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===1601–1900===
*[[1604]] &ndash; [[John Whitgift]], English archbishop and academic (b. 1530)<ref>{{EB1911|noprescript=1|inline=1|wstitle=Whitgift, John}}</ref>
*[[1712]] &ndash; [[Johann Conrad Peyer]], Swiss anatomist (b. 1653)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Huard |first1=Pierre |last2=Imbault-Huart |first2=M. J. |editor1-last=Gillispie |editor1-first=Charles Coulston |title=Dictionary of Scientific Biography |date=1974 |publisher=Scribner |isbn=0684101211 |page=567 |volume=10}}</ref>
*[[1744]] &ndash; [[John Theophilus Desaguliers]], French-English physicist and philosopher (b. 1683)<ref>{{Citation | title=Announcement| newspaper=Daily Post | location=London | date=7 March 1744}}</ref>
*[[1792]] &ndash; [[Johann Andreas Stein]], German piano builder (b. 1728)<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Latcham |first1=Michael |title=Stein, Johann (Georg) Andreas |journal=Grove Music Online |date=20 January 2001 |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.26631}}</ref>
*[[1820]] &ndash; [[Johann Joachim Eschenburg]], German historian and critic (b. 1743)<ref>{{EB1911|noprescript=1|inline=1|wstitle=Eschenburg, Johann Joachim}}</ref>
*[[1848]] &ndash; [[Louis-François Lejeune]], French general, painter and lithographer (b. 1775)<ref>{{cite journal |title=Lejeune, Louis François (Baron and General) |journal=Benezit Dictionary of Artists |date=31 October 2011 |doi=10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.B00107113}}</ref>
*[[1856]] &ndash; [[Auguste Chapdelaine]], French Christian [[missionary]] (b. 1814)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Cohen |first1=Paul A. |title=China and Christianity |date=2013 |publisher=Harvard University Press |isbn=9780674283633 |page=67 |doi=10.4159/harvard.9780674283633}}</ref>
*[[1868]] &ndash; [[Ludwig I of Bavaria]] (b. 1786)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Kraus |first1=Andreas |title=Neue Deutsche Biographie, Volume 15 |date=1986 |isbn=3428001818 |page=367 |language=German}}</ref>
*[[1880]] &ndash; [[James Milne Wilson]], Scottish-Australian soldier and politician, 8th [[Premier of Tasmania]] (b. 1812)<ref name="milne" />