Editing February 19 (section)

===1601–1900===
*[[1611]] &ndash; [[Andries de Graeff]], Dutch politician (d. 1678)
*[[1630]] &ndash; [[Shivaji]], Indian warrior-king and the founder of [[Maratha Confederacy|Maratha Empire]] (d. 1680)<ref>{{cite book|first=Shivaram Laxman|last=Karandikar|title=The Rise and Fall of the Maratha Power, Volume 1|location=Poona|publisher=Sitabai Shivram Karandikar|year=1969|oclc=102794|page=xiii}}</ref>
*[[1660]] &ndash; [[Friedrich Hoffmann]], German physician and chemist (d. 1742)
*[[1717]] &ndash; [[David Garrick]], English actor, playwright, and producer (d. 1779)
*[[1743]] &ndash; [[Luigi Boccherini]], Italian cellist and composer (d. 1805)
*[[1798]] &ndash; [[Allan MacNab]], Canadian soldier, lawyer, and politician, [[Joint Premiers of the Province of Canada|Premier of Canada West]] (d. 1862)
*[[1800]] &ndash; [[Émilie Gamelin]], Canadian nun and social worker, founded the [[Sisters of Providence (Montreal)|Sisters of Providence]] (d. 1851)<ref>{{cite book|first1=Francess G.|last1=Halpenny|first2=Jean|last2=Hamel|title=Dictionary of Canadian Biography / Dictionaire Biographique du Canada: Volume VII, 1836 - 1850|location=Toronto|publisher=University of Toronto Press|year=1990|isbn=978-0-80203-461-8|page=1033}}</ref>
*[[1804]] &ndash; [[Carl von Rokitansky]], German physician, pathologist, and philosopher  (d. 1878)
*[[1821]] &ndash; [[August Schleicher]], German linguist and academic (d. 1868)
*[[1833]] &ndash; [[Élie Ducommun]], Swiss journalist and activist, [[Nobel Peace Prize|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. 1906)
*[[1838]] &ndash; [[Lydia Thompson]], British burlesque performer (d. 1908)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://operetta-research-center.org/lydia-thompson-father-drag-kings/|title=Lydia Thompson, the "Father of All Drag Kings"?|last=kevin|date=2014-08-26|website=Operetta Research Center|language=en-US|access-date=2019-04-23|archive-date=2019-04-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190423022710/http://operetta-research-center.org/lydia-thompson-father-drag-kings/|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1841]] &ndash; [[Elfrida Andrée]], Swedish organist, composer, and conductor (d. 1929)<ref>{{cite book|first=Mary Frech|last=McVicker|title=Women Opera Composers: Biographies from the 1500s to the 21st Century|location=Jefferson|publisher=McFarland|year=2016|isbn=978-0-78649-513-9|page=69}}</ref>
*[[1855]] &ndash; [[Nishinoumi Kajirō I]], Japanese sumo wrestler, the 16th [[Makuuchi#Yokozuna|Yokozuna]] (d. 1908)
*[[1859]] &ndash; [[Svante Arrhenius]], Swedish physicist and chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. 1927)
*[[1865]] &ndash; [[Sven Hedin]], Swedish geographer and explorer (d. 1952)
*[[1869]] &ndash; [[Hovhannes Tumanyan]], Armenian-Russian poet and author (d. 1923)
*[[1872]] &ndash; [[Johan Pitka]], Estonian admiral (d. 1944)
*[[1876]] &ndash; [[Constantin Brâncuși]], Romanian-French sculptor, painter, and photographer (d. 1957)
*[[1877]] &ndash; [[Gabriele Münter]], German painter (d. 1962)<ref>{{cite book|first=Werner|last=Haftmann|title=Painting In The Twentieth Century|location=London|publisher=Praeger Publishers|year=1966|page=409|isbn=978-0-27588-730-8}}</ref>
*[[1878]] &ndash; [[Harriet Bosse]], Swedish–Norwegian actress (d. 1961)
*[[1880]] &ndash; [[Álvaro Obregón]], Mexican general and politician, 39th [[President of Mexico]] (d. 1928)
*[[1886]] &ndash; [[José Abad Santos]], Filipino lawyer and jurist, 5th [[Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines]] (d. 1942)
*[[1888]] &ndash; [[José Eustasio Rivera]], Colombian lawyer and poet (d. 1928)
*[[1893]] &ndash; [[Cedric Hardwicke]], English actor and director (d. 1964)
*[[1895]] &ndash; [[Louis Calhern]], American actor (d. 1956)
*[[1896]] &ndash; [[André Breton]], French poet and author (d. 1966)
*[[1897]] &ndash; [[Alma Rubens]], American actress (d. 1931)
*[[1899]] &ndash; [[Lucio Fontana]], Argentinian-Italian painter and sculptor (d. 1968)