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, American inventor Oliver Evans designed, but never built, a refrigeration system based on the vapor-compression refrigeration cycle rather than chemical solutions or volatile liquids such as ethyl ether.

Originally named for Oliver Partridge, one of the three purchasers of the town ( along with Governor Francis Bernard ), the name was officially changed to Peru in 1805, possibly because of its high altitude.

Oliver, died in June 1805, shortly after their marriage and two months after the death of his beloved father.

The American inventor Oliver Evans, acclaimed as the " father of refrigeration ," invented the vapor-compression refrigeration machine in 1805.

" The idea had come from another American inventor, Oliver Evans, who conceived of the idea in 1805 but never built a refrigerator.

Evans designed a refrigeration machine which ran on vapor in 1805, so he is often called the inventor of the refrigerator, although he never built one.

The Board was concerned with the problem of dredging and cleaning the city's dockyards, and in 1805 Evans convinced them to contract with him for a steam-powered dredge.

From 1802 to 1805, he was tutored by a Dr Evans in Salisbury before being sent to Winchester College.

* George Henry Evans ( 1805 – 1855 ), American radical reformer

In 1802, Evans moved to Wheeling, Virginia ( now West Virginia ) and once again became a member of the House of Delegates, serving in 1805 and 1806.

In Judaism, the Tikkun HaKlali, also known as " The General Remedy ," is a set of ten Psalms designed in 1805 by Rebbe Nachman whose recital is intended to serve as repentance for nocturnal emissions.

Country homes for the landed gentry included: new rooms and remodelling of Wimpole Hall and garden buildings, ( 1790 – 94 ) for his friend Philip Yorke that he met on his Grand Tour ; remodelling of Baronscourt, County Tyrone, Ireland ( 1791 ); Tyringham Hall ( 1792 – 1820 ); the remodelling of Aynhoe Park ( 1798 ); In 1804 Soane remodelled Ramsey Abbey none of his work there now survives ; the remodelling of the south front of Port Eliot and new interiors ( 1804 – 06 ); the Gothic Library at Stowe House ( 1805 – 06 ); Moggerhanger House ( 1791 – 1809 ); for Marden Hill, Hertfordshire, Soane designed a new porch and entrance hall ( 1818 ); remodelling of Wotton House after damage by fire ( 1820 ); a terrace of six houses above shops in Regent Street London, ( 1820 – 21 ) demolished ; Pell Wall Hall ( 1822 ).

A larger building was specially designed for the Royal Military Academy by James Wyatt, built between 1796 and 1805 and opened for use the following year.

He had already founded a military journal that, under various names, endured till 1805, and in 1788 he designed, and in part published, a Handbuch für Offiziere in den anwendbaren Teilen der Kriegswissenschaften (" Handbook for Officers in the Applied Sections of Military Science ").

* 1805 – The Ellesmere Canal, designed by Thomas Telford, is completed.

* Downing College, Cambridge, designed ( 1805 ), west range built ( 1807 – 13 ), east range built ( 1818 – 22 ) the remainder of the design remained unexecuted

In 1805, a 2nd Battalion was raised at Canterbury, Kent, and later in the year the 1st / 95th deployed to Germany as part of a British expedition, under the command of Lord Cathcart, designed to liberate Hanover from occupation by France.

He designed illustrations for the Bible, ‘ The Picturesque Beauties of Shakespeare ’ ( 1783 ), Johnson's ‘ Rasselas ’ ( 1805 ), ‘ Gil Blas ’ ( 1809 ), the ‘ Arabian Nights ’ ( 1811 ), ‘ Adventures of Hunchback ’ ( 1814 ), ‘ Don Quixote ,’ ( translated by his daughter, Mary Smirke, 1818 ), and the British poets, especially Thomson.

The massive stone structure was built by up to 20, 000 workers between 1805 and 1820 as part of a system of fortifications designed to keep the newly-independent nation of Haiti safe from French incursions.