Boy Saves A Baby Fawn, Bangladesh

In one of the stories of Baron Münchhausen, the baron encounters a stag while eating cherries and without ammunition, fires the cherry-pits at the stag with his musket, but it escapes. The next year, the baron encounters a stag with a cherry tree growing from its head; presumably this is the animal he had shot at the previous year.
A Samurai warrior named Honda Tadakatsu famously adorned deer antlers on his helmet.
Deer have been a subject in Chinese paintings numerous times as a tranquility symbol.
In The Animals of Farthing Wood, a deer called The Great White Stag is the leader of all the animal residents of the nature reserve White Deer Park.