Necrology 1805
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This is a list of famous people who died in 1805 . The entries are made alphabetically within the individual data. Animals can be found in the necrology for animals .
January
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 1st | Adolf von Hüpsch | Art collector | 74 | |
| January 1st | Henri Masers de Latude | French Bastille refugee | 79 | |
| January 1st | Heinrich Theodor Wehle | German-Sorbian landscape painter, draftsman and etcher | 26th | |
| January 2nd | Alexander Wedderburn, 1st Earl of Rosslyn | British lawyer, politician and Lord Chancellor | 71 | |
| January 3rd | Matthäus von Rosthorn the Elder | Anglo-Austrian industrialist | ||
| January 4th | Wolfgang Heinrich Ernst von Klüx | Prussian lieutenant general and finally assessor in the 7th Department (disability pension) of the Upper War College | 76 | |
| January 5th | Thank God Wilhelm Burmann | German poet and journalist | 67 | |
| 6th January | Johann Thomas Lamminger | German soldier in the American War of Independence and court printer in Hanover | 47 | |
| 6th January | Conrad Moench | German pharmacist, chemist and botanist | 60 | |
| January 8th | Salvatore Spinelli | Italian Roman Catholic clergyman, Bishop of Lecce and Archbishop of Salerno | 55 | |
| January 9th | Classy Wimberly Jones | American politician | ||
| January 9th | Wilhelm Dietrich von Wakenitz | Prussian cavalry master, Hessian general and finance minister | 76 | |
| January 9th | Edward Winnington, 2nd Baronet | British politician | 55 | |
| 11th January | Johann Dietrich von Gemmingen | ducal-Württemberg colonel and chamberlain | 60 | |
| 11th January | James Gillespie | American politician | ||
| 13th January | Franz Anton Ernst | bohemian composer | 59 | |
| 13th January | Woodbury Langdon | American politician | ||
| 13th January | Friedrich Ernst von Wrangel | Prussian major general and finally in command of Kolberg | 84 | |
| 15. January | Johann Christoph Muhrbeck | Swedish-Pomeranian philosopher | 72 | |
| January 16 | Jacques de Chapeaurouge | Hamburg merchant | 60 | |
| January 17th | Abraham Hyacinthe Anquetil-Duperron | French orientalist | 73 | |
| January 17th | Paschen from Cossel | German lawyer; Canon of the Hamburg cathedral chapter, lord of the Holstein estates of Jersbek and Stegen | 90 | |
| January 17th | Thank God Christian Storr | German Protestant theologian | 58 | |
| January 19th | Johann Gottlieb Karl walks | Singer, court master and teacher at the Philanthropin in Dessau, professor, councilor, teacher at a business school in Berlin, author, song composer and publicist | 43 | |
| January 19th | Romuald Weltin | Abbot of the Imperial Abbey of Ochsenhausen | 81 | |
| January 23 | Claude Chappe | French technician and clergyman | 41 | |
| January 23 | Václav Pichl | Czech violinist and composer | 63 | |
| January 24th | Giacomo Conti | Italian violinist and composer | 50 | |
| January 25th | Mary Digges Lee | American woman during the American Revolutionary War | ||
| January 28th | Mihály Csokonai Vitéz | Hungarian poet | 31 | |
| January 30th | John Robison | Scottish mathematician and physicist | 65 |
February
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 1st | Frédéric Wiffel | German sculptor, active in Paris | 67 | |
| 3 February | Gisbert Bonnet | Dutch Reformed theologian | 81 | |
| 3 February | Joachim Christian Timm | German pharmacist and mayor of Malchin | 70 | |
| February 4th | Wilhelm Ludwig Gottlob von Eberstein | German philosopher | 42 | |
| February 4th | John Sloss Hobart | American lawyer and politician | 66 | |
| February 4th | Johann George Tromlitz | German flautist, flute maker and composer | 79 | |
