Editing October 5 (section)

===1601–1900===
*[[1606]] &ndash; [[Philippe Desportes]], French poet and author (b. 1546)
*[[1629]] &ndash; [[Heribert Rosweyde]], Jesuit hagiographer (b. 1569)
*[[1714]] &ndash; [[Kaibara Ekken]], Japanese botanist and philosopher (b. 1630)
*[[1740]] &ndash; [[Jean-Philippe Baratier]], German astronomer and scholar (b. 1721)
*[[1777]] &ndash; [[Johann Andreas Segner]], Slovak-German mathematician, physicist, and physician (b. 1704)
*[[1802]] &ndash; [[Sanité Bélair]], Haitian freedom fighter (b. 1781)<ref>{{Cite book |title=The Black Jacobins; Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution. |last=James |first=C. L. R |date=1963 |publisher=Vintage Books |isbn=0394702425 |location=New York |pages=252 |language=en |oclc=362702}}</ref>
*[[1805]] &ndash; [[Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis]], English general and politician, [[Lord Lieutenant of Ireland]] (b. 1738)
*[[1813]] &ndash; [[Tecumseh]], American tribal leader (b. 1768)
*[[1827]] &ndash; [[William Mullins, 2nd Baron Ventry]], Anglo-Irish politician and peer (b. 1761)
*[[1848]] &ndash; [[Joseph Hormayr, Baron zu Hortenburg]], Austrian-German historian and politician (b. 1781)
*[[1861]] &ndash; [[Antoni Melchior Fijałkowski]], Polish archbishop (b. 1778)
*[[1880]] &ndash; [[Jacques Offenbach]], German-French cellist and composer (b. 1819)
*[[1885]] &ndash; [[Thomas C. Durant]], American railroad tycoon (b. 1820)
*[[1895]] &ndash; [[Ralph Tollemache]], English priest (b. 1826)