Editing December 29 (section)

===1601–1900===
*[[1633]] &ndash; [[Johannes Zollikofer]], Swiss vicar (d. 1692)<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Postma |first1=Ferenc |last2=Verheij |first2=Arian |title=In Signum Benevoli Affectus I. Seven Album Inscriptions by Menasseh Ben Israel |journal=Zutot |date=2009 |volume=6 |issue=1 |page=46 |doi=10.1163/187502109790213023 |url=http://real.mtak.hu/53920/1/isba_mbi_2009.pdf}}</ref>
*[[1721]] &ndash; [[Madame de Pompadour]], mistress of King Louis XV (d. 1764)<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Gordon |first1=Alden R. |title=Searching for the Elusive Madame de Pompadour |journal=Eighteenth-Century Studies |date=2003 |volume=37 |issue=1 |page=95 |doi=10.1353/ecs.2003.0062 |jstor=25098031 |s2cid=144477737 |issn=0013-2586}}</ref>
*[[1746]] &ndash; [[Saverio Cassar]], Maltese priest and rebel leader (d. 1805)<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Bonnici |first1=Alfred |title=Letters by archpriest S. Cassar to his village commanders during the French occupation of Gozo |journal=The PSM Journal |date=December 1999 |volume=28 |issue=3 |page=4 |url=https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/76490 |access-date=12 December 2022}}</ref>
*[[1766]] &ndash; [[Charles Macintosh]], Scottish chemist and the inventor of waterproof fabric (d. 1843)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Day |first1=Lance |last2=McNeil |first2=Ian |title=Biographical Dictionary of the History of Technology |date=11 September 2002 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-134-65019-4 |page=786 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FmoTeX3aGl4C&dq=Charles+Macintosh+29+december+1766&pg=PA786}}</ref>
*[[1788]] &ndash; [[Christian Jürgensen Thomsen]], Danish antiquarian (d. 1865)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Spjeldnaes |first1=Nils |editor1-last=Gillispie |editor1-first=Charles Coulston |title=Dictionary of Scientific Biography |date=1981 |publisher=Scribner |isbn=0-684-16962-2 |pages=357–358 |volume=13}}</ref>
*[[1796]] &ndash; [[Johann Christian Poggendorff]], German physicist and journalist (d. 1877)<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Salie |first1=Hans |last2=Oesper |first2=Ralph E. |title=Poggendorff and Poggendorff |journal=Isis |date=October 1966 |volume=57 |issue=3 |pages=389–392 |doi=10.1086/350147 |s2cid=143598386}}</ref>
*[[1800]] &ndash; [[Charles Goodyear]], American chemist and engineer (d. 1860)<ref>{{cite ANB |last1=Kauffman |first1=George B. |title=Goodyear, Charles (1800-1860), inventor |date=February 2000 |doi=10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.1000653}}</ref>
*[[1804]] &ndash; [[John Langdon Sibley]], American librarian (d. 1885)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Harris |first1=Michael H. |last2=Harmeling |first2=Deborah |editor1-last=Wynar |editor1-first=Bohdan S. |title=Dictionary of American Library Biography |date=1978 |publisher=Libraries Unlimited |isbn=0-87287-180-0 |pages=487–489}}</ref>
*[[1808]] &ndash; [[Andrew Johnson]], American general and politician, 17th [[President of the United States]] (d. 1875)<ref>{{CongBio|name=JOHNSON, Andrew |id=J000116 |inline=YES}}</ref>
*[[1809]] &ndash; [[George Washington Baines]], American politician, journalist and educator (d. 1882)<ref>{{cite book |author=President of the United States |author-link=President of the United States |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iHQ5AQAAMAAJ |title=Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States |publisher=[[Office of the Federal Register]] |publication-place=Washington, DC |year=1965 |page=1221 |chapter=Remarks in Raleigh at North Carolina State College, October 6, 1964 |via=Google Books}}</ref>
*1809 &ndash; [[William Ewart Gladstone]], English lawyer and politician, [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] (d. 1898)<ref>{{cite ODNB |last1=Matthew |first1=H. C. G. |title=Gladstone, William Ewart (1809–1898), prime minister and author |date=2004 |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/10787}}</ref>
*1809 &ndash; [[Albert Pike]], American author, poet, orator, editor, lawyer, jurist, and general (d. 1891)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.masonicinfo.com/pikesphilosophy.htm|title=Pike's Philosophy|author=Roscoe Pound|author-link=Roscoe Pound|year=1915|access-date=May 4, 2025}}</ref>
*[[1811]] &ndash; [[Francisco Palau]], Catalan Discalced Carmelite friar and priest (d. 1872)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Attwater |first1=Donald |title=A New Dictionary of Saints |date=1994 |publisher=Liturgical Press |isbn=0-8146-2324-7 |page=116}}</ref>
*[[1816]] &ndash; [[Carl Ludwig]], German physician and physiologist (d. 1895)<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Lüderitz |first1=Berndt |title=History |journal=Journal of Interventional Cardiac Electrophysiology |date=December 2004 |volume=11 |issue=3 |pages=221–222 |doi=10.1023/B:JICE.0000048574.16990.8c |pmid=15548890 |s2cid=195692415}}</ref>
