Editing January 22 (section)

===1601–1900===
*[[1645]] &ndash; [[William Kidd]], Scottish sailor and pirate hunter (probable;<ref>{{cite book|author1=Craig Cabell|author2=Graham A. Thomas|author3=Allan Richards|title=Captain Kidd: The Hunt for the Truth|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uZX3xvnKFSwC&pg=PA3|date=1 January 2010|publisher=Casemate Publishers|isbn=978-1-84415-961-1|pages=3}}</ref> d. 1701)
*[[1654]] &ndash; [[Richard Blackmore]], English physician and poet (d. 1729)
*[[1690]] &ndash; [[Nicolas Lancret]], French painter (d. 1743)<ref>{{cite book|author=National Gallery of Scotland|title=Catalogue of the National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aG8rAAAAIAAJ|year=1909|publisher=H.M. Stationery Office|page=42}}</ref>
*[[1729]] &ndash; [[Gotthold Ephraim Lessing]], German philosopher and author (d. 1781)<ref>{{cite book|author=Edward Malcolm Batley|title=Catalyst of Enlightenment, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing: productive criticism of eighteenth-century Germany|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Tf9bAAAAMAAJ|year=1990|publisher=P. Lang|isbn=978-3-261-04193-7|page=11}}</ref>
*[[1733]] &ndash; [[Philip Carteret]], English admiral and explorer (d. 1796)
*[[1740]] &ndash; [[Noah Phelps]], American soldier, lawyer, and judge (d. 1809)
*[[1781]] &ndash; [[François Habeneck]], French violinist and conductor (d. 1849)
*[[1788]] &ndash; [[Lord Byron]], English poet and playwright (d. 1824)
*[[1792]] &ndash; [[Lady Lucy Whitmore]], English noblewoman, hymn writer (d. 1840)<ref name="Julian1892">{{cite book|last=Julian|first=John|title=A Dictionary of Hymnology: Setting Forth the Origin and History of Christian Hymns of All Ages and Nations...with Biographical and Critical Notices of Their Authors and Translators|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3GshAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA1085|edition=Public domain|year=1892|publisher=J. Murray|pages=1085–}}</ref>
*[[1796]] &ndash; [[Karl Ernst Claus]], Estonian-Russian chemist, botanist, and academic (d. 1864)
*[[1797]] &ndash; [[Maria Leopoldina of Austria]] (d. 1826)
*[[1799]] &ndash; [[Ludger Duvernay]], Canadian journalist, publisher, and politician (d. 1852)
*[[1802]] &ndash; [[Richard Upjohn]], English-American architect (d. 1878)
*[[1828]] &ndash; [[Dayrolles Eveleigh-de-Moleyns, 4th Baron Ventry]], Irish hereditary peer (d. 1914)
*[[1831]] &ndash; [[Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein]] (d. 1917)
*[[1840]] &ndash; [[Ernest Wilberforce]], English bishop (d. 1907)
*[[1849]] &ndash; [[August Strindberg]], Swedish novelist, poet, and playwright (d. 1912)
*[[1858]] &ndash; [[Beatrice Webb]], English sociologist and economist (d. 1943)<ref>{{cite book | first=Royden J. |last=Harrison |title=The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb: 1858-1905 The Formative Years |location=Basingstoke |publisher=Palgrave |year=2004 |isbn=978-0-31222-641-1 |page=367}}</ref> 
*[[1861]] &ndash; [[George Fuller (Australian politician)|George Fuller]], Australian politician, 22nd [[Premier of New South Wales]] (d. 1940)<ref name=nsw>{{cite NSW Parliament |title=Sir George Warburton Fuller (1861–1940) |id=1075 |former=Yes| access-date=13 May 2019}}</ref>
*[[1865]] &ndash; [[Wilbur Scoville]], American chemist and pharmacist (d. 1942)
*[[1867]] &ndash; [[Gisela Januszewska]], Jewish-Austrian physician (d. 1943)<ref>{{cite book|first=Ingrid|last=Arias|title=Im Dienste der Volksgesundheit: Frauen - Gesundheitswesen - Nationalsozialismus|trans-title=In the Service of Public Health: Women, Healthcare, Nazism|location=Vienna|publisher=Verlagshaus der Ärzte|year=2006|page=87|isbn=978-3-90148-886-3|language=DE}}</ref>
*[[1869]] &ndash; [[José Vicente de Freitas]], Portuguese colonel and politician, 97th [[Prime Minister of Portugal]] (d. 1952)
*[[1874]] &ndash; [[Edward Harkness]], American philanthropist (d. 1940)
*  1874   &ndash; [[Jay Hughes]], American baseball player and coach (d. 1924)
*[[1875]] &ndash; [[D. W. Griffith]], American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1948)<ref>{{cite book|first=Dennis|last=Kenneth|chapter=Griffith, David Wark|title=The Encyclopedia of Louisville|editor-last=Kleber|editor-first=John E.|location=Lexington, Ky.|publisher=University Press of Kentucky|date=2001|isbn=9780813121000|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W7EeBgAAQBAJ|page=359}}</ref>
*[[1877]] &ndash; [[Tom Jones (baseball)|Tom Jones]], American baseball player and manager (d. 1923)
*[[1879]] &ndash; [[Francis Picabia]], French painter and poet (d. 1953)
*[[1880]] &ndash; [[Bill O'Neill (baseball)|Bill O'Neill]], Canadian-American baseball player (d. 1920)
*  1880   &ndash; [[Frigyes Riesz]], Hungarian mathematician and academic (d. 1956)
*[[1881]] &ndash; [[Ira Thomas]], American baseball player and manager (d. 1958)
*[[1886]] &ndash; [[John J. Becker]], American pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1961)
*[[1887]] &ndash; [[Helen Hoyt]], American poet and author (d. 1972)
*[[1889]] &ndash; [[Henri Pélissier]], French cyclist (d. 1935)
*  1889   &ndash; [[Amos Strunk]], American baseball player and manager (d. 1979)
*[[1890]] &ndash; [[Fred M. Vinson]], American judge and politician, 13th [[Chief Justice of the United States]] (d. 1953)
*[[1891]] &ndash; [[Antonio Gramsci]], Italian philosopher and politician (d. 1937)
*[[1892]] &ndash; [[Marcel Dassault]], French businessman, founded [[Dassault Aviation]] (d. 1986)
*[[1893]] &ndash; [[Conrad Veidt]], German-American actor, director, and producer (d. 1943)<ref>{{cite book|last=Giesen|first=Rolf|title=The Nosferatu Story: The Seminal Horror Film, Its Predecessors and Its Enduring Legacy|location=Jefferson, N.C.|publisher=McFarland & Company|date=2019|isbn=9781476672984|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8PWKDwAAQBAJ|page=29}}</ref>
*[[1897]] &ndash; [[Rosa Ponselle]], American operatic soprano (d. 1981)
*  1897   &ndash; [[Dilipkumar Roy]], a Bengali Indian musician, musicologist, novelist, poet and essayist. (d. 1980)
*[[1898]] &ndash; [[Ross Barnett]], American lawyer and politician, 52nd [[Governor of Mississippi]] (d. 1987)
*  1898   &ndash; [[Sergei Eisenstein]], Russian director and screenwriter (d. 1948)
*  1898   &ndash; [[Denise Legeay]], French actress (d. 1968)
*[[1899]] &ndash; [[Martti Haavio]], Finnish poet and mythologist (d. 1973)
*[[1900]] &ndash; [[Ernst Busch (actor)|Ernst Busch]], German actor and singer (d. 1980)