Editing October 18 (section)

===Pre-1600===
*[[AD 31|31]] &ndash; [[Sejanus|Lucius Aelius Sejanus]], Roman politician (b. 20 BC)
*[[325]] &ndash; [[Emperor Ming of Jin]] (b. 299)
*[[AD 707|707]] &ndash; [[Pope John VII]] (b. 650)
*[[815]] &ndash; [[Abu'l-Saraya]], Zaydi rebel leader<ref>{{EI2 | last = Gibb | first = H. A. R. | title = Abu 'l-Sarāyā al-Sarī b. Manṣūr al-S̲h̲aybānī | volume = 1 | pages = 149–150 | url = http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1573-3912_islam_SIM_0249}}</ref>
*[[1035]] &ndash; [[Sancho III of Pamplona]] (b. 992)
*[[1081]] &ndash; [[Nikephoros Palaiologos]], Byzantine general
*[[1101]] &ndash; [[Hugh I, Count of Vermandois]] (b. 1053)
*[[1141]] &ndash; [[Leopold, Duke of Bavaria]] (b. 1108)
*[[1214]] &ndash; [[John de Gray]], bishop of Norwich
*[[1366]] &ndash; [[Petrus Torkilsson]], Archbishop of Uppsala
*[[1382]] &ndash; [[James Butler, 2nd Earl of Ormond]], Irish politician, [[Lord Justices (Ireland)|Lord Justice of Ireland]] (b. 1331)
*[[1417]] &ndash; [[Pope Gregory XII]] (b. 1326)
*[[1442]] &ndash; [[John, Lord of Reguengos de Monsaraz|Infante João of Portugal]] (b. 1400)
*[[1480]] &ndash; [[Uhwudong]], Korean dancer and poet (b. 1440)
*[[1503]] &ndash; [[Pope Pius III]] (b. 1439)
*[[1508]] &ndash; [[Patrick Hepburn, 1st Earl of Bothwell]], Lord High Admiral of Scotland
*[[1511]] &ndash; [[Philippe de Commines]], French-speaking Fleming in the courts of Burgundy and France (b. 1447)
*[[1526]] &ndash; [[Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón]], Spanish explorer (b. 1475)
*[[1541]] &ndash; [[Margaret Tudor]], queen of [[James IV of Scotland]] (born [[1489]])
*[[1545]] &ndash; [[John Taverner]], English organist and composer (b. 1490)
*[[1558]] &ndash; [[Mary of Hungary (governor of the Netherlands)|Mary of Hungary]] (b. 1505)
*[[1561]] &ndash; [[Yamamoto Kansuke (general)|Yamamoto Kansuke]], Japanese samurai (b. 1501)
*[[1564]] &ndash; [[Johannes Acronius Frisius]], Dutch physician and mathematician (b. 1520)
*[[1570]] &ndash; [[Manuel da Nóbrega]], Portuguese-Brazilian priest and missionary (b. 1517)