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===1601–1900===
*[[1751]] &ndash; [[Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke]], English philosopher and politician, [[Secretary at War]] (b. 1678)<ref>{{EB1911 |last=Yorke |first=Philip Chesney |wstitle=Bolingbroke, Henry St John, Viscount |volume=4 |pages=161–164 }}</ref>
*[[1766]] &ndash; [[Johann Christoph Gottsched]], German philosopher, author, and critic (b. 1700)<ref>{{EB1911|wstitle=Gottsched, Johann Christoph|inline=1}}</ref>
*[[1794]] &ndash; [[Meshullam Feivush Heller]], Ukrainian author (b. 1742)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.daat.ac.il/encyclopedia/value.asp?id1=104|title=אנציקלופדיה יהודית דעת - משולם פייבוש הלר מזברז' ;|website=daat.ac.il}}</ref>
*[[1803]] &ndash; [[Prince Frederick Adolf of Sweden]] (b. 1750)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://sok.riksarkivet.se/Sbl/Presentation.aspx?id=14444|title=Fredrik Adolf - Svenskt Biografiskt Lexikon|website=sok.riksarkivet.se}}</ref>
*[[1858]] &ndash; [[Jacques Viger (1787–1858)|Jacques Viger]], Canadian archeologist and politician, 1st [[list of Montreal mayors|Mayor of Montreal]] (b. 1787)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio.php?id_nbr=4235|title=Biography – VIGER, JACQUES – Volume VIII (1851-1860) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography|website=biographi.ca}}</ref>
*[[1889]] &ndash; [[Viktor Bunyakovsky]], Ukrainian-Russian mathematician and theorist (b. 1804)<ref>{{cite web |url= https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Bunyakovsky/|title=Bio |website=[[mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk]]|access-date=2020-08-26}}</ref>
*[[1894]] &ndash; [[John Sparrow David Thompson]], Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician, 4th [[Prime Minister of Canada]] (b. 1845)<ref>{{EB1911|wstitle=Thompson, Sir John Sparrow|volume=26|page=870|ref=none|inline=yes}}</ref>