Editing December 8 (section)

===1601–1900===
*[[1626]] &ndash; [[John Davies (poet, born 1569)|John Davies]], English poet, lawyer, and politician (b. 1569)
*[[1632]] &ndash; [[Philippe van Lansberge]], Dutch astronomer and mathematician (b. 1561)
*[[1638]] &ndash; [[Ivan Gundulić]], Croatian poet (b. 1589)
*[[1643]] &ndash; [[John Pym]], English politician (b. 1583)
*[[1649]] &ndash; [[Noël Chabanel]], French missionary and saint (b. 1613)
*[[1680]] &ndash; [[Henry Pierrepont, 1st Marquess of Dorchester]], English lawyer and politician (b. 1606)
*[[1691]] &ndash; [[Richard Baxter]], English minister, poet, and hymn-writer (b. 1615)
*[[1695]] &ndash; [[Barthélemy d'Herbelot]], French orientalist and academic (b. 1625)
*[[1709]] &ndash; [[Thomas Corneille]], French playwright and philologist (b. 1625)<ref>{{cite web |title=Thomas Corneille {{!}} French dramatist {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Corneille |website=www.britannica.com |access-date=10 March 2022 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[1722]] &ndash; [[Elizabeth Charlotte, Princess Palatine]] (b. 1652)
*[[1734]] &ndash; [[James Figg]], English prizefighter<ref>{{cite ODNB|last=Gee | first=Tony | title=Figg, James (b. before 1700, d. 1734), prize-fighter | year=2004 |url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-9417 | doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/9417 | isbn=978-0-19-861412-8 |access-date=12 June 2022}}</ref>
*[[1744]] &ndash; [[Marie Anne de Mailly]], French mistress of [[Louis XV of France]] (b. 1717)
*[[1745]] &ndash; [[Étienne Fourmont]], French orientalist and academic (b. 1683)
*[[1746]] &ndash; [[Charles Radclyffe]], English courtier and soldier (b. 1693)
*[[1756]] &ndash; [[William Stanhope, 1st Earl of Harrington]], English politician and diplomat, [[Lord Lieutenant of Ireland]] (b. 1690)
*[[1768]] &ndash; [[Jean Denis Attiret]], French painter and missionary (b. 1702)
*[[1779]] &ndash; [[Nathan Alcock]], English physician (b. 1707)
*[[1815]] &ndash; [[Mary Bosanquet Fletcher]], [[Methodism|Methodist]] preacher and philanthropist (b. 1739)
*[[1830]] &ndash; [[Benjamin Constant]], Swiss-French philosopher and author (b. 1767)
*[[1856]] &ndash; [[Theobald Mathew (temperance reformer)|Theobald Mathew]], Irish social reformer and temperance movement leader (b. 1790)
*[[1859]] &ndash; [[Thomas De Quincey]], English journalist and author (b. 1785)
*[[1864]] &ndash; [[George Boole]], English mathematician and philosopher (b. 1815)
*[[1869]] &ndash; [[Narcisa de Jesús]], Ecuadorian saint (b. 1832)
*[[1885]] &ndash; [[William Henry Vanderbilt]], American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1821)
*[[1886]] &ndash; [[Isaac Lea]], American conchologist, geologist, and publisher (b. 1792)
*[[1894]] &ndash; [[Pafnuty Chebyshev]], Russian mathematician and theorist (b. 1821)