Editing October 20 (section)

===1601–1900===
*[[1602]] &ndash; [[Walter Leveson]], Elizabethan member of parliament, Shropshire landowner (b. 1550)
*[[1640]] &ndash; [[John Ball (Puritan)|John Ball]], English clergyman and theologian (b. 1585)
*[[1652]] &ndash; [[Antonio Coello]], Spanish poet and playwright (b. 1611)
*[[1713]] &ndash; [[Archibald Pitcairne]], Scottish physician and academic (b. 1652)
*[[1740]] &ndash; [[Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor]] (b. 1685)
*[[1865]] &ndash; [[Champ Ferguson]], American [[Guerrilla warfare in the American Civil War|guerrilla]] leader (b. 1821)
*[[1870]] &ndash; [[Michael William Balfe]], Irish violinist and composer (b. 1808)
*[[1871]] &ndash; [[Karl Christian Ulmann]], Latvian-German theologian and academic (b. 1793)
*[[1880]] &ndash; [[Lydia Maria Child]], American journalist, author, and activist (b. 1802)<ref>{{cite web |title=Lydia Maria Child {{!}} American author |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lydia-Maria-Child |website=Encyclopædia Britannica |access-date=13 February 2020 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[1883]] &ndash; [[George Chichester, 3rd Marquess of Donegall]] (b. 1797)
*[[1890]] &ndash; [[Richard Francis Burton]], English-Italian geographer and explorer (b. 1821) 
*[[1894]] &ndash; [[James Anthony Froude]], English historian, novelist, biographer and editor (b. 1818)
*[[1900]] &ndash; [[Naim Frashëri]], Albanian poet and translator (b. 1846)