Editing February 21 (section)

===1601–1900===
*[[1609]] &ndash; [[Raimondo Montecuccoli]], Italian military commander (d. 1680)
*[[1621]] &ndash; [[Rebecca Nurse]], Massachusetts colonist, executed as a witch (d. 1692)
*[[1705]] &ndash; [[Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke]], English admiral and politician (d. 1781)
*[[1728]] &ndash; [[Peter III of Russia]] (d. 1762)
*[[1783]] &ndash; [[Catharina of Württemberg]] (d. 1835)
*[[1788]] &ndash; [[Francis Ronalds]], British scientist, inventor and engineer who was knighted for developing the first working [[electric telegraph]] (d. 1873)
*[[1791]] &ndash; [[Carl Czerny]], Austrian pianist and composer (d. 1857)
*[[1794]] &ndash; [[Antonio López de Santa Anna]], Mexican general and politician, 8th [[President of Mexico]] (d. 1876)
*[[1801]] &ndash; [[John Henry Newman]], English cardinal (d. 1890)
*[[1817]] &ndash; [[José Zorrilla]], Spanish poet and playwright (d. 1893)
*[[1821]] &ndash; [[Charles Scribner I]], American publisher, founded [[Charles Scribner's Sons]] (d. 1871)
*[[1836]] &ndash; [[Léo Delibes]], French pianist and composer (d. 1891)
*[[1844]] &ndash; [[Charles-Marie Widor]], French organist and composer (d. 1937)
*[[1860]] &ndash; [[Goscombe John]], Welsh-English sculptor and academic (d. 1952)
*[[1865]] &ndash; [[John Haden Badley]], English author and educator, founded the [[Bedales School]] (d. 1967)
*[[1867]] &ndash; [[Otto Hermann Kahn]], German banker and philanthropist (d. 1934)
*[[1875]] &ndash; [[Jeanne Calment]], French super-centenarian, oldest verified person ever (d. 1997)
*[[1878]] &ndash; [[Mirra Alfassa]], French-Indian spiritual leader (d. 1973)<ref>{{cite book|first=Samta P.|last=Pandya|title=Faith Movements and Social Transformation: Guru Charisma in India|location=Singapore|publisher=Springer|year=2009|isbn=9789811328220|page=38}}</ref>
*[[1881]] &ndash; [[Kenneth J. Alford]], English soldier, bandmaster, and composer (d. 1945)
*[[1885]] &ndash; [[Sacha Guitry]], Russian-French actor, director, and playwright (d. 1957)
*[[1887]] &ndash; [[Korechika Anami]], Japanese general and politician, 54th [[Ministry of War of Japan|Japanese Minister of War]] (d. 1945)
*[[1888]] &ndash; [[Clemence Dane]], English author and playwright (d. 1965)<ref>{{cite ODNB |title=Ashton, Winifred [pseud. Clemence Dane] (1888–1965), playwright and novelist |url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-30475 |year=2004 |access-date=14 January 2021 |language=en |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/30475}}</ref>
*[[1892]] &ndash; [[Harry Stack Sullivan]], American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst (d. 1949)
*[[1893]] &ndash; [[Celia Lovsky]], Austrian-American actress (d. 1979)
*  1893   &ndash; [[Andrés Segovia]], Spanish guitarist (d. 1987)
*[[1894]] &ndash; [[Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar]], Indian chemist and academic (d. 1955)
*[[1895]] &ndash; [[Henrik Dam]], Danish biochemist and physiologist, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. 1976)
*[[1896]] &ndash; [[Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala'|Nirala]], Indian poet and author (d. 1961)
*[[1900]] &ndash; [[Jeanne Aubert]], French singer and actress (d. 1988)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.histoire-vesinet.org/j-aubertbio.htm|title=Biographie de Jeanne Aubert (1900-1988)|website=www.histoire-vesinet.org|access-date=2017-10-24|archive-date=2017-10-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171021061414/http://www.histoire-vesinet.org/j-aubertbio.htm|url-status=live}}</ref>