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===1601–1900===
*[[1620]] &ndash; [[Amar Singh I]], ruler of Mewar (b. 1559)<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qHnHHwAACAAJ |title=History of Medieval India: 800-1700 |author=Satish Chandra |publisher=Orient BlackSwan |year=2007 |isbn=978-8125032267 |access-date=2020-09-24 |archive-date=2023-03-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230310204403/https://books.google.com/books?id=qHnHHwAACAAJ |url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1630]] &ndash; [[Henry Briggs (mathematician)|Henry Briggs]], English mathematician and astronomer (b. 1556)<ref>{{EB1911|wstitle=Briggs, Henry|volume=4|noprescript=1}}</ref>
*[[1641]] &ndash; [[Lawrence Hyde (attorney-general)|Lawrence Hyde]], English lawyer (b. 1562)<ref>"[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/alumni-oxon/1500-1714/pp748-784 Horrobin-Hyte] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220520043727/https://www.british-history.ac.uk/alumni-oxon/1500-1714/pp748-784 |date=2022-05-20 }}," in ''Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714'', ed. Joseph Foster (Oxford: University of Oxford, 1891), 748-784. ''British History Online'', accessed April 26, 2022.</ref>
*[[1697]] &ndash; [[Georg Mohr]], Danish mathematician and theorist (b. 1640)<ref>{{MacTutor Biography|id=Mohr|title=Georg Mohr}}</ref>
*[[1744]] &ndash; [[Ludwig Andreas von Khevenhüller]], Austrian field marshal (b. 1683)<ref>{{EB1911|wstitle=Khevenhüller, Ludwig Andreas|volume=15|page=776|noprescript=1}}</ref>
*[[1750]] &ndash; [[Albert Schultens]], Dutch philologist and academic (b. 1686)<ref>{{EB1911|wstitle=Schultens|volume=24|page=382|noprescript=1}}</ref>
*[[1795]] &ndash; [[Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach]], German [[harpsichord]] player and composer (b. 1732)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bach |first1=Johann Christoph Friedrich |title=Four Late Sinfonias |date=1 January 1988 |publisher=A-R Editions, Inc. |isbn=978-0-89579-226-6 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=93qDxwV0tXwC&pg=PR7}}</ref>
*[[1799]] &ndash; [[Gabriel Christie (British Army officer)|Gabriel Christie]], Scottish general (b. 1722)<ref>{{cite DCB |last1=Ouellet |first1=Fernand |title=Christie, Gabriel |url=http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/christie_gabriel_4E.html |volume=4 |access-date=13 April 2022}}</ref>
*[[1814]] &ndash; [[Manuel do Cenáculo]], Portuguese prelate and antiquarian (b. 1724)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.arqnet.pt/dicionario/vilasbcenaculo.html |title=Vilas Boas (D. frei Manuel do Cenáculo) |language=pt |last=Torres |first=João Romano |website=Portugal – Dicionário Histórico, Corográfico, Heráldico, Biográfico, Bibliográfico, Numismático e Artístico, Volume VII |access-date=15 November 2020 |archive-date=6 August 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160806103022/http://www.arqnet.pt/dicionario/vilasbcenaculo.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1823]] &ndash; [[Edward Jenner]], English physician and immunologist, creator of the [[smallpox vaccine]] (b. 1749)<ref>{{cite journal |first=Stefan |last=Riedel |pmc=1200696 |title=Edward Jenner and the history of smallpox and vaccination |journal=Proceedings (Baylor University. Medical Center) |volume=18 |issue=1 |pages=21–25 |date=January 2005 |publisher=Baylor University Medical Center |pmid=16200144 |doi=10.1080/08998280.2005.11928028}}</ref>
*[[1824]] &ndash; [[Théodore Géricault]], French painter and lithographer (b. 1791)<ref name=nie>{{NIE|wstitle=Géricault, Jean-Louis André Théodore|year=1906|inline=1|noprescript=1}}</ref>
*[[1830]] &ndash; [[Filippo Castagna]], Maltese politician (b. 1765)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Schiavone |first1=Michael J. |title=Dictionary of Maltese Biographies Vol. 1 A–F |date=2009 |publisher=Pubblikazzjonijiet Indipendenza |location=[[Pietà, Malta|Pietà]] |isbn=9789993291329 |pages=546–547}}</ref>
*[[1849]] &ndash; [[Thomas Lovell Beddoes]], English poet, playwright, and physician (b. 1803)<ref>{{cite DNB |wstitle=Beddoes, Thomas Lovell |first=Edmund |last=Gosse |volume=4}}</ref>
