Lúcia de Jesus Rosa dos Santos, OCD, (28 March 1907 – 13 February 2005) also known as Lúcia of Fátima and by her religious name Maria Lúcia of Jesus and of the Immaculate Heart, was a Portuguese Catholic Discalced Carmelite nun. Sister Lúcia and her cousins Francisco and Jacinta Marto claimed to have witnessed the apparitions of Our Lady of Fátima in 1917.
Hans Albrecht Bethe (German pronunciation: [ˈhans ˈbeːtə] ; July 2, 1906 – March 6, 2005) was a German-American theoretical physicist who made major contributions to nuclear physics, astrophysics, quantum electrodynamics, and solid-state physics, and who won the 1967 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the theory of stellar nucleosynthesis. For most of his career, Bethe was a professor at Cornell University.During World War II, he was head of the Theoretical Division at the secret Los Alamos laboratory that developed the first atomic bombs. There he played a key role in calculating the critical mass of the weapons and developing the theory behind the implosion method used in both the Trinity test and the "Fat Man" weapon dropped on Nagasaki in August 1945.
After the war, Bethe also played an important role in the development of the hydrogen bomb, although he had originally joined the project with the hope of proving it could not be made. Bethe later campaigned with Albert Einstein and the Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists against nuclear testing and the nuclear arms race. He helped persuade the Kennedy and Nixon administrations to sign, respectively, the 1963 Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty and 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty (SALT I).
His scientific research never ceased and he was publishing papers well into his nineties, making him one of the few scientists to have published at least one major paper in his field during every decade of his career, which in Bethe's case spanned nearly seventy years. Freeman Dyson, once his doctoral student, called him the "supreme problem-solver of the 20th century".
Roy Bjørnstad (September 29, 1925 – November 25, 2005) was a Norwegian actor.Bjørnstad made his debut in 1945 at the People's Theater in Sweden. Throughout his career, he was associated with several theaters in Norway, including the Trøndelag Theater from 1949 to 1951, the Rogaland Theater from 1953 to 1960, and then several periods with NRK's Television Theater in the 1960s and 1970s. From 1978 to 1996 he was engaged with the Norwegian Theater. He made a name for himself there in a number of Chekhov productions, such as Three Sisters (1981) and The Seagull (1987). He also made an impression in Cora Sandel's Kjøp ikke Dondi (Don't Buy Dondi) and Kido Okamoto's Heikegani (The Heike Crabs).
In 1946, Bjørnstad made his film debut in Englandsfarere. Other films that he appeared in include Jentespranget, Trost i taklampa, Den siste Fleksnes, and Olsenbanden gir seg aldri. Bjørnstad also had some television roles outside of his Television Theater productions, including in a few episodes of the comedy series Fleksnes Fataliteter as well as in the crime series Nini (2001) and Blind gudinne (1997).
Carl Lauritz Mortensen (2 March 1919 – 1 November 2005) was a Norwegian sailor and Olympic medalist. He was born and died in Oslo. He received a silver medal in the 6 metre class with the boat Elisabeth X at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, together with Johan Ferner, Erik Heiberg, Tor Arneberg and Finn Ferner.
Sverre Mitsem (3 July 1944 – 18 October 2005) was a Norwegian judge.
He was born in Oslo. He worked as a lawyer for the Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions from 1981, as a judge in Asker and Bærum District Court from 1986, presiding judge in Eidsivating Court of Appeal from 1991 and in Borgarting Court of Appeal from 1995, and as a Supreme Court Justice from 2002 to his death.
Veslemøy Haslund (8 April 1939 – 7 November 2005) was a Norwegian actress and stage producer. She was born in Oslo. She made her stage debut at Trøndelag Teater in 1959. She was later assigned to various theatres, including Det Norske Teatret, Fjernsynsteatret, Nationaltheatret and Teater Ibsen. She trained at RADA and made her film debut in 1967, in Det største spillet, and further contributed to various films, including Bare et liv from 1968 depicting important episodes in the life of Fridtjof Nansen, Marikens bryllup from 1972, Vårnatt from 1976, Formyndere from 1979, and Kristin Lavransdatter from 1995.
James A. Rawley (November 19, 1916 - November 29, 2005) was professor of history emeritus at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. He was a specialist in the American Civil War, American race-relations and the life of Abraham Lincoln. His The Transatlantic Slave Trade: A History (1981) was updated by Stephen D. Behrendt in 2005.
The James A. Rawley Prize (OAH) is given in his memory by the Organization of American Historians for the best book on race relations, and the James A. Rawley Prize (AHA) is given in his memory by the American Historical Association for the best book in Atlantic history.
Ruth Langdon Inglis (December 17, 1927 – December 15, 2005) was a journalist and author. She is known for her books about child-rearing.
Simon Waronker (March 4, 1915 – June 7, 2005) was an American violinist and record producer from Los Angeles, California, best known for co-founding Liberty Records.
Katharine Ferriday Pantzer was an American bibliographer, known for her revision of the bibliographical tool known as the STC (A Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland and Ireland, and of English Books Printed Abroad 1475–1640).
Pantzer was born in Indianapolis in 1930. She attended Tudor Hall School for Girls, Vassar College, and Harvard University, where she received her Ph.D. In 1964, while at Harvard, she took over the project to revise the 1926 STC, published in two volumes in 1976 and 1986, followed by the 1991 volume of indexes for which she won the Besterman Medal for an outstanding bibliography. In the words of an obituarist, 'her knowledge of the London book trade was, in many respects, verging on encyclopaedic.'In 1988, she was awarded the Gold Medal of the Bibliographical Society, and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1991. In 1993, she was elected a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. The Bibliographical Society of America made her an Honorary Member in 1998.Pantzer died in 2005.