About the day » Sunday October 8, 1905Calender converter

• Adriaan Willem PRINS, Rotterdam (Z.-H.), Neth
• Adrianus Jongenelis, Etten-Leur († 1905)
• Keimpke Fokke Tromp, Lisse († 1985)
• Aaltje Hendriks Otten, Hoogeveen († 1906)
• Aaltje van de Kieft, Barneveld († 1993)
• Adriana de Kok, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1927)
• Alexander Konings, Fijnaart en Heijnigen, Moerdijk, Noord Brabant, The Netherlands
• * Hendrica (Drika) van Zeeland, Gemert († 1973)
• Alida Lena Lobrij, rotterdam (zuid holland)
• Adriana van Oirschot, Boxtel († 1979)

• Alie Ann Brown (73), Cooke Co, Texas
• Annigje Versluis (Versluijs-Versluys) (33), Sliedrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland The Netherlands
• Adriana van Oorschot (1), Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Annigje Versluis (33), Sliedrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Godefridus Antonius Snoeks (0), Westerhoven (gemeente Bergeijk)
• Andries Louwrier (0), Leiden
• Aaldert Kievit (5)
• Clementia Sophia Hamelijnck (67), Watervliet, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium
• Auguste Jacobine Grönett (58), Boppard,,Rhineland-Palatinate,Germany
• Arie Gelderblom (5), Ridderkerk

• 1901 » Eivind Groven, Norwegian composer and theorist († 1977)
• 1901 » Mark Oliphant, Australian physicist, humanitarian and politician, Governor of South Australia († 2000)
• 1903 » Georgy Geshev, Bulgarian chess player († 1937)
• 1904 » Yves Giraud-Cabantous, French race car driver († 1973)
• 1907 » Richard Sharpe Shaver, American author and illustrator († 1975)
• 1908 » Ezekias Papaioannou, Greek-Cypriot politician († 1988)
• 1910 » Gus Hall, American soldier and politician († 2000)
• 1910 » Helmut Kallmeyer, German chemist and soldier († 2006)
• 1910 » Kirk Alyn, American actor († 1999)
• 1910 » Paulette Dubost, French actress († 2011)

• 1869 » Franklin Pierce, American general, lawyer, and politician, 14th President of the United States (b. 1804)
• 1879 » Miguel Grau Seminario, Peruvian admiral (b. 1834)
• 1886 » Austin F. Pike, American lawyer and politician (b. 1819)
• 1897 » Alexei Savrasov, Russian painter and academic (b. 1830)
• 1928 » Larry Semon, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1889)
• 1931 » John Monash, Australian general and engineer (b. 1865)
• 1936 » Ahmet Tevfik Pasha, Ottoman politician, 292nd Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1845)
• 1936 » Premchand, Indian author and screenwriter (b. 1880)
• 1936 » Red Ames, American baseball player and manager (b. 1882)
• 1936 » William Henry Stark, American businessman (b. 1851)

• 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.
• May 5 » The trial in the Stratton Brothers case begins in London, England; it marks the first time that fingerprint evidence is used to gain a conviction for murder.
• May 27 » Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima begins.
• September 5 » Russo-Japanese War: In New Hampshire, United States, the Treaty of Portsmouth, mediated by U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, ends the war.
• October 26 » King Oscar II recognizes the dissolution of the union between Norway and Sweden.
• November 21 » Albert Einstein's paper that leads to the mass–energy equivalence formula, E=mc², is published in the journal Annalen der Physik.

The temperature on October 8, 1905 was between -0.3 °C and 13.6 °C and averaged 6.8 °C. There was 7.0 hours of sunshine (62%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest.