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The year 1905 in literature involved some significant new books.
Events New books New drama <onlyinclude> Non-fiction Births - January 6 - Idris Davies, Anglo-Welsh poet (died 1953)
- January 31 - John O'Hara, writer (died 1970)
- February 2 - Ayn Rand, author (died 1982)
- February 7 - Paul Nizan, author (died 1940)
- February 11 - Elizabeth Vuyk, Dutch/Indonesian writer
- March 31 - Kulap Saipradit (pen name Siburapha), Thai novelist (died 1974)
- May 16 - H. E. Bates, novelist (died 1974)
- May 20 - Gerrit Achterberg, Dutch poet (died 1962)
- May 24 - Mikhail Sholokhov, Soviet/Russian novelist (died 1984)
- June 20 - Lillian Hellman, dramatist (died 1984)
- June 21 - Jean-Paul Sartre, French author (died 1980)
- July 25 - Elias Canetti, novelist (died 1994)
- September 5 - Arthur Koestler, novelist and social philosopher (died 1983)
- October 15 - C. P. Snow, novelist (died 1980)
- December 4 - Munro Leaf, children's author (died 1974)
- December 21 - Anthony Powell, British novelist, (died 2000)
- December 22 - Kenneth Rexroth, American poet and critic (died 1982)
Deaths - January 19 - Debendranath Tagore, philosopher
- February 15 - General Lew Wallace, author of Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
- March 20 - Antonin Proust, journalist
- March 25 - Jules Verne, author
- May 23 - Mary Livermore, journalist
- August 22 - David Binning Monro, expert on Homer
- September 18 - George MacDonald, author
- October 28 - Alphonse Allais, humorist
- December 3 - John Bartlett, publisher
- December 9 - Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb classical commentator
- December 12 - William Sharp, poet, biographer and novelist
- December 20 - Henry Harland, novelist and editor
- December 29 - Creeve Roe, poet
- date unknown - R. C. Lehmann, editor of Punch magazine
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