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===1601–1900===
*[[1612]] &ndash; [[Leonard Holliday]], Lord Mayor of London (b. 1550)
*[[1622]] &ndash; [[Alix Le Clerc]], French Canoness Regular and foundress (b. 1576)<ref>{{cite book|first=Sarah|last=Gallick|title=The Big Book of Women Saints|location=San Francisco|publisher=HarperCollins|year=2007|page=17|isbn=978-0-06082-512-6}}</ref>
*[[1757]] &ndash; [[Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle]], French author, poet, and playwright (b. 1657)<ref>{{cite web |title=Bernard Le Bovier, sieur de Fontenelle {{!}} French author and scientist |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Bernard-Le-Bovier-sieur-de-Fontenelle |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=11 February 2020 |language=en |archive-date=7 February 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200207003341/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Bernard-Le-Bovier-sieur-de-Fontenelle |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1762]] &ndash; [[Antonio de Benavides]], colonial governor of Florida (b. 1678)<ref name="Millares1872">{{cite book|author=Agustín Millares|title=Biografias de canarios célebres|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Uq_-FgdNIbsC&pg=PA120|year=1872|publisher=Imp. de Víctor Doreste|pages=120–121}}</ref>
*[[1766]] &ndash; [[Thomas Birch]], English historian and author (b. 1705)
*[[1799]] &ndash; [[Maria Gaetana Agnesi]], Italian mathematician and philosopher (b. 1718)<ref>{{cite book|first=Catharine M. C.|last=Haines|title=International Women in Science: A Biographical Dictionary to 1950|location=Santa Barbara|publisher=ABC-CLIO|year=2001|isbn=978-1-57607-090-1|page=4}}</ref>
*[[1800]] &ndash; [[Jean Étienne Championnet]], French general (b. 1762)
*[[1805]] &ndash; [[Noble Wimberly Jones]], American physician and politician (b. 1723)
*[[1833]] &ndash; [[Adrien-Marie Legendre]], French mathematician and theorist (b. 1752)
*[[1843]] &ndash; [[William Hedley]], English engineer (b. 1773)<ref>{{cite book|author=Sir Norman Lockyer|title=Nature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cTU6AQAAMAAJ|year=1922|publisher=Macmillan Journals Limited|page=29}}</ref>
*[[1848]] &ndash; [[Caroline Herschel]], German-English astronomer (b. 1750)<ref>{{cite web |title=Caroline Herschel {{!}} Biography, Discoveries, & Facts |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Caroline-Lucretia-Herschel |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=22 January 2020 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[1856]] &ndash; [[Neophytos Vamvas]], Greek cleric and educator (b. 1770)
*[[1858]] &ndash; [[Anson Jones]], American physician and politician; 4th [[President of the Republic of Texas]] (b. 1798)
*[[1873]] &ndash; [[Napoleon III]], French politician, 1st [[President of France]] (b. 1808)
*[[1876]] &ndash; [[Samuel Gridley Howe]], American physician and activist (b. 1801)
*[[1878]] &ndash; [[Victor Emmanuel II of Italy]] (b. 1820)
*[[1895]] &ndash; [[Aaron Lufkin Dennison]], American-English businessman (b. 1812)