Born in Stockholm, Alfred Nobel was the fourth son of Immanuel Nobel ( 1801 – 1872 ), an inventor and engineer, and Andriette Ahlsell Nobel ( 1805 – 1889 ).

* 1805 – Joseph Locke, English railway and civil engineer ( d. 1860 )

* 1872 – Frederick Maurice, English theologian ( b. 1805 )

* 1805 – Christopher Anstey, English writer ( b. 1724 )

* 1877 – William B. Ogden, American politician, 1st Mayor of Chicago ( b. 1805 )

* 1805 – First Barbary War: United States Marines captured Derne under the command of First Lieutenant Presley O ' Bannon.

* 1725 – Jean-Baptiste Greuze, French painter ( d. 1805 )

* 1805 – Anton von Schmerling, Austrian statesman ( d. 1893 )

* 1805 – Hans Christian Andersen, Danish writer ( d. 1875 )

* 1805 – Frederick Denison Maurice, English theologian ( d. 1872 )

The Lewis and Clark Expedition spent the winter of 1805 – 1806 at Fort Clatsop, a small log structure south and west of modern day Astoria.

* 1756 – Dheeran Chinnamalai, Indian Freedom Fighter, Tamil Revolutionist ( d. 1805 )

* 1805 – Ferenc Toldy, German-Hungarian critic ( d. 1875 )

* 1805 – First Barbary War: United States Marines and Berbers attack the Tripolitan city of Derna ( The " shores of Tripoli " part of the Marines ' hymn ).

* 1755 – Nicolas-Jacques Conté, French painter and inventor ( d. 1805 )

* 1805 – William Rowan Hamilton, Irish mathematician ( d. 1865 )

* 1805 – Lewis and Clark Expedition: The Corps of Discovery breaks camp among the Mandan tribe and resumes its journey West along the Missouri River.

* 1871 – Alexander Loyd, American politician, Mayor of Chicago ( b. 1805 )

* Also the Bavarian Major General and War Minister Moritz Ritter von Spies ( 1805 – 1862 ) was born in Ansbach.

* Prosper Guéranger ( 1805 – 1875 )

* Napoleon I ( 1804 – 1814, 1815 ), also King of Italy ( 1805 – 1814 ) and Emperor in Elba ( 1814 – 1815 )

#* Jérôme Napoleon Bonaparte ( 1805 – 1870 ), married Susan May Williams

In 1805, English instructor and natural philosopher John Dalton used the concept of atoms to explain why elements always react in ratios of small whole numbers ( the law of multiple proportions ) and why certain gases dissolved better in water than others.

The Christadelphian religious group traces its origins to Dr John Thomas ( 1805 – 1871 ), who migrated to North America from England in 1832.

* Stephen Hill, The Life of Brother John Thomas – 1805 to 1871 ( 2006 ).

* John Darwin, rector of Elston ( 28 September 1730 – 24 May 1805 )

He was appointed by President John Adams as Director of the United States Mint, serving from 1795 until 1805.

In 1805, he married Lady Catherine Elizabeth, daughter of John Hamilton, 1st Marquess of Abercorn.

John Bruce's original family name was Knight, but on coming of age in 1805 he assumed the name of Bruce: his mother, through whom he inherited the Duffryn estate, was the daughter of William Bruce, high sheriff of Glamorganshire.

* John Barton Hack ( 1805 – 1884 ), settler in South Australia

* Larner, Jr., John W. " Nails and Sundrie Medicines: Town Planning and Public Health in the Harmony Society, 1805 – 1840.

* 1805 – John Bigler, American lawyer, politician and diplomat ; 3rd Governor of California ; and former United States Envoy to Chile ( d. 1871 )

John Stevens Cabot Abbott ( September 19, 1805 – June 17, 1877 ), an American historian, pastor, and pedagogical writer, was born in Brunswick, Maine to Jacob and Betsey Abbott.

* John Brown ( Kentucky ) ( 1757 – 1837 ), U. S. representative ( VA, 1789 – 1792 ) and U. S. senator ( KY, 1793 – 1805 ); member of Continental Congress from Virginia

* John Crawford Brown ( 1805 – 1867 ), Scottish landscape painter

* John Walker ( grocer ) ( 1805 – 1857 ), Scottish founder of John Walker & Sons and namesake of the Johnnie Walker whisky brand

In 1805, the chemist John Dalton published his first table of relative atomic weights, listing six elements, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, carbon, sulfur, and phosphorus, and assigning hydrogen an atomic weight of 1.

* 1805 – John Stephens, American archeologist ( d. 1852 )

* 1805 – John Russell Bartlett, American linguist ( d. 1886 )

Some Native Americans captured Europeans and used them as both labourers and bargaining chips ; see for example John R. Jewitt, an Englishman who wrote a memoir about his years as a captive of the Nootka people on the Pacific Northwest Coast from 1802 – 1805.

This folly was then embellished upon by John Robison ( 1739 – 1805 ), a professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, in an anti-Masonic work published in 1797.

In October 1805 John Adams wrote to his friend Benjamin Waterhouse, an American physician and scientist:

Aided by Matheson's nephew, Alexander Matheson ( 1805 – 1881 ) and MP John Abel Smith, Jardine met several times with Palmerston to argue the necessity for a war plan.

They had three other siblings: Richard, the eldest, who became a lawyer ; John, born after Dorothy, who went to sea and died in 1805 when the ship of which he was Master, the Earl of Abergavenny, was wrecked off the south coast of England ; and Christopher, the youngest, who entered the Church and rose to be Master of Trinity College, Cambridge.

The death of his brother, John, in 1805 affected him strongly.