Deaths from dysentery

Spanish conquistador

Akbar (Jalal-ud-Din Muhammad Akbar, – ), also known as Akbar the Great, was the third Mughal emperor, who reigned from 1556 to 1605. Akbar succeeded his father, Humayun, under a regent, Bairam Khan, who helped the young emperor expand and consolidate Mughal domains in the Indian subcontinent. He is generally considered one of the greatest emperors in Indian history and led a successful campaign to unify the various kingdoms of Hindūstān or India proper.

Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus ( ; ; 28 October c. 1466 – 12 July 1536), commonly known in English as Erasmus of Rotterdam or simply Erasmus, was a Dutch humanist, Christian theologian, and pioneering philologist and educationalist. He was, through his writings and translations, one of the most influential scholars of the Northern Renaissance and a major figure of Western culture.

American author, journalist and social activist (1876–1916)

English sailor and privateer (c. 1540 – 1596)

Scottish missionary and explorer (1813-1873)

King of France from 1226 to 1270 (1214–1270)

King of England from 1199 to 1216

King of Sicily, Holy Roman Emperor (1194–1250, 1220–1250)

King of England from 1272 to 1307

king of the Germanic Ostrogoths and ruler of Italy (493–526)

King of France 1223-1226 (1187–1226)

Byzantine Emperor (425–491)

Prince of Wales (1330-1376)

king of Spain from 1874 to 1885

Eastern Roman emperor from 457 to 474

French novelist, official and army general (1741–1803)

Byzantine emperor from 668 to 685

King of Jerusalem (1130-1163) (r. 1143-1163)

King of Hungary from 1116 to 1131

Swiss traveller and writer (1784-1817)

King of Burgundy

King of Jerusalem (1136-1174) (r.1163-1174)

Bohemian king

English navigator, admiral, privateer and slave trader (1532-1595)

French Jesuit and explorer (1637-1675)

19th century British surgeon known for medical reforms and personal life

British pathologist and social reformer (1798-1866)

English Assyriologist (1840–1876)

British politician (1788-1855)

English nobleman and Catholic saint (1557-1595)

French revolutionary leader (1756-1819)

King of Tahiti (1820–1827)

Duke of Aquitaine

French prince

Scottish botanical illustrator (1745-1771)

German classical archaeologist (1853-1907)

Austrian writer and philosopher (1856–1918)

British aristocrat

French noble

Prime Minister of Poland (1874-1941)

Brazilian preacher (1830-1897)

Hungarian desert explorer and aviator (1895-1951)

first wife of the future Chinese revolutionary and political leader Mao Zedong (1889-1910)

English barrister, explorer, and privateer (1571–1607)

first chimpanzee to orbit Earth

1st President of Nicaragua (1804-1855)

Native American

British Army general (1795–1857)

12th century ruler of Damascus

French typographer (1921–1945)

Dominican Republic politician (1816-1864)

Dutch colonial governor

American Prohibition era saloon keeper and entrepreneur (1884-1933)

Japanese film director (1909–1938)

Virginia colonist, leader of Bacon's Rebellion (1647–1676)

governor-general of the VOC (1653-1713)

English traveller and writer of the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean age

Duke of Württemberg (1654-1716)

Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck