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Pat Morita
Japanese-American actor (1932–2005)

Akira Yoshizawa
Japanese origamist (1911-2005)

Eddie Albert
American actor (1906–2005)
Frère Roger
Swiss monk (1915–2005)

Eddie Guerrero
American wrestler (1967–2005)
Zdzisław Beksiński
Polish artist (1929-2005)
Ibrahim Ferrer
Cuban singer (1927–2005)
George Mikan
American basketball player, coach, commissioner
Will Eisner
American cartoonist, writer and entrepreneur (1917–2005)

Maria Schell
Austrian-Swiss actress (1926–2005)
Virginia Mayo
American actress (1920–2005)

Luther Vandross
American R&B singer (1951–2005)

Evan Hunter
American author and screenwriter (1926-2005)
Wim Duisenberg
Dutch politician and economist (1935–2005)

Hermann Bondi
Austrian-British mathematician and cosmologist

William Rehnquist
chief justice of the United States from 1986 to 2005 (1924–2005)

Eugene McCarthy
American politician (1916–2005)

Álvaro Cunhal
Portuguese politician and writer (1913-2005)
Colette Besson
French sprinter
Devan Nair
Malaysian-Singaporean politician, 3rd President of Singapore (1923–2005)
Dan O'Herlihy
Irish actor (1919–2005)

Johnny Haynes
English footballer (1934-2005)

Vincent Schiavelli
American actor (1948–2005)
Link Wray
American guitarist (1929–2005)

James Doohan
Canadian actor (1920–2005)

David Lange
Prime Minister of New Zealand from 1984 to 1989
Elisabeth Domitien
Prime Minister of the Central African Republic (1925-2005)

Alexander Nikolaevich Yakovlev
Soviet diplomat (1923-2005)

Victoria de los Ángeles
Catalan/Spanish opera singer

Richard Burns
British rally driver (1971–2005)

Maurice Trintignant
French racecar driver (1917–2005)
Ghena Dimitrova
Bulgarian lyric singer

Don Adams
American actor (1923–2005)

Urie Bronfenbrenner
Russian American developmental psychologist (1917–2005)

Consuelo Velázquez
Mexican concert pianist, songwriter and recording artist (1916-2005)
John Spencer
American actor (1946–2005)

Simone Simon
French actress
Jef Raskin
American computer interface expert (1943-2005)

Per Borten
25th Prime Minister of Norway (1913–2005)

Rosemary Kennedy
younger sister of John F. Kennedy (1918–2005)

Ossie Davis
American actor, director, poet, playwright, writer, and social activist (1917-2005)

Emmanuelle Arsan
Thai writer, model and actress

Andre Norton
American writer of science fiction and fantasy (1912–2005)

George P. Cosmatos
Greek film director and screenwriter (1941–2005)

Julio César Turbay
President of Colombia (1916-2005)
Paul Winchell
American actor (1922–2005)
Gordon Gould
American physicist and inventor (1920–2005)

Tilly Fleischer
German javelin thrower (1911–2005)

Alberto Lattuada
Italian film director (1914–2005)

Vizma Belševica
Latvian writer (1931-2005)

Jimmy Smith
American jazz organist
Aboubacar Sangoulé Lamizana
President of Upper Volta and Burkina Faso (1916-2005)
John DeLorean
American engineer and executive in the U.S. automobile industry (1925–2005)
Sergey Starostin
Russian linguist and philologist (1953–2005)
Moustapha Akkad
American film director (1930–2005)
Yao Wenyuan
Chinese politician (1931–2005)

Françoise d'Eaubonne
French feminist (1920–2005)
Gennadi Sarafanov
Soviet cosmonaut (1942–2005)
Zhang Chunqiao
member of the Gang of Four (1917–2005)
Gaylord Nelson
American politician (1916–2005)