| February 5th | Johann Caspar Zehender | Swiss draftsman, painter and etcher | 62 | |
| February 6th | Adrian Friedrich Gans Noble Herr zu Putlitz | Prussian major general, commander of the infantry regiment "von Krockow" | 69 | |
| February 7th | Inthavong | King of the Lao Kingdom of Vientiane | ||
| 14th of February | Carl Gottlob Küttner | Saxon teacher and travel writer | 49 | |
| February 16 | Johann Hermann Schacht | German reformed theologian | 79 | |
| February 17th | Christian Andreas from Biel | German lawyer and Mecklenburg landlord | 64 | |
| February 17th | Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti | Austrian doctor, naturalist, herpetologist and zoologist | 69 | |
| 19th of February | Anna Barbara von Stetten | German benefactress and founder | 50 | |
| 20. February | Justus Claproth | German lawyer and inventor of recycled paper | 76 | |
| 20. February | Anton Ludwig von Wagner | German lawyer and chamber president in Königsberg and Gumbinnen | ||
| 21st of February | Johann Nepomuck Fischer | German mathematician and astronomer | 55 | |
| 21st of February | Jean-Jacques Garnier | French historian and poet | 75 | |
| February 22 | Elias Schlegel | German instrument maker and piano maker | 54 | |
| February 24th | Jean-Baptiste du Plessis d'Argentré | French bishop | 84 | |
| February 25 | Joseph Anselm Adelmann from Adelmannsfelden | German politician | 76 | |
| February 25 | Friederike Luise of Hessen-Darmstadt | by marriage Queen of Prussia | 53 | |
| 27th of February | Stefan Paluselli | Austrian monk and church musician | 57 | |
| February 28 | Hartwig Wessely | German poet, enlightener and businessman |
March
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2nd March | Hermann Georg Bünekau | German legal historian and mayor of Lübeck | 75 | |
| 3 March | Julie Clodius | German writer | 54 | |
| 4th of March | Johann Jakob Friedrich Sinnhold | Classical philologist, philosopher, university professor and Freemason in Erfurt | ||
| 6th March | Peleg Coffin | American politician | 48 | |
| 9th March | Felice Fontana | Italian scientist | 74 | |
| March 10th | Friedrich Wilhelm Dresden | German linguist and Lutheran theologian | 65 | |
| March, 15 | Stanisław Szczęsny Potocki | Polish magnate and politician | ||
| March 16 | Franz Xaver von Wulfen | Botanist and mineralogist | 76 | |
| March 18th | Étienne Eustache Bruix | French seaman and naval officer | ||
| March 18th | Johann Jacob Ebert | German mathematician, poet, astronomer, journalist and author | 67 | |
| March, 20th | Mathias Gabler | German scientist, university professor, Roman Catholic priest, Jesuit and school reformer | 69 | |
| March, 20th | Friedrich August von Toren | Holstein District Administrator | 57 | |
| March 21st | Jean-Baptiste Greuze | French painter | 79 | |
| March 24th | Alois I. | ruling Prince of Liechtenstein (1781–1805) | 45 | |
| 25th March | Clotworthy Rowley | Irish politician and barrister |
April
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 1st | Carl Ludwig Christian von Wartensleben | Dutch-German lieutenant general | 71 | |
| 7th of April | Gabriel Gruber | Superior General of the Societas Jesu (Jesuits) | 64 | |
| April 8th | Christian Gottlieb Ludwig von Rabiel | Prussian major general, commandant of the Glatz Fortress | 75 | |
| April 13th | Pietro Arduino | Italian botanist | 76 | |
| April 14th | Gerhard Otto Christoph Janus | German pastor | 64 | |
| April 16 | Georg Ernst Tatter | British-Hanoverian diplomat | ||
| 17th April | Macarius of Corinth | orthodox bishop of Corinth | ||
| 17th April | Heinrich Pape | German Protestant theologian and clergyman | 60 | |
| April 21 | Bernt anchor | Norwegian timber merchant, shipowner and mine owner | 58 | |
