Famous people born in 1905

Howard Hughes (1905 - 1976)

American engineer and director

Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982)

Russian-American author and philosopher

Simo Häyhä (1905 - 2002)

Finnish sniper

Jean-Paul Sartre (1905 - 1980)

French philosopher and writer

Greta Garbo (1905 - 1990)

Swedish actress

Henry Fonda (1905 - 1982)

American actor

Albert Speer (1905 - 1981)

German architect

Clara Bow (1905 - 1965)

American actress

James J. Braddock (1905 - 1974)

Irish-American boxer

Viktor Frankl (1905 - 1997)

Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist

Lal Bahadur Shastri (1905 - 1966)

Indian politician, 2nd Prime Minister of India

Christian Dior (1905 - 1957)

French fashion designer, founded Christian Dior S.A.

Maria von Trapp (1905 - 1987)

Austrian-American singer

Myrna Loy (1905 - 1993)

American actress

Albert Pierrepoint (1905 - 1992)

English executioner

Joseph Cotten (1905 - 1994)

American actor

Anna May Wong (1905 - 1961)

American actress

Sterling Holloway (1905 - 1992)

American actor

Dolores del Río (1905 - 1983)

Mexican actress

Dag Hammarskjöld (1905 - 1961)

Swedish diplomat, economist, and author

Max Schmeling (1905 - 2005)

German boxer

Tommy Dorsey (1905 - 1956)

American musician

Joseph Bonanno (1905 - 2002)

Italian-American gangster

Otto Preminger (1905 - 1986)

Austrian-American director, producer, and actor

Joel McCrea (1905 - 1990)

American actor

Andy Devine (1905 - 1977)

American actor

Arthur Koestler (1905 - 1983)

Hungarian-English author and journalist

Dhyan Chand (1905 - 1979)

Indian hockey player

Erwin Chargaff (1905 - 2002)

Austrian biochemist

Barnett Newman (1905 - 1970)

American painter

Fred Trump (1905 - 1999)

American real estate developer

Tex Ritter (1905 - 1974)

American country musician

Lillian Hellman (1905 - 1984)

American writer and playwright

Marcel Lefebvre (1905 - 1991)

French bishop

Dalton Trumbo (1905 - 1976)

American author and screenwriter

Manfred Bennington Lee (1905 - 1971)

American author

Harold Arlen (1905 - 1986)

American songwriter

Eddie Rochester Anderson (1905 - 1977)

Comedian, actor

Elias Canetti (1905 - 1994)

Bulgarian writer

Cliff Arquette (1905 - 1974)

James W. Fulbright (1905 - 1995)

American politician

Mary Livingstone (1905 - 1983)

Jule Styne (1905 - 1994)

British musician

Władysław Gomułka (1905 - 1982)

Polish politician

Philip Ahn (1905 - 1978)

Actor

Raymond Aron (1905 - 1983)

French philosopher

Antonio Berni (1905 - 1981)

Argentine painter, illustrator and engraver

Kenneth Rexroth (1905 - 1982)

American poet, writer, anarchist, academic and conscientious objector

Dorothy Fields (1905 - 1974)

Lyricist

Artem Mikoyan (1905 - 1970)

Myles Horton (1905 - 1990)

Stanley Kunitz (1905 - 2006)

Poet