Editing December 21 (section)

===1601–1900===
*[[1603]] &ndash; [[Roger Williams]], English minister, theologian, and politician, 9th [[List of colonial governors of Rhode Island|President of the Colony of Rhode Island]] (d. 1684)
*[[1615]] &ndash; [[Benedict Arnold (governor)|Benedict Arnold]], Rhode Island colonial governor (d. 1678)<ref>{{cite book|title=The American Quarterly Register|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=reX-9CBk6w4C&pg=PA276|year=1841|publisher=The Society|page=276}}</ref>
*[[1672]] &ndash; [[Benjamin Schmolck]], German pastor and composer (d. 1737)
*[[1714]] &ndash; [[John Bradstreet]], Canadian-English general (d. 1774)
*[[1728]] &ndash; [[Hermann Raupach]], German [[harpsichord]] player and composer (d. 1778)
*[[1778]] &ndash; [[Anders Sandøe Ørsted]], Danish jurist and politician, 3rd [[Prime Minister of Denmark]] (d. 1860)
*[[1795]] &ndash; [[Jack Russell (priest)|Jack Russell]], English priest, hunter, and dog breeder (d. 1883)
*  1795   &ndash; [[Leopold von Ranke]], German historian, author, and academic (d. 1886)<ref>{{cite book|author=Andreas D Boldt|title=Leopold Von Ranke: A Biography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3nGPDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT22|date=29 March 2019|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-351-04272-7|page=22}}</ref>
*[[1803]] &ndash; [[Achille Vianelli]], Italian painter and academic (d. 1894)
*[[1804]] &ndash; [[Benjamin Disraeli]], English lawyer and politician, [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] (d. 1881)<ref>{{cite book|author=Jonathan Parry|title=Benjamin Disraeli|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kKkzv_iyVgoC&pg=RA1-PA1|date=23 April 2007|publisher=OUP Oxford|isbn=978-0-19-164751-2|page=1}}</ref>
*[[1805]] &ndash; [[Thomas Graham (chemist)|Thomas Graham]], Scottish chemist and academic (d. 1869)
*[[1811]] &ndash; [[Archibald Tait]], Scottish-English archbishop (d. 1882)
*[[1815]] &ndash; [[Thomas Couture]], French painter and educator (d. 1879)
*[[1820]] &ndash; [[William H. Osborn]], American businessman (d. 1894)
*[[1830]] &ndash; [[Bartolomé Masó]], Cuban soldier and politician (d. 1907)
*[[1832]] &ndash; [[John H. Ketcham]], American general and politician (d. 1906)
*[[1840]] &ndash; [[Ernest de Munck]], Belgian cellist and composer<ref>{{Cite book |last=Riemann |first=Hugo |author-link=Hugo Riemann |url=https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofmusi00riem/page/184/mode/2up |title=Dictionary of Music |publisher=[[Augener & Co.]] |year=1908 |edition=4th |page=185 |translator-last=Shedlock |translator-first=J. S.}}</ref> (d. 1915)<ref>{{Cite book |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rApDAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA96 |title=Musical News |date=January 30, 1915 |volume=48 |page=96 |chapter=Obituary: Chevalier Ernest de Munck}}</ref>
*  1840   &ndash; [[Namık Kemal]], Turkish journalist, playwright, and activist (d. 1888)
*[[1843]] &ndash; [[Thomas Bracken]], Irish-New Zealander journalist, poet, and politician (d. 1898)
*[[1850]] &ndash; [[Zdeněk Fibich]], Czech composer and poet (d. 1900)
*[[1851]] &ndash; [[Thomas Chipman McRae]], American lawyer and politician, 26th [[Governor of Arkansas]] (d. 1929)
*[[1857]] &ndash; [[Joseph Carruthers]], Australian politician, 16th [[Premier of New South Wales]] (d. 1932)
*[[1859]] &ndash; [[Gustave Kahn]], French poet and critic (d. 1936)
*[[1866]] &ndash; [[Maud Gonne]], Irish nationalist and political activist (d. 1953)<ref>{{cite book| last=Cardozo | first=Nancy | title=Maud Gonne | place=New York | publisher=Amsterdam Books | year=2000 | isbn=978-0-9415-3395-9 | page=12}}</ref>
*[[1868]] &ndash; [[George W. Fuller]], American chemist and engineer (d. 1934)
*[[1872]] &ndash; [[Trevor Kincaid]], Canadian-American zoologist and academic (d. 1970) 
*  1872   &ndash; [[Lorenzo Perosi]], Italian priest and composer (d. 1956)
*  1872   &ndash; [[Albert Payson Terhune]], American journalist and author (d. 1942)
*[[1876]] &ndash; [[Jack Lang (Australian politician)|Jack Lang]], Australian lawyer and politician, 23rd [[Premier of New South Wales]] (d. 1975)
*[[1877]] &ndash; [[Jaan Sarv]], Estonian mathematician and scholar (d. 1954)
*[[1878]] &ndash; [[Jan Łukasiewicz]], Polish-Irish mathematician and philosopher (d. 1956)
*[[1884]] &ndash; [[María Cadilla]], Puerto Rican writer, educator, women's rights activist (d. 1951)<ref>{{cite book | last1=Sicherman | first1=Barbara | last2=Hurd Green | first2=Carol | title=Notable American Women: The Modern Period | place=Cambridge, Massachusetts| publisher=Belknap | year=1983 | isbn=978-0-6746-2733-8 | page=[https://archive.org/details/notableamericanw00sich_0/page/129 129] | url=https://archive.org/details/notableamericanw00sich_0/page/129 }}</ref>
*[[1885]] &ndash; [[Frank Patrick (ice hockey)|Frank Patrick]], Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1960)
*[[1888]] &ndash; [[Jean Bouin]], French runner and rugby player (d. 1914)
*[[1889]] &ndash; [[Sewall Wright]], American geneticist and biologist (d. 1988)
*[[1890]] &ndash; [[Hermann Joseph Muller]], American geneticist and biologist, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. 1967)
*[[1891]] &ndash; [[John William McCormack]], American lawyer and politician, 53rd [[Speaker of the United States House of Representatives]] (d. 1980)
*[[1892]] &ndash; [[Walter Hagen]], American golfer (d. 1969)
*  1892   &ndash; [[Rebecca West]], English journalist and author (d. 1983) 
*[[1896]] &ndash; [[Konstantin Rokossovsky]], Marshal of the Soviet Union during World War II (d. 1968)
*[[1900]] &ndash; [[Luis Arturo González López]], Guatemalan supreme court judge and briefly acting president (d. 1965)