Editing February 7 (section)

===1601–1900===
*[[1603]] &ndash; [[Bartholomäus Sastrow]], German politician (b. 1520)
*[[1623]] – [[Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter]], English soldier and politician, [[Lord Lieutenant of Northamptonshire]] (b. 1546)<ref>{{Cite web |title=CECIL, Thomas (1542-1623), of Burghley House, Lincs. and Wimbledon, Surr. {{!}} History of Parliament Online |url=https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/cecil-thomas-1542-1623 |access-date=2023-10-04 |website=www.historyofparliamentonline.org}}</ref>
*[[1626]] &ndash; [[William V, Duke of Bavaria]] (b. 1548)<ref>{{cite book|last=Klingensmith|first=Samuel John|title=The Utility of Splendor: Ceremony, Social Life, and Architecture at the Court of Bavaria, 1600-1800|publisher=University of Chicago Press|year=1993|page=204}}</ref>
*[[1642]] &ndash; [[William Bedell]], English bishop and academic (b. 1571)<ref>{{cite book | last = Shuckburgh | first = Evelyn | title = Two biographies of William Bedell : with a selection of his letters and an unpublished treatise | publisher = Cambridge University Press | location = Cambridge | year = 2015 | isbn = 9781107463905 |page=xi}}</ref>
*[[1693]] &ndash; [[Paul Pellisson]], French lawyer and author (b. 1624)<ref>{{cite book|last=Yust|first=Walter|title=Encyclopaedia Britannica: A New Survey of Universal Knowledge|publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica|year=1952|page=451}}</ref>
*[[1736]] &ndash; [[Stephen Gray (scientist)|Stephen Gray]], English astronomer and physicist (b. 1666)<ref>{{cite book | last = Bracher | first = Katherine | title = The biographical encyclopedia of astronomers | publisher = Springer | location = New York, NY | year = 2007 | isbn = 9780387304007 |page=436}}</ref>
*[[1779]] &ndash; [[William Boyce (composer)|William Boyce]], English organist and composer (b. 1711)<ref>{{cite book | last = Humphreys | first = Maggie | title = Dictionary of composers for the Church in Great Britain and Ireland | publisher = Mansell | location = London Herndon, VA | year = 1997 | isbn = 9780720123302 |page=39}}</ref>
*[[1799]] &ndash; [[Qianlong Emperor]] of China (b. 1711)
*[[1801]] &ndash; [[Daniel Chodowiecki]], Polish-German painter and academic (b. 1726)<ref>{{cite book | last = Sieveking | first = Hinrich | title = Fuseli to Menzel : drawings and watercolors in the age of Goethe from a German private collection | publisher = Prestel | location = Munich New York | year = 1998 | isbn = 9783791319292 |page=204}}</ref>
*[[1819]] &ndash; [[August Wilhelm Hupel]], German-Estonian linguist and author (b. 1737)
*[[1823]] &ndash; [[Ann Radcliffe]], English author (b. 1764)<ref>{{cite book | last = Miles | first = Robert | title = Ann Radcliffe : the great enchantress | publisher = Manchester University Press New York Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press | location = Manchester New York | year = 1995 | isbn = 9780719038297 |page=25}}</ref>
*[[1837]] &ndash; [[Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden]] (b. 1778)
*[[1849]] &ndash; [[Mariano Paredes (President of Mexico)|Mariano Paredes]], Mexican general and 16th president (1845–1846) (b. 1797)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://presidentes.mx/mariano-paredes-y-arrillaga|title=Mariano Paredes y Arrillaga|publisher=Presidentes.mx|language=es|access-date=May 27, 2019|archive-date=May 28, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190528032142/https://presidentes.mx/mariano-paredes-y-arrillaga|url-status=dead}}</ref>
*[[1862]] &ndash; [[Francisco de Paula Martínez de la Rosa y Berdejo]], Spanish playwright and politician, [[Prime Minister of Spain]] (b. 1787)
*[[1864]] &ndash; [[Vuk Karadžić]], Serbian philologist and linguist (b. 1787)
*[[1871]] &ndash; [[Henry E. Steinway]], German-American businessman, founded [[Steinway & Sons]] (b. 1797)<ref>{{cite book | last = Slonimsky | first = Nicolas | title = Baker's biographical dictionary of musicians | publisher = Schirmer Books Collier Macmillan | location = New York London | year = 1984 | isbn = 9780028702407 |page=1659}}</ref>
*[[1873]] &ndash; [[Sheridan Le Fanu]], Irish author (b. 1814)<ref>{{cite book | last = Melada | first = Ivan | title = Sheridan Le Fanu | publisher = Twayne Publishers | location = Boston | year = 1987 | isbn = 9780805769371 | page=12}}</ref>
*[[1878]] &ndash; [[Pope Pius IX]] (b. 1792)<ref>{{cite book | last = Patriarca | first = Silvana | title = The Risorgimento revisited : nationalism and culture in nineteenth-century Italy | publisher = Palgrave Macmillan | location = Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire New York | year = 2012 | isbn = 9780230362758 |page=188}}</ref>
*[[1891]] &ndash; [[Marie Louise Andrews]], American story writer and journalist  (b. 1849)
*[[1897]] &ndash; [[Galileo Ferraris]], Italian physicist and engineer (b. 1847)<ref>{{cite book|title=Alta frequenza|publisher=Associazione elettrotecnica italiana|year=1978|pages=531–2}}</ref>