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

* 1721 – Peter Pelham, English-born American musician and composer ( d. 1805 )

* 1805 – Peter Gustav Dirichlet, German mathematician ( d. 1859 )

Huns in battle with the Alans, 1870s engraving after a drawing by Peter Johann Nepomuk Geiger | Johann Nepomuk Geiger ( 1805 – 1880 ).

Roget's Thesaurus is a widely used English language thesaurus, created by Dr. Peter Mark Roget ( 1779 – 1869 ) in 1805 and released to the public on 29 April 1852.

The first example of the modern genre, Roget's Thesaurus, was compiled in 1805 by Peter Mark Roget, and published in 1852.

* March 10 – Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann, Danish composer ( b. 1805 ).

Augustus and Peter Porter purchased this area and all of American Falls in 1805 from the New York state government, and enlarged the original canal to provide hydraulic power for their gristmill and tannery.

** Peter Pelham ( composer ) ( 1721 – 1805 )

The first settler, Pierre Dumas or Peter DeMass, arrived in 1805.

* Full text of the first American edition ( in English ) by Peter Will ( 1805 ) of: " Über den Umgang mit Menschen " entitled: " Practical philosophy of social life or, The art of conversing with men ", downloadable ( open access ) from Google books.

Another daughter of Gilbert Livingston named Margaret Livingston married Peter Stuyvesant ( 1727 – 1805 ) also a great-grandson of Peter Stuyvesant.

Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (; 13 February 1805 – 5 May 1859 ) was a German mathematician with deep contributions to number theory ( including creating the field of analytic number theory ), and to the theory of Fourier series and other topics in mathematical analysis ; he is credited with being one of the first mathematicians to give the modern formal definition of a function.

State Senator Edward Sanford ( 1805 – 1876 ) was his son ; State Senator Peter Gansevoort ( 1788 – 1876 ) was his son-in-law.

Afterwards, Sinđelić fought in the Battle of Ivankovac ( 1805 ) with Milenko Stojković and Peter Dobrnjac, where the combined forces of the three military commanders defeated Ottoman General Hafis Pasha.

Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann ( 1805 – 1900 ) who, apart from opera and ballet music, contributed to song and the piano repertory.

In mathematics, the Dirichlet ( or first-type ) boundary condition is a type of boundary condition, named after Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet ( 1805 – 1859 ).

* May 5-Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet ( born 1805 ), German mathematician.

Judges of the Superior Court were John Bartow Prevost ( 1804 – 1808 ), Ephraim Kirby ( 1804 ) ( died en route to New Orleans ), Peter Stephen Duponceau ( 1804 ) ( declined President Thomas Jefferson's appointment ), William Sprigg ( 1805 – 1807 ), George Mathews, Jr. ( 1805 – 1813 ), Joshua Lewis ( 1807 – 1813 ) and Francois Xavier Martin ( 1810 – 1813 ).

In 1838 the Presbyterian Board of Missions, sent the Reverend Peter Dougherty ( 1805 – 1894 ) to establish the mission, now known as Old Mission, for which the peninsula would eventually become known.

Lieutenant-General Peter Hunter ( 11 July 1746, – 21 August 1805 ) was a British Army officer and colonial administrator.

By 1805 he was making looms at a factory in Kirkby Stephen, then moved first to Carlisle, then to Glasgow where he learned draughtsmanship from Peter Nicholson.

* December 9 – Peter Pelham, organist, harpsichordist and composer ( d. 1805 )