Editing February 4 (section)

===1601–1900===
*[[1615]] &ndash; [[Giambattista della Porta]], Italian playwright and scholar (b. 1535)
*[[1617]] &ndash; [[Lodewijk Elzevir]], Dutch publisher, co-founded the [[House of Elzevir]] (b. 1546)
*[[1713]] &ndash; [[Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury]], English philosopher and politician (b. 1671)
*[[1774]] &ndash; [[Charles Marie de La Condamine]], French mathematician and geographer (b. 1701)
*[[1781]] &ndash; [[Josef Mysliveček]], Czech composer (b. 1737)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Greene |first1=David Mason |last2=Green |first2=Constance |title=Greene's Biographical Encyclopedia of Composers |date=1985 |publisher=Reproducing Piano Roll Fnd. |isbn=978-0-385-14278-6 |page=357 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m3S7PIxe0mwC&pg=PA357 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[1799]] &ndash; [[Étienne-Louis Boullée]], French architect and educator (b. 1728)
*[[1843]] &ndash; [[Theodoros Kolokotronis]], Greek general (b. 1770)
*[[1891]] &ndash; [[Pelagio Antonio de Labastida y Dávalos]], Roman Catholic [[archbishop]] and Mexican politician who served as [[regent]] during the [[Second Mexican Empire]] (b. 1816)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.arquidiocesisdepuebla.mx/index.php/arquidiocesis/obispos-y-arzobispos/obispos/43-excmo-sr-don-pelagio-antonio-de-lavastida|title=Excmo. Sr. Don Pelagio Antonio de Labastida y Dávalos (1855–1863)|publisher=Arquidiocesis de Puebla|language=es|access-date=May 29, 2019|archive-date=May 29, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190529225354/http://www.arquidiocesisdepuebla.mx/index.php/arquidiocesis/obispos-y-arzobispos/obispos/43-excmo-sr-don-pelagio-antonio-de-lavastida|url-status=dead}}</ref>