About the day » Tuesday October 24, 1905Calender converter

• Agatha Jacoba van der Vijver, Rijnsburg († 1997)
• Annie (Johanna) van Werkhoven, Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands († 2001)
• Anton Willem van Wijngaarden, Kouderkerk aan de Rijn († 1960)
• Anna Louisa Maria Kok, Bussum, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Alida Christina Roeper, Leeuwarden († 1996)
• Antonius Frijters, Standdaarbuiten
• Anna Christina Maria BOEKHOLDT, Groningen Groningen Netherlands
• Albert Leroy Blunt, Virginia († 1977)
• Antonia Anna Maria Vorstenbosch, Tilburg
• Anna Dingena Clementina Emmanuela Bolsius, Blerick (L)

• Aaltje ter Hofte (0), Hengelo
• Antonia Haerlman (47), Epe
• Anthonia Bernarda Havekotte (65), Amersfoort,, Utrecht, Nederland
• Antonie van Steenbergen (0), Gameren, Nederland
• Augustinus Pools (69), Lummen
• Amede Aime Vanneste (0), Desselgem West-Vlaanderen
• Cornelis Buijs (77), Loosduinen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriaantje Leystra (68), Hallum, Friesland, Nederland
• Alfred Lafayette Patton (72), Villisca, Montgomery County, Iowa
• Adriaantje Freerks Leijstra (68), Hallum, Ferwerderadeel, Friesland, Nederland

• 1901 » Gilda Gray, Polish-American actress, singer, and dancer († 1959)
• 1903 » Melvin Purvis, American FBI agent († 1960)
• 1904 » A.K. Golam Jilani, Bangladeshi activist († 1932)
• 1904 » Moss Hart, American director and playwright († 1961)
• 1905 » Fran Zwitter, Slovenian historian and academic († 1988)
• 1906 » Alexander Gelfond, Russian mathematician and cryptographer († 1968)
• 1907 » Patricia Griffin, Montserratian nurse and social worker († 1986)
• 1908 » John Tuzo Wilson, Canadian geologist and geophysicist († 1993)
• 1909 » Bill Carr, American runner († 1966)
• 1910 » Stella Brooks, American singer († 2002)

• 1875 » Raffaello Carboni, Italian-Australian author and poet (b. 1817)
• 1898 » Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, French painter and illustrator (b. 1824)
• 1915 » Désiré Charnay, French archaeologist and photographer (b. 1828)
• 1917 » James Carroll Beckwith, American painter and academic (b. 1852)
• 1922 » George Cadbury, English businessman (b. 1839)
• 1935 » Dutch Schultz, American mob boss (b. 1902)
• 1937 » Nils Wahlbom, Swedish actor (b. 1886)
• 1938 » Ernst Barlach, German sculptor and playwright (b. 1870)
• 1943 » Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau, Canadian poet and painter (b. 1912)
• 1944 » Louis Renault, French engineer and businessman, co-founded the Renault Company (b. 1877)

• 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.
• 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.
• 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 5 » Russo-Japanese War: In New Hampshire, United States, the Treaty of Portsmouth, mediated by U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, ends the war.
• November 21 » Albert Einstein's paper that leads to the mass–energy equivalence formula, E=mc², is published in the journal Annalen der Physik.
• December 9 » In France, the law separating church and state is passed.

The temperature on October 24, 1905 was between -3.0 °C and 3.0 °C and averaged 0.1 °C. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.