*[[1843]] &ndash; [[Elisabeth of Wied]] (d. 1916)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://lccn.loc.gov/n84181329|title=Sylva, Carmen|publisher=[[Library of Congress Authorities]]|access-date=Apr 30, 2025}}</ref>
*[[1844]] &ndash; [[Womesh Chunder Bonnerjee]], Indian barrister and first president of [[the Indian National Congress|Indian National Congress]] (d. 1906)<ref>{{cite news |title=Womesh Chunder Bonnerjee: कांग्रेस के पहले अध्यक्ष, अंग्रेजी शासन को देश के लिए मानते थे अच्छा |url=https://www.aajtak.in/education/history/story/womesh-chunder-bonnerjee-elected-as-the-first-president-of-congress-party-tedu-578928-2018-12-29 |access-date=7 November 2022 |work=आज तक |date=29 December 2018 |language=hi}}</ref>
*[[1855]] &ndash; [[August Kitzberg]], Estonian author and poet (d. 1927)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hasselblatt |first1=Cornelius |editor1-last=Arnold |editor1-first=Heinz Ludwig |title=KINDLERS LITERATUR LEXIKON (KLL) |date=2020 |publisher=J B METZLER |isbn=978-3-476-05728-0 |language=de |chapter=Kitzberg, August}}</ref>
*[[1856]] &ndash; [[Thomas Joannes Stieltjes]], Dutch-French mathematician and academic (d. 1894)<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Mooney |first1=John |last2=Monna |first2=A. F. |last3=Dijk |first3=Gerrit |last4=Sher |first4=R. B. |title=The mathematical tourist |journal=The Mathematical Intelligencer |date=December 1994 |volume=16 |issue=1 |page=52 |doi=10.1007/BF03026616 |s2cid=189885425}}</ref>
*[[1857]] &ndash; [[Sydney Young (chemist)|Sydney Young]], English chemist (d. 1937)<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Atkins |first1=William Ringrose Gelston |title=Sydney Young, 1857-1937 |journal=Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society |date=1 January 1936 |volume=2 |issue=6 |pages=370–379 |doi=10.1098/rsbm.1938.0021}}</ref>
*[[1859]] &ndash; [[Venustiano Carranza]], Mexican soldier and politician, 37th [[President of Mexico]] (d. 1920)<ref>{{cite journal |journal=Encyclopedia of World Biography Online |date=1998 |publisher=Gale |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/K1631001172/BIC?u=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-BIC&xid=7da9a76d |access-date=7 November 2022 |format=Collection |title=Venustiano Carranza}}</ref>
*[[1870]] &ndash; [[Earl Gregg Swem]], American historian, bibliographer and librarian (d. 1965)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Wessels |first1=Michael B. |editor1-last=Wynar |editor1-first=Bohdan S. |title=Dictionary of American Library Biography |date=1978 |publisher=Libraries Unlimited |isbn=0-87287-180-0 |pages=511–512}}</ref>
*[[1876]] &ndash; [[Pablo Casals]], Catalan cellist and conductor (d. 1973)<ref>{{cite Grove |last1=Anderson |first1=Robert |title=Casals, Pablo |date=2001 |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.05061}}</ref>
*  1876 &ndash; [[Lionel Tertis]], English violist (d. 1975)<ref>{{cite Grove |first=Watson |last=Forbes |title=Tertis, Lionel |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.27716 |date=2001}}</ref>
*[[1879]] &ndash; [[Billy Mitchell]], American general and pilot (d. 1936)<ref>{{cite ANB |last1=O'Neil |first1=William D. |title=Mitchell, Billy (1879-1936), army officer, air war pioneer, and air policy advocate |date=October 2007 |doi=10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.0600441}}</ref>
*[[1881]] &ndash; [[Scott Leary]], American swimmer (d. 1958)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/le/scott-leary-1.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417170039/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/le/scott-leary-1.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2020-04-17|title=Scott Leary|access-date=Apr 22, 2025}}</ref>
*  1881 &ndash; [[Jess Willard]], American boxer (d. 1968)<ref>{{cite ANB |last1=Davis |first1=Luckett V. |title=Willard, Jess (1881-1968), world heavyweight boxing champion |date=June 2000 |doi=10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.1900882}}</ref>
*[[1886]] &ndash; [[Georg Hermann Struve]], German astronomer (d. 1933)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Sokolovskaya |first1=Z. K. |editor1-last=Gillispie |editor1-first=Charles Coulston |title=Dictionary of Scientific Biography |date=1981 |publisher=Scribner |isbn=0-684-16962-2 |page=113 |volume=13}}</ref>
*[[1892]] &ndash; [[Aku Korhonen]], Finnish actor (d. 1960)<ref>{{Danskefilm|TYPE=p|9196|Aku Korhonen}}</ref>
*[[1894]] &ndash; [[J. Lister Hill]], American politician (d. 1984)<ref>{{CongBio |id=H000598 |name=HILL, Joseph Lister |inline=YES}}</ref>
*[[1896]] &ndash; [[David Alfaro Siqueiros]], Mexican painter (d. 1974)<ref>{{cite journal |last1=O'Connor |first1=Francis V. |title=Siqueiros, David Alfaro |journal=Grove Art Online |date=2003 |doi=10.1093/gao/9781884446054.article.T078971}}</ref>