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===1601–1900=== *[[1641]] – [[Robert Sibbald]], Scottish physician and geographer (d. 1722) *[[1642]] – [[Suleiman II of the Ottoman Empire|Suleiman II]], Ottoman sultan (d. 1691) *[[1646]] – [[Christian V of Denmark]] (d. 1699) *[[1684]] – [[Catherine I of Russia]] (d. 1727) *[[1688]] – [[Johann Friedrich Fasch]], German violinist and composer (d. 1758) *[[1707]] – [[Leonhard Euler]], Swiss mathematician and physicist (d. 1783) *[[1710]] – [[William Cullen]], Scottish physician and chemist (d. 1790)<ref>{{cite web |title=William Cullen {{!}} Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh |url=https://www.rcpe.ac.uk/heritage/college-history/william-cullen |website=rcpe.ac.uk |date=8 February 2017 |access-date=3 December 2020}}</ref> *[[1741]] – [[Charles Willson Peale]], American painter and soldier (d. 1827) *[[1771]] – [[Nicolas Chopin]], French-Polish educator (d. 1844) *[[1772]] – [[Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire]], French biologist and zoologist (d. 1844) *[[1793]] – [[Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve]], German astronomer and academic (d. 1864) *[[1795]] – [[Maria Schicklgruber]], mother of [[Alois Hitler]] and the paternal grandmother of [[Adolf Hitler]] (d. 1847) *[[1800]] – [[James Clark Ross]], English captain and explorer (d. 1862) *[[1808]] – [[William Champ]], English-Australian politician, 1st [[Premier of Tasmania]] (d. 1892) *[[1809]] – [[Hermann Grassmann]], German linguist and mathematician (d. 1877) *[[1817]] – [[William Crowther (Australian politician)|William Crowther]], Dutch-Australian politician, 14th [[Premier of Tasmania]] (d. 1885) *[[1828]] – [[Jean Danjou]], French captain (d. 1863)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Lepage |first1=Jean-Denis G. G. |title=The French Foreign Legion: An Illustrated History |date=18 April 2016 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-0-7864-6253-7 |pages=47 and 49 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qqeOMjr9kqYC&pg=PA47}}</ref> *[[1832]] – [[Wilhelm Busch]], German poet, painter, and illustrator (d. 1908) *[[1841]] – [[Mary Grant Roberts]], Australian zoo owner (d. 1921)<ref>{{cite Australian Dictionary of Biography |last1=Guiler |first1=Eric |title=Roberts, Mary Grant (1841–1921) |id2=roberts-mary-grant-8228 |access-date=9 January 2020}}</ref> * 1841 – [[Joseph E. Seagram]], Canadian businessman and politician, founded the [[Seagram|Seagram Company Ltd]] (d. 1919) *[[1843]] – [[Henry James]], American novelist, short story writer, and critic (d. 1916) *[[1856]] – [[Jean Moréas]], Greek poet and critic (d. 1910) *[[1858]] – [[Émile Durkheim]], French sociologist, psychologist, and philosopher (d. 1917) *[[1861]] – [[Bliss Carman]], Canadian-British poet and playwright (d. 1929) *[[1863]] – [[Ida Freund]], Austrian-born chemist and educator (d. 1914)<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hJc8afOZV0QC&q=Ida+Freund+15+April+1863&pg=PA301|title=The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History|last1=Rubinstein|first1=William D.|last2=Jolles|first2=Michael|last3=Rubinstein|first3=Hilary L.|author-link1=William Rubinstein|author-link3=Hilary L. Rubinstein|date=2011|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|isbn=9781403939104|pages=301}}</ref> *[[1874]] – [[George Harrison Shull]], American botanist and geneticist (d. 1954) * 1874 – [[Johannes Stark]], German physicist and academic, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. 1957) *[[1875]] – [[James J. Jeffries]], American boxer and promoter (d. 1953) *[[1877]] – [[Georg Kolbe]], German sculptor (d. 1947) *1877 – [[W. D. Ross|William David Ross]], Scottish philosopher (d. 1971)<ref>{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/william-david-ross/|title=William David Ross – Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy|chapter=William David Ross|year=2022|publisher=Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University}}</ref> *[[1878]] – [[Robert Walser]], Swiss author and playwright (d. 1956) *[[1879]] – [[Melville Henry Cane]], American lawyer and poet (d. 1980) *[[1883]] – [[Stanley Bruce]], Australian captain and politician, 8th [[Prime Minister of Australia]] (d. 1967) *[[1885]] – [[Tadeusz Kutrzeba]], Polish general (d. 1947) *[[1886]] – [[Nikolay Gumilyov]], Russian poet and critic (d. 1921) *[[1887]] – [[Felix Pipes]], Austrian tennis player<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.olympic.org/fritz-felix-pipes|title=Fritz Felix PIPES – Olympic Tennis | Austria|date=June 14, 2016|website=International Olympic Committee}}</ref> (d. 1983) * 1887 – [[William Forgan Smith]], Scottish-Australian politician, 24th [[Premier of Queensland]] (d. 1953) *[[1888]] – [[Maximilian Kronberger]], German poet and author (d. 1904) *[[1889]] – [[Thomas Hart Benton (painter)|Thomas Hart Benton]], American painter and educator (d. 1975) * 1889 – [[A. Philip Randolph]], American activist (d. 1979) *[[1890]] – [[Percy Shaw]], English businessman, invented the [[Cat's eye (road)|cat's eye]] (d. 1976) *[[1892]] – [[Theo Osterkamp]], German general and pilot (d. 1975) * 1892 – [[Corrie ten Boom]], Dutch-American clocksmith, [[Dutch Resistance|Nazi resister]], and author (d. 1983) *[[1894]] – [[Nikita Khrushchev]], Russian general and politician, 7th [[Premier of the Soviet Union]] (d. 1971) * 1894 – [[Bessie Smith]], African-American singer and actress (d. 1937) *[[1895]] – [[Clark McConachy]], New Zealand snooker player (d. 1980) * 1895 – [[Abigail Mejia]], Dominican feminist activist, nationalist, literary critic and educator (d. 1941)<ref>{{cite book|first=Néstor|last=Contín Aybar|title=Historia de la Literatura Dominicana Volume 4|location=San Pedro de Macorís|publisher=Univ. Central del Este|year=1986|oclc=630212151|language=es|page=94}}</ref> *[[1896]] – [[Nikolay Semyonov]], Russian physicist and chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. 1986) *[[1898]] – [[Harry Edward]], Guyanese-English sprinter (d. 1973) *[[1900]] – [[Ramón Iribarren]], Spanish civil engineer (d. 1967)<ref>{{cite journal |date=October 2003 |title=Relación de académicos desde el año 1847 hasta el 2003. |trans-title=List of academics from 1847 until 2003. |url=https://rac.es/ficheros/doc/00186.pdf |language=es |journal=Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales |access-date=15 April 2023}}</ref>
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