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===1601–1900===
*[[1608]] &ndash; [[Gaspar Schott]], German mathematician and physicist (d. 1666)
*[[1626]] &ndash; [[Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné]], French author (d. 1696)<ref>{{cite book|first=Arthur Augustus|last=Tilley|title=Madame de Sévigné: Some Aspects of Her Life and Character|location=Cambridge|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=2016|page=153|isbn=978-1-31662-004-5}}</ref>
*[[1650]] &ndash; [[Anne Jules de Noailles]], French general (d. 1708)
*[[1703]] &ndash; [[Gilbert Tennent]], Irish-American minister (d. 1764)
*[[1723]] &ndash; [[John Witherspoon]], Scottish-American minister and academic (d. 1794)
*[[1725]] &ndash; [[James Otis Jr.]], American lawyer and politician (d. 1783)
*[[1748]] &ndash; [[Christian Gottlob Neefe]], German composer and conductor (d. 1798)
*[[1788]] &ndash; [[Robert Peel]], English lieutenant and politician, [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] (d. 1850)
*[[1795]] &ndash; [[Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger]], Austrian mineralogist, geologist, and physicist (d. 1871)
*[[1804]] &ndash; [[Johan Ludvig Runeberg]], Finnish poet and hymn-writer (d. 1877)
*[[1808]] &ndash; [[Carl Spitzweg]], German painter and poet (d. 1885)
*[[1810]] &ndash; [[Ole Bull]], Norwegian violinist and composer (d. 1880)
*[[1827]] &ndash; [[Peter Lalor]], Irish-Australian activist and politician (d. 1889)
*[[1837]] &ndash; [[Dwight L. Moody]], American evangelist and publisher, founded [[Moody Church]], [[Moody Bible Institute]], and [[Moody Publishers]] (d. 1899)
*[[1840]] &ndash; [[John Boyd Dunlop]], Scottish businessman, co-founded [[Dunlop Rubber]] (d. 1921)
*  1840   &ndash; [[Hiram Maxim]], American engineer, invented the [[Maxim gun]] (d. 1916)
*[[1847]] &ndash; [[Eduard Magnus Jakobson]], Estonian missionary and engraver (d. 1903)
*[[1848]] &ndash; [[Joris-Karl Huysmans]], French author and critic (d. 1907)
*  1848   &ndash; [[Ignacio Carrera Pinto]], Chilean lieutenant (d. 1882)
*[[1852]] &ndash; [[Terauchi Masatake]], Japanese field marshal and politician, 9th [[Prime Minister of Japan]] (d. 1919)
*[[1866]] &ndash; [[Domhnall Ua Buachalla]], Irish politician, 3rd and last [[Governor-General of the Irish Free State]] (d. 1963)
*[[1870]] &ndash; [[C. E. Brock|Charles Edmund Brock]], British painter and book illustrator (d. 1938)
*[[1876]] &ndash; [[Ernie McLea]], Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1931)
*[[1878]] &ndash; [[André Citroën]], French engineer and businessman, founded [[Citroën]] (d. 1935)
*[[1880]] &ndash; [[Gabriel Voisin]], French pilot and engineer (d. 1973)
*[[1889]] &ndash; [[Patsy Hendren]], English cricketer and footballer (d. 1962)
*  1889   &ndash; [[Ernest Tyldesley]], English cricketer (d. 1962)
*  1889   &ndash; [[Recep Peker]], Turkish officer and politician (d. 1950)
*[[1891]] &ndash; [[Renato Petronio]], Italian rower (d. 1976)
*[[1892]] &ndash; [[Elizabeth Ryan]], American tennis player (d. 1979)
*[[1897]] &ndash; [[Dirk Stikker]], Dutch businessman and politician, 3rd [[Secretary General of NATO]] (d. 1979)
*[[1900]] &ndash; [[Adlai Stevenson II]], American soldier, politician, and diplomat, 5th [[List of ambassadors of the United States to the United Nations|United States Ambassador to the United Nations]] (d. 1965)<ref>{{cite news|title=Adlai Ewing Stevenson: An Urbane, Witty, Articulate Politician and Diplomat|work=The New York Times|date=July 15, 1965|page=10}}</ref>