2005 deaths

264th pope of the Catholic Church (1978–2005)

Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was an American civil rights activist. She is best known for her 1955 refusal to move from her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, in defiance of Jim Crow racial segregation laws, which sparked the Montgomery bus boycott. She is sometimes known as the "mother of the civil rights movement".

Canadian-American writer (1915–2005)

American playwright and essayist (1915–2005)

German-American nuclear physicist

former prime minister of the United Kingdom (1912–2005)

French writer (1913–2005)

Northern Irish footballer (1946–2005)

American actress (1931–2005)

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1970 to 1974 (1916–2005)

King of Saudi Arabia from 1982 to 2005

American electrical engineer (1923–2005)

American business consultant (1909–2005)

American journalist and author (1937–2005)

Prime Minister of Lebanon (1992–1998, 2000–2004)

Chechen warlord and politician

President of Uganda (1966–1971; 1980–1985)

Japanese architect (1913–2005)

American architect (1906–2005)

English novelist (1926–2005)

American advisor, diplomat, political scientist and historian (1904-2005)

former General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)

German-American evolutionary biologist (1904-2005)

President of India from 1997 to 2002

American chemist (1943–2005)

Prince of Monaco from 1949 to 2005

Brazilian actor and comedian (1929–2005)

Polish-born British-naturalised physicist

first black woman elected to the United States Congress (1924-2005)

American feminist writer (1946–2005)

American actress (1918–2005)

American film director, film producer and film editor (1914–2005)

French philosopher (1913–2005)

President of Togo from 1967 to 2005

Italian-Argentine footballer

American talk show host and comedian (1925–2005)

Punjabi poet (1919–2005)

Indian actor (1932–2005)

Swedish opera singer (1918–2005)

American comedian and actor (1940–2005)

American electronic music pioneer and inventor (1934-2005)

Dutch footballer and manager (1928–2005)

Israeli politiciann, 7th president of Israel (1993–2000)

American actress (1922–2005)

American stand-up comedian

Chinese novelist and anarchist activist (1904-2005)

American writer (1928–2005)

English human rights activist (1921-2005)

American actor and comedian (1933-2005)

British actor (1908–2005)

German boxer (1905-2005)

United States Army general (1914-2005)

Israeli author, dramatist, screenwriter and film director (1924–2005)

British Labour Party politician (1946-2005)

Hindi film actor and politician (1929–2005)

Indian actress (1954–2005)

Prime Minister of Georgia (1963-2005)

American actress and model (1942–2005)

Japanese-American actor (1932–2005)

Japanese origamist (1911-2005)