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===1601–1900=== *[[1612]] – [[Thomas Fairfax]], English general and politician (d. 1671) *[[1640]] – [[Jonathan Singletary Dunham]], American settler (d. 1724) *[[1659]] – [[Antonio Veracini]], Italian violinist and composer (d. 1745) *[[1666]] – [[Antonio Maria Valsalva]], Italian anatomist and physician (d. 1723) *[[1686]] – [[Archibald Bower]], Scottish historian and author (d. 1766) *[[1693]] – [[Melchor de Navarrete]], Spanish colonial governor of [[Cartagena de Indias]] (Colombia, 1739 – 1742); of Spanish Florida (1749 – 1752); and of Yucatán (Mexico, 1754 – 1758) (d. 1761)<ref name="Vicent1979">{{cite book|author=Vicente de Cadenas y Vicent|title=Caballeros de la Orden de Santiago, siglo XVIII|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QNpLb8wdM_EC&pg=PA95|year=1979|publisher=Ediciones Hidalguia|isbn=978-84-00-04412-1|page=95}}</ref> *[[1706]] – [[Benjamin Franklin]], American publisher, inventor, and politician, 6th [[List of Governors of Pennsylvania|President of Pennsylvania]] (d. 1790) *[[1712]] – [[John Stanley (composer)|John Stanley]], English organist and composer (d. 1786) *[[1719]] – [[William Vernon]], American businessman (d. 1806) *[[1728]] – [[Johann Gottfried Müthel]], German pianist and composer (d. 1788) *[[1732]] – [[Stanisław August Poniatowski]], Polish-Lithuanian king (d. 1798) *[[1734]] – [[François-Joseph Gossec]], French composer and conductor (d. 1829) *[[1761]] – [[Sir James Hall, 4th Baronet]], Scottish geologist and geophysicist (d. 1832) *[[1789]] – [[August Neander]], German historian and theologian (d. 1850) *[[1793]] – [[Antonio José Martínez]], Spanish-American priest, rancher and politician (d. 1867) *[[1814]] – [[Ellen Wood (author)|Ellen Wood]], English author (d. 1887) *[[1820]] – [[Anne Brontë]], English author and poet (d. 1849) *[[1828]] – [[Lewis A. Grant]], American lawyer and general, [[Medal of Honor]] recipient (d. 1918) * 1828 – [[Ede Reményi]], Hungarian violinist and composer (d. 1898) *[[1832]] – [[Henry Martyn Baird]], American historian and academic (d. 1906) *[[1834]] – [[August Weismann]], German biologist, zoologist, and geneticist (d. 1914) *[[1850]] – [[Joaquim Arcoverde de Albuquerque Cavalcanti]], Brazilian cardinal (d. 1930) * 1850 – [[Alexander Taneyev]], Russian pianist and composer (d. 1918) *[[1851]] – [[A. B. Frost]], American author and illustrator (d. 1928) *[[1853]] – [[Alva Belmont]], American suffragist (d. 1933)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.anb.org/view/10.1093/anb/9780198606697.001.0001/anb-9780198606697-e-1500052|title=Belmont, Alva Erskine Smith Vanderbilt (1853-1933), social leader and suffragist |work= American National Biography|year=2000|doi=10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.1500052|access-date=2019-12-02|last1=Viens |first1=Katheryn P. |isbn=978-0-19-860669-7 }}</ref> * 1853 – [[T. Alexander Harrison]], American painter and academic (d. 1930) *[[1857]] – [[Wilhelm Kienzl]], Austrian pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1941) * 1857 – [[Eugene Augustin Lauste]], French-American engineer (d. 1935) *[[1858]] – [[Tomás Carrasquilla]], Colombian author (d. 1940) *[[1860]] – [[Douglas Hyde]], Irish academic and politician, 1st [[President of Ireland]] (d. 1949) *[[1863]] – [[David Lloyd George]], Welsh lawyer and politician, [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] (d. 1945) * 1863 – [[Konstantin Stanislavski]], Russian actor and director (d. 1938) *[[1865]] – [[Sir Charles Fergusson, 7th Baronet]], English general and politician, 3rd [[Governor-General of New Zealand]] (d. 1951) *[[1867]] – [[Carl Laemmle]], German-born American film producer, co-founded [[Universal Pictures|Universal Studios]] (d. 1939) * 1867 – [[Sir Alfred Rawlinson, 3rd Baronet]], English colonel, pilot, and polo player (d. 1934) *[[1871]] – [[David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty]], English admiral (d. 1936) * 1871 – [[Nicolae Iorga]], Romanian historian and politician, 34th [[Prime Minister of Romania]] (d. 1940) *[[1875]] – [[Florencio Sánchez]], Uruguayan journalist and playwright (d. 1910) *[[1876]] – [[Frank Hague]], American lawyer and politician, 30th [[Mayor of Jersey City]] (d. 1956) *[[1877]] – [[Marie Zdeňka Baborová-Čiháková]], Czech botanist and zoologist (d. 1937)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://biography.hiu.cas.cz/Personal/index.php/BABOROV%C3%81-%C4%8CIH%C3%81KOV%C3%81_Marie_Zdenka_17.1.1877-29.9.1937|title=BABOROVÁ-ČIHÁKOVÁ, Marie Zdenka|last=Brabencová|first=Jana|website=Biographical Dictionary of the Czech Lands|language=cs|access-date=2019-08-11}}</ref> * 1877 – [[May Gibbs]], English-Australian author and illustrator (d. 1969) *[[1880]] – [[Mack Sennett]], Canadian-American actor, director, and producer (d. 1960) *[[1881]] – [[Antoni Łomnicki]], Polish mathematician and academic (d. 1941) * 1881 – [[Harry Price]], English psychologist and author (d. 1948) *[[1882]] – [[Noah Beery, Sr.]], American actor (d. 1946) *[[1883]] – [[Compton Mackenzie]], English-Scottish author, poet, and playwright (d. 1972) *[[1886]] – [[Glenn L. Martin]], American pilot and businessman, founded the [[Glenn L. Martin Company]] (d. 1955) *[[1887]] – [[Ola Raknes]], Norwegian psychoanalyst and philologist (d. 1975) *[[1888]] – [[Babu Gulabrai]], Indian philosopher and author (d. 1963) *[[1897]] – [[Marcel Petiot]], French physician and serial killer (d. 1946) *[[1898]] – [[Lela Mevorah]], Serbian librarian (d. 1972)<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|last=Kovačević-Ristanović|first=Ružica|date=2014-07-10|title=Lela Mevorah: A Professional Jewish Woman's Contribution to the Practice of Medicine in Serbia in the Aftermath of the Holocaust|url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/548958|journal=Serbian Studies: Journal of the North American Society for Serbian Studies|volume=25|issue=2|pages=199–211|doi=10.1353/ser.2011.0042|s2cid=144369420|issn=1941-9511}}</ref> *[[1899]] – [[Al Capone]], American mob boss (d. 1947) * 1899 – [[Robert Maynard Hutchins]], American philosopher and academic (d. 1977) * 1899 – [[Nevil Shute]], English engineer and author (d. 1960)
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