Editing February 22 (section)

===1601–1900===
*[[1631]] &ndash; [[Peder Syv]], Danish historian (d. 1702)
*[[1649]] &ndash; [[Bon Boullogne]], French painter (d. 1717)
*[[1715]] &ndash; [[Charles-Nicolas Cochin]], French artist (d. 1790)
*[[1732]] &ndash; [[George Washington]], American general and politician, 1st [[President of the United States]] (d. 1799)
*[[1749]] &ndash; [[Johann Nikolaus Forkel]], German musicologist and theorist (d. 1818)
*[[1778]] &ndash; [[Rembrandt Peale]], American painter and curator (d. 1860)
*[[1788]] &ndash; [[Arthur Schopenhauer]], German philosopher and author (d. 1860)
*[[1796]] &ndash; [[Alexis Bachelot]], French priest and missionary (d. 1837)
*  1796   &ndash; [[Adolphe Quetelet]], Belgian mathematician, astronomer, and sociologist (d. 1874)
*[[1805]] &ndash; [[Sarah Fuller Flower Adams]], English poet and hymnwriter (d. 1848)<ref name="Miles1906">{{cite book|last=Miles|first=Alfred Henry|title=The Poets and the Poetry of the Nineteenth Century|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nvM_AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA215|edition=Public domain|volume=11|year=1906|publisher=G. Routledge|pages=215–|access-date=2018-09-15|archive-date=2020-08-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200801120551/https://books.google.com/books?id=nvM_AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA215|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1806]] &ndash; [[Józef Kremer]], Polish historian and philosopher (d. 1875)
*[[1817]] &ndash; [[Carl Wilhelm Borchardt]], German mathematician and academic (d. 1880)
*[[1819]] &ndash; [[James Russell Lowell]], American poet and critic (d. 1891)
*[[1824]] &ndash; [[Pierre Janssen]], French astronomer and mathematician (d. 1907)
*[[1825]] &ndash; [[Jean-Baptiste Salpointe]], French-American archbishop (d. 1898)
*[[1836]] &ndash; [[Mahesh Chandra Nyayratna Bhattacharyya]], Indian scholar and academic (d. 1906)
*[[1840]] &ndash; [[August Bebel]], German theorist and politician (d. 1913)
*[[1849]] &ndash; [[Nikolay Yakovlevich Sonin]], Russian mathematician and academic (d. 1915)
*[[1857]] &ndash; [[Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell]], English general, co-founded [[The Scout Association]] (d. 1941)
*  1857   &ndash; [[Heinrich Hertz]], German physicist, philosopher, and academic (d. 1894)
*[[1860]] &ndash; [[Mary W. Bacheler]], American physician and Baptist medical missionary (d. 1939)<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QtZtkf35CF0C&q=%22Mary+Washington+Bacheler%22&pg=PA17|title=Women in Medicine: An Encyclopedia|last=Windsor|first=Laura Lynn|date=2002|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=9781576073926|pages=17|access-date=2020-11-24|archive-date=2022-02-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220223143304/https://books.google.com/books?id=QtZtkf35CF0C&q=%22Mary+Washington+Bacheler%22&pg=PA17|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1861]] &ndash; [[Lewis Akeley]], American academic (d. 1961)<ref>{{cite news |title=Dean Akeley, Retired USD Professor, Is Nearing 100 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/argus-leader-dean-akeley-retired-usd-pr/149394701/ |access-date=June 16, 2024 |work=[[Argus Leader|Argus-Leader]] |date=February 12, 1961 |location=Vermillion |page=15 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>
*[[1863]] &ndash; [[Charles McLean Andrews]], American historian, author, and academic (d. 1943)
*[[1864]] &ndash; [[Jules Renard]], French author and playwright (d. 1910)
*[[1874]] &ndash; [[Bill Klem]], American baseball player and umpire (d. 1951)
*[[1876]] &ndash; [[Zitkala-Sa]], American author and activist (d. 1938)
*[[1879]] &ndash; [[Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted]], Danish chemist and academic (d. 1947)
*[[1880]] &ndash; [[Eric Lemming]], Swedish athlete (d. 1930)<ref>{{cite web|title=Eric Lemming|url=https://www.olympic.org/eric-lemming|publisher=International Olympic Committee|access-date=2 March 2020|archive-date=31 July 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731044923/https://www.olympic.org/eric-lemming|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1881]] &ndash; [[Joseph B. Ely]], American lawyer and politician, 52nd [[Governor of Massachusetts]] (d. 1956)
*  1881   &ndash; [[Albin Prepeluh]], Slovenian journalist and politician (d. 1937)
*[[1882]] &ndash; [[Eric Gill]], English sculptor and illustrator (d. 1940)
*[[1883]] &ndash; [[Marguerite Clark]], American actress (d. 1940)
*[[1886]] &ndash; [[Hugo Ball]], German author and poet (d. 1927)<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Shipe |first1=Timothy |title=Ball, Hugo (1886–1927) |journal=Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism |date=2016 |doi=10.4324/9781135000356-REM985-1|isbn=9781135000356 }}</ref>
*[[1887]] &ndash; [[Savielly Tartakower]], Polish journalist, author, and chess player (d. 1956)
*  1887   &ndash; [[Pat Sullivan (film producer)|Pat Sullivan]], Australian-American animator and producer (d. 1933)<ref name=adb>{{Australian Dictionary of Biography |first=John |last=Young |title=Sullivan, Patrick Peter (Pat) (1885–1933) |id2=sullivan-patrick-peter-pat-13209 |access-date=24 September 2013}}</ref>
*[[1888]] &ndash; [[Owen Brewster]], American captain and politician, 54th [[Governor of Maine]] (d. 1961)
*[[1889]] &ndash; [[Olave Baden-Powell]], English scout leader, first [[Chief Guide|World Chief Guide]] (d. 1977)
*  1889   &ndash; [[R. G. Collingwood]], English historian and philosopher (d. 1943)
*[[1891]] &ndash; [[Vlas Chubar]], Russian economist and politician (d. 1939)
*[[1892]] &ndash; [[Edna St. Vincent Millay]], American poet and playwright (d. 1950)
*[[1895]] &ndash; [[Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre]], Peruvian politician (d. 1979)
*[[1897]] &ndash; [[Karol Świerczewski]], Polish general (d. 1947)
*[[1899]] &ndash; [[George O'Hara (actor)|George O'Hara]], American actor and screenwriter (d. 1966)
*[[1900]] &ndash; [[Luis Buñuel]], Spanish-Mexican director and producer (d. 1983)