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===1601–1900=== *[[1616]] – [[Roger L'Estrange]], English pamphleteer and author (d. 1704) *[[1619]] – [[Prince Rupert of the Rhine]] (d. 1682) *[[1632]] – [[Anthony Wood (antiquary)|Anthony Wood]], English historian and author (d. 1695) *[[1685]] – [[Thomas Tickell]], English poet (d. 1740) *[[1699]] – [[Charles-Louis Mion]], French composer and educator (d. 1775) *[[1706]] – [[Émilie du Châtelet]], French mathematician and physicist (d. 1749)<ref>{{cite book | first=Garry J. | last=Tee | chapter=Gabrielle-Émilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, Marquise du Châtelet | editor-last1=Grinstein | editor-first1=Louise S. | editor-last2=Campbell | editor-first2=Paul J. | title=Women of Mathematics: a Biobibliographic Sourcebook | place=New York | publisher=Greenwood Press | year=1987 | isbn=978-0-3132-4849-8 | page=[https://archive.org/details/womenofmathemati0000unse/page/21 21] | chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/womenofmathemati0000unse/page/21 }}</ref> *[[1734]] – [[Maria I of Portugal]] (d. 1816) *[[1749]] – [[Domenico Cimarosa]], Italian composer and educator (d. 1801) *[[1778]] – [[Humphry Davy]], English chemist and physicist (d. 1829) *[[1796]] – [[Thomas Chandler Haliburton]], Canadian judge and politician (d. 1865) *[[1797]] – [[Joseph Henry]], American physicist and engineer (d. 1878) *[[1807]] – [[John Greenleaf Whittier]], American poet and activist (d. 1892) *[[1812]] – [[Vilhelm Petersen (painter)|Vilhelm Petersen]], Danish painter (d. 1880) *[[1827]] – [[Alexander Wassilko von Serecki]], Austrian lawyer and politician (d. 1893) *[[1830]] – [[Jules de Goncourt]], French author and critic (d. 1870) *[[1835]] – [[Alexander Emanuel Agassiz]], Swiss-American ichthyologist and engineer (d. 1910) *[[1840]] – [[Nozu Michitsura]], Japanese field marshal (d. 1908) *[[1842]] – [[Sophus Lie]], Norwegian mathematician and academic (d. 1899) *[[1847]] – [[Émile Faguet]], French author and critic (d. 1916) *[[1853]] – [[Pierre Paul Émile Roux]], French physician and immunologist, co-founded the [[Pasteur Institute]] (d. 1933) *[[1858]] – [[Eva Nansen]], Norwegian mezzo-soprano singer and pioneer on women{{'s}} skiing (d. 1907)<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Eva Nansen |first= |last= |encyclopedia=[[Store norske leksikon]] |date= 23 August 2023|editor-last=Bolstad | editor-first=Erik |publisher=Norsk nettleksikon |location=Oslo |url=https://snl.no/Eva_Nansen |language=no|access-date=March 28, 2024}}</ref> *[[1859]] – [[Paul César Helleu]], French painter and illustrator (d. 1927) *[[1866]] – [[Kazys Grinius]], Lithuanian physician and politician, third [[President of Lithuania]] (d. 1950) *[[1873]] – [[Ford Madox Ford]], English novelist, poet, and critic (d. 1939) *[[1874]] – [[William Lyon Mackenzie King]], Canadian economist and politician, tenth [[Prime Minister of Canada]] (d. 1950) *[[1881]] – [[Aubrey Faulkner]], South African-English cricketer and coach (d. 1930) *[[1884]] – [[Alison Uttley]], English children's book writer (d. 1976) *[[1887]] – [[Josef Lada]], Czech painter and illustrator (d. 1957) *[[1890]] – [[Prince Joachim of Prussia]] (d. 1920) *[[1892]] – [[Sam Barry]], American basketball player and coach (d. 1950) *[[1893]] – [[Charles C. Banks]], English captain and pilot (d. 1971) * 1893 – [[Erwin Piscator]], German director and producer (d. 1966) *[[1894]] – [[Arthur Fiedler]], American conductor (d. 1979) * 1894 – [[Patrick Flynn (athlete)|Patrick Flynn]], Irish-American runner and soldier (d. 1969) * 1894 – [[Wim Schermerhorn]], Dutch cartographer, engineer, and politician, [[List of Prime Ministers of the Netherlands|Prime Minister of the Netherlands]] (d. 1977) *[[1895]] – [[Gerald Patterson]], Australian tennis player (d. 1967)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Gerald Patterson | Overview | ATP Tour | Tennis |url=https://www.atptour.com/en/players/gerald-patterson/pj50/overview |access-date=October 23, 2022 |website=ATP Tour}}</ref> *[[1898]] – [[Loren Murchison]], American sprinter (d. 1979) *[[1900]] – [[Mary Cartwright]], English mathematician and academic, one of the first people to analyze a dynamical system with chaos (d. 1998)
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