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Months in Year 1805: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Birthdays 1 - 72 of 72

Jan 4th - Stephan Hale Alonzo Marsh, composer
Jan 8th - John Bigler, American politician (d. 1871)
Jan 8th - Orson Hyde, American religious leader (d. 1878)
Jan 13th - Thomas Dyer, Mayor of Chicago (d. 1862)
Jan 27th - Samuel Palmer, London, painter/etcher (Valley of Vision)
Jan 27th - Sophie of Bavaria, archduchess of Austria (d. 1872)
Jan 27th - Maria Anna of Bavaria, queen consort of Saxony (d. 1877)
Feb 1st - Auguste Blanqui, France, revolutionary (workers' leader)
Feb 3rd - Otto T Freiherr von Manteuffel, premier Prussia
Feb 4th - Georg Andreas Henkel, composer
Feb 4th - William H Ainsworth, English writer (Old St Paul's, Rookwood)
Feb 13th - David Dudley Field, lawyer/law codifier
Feb 13th - Peter G L Dirichlet, Germany, number theorist/analysist
Feb 18th - Louis Malesherbes Goldsborough, Rear Admiral (Union Navy)
Feb 20th - Angelina Grimke, reformer/abolitionist/politician/lawyer
Feb 21st - David Tod, US diplomat/(Gov-R-Ohio, 1861-63)
Mar 3rd - Jonas Furrer, first President of the Swiss Confederation (d. 1861)
Mar 5th - Theodore Labarre, composer
Mar 16th - Peter Ernst von Lasaulx, German philosopher and writer (d. 1861)
Mar 30th - Adrien de La Fage, composer
Author Hans Christian Andersen (Apr 2nd) Apr 2nd - Hans Christian Andersen, Denmark, author of 150 fairy tales
Apr 7th - Francis Wilkinson Pickens, (Gov-SC, Confederacy), died in 1869
Apr 30th - William Kerley Strong, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1867
May 14th - Johann Peter Emilius Hartmann, composer
Jun 8th - Luigi Ricci, composer
Jun 14th - Robert Anderson, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1871
Jun 15th - William Butler Ogden, first Mayor of Chicago (d. 1877)
Jun 21st - Karl Friedrich Curschmann, composer
Jun 21st - Charles Thomas Jackson, American scientist, polymath (d. 1880)
Jun 22nd - Giuseppe Mazzini, Italian revolutionary (Il Apostolato Popolare)
Jun 27th - Stephen Elvey, composer
Jun 29th - Hiram Powers, US sculptor (Greek Slave)
Jul 5th - Robert Fitz Roy, British naval officer and scientist (d. 1865)
Jul 9th - Henry John Gauntlett, composer
Jul 26th - Constantine Brumidi, artist (Myrtle Murdock)
Jul 29th - Alexis de Tocqueville, France, statesman/writer (Democracy in America)
Aug 4th - William Rowan Hamilton, Irish mathematician (d. 1865)
Aug 8th - Antoon Jurgens, Dutch margarine manufacturer
Aug 9th - Joseph Locke, English railway and civil engineer (d. 1860)
Aug 11th - Pieter J Elout van Soeterwoude, Dutch judge/member of parliament
Aug 18th - Josef Danhauser, Austrian painter (Mutterliebe)
Aug 23rd - Anton von Schmerling, Austrian statesman (d. 1893)
Aug 29th - Frederick Maurice, English theologian (d. 1872)
Aug 30th - Michael Sars, Norwegian zoologist
Sep 2nd - Esteban Echeverría, Argentine writer (d. 1851)
Sep 6th - Horatio Greenough, US, neo-classical sculptor/writer (Form & Function)
Sep 18th - Robert Cowdin, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1874
Sep 23rd - Matthew Adams Stickney, Rowley Mass, numismatist
Sep 25th - Henry P Scholte, Dutch/US vicar/founder (Pella colony in Iowa)
Sep 27th - George Müller, Prussian orphanage builder (d. 1898)
Sep 30th - Samuel Peter Heintzelman, Major General (Union volunteers)
Oct 23rd - Adalbert Stifter, Austrian author (Nachsommer)
Oct 23rd - John Russell Bartlett, American linguist (d. 1886)
Oct 28th - John Thomson, composer
Nov 1st - Alessandro Nini, composer
Nov 7th - Thomas Brassey, English civil engineering contractor (d. 1870)
Nov 14th - Fanny Cacilia Mendelssohn Hensel, composer
Nov 19th - Ferdinand de Lesseps, France, diplomat (built Suez Canal)
Nov 22nd - Benjamin Hugur, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1877
Nov 28th - John Stephens, US archaeologist; founded study of Central America
Dec 6th - Adolf Reubke, German organ builder (d. 1875)
Dec 6th - Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin, French magician (d. 1861)
Dec 10th - John E Feisser, theologist/founder 1st Dutch baptist church
Dec 10th - William Lloyd Garrison, abolitionist publisher (The Liberator)
Dec 10th - Josef Skoda, Bohemian physician (d. 1881)
Dec 12th - Henry Wells, founder (American Express Co & Wells Fargo & Co)
Dec 21st - Thomas Graham, British chemist and father of colloid chemistry (d. 1869)
Dec 22nd - John Obadiah Westwood, British entomologist (d. 1893)
Religious Leader Joseph Smith Jr (Dec 23rd) Dec 23rd - Joseph Smith Jr, Sharon Vermont, founder (Mormon Church), (d. 1844)
Dec 26th - Joseph-Leon Gatayes, composer
Dec 28th - Tomas Genoves y Lapetra, composer
Dec 31st - Marie-C-S de Flavigny Agoult, [Daniel Stern], French author (Knife)

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