About the day » Sunday January 1, 1905Calender converter

• Alberta Johanna WESTERHOLT, Warnsveld († 1905)
• Abraham H.│Abe Ablowich, unbekannt
• Adriana Wilhelmna Hulst, Delft
• Alida Triep, Alphen aan de Rijn
• Adriana Doelman, Vlaardinger-Ambacht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Casper de Goede, Leiden
• Adolf Bentinck v.Schoon, unbekannt († 1970)
• Alexander Gabriël Snijtsheuvel, Klaten, Indonesië († 1983)
• Russchen, Wijnjeterp († 1905)
• Adolph Christiaan van der Vlugt, Batavia, Java, Nederlands Indië

• Antonius Wilhelmus Adrianus Gevers, 's-Hertogenbosch
• Agatha Glorie (92), Castricum
• Abraham Izaäk Korsman (56), Ellemeet, Schouwen-Duiveland, ZLD, Nederland
• Alfred Joseph SCHIETTECATTE (1), Roubaix,59100,Nord,Nord-Pas-de-Calais,FRANCE
• Adrianus Henricus Kools (0), Alphen en Riel
• Arie Teeuw (74), Sliedrecht, Nederland
• Anna Nap (45), Kamerik
• Adriana de Roos (62), Ridderkerk
• Willem Leenderts Kuipers (71), Achtkarspelen
• Anthonia Maria Judith Bruinen (61), Hof van Delft, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1900 » Chiune Sugihara, Japanese soldier and diplomat († 1986)
• 1900 » Xavier Cugat, Spanish-American singer-songwriter and actor († 1990)
• 1902 » Buster Nupen, Norwegian-South African cricketer and lawyer († 1977)
• 1902 » Hans von Dohnányi, German jurist and political dissident († 1945)
• 1904 » Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry, Pakistani lawyer and politician, 5th President of Pakistan († 1982)
• 1905 » Stanisław Mazur, Ukrainian-Polish mathematician and theorist († 1981)
• 1906 » Manuel Silos, Filipino filmmaker and actor († 1988)
• 1907 » Kinue Hitomi, Japanese sprinter and long jumper († 1931)
• 1909 » Dana Andrews, American actor († 1992)
• 1909 » Stepan Bandera, Ukrainian soldier and politician († 1959)

• 1881 » Louis Auguste Blanqui, French activist (b. 1805)
• 1892 » Roswell B. Mason, American lawyer and politician, 25th Mayor of Chicago (b. 1805)
• 1894 » Heinrich Hertz, German physicist and academic (b. 1857)
• 1896 » Alfred Ely Beach, American publisher and lawyer, created the Beach Pneumatic Transit (b. 1826)
• 1906 » Hugh Nelson, Scottish-Australian farmer and politician, 11th Premier of Queensland (b. 1833)
• 1918 » William Wilfred Campbell, Canadian poet and author (b. 1858)
• 1921 » Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg, German lawyer and politician, 5th Chancellor of Germany (b. 1856)
• 1929 » Mustafa Necati, Turkish civil servant and politician, Turkish Minister of Environment and Urban Planning (b. 1894)
• 1931 » Martinus Beijerinck, Dutch microbiologist and botanist (b. 1851)
• 1937 » Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati, Indian religious leader, founded the Gaudiya Math (b. 1874)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Gerrit
8. Petrus
9. Jacob
10. Jacobus
11. Adrianus
12. Dirk
13. Wilhelmus
14. Hendrikus
15. Arie
16. Gerardus

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Wilhelmina
7. Adriana
8. Hendrika
9. Catharina
10. Jacoba
11. Petronella
12. Aaltje
13. Grietje
14. Geertruida
15. Trijntje
16. Helena

• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 5.5 million citizens.
• August 20 » Sun Yat-sen, Chinese revolutionary, forms the first chapter of T'ung Meng Hui, a union of all secret societies determined to bringing down the Manchus.
• September 1 » Alberta and Saskatchewan join the Canadian confederation.
• October 30 » Czar Nicholas II issues the October Manifesto, granting the Russian peoples basic civil liberties and the right to form a duma. (October 17 in the Julian calendar)
• November 12 » Norway holds a referendum resulting in popular approval of the Storting's decision to authorise the government to make the offer of the throne of the newly independent country.
• November 18 » Prince Carl of Denmark becomes King Haakon VII of Norway.
• November 28 » Irish nationalist Arthur Griffith founds Sinn Féin as a political party with the main aim of establishing a dual monarchy in Ireland.

The temperature on January 1, 1905 was between -10.2 °C and -4.0 °C and averaged -6.9 °C. There was 6.9 hours of sunshine (88%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.