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===1601–1900===
*[[1652]] &ndash; [[Ferdinando Carlo Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua and Montferrat|Ferdinando Carlo Gonzaga]], Italian nobleman (d. 1708)<ref>{{cite book|author=Joseph Haydn|title=Haydn's Universal Index of Biography from the Creation to the Present Time: For the Use of the Statesman, the Historian, and the Journalist|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_3gxkEOZsVrwC|year=1870|publisher=E. Moxon, son, and Company|pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_3gxkEOZsVrwC/page/n307 215]}}</ref>
*[[1663]] &ndash; [[Guillaume Amontons]], French physicist and instrument maker (d. 1705)
*[[1721]] &ndash; [[George Hervey, 2nd Earl of Bristol]], English soldier and politician, [[Lord Lieutenant of Ireland]] (d. 1775)
*[[1741]] &ndash; [[Jean-Paul-Égide Martini]], French composer and educator (d. 1816)
*[[1748]] &ndash; [[Jean-Étienne Despréaux]], French ballet dancer, choreographer, composer, and playwright (d. 1820)
*[[1767]] &ndash; [[Henry Joy McCracken]], Irish businessman and activist, founded the [[Society of United Irishmen]] (d. 1798)
*[[1775]] &ndash; [[Agnes Bulmer]], English poet and author (d. 1836)
*[[1797]] &ndash; [[Ramón Castilla]], Peruvian military leader and politician, President of Peru (d. 1867)<ref>{{cite book|title=Revista del Instituto Libertador Ramón Castilla|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h-hJAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA216|year=1955|publisher=Instituto Libertador Ramón Castilla|location=Lima|volume=2|page=216|language=es}}</ref>
*  1797   &ndash; [[Stephen Geary]], English architect, inventor and entrepreneur (d. 1854)
*[[1802]] &ndash; [[Husein Gradaščević]], Ottoman general (d. 1834)
*[[1811]] &ndash; [[Théophile Gautier]], French poet and critic (d. 1872)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.landrucimetieres.fr/spip/spip.php?article4785 |title=Cimetières de France et d'ailleurs – La descendance de Théophile Gautier |publisher=landrucimetieres.fr}}</ref>
*[[1821]] &ndash; [[Hermann von Helmholtz]], German physician and physicist (d. 1894)
*[[1823]] &ndash; [[Galusha A. Grow]], American lawyer and politician, 28th [[Speaker of the United States House of Representatives]] (d. 1907)
*[[1834]] &ndash; [[Amilcare Ponchielli]], Italian composer and educator (d. 1886)
*[[1842]] &ndash; [[Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin]], American journalist, publisher, and activist (d. 1924)
*[[1843]] &ndash; [[Georg von Hertling]], German academic and politician, 7th [[Chancellor of the German Empire]] (d. 1919)
*[[1870]] &ndash; [[Maria Montessori]], Italian physician and educator (d. 1952)
*[[1871]] &ndash; [[James E. Ferguson]], American banker and politician, 26th [[List of Governors of Texas|Governor of Texas]] (d. 1944)
*[[1875]] &ndash; [[Rosa Lemberg]], Namibian-born Finnish American teacher, singer and choral conductor (d. 1959)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://kansallisbiografia.fi/kansallisbiografia/henkilo/9823/ |title=Clay, Rosa Emilia (1875–1959) |last1=Leitzinger |first1=Antero |date=22 June 2011 |website=[[Finnish Literature Society]] |language=fi |access-date=27 June 2023}}</ref>
*[[1878]] &ndash; [[Frank Jarvis (athlete)|Frank Jarvis]], American sprinter and lawyer (d. 1933)
*[[1879]] &ndash; [[Alma Mahler]], Austrian-American composer and author (d. 1964)
*  1879   &ndash; [[Emperor Taishō|Taishō]], Emperor of Japan (d. 1926)
*[[1880]] &ndash; [[Wilhelmina of the Netherlands|Wilhelmina]], queen of the Netherlands (d. 1962)
*[[1884]] &ndash; [[George Sarton]], Belgian-American historian of science (d. 1956)
*[[1885]] &ndash; [[DuBose Heyward]], American author and playwright (d. 1940)
*[[1890]] &ndash; [[August Alle]], Estonian poet and author (d. 1952)
*  1890   &ndash; [[Nätti-Jussi]], Finnish lumberjack and forest laborer (d. 1964)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.rovaniemi.fi/fi/Palvelut/Kylat-ja-kaupunginosat/Alakemijoen---ja-Ranuantien-suunta/Muurola/Natti-Jussi |title=Nätti-Jussi |website=Rovaniemi.fi |access-date=31 August 2022 |language=fi |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150513141038/https://www.rovaniemi.fi/fi/Palvelut/Kylat-ja-kaupunginosat/Alakemijoen---ja-Ranuantien-suunta/Muurola/Natti-Jussi |archive-date=13 May 2015 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
*[[1893]] &ndash; [[Lily Laskine]], French harp player (d. 1988)
*[[1894]] &ndash; [[Albert Facey]], Australian soldier and author (d. 1982)
*[[1896]] &ndash; [[Brian Edmund Baker]], English [[Air Marshal]] (d. 1979)
*  1896   &ndash; [[Félix-Antoine Savard]], Canadian priest and author (d. 1982)
*[[1897]] &ndash; [[Fredric March]], American actor (d. 1975)
*[[1900]] &ndash; [[Gino Lucetti]], Italian anarchist, attempted assassin of [[Benito Mussolini]] (d. 1943)