Editing December 24 (section)

===1601–1900===
*[[1635]] &ndash; [[Hester Jonas]], German nurse (b. 1570)
*[[1660]] &ndash; [[Mary, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange]] (b. 1631)
*[[1707]] &ndash; [[Noël Coypel]], French painter and educator (b. 1628)
*[[1813]] &ndash; [[Empress Go-Sakuramachi]] of Japan (b. 1740)
*[[1844]] &ndash; [[Friedrich Bernhard Westphal]], Danish-German painter (b. 1803)
*[[1863]] &ndash; [[William Makepeace Thackeray]], English author and poet (b. 1811)
*[[1865]] &ndash; [[Charles Lock Eastlake]], English painter and historian (b. 1793)
*[[1867]] &ndash; [[José Mariano Salas]], Mexican general and politician. President of Mexico (1846, 1859) and [[regent]] of the [[Second Mexican Empire]] (b. 1797)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.buscabiografias.com/biografia/verDetalle/10064/Mariano%20Salas|publisher=Busca Biografias|access-date=May 27, 2019|title=Mariano Salas|language=es}}</ref>
*[[1868]] &ndash; [[Adolphe d'Archiac]], French paleontologist and geologist (b. 1802)
*[[1872]] &ndash; [[William John Macquorn Rankine]], Scottish physicist and engineer (b. 1820)
*[[1873]] &ndash; [[Johns Hopkins]], American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1795)
*[[1879]] &ndash; [[Anna Bochkoltz]], German operatic soprano, voice teacher and composer (b. 1815)
*[[1889]] &ndash; [[Jan Jakob Lodewijk ten Kate]], Dutch pastor and poet (b. 1819)
*[[1893]] &ndash; [[B. T. Finniss]], Australian politician, 1st [[Premier of South Australia]] (b. 1807)
*[[1898]] &ndash; [[Charbel Makhluf]], Lebanese priest and saint (b. 1828)