Editing August 27 (section)

===1601–1900===
*[[1624]] &ndash; [[Koxinga]], Chinese-Japanese Ming loyalist (d. 1662)
*[[1637]] &ndash; [[Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore]], English politician, 2nd [[List of Proprietors of Maryland|Proprietor of Maryland]] (d. 1715)
*[[1665]] &ndash; [[John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol]], English politician (d. 1751)
*[[1669]] &ndash; [[Anne Marie d'Orléans]], queen of Sardinia (d. 1728)
*[[1677]] &ndash; [[Otto Ferdinand von Abensberg und Traun]], Austrian general (d. 1748)
*[[1724]] &ndash; [[John Joachim Zubly]], Swiss-American pastor, planter, and politician (d. 1781)
*[[1730]] &ndash; [[Johann Georg Hamann]], German philosopher and author (d. 1788)
*[[1770]] &ndash; [[Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel]], German philosopher and academic (d. 1831)
*[[1785]] &ndash; [[Agustín Gamarra]], Peruvian general and politician, 10th and 14th President of Peru (d. 1841)<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia |last= Castro Peña |first= Jenny |editor= Lexus Editores |encyclopedia= Grandes Forjadores del Perú |title= Gamarra Messia, Agustín |edition= 1st |year= 2000 |publisher= Lexus |location= Lima |language= es |isbn= 9972-625-50-8 |pages= 176–177}}</ref>
*[[1795]] &ndash; [[Giorgio Mitrovich]], Maltese politician (d. 1885)<ref>{{cite news |last1=Mangion |first1=Fabian |title=Recalling a brave, sincere patriot forgotten by Malta |url=https://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20150308/life-features/Recalling-a-brave-sincere-patriot-forgotten-by-Malta.559170 |work=[[Times of Malta]] |date=8 March 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181225125956/https://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20150308/life-features/Recalling-a-brave-sincere-patriot-forgotten-by-Malta.559170 |archive-date=25 December 2018 |access-date=24 December 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1803]] &ndash; [[Edward Beecher]], American minister and theologian (d. 1895)
*[[1809]] &ndash; [[Hannibal Hamlin]], American publisher and politician, 15th [[Vice President of the United States]] (d. 1891)
*[[1812]] &ndash; [[Bertalan Szemere]], Hungarian poet and politician, 3rd [[Prime Minister of Hungary]] (d. 1869)
*[[1822]] &ndash; [[William Hayden English]], American politician, [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. Representative]] from [[Indiana]] and Democratic vice-presidential nominee (d. 1896)<ref>{{cite book |year = 1908 |title = Commemorative Biographical Record of Prominent and Representative Men of Indianapolis and Vicinity |pages = 9–18 |publisher = J.H. Beers & Co. |location = Chicago, Illinois |url = https://archive.org/details/commemorativebio00chicago}}</ref>
*[[1827]] &ndash; [[Charles Lilley]], English-Australian politician, 4th [[Premier of Queensland]] (d. 1897)
*[[1845]] &ndash; [[Ödön Lechner]], Hungarian architect, designed the [[Museum of Applied Arts (Budapest)|Museum of Applied Arts]] and the [[Church of St. Elisabeth (Bratislava)|Church of St Elisabeth]] (d. 1914)
* 1845 &ndash; [[Friedrich Martens]], Estonian-Russian historian, lawyer, and diplomat (d. 1909)
*[[1856]] &ndash; [[Ivan Franko]], Ukrainian author and poet (d. 1916)
*[[1858]] &ndash; [[Giuseppe Peano]], Italian mathematician and philosopher (d. 1932)
*[[1864]] &ndash; [[Hermann Weingärtner]], German gymnast (d. 1919)
*[[1865]] &ndash; [[James Henry Breasted]], American archaeologist and historian (d. 1935)
* 1865 &ndash; [[Charles G. Dawes]], American general and politician, 30th [[Vice President of the United States]], [[Nobel Peace Prize|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. 1951)
*[[1868]] &ndash; [[Hong Beom-do]], Korean general and activist (d. 1943)
*[[1870]] &ndash; [[Amado Nervo]], Mexican journalist, poet, and diplomat (d. 1919)
*[[1871]] &ndash; [[Theodore Dreiser]], American novelist and journalist (d. 1945)
*[[1874]] &ndash; [[Carl Bosch]], German chemist and engineer, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. 1940)
*[[1875]] &ndash; [[Katharine McCormick]], American biologist, philanthropist, and activist (d. 1967)
*[[1877]] &ndash; [[Charles Rolls]], English engineer and businessman, co-founded [[Rolls-Royce Limited]] (d. 1910)
* 1877 &ndash; [[Ernst Wetter]], Swiss lawyer and politician, 48th [[List of Presidents of the Swiss Confederation|President of the Swiss Confederation]] (d. 1963)
*[[1878]] &ndash; [[Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel]], Russian general (d. 1928)
*[[1884]] &ndash; [[Vincent Auriol]], French lawyer and politician, [[President of the French Republic]] (d. 1966)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Jessup |first1=John E. |title=An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Conflict and Conflict Resolution, 1945–1996 |date=1998 |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |isbn=978-0-313-28112-9 |page=43 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hP7jJAkTd9MC&dq=Vincent+Auriol+1+january+1966&pg=PA43 |language=en}}</ref>
* 1884 &ndash; [[Denis G. Lillie]], British biologist, member of the 1910–1913 [[Terra Nova Expedition|''Terra Nova'' Expedition]] (d. 1963)
*[[1886]] &ndash; [[Rebecca Clarke (composer)|Rebecca Clarke]], English viola player and composer (d. 1979)<ref>{{cite book|first=David|last=Greene|title=Greene's Biographical Encyclopedia of Composers|location=London|publisher=Collins|year=1986|page=1164|isbn=978-0-00434-363-1}}</ref>
*[[1890]] &ndash; [[Man Ray]], American-French photographer and painter (d. 1976)
*[[1895]] &ndash; [[Andreas Alföldi]], Hungarian archaeologist and historian (d. 1981)
*[[1896]] &ndash; [[Kenji Miyazawa]], Japanese author and poet (d. 1933)
*[[1898]] &ndash; [[Gaspard Fauteux]], Canadian businessman and politician, 19th [[Lieutenant Governor of Quebec]] (d. 1963)
*[[1899]] &ndash; [[C. S. Forester]], English novelist (d. 1966)