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===1601–1900=== *[[1612]] – [[Paul de Chomedey, Sieur de Maisonneuve]], French soldier, founded [[Montreal]] (d. 1676) *[[1627]] – [[Charles Morton (educator)|Charles Morton]], Cornish nonconformist minister (d. 1698) *[[1638]] – [[Zeb-un-Nissa]], Mughal princess and poet (d. 1702)<ref>{{cite book|first=Jadunath|last=Sarkar|title=A Short History of Aurangzib, 1618-1707|location=New Delhi|publisher=Orient Longman|year=1979|page=14|isbn=978-0-86131-083-8|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EDxuAAAAMAAJ|access-date=2021-02-12|archive-date=2022-02-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220215150639/https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/A_Short_History_of_Aurangzib_1618_1707/EDxuAAAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref> *[[1705]] – [[Charles-André van Loo]], French painter (d. 1765) *[[1710]] – [[Louis XV of France]] (d. 1774)<ref>{{cite web |title=BBC - History - King Louis XV |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/louis_xv.shtml |website=www.bbc.co.uk |access-date=17 June 2022}}</ref> *[[1725]] – [[Abraham Clark]], American surveyor, lawyer, and politician (d. 1794) *[[1734]] – [[William Stacy]], American colonel (d. 1802) *[[1739]] – [[Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart]], French architect, designed the [[Paris Bourse]] (d. 1813) *[[1748]] – [[Jeremy Bentham]], English jurist and philosopher (d. 1832) *[[1759]] – [[Friedrich August Wolf]], German philologist and critic (d. 1824) *[[1760]] – [[Lars Ingier]], Norwegian road manager, land owner, and mill owner (d. 1828)<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title= Lars Ingier |first= |last= |encyclopedia=[[Store norske leksikon]] |editor-last=Bolstad | editor-first=Erik |publisher=Norsk nettleksikon |location=Oslo |url=https://snl.no/Lars_Ingier |language=no|access-date=24 March 2024}}</ref> * 1760 – [[Jean-François Le Sueur]], French composer and educator (d. 1837) *[[1809]] – [[André Dumont (geologist)|André Dumont]], Belgian geologist and academic (d. 1857) * 1809 – [[Cyrus McCormick]], American journalist and businessman, co-founded [[International Harvester]] (d. 1884) *[[1810]] – [[Mary S. B. Shindler]], American poet, writer, and editor (d. 1883)<ref name="Hart1857">{{cite book|last=Hart|first=John Seely|title=The Female Prose Writers of America|url=https://archive.org/details/femaleprosewrit01hartgoog|edition=Public domain|year=1857|publisher=E. H. Butler|pages=[https://archive.org/details/femaleprosewrit01hartgoog/page/n171 153]–}}</ref> *[[1811]] – [[Domingo Faustino Sarmiento]], Argentinian journalist and politician, 7th [[President of Argentina]] (d. 1888) *[[1812]] – [[Charles Lewis Tiffany]], American businessman, founded [[Tiffany & Co.]] (d. 1902) *[[1820]] – [[Susan B. Anthony]], American suffragist and activist (d. 1906) *[[1825]] – [[Carter Harrison, Sr.]], American lawyer and politician, 29th [[Mayor of Chicago]] (d. 1893) *[[1834]] – [[V. A. Urechia]], Moldavian-Romanian historian, author, and playwright (d. 1901) *[[1835]] – [[Demetrius Vikelas]], Greek businessman and philanthropist (d. 1908) *[[1839]] – [[Rayko Zhinzifov]], Bulgarian poet and translator (d. 1877)<ref name="ik">{{cite book |editor=Igor I. Kaliganov |title=Materials for the virtual Museum of Slavic Cultures. Issue II |date=2020 |publisher=Institute of Slavic Studies of RAS |location=Moscow |isbn=978-5-7576-0440-4 |page=277 |url=https://inslav.ru/publication/materials-virtual-museum-slavic-cultures-issue-ii-m-2020}}</ref> *[[1840]] – [[Titu Maiorescu]], Romanian philosopher, academic, and politician, 23rd [[Prime Minister of Romania]] (d. 1917) *[[1841]] – [[Manuel Ferraz de Campos Sales]], Brazilian lawyer and politician, 4th [[President of Brazil]] (d. 1913) *[[1845]] – [[Elihu Root]], American lawyer and politician, 38th [[United States Secretary of State]], [[Nobel Peace Prize|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. 1937) *[[1847]] – [[Robert Fuchs (composer)|Robert Fuchs]], Austrian composer and educator (d. 1927) *[[1849]] – [[Rickman Godlee]], English surgeon and academic (d. 1925) *[[1850]] – [[Sophie Bryant]], Irish mathematician, academic and activist (d. 1922) *[[1851]] – [[Spiru Haret]], Romanian mathematician, astronomer, and politician, 55th [[Ministry of Internal Affairs (Romania)|Romanian Minister of Internal Affairs]] (d. 1912) *[[1856]] – [[Emil Kraepelin]], German psychiatrist and academic (d. 1926) *[[1861]] – [[Charles Édouard Guillaume]], Swiss-French physicist and academic, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. 1938) * 1861 – [[Alfred North Whitehead]], English mathematician and philosopher (d. 1947) *[[1873]] – [[Hans von Euler-Chelpin]], German-Swedish biochemist and academic, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. 1964)<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1929/euler-chelpin/biographical/ |title=The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1929 |website=NobelPrize.org |language=en-US |access-date=2020-02-11 |archive-date=2020-02-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200212051850/https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1929/euler-chelpin/biographical/ |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1874]] – [[Ernest Shackleton]], Anglo-Irish captain and explorer (d. 1922)<ref>{{cite web | publisher = BBC | title = Historical figures: Ernest Shackleton (1874–1922) | url = https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/shackleton_ernest.shtml | access-date = 28 November 2022 | ref = {{sfnRef|BBC, ''Shackleton''}}}}</ref> *[[1883]] – [[Sax Rohmer]], English-American author (d. 1959) *[[1890]] – [[Robert Ley]], German politician (d. 1945) *[[1892]] – [[James Forrestal]], American lieutenant and politician, 1st [[United States Secretary of Defense]] (d. 1949) *[[1893]] – [[Roman Najuch]], Polish professional tennis player (d. 1967) *[[1897]] – [[Gerrit Kleerekoper]], Dutch gymnast and coach (d. 1943) *[[1898]] – [[Totò]], Italian actor, singer, and screenwriter (d. 1967) *[[1899]] – [[Georges Auric]], French composer (d. 1983) * 1899 – [[Gale Sondergaard]], Danish-American actress (d. 1985)
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