LISTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
William Harrison Ainsworth	Novelist	4-Feb-1805	3-Jan-1882	The Tower of London
Hans Christian Andersen	Author	2-Apr-1805	4-Aug-1875	Danish master of the fairy tale
David Dudley Field	Attorney	13-Feb-1805	13-Apr-1894	Spurred codification of US law
William Lloyd Garrison	Activist	10-Dec-1805	24-May-1879	Anti-slavery editor of the Liberator
William M. Gwin	Politician	9-Oct-1805	3-Sep-1885	US Senator from California
Sir William Rowan Hamilton	Mathematician	3-Aug-1805	2-Sep-1865	Inventor of Quaternions
Ferdinand de Lesseps	Architect	19-Nov-1805	7-Dec-1894	Built the Suez Canal
Frederick Denison Maurice	Religion	29-Aug-1805	1-Apr-1872	19th c. Anglican theologian
Giuseppe Mazzini	Activist	22-Jun-1805	10-Mar-1872	Italian patriot, agitator
Samuel Palmer	Painter	27-Jan-1805	24-May-1881	English landscape painter
Hiram Powers	Sculptor	29-Jun-1805	27-Jun-1873	American neoclassical sculptor
Joseph Smith	Religion	23-Dec-1805	27-Jun-1844	Founded the Mormon faith
John Lloyd Stephens	Explorer	28-Nov-1805	12-Oct-1852	Incidents of Travel
Adalbert Stifter	Author	23-Oct-1805	28-Jan-1868	Studien
Alexis de Tocqueville	Historian	29-Jul-1805	16-Apr-1859	Democracy in America
David Urquhart	Diplomat	1805	16-May-1877	Diplomatic Review
Johnnie Walker	Business	25-Jul-1805	1857	Whiskey maker
Henry Wells	Business	12-Dec-1805	10-Dec-1878	Co-Founder of Wells Fargo, American Express
James Wilson	Publisher	3-Jun-1805	11-Aug-1860	Founder of The Economist

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