Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1805?

118 of the people we track were surely alive in 1805. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1805: Hans Christian Andersen, Alexis de Tocqueville, Joseph Smith and Giuseppe Mazzini.

Died in 1805: Friedrich Schiller, Horatio Nelson and Isabelle de Charrière.

  1. Napoleon36
  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe56
  3. Ludwig van Beethoven33–37
  4. Victor Hugo3
  5. Alexander Pushkin6
  6. Hans Christian Andersenborn
  7. Thomas Jefferson62
  8. Lord Byron17
  9. Jane Austen30
  10. Carl Friedrich Gauss28
  11. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel35
  12. John Adams70
  13. Francisco Goya59
  14. Friedrich Schiller45 †
  15. Michael Faraday14
  16. Katsushika Hokusai45
  17. James Madison54
  18. Honoré de Balzac6
  19. Simón Bolívar22
  20. Arthur Schopenhauer17
  21. Alexandre Dumas3
  22. Franz Schubert8
  23. Heinrich Heine8
  24. John Quincy Adams38
  25. Andrew Jackson38
  26. William Blake48
  27. James Watt69
  28. Joseph Haydn73
  29. James Monroe47
  30. Ralph Waldo Emerson2
  31. Martin Van Buren23
  32. Zachary Taylor21
  33. James Buchanan14
  34. John Keats10
  35. James K. Polk10
  36. John Tyler15
  37. Percy Bysshe Shelley13
  38. Alexander von Humboldt36
  39. William Wordsworth35
  40. Millard Fillmore5
  41. William Henry Harrison32
  42. Walter Scott34
  43. Franklin Pierce1
  44. Benjamin Disraeli1
  45. Stendhal22
  46. George Sand1
  47. Thomas Paine68
  48. Hector Berlioz2
  49. Joseph Fourier37
  50. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres25
  51. Mary Shelley8
  52. Auguste Comte7
  53. Adam Mickiewicz7
  54. Pierre-Simon Laplace56
  55. Samuel Taylor Coleridge33
  56. Eugène Delacroix7
  57. André-Marie Ampère30
  58. Thomas Carlyle10
  59. Alessandro Volta60
  60. Nathaniel Hawthorne1
  61. Alexis de Tocquevilleborn
  62. William Herschel67
  63. Edward Jenner56
  64. Johann Gottlieb Fichte43
  65. Charles Babbage14
  66. John Dalton39
  67. Giacomo Leopardi7
  68. Alexander I of Russia28
  69. Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck61
  70. Ludwig Feuerbach1
  71. Washington Irving22
  72. Alphonse de Lamartine15
  73. Pius IX13
  74. George III of Great Britain67
  75. Carl von Clausewitz25
  76. Alessandro Manzoni20
  77. Gioachino Rossini13
  78. Joseph Smithborn
  79. Marquis de Sade65
  80. Jeremy Bentham57
  81. Thomas Robert Malthus39
  82. Nicholas I of Russia9
  83. Horatio Nelson47 †
  84. Joseph-Louis Lagrange69
  85. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington36
  86. Niccolò Paganini23
  87. Georg Simon Ohm16
  88. Humphry Davy27
  89. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb69
  90. Shaka Zulu16–20
  91. Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky13
  92. Hans Christian Ørsted28
  93. Giuseppe Mazziniborn
  94. Gregory XVI40
  95. Wilhelm von Humboldt38
  96. David Ricardo33
  97. Samuel Finley Breese Morse14
  98. Niels Henrik Abel3
  99. Isabelle de Charrière65 †
  100. Pius VII63
  101. William IV40
  102. Friedrich Hölderlin35
  103. Amedeo Avogadro29
  104. Prosper Mérimée2
  105. Klemens von Metternich32
  106. Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord51
  107. Jacques-Louis David57
  108. George IV of the United Kingdom43
  109. François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand37
  110. James Fenimore Cooper16
  111. Leo XII45
  112. Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling30
  113. E. T. A. Hoffmann29
  114. Wilhelm I8
  115. Thomas Young32
  116. Caspar David Friedrich31
  117. Henry Cavendish74
  118. Germaine de Staël39