Notable Birthdays - 1805
1805 Birthdays
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 4 |
Stephan Hale Alonzo Marsh, composer |
Jan 8 |
John Bigler, American politician (d. 1871) |
Jan 8 |
Orson Hyde, American religious leader (d. 1878) |
Jan 13 |
Thomas Dyer, Mayor of Chicago (d. 1862) |
Jan 27 |
Samuel Palmer, London, painter/etcher (Valley of Vision) |
Jan 27 |
Sophie of Bavaria, archduchess of Austria (d. 1872) |
Jan 27 |
Maria Anna of Bavaria, queen consort of Saxony (d. 1877) |
Feb 1 |
Auguste Blanqui, France, revolutionary (workers' leader) |
Feb 3 |
Otto T Freiherr von Manteuffel, premier Prussia |
Feb 4 |
Georg Andreas Henkel, composer |
Feb 4 |
William H Ainsworth, English writer (Old St Paul's, Rookwood) |
Feb 4 |
Harrison Ainsworth, Guy Fawkes |
Feb 13 |
David Dudley Field, lawyer/law codifier |
Feb 13 |
Peter G L Dirichlet, Germany, number theorist/analysist |
Feb 18 |
Louis Malesherbes Goldsborough, Rear Admiral (Union Navy) |
Feb 20 |
Angelina Grimke, reformer/abolitionist/politician/lawyer |
Feb 21 |
David Tod, US diplomat/(Gov-R-Ohio, 1861-63) |
Feb 22 |
Sarah F. Adams, Titanic |
Mar 3 |
Jonas Furrer, first President of the Swiss Confederation (d. 1861) |
Mar 5 |
Theodore Labarre, composer |
Mar 16 |
Peter Ernst von Lasaulx, German philosopher and writer (d. 1861) |
Mar 30 |
Adrien de La Fage, composer |
Apr 2 |
Hans Christian Andersen, Denmark, author of 150 fairy tales |
Apr 2 |
Hans Christian Andersen, Frozen |
Apr 7 |
Francis Wilkinson Pickens, (Gov-SC, Confederacy), died in 1869 |
Apr 28 |
Henri Auguste Barbier, Benvenuto Cellini |
Apr 30 |
William Kerley Strong, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1867 |
May 14 |
Johann Peter Emilius Hartmann, composer |
Jun 8 |
Luigi Ricci, composer |
Jun 14 |
Robert Anderson, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1871 |
Jun 15 |
William Butler Ogden, first Mayor of Chicago (d. 1877) |
Jun 21 |
Karl Friedrich Curschmann, composer |
Jun 21 |
Charles Thomas Jackson, American scientist, polymath (d. 1880) |
Jun 22 |
Giuseppe Mazzini, Italian revolutionary (Il Apostolato Popolare) |
Jun 27 |
Stephen Elvey, composer |
Jun 29 |
Hiram Powers, US sculptor (Greek Slave) |
Jul 5 |
Robert Fitz Roy, British naval officer and scientist (d. 1865) |
Jul 9 |
Henry John Gauntlett, composer |
Jul 26 |
Constantine Brumidi, artist (Myrtle Murdock) |
Jul 29 |
Alexis de Tocqueville, France, statesman/writer (Democracy in America) |
Aug 4 |
William Rowan Hamilton, Irish mathematician (d. 1865) |
Aug 8 |
Antoon Jurgens, Dutch margarine manufacturer |
Aug 9 |
Joseph Locke, English railway and civil engineer (d. 1860) |
Aug 11 |
Pieter J Elout van Soeterwoude, Dutch judge/member of parliament |
Aug 18 |
Josef Danhauser, Austrian painter (Mutterliebe) |
Aug 21 |
August Bournonville, I Am a Dancer |
Aug 23 |
Anton von Schmerling, Austrian statesman (d. 1893) |
Aug 29 |
Frederick Maurice, English theologian (d. 1872) |
Aug 30 |
Michael Sars, Norwegian zoologist |
Sep 2 |
Esteban Echeverría, Argentine writer (d. 1851) |
Sep 6 |
Horatio Greenough, US, neo-classical sculptor/writer (Form & Function) |
Sep 18 |
Robert Cowdin, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1874 |
Sep 23 |
Matthew Adams Stickney, Rowley Mass, numismatist |
Sep 25 |
Henry P Scholte, Dutch/US vicar/founder (Pella colony in Iowa) |
Sep 27 |
George Müller, Prussian orphanage builder (d. 1898) |
Sep 30 |
Samuel Peter Heintzelman, Major General (Union volunteers) |
Oct 23 |
Adalbert Stifter, Austrian author (Nachsommer) |
Oct 23 |
John Russell Bartlett, American linguist (d. 1886) |
Oct 23 |
Adalbert Stifter, Bergkristall |
Oct 28 |
John Thomson, composer |
Nov 1 |
Alessandro Nini, composer |
Nov 7 |
Thomas Brassey, English civil engineering contractor (d. 1870) |
Nov 14 |
Fanny Cacilia Mendelssohn Hensel, composer |
Nov 14 |
Fanny Mendelssohn, Dancing Soul |
Nov 19 |
Ferdinand de Lesseps, France, diplomat (built Suez Canal) |
Nov 22 |
Benjamin Hugur, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1877 |
Nov 28 |
John Stephens, US archaeologist; founded study of Central America |
Dec 6 |
Adolf Reubke, German organ builder (d. 1875) |
Dec 6 |
Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin, French magician (d. 1861) |
Dec 10 |
John E Feisser, theologist/founder 1st Dutch baptist church |
Dec 10 |
William Lloyd Garrison, abolitionist publisher (The Liberator) |
Dec 10 |
Josef Skoda, Bohemian physician (d. 1881) |
Dec 12 |
Henry Wells, founder (American Express Co & Wells Fargo & Co) |
Dec 12 |
Frederick H. Hedge, Shenandoah |
Dec 21 |
Thomas Graham, British chemist and father of colloid chemistry (d. 1869) |
Dec 22 |
John Obadiah Westwood, British entomologist (d. 1893) |
Dec 23 |
Joseph Smith Jr, Sharon Vermont, founder (Mormon Church), (d. 1844) |
Dec 26 |
Joseph-Leon Gatayes, composer |
Dec 28 |
Tomas Genoves y Lapetra, composer |
Dec 31 |
Marie-C-S de Flavigny Agoult, [Daniel Stern], French author (Knife) |
2 |
Esteban Echeverría, La cautiva |
27 |
George Müller, Heaven and Earth |
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