Editing December 15 (section)

===1601–1900===
*[[1610]] &ndash; [[David Teniers the Younger]], Flemish painter (d. 1690)
*[[1657]] &ndash; [[Michel Richard Delalande]], French organist and composer (d. 1726)
*[[1686]] &ndash; [[Jean-Joseph Fiocco]], Flemish violinist and composer (d. 1746)
*[[1710]] &ndash; [[Francesco Zahra]], Maltese painter (d. 1773)
*[[1789]] &ndash; [[Carlos Soublette]], Venezuelan general and politician, 11th [[President of Venezuela]] (d. 1870)
*[[1832]] &ndash; [[Gustave Eiffel]], French architect and engineer, co-designed the [[Eiffel Tower]] (d. 1923)
*[[1837]] &ndash; [[E. W. Bullinger]], English minister, scholar, and theologian (d. 1913)
*[[1846]] &ndash; [[Amunda Kolderup]], Norwegian opera singer (d. 1882)<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|last=Haavet |first=Inger Elisabeth|title=Amunda Kolderup |url=https://nbl.snl.no/Amunda_Kolderup|encyclopedia=[[Norsk biografisk leksikon]]|access-date=20 January 2025|language=no}}</ref>
*[[1852]] &ndash; [[Henri Becquerel]], French physicist and chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. 1908)
*[[1859]] &ndash; [[L. L. Zamenhof]], Polish linguist and ophthalmologist, created [[Esperanto]] (d. 1917)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Korzhenkov |first1=Aleksander |editor1-last=Tonkin |editor1-first=Humphrey |title=Zamenhof: The Life, Works and Ideas of the Author of Esperanto |date=2010 |publisher=Mondial |isbn=9781595691675 |page=3 |translator-first1=Ian M. |translator-last1=Richmond}}</ref>
*[[1860]] &ndash; [[Niels Ryberg Finsen]], Faroese-Danish physician and educator, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. 1904)
*  1860   &ndash; [[Abner Powell]], American baseball player and manager (d. 1953)
*[[1861]] &ndash; [[Charles Duryea]], American engineer and businessman, co-founded the [[Duryea Motor Wagon Company]] (d. 1938)
*  1861   &ndash; [[Pehr Evind Svinhufvud]], Finnish lawyer, judge, and politician, 3rd [[President of Finland]] (d. 1944)
*[[1863]] &ndash; [[Arthur Dehon Little]], American chemist and engineer (d. 1935)
*[[1869]] &ndash; [[Leon Marchlewski]], Polish chemist and academic (d. 1946)
*[[1875]] &ndash; [[Emilio Jacinto]], Filipino journalist and activist (d. 1899)
*[[1878]] &ndash; [[Hans Carossa]], German author and poet (d. 1956)
*[[1885]] &ndash; [[Leonid Pitamic]], Slovenian lawyer, philosopher, and academic (d. 1971)
*[[1886]] &ndash; [[Wanda Krahelska-Filipowicz]], Polish politician and resistance fighter (d. 1968)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://sprawiedliwi.org.pl/en/stories-of-rescue/story-wanda-krahelska-filipowiczowa|title=The story of Wanda Krahelska-Filipowiczowa {{!}} Polscy Sprawiedliwi|website=sprawiedliwi.org.pl|access-date=2019-01-10}}</ref>
*  1886   &ndash; [[Florence Jepperson Madsen]], American [[contralto]] singer and professor of music (d. 1977)
*[[1888]] &ndash; [[Maxwell Anderson]], American journalist and playwright (d. 1959)
*[[1890]] &ndash; [[Harry Babcock (pole vaulter)|Harry Babcock]], American pole vaulter (d. 1965)
*[[1891]] &ndash; [[A.P. Carter]], American country singer-songwriter and musician (d. 1960)
*[[1892]] &ndash; [[J. Paul Getty]], American-English businessman and art collector, founded [[Getty Oil]] (d. 1976)
*[[1894]] &ndash; [[Vibert Douglas]], Canadian astrophysicist and astronomer (d. 1988)
*  1894   &ndash; [[Josef Imbach (athlete)|Josef Imbach]], Swiss sprinter (d. 1964)
*[[1896]] &ndash; [[Betty Smith]], American author and playwright (d. 1972)
*[[1899]] &ndash; [[Harold Abrahams]], English sprinter, lawyer, and journalist (d. 1978)