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===1601–1900===
*[[1617]] &ndash; [[Hendrik Goltzius]], Dutch painter and illustrator (b. 1558)<ref>{{cite book|author=Ira Moskowitz|title=Great Drawings of All Time: German, Flemish and Dutch, thirteenth through nineteenth century|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h-dOAAAAYAAJ|year=1976|publisher=Kodansha International|isbn=978-0-87011-291-1}}</ref>
*[[1697]] &ndash; [[Filippo Baldinucci]], Florentine historian and author (b. 1625)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/filippo-baldinucci_%28Dizionario-Biografico%29/|title=BALDINUCCI, Filippo|website=Traccani|publisher=Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani|access-date=7 January 2019|archive-date=17 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160317004118/http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/filippo-baldinucci_%28Dizionario-Biografico%29/|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1716]] &ndash; [[William Wycherley]], English playwright and poet (b. 1641)<ref>{{cite book|author1=Paul Baines|author2=Julian Ferraro|author3=Pat Rogers|title=The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Eighteenth-Century Writers and Writing 1660 - 1789|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bDheyN3vRmUC&pg=PT563|date=28 December 2010|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=978-1-4443-9008-7|page=563}}</ref>
*[[1748]] &ndash; [[Johann Bernoulli]], Swiss mathematician and academic (b. 1667)<ref>{{cite book|author=Hans Niels Jahnke|title=A History of Analysis|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CVRZEXFVsZkC&pg=PA106|publisher=American Mathematical Soc.|isbn=978-0-8218-9050-9|page=106}}</ref>
*[[1766]] – [[James Francis Edward Stuart]], Jacobite pretender (b. 1688)<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-03-15 |title=James Edward, the Old Pretender {{!}} Jacobite Rebellion, Stuart Dynasty, Catholic Monarch {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/James-Edward-the-Old-Pretender |access-date=2024-03-24 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en |archive-date=2023-06-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230605212057/https://www.britannica.com/biography/James-Edward-the-Old-Pretender |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1780]] &ndash; [[Johann Ludwig Krebs]], German organist and composer (b. 1713)<ref>{{cite book|author=David Mason Greene|title=Greene's Biographical Encyclopedia of Composers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m3S7PIxe0mwC&pg=PA310|year=1985|publisher=Reproducing Piano Roll Fnd.|isbn=978-0-385-14278-6|page=310}}</ref>
*[[1782]] &ndash; [[Johann Christian Bach]], German composer (b. 1735)<ref>{{cite book|author=Otto Erich Deutsch|title=Mozart: A Documentary Biography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e8AtwaddUW4C&pg=PA199|date=1 June 1966|publisher=Stanford University Press|isbn=978-0-8047-0233-1|page=199}}</ref>
*[[1789]] &ndash; [[Fletcher Norton, 1st Baron Grantley]], English lawyer and politician, [[Speaker of the House of Commons (United Kingdom)|British Speaker of the House of Commons]] (b. 1716)<ref>{{cite book|title=Belle Assemblée: Or, Court and Fashionable Magazine; Containing Interesting and Original Literature, and Records of the Beau-monde|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vcERAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA140|year=1827|publisher=J. Bell|page=140}}</ref>
*[[1793]] &ndash; [[Francesco Guardi]], Italian painter and educator (b. 1712)<ref>{{cite book|author1=Museum of Fine Arts (Springfield, Mass.)|author2=John Lee Clarke|title=Francesco Guardi, 1712-1793|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hnMZAAAAIAAJ|year=1937|publisher=City Library Association}}</ref>
*[[1817]] &ndash; [[Martin Heinrich Klaproth]], German chemist and academic (b. 1743)<ref>{{cite book|title=The Musk-ox|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ocmAAAAAMAAJ|year=1978|publisher=Institute for Northern Studies, University of Saskatchewan.}}</ref>
*[[1846]] &ndash; [[John Torrington]], English sailor and explorer (b. 1825)<ref>{{cite book|author1=Jane Downes|author2=Tony Pollard|title=The Loved Body's Corruption: Archaeological Contributions to the Study of Human Mortality|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DbzfAAAAMAAJ|year=1999|publisher=Cruithne Press|isbn=978-1-873448-06-9}}</ref>
*[[1853]] &ndash; [[Gregory Blaxland]], Australian farmer and explorer (b. 1778)<ref>{{cite book|author=Frank Clune|title=Serenade to Sydney: some historical landmarks|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=z8YhAAAAMAAJ|year=1967|publisher=Angus and Robertson}}</ref>
*[[1862]] &ndash; [[Mikhail Ostrogradsky]], Ukrainian mathematician and physicist (b. 1801)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://bigenc.ru/mathematics/text/2682480|title=ОСТРОГРАДСКИЙ • Большая российская энциклопедия - электронная версия|website=bigenc.ru|access-date=2019-01-07|archive-date=2022-04-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220401122757/https://bigenc.ru/mathematics/text/2682480|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_jqUZIUXZBsC&q=Mikhail+Vasilyevich+Ostrogradsky&pg=PA179|title=Dimensionless Physical Quantities in Science and Engineering|first=Josef|last=Kunes|date=February 13, 2012|publisher=Elsevier|isbn=9780123914583|via=Google Books}}</ref>
*[[1881]] &ndash; [[Louis Auguste Blanqui]], French activist (b. 1805)<ref>{{cite book|title=Johnson's New Universal Cyclopædia: A Scientific and Popular Treasury of Useful Knowledge .... Supplement. First &#91;-Third&#93; biennial|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YFYoAQAAIAAJ|publisher=A. J. Johnson & Son}}</ref>
*[[1892]] &ndash; [[Roswell B. Mason]], American lawyer and politician, 25th [[Mayor of Chicago]] (b. 1805)<ref>{{cite book|author1=Newton Bateman|author2=Paul Selby|author3=Josiah Seymour Currey|title=Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois: Biographical, Memorial, Illustrative|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=88hEAQAAMAAJ|year=1920|publisher=Munsell}}</ref>
*[[1894]] &ndash; [[Heinrich Hertz]], German physicist and academic (b. 1857)<ref>{{cite book|title=Telecommunication Journal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gh0gAQAAMAAJ|year=1989|publisher=International Telecommunication Union.}}</ref>
*[[1896]] &ndash; [[Alfred Ely Beach]], American publisher and lawyer, created the [[Beach Pneumatic Transit]] (b. 1826)<ref>{{cite news |title=Funeral of Alfred Ely Beach. His Wife Arrives from Europe Just Before the Services. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1896/01/07/archives/funeral-of-alfred-el-beach-his-wife-arrives-from-europe-just-before.html |quote=The funeral of Alfred Ely Beach, the Inventor, who died on New Year's morning of pneumonia, after a brief Illness, was held yesterday morning at 9 West ... |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=January 7, 1896 |access-date=2008-07-15 |archive-date=2022-06-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220618133333/https://www.nytimes.com/1896/01/07/archives/funeral-of-alfred-el-beach-his-wife-arrives-from-europe-just-before.html |url-status=live }}</ref>