – Sunny Suljic , American actor
October 4 – Rina Endō , Japanese actress
October 15 – Prince Christian of Denmark , son of Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark and his wife Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark
October 31 – Leonor, Princess of Asturias , daughter of Felipe VI of Spain and his wife Queen Letizia of Spain
December 3 – Prince Sverre Magnus of Norway , son of Haakon, Crown Prince of Norway and his wife Mette-Marit, Crown Princess of Norway , grandson of King Harald V of Norway
Deaths
January
January 1
January 2
January 3 – Will Eisner , American cartoonist, writer, and entrepreneur (b. 1917 )
January 4 – Humphrey Carpenter , English biographer, writer, and radio broadcaster (b. 1946 )
January 7 – Rosemary Kennedy , American socialite (b. 1918 )
January 10 – Princess Joséphine Charlotte of Belgium , Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (b. 1927 )
January 11
January 12 – Amrish Puri , Indian actor (b. 1932 )
January 15
January 17
January 19 – Anita Kulcsár , Hungarian handball player (b. 1976 )
January 20
January 23 – Johnny Carson , American television host (b. 1925 )
January 25 – Philip Johnson , American architect (b. 1906 )
January 28
January 29 – Ephraim Kishon , Israeli author, dramatist, screenwriter, and film director (b. 1924 )
February
February 1 – John Vernon , Canadian actor (b. 1932 )
February 2 – Max Schmeling , German boxer (b. 1905 )
February 3
February 4 – Ossie Davis , American actor, poet, playwright, author and civil rights activist (b. 1917 )
February 5 – Gnassingbé Eyadéma , 3rd President of Togo (b. 1935 )
February 7 – Atli Dam , 3-Time Prime Minister of Faroe Islands (b. 1932 )
February 10
February 11 – Mary Jackson , American mathematician and engineer (b. 1921 )
February 12 – Sammi Smith , American country music singer-songwriter (b. 1943 )
February 13 – Lúcia Santos , Portuguese nun (b. 1907 )
February 14 – Rafic Hariri , 2-Time Prime Minister of Lebanon (b. 1944 )
February 16 – Narriman Sadek , Queen of Egypt (b. 1933 )
February 17
February 20
February 21
February 22 – Simone Simon , French actress (b. 1910 )
February 25
February 26 – Jef Raskin , American computer scientist (b. 1943 )
March
March 3 – Rinus Michels , Dutch soccer player and coach (b. 1928 )
March 6
March 8 – Aslan Maskhadov , Chechen separatist leader, 3rd President of Ichkeria (b. 1951 )
March 9
March 10 – David Allen , Irish comedian (b. 1936 )
March 14 – Akira Yoshizawa , Japanese artist (b. 1911 )
March 15
March 16 – Ralph Erskine , British architect (b. 1914 )
March 17
March 19 – John DeLorean , American engineer, inventor, and executive (b. 1925 )
March 21 – Gemini Ganesan , Indian actor (b. 1919 )
March 22
March 26 – James Callaghan , 70th Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1912 )
March 29
March 30
April
April 2 – Pope John Paul II (b. 1920 )
April 5 – Saul Bellow , Canadian-American writer (b. 1915 )
April 6 – Rainier III, Prince of Monaco (b. 1923 )
April 9 – Andrea Dworkin , American writer (b. 1946 )
April 11 – Lucien Laurent , French footballer (b. 1907 )
April 13 – Nikola Ljubičić , Serbian general and politician, 10th President of Serbia (b. 1916 )
April 14 – Saunders Mac Lane , American mathematician (b. 1909 )
April 19
April 21 – Zhang Chunqiao , Chinese political theorist, writer, and politician (b. 1917 )
April 22
April 23 – John Mills , English actor (b. 1908 )
April 24 – Ezer Weizman , 7th President of Israel (b. 1924 )
April 25 – Andre Gunder Frank , German-American sociologist and historian (b. 1929 )
April 26
April 28 – Chris Candido , American professional wrestler (b. 1972 )
May
June
June 1 – George Mikan , American basketball player (b. 1924 )
June 6
June 11 – Vasco Gonçalves , 103rd Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1921 )
June 13
June 17 – Susanna Javicoli , Italian actress (b. 1954 )
June 20 – Jack Kilby , American engineer (b. 1923 )
June 21 – Jaime Sin , 30th Archbishop of Manila (b. 1928 )
June 24 – Paul Winchell , American ventriloquist, comedian, actor, voice artist, humanitarian, and inventor (b. 1922 )
June 25
June 27 – Shelby Foote , American historian and novelist (b. 1916 )
June 28
July
July 1 – Luther Vandross , American singer (b. 1951 )
July 4 – June Haver , American actress and singer (b. 1926 )
July 5 – James Stockdale , American Vice Admiral and vice presidential candidate (b. 1923 )
July 6
July 9 – Kevin Hagen , American actor (b. 1928 )
July 11 – Frances Langford , American actress and singer (b. 1913 )
July 17
July 18 – William Westmoreland , American army general (b. 1914 )
July 19 – John Tyndall , British politician and activist (b. 1934 )
July 20 – James Doohan , Canadian actor (b. 1920 )
July 21 – Long John Baldry , English-Canadian musician and voice actor (b. 1941 )
July 25 – Ford Rainey , American actor (b. 1908 )
July 31 – Wim Duisenberg , Dutch politician (b. 1935 )
August
August 1 – King Fahd of Saudi Arabia (b. 1921 )
August 6 – Robin Cook , British politician (b. 1946 )
August 7 – Peter Jennings , Canadian-American news anchor (b. 1938 )
August 8
August 9 – Matthew McGrory , American actor (b. 1973 )
August 12 – Lakshman Kadirgamar , foreign minister of Sri Lanka (b. 1932 )
August 13 – David Lange , 32nd Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1942 )
August 16
Joe Ranft , American screenwriter, comedian, animator, storyboard artist, voice actor and magician (b. 1960 )
Brother Roger , Swiss monastic and founder of the Taizé Community (b. 1915 )
August 19
August 23 – Brock Peters , American actor (b. 1927 )
August 31 – Joseph Rotblat , Polish-British physicist (b. 1908 )
September
October
November
November 1 – Michael Piller , American screenwriter and producer (b. 1948 )
November 2 – Ferruccio Valcareggi , Italian football player and manager (b. 1919 )
November 4 – Sheree North , American actress, dancer and singer (b. 1932 )
November 5 – John Fowles , English novelist (b. 1926 )
November 9 – Kocheril R. Narayanan , 10th President of India (b. 1921 )
November 11
November 13 – Eddie Guerrero , Mexican-American professional wrestler (b. 1967 )
November 16 – Henry Taube , Canadian-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915 )
November 18 – Harold J. Stone , American actor (b. 1913 )
November 19 – Erik Balling , Danish television and film director (b. 1924 )
November 24 – Pat Morita , American actor (b. 1932 )
November 25
November 28 – Tony Meehan , English drummer (b. 1943 )
November 29 – Wendie Jo Sperber , American actress (b. 1958 )
December
Nobel Prizes
New English words and terms
didymo
functional calculus
glamping
locavore
microblogging
pre-exposure prophylaxis
ransomware
rock snot
sexting
truther
vodcast [46]
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