*[[1855]] &ndash; [[Gérard de Nerval]], French poet and translator (b. 1808)<ref>{{cite web |title=Gérard de Nerval |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Gerard-de-Nerval |website=Encyclopædia Britannica |access-date=11 April 2022 |archive-date=12 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220312140906/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Gerard-de-Nerval |url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1860]] &ndash; [[Wilhelmine Schröder-Devrient]], opera singer (b. 1804)<ref>{{cite book |author1=Richard Wagner |author2=Wagner, Edward |title=Richard Wagner: My Life |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=S243AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA774 |date=17 November 1983 |publisher=CUP Archive |isbn=978-0-521-22929-6 |pages=774}}</ref>
*[[1869]] &ndash; [[Duncan Gordon Boyes]], English soldier; [[Victoria Cross]] recipient (b. 1846)<ref>{{cite book |last=Izzard |first=Brian |year=2018 |title=Glory and Dishonour: Victoria Cross Heroes Whose Lives Ended in Tragedy or Disgrace |publisher=Amberley |isbn=978-14456-7649-4 |location=Chapter 9: Suicide at Dunedin}}</ref>
*[[1885]] &ndash; [[Edward Davy]], English-Australian physician and engineer (b. 1806)<ref name="adb Gibberd" />
*  1885   &ndash; [[Charles George Gordon]], English general and politician (b. 1833)<ref>{{cite web |last1=Hickman |first1=Kennedy |title=Mahdist War: Siege of Khartoum |url=https://www.thoughtco.com/mahdist-war-siege-of-khartoum-2361378 |website=ThoughtCo |access-date=25 March 2022 |date=2 December 2019 |archive-date=25 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220325155121/https://www.thoughtco.com/mahdist-war-siege-of-khartoum-2361378 |url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1886]] &ndash; [[David Rice Atchison]], American general and politician (b. 1807)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=A000322 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150620180150/http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=A000322 |archive-date=20 June 2015 |title=Atchison, David Rice (1807-1886) |website=Biographical Dictionary of the United States Congress}}</ref>
*[[1887]] &ndash; [[Anandi Gopal Joshi]], one of the first female Indian physicians (b. 1865)<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/lifedranandabai02dallgoog |title=The Life of Dr. Anandabai Joshee: A Kinswoman of the Pundita Ramabai |last=Dall |first=Caroline Wells Healey |date=1888 |publisher=Roberts Brothers |page=[https://archive.org/details/lifedranandabai02dallgoog/page/n206 13]}}</ref>
*[[1891]] &ndash; [[Nicolaus Otto]], German engineer, invented the [[Internal combustion engine]] (b. 1833)<ref>{{cite web |title=Nicolaus August Otto |url=http://www.rheinische-geschichte.lvr.de/Persoenlichkeiten/nicolaus-august-otto/DE-2086/lido/57c95767d405d6.69524041 |website=Rheinische Geschichte |access-date=22 February 2022 |language=de |archive-date=22 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220222183032/http://www.rheinische-geschichte.lvr.de/Persoenlichkeiten/nicolaus-august-otto/DE-2086/lido/57c95767d405d6.69524041 |url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1893]] &ndash; [[Abner Doubleday]], American general (b. 1819)<ref>{{cite web |title=Abner Doubleday |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Abner-Doubleday |website=Encyclopædia Britannica |access-date=22 February 2022 |archive-date=24 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220224110139/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Abner-Doubleday |url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1895]] &ndash; [[Arthur Cayley]], English mathematician and academic (b. 1825)<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Feldmann |first1=Richard W. |title=I. Arthur Cayley—founder of matrix theory |journal=The Mathematics Teacher |date=October 1962 |volume=55 |issue=6 |pages=482–484 |doi=10.5951/MT.55.6.0482 |jstor=27956657 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/27956657 |issn=0025-5769 |access-date=2022-02-22 |archive-date=2022-02-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220211180724/https://www.jstor.org/stable/27956657 |url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1896]] &ndash; [[James Edwin Campbell (poet)|James Edwin Campbell]], American educator, school administrator, newspaper editor, poet, and essayist (b. 1867)<ref name="Poetry Foundation 1" /><ref name="The Daily Herald 1" /><ref name="The Richwood Gazette 1" />