Editing December 31 (section)

===Pre-1600===
*[[45 BC]] &ndash; [[Quintus Fabius Maximus (consul 45 BC)|Quintus Fabius Maximus]], consul suffectus
* [[192]] &ndash; [[Commodus]], Roman emperor (b. 161)<ref>{{cite book|author=Anthony R Birley|title=Marcus Aurelius: A Biography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CzYRFge0NnsC&pg=PT15|date=6 December 2012|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-69569-0|pages=15}}</ref>
* [[335]] &ndash; [[Pope Sylvester I]]
* [[669]] &ndash; [[Li Shiji]], Chinese general (b. 594) 
* [[914]] &ndash; [[Ibn Hawshab]], founder of the [[Isma'ili]] community in Yemen<ref>{{cite book |last=Halm | first=Heinz |author-link = Heinz Halm |title=Das Reich des Mahdi: Der Aufstieg der Fatimiden | language = de | trans-title = The Empire of the Mahdi: The Rise of the Fatimids | publisher = C. H. Beck | location = Munich | year = 1991 | isbn = 978-3-406-35497-7 | pages=176–179 }}</ref>
*[[1032]] &ndash; [[Ahmad Maymandi]], Persian statesman, vizier of the [[Ghaznavid Empire]]<ref>{{cite encyclopedia | article = Aḥmad Maymandī | last = Yusofi | first = G. H. | url = http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/ahmad-b-19 | encyclopedia  = Encyclopaedia Iranica, Vol. I, Fasc. 6 | pages = 650–652 | year = 1984 }}</ref>
*[[1164]] &ndash; [[Ottokar III of Styria]] (b. 1124)
*[[1194]] &ndash; [[Leopold V, Duke of Austria]] (b. 1157)
*[[1298]] &ndash; [[Humphrey de Bohun, 3rd Earl of Hereford]], English politician, [[Lord High Constable of England]] (b. 1249)
*[[1299]] &ndash; [[Margaret, Countess of Anjou]] (b. 1273)
*[[1302]] &ndash; [[Frederick III, Duke of Lorraine]] (b. 1238)
*[[1384]] &ndash; [[John Wycliffe]], English philosopher, theologian, and translator (b. 1331)
*[[1386]] &ndash; [[Johanna of Bavaria, Queen of Bohemia]] (b. c. 1362)
*[[1426]] &ndash; [[Thomas Beaufort, Duke of Exeter]] (b. 1377)
*[[1439]] &ndash; [[Margaret Holland]], English noblewoman (b. 1385)
*[[1460]] &ndash; [[Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury]], English politician, [[Lord Chancellor|Lord Chancellor of the United Kingdom]] (b. 1400)
*[[1510]] &ndash; [[Bianca Maria Sforza]], Holy Roman Empress (b. 1472)
*[[1535]] &ndash; [[William Skeffington]], English-Irish politician, [[Lord Deputy of Ireland]] (b. 1465)
*[[1568]] &ndash; [[Shimazu Tadayoshi]], Japanese daimyō (b. 1493)
*[[1575]] &ndash; [[Pierino Belli]], Italian commander and jurist (b. 1502)
*[[1583]] &ndash; [[Thomas Erastus]], Swiss physician and theologian (b. 1524)