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===1601–1900=== *[[1602]] – [[Simonds d'Ewes]], English historian and politician (d. 1650) *[[1610]] – [[Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange]], French philologist and historian (d. 1688) *[[1620]] – [[Heinrich Roth]], German missionary and scholar (d. 1668) *[[1624]] – [[John Hull (merchant)|John Hull]], colonial American merchant and politician (d. 1683)<ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/43585298.pdf|jstor=43585298|title=John Hull, the Coiner of the Pine Tree Shillings|author1=R. R. R.|journal=American Journal of Numismatics, and Bulletin of the American Numismatic and Archaeological Society|year=1893|volume=27|issue=3|pages=49–54}}</ref> *[[1626]] – [[Christina, Queen of Sweden]] (d. 1689) *[[1660]] – [[Countess Johanna Magdalene of Hanau-Lichtenberg]] (d. 1715) *[[1661]] – [[Christopher Polhem]], Swedish physicist and inventor (d. 1751) *[[1662]] – [[James Douglas, 2nd Duke of Queensberry]], Scottish colonel and politician, [[Secretary of State for Scotland]] (d. 1711) *[[1707]] – [[Charles Wesley]], English missionary and composer (d. 1788) *[[1725]] – [[Johann Salomo Semler]], German historian and theologian (d. 1791) *[[1734]] – [[Jean-Baptiste Rey]], French conductor and composer (d. 1810) *[[1800]] – [[James Watney]], English brewer and businessman (d. 1884) *[[1824]] – [[John Hall (New Zealand politician)|John Hall]], English-New Zealand politician, 12th [[Prime Minister of New Zealand]] (d. 1907) *[[1825]] – [[Charles Griffin]], American general (d. 1876) * 1825 – [[John S. Harris]], American surveyor and politician (d. 1906) * 1825 – [[Mariano Ignacio Prado]], Peruvian general, twice [[President of Peru]] (d. 1901)<ref>{{Cite book|last=García Belaúnde|first=Víctor Andrés |title=El expediente Prado|publisher=Asociación Civil Mercurio Peruano |year=2016 |location=Lima |isbn=978-612-45288-6-6 |language=es |page=451}}</ref> *[[1835]] – [[Lyman Abbott]], American minister, theologian, and author (d. 1922) *[[1847]] – [[Augusta Holmès]], French pianist and composer (d. 1903) *[[1849]] – [[Henrietta Edwards]], Canadian activist and author (d. 1931) *[[1856]] – [[J. J. Thomson]], English physicist and academic, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. 1940) *[[1860]] – [[Edward MacDowell]], American pianist and composer (d. 1908) *[[1861]] – [[Lionel Monckton]], English composer and critic (d. 1924) *[[1863]] – [[Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria]] (d. 1914) *[[1867]] – [[Foxhall P. Keene]], American polo player and horse breeder (d. 1941) *[[1869]] – [[Edward Willis Redfield]], American painter and educator (d. 1965) *[[1870]] – [[Saki]], British short story writer (d. 1916) *[[1873]] – [[Francis Burton Harrison]], American general and politician, 6th [[Governor-General of the Philippines]] (d. 1957) *[[1875]] – [[Matt McGrath]], Irish-American hammer thrower (d. 1941) *[[1878]] – [[Joseph Stalin]], Georgian-Russian marshal and politician,[[General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union]] (d. 1953) *[[1879]] – [[Paul Klee]], Swiss-German painter and educator (d. 1940) *[[1882]] – [[Richard Maury]], American-Argentinian engineer, designed the [[Salta–Antofagasta railway]] (d. 1950) *[[1884]] – [[Emil Starkenstein]], Czech pharmacologist, co-founded [[clinical pharmacology]] (d. 1942) *[[1886]] – [[Ty Cobb]], American baseball player and manager (d. 1961) *[[1887]] – [[Bhikhari Thakur]], Indian actor, singer, and playwright (d. 1971) *[[1888]] – [[Gladys Cooper]], English actress and singer (d. 1971) * 1888 – [[Robert Moses]], American urban planner (d. 1981) *[[1890]] – [[Edwin Howard Armstrong]], American engineer, invented [[FM radio]] (d. 1954) *[[1896]] – [[Gerald Barry (British Army officer)|Gerald Barry]], English colonel and cricketer (d. 1977) *[[1897]] – [[Fletcher Henderson]], American pianist and composer (d. 1952) *[[1899]] – [[Peter Wessel Zapffe]], Norwegian philosopher and author (d. 1990)
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