| April 21 | Christian Georg von Helmolt | Saxon-Gotha Colonel of the Guard Corps (bodyguard on horseback), Privy Councilor, castle captain and manor owner | ||
| April 21 | Anton Ferdinand von Rothkirch and Panthen | German Auxiliary Bishop and Vicar Apostolic of Breslau | 65 | |
| April 23 | Philip Julius Bernhard von Platen | Swedish politician and military, Governor General in Swedish Pomerania | 73 | |
| April 24th | Joseph Fuos | German writer | 65 | |
| April 24th | Hans Maximilian von Koeppern | Prussian major general and lastly in command of Danzig | 69 | |
| April 25 | Anna Petrovna Lopukhina | Mistress of Tsar Paul I of Russia | 27 | |
| April 28 | Jean-Baptiste Gaspard d'Ansse de Villoison | French Graecist and Neo-Greekist | 55 | |
| April 27 | Karl Philipp von Pollitz | Prussian lieutenant general | 72 | |
| April 29 | Lorenz Pasch the Younger | Swedish painter | 71 |
May
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 3rd | Heinrich Zimmermann | German sailor, participant in James Cook's last voyage | 63 | |
| 5th of May | Nicolaas Nelleman | Dutch Old Catholic Bishop of Deventer | ||
| May 7th | Anton Jantl | Austrian painter | ||
| May 7th | Edward Malbone | American painter | 27 | |
| May 7th | William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne | British statesman and British Prime Minister | 68 | |
| 8th of May | Maria Isabella d'Harskamp | Countess d'Harskamp and philanthropist | 80 | |
| May 9 | Friedrich Schiller | German poet, playwright and historian | 45 | |
| 10th of May | Johann Evangelist Haydn | Austrian tenor singer | 61 | |
| 10th of May | Otto Ludwig von Wobeser | Royal Prussian major general, commandant of Magdeburg, governor of Saatzig | 60 | |
| 12th of May | Ferdinand von Hompesch zu Bolheim | 71st and so far the only German Grand Master of the Order of Malta | 60 | |
| May 15 | Maximilian Thaddäus von Egger | Austrian iron industrialist | 71 | |
| May 16 | Friedrich Eberhard von Rochow | Prussian landowner and school reformer | 70 | |
| May 22 | Wilhelm Mundy | Austrian entrepreneur | ||
| May 22 | Benjamin Outram | English civil engineer, surveyor, businessman and industrialist | 41 | |
| 23. May | Mikołaj Skorodyński | Ukrainian Greek Catholic Bishop of Lviv | ||
| May 24th | Fedot Ivanovich Schubin | Russian sculptor | 64 | |
| 25. May | William Paley | English theologian and philosopher | 61 | |
| May 26 | Johann Philipp Conrad Falcke | German lawyer | 81 | |
| May 26 | Matthew Mederer | Austrian surgeon | 65 | |
| May 27th | Johann Friedrich Wenthin | German organ builder | 58 | |
| 28th of May | Luigi Boccherini | Italian composer and cellist | 62 | |
| May 29th | Antoinette Bamberger | German writer | ||
| May 29th | Ernst Theodor Johann Brückner | German theologian and man of letters | 58 |
June
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1st | Johann Anton Merck | pharmacist | 48 | |
| 2th of June | Maria Theresa of Savoy | Countess of Artois; Wife of the future French king Charles X. | 49 | |
| 3rd of June | Luise of Saxe-Meiningen | Princess of Saxony-Meiningen, by marriage Landgravine of Hessen-Philippsthal-Barchfeld | 52 | |
| June 4th | Maria Anna Sagar | Austrian writer | 77 | |
| June 7th | Ferdinand Anton von Krosigk | German District Administrator and Privy War Council | 62 | |
| June 13th | Giovanni Battista Tommasi | Grand Master of the Order of Malta | 73 | |
| June 19th | Louis Jean François Lagrenée | French Rococo painter | 80 | |
| June 21st | Johann Christoph Kimpfel | German painter | 54 | |
| June 21st | Christoph Wilhelm Lüdeke | German Lutheran theologian | 68 | |
| June 22 | Karl Klocker | German Benedictine and canonist | 57 | |
| 25th June | Anton Pfliegler | Austrian organ builder | 69 | |
