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===1601–1900===
*[[1625]] &ndash; [[John Claypole]], English politician (d. 1688)
*[[1643]] &ndash; [[Afonso VI of Portugal]] (d. 1683)
*[[1660]] &ndash; [[Hubert Gautier]], French mathematician and engineer (d. 1737)
*[[1665]] &ndash; [[Giacomo F. Maraldi]], French-Italian astronomer and mathematician (d. 1729)
*[[1670]] &ndash; [[James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick]], French general and politician, [[Lord Lieutenant of Hampshire]] (d. 1734)
*[[1725]] &ndash; [[Jean-Baptiste Greuze]], French painter and educator (d. 1805)
*[[1754]] &ndash; [[William Murdoch]], Scottish engineer and inventor, created [[gas lighting]] (d. 1839)
*  1754   &ndash; [[Banastre Tarleton]], English general and politician (d. 1833)
*[[1765]] &ndash; [[William IV of the United Kingdom]]  (d. 1837)
*[[1787]] &ndash; [[John Owen (North Carolina politician)|John Owen]], American governor of North Carolina (d. 1841)<ref>{{cite book|title=Governor John Owen Family Bible Records|url=https://digital.ncdcr.gov/Documents/Detail/governor-john-owen-family-bible-records/1348382?item=1348384|via=Digital Collections of the [[State Archives of North Carolina]] and the [[State Library of North Carolina]]}}</ref>
*[[1789]] &ndash; [[Augustin-Louis Cauchy]], French mathematician and academic (d. 1857)
*[[1798]] &ndash; [[Jules Michelet]], French historian and philosopher (d. 1874)
*[[1800]] &ndash; [[Hiram Walden]], American general and politician (d. 1880)
*[[1801]] &ndash; [[Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer]], Dutch historian and politician (d. 1876)
*[[1813]] &ndash; [[Jean Stas]], Belgian chemist and physician (d. 1891)
*[[1816]] &ndash; [[Charles Frédéric Gerhardt]], French chemist and academic (d. 1856)
*[[1823]] &ndash; [[Nathaniel Everett Green]], English painter and astronomer (d. 1899)
*[[1826]] &ndash; [[Carl Gegenbaur]], German anatomist and academic (d. 1903)
*[[1829]] &ndash; [[Otto Goldschmidt]], German composer, conductor and pianist (d. 1907)
*[[1840]] &ndash; [[Ferdinand Hamer]], Dutch bishop and missionary (d. 1900)
*[[1851]] &ndash; [[Charles Barrois]], French geologist and palaeontologist (d. 1939)<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf |page=62 |title=Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Biographical Index Part One |access-date=2015-03-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150919152306/https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf |archive-date=2015-09-19 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
*[[1856]] &ndash; [[Medora de Vallombrosa, Marquise de Morès]], American heiress (d. 1921)
*[[1858]] &ndash; [[Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria]] (d. 1889)
*[[1862]] &ndash; [[Emilio Salgari]], Italian journalist and author (d. 1911)
*[[1869]] &ndash; [[William Henry Ogilvie]], Scottish-Australian poet and author (d. 1963)
*[[1872]] &ndash; [[Aubrey Beardsley]], English author and illustrator (d. 1898)<ref>{{cite ODNB |last1=Crawford |first1=Alan |title=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |chapter=Beardsley, Aubrey Vincent (1872–1898), illustrator |page=<!-- online, no page numbers -->|date=23 September 2004 |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/1821 |doi-access=free}}</ref>
*[[1878]] &ndash; [[Richard Girulatis]], German footballer and manager (d. 1963)
*[[1879]] &ndash; [[Claude Grahame-White]], English pilot and engineer (d. 1959)
*[[1884]] &ndash; [[Chandler Egan]], American golfer and architect (d. 1936)
*[[1885]] &ndash; [[Édouard Fabre]], Canadian runner (d. 1939)
*[[1886]] &ndash; [[Ruth Manning-Sanders]], Welsh-English author and poet (d. 1988)
*[[1887]] &ndash; [[James Paul Moody]], English sailor (d. 1912)
*[[1891]] &ndash; [[Emiliano Mercado del Toro]], Puerto Rican-American soldier (d. 2007)
*[[1892]] &ndash; [[Charles Vanel]], French actor and director (d. 1989)
*[[1894]] &ndash; [[Christian Schad]], German painter (d. 1982)
*[[1895]] &ndash; [[Blossom Rock]], American actress (d. 1978)
*[[1897]] &ndash; [[Keith Arbuthnott, 15th Viscount of Arbuthnott]], Scottish soldier and peer (d. 1966)