Editing April 1 (section)

===1601–1900===
*[[1610]] &ndash; [[Charles de Saint-Évremond]], French soldier and critic (d. 1703)
*[[1629]] &ndash; [[Jean-Henri d'Anglebert]], French organist and composer (d. 1691)
*[[1640]] &ndash; [[Georg Mohr]], Danish mathematician and academic (d. 1697)
*[[1647]] &ndash; [[John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester]], English poet and courtier (d. 1680)
*[[1697]] &ndash; [[Antoine François Prévost]], French novelist and translator (d. 1763)<ref>{{cite book | first=Richard A. | last=Smernoff | title=L'Abbé Prévost | place=Boston | publisher=Twayne Publishers | year=1985 | isbn=978-0-8057-6594-6 | page=[https://archive.org/details/labbeprevost0000smer/page/2 2] | url=https://archive.org/details/labbeprevost0000smer/page/2 }}</ref>
*[[1721]] &ndash; [[Pieter Hellendaal]], Dutch-English organist, violinist, and composer (d. 1799)
*[[1741]] &ndash; [[George Dance the Younger]], English architect and surveyor (d. 1825)
*[[1753]] &ndash; [[Joseph de Maistre]], French philosopher, lawyer, and diplomat (d. 1821)
*[[1765]] &ndash; [[Luigi Schiavonetti]], Italian engraver and etcher (d. 1810)
*[[1776]] &ndash; [[Sophie Germain]], French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher (d. 1831)<ref>{{cite book | last1=Grinstein | first1=Louise S. | last2=Campbell | first2=Paul J. | title=Women of Mathematics : a Biobibliographic Sourcebook | place=New York | publisher=Greenwood Press | year=1987 | isbn=978-0-3132-4849-8 | page=[https://archive.org/details/womenofmathemati0000unse/page/47 47] | url=https://archive.org/details/womenofmathemati0000unse/page/47 }}</ref>
*[[1786]] &ndash; [[William Mulready]], Irish genre painter (d. 1863)
*[[1815]] &ndash; [[Otto von Bismarck]], German lawyer and politician, 1st [[Chancellor of the German Empire]] (d. 1898)<ref>{{cite book | last1=Headlam | first1=James Wycliffe | title=Bismarck and the Foundation of the German Empire | place=New York | publisher=G. P. Putnam's Sons | year=1899 | page=1 }}</ref>
*  1815   &ndash; [[Edward Clark (governor)|Edward Clark]], American lawyer and politician, 8th [[Governor of Texas]] (d. 1880)
*[[1823]] &ndash; [[Simon Bolivar Buckner]], American general and politician, 30th [[Governor of Kentucky]] (d. 1891)
*[[1824]] &ndash; [[Louis-Zéphirin Moreau]], Canadian bishop (d. 1901)
*[[1834]] &ndash; [[James Fisk (financier)|James Fisk]], American businessman (d. 1872)<ref>{{cite web |title=James Fisk {{!}} American financier |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/James-Fisk |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=16 May 2021 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[1852]] &ndash; [[Edwin Austin Abbey]], American painter and illustrator (d. 1911)
*[[1858]] &ndash; [[Columba Marmion]], Irish Benedictine abbot (d. 1923)<ref>* {{cite book |last=Tierney |first=Mark |title=Blessed Columba Marmion: A Short Biography |location=Collegeville, Mn. |publisher=Liturgical Press |date=2000 |url=https://archive.org/details/blessedcolumbama0000tier |page=13|isbn=978-0-8146-2756-3 }}</ref>
*[[1865]] &ndash; [[Richard Adolf Zsigmondy]], Austrian-German chemist and academic, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. 1929)
*[[1866]] &ndash; [[William Blomfield]], New Zealand cartoonist and politician (d. 1938)
*  1866   &ndash; [[Ferruccio Busoni]], Italian pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1924)
*  1866   &ndash; [[Ève Lavallière]], French actress (d. 1929)<ref>{{cite book | first=Kurt | last=Gänzl | title=The Encyclopedia of the Musical Theatre | url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofmu00ganz_0 | url-access=registration | date=17 May 2001 | place=New York | publisher=Schirmer | isbn=978-0-02-864970-2 | page=1157}}</ref>
*[[1868]] &ndash; [[Edmond Rostand]], French poet and playwright (d. 1918)
*  1868   &ndash; [[Walter Mead (cricketer)|Walter Mead]], English cricketer (d. 1954)
*[[1871]] &ndash; [[F. Melius Christiansen]], Norwegian-American violinist and conductor (d. 1955)
*[[1873]] &ndash; [[Sergei Rachmaninoff]], Russian pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1943)
*[[1874]] &ndash; [[Ernest Barnes]], English mathematician and theologian (d. 1953)
*  1874   &ndash; [[Prince Karl of Bavaria (1874–1927)|Prince Karl of Bavaria]] (d. 1927)
*[[1875]] &ndash; [[Edgar Wallace]], English journalist, author, and playwright (d. 1932)
*[[1878]] &ndash; [[C. Ganesha Iyer]], [[Ceylon Tamil]] philologist (d. 1958)
*[[1879]] &ndash; [[Stanislaus Zbyszko]], Polish wrestler and strongman (d. 1967)
*[[1881]] &ndash; [[Octavian Goga]], Romanian Prime Minister (d. 1938)
*[[1883]] &ndash; [[Lon Chaney]], American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1930)
*  1883   &ndash; [[Edvard Drabløs]], Norwegian actor and director (d. 1976) 
*  1883   &ndash; [[Laurette Taylor]], Irish-American actress (d. 1946)
*[[1885]] &ndash; [[Wallace Beery]], American actor (d. 1949)
*  1885   &ndash; [[Clementine Churchill]], English wife of [[Winston Churchill]] (d. 1977)
*[[1889]] &ndash; [[K. B. Hedgewar]], Indian physician and activist (d. 1940)
*[[1893]] &ndash; [[Cicely Courtneidge]], Australian-English actress (d. 1980)
*[[1895]] &ndash; [[Alberta Hunter]], African-American singer-songwriter and nurse (d. 1984)
*[[1898]] &ndash; [[William James Sidis]], Ukrainian-Russian Jewish American mathematician, anthropologist, and historian (d. 1944)
*[[1899]] &ndash; [[Gustavs Celmiņš]], Latvian academic and politician (d. 1968)
*[[1900]] &ndash; [[Stefanie Clausen]], Danish Olympic diver (d. 1981)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.stefanie-fryland-clausen.com/|title=Stefanie Fryland Clausen|website=www.stefanie-fryland-clausen.com|language=en-US|access-date=2017-10-24}}</ref>