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===1601–1900===
*[[1625]] &ndash; [[Orlando Gibbons]], English organist and composer (b. 1583)
*[[1667]] &ndash; [[Francesco Sforza Pallavicino]], Italian cardinal and historian (b. 1607)
*[[1708]] &ndash; [[Ignatius George II]], Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch (b. 1648)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Barsoum |first1=Ephrem |date=2009 |title=History of the Syriac Dioceses |volume=1 |publisher=Gorgias Press |translator=Matti Moosa |author-link=Ignatius Aphrem I Barsoum |page=1}}</ref>
*[[1716]] &ndash; [[Roger Cotes]], English mathematician and academic (b. 1682)
*[[1722]] &ndash; [[Johann Kuhnau]], German organist and composer (b. 1660)
*[[1738]] &ndash; [[Isaac de Beausobre]], French pastor and theologian (b. 1659)
*[[1740]] &ndash; [[Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Kent]], English politician and courtier (b. 1671)
*[[1791]] &ndash; [[Frederick Haldimand]], Swiss-Canadian general and politician, 22nd [[List of Governors General of Canada|Governor of Quebec]] (b. 1718)
*[[1816]] &ndash; [[Giovanni Paisiello]], Italian composer and educator (b. 1741)
*[[1825]] &ndash; [[Odysseas Androutsos]], Greek soldier (b. 1788)
*[[1826]] &ndash; [[Carl Maria von Weber]], German pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1786)
*[[1866]] &ndash; [[John McDouall Stuart]], Scottish explorer and surveyor (b. 1815)
*[[1899]] &ndash; [[Antonio Luna]], Filipino general (b. 1866)
*[[1900]] &ndash; [[Stephen Crane]], American poet, novelist, and short story writer (b. 1871)