Editing December 4 (section)

===1601–1900===
*[[1603]] &ndash; [[Maerten de Vos]], Flemish painter and draughtsman (b. 1532)
*[[1609]] &ndash; [[Alexander Hume]], Scottish poet (b. 1560)
*[[1637]] &ndash; [[Nicholas Ferrar]], English trader (b. 1592)
*[[1642]] &ndash; [[Cardinal Richelieu]], French cardinal and politician, [[List of Prime Ministers of France|Chief Minister to the French Monarch]] (b. 1585)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Perkins |first1=James B. |title=Richelieu and the Growth of French Power |date=1900 |publisher=G. P. Putnam's Sons |location=New York |page=217}}</ref>
*[[1649]] &ndash; [[William Drummond of Hawthornden]], Scottish poet (b. 1585)
*[[1679]] &ndash; [[Thomas Hobbes]], English philosopher and theorist (b. 1588)
*[[1680]] &ndash; [[Thomas Bartholin]], Danish physician, mathematician, and theologian (b. 1616)
*[[1696]] &ndash; [[Empress Meishō]] of Japan (b. 1624)
*[[1732]] &ndash; [[John Gay]], English poet and playwright (b. 1685)<ref>{{cite web |title=John Gay – British Library |url=https://www.bl.uk/people/john-gay |website=www.bl.uk |access-date=1 January 2023 |archive-date=1 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230101204012/https://www.bl.uk/people/john-gay |url-status=dead }}</ref>
*[[1798]] &ndash; [[Luigi Galvani]], Italian physician, physicist, and philosopher (b. 1737)
*[[1828]] &ndash; [[Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool]], English politician, [[List of Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom|Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] (b. 1770)
*[[1839]] &ndash; [[John Leamy (merchant)|John Leamy]], Irish–American merchant (b. 1757)<ref>{{cite journal|last=Chandler|first=Charles L.|date=June 1953|title=Catholic Merchants of Early Philadelphia|journal=Records of the American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia|volume=64|issue=2|pages=94–103|jstor=44210305}}</ref>
*[[1841]] &ndash; [[David Daniel Davis]], Welsh-English physician and academic (b. 1777)
*[[1845]] &ndash; [[Gregor MacGregor]], Scottish soldier and explorer (b. 1786)
*[[1850]] &ndash; [[William Sturgeon]], English physicist, invented the [[electric motor]] (b. 1783)
*[[1893]] &ndash; [[John Tyndall]], Irish-English physicist and chemist (b. 1820)
*[[1897]] &ndash; [[Griffith Rhys Jones]], Welsh conductor (b. 1834)