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===1601–1900===
*[[1616]] &ndash; [[Philip Henslowe]], English impresario (b. 1550)<ref>{{cite book|author=Daniel Vitkus|title=Three Turk Plays from Early Modern England: Selimus, Emperor of the Turks; A Christian Turned Turk; and The Renegado|url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780231110280|url-access=registration|date=5 February 2000|publisher=Columbia University Press|isbn=978-0-231-50528-4|pages=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780231110280/page/50 50]}}</ref>
*[[1646]] &ndash; [[Elias Holl]], German architect, designed the [[Augsburg Town Hall]] (b. 1573)
*[[1689]] &ndash; [[Seth Ward (bishop of Salisbury)|Seth Ward]], English bishop, mathematician, and astronomer (b. 1617)
*[[1693]] &ndash; [[Mehmed IV]], Ottoman sultan (b. 1642)<ref>{{cite book|author=John Freely|title=Inside the Seraglio: private lives of the sultans in Istanbul|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Za0TAQAAIAAJ|date=1 July 2001|publisher=Penguin|page=179|isbn=9780140270563}}</ref>
*[[1711]] &ndash; [[Philips van Almonde]], Dutch admiral (b. 1646)
*[[1718]] &ndash; [[Giovanni Vincenzo Gravina]], Italian lawyer and jurist (b. 1664)
*[[1725]] &ndash; [[Chikamatsu Monzaemon]], Japanese actor and playwright (b. 1653)
*[[1731]] &ndash; [[Étienne François Geoffroy]], French physician and chemist (b. 1672)<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle=Geoffroy, Étienne François|volume=11|page=618 |quote= He died in Paris on the 6th of January 1731}}</ref>
*[[1734]] &ndash; [[John Dennis (dramatist)|John Dennis]], English playwright and critic (b. 1657)<ref>{{cite book|title=Le Pour et contre: Nos 1-60|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4VwoAQAAIAAJ|year=1993|publisher=Institut et musée Voltaire|page=783}}</ref>
*[[1813]] &ndash; [[Louis Baraguey d'Hilliers]], French general (b. 1764)
*[[1829]] &ndash; [[Josef Dobrovský]], Czech philologist and historian (b. 1753)<ref>{{cite book|author=Milka Hipmanová|title=The Lands of the Bohemian Crown: Their History and Glory|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pcTUAAAAMAAJ|year=1947|publisher=M. Hipmanová|page=95}}</ref>
*[[1831]] &ndash; [[Rodolphe Kreutzer]], French violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1766)<ref>{{cite book|author1=Thomas Byerly|author2=John Timbs|title=The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nG9PAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA308|year=1833|publisher=J. Limbird|pages=308}}</ref>
*[[1840]] &ndash; [[Frances Burney]], English author and playwright (b. 1752)<ref>{{cite book|author=Fanny Burney|title=The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay (Frances Burney): 1792-1840|url=https://archive.org/details/diaryandletters25burngoog|year=1891|publisher=Vizetelly|page=[https://archive.org/details/diaryandletters25burngoog/page/n219 214]}}</ref>
*[[1852]] &ndash; [[Louis Braille]], French educator, invented [[Braille]] (b. 1809)<ref>{{cite book|title=The Education Quarterly|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vywiAQAAIAAJ|year=1952|publisher=Ministry of Education & Social Welfare|page=219}}</ref>
*[[1855]] &ndash; [[Giacomo Beltrami]], Italian jurist, explorer, and author (b. 1779)
*[[1882]] &ndash; [[Richard Henry Dana Jr.]], American lawyer and politician (b. 1815)<ref>{{cite web |title=Richard Henry Dana {{!}} Two Years Before the Mast, sailor, lawyer {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Richard-Henry-Dana |website=www.britannica.com |access-date=13 May 2025 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[1884]] &ndash; [[Gregor Mendel]], Czech geneticist and botanist (b. 1822)<ref>{{cite book|author1=Jagdish Mehra|author-link1=Jagdish Mehra |author2=Helmut Rechenberg |author-link2=Helmut Rechenberg |title=The Historical Development of Quantum Theory|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AwmQTGB8LwMC&pg=PA37|date=28 December 2000|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-0-387-95179-9|pages=37}}</ref>
*[[1885]] &ndash; [[Bharatendu Harishchandra]], Indian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1850)<ref>{{cite book|author=Manohar Bandopadhyay|title=Lives And Works Of Great Hindi Poets|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1OZjAAAAMAAJ|date=1 September 1994|publisher=B. R. Publ.|isbn=978-81-7018-786-8|page=79}}</ref>