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Nikolay Bauman
Russian revolutionary (1873–1905)
Theodore Thomas
American violinist and conductor (1835-1905)
Raimundo Fernández Villaverde
Spanish politician (1848–1905)
Francisco Silvela
Spanish politician (1843–1905)
George S. Boutwell
United States politician (1818–1905)
Jean-Jacques Henner
French painter (1829-1905)
Charles Yerkes
American banker and art collector (1837-1905)
Princess Caroline Reuss of Greiz
German Princess (1884-1905)
Kārlis Baumanis
Latvian composer (1835–1905)
Hermann Wissmann
German explorer and colonial administrator in Africa (1853–1905)
Juan Lindolfo Cuestas
President of Uruguay (1837-1905)
Vjenceslav Novak
Croatian writer
Clément Juglar
French economist (1819–1905)
Francesco Tamagno
Italian operatic singer (1850–1905)
Máximo Gómez Báez
Cuban-dominican Major General (1836-1905)
Henri de Saussure
Swiss mineralogist and zoologist (1829-1905)
Fitzhugh Lee
American politician (1835–1905); 40th governor of Virginia
Mary Livermore
American journalist
Victor Borisov-Musatov
Russian artist (1870-1905)
Rudolf Baumbach
German poet (1840-1905)
Alexander, Prince of Lippe
prince of Lippe (1831–1905)
John Rogan
second tallest person ever recorded (1868–1905)
Lizardo Montero Flores
President of Peru (1832-1905)
Simeon Solomon
British artist (1840 – 1905)
Alexander Melville Bell
British linguist (1819–1905)
Louis-Ernest Barrias
French sculptor (1841-1905)
Mabel Cahill
Irish tennis player (1863-1905)
Francisco García Calderón
President of Peru (1834–1905)
Giovanni Battista Scalabrini
Italian Roman Catholic bishop and blessed (1839–1905)
Hranush Arshagyan
Armenian poet (1887–1905)
Georges Nagelmackers
Belgian businessman (1845–1905)
Charles Renard
French designer of airships (1847–1905)
Siegfried Bing
German-French art dealer (1838 - 1905)
Hendrik Witbooi
National hero of Namibia
Hermann Usener
German classical philologist (1834–1905)
Alfred Nicolas Rambaud
French historian (1842-1905)
Frederic Thesiger, 2nd Baron Chelmsford
British Army general (1827-1905)
William Sharp
Scottish writer (1855–1905)
Juan Pablo Rojas Paúl
President of Venezuela (1826–1905)
Franz Overbeck
German Protestant theologian (1837-1905)
Alphonse James de Rothschild
French banker and art collector (1827-1905)
John Henninger Reagan
American politician (1818-1905)
Paul Cérésole
Swiss judge, member of the Swiss Federal Council (1832-1905)
Zou Rong
Chinese writer (1885–1905)
Célestine Galli-Marié
French mezzo-soprano (1837–1905)
Gyula Szapáry
Prime Minister of Hungary (1832-1905)
Giuseppe Sacconi
Italian architect (1854-1905)
Robert Whitehead
English engineer (1823–1905)
James Mason
Irish chess player, journalist and writer (1849–1905)
Sarah Chauncey Woolsey
American writer (1835–1905)
Nikolay Benardos
Russian inventor (1842–1905)
Rain-in-the-Face
Rain-in-the-Face (Lakota: Ité Omáǧažu in Standard Lakota Orthography) (c. 1835 – September 15, 1905) was a warchief of the Lakota tribe of Native Americans. His mother was a Dakota related to the band of famous Chief Inkpaduta. In 1876, he participated in the Battle of the Little Bighorn that defeated the 7th Cavalry Regiment under Lt. Colonel George Armstrong Custer.
Pietro Tacchini
Italian astronomer (1838-1905)
Jean-Baptiste Claude Eugène Guillaume
French sculptor (1822-1905)
Ivan Kalyayev
Russian poet, a member of the Socialist-Revolutionary Party
Augustus Charles Gregory
Australian explorer (1819-1905)
Paul Sutermeister
Swiss theologian, pastor and contributing editor of the Berner Tagblatt (1864-1905)
Lev Lagorio
Russian artist (1827-1905)
Fanny Cochrane Smith
Last known speaker of a Tasmanian language (1834–1905)
Otto Erich Hartleben
German writer (1864–1905)