Editing April 26 (section)

===Pre-1600===
* [[499]] &ndash; [[Emperor Xiaowen of Northern Wei]] (b. 467)
* [[645]] &ndash; [[Richarius]], Frankish monk and saint (b. 560)
* [[680]] &ndash; [[Mu'awiya I]], Umayyad caliph (b. 602)
*[[AD 757|757]] &ndash; [[Pope Stephen II]] (b. 715)
* [[893]] &ndash; [[Chen Jingxuan]], general of the [[Tang dynasty|Tang Dynasty]]
* [[962]] &ndash; [[Adalbero I of Metz|Adalbero I]], bishop of [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Metz|Metz]]
*[[1192]] &ndash; [[Emperor Go-Shirakawa]] of Japan (b. 1127)
*[[1366]] &ndash; [[Simon Islip]], [[Archbishop of Canterbury]]
*[[1392]] &ndash; [[Chŏng Mong-ju]], Korean civil minister, diplomat and scholar (b. 1338) 
*[[1444]] &ndash; [[Robert Campin]], Flemish painter (b. 1378)
*[[1478]] &ndash; [[Giuliano de' Medici]], Italian ruler (b. 1453)
*[[1489]] &ndash; [[Ashikaga Yoshihisa]], Japanese shōgun (b. 1465)
*[[1558]] &ndash; [[Jean Fernel]], French physician (b. 1497)<ref>{{cite journal |last1=BONO |first1=JAMES J. |last2=SCHMITT |first2=CHARLES B. |title=AN UNKNOWN LETTER OF JACQUES DALÉCHAMPS TO JEAN FERNEL: LOCAL AUTONOMY VERSUS CENTRALIZED GOVERNMENT |journal=Bulletin of the History of Medicine |date=1979 |volume=53 |issue=1 |pages=100–127 |jstor=44451300 |pmid=387127 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/44451300.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/44451300.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live |issn=0007-5140}}</ref>