| June 27th | Johann Friedrich Schultz | German theological educator, mathematician and philosopher | 66 | |
| June 30th | Erasmus Knight | Swiss architect, engineer and archaeologist | 79 |
July
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 1 | Pinchas Horowitz | Rabbi in Frankfurt am Main | ||
| 2nd July | Patrick Russell | Scottish surgeon and herpetologist | 79 | |
| July 6th | Uriah Forrest | American politician | ||
| July 6th | Bernhard Vollrad from Oldenburg | Prussian officer, most recently Major General and Chief of Infantry Regiment No. 31 | 61 | |
| 8th of July | Matthias Dannenmayer | German church historian | 61 | |
| 8th of July | Daniel Gardner | English painter | ||
| July 9 | Georg Wolfgang tanks | German pastor and author of bibliographies | 76 | |
| 10th of July | Thomas Wedgwood | British pioneer of photo technology | 34 | |
| July 23 | John A. Hanna | American politician | ||
| July 26th | Seraphia von Löwenfinck | German faience painter and entrepreneur | 77 | |
| July 27th | Johann Friedrich Wilhelm von Charpentier | German geologist and Saxon mining captain | 67 | |
| July 27th | Joseph Alexandre de Ségur | French writer, Count of Segur | 49 | |
| July | Kaspar Koch | Priest and writer of philosophical pamphlets | 62 |
August
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 1st | Johann Christoph Erbstein | German Protestant clergyman | 84 | |
| August 1st | Friedrich Christoph Gestewitz | Composer and conductor | 51 | |
| August 7th | Ernst Hermann von Kölichen | Prussian major general, chief of the body cuirassier regiment, heir to Kupferberg, Rosenau and Comprachschütz | 66 | |
| 8th August | Lazarus III. Henckel von Donnersmarck | Class gentleman and mining industrialist | ||
| 8th August | Richard Worsley, 7th Baronet | British baronet and antique collector | 54 | |
| August 11th | Nikolaus Reinhard von Hanenfeldt | Prussian lieutenant general and knight of the Pour le Mérite | 82 | |
| 12. August | Johann Friedrich Anthing | German silhouetteur | 52 | |
| 13 August | Christian Gottlob Long Car | German architect and Brunswick court builder | ||
| 15th of August | Kaspar Andreas from Jacomini | Austrian charitable speculator | ||
| 20th of August | Johann Arnold Günther | Hamburg senator and scout | 50 | |
| August 25 | Wenzel Dientzenhofer | Jesuit, legal scholar and historian | 55 | |
| August 25 | Joseph Roos | Austrian painter | 78 | |
| August 25 | William Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh | Member of the British royal family | 61 | |
| August 31 | Joseph Dall'Abaco | Italian musician and composer | 95 | |
| August 31 | Johann Ernst Spitzner | German Protestant theologian, economist and beekeeper | 74 | |
| August | Juliane Giovane | German writer | 38 |
September
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2nd | Elise Reimarus | German writer, pedagogue, translator and salonnière | 70 | |
| September 3 | Johann Martin Abele | German publicist and historian | 52 | |
| September 8th | Leopold Biwald | Austrian Jesuit, naturalist and university teacher | 74 | |
| September 10 | Johann Friedrich Burscher | German Lutheran theologian | 73 | |
| September 11 | Ferdinand Denis | German cartographer and engineer officer | 69 | |
| 13.september | Philipp Anton Schmidt | Auxiliary Bishop in Speyer | 71 | |
| September 15th | Christopher Gadsden | American settlers in the thirteen colonies | 81 | |
| 16th September | Johann Daniel Metzger | German medic | 66 | |
| September 18 | Friedrich von Hundbiß | Prince-Bishop-Constance Chief Bailiff on the island of Reichenau | ||
| September 20th | Karl Renatus Hausen | 65 | ||
| 21st September | Johann Rudolf Steck | Swiss politician and philosopher | ||
