Editing February 14 (section)

===1601–1900===
*[[1676]] &ndash; [[Abraham Bosse]], French engraver and illustrator (b. 1602)
*[[1714]] &ndash; [[Maria Luisa of Savoy]], queen of Spain (b. 1688)
*[[1737]] &ndash; [[Charles Talbot, 1st Baron Talbot]], English lawyer and politician [[Lord Chancellor|Lord Chancellor of Great Britain]] (b. 1685)
*[[1744]] &ndash; [[John Hadley]], English mathematician, invented the [[Octant (instrument)|octant]] (b. 1682)
*[[1755]] &ndash; [[Isidro de Espinosa]],  Franciscan missionary from Spanish Texas (b. 1679)<ref name="HTIE">{{Cite news |last=Donald E. Chipman |title=Isidro de Espinosa |publisher=Handbook of Texas Online |url=https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fes04 |access-date=May 8, 2010}}</ref>
*[[1779]] &ndash; [[James Cook]], English captain, cartographer, and explorer (b. 1728)
*[[1780]] &ndash; [[William Blackstone]], English jurist and politician (b. 1723)
*[[1782]] &ndash; [[Singu Min]], Burmese king (b. 1756)
*[[1808]] &ndash; [[John Dickinson (Pennsylvania and Delaware)|John Dickinson]], American lawyer and politician 5th [[Governor of Delaware]] (b. 1732)
*[[1831]] &ndash; [[Vicente Guerrero]], Mexican general and politician, 2nd [[President of Mexico]] (b. 1782)
*  1831   &ndash; [[Henry Maudslay]], English engineer (b. 1771)
*[[1870]] &ndash; [[St. John Richardson Liddell]], American general (b. 1815)
*[[1881]] &ndash; [[Fernando Wood]], American merchant and politician, 73rd [[Mayor of New York City]] (b. 1812)
*[[1884]] &ndash; [[Lydia Hamilton Smith]], African-American businesswoman (b. 1813)<ref name=lhs/>
*[[1885]] &ndash; [[Jules Vallès]], French journalist and author (b. 1832)
*[[1891]] &ndash; [[William Tecumseh Sherman]], American general (b. 1820)
*[[1894]] &ndash; [[Eugène Charles Catalan]], Belgian-French mathematician and academic (b. 1814)