Editing October 7 (section)

===1601–1900===
*[[1612]] &ndash; [[Giovanni Battista Guarini]], Italian poet, playwright, and diplomat (b. 1538)
*[[1620]] &ndash; [[Stanisław Żółkiewski]], Polish-Lithuanian commander (b. 1547)
*[[1637]] &ndash; [[Victor Amadeus I, Duke of Savoy|Victor Amadeus I]], duke of [[Savoy]] (b. 1587)
*[[1651]] &ndash; [[Jacques Sirmond]], French scholar (b. 1559)
*[[1653]] &ndash; [[Fausto Poli]], Italian cardinal (b. 1581)
*[[1708]] &ndash; [[Guru Gobind Singh]], Indian 10th [[Sikh guru]] (b. 1666)
*[[1747]] &ndash; [[Giulia Lama]], Italian painter (b. 1681)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Gaze |first1=Delia |title=Concise Dictionary of Women Artists |date=2001 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=978-1-57958-335-4 |page=438 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V4h7A0XIN14C&pg=PA438 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[1772]] &ndash; [[John Woolman]], American preacher and abolitionist (b. 1720)
*[[1787]] &ndash; [[Henry Muhlenberg]], German-American pastor and missionary (b. 1711)
*[[1792]] &ndash; [[George Mason]], American lawyer and politician (b. 1725)
*[[1793]] &ndash; [[Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire]], English politician, [[President of the Board of Trade]] (b. 1718)
*[[1796]] &ndash; [[Thomas Reid]], Scottish mathematician and philosopher (b. 1710)
*[[1849]] &ndash; [[Edgar Allan Poe]], American short story writer, poet, and critic (b. 1809)
*[[1884]] &ndash; [[Bernard Petitjean]], French Roman Catholic missionary to Japan (b. 1829)
*[[1894]] &ndash; [[Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.]], American physician, author, and poet (b. 1809)