Editing April 16 (section)

===1601–1900===
*[[1635]] &ndash; [[Frans van Mieris the Elder]], Dutch painter (d. 1681)<ref>{{cite book|author1=Otto Naumann|author2=Frans van Mieris|title=Frans Van Mieris (1635-1681), the Elder: Text & comparative illustrations|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ldtOAAAAYAAJ|year=1981|publisher=Davaco|isbn=978-90-70288-04-4}}</ref>
*[[1646]] &ndash; [[Jules Hardouin-Mansart]], French architect (probable;<ref>{{cite book|title=Encyclopaedia Britannica, a New Survey of Universal Knowledge|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_IeD64iVkF8C|year=1957|publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica|page=823}}</ref> d. 1708)
*[[1660]] &ndash; [[Hans Sloane]], Irish-English physician and academic (d. 1753)<ref>{{cite book|author=[[John Hemsley Pearn|John Pearn]]|title=A Doctor in the Garden: Nomen Medici in Botanicis: Australian Flora and the World of Medicine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Gm8QAQAAMAAJ|year=2001|publisher=Amphion Press|isbn=978-1-86499-503-9|page=333}}</ref>
*[[1661]] &ndash; [[Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax]], English poet and politician, [[First Lord of the Treasury]] (d. 1715)<ref>{{cite book|author=National cyclopaedia|title=The national encyclopædia. Libr. ed|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2vVb7yP8_4kC&pg=PA109|year=1879|page=109}}</ref>
*[[1682]] &ndash; [[John Hadley]], English mathematician, invented the [[octant (instrument)|octant]] (d. 1744)
*[[1697]] &ndash; [[Johann Gottlieb Görner]], German organist and composer (d. 1778)
*[[1728]] &ndash; [[Joseph Black]], French-Scottish physician and chemist (d. 1799)
*[[1730]] &ndash; [[Henry Clinton (British Army officer, born 1730)|Henry Clinton]], English general and politician (d. 1795)
*[[1755]] &ndash; [[Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun|Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun]], French painter (d. 1842)<ref>{{cite book|first=Frank N.|last=Magill|title=The 17th and 18th Centuries: Dictionary of World Biography, Volume 4|location=Abingdon|publisher=Routledge|year=1999|isbn=978-0-89356-316-5|page=1376}}</ref>
*[[1786]] &ndash; [[John Franklin]], English admiral and politician, fourth [[Governor of Tasmania|Lieutenant Governor of Van Diemen's Land]] (d. 1847)
*[[1800]] &ndash; [[George Bingham, 3rd Earl of Lucan]], English field marshal and politician (d. 1888)
*[[1808]] &ndash; [[Caleb Blood Smith]], American journalist, lawyer, and politician, sixth [[United States Secretary of the Interior]] (d. 1864)
*[[1821]] &ndash; [[Ford Madox Brown]], French-English soldier and painter (d. 1893)
*[[1823]] &ndash; [[Gotthold Eisenstein]], German mathematician and academic (d. 1852)
*[[1826]] &ndash; [[Sir James Corry, 1st Baronet]], British politician (d. 1891)
*[[1827]] &ndash; [[Octave Crémazie]], Canadian poet and bookseller (d. 1879)
*[[1839]] &ndash; [[Antonio Starabba, Marchese di Rudinì]], Italian politician, 12th [[Prime Minister of Italy]] (d. 1908)
*[[1834]] &ndash; [[Charles Lennox Richardson]], English merchant (d. 1862)
*[[1844]] &ndash; [[Anatole France]], French journalist, novelist, and poet, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. 1924)
*[[1847]] &ndash; [[Hans Auer]], Swiss-Austrian architect, designed the [[Federal Palace of Switzerland]] (d. 1906)
*[[1848]] &ndash; [[Kandukuri Veeresalingam]], Indian author and activist (d. 1919)
