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===1601–1900===
*[[1603]] &ndash; [[Johannes Cocceius]], German-Dutch theologian and academic (d. 1669)
*[[1611]] &ndash; [[Henry of Nassau-Siegen (1611–1652)|Henry of Nassau-Siegen]], German count, officer in the Dutch Army, diplomat for the Dutch Republic (b. 1611)<ref>{{aut|Menk, Friedhelm}} (2004). "Die Fürstengruft zu Siegen und die darin von 1669 bis 1781 erfolgten Beisetzungen". In: {{aut|Burwitz, Ludwig}} u.a. (Redaktion), ''Siegener Beiträge. Jahrbuch für regionale Geschichte'' (in German). Vol.&nbsp;9. Siegen: Geschichtswerkstatt Siegen – Arbeitskreis für Regionalgeschichte e.V. p.&nbsp;191; {{cite book |last1=Huberty |first1=Michel |last2=Giraud |first2=Alain |last3=Magdelaine |first3=F.&nbsp;&&nbsp;B. |title=l'Allemagne Dynastique |language=fr |location=Le Perreux |publisher=Alain Giraud |date=1981 |volume=Tome&nbsp;III: Brunswick-Nassau-Schwarzbourg |pages=254 }}</ref>
*[[1648]] &ndash; [[Johann Michael Bach]], German composer (d. 1694)<ref>{{cite book|author1=Malcolm Boyd|author2=John Butt|title=J.S. Bach|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N6sCAQAAMAAJ|year=1999|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-866208-2|page=36}}</ref>
*[[1653]] &ndash; [[John Oldham (poet)|John Oldham]], English poet and translator (d. 1683)
*[[1696]] &ndash; [[Joseph Wenzel I, Prince of Liechtenstein]] (d. 1772)
*[[1722]] &ndash; [[Prince Augustus William of Prussia]] (d. 1758)<ref>{{cite book|author1=Sophie Marie Voss (Gräfin von)|author2=Emily Stephenson|title=Sixty-nine Years at the Court of Prussia: From the Recollections of the Mistress of the Household|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B45FAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA15|year=1876|publisher=R. Bentley & Son|pages=15}}</ref>
*[[1726]] &ndash; [[Francesco Cetti]], Italian priest, [[zoologist]], and [[mathematician]] (d. 1778)
*[[1748]] &ndash; [[Bernhard Schott]], German music publisher (d. 1809)<ref>{{NDB |23|486|487|Schott, Peter Bernhard|Brück, Marion|118610546}}</ref>
*[[1757]] &ndash; [[Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton]], American humanitarian; wife of [[Alexander Hamilton]] (d. 1854)
*  1757   &ndash; [[Thomas Telford]], Scottish architect and engineer, designed the [[Menai Suspension Bridge]] (d. 1834)
*[[1776]] &ndash; [[Amedeo Avogadro]], Italian physicist and chemist (d. 1856)
*[[1783]] &ndash; [[Grand Duchess Alexandra Pavlovna of Russia]] (d. 1801)
*[[1788]] &ndash; [[Adoniram Judson]], American missionary and [[lexicographer]] (d. 1850)
*[[1797]] &ndash; [[Charles Robert Malden]], English lieutenant and surveyor (d. 1855)
*[[1805]] &ndash; [[Joseph Locke]], English engineer and politician (d. 1860)
*[[1845]] &ndash; [[André Bessette]], Canadian saint (d. 1937)
*[[1847]] &ndash; [[Maria Vittoria dal Pozzo]], French-Italian wife of [[Amadeo I of Spain]] (d. 1876)
*[[1848]] &ndash; [[Alfred David Benjamin]], Australian-born businessman and philanthropist. (d. 1900)
*[[1861]] &ndash; [[Dorothea Klumpke]], American astronomer and academic (d. 1942)
*[[1867]] &ndash; [[Evelina Haverfield]], Scottish nurse and activist (d. 1920)
*[[1872]] &ndash; [[Archduke Joseph August of Austria]] (d. 1962)
*[[1874]] &ndash; [[Reynaldo Hahn]], Venezuelan composer and conductor (d. 1947)
*[[1875]] &ndash; [[Albert Ketèlbey]], English pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1959)
*[[1878]] &ndash; [[Eileen Gray]], Irish architect and furniture designer (d. 1976)
*[[1879]] &ndash; [[John Willcock]], Australian politician, 15th [[Premier of Western Australia]], (d. 1956)
*[[1881]] &ndash; [[Prince Antônio Gastão of Orléans-Braganza]], Brazilian prince (d. 1918)
*[[1890]] &ndash; [[Eino Kaila]], Finnish philosopher and psychologist, attendant of the Vienna circle (d. 1958)
*[[1896]] &ndash; [[Erich Hückel]], German physicist and chemist (d. 1980)
*  1896   &ndash; [[Jean Piaget]], Swiss psychologist and philosopher (d. 1980)
*[[1899]] &ndash; [[P. L. Travers]], Australian-English author and actress (d. 1996)
*[[1900]] &ndash; [[Charles Farrell]], American actor and singer (d. 1990)