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===1601–1900===
*[[1616]] &ndash; [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]], Japanese shogun (b. 1543)
*[[1625]] &ndash; [[Honoré d'Urfé]], French author and poet (b. 1568)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Warner |first1=Charles Dudley |title=A Library of the World's Best Literature - Ancient and Modern - Vol.XLIII (Forty-Five Volumes); Dictionary of Authors (K-Z) |date=2008 |publisher=Cosimo, Inc. |isbn=978-1-60520-251-8 |page=539 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=j6k3F_89oyEC&pg=PA539 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[1639]] &ndash; [[Melchior Franck]], German composer (b. 1579)
*[[1660]] &ndash; [[Mary Dyer]], English-American martyr (b. 1611)
*[[1662]] &ndash; [[Zhu Youlang]], Chinese emperor (b. 1623)
*[[1681]] &ndash; [[Cornelis Saftleven]], Dutch genre painter (b. 1607)
*[[1710]] &ndash; [[David Mitchell (Royal Navy officer)|David Mitchell]], Scottish admiral and politician (b. 1642)
*[[1740]] &ndash; [[Samuel Werenfels]], Swiss theologian (b. 1657)
*[[1769]] &ndash; [[Edward Holyoke]], American pastor and academic (b. 1689)
*[[1773]] &ndash; [[Wolraad Woltemade]], South African folk hero (b. 1708)
*[[1795]] &ndash; [[Pierre-Joseph Desault]], French anatomist and surgeon (b. 1744)
*[[1815]] &ndash; [[Louis-Alexandre Berthier]], French general and politician, [[Minister of Defence (France)|French Minister of War]] (b. 1753)
*[[1823]] &ndash; [[Louis-Nicolas Davout]], French general and politician, [[Minister of Defence (France)|French Minister of War]] (b. 1770)
*[[1826]] &ndash; [[J. F. Oberlin]], French pastor and philanthropist (b. 1740)
*[[1830]] &ndash; [[Swaminarayan]], Indian religious leader (b. 1781)
*[[1833]] &ndash; [[Oliver Wolcott Jr.]], American lawyer and politician, 2nd [[United States Secretary of the Treasury]], 24th [[Governor of Connecticut]] (b. 1760)
*[[1841]] &ndash; [[David Wilkie (artist)|David Wilkie]], Scottish painter and academic (b. 1785)
*[[1846]] &ndash; [[Pope Gregory XVI]] (b. 1765)
*[[1861]] &ndash; [[John Quincy Marr]], American captain (b. 1825)
*[[1864]] &ndash; [[Hong Xiuquan]], Chinese rebel, led the [[Taiping Rebellion]] (b. 1812)
*[[1868]] &ndash; [[James Buchanan]], American lawyer and politician, 15th [[President of the United States]] (b. 1791)
*[[1872]] &ndash; [[James Gordon Bennett, Sr.]], American publisher, founded the ''[[New York Herald]]''  (b. 1795)
*[[1873]] &ndash; [[Joseph Howe]], Canadian journalist and politician, 5th [[Premier of Nova Scotia]] (b. 1804)
*[[1876]] &ndash; [[Hristo Botev]], Bulgarian poet and journalist (b. 1848)
*[[1879]] &ndash; [[Napoléon, Prince Imperial]] of France (b. 1856)<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Gilman |editor1-first=Daniel Coit |editor2-last=Peck |editor2-first=Harry Thurston |editor3-last=Colby |editor3-first=Frank Moore |title=The New International Encyclopaedia |date=1906 |publisher=Dodd, Mead & Co. |location=New York |page=246 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RTorAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA245 |access-date=10 October 2021 |chapter=NAPOLEON, Eugène Louis Jean Joseph}}</ref>