Editing December 20 (section)

===1601–1900===
*[[1626]] &ndash; [[Veit Ludwig von Seckendorff]], German scholar and politician (d. 1692)
*[[1629]] &ndash; [[Pieter de Hooch]], Dutch painter (d. 1684)<ref>{{cite book |author=Haldane Macfall |title=A History of Painting: The Dutch genius |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-z5pK_TOJ4MC |year=1973 |publisher=Dana Estes and Co |page=178}}</ref>
*[[1641]] &ndash; [[Urban Hjärne]], Swedish chemist, geologist, and physician (d. 1724)<ref>{{cite book |title=Swedish Poets of the Seventeenth Century: Some Gleanings from the Swedish Parnassus |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FzdDAAAAIAAJ |year=1932 |publisher=Parker printing Company |page=77}}</ref>
*[[1740]] &ndash; [[Arthur Lee (diplomat)|Arthur Lee]], American physician and diplomat (d. 1792)
*[[1786]] &ndash; [[Pietro Raimondi]], Italian composer (d. 1853)
*[[1792]] &ndash; [[Nicolas Toussaint Charlet]], French painter and educator (d. 1845)
*[[1806]] &ndash; [[Martín Carrera]], Mexican general and president (1855) (d. 1871)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://calderon.presidencia.gob.mx/mexico/gobernantes/mexico-1821-actualidad/martin-carrera/ |publisher=Presidencia de la Republica de Mexico |title=MARTÍN CARRERA |language=es |access-date=May 27, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190528043200/http://calderon.presidencia.gob.mx/mexico/gobernantes/mexico-1821-actualidad/martin-carrera/ |archive-date=May 28, 2019 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
*[[1812]] &ndash; [[Laura M. Hawley Thurston]], American poet and educator (d. 1842)<ref name="Frisbee1926">{{cite book |last=Frisbee |first=Edward Selah |title=The Frisbee-Frisbie genealogy: Edward Frisbye of Branford, Connicticut, and his descendants, with appendix containing brief lineages of Fiskes, Haskells, Mabies and Parkes, and bibliography |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_otMAAAAMAAJ |year=1926 |publisher=The Tuttle Company |page=188}}</ref>
*[[1838]] &ndash; [[Edwin Abbott Abbott]], English theologian, author, and educator (d. 1926)
*[[1841]] &ndash; [[Ferdinand Buisson]], French academic and politician, [[Nobel Peace Prize|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. 1932)
*[[1851]] &ndash; [[Knut Wicksell]], Swedish economist (d. 1926)<ref>{{cite magazine |first1=Diana W. |last1=Thomas |title=Knut Wicksell: A Consistent Marginalist |date=Fall 2023 |volume=28 |issue=2 |pages=203–211 |magazine=The Independent Review |issn=1086-1653 |url=https://www.independent.org/publications/tir/article.asp?id=1879 |access-date=26 March 2024}}</ref>
*[[1861]] &ndash; [[Ferdinand Bonn]], German actor (d. 1933)
*  1861   &ndash; [[Ivana Kobilca]], Slovenian painter (d. 1926)
*[[1865]] &ndash; [[Elsie de Wolfe]], American actress and interior decorator (d. 1950)
*[[1868]] &ndash; [[Harvey Samuel Firestone]], American businessman, founded the [[Firestone Tire and Rubber Company]] (d. 1938)<ref>{{cite book |author=((Editors of Chase's)) |title=Chase's Calendar of Events 2020: The Ultimate Go-to Guide for Special Days, Weeks and Months |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6dKpDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA605 |date=24 September 2019 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=978-1-64143-316-7 |pages=605}}</ref>
*[[1869]] &ndash; [[Charley Grapewin]], American actor (d. 1956)<ref>{{cite book |author=James Robert Parish |title=Hollywood Character Actors |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P3JZAAAAMAAJ |year=1978 |publisher=Arlington House |isbn=978-0-87000-384-4 |page=236}}</ref>
*[[1871]] &ndash; [[Henry Kimball Hadley]], American composer and conductor (d. 1937)<ref>{{cite book |author=Albert Ernest Wier |title=The Macmillan Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians: In One Volume |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nx8KAQAAMAAJ |year=1938 |publisher=Macmillan |page=741}}</ref>
*[[1873]] &ndash; [[Kan'ichi Asakawa]], Japanese historian, author, and academic (d. 1948)
*  1873   &ndash; [[Mehmet Akif Ersoy]], Turkish poet, academic, and politician (d. 1936)
*[[1874]] &ndash; [[Mary Ann Bevan]], [[English people|English]] [[Nursing|nurse]] who, after developing [[acromegaly]], toured the [[circus]] [[sideshow]] circuit as "the [[Unattractiveness|ugliest]] [[woman]] in the [[world]]" <ref name=nfa>{{Cite web|url=http://www.nfa.dept.shef.ac.uk/history/worlds_fair/extracts/1931–1940.html#fleetwood|title=National Fairground Archive – Extracts from ''World's Fair'', 1931–1940|last=|first=|date=2007|website=The University of Sheffield|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150518091933/http://www.nfa.dept.shef.ac.uk/history/worlds_fair/extracts/1931-1940.html#fleetwood|archive-date=18 May 2015|access-date=16 June 2019}}</ref>
*[[1881]] &ndash; [[Branch Rickey]], American baseball player and manager (d. 1965)
*[[1884]] &ndash; [[Ruhana Kuddus]], Indonesian activist and journalist (d. 1972)<ref>{{cite web |last1=Janti |first1=Nur |title=Mengenal Rohana Kudus, Wartawan Perempuan Pertama yang Jadi Pahlawan Nasional |url=https://historia.id/kultur/articles/mengenal-rohana-kudus-wartawan-perempuan-pertama-yang-jadi-pahlawan-nasional-Db2lQ |website=historia.id |date=8 November 2019 |publisher=Historia |access-date=20 December 2023}}</ref>
*[[1886]] &ndash; [[Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman]], American tennis player and businessman (d. 1974)<ref>{{Cite web |title=International Tennis Hall of Fame |url=https://www.tennisfame.com/hall-of-famers/inductees/hazel-hotchkiss-wightman |access-date=2022-10-22 |website=www.tennisfame.com}}</ref>
*[[1888]] &ndash; [[Yitzhak Baer]], German-Israeli historian and academic (d. 1980)
*  1888   &ndash; [[Fred Merkle]], American baseball player and manager (d. 1956)
*[[1890]] &ndash; [[Yvonne Arnaud]], French pianist, actress and singer (d. 1958)
*  1890   &ndash; [[Jaroslav Heyrovský]], Czech chemist and academic, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. 1967)
*[[1891]] &ndash; [[Erik Almlöf]], Swedish triple jumper (d. 1971)
*[[1894]] &ndash; [[Robert Menzies]], Australian lawyer and politician, 12th [[Prime Minister of Australia]] (d. 1978)
*[[1898]] &ndash; [[Konstantinos Dovas]], Greek general and politician, 156th [[List of Prime Ministers of Greece|Prime Minister of Greece]] (d. 1973)
*  1898   &ndash; [[Irene Dunne]], American actress and singer (d. 1990)
*[[1899]] &ndash; [[Martyn Lloyd-Jones]], Welsh preacher and physician (d. 1981)
*[[1900]] &ndash; [[Lissy Arna]], German actress (d. 1964)
*  1900   &ndash; [[Gabby Hartnett]], American baseball player and manager (d. 1972)<ref>{{cite web |title=Gabby Hartnett |url=https://www.mlb.com/player/gabby-hartnett-115572 |publisher=[[Major League Baseball]] |access-date=19 December 2023}}</ref>