Editing May 19 (section)

===1601–1900===
*[[1601]] &ndash; [[Costanzo Porta]], Italian composer (b. 1528)
*[[1609]] &ndash; [[García Hurtado de Mendoza, 5th Marquis of Cañete]] (b. 1535)
*[[1610]] &ndash; [[Thomas Sanchez]], Spanish priest and theologian (b. 1550)
*[[1623]] &ndash; [[Mariam-uz-Zamani]], Empress of the Mughal Empire (b. 1542)
*[[1637]] &ndash; [[Isaac Beeckman]], Dutch scientist and philosopher (b. 1588)
*[[1715]] &ndash; [[Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax]], English poet and politician, [[Chancellor of the Exchequer]] (b. 1661)
*[[1777]] &ndash; [[Button Gwinnett]], British-born American politician and signer of the [[United States Declaration of Independence]] (b. 1735)<ref>{{Cite web |last=Deaton |first=Stan |date=August 1, 2019 |orig-date=January 23, 2004 |title=Button Gwinnett |url=https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/government-politics/button-gwinnett-1735-1777/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250220143428/https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/government-politics/button-gwinnett-1735-1777/ |archive-date=February 20, 2025 |access-date=March 27, 2025 |website=[[New Georgia Encyclopedia]]}}</ref>
*[[1786]] &ndash; [[John Stanley (composer)|John Stanley]], English organist and composer (b. 1712)
*[[1795]] &ndash; [[Josiah Bartlett]], American physician and politician, 4th [[Governor of New Hampshire]] (b. 1729)
*  1795 &ndash; [[James Boswell]], Scottish biographer (b. 1740)
*[[1798]] &ndash; [[William Byron, 5th Baron Byron]], English lieutenant and politician (b. 1722)
*[[1821]] &ndash; [[Camille Jordan (politician)|Camille Jordan]], French lawyer and politician (b. 1771)
*[[1825]] &ndash; [[Claude Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon]], French philosopher and theorist (b. 1760)
*[[1831]] &ndash; [[Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz]], Estonian-German physician, botanist, and entomologist (b. 1793)
*[[1864]] &ndash; [[Nathaniel Hawthorne]], American novelist and short story writer (b. 1804)
*[[1865]] &ndash; [[Sengge Rinchen]], Mongolian general (b. 1811)
*[[1872]] &ndash; [[John Baker (Australian politician)|John Baker]], English-Australian politician, 2nd [[Premier of South Australia]] (b. 1813)
*[[1876]] &ndash; [[Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer]], Dutch historian and politician (b. 1801)
*[[1885]] &ndash; [[Peter W. Barlow]], English engineer (b. 1809)
*[[1895]] &ndash; [[José Martí]], Cuban journalist, poet, and philosopher (b. 1853)
*[[1898]] &ndash; [[William Ewart Gladstone]], English lawyer and politician, [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] (b. 1809)