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===1601–1900=== *[[1626]] – [[John Davies (poet, born 1569)|John Davies]], English poet, lawyer, and politician (born 1569) *[[1632]] – [[Philippe van Lansberge]], Dutch astronomer and mathematician (born 1561) *[[1638]] – [[Ivan Gundulić]], Croatian poet (born 1589) *[[1643]] – [[John Pym]], English politician (born 1583) *[[1649]] – [[Noël Chabanel]], French missionary and saint (born 1613) *[[1680]] – [[Henry Pierrepont, 1st Marquess of Dorchester]], English lawyer and politician (born 1606) *[[1691]] – [[Richard Baxter]], English minister, poet, and hymn-writer (born 1615) *[[1695]] – [[Barthélemy d'Herbelot]], French orientalist and academic (born 1625) *[[1709]] – [[Thomas Corneille]], French playwright and philologist (born 1625)<ref>{{cite web |title=Thomas Corneille {{!}} French dramatist {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Corneille |website=www.britannica.com |access-date=10 March 2022 |language=en}}</ref> *[[1722]] – [[Elizabeth Charlotte, Princess Palatine]] (born 1652) *[[1734]] – [[James Figg]], English prizefighter<ref>{{cite ODNB|last=Gee | first=Tony | title=Figg, James (born before 1700, d. 1734), prize-fighter | year=2004 |url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-9417 | doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/9417 | isbn=978-0-19-861412-8 |access-date=12 June 2022}}</ref> *[[1744]] – [[Marie Anne de Mailly]], French mistress of [[Louis XV of France]] (born 1717) *[[1745]] – [[Étienne Fourmont]], French orientalist and academic (born 1683) *[[1746]] – [[Charles Radclyffe]], English courtier and soldier (born 1693) *[[1756]] – [[William Stanhope, 1st Earl of Harrington]], English politician and diplomat, [[Lord Lieutenant of Ireland]] (born 1690) *[[1768]] – [[Jean Denis Attiret]], French painter and missionary (born 1702) *[[1779]] – [[Nathan Alcock]], English physician (born 1707) *[[1815]] – [[Mary Bosanquet Fletcher]], [[Methodism|Methodist]] preacher and philanthropist (born 1739) *[[1830]] – [[Benjamin Constant]], Swiss-French philosopher and author (born 1767) *[[1856]] – [[Theobald Mathew (temperance reformer)|Theobald Mathew]], Irish social reformer and temperance movement leader (born 1790) *[[1859]] – [[Thomas De Quincey]], English journalist and author (born 1785) *[[1864]] – [[George Boole]], English mathematician and philosopher (born 1815) *[[1869]] – [[Narcisa de Jesús]], Ecuadorian saint (born 1832) *[[1885]] – [[William Henry Vanderbilt]], American businessman and philanthropist (born 1821) *[[1886]] – [[Isaac Lea]], American conchologist, geologist, and publisher (born 1792) *[[1894]] – [[Pafnuty Chebyshev]], Russian mathematician and theorist (born 1821)
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