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===1601–1900===
*[[1612]] &ndash; [[Christopher Clavius]], German mathematician and astronomer (b. 1538)<ref>{{cite web |title=Christopher Clavius |url=http://galileo.rice.edu/Catalog/NewFiles/clavius.html |website=galileo.rice.edu |access-date=22 April 2021}}</ref>
*[[1617]] &ndash; [[Prospero Alpini]], Italian physician and botanist (b. 1553)<ref>{{cite book |title=Americanized Encyclopaedia Britannica: Rev. and Amended A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Literature, to which is Added Biographies of Living Subjects. 96 Colored Maps and Numerous Illustrations |year=1890 |publisher=Belford-Clarke Company |page=219 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4AIhWsMeyJQC&pg=PA219 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[1685]] &ndash; [[Charles II of England]] (b. 1630)<ref>{{cite web |title=Charles II {{!}} Biography, Accomplishments, & Facts |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Charles-II-king-of-Great-Britain-and-Ireland#:~:text=Charles%20II%2C%20byname%20The%20Merry,history%20as%20the%20Restoration%20period. |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=30 December 2020 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[1695]] &ndash; [[Ahmed II]], Ottoman sultan (b. 1642)<ref>{{cite web |title=Ahmed II {{!}} Ottoman sultan |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ahmed-II |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=22 April 2021 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[1740]] &ndash; [[Pope Clement XII]] (b. 1652)<ref>{{cite web |title=Clement XII {{!}} pope |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Clement-XII |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=22 April 2021 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[1775]] &ndash; [[William Dowdeswell (Chancellor)|William Dowdeswell]], English politician, [[Chancellor of the Exchequer]] (b. 1721)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Walpole |first1=Horace |title=Memoirs of the Reign of King George the Third |year=1894 |publisher=Lawrence and Bullen |isbn=978-0-8369-5489-0 |page=139 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_6rSAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA139 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite ODNB |title=Dowdeswell, William (1760–1828), army officer and art collector |url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-7960 |year = 2004|access-date=22 April 2021 |language=en |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/7960}}</ref>
*[[1783]] &ndash; [[Capability Brown]], English gardener and architect (b. 1716)<ref>{{cite web |title=Lancelot Brown {{!}} English landscape architect |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lancelot-Brown |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=22 April 2021 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[1793]] &ndash; [[Carlo Goldoni]], Italian-French playwright (b. 1707)<ref>{{cite web |title=Carlo Goldoni {{!}} Italian dramatist |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Carlo-Goldoni |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=22 April 2021 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[1804]] &ndash; [[Joseph Priestley]], English chemist and theologian (b. 1733)<ref>{{cite web |title=Joseph Priestley {{!}} Biography, Discoveries, & Facts |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Joseph-Priestley |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=22 April 2021 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[1833]] &ndash; [[Pierre André Latreille]], French zoologist and entomologist (b. 1762)<ref>{{cite web |title=Pierre-André Latreille {{!}} French zoologist |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Pierre-Andre-Latreille |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=22 April 2021 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[1834]] &ndash; [[Richard Lemon Lander]], English explorer (b. 1804)<ref>{{cite web |title=Richard Lemon Lander {{!}} British explorer |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Richard-Lemon-Lander |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=22 April 2021 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[1865]] &ndash; [[Isabella Beeton]], English author of ''[[Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management]]'' (b. 1836)<ref>{{cite web |title= History - Mrs Beeton |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/beeton_mrs.shtml |website=BBC |access-date=22 April 2021}}</ref>
*[[1899]] &ndash; [[Leo von Caprivi]], German general and politician, [[List of chancellors of Germany|chancellor of Germany]] (b. 1831)<ref>{{cite web |title=Leo, count von Caprivi {{!}} German chancellor |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Leo-Graf-von-Caprivi |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=22 April 2021 |language=en}}</ref>