Editing July 8 (section)

===1601–1900===
*[[1623]] &ndash; [[Pope Gregory XV]] (b. 1554)
*[[1689]] &ndash; [[Edward Wooster]], English-American settler (b. 1622)
*[[1695]] &ndash; [[Christiaan Huygens]], Dutch mathematician, astronomer, and physicist (b. 1629)
*[[1716]] &ndash; [[Robert South]], English preacher and theologian (b. 1634)
*[[1721]] &ndash; [[Elihu Yale]], American-English merchant and philanthropist (b. 1649)
*[[1784]] &ndash; [[Torbern Bergman]], Swedish chemist and mineralogist (b. 1735)
*[[1794]] &ndash; [[Richard Mique]], French architect (b. 1728)
*[[1820]] &ndash; [[Octavia Taylor]], daughter of [[Zachary Taylor]] (b. 1816)
*[[1823]] &ndash; [[Henry Raeburn]], Scottish portrait painter (b. 1756)<ref>{{cite web |title=Sir Henry Raeburn (1756-1823) |url=https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/research/learning/hall-of-fame/hall-of-fame-a-z/raeburn-henry |website=National Records of Scotland |access-date=24 June 2022 |language=English |date=31 May 2013}}</ref>
*[[1822]] &ndash; [[Percy Bysshe Shelley]], English poet and playwright (b. 1792)
*[[1850]] &ndash; [[Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge]] (b. 1774)
*[[1859]] &ndash; [[Oscar I of Sweden]] (b. 1799)<ref>{{cite web |title=Oscar I {{!}} king of Sweden and Norway |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Oscar-I |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=15 December 2020 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[1873]] &ndash; [[Franz Xaver Winterhalter]], German painter and lithographer (b. 1805)
*[[1887]] &ndash; [[Ben Holladay]], American businessman (b. 1819)
*[[1895]] &ndash; [[Johann Josef Loschmidt]], Austrian chemist and physicist (b. 1821)