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1805 deaths

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Friedrich Schiller

German playwright, poet, philosopher and historian (1759–1805)

British admiral (1758–1805)

Isabelle de Charrière

Dutch French-language writer and composer (1740-1805)

Luigi Boccherini

Italian composer and cellist (1743–1805)

Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis

British general, colonial official, diplomat (1738–1805)

William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne

British Prime Minister (1737-1805)

Jean-Baptiste Greuze

French painter (1725 – 1805)

French inventor

Christian apologist, natural theologian, utilitarian; (1743-1805)

Aloys I, Prince of Liechtenstein

Prince of Liechtenstein (1759-1805)

Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti

Austrian naturalist (1735-1805)

Maria Theresa of Savoy

Italian princess

Frederik, Hereditary Prince of Denmark

Hereditary Prince of Denmark and Norway

Frederika Louisa of Hesse-Darmstadt

Queen consort of Prussia

German botanist (1744–1805)

Abraham Hyacinthe Anquetil-Duperron

French orientalist (1731–1805)

Mihrişah Sultan

Valide Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1789 to 1805

Prince William Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh

British duke and field marshal (1743-1805)

Franz Xaver von Wulfen

Austrian scientist (1728-1805)

Swedish explorer and naturalist (1723-1805)

Mihály Csokonai Vitéz

Hungarian poet (1773–1805)

Marie-Geneviève-Charlotte Thiroux d'Arconville

French scientist

Scottish physicist and mathematician (1739–1805)

Ferdinand von Hompesch zu Bolheim

Last Grand Master of the Knights of Malta (1744-1805)

Thomas Wedgwood

British photographic experimentor

Italian botanist (1728-1805)

Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée

French painter (1725-1805)

Nicolas-Jacques Conté

French painter, and inventor of the modern pencil (1755-1805)

Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage

Portuguese writer

Chinese Qing dynasty scholar (1724-1805)

Italian polymath

Christopher Gadsden

American soldier and politician (1724-1805)

Stanisław Szczęsny Potocki

Polish general (1751-1805)

French porcelain artist in England

Apollo Mussin-Pushkin

Russian scientist (1760-1805)

queen; Queen Consort of Joseon (1745-1805)

Joseon Dynasty philosopher and writer (1737-1805)

Princess Louise of Saxe-Meiningen

Duchess of Saxe-Meiningen

Superior General of the Society of Jesus

François-Thomas-Marie de Baculard d'Arnaud

Czech violinist and composer

Frederick Augustus, Prince of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel-Oels

Duke of Oels and Bernstadt (1740-1805)

British botanist (1741-1805)

Norwegian merchant and ship-owner

Anna Maria Rückerschöld

Swedish author (1725-1805)

Patrick Russell

Scottish surgeon and naturalist in India (1726-1805)

Alexander Vorontsov

Chancellor of the Russian Empire from 1802 to 1805

Étienne Eustache Bruix

French admiral (1759-1805)

Chao Inthavong (; ; died 7 February 1805), or known as his regnal name Xaiya Setthathirath IV, was the 5th king of the Kingdom of Vientiane (r. 1795 to 1805).

Friedrich Eberhard von Rochow

German educationist

Lorens Pasch the Younger

Swedish artist (1733-1805)

Francesco Maggiotto

Italian painter (1738-1805)

Jean-Baptiste Gaspard d'Ansse de Villoison

18th century French classical scholar

Fedot Ivanovich Shubin

Russian sculptor (1740-1805)

18th-century English sculptor (1735–1805)

Gennaro Astarita

Italian composer

Giovanni Battista Tommasi

Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller (1731-1805)

Johann George Tromlitz

German flautist (1725-1805)

Prince Regent of Kottayam (1753-1805)