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1805 births

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Hans Christian Andersen

Danish writer and poet (1805–1875)

Alexis de Tocqueville

French political thinker and historian, minister of Foreign Affairs (1805-1859)

founder of the Latter Day Saint movement and prophet (1805–1844)

Giuseppe Mazzini

Italian nationalist activist, politician, journalist and philosopher

William Rowan Hamilton

Irish mathematician and astronomer (1805-1865)

Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet

German mathematician (1805–1859)

Ferdinand de Lesseps

French diplomat and entrepreneur, developer of the Suez Canal (1805–1894)

Louis Auguste Blanqui

French socialist and political activist (1805-1881)

Royal Navy officer and scientist (1805–1865)

Fanny Mendelssohn

German pianist and composer (1805–1847)

British chemist (1805–1869)

Adalbert Stifter

Austrian painter, pacifist and writer (1805-1868)

William Lloyd Garrison

American journalist and abolitionist (1805–1879)

German painter and lithographer (1805–1873)

Dalai Lama 09 Lungtok Gyatso

9th Dalai Lama (1805-1815)

Franco-German romantic author and historian (1805-1876)

British-Jamaican businesswoman and nurse

Princess Sophie of Bavaria

Bavarian princess (1805–1872)

William Harrison Ainsworth

English novelist (1805-1882)

Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin

French magician (1805-1871)

Henri Auguste Barbier

French dramatist and poet (1805-1882)

Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire

French zoologist (1805-1861)

Swiss politician and member of the Swiss Federal Council (1805-1861)

Sarah Fuller Flower Adams

English poet, hymnwriter (1805–1848)

Maria Anna of Bavaria

queen of Saxony (1805-1877)

Alexander Braun

German botanist and university teacher (1805–1877)

French herpetologist and zoologist (1805–1848)

Esteban Echeverría Mamani

Argentine poet, fiction writer, cultural promoter, and political activist

John Lloyd Stephens

American explorer, writer, and diplomat (1805–1852)

Kurdish poet (1805–1848)

British landscape painter, etcher and printmaker (1805-1881)

Georg Gottfried Gervinus

German historian and politician (national liberalism), (1805-1871)

Prosper Guéranger

French Benedictine abbot (1806–1875)

Alexander Burnes

British explorer and political officer in British India (1805-1841)

August Bournonville

Danish ballet master and choreographer (1805–1879)

German botanist (1805–1872)

Robert Anderson

Union Army general (1805–1871)

French composer (1805-1877)

German-English clergyman (1805–1898)

Johann von Lamont

Scottish-German astronomer (1805–1879)

John Obadiah Westwood

English entomologist and archaeologist (1805-1893)

José Ballivián

Bolivian general (1805-1852)

Angelina Grimké

American abolitionist and feminist

Malek Jahan Khanom

Regent of Persia, Qajar queen mother and princess (1805-1873)

Ferdinand Johann Wiedemann

Estonian linguist and botanist (1805-1887)

German scientist (1805–1864)

Wilhelm von Kaulbach

German painter (1805-1874)

Johann Karl Rodbertus

economist from Germany (1805-1875)

Czech surgeon, internist, pathologist and university educator (1805–1881)

Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann

Danish composer (1805–1900)

Tomás Villalba

Uruguayan politician (1805–1886)

Norwegian biologist and priest (1805-1869)

Jules Barthélemy-Saint-Hilaire

French philosopher, journalist, statesman, and possible illegitimate son of Napoleon I of France (1805-1895)

Princess Amalia of Sweden

Swedish princess (1805-1853)

Jean-Baptiste Nothomb

Belgian politician (1805-1881)

Samuel Wilberforce

Bishop in the Church of England

Maria De Mattias

Italian Catholic nun, foundress and saint (1805-1866)

Peter Johann Nepomuk Geiger

Austrian artist (1805–1880)

Frederick Denison Maurice

English theologian, religious author and Christian Socialist (1805-1872)

architect (1805–1874)