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===1601–1900=== *[[1646]] – [[Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert]], French economist (d. 1714)<ref>{{cite book|author=Hazel Van Dyke Roberts|title=Boisguilbert: economist of the reign of Louis XIV|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XWvGAAAAMAAJ|year=1935|publisher=Columbia University Press|page=11|isbn=9780231904964|access-date=2020-02-17|archive-date=2020-05-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200524110659/https://books.google.com/books?id=XWvGAAAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref> *[[1653]] – [[Arcangelo Corelli]], Italian violinist and composer (d. 1713)<ref>{{cite book|author1=Jack Ralph Ullom|author2=Arcangelo Corelli|title=An analysis and performing edition of Arcangelo Corelli's Sonata for violin and continuo, opus 5, no. 3, in C major|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hFE9AQAAIAAJ|year=1967|publisher=Dept. of Music|page=1|access-date=2019-12-21|archive-date=2020-06-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200604124605/https://books.google.com/books?id=hFE9AQAAIAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref> *[[1723]] – [[Tobias Mayer]], German astronomer and academic (d. 1762) *[[1740]] – [[Horace-Bénédict de Saussure]], Swiss physicist and meteorologist (d. 1799)<ref>{{cite book|author1=Abel Stevens|author2=James Floy|title=The National Magazine: Devoted to Literature, Art, and Religion|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6CcAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA168|year=1856|publisher=Carlton & Phillips|pages=168|access-date=2020-02-17|archive-date=2020-05-31|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200531103042/https://books.google.com/books?id=6CcAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA168|url-status=live}}</ref> *[[1752]] – [[Friedrich Maximilian Klinger]], German author and playwright (d. 1831) *[[1754]] – [[Nicolas Baudin]], French cartographer and explorer (d. 1803) *[[1758]] – [[John Pinkerton]], Scottish antiquarian, cartographer, author, numismatist and historian (d. 1826) *[[1762]] – [[John Cooke (Royal Navy officer)|John Cooke]], English captain (d. 1805)<ref>{{cite book|editor1-last=Howard|editor1-first=Joseph Jackson|editor1-link=Joseph Jackson Howard|year=1896|title=Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica|publisher=Mitchell and Hughes|volume=4|series=Third|page=51|location=London|language=en|oclc=1141272165|url=https://archive.org/details/miscellaneagenea04howa/page/106|access-date=May 11, 2021}}</ref> *[[1781]] – [[René Laennec]], French physician, invented the [[stethoscope]] (d. 1826)<ref>{{cite book|author=René Théophile Hyacinthe Laennec|title=A Treatise on Mediate Auscultation, and on Diseases of the Lungs and Heart. ... With the notes and additions of M. M. Laënnec and M. Andral|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fVaObe8vNs4C&pg=PR9|year=1846|pages=9|access-date=2019-12-21|archive-date=2020-05-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200527172842/https://books.google.com/books?id=fVaObe8vNs4C&pg=PR9|url-status=live}}</ref> *[[1796]] – [[Philipp Franz von Siebold]], German physician and botanist (d. 1866) *[[1799]] – [[Carl Julian (von) Graba]], German lawyer and ornithologist who visited and studied the Faroe Islands (d. 1874)<ref name="KN">{{cite web|url= http://www.kn-online.de/htm/dauer/lok/hochschulen/hochschulseiten/990212/c-voegel.htm|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20010721034659/http://www.kn-online.de/htm/dauer/lok/hochschulen/hochschulseiten/990212/c-voegel.htm|archive-date=21 July 2001|language=de|title= Unbekannte Vögel entdeckt – Auf den Spuren von Graba|trans-title= Unknown birds discovered – In the footsteps of Graba|date=12 February 1999|author= Kieler Nachrichten| accessdate=20 August 2022}}</ref> *[[1817]] – [[Édouard Thilges]], Luxembourgish jurist and politician, 7th [[Prime Minister of Luxembourg]] (d. 1904) *[[1820]] – [[Henri Vieuxtemps]], Belgian violinist and composer (d. 1881)<ref>{{cite book|title=The Musical World|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dfksAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA237|year=1845|publisher=J. Alfredo Novello|pages=237|access-date=2020-02-17|archive-date=2020-06-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200602234240/https://books.google.com/books?id=dfksAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA237|url-status=live}}</ref> *[[1821]] – [[Lola Montez]], Irish-American actress and dancer (d. 1861)<ref>{{cite book|author=Bruce Seymour|title=Lola Montez: A