Editing May 18 (section)

===1601–1900===
*[[1675]] &ndash; [[Stanisław Lubieniecki]], Polish astronomer, historian, and theologian (b. 1623)
*  1675   &ndash; [[Jacques Marquette]], French-American missionary and explorer (b. 1637)
*[[1692]] &ndash; [[Elias Ashmole]], English astrologer and politician (b. 1617)
*[[1721]] &ndash; [[Maria Barbara Carillo]], victim of the [[Spanish Inquisition]] (b.1625)
*[[1733]] &ndash; [[Georg Böhm]], German organist and composer (b. 1661)
*[[1780]] &ndash; [[Charles Hardy]], English-American admiral and politician, 29th [[List of colonial governors of New York|Colonial Governor of New York]] (b. 1714)
*[[1781]] &ndash; [[Túpac Amaru II]], Peruvian indigenous rebel leader (b. 1742)
*[[1792]] &ndash; [[Levy Solomons]], Canadian merchant and fur trader (b. 1730)
*[[1795]] &ndash; [[Robert Rogers (soldier)|Robert Rogers]], English colonel (b. 1731)
*[[1799]] &ndash; [[Pierre Beaumarchais]], French playwright and publisher (b. 1732)
*[[1800]] &ndash; [[Alexander Suvorov]], Russian general (b. 1729)
*[[1807]] &ndash; [[John Douglas (bishop of Salisbury)|John Douglas]], Scottish bishop and scholar (b. 1721)
*[[1808]] &ndash; [[Elijah Craig]], American minister, inventor, and educator, invented [[Bourbon whiskey]] (b. 1738)
*[[1844]] &ndash; [[Richard McCarty (U.S. politician)|Richard McCarty]], American lawyer and politician (b. 1780)
*[[1853]] &ndash; [[Lionel Kieseritzky]], Estonian-French chess player (b. 1806)
*[[1867]] &ndash; [[Clarkson Frederick Stanfield|Clarkson Stanfield]], English painter (b. 1793)
*[[1889]] &ndash; [[Isabella Glyn]], Scottish-English actress (b. 1823)
*[[1900]] &ndash; [[Félix Ravaisson-Mollien]], French archaeologist and philosopher (b. 1813)