Editing August 6 (section)

===1601–1900===
*[[1605]] &ndash; [[Bulstrode Whitelocke]], English lawyer (d. 1675)
*[[1609]] &ndash; [[Richard Bennett (governor)|Richard Bennett]], English-American politician, [[Colonial Governor of Virginia]] (d. 1675)
*[[1619]] &ndash; [[Barbara Strozzi]], Italian composer and singer-songwriter (d. 1677)<ref>{{cite book|title=Journal of the American Musicological Society: Volume XXXi 1978|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3EdWi3WCNdQC|year=1978|page=241}}</ref>
*[[1622]] &ndash; [[Tjerk Hiddes de Vries]], Dutch admiral (d. 1666)
*[[1638]] &ndash; [[Nicolas Malebranche]], French priest and philosopher (d. 1715)
*[[1644]] &ndash; [[Louise de La Vallière]], French mistress of [[Louis XIV of France]] (d. 1710)<ref>{{cite book|author=Alexandre Dumas|title=Louise de la Vallière|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wE7kE4psOFEC&pg=PT1146|date=21 May 1998|publisher=OUP Oxford|isbn=978-0-19-161110-0|pages=1146}}</ref>
*[[1651]] &ndash; [[François Fénelon]], French archbishop and poet (d. 1715)
*[[1656]] &ndash; [[Claude de Forbin]], French general (d. 1733)
*[[1666]] &ndash; [[Maria Sophia of Neuburg]] (d. 1699)
*[[1667]] &ndash; [[Johann Bernoulli]], Swiss mathematician (d. 1748)
*[[1697]] &ndash; [[Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor]] (d. 1745)
*[[1715]] &ndash; [[Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues]], French author (d. 1747)
*[[1765]] &ndash; [[Petros Mavromichalis]], Greek general and politician, 2nd [[List of Prime Ministers of Greece|Prime Minister of Greece]] (d. 1848)
*[[1766]] &ndash; [[William Hyde Wollaston]], English chemist and physicist (d. 1828)
*[[1768]] &ndash; [[Jean-Baptiste Bessières]], French general and politician (d. 1813)
*[[1775]] &ndash; [[Daniel O'Connell]], Irish lawyer and politician, [[Lord Mayor of Dublin]] (d. 1847)
*[[1809]] &ndash; [[Alfred, Lord Tennyson]], English poet (d. 1892)<ref>{{cite book|author=Paul Turner|title=Tennyson|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4qTTxowHbrkC&pg=PA3|year=1976|publisher=Ardent Media|pages=3}}</ref>
*[[1826]] &ndash; [[Thomas Alexander Browne]], English-Australian author (d. 1915)
*[[1835]] &ndash; [[Hjalmar Kiærskou]], Danish botanist (d. 1900)
*[[1844]] &ndash; [[Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha]] (d. 1900)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Panton |first1=James |title=Historical Dictionary of the British Monarchy |date=24 February 2011 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=978-0-8108-7497-8 |page=39 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BiyyueBTpaMC&pg=PA39 |language=en}}</ref>
* 1844 &ndash; [[James Henry Greathead]], South African-English engineer (d. 1896)
*[[1848]] &ndash; [[Susie Taylor]], American writer and first black Army nurse (d. 1912)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://blackpast.org/aah/taylor-susan-susie-baker-king-1848-1912|title=Taylor, Susan (Susie) Baker King (1848-1912) &#124; The Black Past: Remembered and Reclaimed|website=blackpast.org|date=26 February 2007 |language=en|access-date=2019-01-31}}</ref>
*[[1846]] &ndash; [[Anna Haining Bates]], Canadian-American giant (d. 1888)
*[[1868]] &ndash; [[Paul Claudel]], French poet and playwright (d. 1955)<ref>{{cite book|author=John Flower|title=Historical Dictionary of French Literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Kd6tAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA141|date=17 January 2013|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-0-8108-7945-4|pages=141}}</ref>
*[[1874]] &ndash; [[Charles Fort]], American author (d. 1932)
*[[1877]] &ndash; [[Wallace H. White Jr.]], American lawyer and politician (d. 1952)
*[[1880]] &ndash; [[Hans Moser (actor)|Hans Moser]], Austrian actor and singer (d. 1964)
*[[1881]] &ndash; [[Leo Carrillo]], American actor (d. 1961)
* 1881 &ndash; [[Alexander Fleming]], Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, and botanist, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. 1955)<ref>{{cite web |title=Alexander Fleming &#124; Biography, Education, Discovery, & Facts |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alexander-Fleming |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=15 October 2020 |language=en}}</ref>
* 1881 &ndash; [[Louella Parsons]], American journalist (d. 1972)
*[[1883]] &ndash; [[Constance Georgina Adams]], South African botanist (d. 1968)<ref>{{cite book |last=Rall |first=Maureen |title=Petticoat Pioneers: The History of the Pioneer Women who Lived on the Diamond Fields in the Early Years| location=Kimberley, South Africa |publisher=Kimberley Africana Library |year=2002 |page=117 |isbn=978-0-62027-613-9}}</ref>
* 1883 &ndash; [[Scott Nearing]], American economist and educator (d. 1983)
*[[1886]] &ndash; [[Edward Ballantine]], American composer and academic (d. 1971)
*[[1887]] &ndash; [[Dudley Benjafield]], English racing driver (d. 1957)
*[[1889]] &ndash; [[George Kenney]], Canadian-American general (d. 1977)
* 1889 &ndash; [[John Middleton Murry]], English poet and author (d. 1957)
*[[1891]] &ndash; [[William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim]], English field marshal and politician, 13th [[Governor-General of Australia]] (d. 1970)
*[[1895]] &ndash; [[Frank Nicklin]], Australian politician, 28th [[Premier of Queensland]] (d. 1978)
*[[1900]] &ndash; [[Cecil Howard Green]], English-American geophysicist and businessman, co-founded [[Texas Instruments]] (d. 2003)