Editing 1905 (section)

=== January&ndash;February ===
[[File:Ernst Abbe.jpg|thumb|100px|right|[[Ernst Abbe]]]]
[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-R30367, Adolph von Menzel.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Adolph von Menzel]]]]
* [[January 1]] 
** [[Johannes Ludovicus Paquay]], Belgian [[Roman Catholic]] priest and blessed (b. [[1828]])
* [[January 2]] &ndash; [[Clara Augusta Jones Trask]], American dime novelist (b. [[1839]])
* [[January 6]]
** [[José María Gabriel y Galán]], Spanish poet (b. [[1870]])
** [[Ann Eliza Smith]], American patriot (b. [[1819]])
* [[January 9]] &ndash; [[Louise Michel]], French anarchist (b. [[1830]])
* [[January 11]] &ndash; [[Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter]], Polish Hasidic rabbi (b. [[1847]])
* [[January 14]] &ndash; [[Ernst Abbe]], German physicist (b. [[1840]])
* [[January 19]] &ndash; [[Debendranath Tagore]], Indian philosopher (b. [[1817]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Andrew Robinson|title=The Art of Rabindranath Tagore|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=icefAAAAMAAJ|year=1989|publisher=Rupa|page=46}}</ref>
* [[January 20]] &ndash; [[Gyula Szapáry]], 10th Prime Minister of Hungary (b. [[1832]])
* [[January 22]]
** [[Ștefan Fălcoianu]], Romanian general and politician (b. [[1835]])
** [[Clara Harrison Stranahan]], American college co-founder and trustee (b. [[1831]])
* [[January 27]] &ndash; [[Watson Heston]], American cartoonist (b. [[1846]])
* [[January 31]] &ndash; [[Konstantin Savitsky]], Russian painter (b. [[1844]])
* [[February 2]] &ndash;[[Mabel Cahill]], Irish tennis champion (b. [[1863]])
* [[February 3]] &ndash; [[Adolf Bastian]], German anthropologist (b. [[1826]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Adolf Bastian and the Psychic Unity of Mankind: The Foundations of Anthropology in Nineteenth Century Germany|publisher=University of Queensland Press|year=1983|page=27}}</ref>
* [[February 4]] &ndash; [[Louis-Ernest Barrias]], French sculptor (b. [[1841]])
* [[February 5]] &ndash; [[Andrijica Šimić]], Croatian [[hajduk]] (b. [[1833]])
* [[February 9]] &ndash; [[Adolph von Menzel]], German painter (b. [[1815]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Adolf-von-Menzel|title=Adolf von Menzel {{!}} German painter|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|language=en|access-date=18 December 2019|archive-date=December 12, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191212144716/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Adolf-von-Menzel|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[February 12]] &ndash; [[Marcel Schwob]], French writer (b. [[1867]])
* [[February 15]] &ndash; [[Lew Wallace]], American writer (''[[Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ]]'') (b. [[1827]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Frank Northen Magill|title=Masterplots: Cyclopedia of world authors; seven hundred fifty three novelists, poets, playwrights from the world's fine literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fe_XAAAAMAAJ|year=1958|publisher=Salem Press|page=1122|access-date=May 12, 2021|archive-date=April 13, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230413171231/https://books.google.com/books?id=fe_XAAAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[February 16]] &ndash; [[Jay Cooke]], American financier (b. [[1821]])
* [[February 17]] &ndash; [[Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia]] (b. [[1857]])
* [[February 19]] &ndash; [[Benjamin Harris Babbidge]], Australian politician, 19th Mayor of Brisbane (b. [[1836]])
* [[February 20]] &ndash; [[Jeremiah W. Farnham]], American merchant captain (b. c. [[1828]])
* [[February 24]] &ndash; [[Fanny Cochrane Smith]], Aboriginal Tasmanian (b. [[1834]])
* [[February 25]] &ndash; [[Edward Cooper (mayor)|Edward Cooper]], 83rd [[Mayor of New York City]] (b. [[1824]])