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===Pre-1600===
* [[951]] &ndash; [[Liu Chengyou]], Emperor Yin of the [[Later Han (Five Dynasties)|Later Han]] (b. 931)<ref name="OH">''[[Old History of the Five Dynasties]]'' [http://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/舊五代史/卷103 ch. 103.]</ref>
*   951   &ndash; [[Su Fengji]], Chinese official and [[Chancellor of the Tang dynasty|chancellor]]<ref name="OH"/>
*[[1096]] &ndash; [[William de St-Calais]], Bishop of [[Durham, England|Durham]] and chief counsellor of [[William II of England]]<ref>{{cite book|author=Ordericus Vitalis|title=The Ecclesiastical History of England and Normandy|url=https://archive.org/details/ecclesiasticalh04fragoog|year=1854|publisher=H.G. Bohn|pages=[https://archive.org/details/ecclesiasticalh04fragoog/page/n210 200]}}</ref>
*[[1169]] &ndash; [[Bertrand de Blanchefort]], sixth [[Grand Masters of the Knights Templar|Grand Master of the Knights Templar]] (b. c. 1109)<ref>{{cite book|author=Tobias Churton|title=The Gnostic Philosophy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VXUEAQAAIAAJ|year=2003|publisher=Signal Pub.|isbn=978-0-9543309-1-0|page=199}}</ref>
*[[1184]] &ndash; [[Theodora Komnene, Duchess of Austria]], daughter of [[Andronikos Komnenos (son of John II Komnenos)|Andronikos Komnenos]]<ref>{{cite book|title=The Genealogist|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J7pnAAAAMAAJ|year=1980|publisher=The Association|page=31}}</ref>
*[[1298]] &ndash; [[Lodomer]], Hungarian prelate, Archbishop of Esztergom<ref>{{cite book |last=Zsoldos |first=Attila |year=2011 |title=Magyarország világi archontológiája, 1000–1301 [Secular Archontology of Hungary, 1000–1301] |page=82 |publisher=História, MTA Történettudományi Intézete |isbn=978-963-9627-38-3|language=hu}}</ref>
*[[1470]] &ndash; [[Heinrich Reuß von Plauen]], Grand Master of the Teutonic Order<ref>{{cite book|author=Joseph Meyer|title=Meyers Konversations-Lexikon: eine Encyklopädie des allgemeinen Wissens|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iiRiAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA233|year=1875|publisher=Bibliographisches Institut|pages=233|language=de}}</ref>  
*[[1512]] &ndash; [[Svante Nilsson (regent of Sweden)|Svante Nilsson]], Sweden politician (b. 1460)<ref>{{cite book|author=Franklin Daniel Scott|title=Sweden, the Nation's History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Qv8zxie3A18C&pg=PA101|year=1988|publisher=SIU Press|isbn=978-0-8093-1489-8|pages=101}}</ref>
*[[1514]] &ndash; [[William Smyth]], English bishop and academic (b. 1460)<ref>{{cite book|author=Thompson Cooper|title=A New Biographical Dictionary: Containing Concise Notices of Eminent Persons of All Ages and Countries: and More Particularly of Distinguished Natives of Great Britain and Ireland|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=phhGJXvlcUkC&pg=PA1065|year=1874|publisher=Macmillan|pages=1065}}</ref>
*[[1543]] &ndash; [[Francesco Canova da Milano]], Italian composer (b. 1497)<ref>{{cite book|title=Journal of the Lute Society of America|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZVdLAAAAYAAJ|year=2005|publisher=Lute Society of America|page=2}}</ref>
*[[1557]] &ndash; [[Pontormo]], Italian painter and educator (b. 1494)<ref>{{cite book|author=Jacopo Carucci Pontormo|title=Jacopo Carrucci, Known as Pontormo 1494-1557|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kydHAQAAIAAJ|year=1998|publisher=Könemann|isbn=978-3-8290-0254-7|page=6}}</ref>
*[[1598]] &ndash; [[Morris Kyffin]], Welsh soldier and writer (b. c.1555)<ref>{{cite DWB|id=s-KYFF-MOR-1555|title=Kyffin, Morris (c.1555-1598), writer and soldier|author=Glanmor Williams|author-link=Glanmor Williams|access-date=7 July 2020}}</ref>