Life|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F4DCffNBbPMC&pg=PA4|year=1996|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=978-0-300-07439-0|pages=4|access-date=2020-02-17|archive-date=2020-05-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200530113745/https://books.google.com/books?id=F4DCffNBbPMC&pg=PA4|url-status=live}}</ref> *[[1832]] – [[Richard Henry Park]], American sculptor (d. 1902) *[[1836]] – [[Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer]], Spanish author, poet, and playwright (d. 1870) *[[1843]] – [[Aaron Montgomery Ward]], American businessman, founded [[Montgomery Ward]] (d. 1913) *[[1848]] – [[Louisa Lawson]], Australian poet and publisher (d. 1920) *[[1849]] – [[Joseph Favre]], Swiss chef (d. 1903)<ref>{{cite book|url=http://www.archiviobiograficomovimentooperaio.org/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=21984:favre-joseph&lang=it|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130904222357/http://www.archiviobiograficomovimentooperaio.org/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=21984:favre-joseph&lang=it|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 4, 2013|chapter=Joseph Favre|title=L'Internazionale italiana fra libertari ed evoluzionisti|publisher=ABMO|access-date=2013-09-04|language=Italian}}</ref> *[[1854]] – [[Friedrich Alfred Krupp]], German businessman (d. 1902) *[[1861]] – [[Princess Helena of Waldeck and Pyrmont|Helena of Waldeck and Pyrmont]], duchess of Albany (d. 1922)<ref>{{cite book|author=Harvester Wheatsheaf|title=The Constitutional Year Book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B9dVAAAAYAAJ|year=1971|publisher=Harvester Press|isbn=978-0-85527-070-4|page=28|access-date=2020-02-17|archive-date=2020-05-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200526014603/https://books.google.com/books?id=B9dVAAAAYAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref> *[[1862]] – [[Mori Ōgai]], Japanese general, author, and poet (d. 1922) *[[1864]] – [[Jozef Murgaš]], Slovak priest, botanist, and painter (d. 1929) * 1864 – [[Banjo Paterson]], Australian journalist, author, and poet (d. 1941)<ref>{{cite book|author=Andrew Barton Paterson|title=Poems of Banjo Paterson|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VtjpAAAAMAAJ|year=1976|publisher=Ure Smith|isbn=978-0-7254-0297-6|page=13|access-date=2019-12-21|archive-date=2020-06-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200610111846/https://books.google.com/books?id=VtjpAAAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref> *[[1874]] – [[Thomas J. Watson]], American businessman (d. 1956) *[[1877]] – [[Isabelle Eberhardt]], Swiss explorer and author (d. 1904)<ref>{{cite book|author=Ursula Kingsmill Hart|title=Two ladies of colonial Algeria: the lives and times of Aurélie Picard and Isabelle Eberhardt|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WDZxAAAAMAAJ|year=1987|publisher=Ohio University Center for International Studies|page=73|isbn=9780896801431|access-date=2019-12-21|archive-date=2020-05-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200526014605/https://books.google.com/books?id=WDZxAAAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref> * 1877 – [[André Maginot]], French sergeant and politician (d. 1932) *[[1879]] – [[Dorothy Canfield Fisher]], American educational reformer, social activist and author (d. 1958)<ref>{{cite book|last=Siles|first=Dorothy D.|chapter=Fisher, Dorothy (Frances) Canfield|editor-first=D.L.|editor-last=Kirkpatrick|title=Twentieth-century Children's Writers|location=London|publisher=Macmillan|year=1978|isbn=978-0-33323-414-3|page=455}}</ref> *[[1881]] – [[Mary Carson Breckinridge]], American [[nurse midwife]], founded [[Frontier Nursing Service]] (d. 1965) *[[1887]] – [[Joseph Bech]], Luxembourgish lawyer and politician, 15th [[Prime Minister of Luxembourg]] (d. 1975) * 1887 – [[Leevi Madetoja]], Finnish composer and critic (d. 1947) *[[1888]] – [[Ronald Knox]], English Catholic priest (d. 1957)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Waugh |first1=Evelyn |author1-link=Evelyn Waugh |title=The Life of Ronald Knox |date=1959 |publisher=Chapman and Hall |page=35 |url=https://archive.org/details/lifeofronaldknox0000evel/mode/2up}}</ref> * 1888 – [[Otto Stern]], German-American physicist and academic, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. 1969) *[[1890]] – [[Ronald Fisher]], English-Australian statistician, biologist, and geneticist (d. 1962) *[[1891]] – [[Abraham Fraenkel]], German-Israeli mathematician and academic (d. 1965) *[[1893]] – [[Wally Pipp]], American baseball player and journalist (d. 1965) *[[1899]] – [[Jibanananda Das]], Bangladeshi-Indian poet and author (d. 1954) *[[1900]] – [[Ruth Clifford]], American actress (d. 1998)
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