Editing April 6 (section)

===1601–1900===
*[[1605]] &ndash; [[John Stow]], English historian and author (b. 1525)
*[[1621]] &ndash; [[Edward Seymour, 1st Earl of Hertford]] (b. 1539)
*[[1641]] &ndash; [[Domenichino|Domenico Zampieri (Domenichino)]], Italian painter (b. 1581)
*[[1655]] &ndash; [[David Blondel]], French minister, historian, and scholar (b. 1591)
*[[1670]] &ndash; [[Leonora Baroni]], Italian composer (b. 1611)<ref>{{cite book|first1=Julie Anne|last1=Sadie|first2=Rhian|last2=Samuel|title=The New Grove Dictionary of Women Composers|location=London|publisher=Macmillan|year=1996|page=37|isbn=978-0-33351-598-3}}</ref>
*[[1676]] &ndash; [[John Winthrop the Younger]], English politician, 1st [[List of colonial governors of Connecticut|Governor of Connecticut]] (b. 1606)
*[[1686]] &ndash; [[Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Anglesey]], Irish-English politician (b. 1614)
*[[1707]] &ndash; [[Willem van de Velde the Younger]], Dutch-English painter (b. 1633)
*[[1755]] &ndash; [[Richard Rawlinson]], English minister and historian (b. 1690)
*[[1790]] &ndash; [[Louis IX, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt]] (b. 1719)
*[[1825]] &ndash; [[Vladimir Borovikovsky]], Ukrainian-Russian painter and educator (b. 1757)
*[[1827]] &ndash; [[Nikolis Apostolis]], Greek naval commander during the Greek War of Independence (b. 1770)<ref>{{cite web | url=http://photodentro.edu.gr/cultural/r/8526/5849 | title=Photodentro-Cultural: Αποστόλης Νικολής | date=28 September 2015 }}</ref>
*[[1829]] &ndash; [[Niels Henrik Abel]], Norwegian mathematician and theorist (b. 1802)
*[[1833]] &ndash; [[Adamantios Korais]], Greek philosopher and scholar (b. 1748)
*[[1838]] &ndash; [[José Bonifácio de Andrada]], Brazilian poet, academic, and politician (b. 1763)
*[[1860]] &ndash; [[James Kirke Paulding]], American author and politician, 11th [[United States Secretary of the Navy]] (b. 1778)
*[[1862]] &ndash; [[Albert Sidney Johnston]], American general (b. 1803)
*[[1883]] &ndash; [[Benjamin Wright Raymond]], American merchant and politician, 3rd [[Mayor of Chicago]] (b. 1801)
*[[1886]] &ndash; [[William Edward Forster]], English businessman, philanthropist, and politician, [[Chief Secretary for Ireland]] (b. 1818)
*[[1899]] &ndash; [[Alvan Wentworth Chapman]], American physician and botanist (b. 1809)