Editing December 19 (section)

===1601–1900===
*[[1683]] &ndash; [[Philip V of Spain]] (d. 1746)
*[[1699]] &ndash; [[William Bowyer (printer)|William Bowyer]], English printer (d. 1777)
*[[1714]] &ndash; [[John Winthrop (educator)|John Winthrop]], American astronomer and educator (d. 1779)
*[[1778]] &ndash; [[Marie Thérèse of France]] (d. 1851)
*[[1796]] &ndash; [[Manuel Bretón de los Herreros]], Spanish poet, playwright, and critic (d. 1873)
*[[1797]] &ndash; [[Antoine Louis Dugès]], French obstetrician and naturalist (d. 1838)
*[[1817]] &ndash; [[James J. Archer]], American lawyer and general (d. 1864)
*[[1820]] &ndash; [[Mary Livermore]], American journalist and activist (d. 1905)
*[[1825]] &ndash; [[George Frederick Bristow]], American violinist and composer (d. 1898)
*[[1831]] &ndash; [[Bernice Pauahi Bishop]], American philanthropist (d. 1884)
*[[1849]] &ndash; [[Henry Clay Frick]], American businessman and financier (d. 1919)
*[[1852]] &ndash; [[Albert Abraham Michelson]], Prussian-American physicist, chemist, and academic, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. 1931)
*[[1853]] &ndash; [[Charles Fitzpatrick]], Canadian lawyer and politician, 12th [[List of lieutenant governors of Quebec|Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec]] (d. 1942)
*[[1861]] &ndash; [[Italo Svevo]], Italian author and playwright (d. 1928)
*[[1863]] &ndash; [[Wallace Bryant (archer)|Wallace Bryant]], American archer (d. 1953)
*[[1865]] &ndash; [[Minnie Maddern Fiske]], American actress and playwright (d. 1932)
*[[1873]] &ndash; [[Alphonse Kirchhoffer]], French fencer (d. 1913)
*[[1875]] &ndash; [[Mileva Marić]], Serbian physicist (d. 1948)
*  1875   &ndash; [[Carter G. Woodson]], American historian and author, founded [[Black History Month]] (d. 1950)
*  1875   &ndash; [[Grace Marie Bareis]], American mathematician (d. 1962)
*[[1876]] &ndash; [[Bernard Friedberg]], Austrian-Israeli scholar and author (d. 1961)
*[[1884]] &ndash; [[Antonín Zápotocký]], Czech politician, [[List of Presidents of Czechoslovakia|President]] of the [[Czechoslovak Socialist Republic]] (d. 1957)
*[[1888]] &ndash; [[Fritz Reiner]], Hungarian-American conductor (d. 1963)
*[[1891]] &ndash; [[Edward Bernard Raczyński]], Polish politician and diplomat, 4th [[Polish government-in-exile#Presidents|President-in-exile of Poland]] (d. 1993)
*[[1894]] &ndash; [[Ford C. Frick]], American journalist and businessman (d. 1978)
*[[1895]] &ndash; [[Ingeborg Refling Hagen]], Norwegian author and educator (d. 1989)
*[[1899]] &ndash; [[Martin Luther King Sr.]], American pastor, missionary, and activist (d. 1984)