France
- 1340 - Hugues Quiéret (1290-1340)
- 1341 - Luis de la Cerda (1291-1348)
- 1373 - Jean de Vienne (1341–1396)
- 1421 - Louis de Culant (1360-1444)
- 1437 - André de Laval-Montmorency (1408–1485)
- 1450 - Jean V de Bueil (1406–1477)
- 1521 - Guillaume Gouffier de Bonnivet (1488–1525)
- 1525 - Philippe de Chabot (1492–1543)
- 1552 - Gaspard de Coligny (1519–1572)
- 1582 - Anne de Joyeuse (1560–1587)
- 1587 - Jean Louis de Nogaret de La Valette (1554–1642)
- 1592 - Charles de Gontaut, duc de Biron (1562–1602)
- 1612 - Henri II de Montmorency (1595–1632)
- 1651 - César de Bourbon, duc de Vendôme (1594–1665)
- 1683 - Louis-Alexandre de Bourbon, Comte de Toulouse (1678–1737)
- 1737 - Louis Jean Marie de Bourbon, duc de Penthièvre (1725–1793)
- 2 February 1805 - Joachim Murat (1767–1815)
- 1814 - Louis-Antoine, Duke of Angoulême (1775–1844)
- 1840 - Albin Roussin (1781–1854)
- 1854 - Charles Baudin (1792–1854)
- 1854 - Ferdinand Alphonse Hamelin (1796–1864)
- 1854 - Alexandre Ferdinand Parseval-Deschenes (1790–1860)
- 1855 - Armand Joseph Bruat (1796–1855)
- 1860 - Prince Napoléon (1822–1891)
- 27 January 1864 - Charles Rigault de Genouilly (1807–1873)
- 15 November 1864 - Léonard Charner (1797-1869)
- 20 February 1869 - François Thomas Tréhouart (1798-1873)
- 1939 - François Darlan (1881–1942)
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—Thomas Hobbes (1579–1688)