Editing August 24 (section)

===1601–1900===
*[[1617]] &ndash; [[Rose of Lima]], Peruvian saint (b. 1586)
*[[1647]] &ndash; [[Nicholas Stone]], English sculptor and architect (b. 1586)
*[[1679]] &ndash; [[Jean François Paul de Gondi]], French cardinal and author (b. 1614)
*[[1680]] &ndash; [[Thomas Blood]], Irish colonel (b. 1618)
*  1680 &ndash; [[Ferdinand Bol]], Dutch painter and etcher (b. 1616)
*[[1683]] &ndash; [[John Owen (theologian)|John Owen]], English theologian and academic (b. 1616)
*[[1759]] &ndash; [[Ewald Christian von Kleist]], German poet and soldier (b. 1715)
*[[1770]] &ndash; [[Thomas Chatterton]], English poet and prodigy (b. 1752)
*[[1779]] &ndash; [[Cosmas of Aetolia]], Greek monk and saint (b. 1714)
*[[1798]] &ndash; [[Thomas Alcock (priest)|Thomas Alcock]], English priest and author (b. 1709)
*[[1804]] &ndash; [[Peggy Shippen]], American wife of [[Benedict Arnold]] and [[American Revolutionary War]] [[Espionage|spy]] (b. 1760)
*[[1818]] &ndash; [[James Carr (Massachusetts politician)|James Carr]], American lawyer and politician (b. 1777)
*[[1821]] &ndash; [[John William Polidori]], English writer and physician (b. 1795)
*[[1832]] &ndash; [[Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot]], French physicist and engineer (b. 1796)
*[[1832]] &ndash; [[Richard Weymouth]], British Royal Navy commander (b. 1780/81)
*[[1838]] &ndash; [[Ferenc Kölcsey]], Hungarian poet, critic, and politician (b. 1790)
*[[1841]] &ndash; [[Theodore Hook]], English civil servant and composer (b. 1788)
*  1841 &ndash; [[John Ordronaux (privateer)|John Ordronaux]], French-American soldier (b. 1778)
*[[1888]] &ndash; [[Rudolf Clausius]], German physicist and mathematician (b. 1822)
*[[1895]] &ndash; [[Albert F. Mummery]], English mountaineer and author (b. 1855)