1905 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1905 to Wales and its people.

[edit] Incumbents

10 March - 33 men are killed in a mining accident at Cambrian Colliery, Clydach Vale, Rhondda.
Sir John Williams, 1st Baronet Williams of London, purchases the Peniarth manuscripts at the instigation of John Gwenogvryn Evans.
Godfrey Morgan is created Viscount Tredegar.
Thomas Price becomes Prime Minister of South Australia.
David Lloyd George joins the new Liberal Cabinet of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman as President of the Board of Trade.
The earldom of Plymouth is revived in favour of Robert George Windsor-Clive, 14th Baron Windsor, who also becomes Viscount Windsor of St. Fagan's.
Opening of the Prichard Jones Institute at Newborough, Anglesey.

National Eisteddfod of Wales - held in Mountain Ash
- Chair - withheld
- Crown - Thomas Mathonwy Davies

6 January - Idris Davies, poet (died 1953)
10 February - Rachel Thomas, actress (died 1995)
28 February - Glyn Jones, writer (died 1995)
1 March - Doris Hare, actress (died 2000)
18 May - Thomas Jones Pierce, historian (d. 1964)
28 June - Albert Clifford Williams, politician (died 1987)
2 August - Myrna Loy, actress of Welsh descent (died 1993)
13 August - Gareth Jones, journalist and advisor to Davis Lloyd George (died 1935)
28 August - Cyril Walters, cricketer (died 1992)
26 November - Emlyn Williams, dramatist and actor (died 1987)
10 December - John Edward Jones, Plaid Cymru leader (died 1970)
18 December - Stanley Cornwell Lewis, artist