Events from the year 1905 in Scotland .
6 April – Johnny Ramensky , career criminal, employed as a commando for his safe-cracking abilities (died 1972 )
19 April – Jim Mollison , aviator (died 1959 )
12 May – Alex Jackson , international footballer (died 1946 )
12 July – John Maxwell , landscape painter (died 1962 )
19 July – Robert Hurd , influential conservation architect (died 1963)
20 August – Duncan Macrae , actor (died 1967 )
6 September – William McEwan Younger , brewer and Unionist politician (died 1992 in England)
4 October – Leslie Mitchell , announcer (died 1985 in London)
9 December – Janet Adam Smith , writer and mountaineer (died 1999 )
Norman Cameron , poet (born in Bombay; died 1953 in London)
Fred Hartley , light music composer and conductor (died 1980 )21 January – Robert Brough , painter, died in a railway disaster (born 1872 )
5 August – Alexander Asher , Liberal politician and Solicitor General for Scotland (born 1834 )
16 August – Jamie Anderson , golfer (born 1842 )
22 August – David Binning Monro , Homeric scholar (born 1836 )
18 September – George MacDonald , author, poet and Christian minister (born 1844 )
8 October – Allan MacDonald , Roman Catholic priest, poet, folklore collector and activist (born 1859 )
27 October – Ralph Copeland , Astronomer Royal for Scotland (born 1837 in England)
7 November – Lady Florence Caroline Dixie , traveller, war correspondent , writer and feminist (born 1855 )
12 December – William Sharp , poet and literary biographer (born 1855 )