Editing August 16 (section)

===1601–1900===
*[[1661]] &ndash; [[Thomas Fuller]], English historian and author (b. 1608)
*[[1678]] &ndash; [[Andrew Marvell]], English poet and author (b. 1621)
*[[1705]] &ndash; [[Jacob Bernoulli]], Swiss mathematician and theorist (b. 1654)
*[[1733]] &ndash; [[Matthew Tindal]], English philosopher and author (b. 1657)
*[[1791]] &ndash; [[Charles-François de Broglie, marquis de Ruffec]], French soldier and diplomat (b. 1719)
*[[1836]] &ndash; [[Marc-Antoine Parseval]], French mathematician and theorist (b. 1755)
*[[1855]] &ndash; [[Henry Colburn]], English publisher (b. 1785)
*[[1861]] &ndash; [[Ranavalona I]], Queen consort of [[Kingdom of Madagascar]] and then sovereign (b. 1778)<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lKtBAAAAIAAJ|title=Madagascar: An Historical and Descriptive Account of the Island and Its Former Dependencies|date=1886|publisher=Macmillan|pages=87}}</ref>
*[[1878]] &ndash; [[Richard Upjohn]], English-American architect (b. 1802)
*[[1886]] &ndash; [[Ramakrishna|Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa]], Indian mystic and philosopher (b. 1836)
*[[1887]] &ndash; [[Webster Paulson]], English civil engineer (b. 1837)
*[[1888]] &ndash; [[John Pemberton]], American pharmacist and chemist, invented [[Coca-Cola]] (b. 1831)
*[[1893]] &ndash; [[Jean-Martin Charcot]], French neurologist and academic (b. 1825)
*[[1899]] &ndash; [[Robert Bunsen]], German chemist and academic (b. 1811)<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Roscoe, Henry |author-link=Henry Roscoe (chemist) |title=Bunsen Memorial Lecture |journal=Journal of the Chemical Society, Transactions |date=1900 |volume=77 |pages=513 |doi=10.1039/CT9007700513|url=https://zenodo.org/record/1874777 }}</ref>
*[[1900]] &ndash; [[José Maria de Eça de Queirós]], Portuguese journalist and author (b. 1845)