| September 24th | Christian Friedrich Georg Ludwig von Pastau | Prussian Major General, Chief of Dragoon Regiment No. 7 | ||
| 25th of September | Franz Anton Donat Heusslein from Eußenheim | Franconian lieutenant colonel and chamberlain to the Prince of Würzburg | 63 | |
| September 27th | William Moultrie | Governor of south carolina | 74 | |
| September 28th | Christoph Franz von Buseck | Bishop of Bamberg | 80 | |
| September 29th | Ivan Petrovich Pnin | Russian enlightener, publicist | ||
| 30. September | Karl Philipp von Unruh | Prussian officer, most recently Lieutenant General, Chief of Infantry Regiment No. 45 | 74 |
October
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2nd | Anna Maria Crouch | Actress and singer, mistress of King George IV of Great Britain | 42 | |
| 5th October | Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis | British General, Governor General and Viceroy of India | 66 | |
| October 7th | Johann Gottfried Mosig | Pastor Primarius von Görlitz | 79 | |
| 8th October | Friedrich August | Duke of Braunschweig, Duke of Oels (from 1792) | 64 | |
| 9th October | Diedrich Goswin von Bockum-Dolffs | Prussian officer, most recently lieutenant general; Inspector General of the Lower Silesian Cavalry | 72 | |
| 9th October | Friedrich von Hahn | German philosopher and astronomer | 63 | |
| 9th October | Pierre-François Hugues d'Hancarville | French adventurer, archeologist and art historian | 86 | |
| October 10th | Tia Weil | Chief rabbi in Baden and rabbinical scholar | 84 | |
| 15th October | Johann Georg Bechtold | German Protestant theologian | 73 | |
| 15th October | Arthur Fenner | American politician | 59 | |
| October, 16th | Maria Franzisca von Heppenstein | Lady of the Munich society and mother of Fanny von Ickstatt | 57 | |
| October, 16th | Friedrich Wilhelm Pestel | German legal scholar | 81 | |
| October 17th | Conrad Sörgel von Sorgenthal | Austrian civil servant and manufacture director | ||
| October 18 | Adélaïde-Louise-Pauline Hus | French actress and courtesan | 71 | |
| October 19th | Friedrich Wilhelm von Schönfeld | Prussian Lieutenant General, Chief of Infantry Regiment No. 49 | 66 | |
| the 20th of October | Bak Ji-won | Korean politician and neo-Confucian philosopher | 68 | |
| October 21 | Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson | British admiral | 47 | |
| October 21 | Marian Reutter | Austrian Cistercian and abbot | 71 | |
| October 25 | Albrecht Heinrich von Arnim | Prussian Minister of Justice | 60 | |
| October 25 | Jacques Antoine Marie de Cazalès | Politician during the French Revolution | 47 | |
| October 25 | Johann Christoph Fesel | Court painter to the Würzburg prince-bishops | 69 | |
| October 25 | Lorenz Krach | Castle commander in Eichstätt | ||
| 28th of October | Joseph Jones | American politician | ||
| October 31 | Ignatie Darabant | Romanian priest, Bishop of Oradea | ||
| October 31 | Adrian Gottlieb von Rhein | Prussian major general and head of the regiment | ||
| October | Paul Mumford | American politician and lawyer | 71 |
November
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 3rd | Justin Friedrich Wilhelm Iken | Bremen lawyer, councilor and mayor | 79 | |
| November 5th | Giovanni Andrea Archetti | Roman Catholic cardinal | 74 | |
| November 7th | Veit Jung | German master blacksmith who prevented the siege of Neumarkt in the Upper Palatinate during the coalition wars | ||
| November 7th | François Faultrier de l'Orme | French Artillery Divisional General | 45 | |
| November 8th | François-Thomas-Marie de Baculard d'Arnaud | French author | 87 | |
| November 9th | Hermann Christian Benda | German tenor and actor | 46 | |