*[[1851]] &ndash; [[Ponnambalam Ramanathan]], Sri Lankan lawyer and politician, third [[Solicitor General of Sri Lanka]] (d. 1930)
*[[1864]] &ndash; [[Rose Talbot Bullard]], American medical doctor and professor (d. 1915)
*[[1865]] &ndash; [[Harry Chauvel]], Australian general (d. 1945)
*[[1866]] &ndash; [[José de Diego]], Puerto Rican journalist, lawyer, and politician (d. 1918)
*[[1867]] &ndash; [[Wilbur Wright]], American inventor (d. 1912)
*[[1871]] &ndash; [[John Millington Synge]], Irish author, poet, and playwright (d. 1909)
*[[1874]] &ndash; [[Jōtarō Watanabe]], Japanese general (d. 1936)
*[[1878]] &ndash; [[R. E. Foster]], English cricketer and footballer (d. 1914)
*[[1882]] &ndash; [[Seth Bingham]], American organist and composer (d. 1972)
*[[1884]] &ndash; [[Ronald Barnes, 3rd Baron Gorell]], English cricketer, journalist, and politician (d. 1963)
*[[1885]] &ndash; [[Leó Weiner]], Hungarian composer and educator (d. 1960)
*[[1886]] &ndash; [[Michalis Dorizas]], Greek-American football player and javelin thrower (d. 1957)
*  1886 &ndash; [[Ernst Thälmann]], German politician (d. 1944)
*[[1888]] &ndash; [[Billy Minter]], English footballer and manager (d. 1940)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.managerstats.co.uk/managers/billy-minter/|title=Billy Minter|website=managerstats.co.uk|access-date=4 April 2020}}</ref>
*[[1889]] &ndash; [[Charlie Chaplin]], English actor, director, producer, screenwriter, and composer (d. 1977)
*[[1890]] &ndash; [[Fred Root]], English cricketer and umpire (d. 1954)
*  1890 &ndash; [[Gertrude Chandler Warner]], American author and educator (d. 1979)
*[[1891]] &ndash; [[Dorothy P. Lathrop]], American author and illustrator (d. 1980)
*[[1892]] &ndash; [[Dora Richter]], German transgender woman and the first known person to undergo complete male-to-female [[gender-affirming surgery]] (d. 1966)<ref>{{Cite web |date=29 May 2023 |title=Was wurde aus Dora? |trans-title=What became of Dora? |url=https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/regional/berlin/rbb-was-wurde-aus-dora-100.html |website=[[Tagesschau (German TV programme)|Tagesschau]] |language=de}}</ref> 
* 1892 &ndash; [[Howard Mumford Jones]], American author, critic, and academic (d. 1980)
*[[1893]] &ndash; [[Germaine Guèvremont]], Canadian journalist and author (d. 1968)<ref>{{cite book|first=Kathleen|last=Kuiper|title=Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature|location=Springfield|publisher=Merriam-Webster|year=1995|isbn=978-0-87779-042-6|page=498}}</ref>
*  1893 &ndash; [[John Norton (athlete)|John Norton]], American hurdler (d. 1979)
*[[1895]] &ndash; [[Ove Arup]], English-Danish engineer and businessman, founded [[Arup Group Limited|Arup]] (d. 1988)
*[[1896]] &ndash; [[Robert Henry Best]], American journalist (d. 1952)
*  1896 &ndash; [[Árpád Weisz]], Hungarian footballer (d. 1944)
*[[1899]] &ndash; [[Osman Achmatowicz]], Polish chemist and academic (d. 1988)
*[[1900]] &ndash; [[Polly Adler]], Russian-American madam and author (d. 1962)<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/notableamericanw00sich_0/page/7|title=Notable American women: the modern period: a biographical dictionary|date=1980|publisher=Belknap Press of Harvard University Press |editor=Sicherman, Barbara |editor2=Green, Carol Hurd |isbn=978-0-674-62733-8|location=Cambridge, Massachusetts|page=7 |oclc=6487187|url-access=registration}}</ref>