Editing December 2 (section)

===1601–1900===
*[[1615]] &ndash; [[Louis des Balbes de Berton de Crillon]], French general (b. 1541)
*[[1665]] &ndash; [[Catherine de Vivonne, marquise de Rambouillet]], French author (b. 1588)
*[[1694]] &ndash; [[Pierre Puget]], French painter, sculptor, and architect (b. 1622)
*[[1719]] &ndash; [[Pasquier Quesnel]], French theologian and author (b. 1634)
*[[1723]] &ndash; [[Philippe II, Duke of Orléans]] (b. 1674)
*[[1726]] &ndash; [[Samuel Penhallow]], English-American historian and author (b. 1665)
*[[1747]] &ndash; [[Vincent Bourne]], English poet and scholar (b. 1695)
*[[1748]] &ndash; [[Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset]], English politician, [[Lord President of the Council]] (b. 1662)
*[[1774]] &ndash; [[Johann Friedrich Agricola]], German organist and composer (b. 1720)
*[[1814]] &ndash; [[Marquis de Sade]], French philosopher, author, and politician (b. 1740)
*[[1844]] &ndash; [[Eustachy Erazm Sanguszko]], Polish general and politician (b. 1768)
*[[1849]] &ndash; [[Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen]] (b. 1792)
*[[1859]] &ndash; [[John Brown (abolitionist)|John Brown]], American abolitionist (b. 1800)
*[[1881]] &ndash; [[Jenny von Westphalen]], German author (b. 1814)
*[[1885]] &ndash; [[Allen Wright]], Principal chief of the [[Choctaw Nation]] (1866–1870); proposed the name "Oklahoma", from Choctaw words ''okra'' and ''umma'', meaning "Territory of the Red People." (b. 1826)
*[[1888]] &ndash; [[Namık Kemal]], Turkish journalist, poet, and playwright (b. 1840)
*[[1892]] &ndash; [[Jay Gould]], American businessman and financier (b. 1836)
*[[1899]] &ndash; [[Gregorio del Pilar]], Filipino general and politician, 1st [[Governor of Bulacan]] (b. 1875)