About the day » Saturday October 21, 1905Calender converter

• Adrianus Cornelis de KORT, Woensdrecht, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriana Cornelia Koetsenruijter, Halsteren, N-Br, NL († 1931)
• Adriana Verhees, Deurne, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1927)
• Andrej Širaj, Bloke, Slovenia († 1916)
• Voncken, Maastricht († 1905)
• Anna de Mooij, Rijnsburg († 1908)
• Aaltje Van der Linde, Noordwolde, Weststellingwerf,, Fryslân | Friesland, Nederland
• Amerens van der Veen, Warga († 2000)
• Amarens van der Veen, Warga, Friesland, Nederland († 2000)
• André Ferdinand Rémi VANPEE, Bergues... Hauts de France († 1905)

• Anna Maria Jurgens (0)
• Aaltje Johannes Gerritsen (71), Leeuwarden
• Voncken (0), Maastricht
• Albert Willems de Vries (68), Giekerk
• Abraham Wolf Grijsaard (78), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Albert Willems de Vries (68), Giekerk
• Anne van der WERF (55), Harlingen, Friesland, Nederland
• Aartje VAN ZIJTVELD (39), Maartensdijk,, Utrecht, Nederland
• Anna Maria van der LInden (65), Everdingen, Utrecht, Nederland
• Anna Paulina Lentz (68), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1896 » Esther Shumiatcher-Hirschbein, Russian-Canadian poet and screenwriter (d.1985)
• 1898 » Eduard Pütsep, Estonian wrestler and actor († 1960)
• 1900 » Andrée Boisson, French Olympic fencer († 1973)
• 1907 » Nikos Engonopoulos, Greek painter and poet († 1985)
• 1908 » Niyazi Berkes, Cypriot-English sociologist and academic († 1988)
• 1911 » Mary Blair, American illustrator and animator († 1978)
• 1912 » Alfredo Pián, Argentinian race car driver († 1990)
• 1912 » Don Byas, American saxophonist and educator († 1972)
• 1912 » Georg Solti, Hungarian-English conductor and director († 1997)
• 1914 » Martin Gardner, American mathematician and author († 2010)

• 1872 » Jacques Babinet, French physicist, mathematician, and astronomer (b. 1794)
• 1873 » Johan Sebastian Welhaven, Norwegian author, poet, and critic (b. 1807)
• 1896 » James Henry Greathead, South African-English engineer (b. 1844)
• 1903 » Jinmaku Kyūgorō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 12th Yokozuna (b. 1829)
• 1904 » Isabelle Eberhardt, Swiss explorer and journalist (b. 1877)
• 1907 » Jules Chevalier, French priest, founded the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart (b. 1824)
• 1931 » Arthur Schnitzler, Austrian author and playwright (b. 1862)
• 1938 » Dorothy Hale, American actress (b. 1905)
• 1940 » William G. Conley, American journalist, lawyer, and politician, 18th Governor of West Virginia (b. 1866)
• 1941 » Alexander Greenlaw Hamilton, Australian biologist (b. 1852)

• 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.
• February 23 » Chicago attorney Paul Harris and three other businessmen meet for lunch to form the Rotary Club, the world's first service club.
• May 15 » Las Vegas is founded when 110 acres (0.45km), in what later would become downtown, are auctioned off.
• 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 30 » Albert Einstein sends the article On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies, in which he introduces special relativity, for publication in Annalen der Physik.
• September 11 » The Ninth Avenue derailment occurs in New York City, killing 13.
• October 5 » The Wright brothers pilot the Wright Flyer III in a new world record flight of 24 miles in 39 minutes.

The temperature on October 21, 1905 was between 2.3 °C and 6.9 °C and averaged 4.8 °C. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (4%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west.