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===1601–1900===
*[[1649]] &ndash; [[Jean de Brébeuf]], French-Canadian missionary and saint (b. 1593)<ref>{{cite web |last1=Latourelle |first1=René |title=Biography – BRÉBEUF, JEAN DE (Échon) |url=http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/brebeuf_jean_de_1E.html |website=Dictionary of Canadian Biography |access-date=12 September 2021 |archive-date=9 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211009085419/http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/brebeuf_jean_de_1E.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1679]] &ndash; [[John Leverett]], English general and politician, 19th [[Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony]] (b. 1616)
*[[1698]] &ndash; [[Leonora Christina Ulfeldt]], Danish countess, author of ''[[Jammers Minde]]'' (b. 1621)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Lund |first1=Emil Ferdinand Svitzer |title=Danske malede portraetter: en beskrivende katalog |volume=2 |date=1897 |publisher=Gyldendal |location=Copenhagen |pages=193–203 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GAkwAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA193 |language=da}}</ref>
*[[1721]] &ndash; [[James Craggs the Elder]], English politician, [[Postmaster General of the United Kingdom]] (b. 1657)
*[[1736]] &ndash; [[Giovanni Battista Pergolesi]], Italian composer (b. 1710)<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Baker |editor1-first=Christopher |title=Absolutism and the Scientific Revolution, 1600-1720: A Biographical Dictionary |date=2002 |publisher=Greenwood Press |location=Westport, Connecticut |isbn=978-0-313-30827-7 |page=297 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SDy-MtS9mvgC&pg=PA297 |chapter=Pergolesi, Giovanni Battista (1710-1736)}}</ref>
*[[1737]] &ndash; [[Benjamin Wadsworth (clergyman)|Benjamin Wadsworth]], American minister and academic (b. 1670)
*[[1738]] &ndash; [[George Bähr]], German architect, designed the [[Dresden Frauenkirche]] (b. 1666)
*[[1747]] &ndash; [[Christian August, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst]] (b. 1690)
*[[1804]] &ndash; [[Henrik Gabriel Porthan]], Finnish professor and historian (b. 1739)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://filosofia.fi/fi/biografia/porthan-henrik-gabriel-1739-1804|title=Porthan, Henrik Gabriel (1739–1804)|website=Filosofia.fi|date=21 September 2007|access-date=8 November 2023|language=fi|archive-date=8 November 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231108015625/https://filosofia.fi/fi/biografia/porthan-henrik-gabriel-1739-1804|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1838]] &ndash; [[Nathaniel Bowditch]], American ocean navigator and mathematician (b. 1773)<ref>{{cite book |title=American Practical Navigator: An Epitome of Navigation : Originally by Nathaniel Bowditch, LL.D. |date=1962 |publisher=U.S. Navy Hydrographic Office |location=Washington |pages=3–6 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1Hb0M1P8v3wC&pg=PA3 |access-date=29 October 2021 |chapter=Nathaniel Bowditch |archive-date=29 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211029002503/https://books.google.com/books?id=1Hb0M1P8v3wC&pg=PA3 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1841]] &ndash; [[Félix Savart]], French physicist and psychologist (b. 1791)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Greiner |first1=Walter |title=Classical Electrodynamics |date=6 December 2012 |publisher=Springer Science & Business Media |isbn=978-1-4612-0587-6 |page=517 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=acjcBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA517 |access-date=5 November 2021 |archive-date=5 November 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211105214913/https://books.google.com/books?id=acjcBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA517 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1868]] &ndash; [[David Wilmot (politician)|David Wilmot]], American politician, sponsor of [[Wilmot Proviso]] (b. 1814)
*[[1884]] &ndash; [[Art Croft]], American baseball player (b. 1855)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Lee |first1=Bill |title=The Baseball Necrology: The Post-Baseball Lives and Deaths of More Than 7,600 Major League Players and Others |date=11 July 2015 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-1-4766-0930-0 |page=87 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4oEwCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA87 |access-date=29 October 2021 |archive-date=29 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211029002503/https://books.google.com/books?id=4oEwCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA87 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1888]] &ndash; [[Hippolyte Carnot]], French politician (b. 1801)<ref>{{EB1911 |noprescript=1 |wstitle=Carnot, Lazare Hippolyte}}</ref>
*[[1892]] &ndash; [[Samuel F. Miller (U.S. politician)|Samuel F. Miller]], American politician (b. 1827)<ref>{{CongBio|M000752 |name=MILLER, Samuel Franklin |inline=yes}}</ref>
*[[1898]] &ndash; [[Aubrey Beardsley]], English author and illustrator (b. 1872)<ref>{{cite ODNB |last1=Crawford |first1=Alan |title=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |chapter=Beardsley, Aubrey Vincent (1872–1898), illustrator |page=<!-- online, no page numbers -->|date=23 September 2004 |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/1821 |doi-access=free}}</ref>
*[[1899]] &ndash; [[Joseph Medill]], American journalist and politician, 26th [[Mayor of Chicago]] (b. 1823)