Editing April 7 (section)

===1601–1900===
*[[1606]] &ndash; [[Edward Oldcorne]], English martyr (b. 1561)
*[[1614]] &ndash; [[El Greco]], Greek-Spanish painter and sculptor (b. 1541)
*[[1638]] &ndash; [[Shimazu Tadatsune]], Japanese daimyō (b. 1576)
*[[1651]] &ndash; [[Lennart Torstensson]], Swedish field marshal and engineer (b. 1603)
*[[1658]] &ndash; [[Juan Eusebio Nieremberg]], Spanish mystic and philosopher (b. 1595)
*[[1661]] &ndash; [[Sir William Brereton, 1st Baronet]], English commander and politician (b. 1604)
*[[1663]] &ndash; [[Francis Cooke]], English-American settler (b. 1583)
*[[1668]] &ndash; [[William Davenant]], English poet and playwright (b. 1606)
*[[1719]] &ndash; [[Jean-Baptiste de La Salle]], French priest and saint, founded the [[Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools]] (b. 1651)
*[[1739]] &ndash; [[Dick Turpin]], English criminal (b. 1705)
*[[1747]] &ndash; [[Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau]] (b. 1676)
*[[1761]] &ndash; [[Thomas Bayes]], English minister and mathematician (b. 1701)
*[[1766]] &ndash; [[Tiberius Hemsterhuis]], Dutch philologist and critic (b. 1685)
*[[1767]] &ndash; [[Franz Sparry]], Austrian composer and director (b. 1715)
*[[1779]] &ndash; [[Martha Ray]], English singer (b. 1746)<ref>{{cite news |last1=Chisholm |first1=Kate |title=A killer made senseless by sensibility |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/3613725/A-killer-made-senseless-by-sensibility.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/3613725/A-killer-made-senseless-by-sensibility.html |archive-date=2022-01-12 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |access-date=8 March 2021 |work=www.telegraph.co.uk |date=15 March 2014}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Martha Ray - a man she knew but had rejected stepped forward and shot her dead. |url=https://www.watfordobserver.co.uk/news/nostalgia/crimelibrary/martharay/ |access-date=8 March 2021 |work=www.watfordobserver.co.uk |publisher=Watford Observer}}</ref>
*[[1782]] &ndash; [[Taksin]], Thai king (b. 1734)
*[[1789]] &ndash; [[Abdul Hamid I]], Ottoman sultan (b. 1725)
*1789 &ndash; [[Petrus Camper]], Dutch physician, anatomist, and physiologist (b. 1722)
*[[1801]] &ndash; [[Noël François de Wailly]], French lexicographer and author (b. 1724)
*[[1804]] &ndash; [[Toussaint Louverture]], Haitian general (b. 1743)
*[[1811]] &ndash; [[Garsevan Chavchavadze]], Georgian diplomat and politician (b. 1757)
*[[1823]] &ndash; [[Jacques Charles]], French physicist and mathematician (b. 1746)
*[[1833]] &ndash; [[Antoni Radziwiłł]], Lithuanian composer and politician (b. 1775)
*[[1836]] &ndash; [[William Godwin]], English journalist and author (b. 1756)
*[[1849]] &ndash; [[Pedro Ignacio de Castro Barros]], Argentinian priest and politician (b. 1777)
*[[1850]] &ndash; [[William Lisle Bowles]], English poet and critic (b. 1762)
*[[1858]] &ndash; [[Anton Diabelli]], Austrian composer and publisher (b. 1781)
*[[1868]] &ndash; [[Thomas D'Arcy McGee]], Irish-Canadian journalist, activist, and politician (b. 1825)
*[[1879]] &ndash; [[Begum Hazrat Mahal]], Begum of Awadh, was the second wife of Nawab Wajid Ali Shah (b. 1820)
*[[1884]] &ndash; [[Maria Doolaeghe]], Flemish novelist (b. 1803)<ref>{{cite book|first=Lia|last=Van Gemert|title=Women's Writing from the Low Countries 1200-1875: A Bilingual Anthology|location=Amsterdam|publisher=Amsterdam University Press|year=2011|page=500|isbn=978-9-08964-129-8}}</ref>
*[[1885]] &ndash; [[Karl Theodor Ernst von Siebold]], German physiologist and zoologist (b. 1804)
*[[1889]] &ndash; [[Youssef Bey Karam]],<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.ehdenfamilytree.org/getperson.php?personID=I1&tree=ehden |title=Youssef Bey Karam on Ehden Family Tree website |access-date=2019-04-02 |archive-date=2019-03-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190329220258/https://www.ehdenfamilytree.org/getperson.php?personID=I1&tree=ehden |url-status=dead }}</ref> Lebanese soldier and politician (b. 1823)
*  1889   &ndash; [[Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada]], Mexican politician and president, 1872-1876 (b. 1823)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.biografiasyvidas.com/biografia/l/lerdo.htm|title=Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada|publisher=Biografias y Vidas|access-date=May 28, 2019|language=es}}</ref>
*[[1891]] &ndash; [[P. T. Barnum]], American businessman and politician, co-founded [[Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus|The Barnum & Bailey Circus]] (b. 1810)