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===1601–1900===
*[[1675]] &ndash; [[Guillaume Delisle]], French cartographer (d. 1726)<ref>{{cite book|author=Thompson Cooper|title=A New Biographical Dictionary: Containing Concise Notices of Eminent Persons of All Ages and Countries|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PfIMAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA487|year=1873|publisher=Bell|pages=487|access-date=2020-03-02|archive-date=2020-09-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200915025825/https://books.google.com/books?id=PfIMAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA487|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1683]] &ndash; [[René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur]], French entomologist and academic (d. 1757)<ref>{{cite book |author= |url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_dGloQlpCO_4C |title=New Scientist |date=24 February 1983 |publisher=Reed Business Information |pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_dGloQlpCO_4C/page/n34 533]}}</ref>
*[[1704]] &ndash; [[Louis Godin]], French astronomer and academic (d. 1760)<ref>{{cite book |title=The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers |last=Hockey |first=Thomas |date=2014 |publisher=[[Springer Publishing]] |doi=10.1007/978-1-4419-9917-7_524 |isbn=978-1-4419-9917-7 |access-date=April 21, 2020 |url=https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-1-4419-9917-7_524 |archive-date=September 14, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200914171657/https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-1-4419-9917-7_524 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1848]] &ndash; [[Arthur Giry]], French historian and academic (d. 1899)<ref>{{EB1911|inline=y|wstitle=Giry, Arthur|volume=12|page=51}}</ref>
*[[1858]] &ndash; [[Tore Svennberg]], Swedish actor and director (d. 1941)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.svenskfilmdatabas.se/en/Item/?type=person&itemid=57951|title=Tore Svennberg &ndash; SFdb|date=28 February 1858 |access-date=2021-02-27|archive-date=2017-01-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170101162744/http://www.sfi.se/en-gb/Swedish-film-database/Item/?type=PERSON&itemid=57951|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1866]] &ndash; [[Vyacheslav Ivanov (poet)|Vyacheslav Ivanov]], Russian poet and playwright (d. 1949)<ref>{{cite journal|last=Deschartes|first=O.|title=Vyacheslav Ivanov|journal=Oxford Slavonic Papers|volume=V|year=1954|url=http://www.v-ivanov.it/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/deshartes_ivanov_1954_text.pdf|page=42|access-date=2020-09-11|archive-date=2020-12-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201204050941/http://www.v-ivanov.it/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/deshartes_ivanov_1954_text.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> 
*[[1878]] &ndash; [[Pierre Fatou]], French mathematician and astronomer (d. 1929)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Fatou.html|title=Fatou biography|website=www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk|access-date=2017-11-08|archive-date=2016-12-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161230070413/http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Fatou.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1884]] &ndash; [[Ants Piip]], Estonian lawyer and politician, 7th [[Prime Minister of Estonia]] (d. 1942)<ref>{{cite web|title=Ants Piibu sünd|url=http://www.histrodamus.ee/?event=Show_event&event_id=2695&layer=172#2695|publisher=[[Histrodamus]]|access-date=8 June 2013|language=et|archive-date=3 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303214824/http://www.histrodamus.ee/?event=Show_event&event_id=2695&layer=172#2695|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1887]] &ndash; [[William Zorach]], Lithuanian-American sculptor and painter (d. 1966)<ref>{{cite web|publisher=[[Encyclopædia Britannica]]|title=William Zorach|url=https://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/658045/William-Zorach|access-date=2009-10-22|archive-date=2009-12-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091215223514/https://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/658045/William-Zorach|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1894]] &ndash; [[Ben Hecht]], American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1964)<ref>{{britannica|259157}}</ref>
*[[1896]] &ndash; [[Philip Showalter Hench]], American physician and endocrinologist, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. 1965)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1950/hench/facts/|title=The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1950|website=NobelPrize.org|access-date=2020-09-11|archive-date=2020-09-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200906152252/https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1950/hench/facts/|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1898]] &ndash; [[Zeki Rıza Sporel]], Turkish footballer (d. 1969)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/sp/zeki-riza-sporel-1.html|title=Zeki RÄ±za Sporel Bio, Stats, and Results &#124; Olympics at Sports-Reference.com|date=April 18, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418102817/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/sp/zeki-riza-sporel-1.html|archive-date=2020-04-18}}</ref>