Editing August 16 (section)

===Pre-1600===
*[[AD 79]] &ndash; [[Empress Ma (Han dynasty)|Empress Ma]], Chinese Han dynasty consort (b. 40)
* [[856]] &ndash; [[Theutbald I (bishop of Langres)|Theutbald I]], bishop of [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Langres|Langres]]
* [[963]] &ndash; [[Marianos Argyros]], Byzantine general (b. 944)
*[[1027]] &ndash; [[George I of Georgia]] (b. 998)
*[[1153]] &ndash; [[Bernard de Tremelay]], fourth [[Grand Masters of the Knights Templar|Grand Master of the Knights Templar]] 
*[[1225]] &ndash; [[Hōjō Masako]], Japanese regent and [[onna-bugeisha]] (b. 1156)
*[[1258]] &ndash; [[Theodore II Laskaris]], Byzantine-Greek emperor (b. 1222)
*[[1285]] &ndash; [[Philip I, Count of Savoy]] (b. 1207)
*[[1297]] &ndash; [[John II of Trebizond]] (b. 1262)
*[[1327]] &ndash; [[Saint Roch|Roch]], French saint (b. 1295)
*[[1339]] &ndash; [[Azzone Visconti]], founder of the state of Milan (b. 1302)
*[[1358]] &ndash; [[Albert II, Duke of Austria]] (b. 1298)
*[[1419]] &ndash; [[Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia]] (b. 1361)
*[[1443]] &ndash; [[Ashikaga Yoshikatsu]], Japanese shōgun (b. 1434)
*[[1492]] &ndash; [[Beatrice of Silva]], Dominican nun<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.concepcionistastoledo.org/Santa%20Beatriz.htm|title=Santa Beatriz de Silva: Aprobación de la Orden|work=Orden de la Inmaculada Concepción, Casa Madre OIC de Toledo|language=es|access-date=2018-08-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150814010054/http://concepcionistastoledo.org/Santa%20Beatriz.htm|archive-date=2015-08-14|url-status=dead}}</ref>
*[[1518]] &ndash; [[Loyset Compère]], French composer (b. 1445)
*[[1532]] &ndash; [[John, Elector of Saxony]] (b. 1468)