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===1601–1900===
*[[1666]] &ndash; [[Nicholas Lanier]], English composer and painter (b. 1588)
*[[1674]] &ndash; [[Prataprao Gujar]], 3rd Commander-in-chief of [[Maratha Confederacy]]<ref>{{Cite book |last=Sardesai |first=H. S. |title=Shivaji, The Great Maratha |publisher=Genesis Publishing |year=2002 |isbn=9788177552867 |pages=370}}</ref>
*[[1685]] &ndash; [[Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Carlisle]], English general and politician, [[Lord Lieutenant of Cumberland]] (b. 1629)
*[[1704]] &ndash; [[Marc-Antoine Charpentier]], French composer (b. 1643)
*[[1714]] &ndash; [[Edmund Andros]], English courtier and politician, 4th [[Colonial Governor of New York]] (b. 1637)
*[[1721]] &ndash; [[John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby]], English poet and politician, [[Lord President of the Council]] (b. 1648)
*[[1732]] &ndash; [[Francis Charteris (rake)|Francis Charteris]], Scottish soldier (b. 1675)
*[[1777]] &ndash; [[Joseph I of Portugal]] (b. 1714)
*[[1785]] &ndash; [[Carlo Buonaparte]], Corsican lawyer and politician (b. 1746)
*[[1799]] &ndash; [[Georg Christoph Lichtenberg]], German physicist and academic (b. 1742)
*[[1810]] &ndash; [[Henry Cavendish]], French-English physicist and chemist (b. 1731)
*[[1812]] &ndash; [[Étienne-Louis Malus]], French physicist and mathematician (b. 1775)
*[[1815]] &ndash; [[Robert Fulton]], American engineer (b. 1765)
*[[1825]] &ndash; [[Thomas Bowdler]], English physician and philanthropist (b. 1754)
*[[1856]] &ndash; [[Nikolai Lobachevsky]], Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1792)
*[[1876]] &ndash; [[Joseph Jenkins Roberts]], American-Liberian politician, 1st [[President of Liberia]] (b. 1809)
*[[1879]] &ndash; [[Shiranui Kōemon]], Japanese sumo wrestler, the 11th [[Makuuchi#Yokozuna|Yokozuna]] (b. 1825)