| November 11th | Heinrich von Schmitt | Austrian Lieutenant Field Marshal and Chief of the Quartermaster Staff | ||
| November 13th | Karl Anselm von Thurn and Taxis | General Hereditary Postmaster, fourth Prince of Thurn and Taxis | 72 | |
| November 18 | Johann von Massow | District Administrator of the Rummelsburg district | 43 | |
| 20th November | Robert Alexander | American plantation owner, lawyer and politician | ||
| 20th November | Goswin Joseph Arnold von Buininck | German lawyer and librarian | 77 | |
| 22nd of November | Franz von Sonnenberg | German poet | 26th | |
| November 24th | Wilhelm Boettner | German baroque painter | 53 | |
| November 24th | Gerardus Winterstein | German Benedictine abbot | 65 | |
| 30th of November | Louis Monneron | Entrepreneur, agent of France in Sri Lanka, deputy of the French National Assembly | 63 |
December
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3rd of December | Ferdinand von Tiesenhausen | Russian wing adjutant in the coalition wars | 23 | |
| 3rd of December | Jean-Marie Valhubert | French brigadier general | 41 | |
| December 4th | Sebastian Baumann | German watchmaker | ||
| December 4th | Philipp Samson | German court banker of Jewish origin | 62 | |
| December 5th | Hermann Diedrich Krohn | Lawyer and Mayor of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck | ||
| 6th of December | Nicolas-Jacques Conté | French chemist, painter and inventor | 50 | |
| 6th of December | Heinrich Ernst goodness | German Protestant theologian and university professor | 51 | |
| December 7th | Frederick of Denmark | Prince of Denmark | 52 | |
| December 7th | Joseph Ferdinand Maria von Salern | German director | ||
| 10th of December | Friedrich Franz Hurka | Singer, musician, music teacher and composer | 43 | |
| 10th of December | Isaak Gottlieb Walther | Swiss lawyer and historian | 67 | |
| 12th of December | John Almon | English journalist, publisher and bookseller | 67 | |
| December 16 | Saverio Cassar | Maltese Roman Catholic clergyman and politician, Governor General of Gozo | 58 | |
| December 18th | Johann Adolf Stuttberg | Elberfeld merchant and mayor | 49 | |
| 19. December | Franz von Jircik | Austrian major general | ||
| 19. December | Moritz Thomann | German religious | 83 | |
| 21st December | Manoel Maria de Barbosa du Bocage | Portuguese poet | 40 | |
| 21st December | Marian Dobmayer | German priest and professor of Catholic theology | 52 | |
| 23rd of December | Francis Masson | Scottish botanist and plant collector | 64 | |
| 23rd of December | Pehr Osbeck | Swedish pastor, world traveler and naturalist | 82 | |
| 25 December | Isaac Satanov | Hebrew poet | ||
| December 27th | Isabelle de Charrière | Dutch-Swiss writer | 65 | |
| December 31 | Philipp Gabriel Hensler | German doctor, physician and professor of medicine | 72 |
Date unknown
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sigismund Bacstrom | British physician, artist and occultist | |||
| Ber from Bolechow | Jewish author | |||
| Buckongahelas | Chief of the Lenni Lenape | |||
| Jonathan Buttall | English music enthusiast | |||
| Jacob Elkan | Weimar court Jew | |||
| Johann Philipp Högl | Austrian city stonemason master in Vienna | |||
| Johann Christian Friedrich Keferstein | German textbook author and master builder | |||
| Aegidius Klotz | Violin maker in Mittenwald | |||
| Jakob Michael Pressel | German medalist, seal cutter and engraver | |||
| Etienne-Hyacinthe de Ratte | French physicist, astronomer and encyclopedist | |||
| Josef Silberbauer | South Moravian organ builder | |||
| Johann Baptist Strobl | Bavarian publicist and publisher | |||
| Charlotte Sophie from Wacks | Heilbronn patrician | |||
| Giovanni Francesco Zulatti | Doctor, composer |