805 deaths

emperor of the Tang Dynasty

Arab jurist and a disciple of Abu Hanifa (749/50–805)

Medieval abbot

thumb|A letter dated to 792 from Charlemagne to Elipandus concerning Adoptionism, from a manuscript of 821 commissioned by Bishop [[Baturich.]] Elipandus (717–805) was a Spanish theologian and the archbishop of Toledo from 782. He was condemned by the Catholic Church as an Adoptionist.

Æthelhard (died 12 May 805) was a Bishop of Winchester then an Archbishop of Canterbury in medieval England. Appointed by King Offa of Mercia, Æthelhard had difficulties with both the Kentish monarchs and with a rival archiepiscopate in southern England, and was deposed around 796 by King Eadberht III Præn of Kent. By 803, Æthelhard, along with the Mercian King Coenwulf, had secured the demotion of the rival archbishopric, once more making Canterbury the only archbishopric south of the Humber in Britain. Æthelhard died in 805, and was considered a saint until his cult was suppressed after the

thumb|Painting of Huiguo with an attendant. Japan, Kamakura period (14th century). Huiguo () (746–805) was a Buddhist monk of Tang China who studied and taught Chinese Esoteric Buddhism, a Vajrayana tradition recently imported from India. Later Huiguo would become the teacher of Kūkai, founder of Shingon Buddhism, a prominent school of Buddhism in Japan.

Tang Dynasty chancellor

Ḥadīth scholar and historian

Spanish saint

Chinese chancellor

Bohemian Prince

Tang Dynasty chancellor