Editing September 28 (section)

===1601–1900===
*[[1618]] &ndash; [[Josuah Sylvester]], English poet and translator (b. 1563)
*[[1687]] &ndash; [[Francis Turretin]], Swiss-Italian theologian and academic (b. 1623)
*[[1694]] &ndash; [[Gabriel Mouton]], French mathematician and theologian (b. 1618)
*[[1702]] &ndash; [[Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of Sunderland]], French-English lawyer and politician, [[Lord President of the Council]] (b. 1640)
*[[1742]] &ndash; [[Jean Baptiste Massillon]], French bishop (b. 1663)
*[[1805]] &ndash; [[Christoph Franz von Buseck]], Prince-Bishop of Bamberg (b. 1724)<ref>{{cite book |title=Schematismus des Erzbistums Bamberg (Schematism of the Archdiocese of Bamberg) |last= |first= |year=1876 |publisher=Archdiocese of Bamberg |location=Bamberg |page=28 |isbn= |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K_loAAAAcAAJ}}</ref>
*[[1829]] &ndash; [[Nikolay Raevsky]], Russian general and politician (b. 1771)
*[[1844]] &ndash; [[Pyotr Aleksandrovich Tolstoy]], Russian general and politician (b. 1769) 
*[[1859]] &ndash; [[Carl Ritter]], German geographer and academic (b. 1779)
*[[1873]] &ndash; [[Émile Gaboriau]], French journalist and author (b. 1832)
*[[1882]] &ndash; [[Amunda Kolderup]], Norwegian opera singer (b. 1846)<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |last=Haavet |first=Inger Elisabeth |title=Amunda Kolderup |url=https://nbl.snl.no/Amunda_Kolderup |encyclopedia=[[Norsk biografisk leksikon]] |access-date=20 January 2025 |language=no}}</ref>
*[[1891]] &ndash; [[Herman Melville]], American author and poet (b. 1819)
*[[1893]] &ndash; [[Annie Feray Mutrie]], British painter (b. 1826)<ref>{{cite book |editor-last=Lee |editor-first=Sidney |title=Dictionary of National Biography |date=1894 |publisher=[[Macmillan Publishers|Macmillan and Co.]] |location=New York |url=https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofnati39stepuoft/page/436/mode/1up |volume=XXXIX |page=436}}</ref>
*[[1895]] &ndash; [[Louis Pasteur]], French chemist and microbiologist (b. 1822)
*[[1899]] &ndash; [[Giovanni Segantini]], Austrian painter (b. 1858)