The year was

1905

Here's everything we logged from 1905 — 1 worldwide and 1 from India.

Someone born this year is around 65 today.

Famous people born in 1905 Jean-Paul, Ayn, Dag

Notable figures who share this birth year.

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    Jean-Paul Sartre

    French existentialist philosopher (1905–1980).

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    Ayn Rand

    Russian-born American writer and public philosopher (1905–1982).

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    Dag Hammarskjöld

    Swedish diplomat, economist, and author (1905-1961).

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    Mikhail Sholokhov

    Soviet writer (1905-1984).

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    Greta Garbo

    Swedish-American actress (1905–1990).

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    Elias Canetti

    Bulgarian-born Swiss and British Jewish modernist novelist, playwright, memoirist, and non-fiction writer (1905–1994).

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    Henry Fonda

    American actor (1905–1982).

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    Carl David Anderson

    American physicist.

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Worldwide

  • science

    Einstein's miracle year

    Einstein published four papers including E=mc². Physics would never be the same.

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India

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    Partition of Bengal

    British India partitioned Bengal, sparking the Swadeshi Movement and a wave of Indian nationalism.