Editing December 18 (section)

===1601–1900===
*[[1645]] &ndash; [[Nur Jahan]], empress consort of the Mughal Empire (b. 1577)<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ugxFjVDk3I8C|title=Nur Jahan: Empress of Mughal India|last=Findly|first=Ellison Banks|date=1993-03-25|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-536060-8|pages=291|language=en}}</ref>
*[[1651]] &ndash; [[William Brabazon, 1st Earl of Meath]], English lawyer and politician (b. 1580)
*[[1692]] &ndash; [[Veit Ludwig von Seckendorff]], German scholar and politician (b. 1626)
*[[1737]] &ndash; [[Antonio Stradivari]], Italian instrument maker (b. 1644)
*[[1787]] &ndash; [[Soame Jenyns]], English poet and politician (b. 1704)
*[[1799]] &ndash; [[Jean-Étienne Montucla]], French mathematician and historian (b. 1725)
*[[1803]] &ndash; [[Johann Gottfried Herder]], German philosopher, theologian, and poet (b. 1744)
*[[1829]] &ndash; [[Jean-Baptiste Lamarck]], French soldier, biologist, and academic (b. 1744)
*[[1843]] &ndash; [[Thomas Graham, 1st Baron Lynedoch]], Scottish-English general and politician (b. 1748)
*[[1848]] &ndash; [[Bernard Bolzano]], Bohemian priest and mathematician (b. 1781)
*[[1864]] &ndash; [[José Justo Corro]], Mexican politician, [[President of Mexico]] (1836–1837) (b. 1794)<ref>{{citation|url=https://www.buscabiografias.com/biografia/verDetalle/10058/Jose%20Justo%20Corro|title=José Justo Corro|publisher=Busca Biografias|access-date=May 27, 2019}}</ref>
*[[1869]] &ndash; [[Louis Moreau Gottschalk]], American pianist and composer (b. 1829)
*[[1880]] &ndash; [[Michel Chasles]], French mathematician and academic (b. 1793)
*[[1892]] &ndash; [[Richard Owen]], English biologist, anatomist, and paleontologist (b. 1804)