Editing February 17 (section)

===Pre-1600===
* [[364]] &ndash; [[Jovian (emperor)|Jovian]], Roman emperor (b. 331)<ref>{{cite book|author1=Themistius|author2=Themistius Euphrades Paphlago|title=Politics, Philosophy, and Empire in the Fourth Century: Select Orations of Themistius|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_t4-4vJy3aUC&pg=PA149|year=2001|publisher=Liverpool University Press|isbn=978-0-85323-106-6|pages=149|access-date=2019-09-29|archive-date=2020-05-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200527192351/https://books.google.com/books?id=_t4-4vJy3aUC&pg=PA149|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[440]] &ndash; [[Mesrop Mashtots]], Armenian monk, linguist, and theologian (b. 360)<ref>{{cite book|title=Soviet Life|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-hsWAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA5-PA54|year=1986|publisher=Embassy of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics in the USA|pages=5|access-date=2019-09-29|archive-date=2020-05-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200527192328/https://books.google.com/books?id=-hsWAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA5-PA54|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[923]] &ndash; [[Al-Tabari]], Persian scholar (b. 839)
*[[1178]] &ndash; [[Evermode of Ratzeburg]], [[bishop of Ratzeburg]]
*[[1220]] &ndash; [[Theobald I, Duke of Lorraine]]
*[[1339]] &ndash; [[Otto, Duke of Austria]] (b. 1301)
*[[1371]] &ndash; [[Ivan Alexander of Bulgaria]]
*[[1500]] &ndash; [[Adolph, Count of Oldenburg-Delmenhorst]], German noble (b. before 1463)
*[[1600]] &ndash; [[Giordano Bruno]], Italian mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher (b. 1548)