Editing February 4 (section)

===1601–1900===
*[[1646]] &ndash; [[Hans Erasmus Aßmann]], German poet and politician (d. 1699)<ref>''Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie'' - [[s:de:ADB:Abschatz, Hans Aßmann Freiherr von|online version]] at [[Wikisource]]</ref>
*[[1677]] &ndash; [[Johann Ludwig Bach]], German violinist and composer (d. 1731)
*[[1688]] &ndash; [[Pierre de Marivaux]], French author and playwright (d. 1763)<ref>{{EB1911|wstitle= Marivaux, Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de | volume= 17 |last1= Saintsbury |first1= George |author1-link= George Saintsbury | pages = 726&ndash;727 |short=1}}</ref>
*[[1725]] &ndash; [[Dru Drury]], English entomologist and author (d. 1804)<ref>{{cite ODNB|author=von Hayek, C.M.F.|title=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|year=2004|chapter=Drury, Dru (1725–1804)|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/8093}}</ref>
*[[1740]] &ndash; [[Carl Michael Bellman]], Swedish poet and composer (d. 1795)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bellman.org/index.php/om-bellman-och-hans-verk/biografi | title=Carl Michael Bellmans liv och verk. En minibiografi (The Life and Works of Carl Michael Bellman. A Short Biography) |language=sv |publisher=The Bellman Society |access-date=25 April 2015}}</ref>
*[[1778]] &ndash; [[Augustin Pyramus de Candolle]], Swiss botanist, mycologist, and academic (d. 1841)
*[[1799]] &ndash; [[Almeida Garrett]], Portuguese journalist and author (d. 1854)
*[[1818]] &ndash; [[Emperor Norton]], San Francisco eccentric and visionary (d. 1880)<ref>{{cite web|title=Encyclopedia of San Francisco: Emperor Norton |publisher=San Francisco Museum and Historical Society |first=Peter |last=Moylan |url=http://www.sfhistoryencyclopedia.com/articles/n/nortonJoshua.html |access-date=April 17, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070223023720/http://www.sfhistoryencyclopedia.com/articles/n/nortonJoshua.html |archive-date=February 23, 2007 }}</ref>
*[[1831]] &ndash; [[Oliver Ames (governor)|Oliver Ames]], American financier and politician, 35th [[Governor of Massachusetts]] (d. 1895)
*[[1848]] &ndash; [[Jean Aicard]], French poet, author, and playwright (d. 1921)
*[[1849]] &ndash; [[Jean Richepin]], French poet, author, and playwright (d. 1926)
*[[1862]] &ndash; [[Édouard Estaunié]], French novelist (d. 1942)
*[[1865]] &ndash; [[Abe Isoo]], Japanese minister and politician (d. 1949)
*[[1868]] &ndash; [[Constance Markievicz]], Irish revolutionary and first woman elected to the UK [[House of Commons]] (d. 1927)
*[[1869]] &ndash; [[Bill Haywood]], American labor organizer (d. 1928)<ref>{{Cite book |title=The Autobiography of Big Bill Haywood |last=Haywood |first=William D. |author-link=Bill Haywood |location=New York |publisher=International Publishers |url=https://archive.org/details/autobiographyofb00whay |page=8 |date=1974 |isbn=9780717800117 |orig-date=original publication 1929 |quote=I was born on the fourth of February, 1869, before a railroad spanned the continent.}}</ref>
*[[1871]] &ndash; [[Friedrich Ebert]], German lawyer and politician, first [[President of Germany (1919–1945)|President of Germany]] (d. 1925)
*[[1872]] &ndash; [[Gotse Delchev]], Bulgarian and Macedonian revolutionary activist (d. 1903)
*[[1873]] &ndash; [[Étienne Desmarteau]], Canadian shot putter and discus thrower (d. 1905)
*[[1875]] &ndash; [[Ludwig Prandtl]], German physicist and engineer (d. 1953)
*[[1877]] &ndash; [[Eddie Cochems]], American football player and coach (d. 1953)
*[[1881]] &ndash; [[Eulalio Gutiérrez]], Mexican general and politician, [[President of Mexico]] (d. 1939)
*  1881   &ndash; [[Fernand Léger]], French painter and sculptor (d. 1955)
*  1881 &ndash;  [[Kliment Voroshilov]], Soviet politician and Marshal of the Soviet Union, People's Commissar for Defence (d. 1969)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ворошилов Климент Ефремович |url=https://www.warheroes.ru/hero/hero.asp?Hero_id=1089 |access-date=2023-08-04 |website=www.warheroes.ru}}</ref>
*[[1883]] &ndash; [[Reinhold Rudenberg]], German-American inventor and a pioneer of [[electron microscopy]] (d. 1961)
*[[1891]] &ndash; [[M. A. Ayyangar]], Indian lawyer and politician, second [[Speaker of the Lok Sabha]] (d. 1978)
*[[1892]] &ndash; [[E. J. Pratt]], Canadian poet and academic (d. 1964)
*[[1893]] &ndash; [[Raymond Dart]], Australian paleoanthropologist (d. 1988)<ref name="dart-nyt">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/11/23/obituaries/raymond-a-dart-is-dead-at-95-leader-in-study-of-human-origins.html|work=New York Times|title=Raymond Dart Obiturary|date=23 November 1988 |access-date=2024-02-07 |last1=Wilford |first1=John Noble }}</ref>
*[[1895]] &ndash; [[Nigel Bruce]], English actor (d. 1953)
*[[1896]] &ndash; [[Friedrich Glauser]], Austrian-Swiss author (d. 1938)
*  1896   &ndash; [[Friedrich Hund]], German physicist and academic (d. 1997)
*[[1897]] &ndash; [[Ludwig Erhard]], German soldier and politician, second [[Chancellor of Germany (Federal Republic of Germany)|Chancellor of West Germany]] (d. 1977)
*[[1899]] &ndash; [[Virginia M. Alexander]], American physician and founder of the Aspiranto Health Home (d. 1949)
*[[1900]] &ndash; [[Jacques Prévert]], French poet and screenwriter (d. 1977)<ref>{{cite book|author=Jacques Prévert|title=Jacques Prevert|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1wdyEgDGqO0C&pg=PA17|year=1989|publisher=Ardent Media|pages=17}}</ref>