Editing April 24 (section)

===1601–1900===
*[[1608]] &ndash; [[Gaston, Duke of Orléans]], third son of King Henry IV of France (d. 1660)
*[[1620]] &ndash; [[John Graunt]], English demographer and statistician (d. 1674)
*[[1706]] &ndash; [[Giovanni Battista Martini]], Italian pianist and composer (d. 1780)
*[[1718]] &ndash; [[Nathaniel Hone the Elder]], Irish-English painter and educator (d. 1784)
*[[1743]] &ndash; [[Edmund Cartwright]], English clergyman and engineer, invented the [[power loom]] (d. 1823)
*[[1784]] &ndash; [[Peter Vivian Daniel]], American lawyer and jurist (d. 1860)
*[[1815]] &ndash; [[Anthony Trollope]], English novelist, essayist, and short story writer (d. 1882)
*[[1823]] &ndash; [[Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada]], Mexican politician, [[President of Mexico]] (d. 1889)
*[[1829]] &ndash; [[Luisa Cappiani]], Austrian soprano, educator and essayist (d. 1919)<ref>{{cite web |title=Baptism record entry Linz-Holy Family, 1829 |url=https://data.matricula-online.eu/de/oesterreich/oberoesterreich/linz-heilige-familie-ehemalig-st-josef/106%252F1829/?pg=6 |website=Matricula Online |access-date= 5 May 2023 |language=de}}</ref>
*[[1845]] &ndash; [[Carl Spitteler]], Swiss poet and author, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. 1924)<ref>{{cite web |title=Carl Spitteler {{!}} Swiss poet |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Carl-Spitteler |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=27 December 2020 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[1856]] &ndash; [[Philippe Pétain]], French general and politician, 119th [[Prime Minister of France]] (d. 1951)
*[[1860]] &ndash; [[Queen Marau]], last Queen of [[Tahiti]] (d. 1935)
*[[1862]] &ndash; [[Tomitaro Makino]], Japanese botanist (d. 1957)
*[[1868]] &ndash; [[Sandy Herd]], Scottish golfer (d. 1944)
*[[1876]] &ndash; [[Erich Raeder]], German admiral (d. 1960)
*[[1878]] &ndash; [[Jean Crotti]], Swiss-French painter (d. 1958)
*[[1879]] &ndash; [[Susanna Bokoyni]], Hungarian-American circus performer (d. 1984)
*[[1880]] &ndash; [[Gideon Sundback]], Swedish-American engineer and businessman, developed the [[zipper]] (d. 1954)
*  1880   &ndash; [[Josef Müller (entomologist)|Josef Müller]], Croatian entomologist (d. 1964)
*[[1882]] &ndash; [[Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding]], Scottish-English air marshal (d. 1970)
*[[1885]] &ndash; [[Thomas Cronan]], American triple jumper (d. 1962)
*  1885   &ndash; [[Con Walsh]], Irish-Canadian hammer thrower and footballer (d. 1961)
*[[1887]] &ndash; [[Denys Finch Hatton]], English hunter (d. 1931)
*[[1888]] &ndash; [[Pe Maung Tin]], [[Myanmar|Burma]]-based scholar and educator (d. 1973)
*[[1889]] &ndash; [[Stafford Cripps]], English academic and politician, [[Chancellor of the Exchequer]] (d. 1952)
*  1889   &ndash; [[Lyubov Popova]], Russian painter and academic (d. 1924)
*[[1897]] &ndash; [[Manuel Ávila Camacho]], Mexican colonel and politician, 45th [[President of Mexico]] (d. 1955)
*  1897   &ndash; [[Benjamin Lee Whorf]], American linguist, anthropologist, and engineer (d. 1941)
*[[1899]] &ndash; [[Oscar Zariski]], Russian-American mathematician and academic (d. 1986)
*[[1900]] &ndash; [[Elizabeth Goudge]], English author and educator (d. 1984)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.msmc.edu/library/find_information/archives_and_special_collections/elizabeth_goudge_special_collection/biography_of_elizabeth_goudge|title=Biography of Elizabeth Goudge|website=www.msmc.edu|access-date=25 October 2017|archive-date=21 October 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171021111555/https://www.msmc.edu/library/find_information/archives_and_special_collections/elizabeth_goudge_special_collection/biography_of_elizabeth_goudge|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/04/27/obituaries/elizabeth-goudge.html|title=ELIZABETH GOUDGE|date=27 April 1984|work=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=25 October 2017|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>