About the day » Sunday October 1, 1905Calender converter

• Alida Adriana Bol, Naaldwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Alfred W 'Bulldog' Wolverton, Willow Springs, Howell, Missouri, Verenigde Staten († 1978)
• Adrianus Theodorus Valkenburg, Delft,-
• Anna Geertruida van der Kam, Heerenveen, Friesland, Nederland († 1916)
• Anna Elisabeth van der Kaay, Leiden († 1929)
• Adriana Haasbroek, Delft († 1968)
• Adriaan van Welsenis,Welzenis,Welsenes,Welzenes, Rotterdam
• Ana Borges Corrêa, Araraquara, São Paulo, Brasil
• Alida Christina Boelhouwer, Krommenie, Zaanstad, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
• Adrianus Josephus van Son, Dongen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1905)

• Anna Elisabeth Croes (66), Sint-Truiden, België
• Andries ( Andreas) van Spronsen (78), Monster, 2681, Nederland
• Anna Maria Peeters (33), Oostmalle
• Arie Dorrepaal (1), Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arij SCHOUTEN (65), Dubbeldam
• Albert Smallenbroek (5), Groningen
• Andries Lourensz van Spronsen (78), Monster, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Alida van Beveren (0), Noordwijk, Zuid Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Johannes Bogers (0), Ambt Almelo, Overijssel, Nederland
• Arie Dorrepaal (1), Leiden

• 1900 » Tom Goddard, English cricketer († 1966)
• 1903 » Pierre Veyron, French race car driver († 1970)
• 1903 » Vladimir Horowitz, Russian-born American pianist and composer († 1989)
• 1904 » A. K. Gopalan, Indian educator and politician († 1977)
• 1904 » Otto Robert Frisch, Austrian-English physicist and academic († 1979)
• 1906 » S. D. Burman, Indian composer and singer († 1975)
• 1907 » Ödön Pártos, Hungarian-Israeli viola player and composer († 1977)
• 1907 » Maurice Bardèche, French journalist, author, and critic († 1998)
• 1908 » Herman David Koppel, Danish pianist and composer († 1998)
• 1909 » Sam Yorty, American captain and politician, 37th Mayor of Los Angeles († 1998)

• 1864 » Rose O'Neal Greenhow, American spy (b. 1817)
• 1878 » Mindon Min, Burmese king (b. 1808)
• 1885 » John Light Atlee, American physician and surgeon (b. 1799)
• 1901 » Abdur Rahman Khan, Afghan emir (b. 1844)
• 1913 » Eugene O'Keefe, Canadian businessman and philanthropist (b. 1827)
• 1929 » Antoine Bourdelle, French sculptor and painter (b. 1861)
• 1940 » Chiungtze C. Tsen, Chinese mathematician (b. 1898)
• 1942 » Ants Piip, Estonian lawyer and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Estonia (b. 1884)
• 1950 » Faik Ali Ozansoy, Turkish poet, educator, and politician (b. 1876)
• 1951 » Peter McWilliam, Scottish-English footballer and manager (b. 1878)

• 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.
• May 28 » Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima ends with the destruction of the Russian Baltic Fleet by Admiral Tōgō Heihachirō and the Imperial Japanese Navy.
• June 27 » During the Russo-Japanese War, sailors start a mutiny aboard the Russian battleship Potemkin.
• October 16 » The Partition of Bengal in India takes place.
• 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 21 » Albert Einstein's paper that leads to the mass–energy equivalence formula, E=mc², is published in the journal Annalen der Physik.
• 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 October 1, 1905 was between 7.6 °C and 12.9 °C and averaged 9.7 °C. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (3%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west.