Editing August 10 (section)

===1601–1900===
*[[1602]] &ndash; [[Gilles de Roberval]], French mathematician and academic (d. 1675)
*[[1645]] &ndash; [[Eusebio Kino]], Italian priest and missionary (d. 1711)
*[[1734]] &ndash; [[Naungdawgyi]], Burmese king (d. 1763)<ref>{{cite book | last=Maung Maung Tin | first=U | title=Konbaung Hset Maha Yazawin | volume=1 |page=263 | orig-year=1905 | year=2004 | publisher=Department of Universities History Research, University of Yangon | location=Yangon | language=my}}</ref>
*[[1737]] &ndash; [[Anton Losenko]], Russian painter and academic (d. 1773)
*[[1740]] &ndash; [[Samuel Arnold (composer)|Samuel Arnold]], English organist and composer (d. 1802)
*[[1744]] &ndash; [[Alexandrine Le Normant d'Étiolles]], daughter of [[Madame de Pompadour]] (d. 1754)
*[[1755]] &ndash; [[Narayan Rao]], fifth [[Peshwa]] of the [[Maratha Confederacy|Maratha Empire]] (d. 1773)
*[[1782]] &ndash; [[Vicente Guerrero]], Mexican insurgent leader and [[President of Mexico]] (d. 1831)
*[[1805]] &ndash; [[Ferenc Toldy]], German-Hungarian historian and critic (d. 1875)
*[[1809]] &ndash; [[John Kirk Townsend]], American ornithologist and explorer (d. 1851)
*[[1810]] &ndash; [[Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour]], Italian soldier and politician, 1st [[Prime Minister of Italy]] (d. 1861)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Orsi |first1=Pietro |title=Cavour and the Making of Modern Italy, 1810–1861 |date=1914 |publisher=G.P. Putnam's Sons |location=New York |page=53}}</ref>
*[[1814]] &ndash; [[Henri Nestlé]], German businessman, founded [[Nestlé]] (d. 1890)
*  1814   &ndash; [[John C. Pemberton]], [[United States Army|United States]] soldier and [[Confederate Army|Confederate]] general (d. 1881)
*[[1821]] &ndash; [[Jay Cooke]], American financier, founded [[Jay Cooke & Company]] (d. 1905)
*[[1823]] &ndash; [[Hugh Stowell Brown]], English minister and reformer (d. 1886)
*[[1825]] &ndash; [[István Türr]], Hungarian soldier, architect, and engineer, co-designed the [[Corinth Canal]] (d. 1908)
*[[1827]] &ndash; [[Lovro Toman]], Slovenian lawyer and politician (d. 1870) 
*[[1839]] &ndash; [[Aleksandr Stoletov]], Russian physicist and academic (d. 1896)
*[[1845]] &ndash; [[Abai Qunanbaiuli]], Kazakh poet, composer, and philosopher (d. 1904)
*[[1848]] &ndash; [[William Harnett]], Irish-American painter and educator (d. 1892)
*[[1856]] &ndash; [[William Willett]], English inventor, founded [[British Summer Time]] (d. 1915)
*[[1860]] &ndash; [[Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande]], Indian singer and musicologist (d. 1936)
*[[1865]] &ndash; [[Alexander Glazunov]], Russian composer, conductor, and educator (d. 1936)
*[[1868]] &ndash; [[Hugo Eckener]], German pilot and businessman (d. 1954)
*[[1869]] &ndash; [[Laurence Binyon]], English poet, playwright, and scholar (d. 1943)
*[[1870]] &ndash; [[Trần Tế Xương]], Vietnamese poet and satirist (d. 1907)
*[[1872]] &ndash; [[William Manuel Johnson]], American bassist (d. 1972)
*[[1874]] &ndash; [[Herbert Hoover]], American engineer and politician, 31st [[President of the United States]] (d. 1964)
*[[1874]] &ndash; [[Antanas Smetona]], Lithuanian jurist and politician, [[President of Lithuania]] (d. 1944)<ref>{{cite book|title=Current News on the Lithuanian Situation|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Sc0KAQAAMAAJ|year=1944|publisher=Lithuanian Legation}}</ref>
*[[1877]] &ndash; [[Frank Marshall (chess player)|Frank Marshall]], American chess player and author (d. 1944)
*[[1878]] &ndash; [[Alfred Döblin]], Polish-German physician and author (d. 1957)
*[[1880]] &ndash; [[Robert L. Thornton]], American businessman and politician, [[Mayor of Dallas]] (d. 1964)
*[[1884]] &ndash; [[Panait Istrati]], Romanian journalist and author (d. 1935)
*[[1888]] &ndash; [[Prince Christopher of Greece and Denmark]] (d. 1940)
*[[1889]] &ndash; [[Charles Darrow]], American game designer, created ''[[Monopoly (game)|Monopoly]]'' (d. 1967)
*  1889   &ndash; [[Zofia Kossak-Szczucka]], Polish writer and member of the WW II Polish Resistance (d. 1968)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.zofiakossak.pl/aktualnosci/?nzw=info&nr=20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927181637/http://www.zofiakossak.pl/aktualnosci/?nzw=info&nr=20|url-status=dead|archive-date=2007-09-27|title=Zofia Kossak|date=2007-09-27|access-date=2019-01-10}}</ref>
*[[1890]] &ndash; [[Angus Lewis Macdonald]], Canadian lawyer and politician, 12th [[Premier of Nova Scotia]] (d. 1954)
*[[1894]] &ndash; [[V. V. Giri]], Indian lawyer and politician, 4th [[President of India]] (d. 1980) 
*[[1895]] &ndash; [[Hammy Love]], Australian cricketer (d. 1969)
*[[1896]] &ndash; [[Charlie Daly]], Executed Irish Republican (d. 1923)<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.finnvalley.ie/history/martyrs/charlie_daly/kerryman_who_died.html |title=The Story of the Drumboe Martyrs |access-date=17 May 2025 |archive-date=29 March 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080329015037/http://www.finnvalley.ie/history/martyrs/charlie_daly/kerryman_who_died.html |url-status=dead }} by Seamus G O'Kelly</ref>
*[[1897]] &ndash; [[John W. Galbreath]], American businessman and philanthropist, founded [[Darby Dan Farm]] (d. 1988)
*  1897   &ndash; [[Jack Haley]], American actor and singer (d. 1979)
*[[1900]] &ndash; [[Arthur Porritt, Baron Porritt]], New Zealand physician and politician, 11th [[Governor-General of New Zealand]] (d. 1994)