2005
- October 2 - Nipsey Russell, American actor and game show personality (b. 1918)
- October 3 - Ronnie Barker, British comic actor (b. 1929)
- October 7 - Charles Rocket, American actor (b. 1949)
- October 9 - Louis Nye, American actor (b. 1913)
- October 10 - Milton Obote, President of Uganda (b. 1925)
- October 13 - Vivian Malone Jones, American civil rights activist (b. 1942)
- October 15 - Jason Collier, American basketball player (b. 1977)
- October 17 - Ba Jin, Chinese writer (b. 1904)
- October 21 - Tara Correa-McMullen, American actress (b. 1989)
- October 23 - William Hootkins, American actor (b. 1948)
- October 24 - Rosa Parks, American civil rights activist (b. 1913)
- October 24 - José Azcona del Hoyo, President of Honduras (b. 1926)
- October 24 - Robert Sloman, English writer (b. 1926)
- October 28 - Richard Smalley, American physicist (b. 1943)
- November 4 - Nadia Anjuman, Afghani poet and journalist (b. 1980)
- November 6 - Minako Honda, Japanese singer and actress (b. 1967)
- November 9 - K. R. Narayanan, President of India (b. 1921)
- November 11 - Moustapha Akkad, Syrian-American film producer (b. 1930)
- November 11 - Patrick Anson, 5th Earl of Lichfield, British photographer (b. 1939)
- November 13 - Eddie Guerrero, Mexican-American professional wrestler (b. 1967)
- November 18 - Sharon Beshenivsky, English police constable (b. 1967)
- November 19 - Erik Balling, Danish television and film director (b. 1924)
- November 24 - Pat Morita, American actor (b. 1932)
- November 25 - George Best, Northern Irish footballer (b. 1946)
- November 25 - Richard Burns, English race car driver (b. 1971)
- November 28 - Eric Nance, American murderer (b. 1960)
- December 2 - Mohammed Amza Zubeidi, former prime minister of Iraq (b. 1938)
- December 2 - Nguyen Tuong Van, Vietnamese-Australian drug trafficker and capital punishment cause célèbre (b. 1980)
- December 6 - Devan Nair, President of Singapore (b. 1923)
- December 10 - Richard Pryor, American comedian (b. 1940)
- December 12 - Ramanand Sagar, Indian film director (b. 1917)
- December 13 - Stanley Williams, American gang founder (b. 1953)
- December 16 - John Spencer, American actor (b. 1946)
- December 18 - Alan Voorhees, American engineer and urban planner (b. 1922)
- December 21 - William C. Rodgers, American arsonist (b. unknown)
- December 23 - Yao Wenyuan, Chinese politician (b. 1931)
- December 25 - Birgit Nilsson, Swedish soprano (b. 1918)
- December 25 - Charles Socarides, American psychiatrist (b. 1922)
- December 26 - Kerry Packer, Australian media tycoon (b. 1937)
- December 26 - Vincent Schiavelli, American actor (b. 1948)
- December 29 - Gerda Boyesen, Norwegian-born body psychotherapist (b. 1922)
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- Ten years after reaching the millionth mark, U.S. prison population reaches 1.5 million inmates[1]
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Climate
Based on estimates by NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, 2005 was the warmest year since reliable wide-spread instrumental measurements became available in the late 1800s, beating the previous record set in 1998 by a few hundredths of a degree Celsius. After replaced by 2007 as the warmest year.
Other researchers place 1998 at the top of the temperature record.[citation needed]
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Nobel Prizes
- Physics - Roy J. Glauber, John L. Hall, Theodor W. Hänsch
- Chemistry - Robert Grubbs, Richard Schrock, Yves Chauvin
- Physiology or Medicine - Robin Warren, Barry Marshall
- Literature - Harold Pinter
- Peace - Mohamed ElBaradei
- Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel - Robert J. Aumann, Thomas Schelling
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Ship events
- List of ship launches in 2005
- List of ship commissionings in 2005
- List of ship decommissionings in 2005
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Geography
Due to a combination of the aftermath of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, and an overactive hurricane season and other factors, 2005 was also the costliest year for natural disasters, with world wide damages estimated at over $200 billion.
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See also
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Notes
- ^ Gaines, Larry; Miller, LeRoy (2006). Criminal Justice In Action: The Core. Thomson/Wadsworth. ISBN 0-495-00305-0.
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