About the day » Thursday January 5, 1905Calender converter

• Alvin Richmond Tucker, St. Clair County, Alabama († 1994)
• Adriana Huibregtse, Veere, Zeeland, NL
• Angelina Maria Vanderstokker, Geel, Antwerpen, Belgium († 1983)
• Adrianus Wilhelmus Johannes Miltenburg, Vinkeveen, Nederland
• Aartje Vos, Deil († 1978)
• Albertina Margaretha Sloot, Velsen († 1960)
• Adriana Horians, Dinteloord, NL († 1957)
• Adriana Fondse, Zierikzee († 1926)
• Aaltje Keen, Wezup, Zweeloo, Drenthe, Nederland († 1995)
• Adam (2) Fievet, Hooge en Lage Zwaluwe († 1976)

• Alida Weerdenburg (85), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Anna Margaretha Schumann (16), Weert, Limburg, Nederland
• Agatha Gwerder (65)
• Anna Catharina de Tello (47), Haarlem
• Antoinetta Maria Antonnetta Koning (71), 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Allegonda Engelina Bongers (0), Zeeland, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Antonetta Maria Koning (71), 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriana A Martens (44), Breda,Noord-Brabant,Nederland
• Annetje Hondius (81), Elst, Gelderland, Nederland
• Antje Heins Piersma (65), Abbega, Wymbritseradeel, Friesland, Nederland

• 1902 » Hubert Beuve-Méry, French journalist († 1989)
• 1902 » Stella Gibbons, English journalist and author († 1989)
• 1903 » Harold Gatty, Australian pilot and navigator († 1957)
• 1904 » Erika Morini, Austrian violinist († 1995)
• 1904 » Jeane Dixon, American astrologer and psychic († 1997)
• 1906 » Kathleen Kenyon, English archaeologist and academic († 1978)
• 1907 » Volmari Iso-Hollo, Finnish athlete († 1969)
• 1908 » George Dolenz, Italian-American actor († 1963)
• 1909 » Lucienne Bloch, Swiss-American sculptor, painter, and photographer († 1995)
• 1909 » Stephen Cole Kleene, American mathematician and computer scientist († 1994)

• 1883 » Charles Tompson, Australian poet and public servant (b. 1806)
• 1885 » Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, Norwegian author and scholar (b. 1812)
• 1888 » Henri Herz, Austrian pianist and composer (b. 1803)
• 1899 » Ezra Otis Kendall, American professor, astronomer and mathematician (b. 1818)
• 1904 » Karl Alfred von Zittel, German paleontologist and geologist (b. 1839)
• 1910 » Léon Walras, French-Swiss economist and academic (b. 1834)
• 1917 » Isobel Lilian Gloag, English painter (b. 1865)
• 1922 » Ernest Shackleton, Anglo-Irish sailor and explorer (b. 1874)
• 1933 » Calvin Coolidge, American lawyer and politician, 30th President of the United States (b. 1872)
• 1942 » Tina Modotti, Italian photographer, model, actress, and activist (b. 1896)

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.
• January 22 » Bloody Sunday in Saint Petersburg, beginning of the 1905 revolution.
• April 17 » The Supreme Court of the United States decides Lochner v. New York, which holds that the "right to free contract" is implicit in the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
• August 13 » Norwegians vote to end the union with Sweden.
• 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 28 » Irish nationalist Arthur Griffith founds Sinn Féin as a political party with the main aim of establishing a dual monarchy in Ireland.
• December 15 » The Pushkin House is established in Saint Petersburg, Russia, to preserve the cultural heritage of Alexander Pushkin.

The temperature on January 5, 1905 was between 4.9 °C and 7.1 °C and averaged 6.0 °C. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west.