Editing August 12 (section)

===1601–1900===
*[[1604]] &ndash; [[Tokugawa Iemitsu]], Japanese shōgun (d. 1651)
*[[1626]] &ndash; [[Giovanni Legrenzi]], Italian composer (d. 1690)
*[[1629]] &ndash; [[Archduchess Isabella Clara of Austria]], Austrian archduchess (d. 1685)
*[[1644]] &ndash; [[Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber]], Bohemian-Austrian violinist and composer (d. 1704)
*[[1686]] &ndash; [[John Balguy]], English philosopher and author (d. 1748)
*[[1696]] &ndash; [[Maurice Greene (composer)|Maurice Greene]], English organist and composer (d. 1755)
*[[1762]] &ndash; [[George IV of the United Kingdom]] (d. 1830)
*[[1773]] &ndash; [[Karl Faber]], Prussian historian and academic (d. 1853)
*[[1774]] &ndash; [[Robert Southey]], English poet and author (d. 1843)
*[[1831]] &ndash; [[Helena Blavatsky]], Russian theosophist and scholar (d. 1891)
*[[1852]] &ndash; [[Michael J. McGivney]], American priest and founder of the [[Knights of Columbus]] (d. 1890)
*[[1856]] &ndash; [[Diamond Jim Brady]], American businessman and philanthropist (d. 1917)
*[[1857]] &ndash; [[Ernestine von Kirchsberg]], Austrian painter and educator (d. 1924)
*[[1859]] &ndash; [[Katharine Lee Bates]], American poet and author (d. 1929)<ref>{{cite web |title=Katharine Lee Bates {{!}} American author {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Katharine-Lee-Bates |website=www.britannica.com |access-date=25 February 2022 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[1860]] &ndash; [[Klara Hitler]], Austrian mother of [[Adolf Hitler]] (d. 1907)
*[[1866]] &ndash; [[Jacinto Benavente]], Spanish playwright, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. 1954)
*  1866   &ndash; [[Henrik Sillem]], Dutch target shooter, mountaineer, and jurist (d. 1907)
*[[1867]] &ndash; [[Edith Hamilton]], German-American author and educator (d. 1963)
*[[1870]] &ndash; [[Henry Reuterdahl]], Swedish-American artist (d. 1925)
*[[1871]] &ndash; [[Gustavs Zemgals]], Latvian politician, 2nd [[President of Latvia]] (d. 1939)
*[[1876]] &ndash; [[Mary Roberts Rinehart]], American author and playwright (d. 1958)
*[[1877]] &ndash; [[Albert Bartha]], Hungarian general and politician, [[Ministry of Defence (Hungary)|Hungarian Minister of Defence]] (d. 1960)
*[[1880]] &ndash; [[Radclyffe Hall]], English poet, author, and activist (d. 1943)
*  1880   &ndash; [[Christy Mathewson]], American baseball player and manager (d. 1925)
*[[1881]] &ndash; [[Cecil B. DeMille]], American director and producer (d. 1959)
*[[1883]] &ndash; [[Martha Hedman]], Swedish-American actress and playwright (d. 1974)
*  1883   &ndash; [[Marion Lorne]], American actress (d. 1968)
*[[1885]] &ndash; [[Jean Cabannes]], French physicist and academic (d. 1959)
*  1885   &ndash; [[Keith Murdoch]], Australian journalist (d. 1952)
*  1885   &ndash; [[Juhan Simm]], Estonian composer and conductor (d. 1959)
*[[1887]] &ndash; [[Erwin Schrödinger]], Austrian physicist and academic, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. 1961)
*[[1889]] &ndash; [[Zerna Sharp]], American author and educator (d. 1981)
*[[1891]] &ndash; [[C. E. M. Joad]], English philosopher and academic (d. 1953)
*  1891   &ndash; [[John McDermott (golfer)|John McDermott]], American golfer (d. 1971)
*[[1892]] &ndash; [[Alfred Lunt]], American actor and director (d. 1977)
*[[1897]] &ndash; [[Maurice Fernandes]], Guyanese cricketer (d. 1981)
*[[1899]] &ndash; [[Ben Sealey]], Trinidadian cricketer (d. 1963)