Editing January 1 (section)

===Pre-1600===
* [[766]] &ndash; [[Ali al-Ridha]], 8th [[Imamate (Twelver doctrine)|Imam]] of [[Twelver]] [[Shia Islam]] (d. 818)<ref>{{cite book |last=Shabbar |first=S.M.R. |date=1997 |title=Story of the Holy Ka'aba |url=http://www.al-islam.org/story-of-the-holy-kaaba-and-its-people-shabbar/ninth-imam-muhammad-ibn-%E2%80%98ali-al-taqi-al-jawad |publisher=Muhammadi Trust of Great Britain |access-date=28 October 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131022080310/http://www.al-islam.org/story-of-the-holy-kaaba-and-its-people-shabbar/ninth-imam-muhammad-ibn-%E2%80%98ali-al-taqi-al-jawad |archive-date=22 October 2013 |url-status=dead  }}</ref>
*[[1431]] &ndash; [[Pope Alexander VI]] (d. 1503)<ref>{{cite book|author1=Frederick Converse Beach|author2=George Edwin Rines|title=The Encyclopedia Americana|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sGVMAAAAMAAJ|year=1903|publisher=The Americana company}}</ref>
*[[1449]] &ndash; [[Lorenzo de' Medici]], Italian politician (d. 1492)<ref>{{cite book|author=E. B. Fryde|title=Humanism and Renaissance Historiography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2g0PH9JTFmIC&pg=PA127|date=1 January 1983|publisher=A&C Black|isbn=978-0-907628-24-8|pages=127–}}</ref>
*[[1467]] &ndash; [[Sigismund I the Old]], Polish king (d. 1548)<ref>{{cite book|author=Encyclopaedia Britannica (firma)|title=Encyclopaedia Britannica|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GPJMAQAAIAAJ|year=1973|publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica|isbn=978-0-85229-173-3}}</ref>
*[[1484]] &ndash; [[Huldrych Zwingli]], Swiss pastor and theologian (d. 1531)<ref>{{cite book|author1=Christianus Brekelmans|author2=Magne Saebo|author3=Menahem Haran|title=Hebrew Bible / Old Testament: The History of Its Interpretation: II: From the Renaissance to the Enlightenment|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OMlT-FViF40C&pg=PA414|year=1996|publisher=Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht|isbn=978-3-525-53982-8|pages=414–}}</ref>
*[[1511]] &ndash; [[Henry, Duke of Cornwall]], first-born child of [[Henry VIII of England]] and [[Catherine of Aragon]] (d. 1511)<ref>{{cite book|author1=E. B. Pryde|author2=D. E. Greenway|author3=S. Porter|author4=I. Roy|title=Handbook of British Chronology|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zcgxEvGAK_kC&pg=PA457|date=23 February 1996|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-56350-5|pages=457–}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Henry son of Henry VIII |url=https://www.westminster-abbey.org/abbey-commemorations/royals/henry-son-of-henry-viii |website=Westminster Abbey |access-date=11 May 2025 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[1557]] &ndash; [[Stephen Bocskay]], Prince of Transylvania (d. 1606)<ref name="auto">{{cite book|author1=Hugh Chisholm|author2=James Louis Garvin|title=The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature & General Information|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hRJGAQAAIAAJ|year=1926|publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica Company, Limited}}</ref>
*[[1600]] &ndash; [[Friedrich Spanheim]], Dutch theologian and academic (d. 1649)<ref>{{cite book|title=Chambers's Encyclopædia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DX5RAAAAYAAJ|year=1892|publisher=Edinburgh}}</ref>