Editing December 30 (section)

===1601–1900===
*[[1642]] &ndash; [[Vincenzo da Filicaja]], Italian poet (d. 1707)
*[[1673]] &ndash; [[Ahmed III]], Ottoman sultan (d. 1736)
*[[1678]] &ndash; [[William Croft]], English organist and composer (d. 1727)
*[[1722]] &ndash; [[Charles Yorke]], English lawyer and politician, [[Lord Chancellor|Lord Chancellor of Great Britain]] (d. 1770)
*[[1724]] &ndash; [[Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée]], French painter and educator (d. 1805)
*[[1757]] &ndash; [[Sebastián Kindelán y O'Regan]], colonial governor of [[East Florida]], [[Captaincy General of Santo Domingo|Santo Domingo]] and Cuba (d. 1826)<ref>{{cite book|author1=Vicente de Cadenas y Vicent|author2=Emilio de Cárdenas Piera|title=Caballeros de la Orden de Santiago, siglo XVIII: Años 1789 a 1799, números 2,074 al 2,393|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xYxflpkFpMQC&pg=PA23|year=1977|publisher=Ediciones Hidalguia|isbn=978-84-87204-69-2|pages=23}}</ref>
*[[1760]] &ndash; [[Charles Sapinaud de La Rairie]], French general (d. 1829)
*[[1792]] &ndash; [[Sylvester Jordan]], German lawyer and politician (d. 1861)
*[[1819]] &ndash; [[Theodor Fontane]], German author and poet (d. 1898)
*  1819 &ndash; [[John W. Geary]], American lawyer and politician, 16th [[Governor of Pennsylvania]] (d. 1873)
*[[1825]] &ndash; [[Samuel Newitt Wood]], American lawyer and politician (d. 1891)
*[[1842]] &ndash; [[Osman Hamdi Bey]], Ottoman administrator, intellectual, art expert and painter (d. 1910)
*[[1849]] &ndash; [[John Milne]], English seismologist and geologist (d. 1913)
*[[1851]] &ndash; [[Asa Griggs Candler]], American businessman and politician, 44th [[Mayor of Atlanta]] (d. 1929)<ref>{{cite book|author=John Willis Hurst|title=The Quest for Excellence: The History of the Department of Medicine at Emory University School of Medicine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HMoeAQAAIAAJ|year=1997|publisher=Scholars Press|isbn=978-0-7885-0394-8|page=16}}</ref>
*[[1853]] &ndash; [[André Messager]], French pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1929)<ref>{{cite book|author=Bruce R. Schueneman|title=Minor Ballet Composers: Biographical Sketches of Sixty-six Underappreciated Yet Significant Contributors to the Body of Western Ballet Music|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Oq5uQJS7-8cC&pg=PA60|year=1997|publisher=Psychology Press|isbn=978-0-7890-0323-2|pages=60}}</ref>
*[[1857]] &ndash; [[Sylvio Lazzari]], French-Austrian composer (d. 1944)<ref>{{cite book|author=Alan Pedigo|title=International encyclopedia of violin-keyboard sonatas and composer biographies|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hwoKAQAAMAAJ|date=December 1995|publisher=Arriaga Publications|isbn=978-0-9606356-2-7|page=207}}</ref>
*[[1865]] &ndash; [[Rudyard Kipling]], Indian-English author and poet, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. 1936)<ref>{{cite book|title=KIM by Rudyard Kipling|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iDRdDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA1|date=11 November 1988|publisher=Macmillan International Higher Education|isbn=978-1-349-09414-1|pages=1}}{{Dead link|date=January 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
*[[1869]] &ndash; [[Stephen Leacock]], English-Canadian political scientist and author (d. 1944)
*  1869 &ndash; [[Ōzutsu Man'emon]], Japanese sumo wrestler, the 18th [[Makuuchi#Yokozuna|Yokozuna]] (d. 1918)
*[[1873]] &ndash; [[Al Smith]], American lawyer and politician, 42nd [[Governor of New York]] (d. 1944)
*[[1878]] &ndash; [[William Aberhart]], Canadian evangelist and politician, seventh [[Premier of Alberta]] (d. 1943)
*[[1879]] &ndash; [[Ramana Maharshi]], Indian guru and philosopher (d. 1950)
*[[1883]] &ndash; [[Archer Baldwin]], American-English farmer and politician (d. 1966)
*  1883 &ndash; [[Lester Patrick]], Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1960)
*[[1884]] &ndash; [[Hideki Tōjō]], Japanese general and politician, 40th [[Prime Minister of Japan]] (d. 1948)
*[[1886]] &ndash; [[Austin Osman Spare]], English artist and occultist (d. 1956)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Austin Osman Spare |url=http://www.austinspare.co.uk/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211126074753/http://www.austinspare.co.uk/ |archive-date=2021-11-26 |access-date=2021-12-30 |website=www.austinspare.co.uk}}</ref>
*[[1887]] &ndash; [[William Kolehmainen]], Finnish-American runner and coach (d. 1967)
*  1887 &ndash; [[Kanaiyalal Maneklal Munshi|K. M. Munshi]], Indian politician, writer and educationist, founder of [[Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan]] (d. 1971)<ref name="Sheth1979">{{cite book|last=Sheth|first=Jayana|title=Munshi : Self-sculptor|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=u969WD39ct8C|edition=1st|year=1979|publisher=Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan|location=Bombay|pages=239–243|oclc=568760494}}</ref>
*[[1890]] &ndash; [[Adolfo Ruiz Cortines]], Mexican soldier and politician, 47th [[President of Mexico]] (d. 1973)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.biografiasyvidas.com/biografia/r/ruiz_cortines.htm|publisher=Biografias y Vidas|title=Adolfo Ruiz Cortines|language=es|access-date=May 29, 2019}}</ref>
*[[1897]] &ndash; [[Alfredo Bracchi]], Italian songwriter and screenwriter (d. 1976)
*[[1899]] &ndash; [[Helge Ingstad]], Norwegian explorer, lawyer, and politician, 2nd [[Governor of Svalbard]] (d. 2001)