Editing August 8 (section)

===1601–1900===
*[[1604]] &ndash; [[Horio Tadauji]], Japanese daimyō (born 1578)
*[[1616]] &ndash; [[Cornelis Ketel]], Dutch painter (born 1548)
*[[1631]] &ndash; [[Konstantinas Sirvydas]], Lithuanian priest, lexicographer, and academic (born 1579)
*[[1684]] &ndash; [[George Booth, 1st Baron Delamer]], English politician (born 1622)
*[[1724]] &ndash; [[Christoph Ludwig Agricola]], German painter (born 1665)<ref>{{NDB|1|98||Agricola, Christoph Ludwig|Braun-Ronsdorf, Margarete|122961714}}</ref>
*[[1747]] &ndash; [[Madeleine de Verchères]], Canadian raid leader (born 1678)<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|editor-first=Kenneth H|editor-last=Pearson|title=Encyclopedia Canadiana|location=Toronto|publisher=Grolier of Canada|year=1972|volume=10|page=222|isbn=978-0-71721-600-0}}</ref>
*[[1746]] &ndash; [[Francis Hutcheson (philosopher)|Francis Hutcheson]], Irish philosopher (born 1694)
*[[1759]] &ndash; [[Carl Heinrich Graun]], German tenor and composer (born 1704)
*[[1827]] &ndash; [[George Canning]], English lawyer and politician, [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] (born 1770)
*[[1828]] &ndash; [[Carl Peter Thunberg]], Swedish botanist and psychologist (born 1743)
*[[1858]] &ndash; [[Marie-Claire Heureuse Félicité|Marie-Claire Heureuse Félicité Bonheur]], Haitian Empress (born 1758)
*[[1863]] &ndash; [[Angus MacAskill]], Scottish-Canadian giant (born 1825)
*[[1879]] &ndash; [[Immanuel Hermann Fichte]], German philosopher and academic (born 1797)
*[[1887]] &ndash; [[Alexander William Doniphan]], American colonel, lawyer, and politician (born 1808)
*[[1897]] &ndash; [[Jacob Burckhardt]], Swiss historian and academic (born 1818)
*[[1898]] &ndash; [[Eugène Boudin]], French painter (born 1824)