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===1601–1900===
*[[1622]] &ndash; [[Abraham Diepraam]], Dutch painter (d. 1670)
*[[1719]] &ndash; [[John Landen]], English mathematician and theorist (d. 1790)
*[[1737]] &ndash; [[John Hancock]], American general and politician, first [[Governor of Massachusetts]] (d. 1793)<ref>{{cite book|author=Abram English Brown|title=John Hancock: His Book|url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924032746368|year=1898|publisher=Lee and Shepard}}</ref>
*[[1745]] &ndash; [[William Jessop]], English engineer, built the [[Cromford Canal]] (d. 1814)
*[[1752]] &ndash; [[Muzio Clementi]], Italian pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1832)<ref>{{cite book|author=EVA BADURA-SKODA|title=The Eighteenth-Century Fortepiano Grand and Its Patrons: From Scarlatti to Beethoven|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ui48DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA432|date=20 November 2017|publisher=Indiana University Press|isbn=978-0-253-02264-6|pages=432}}</ref>
*[[1780]] &ndash; [[Georgios Karaiskakis]], Greek general (d. 1827)
*[[1783]] &ndash; [[Stendhal]], French novelist (d. 1842)
*[[1786]] &ndash; [[Auguste de Montferrand]], French-Russian architect, designed [[Saint Isaac's Cathedral]] and [[Alexander Column]] (d. 1858)
*[[1799]] &ndash; [[Alois Negrelli]], Tyrolean engineer and railroad pioneer active in the Austrian Empire (d. 1858) 
*[[1809]] &ndash; [[Surendra Sai]], Indian activist (d. 1884)
*[[1813]] &ndash; [[Camilla Collett]], Norwegian novelist and activist (d. 1895)
*[[1828]] &ndash; [[Saigō Takamori]], Japanese samurai (d. 1877)
*[[1832]] &ndash; [[Édouard Manet]], French painter (d. 1883)
*[[1833]] &ndash; [[Muthu Coomaraswamy]], Sri Lankan lawyer and politician (d. 1879)
*[[1838]] &ndash; [[Marianne Cope]], German-American nun and saint (d. 1918)
*[[1840]] &ndash; [[Ernst Abbe]], German physicist and engineer (d. 1905)
*[[1846]] &ndash; [[Nikolay Umov]], Russian physicist and mathematician (d. 1915)
*[[1853]] &ndash; [[John Marks Moore]], American politician (d. 1902)<ref>{{cite book|last=Daniell|first=Lewis E.|title=Personnel of the Texas State Government with Sketches of Distinguished Texans, Embracing the Executive Staff, Heads of Departments, United States Senators and Representatives, Members of the XXth legislature|date=1887|publisher=Press of the City Printing Company|publication-place=Austin|lccn=19016834|page=19|quote=The Secretary of State, was born in Houston county, Texas, on the twenty-third day of January, 1853.}}</ref>
*[[1855]] &ndash; [[John Browning]], American weapons designer, founded the [[Browning Arms Company]] (d. 1926)
*[[1857]] &ndash; [[Andrija Mohorovičić]], Croatian meteorologist and seismologist (d. 1936)
*[[1862]] &ndash; [[David Hilbert]], German mathematician and academic (d. 1943)
*  1862   &ndash; [[Frank Shuman]], American inventor and engineer (d. 1918)
*[[1872]] &ndash; [[Paul Langevin]], French physicist and academic (d. 1946)
*  1872   &ndash; [[Jože Plečnik]], Slovenian architect, designed [[Plečnik Parliament]] (d. 1957)
*[[1876]] &ndash; [[Otto Diels]], German chemist and academic, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. 1954)
*[[1878]] &ndash; [[Rutland Boughton]], English composer (d. 1960)
*[[1880]] &ndash; [[Antonio Díaz Soto y Gama]], Mexican politician (d. 1967)
*[[1889]] &ndash; [[Claribel Kendall]], American mathematician (d. 1965)<ref>{{cite book | first=Ruth Rebekka | last=Struik | chapter=Claribel Kendall | editor-last1=Grinstein | editor-first1=Louise S. | editor-last2=Campbell | editor-first2=Paul J. | title=Women of Mathematics: a Biobibliographic Sourcebook | place=New York | publisher=Greenwood Press | year=1987 | isbn=978-0-3132-4849-8 | page=[https://archive.org/details/womenofmathemati0000unse/page/92 92] | chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/womenofmathemati0000unse/page/92 }}</ref>
*[[1894]] &ndash; [[Jyotirmoyee Devi]], Indian author (d. 1988)
*[[1896]] &ndash; [[Alf Blair]], Australian rugby league player and coach (d. 1944)
*  1896   &ndash; [[Alf Hall]], English-South African cricketer (d. 1964)
*[[1897]] &ndash; [[Subhas Chandra Bose]], Indian freedom fighter and politician (d. 1945)
*  1897   &ndash; [[Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky]], Austrian architect (d. 2000)
*  1897   &ndash; [[Ieva Simonaitytė]], Lithuanian author (d. 1978)
*  1897   &ndash; [[William Stephenson]], Canadian captain and spy (d. 1989)
*[[1898]] &ndash; [[Georg Kulenkampff]], German violinist (d. 1948)
*  1898   &ndash; [[Randolph Scott]], American actor (d. 1987)
*  1898   &ndash; [[Freda Utley]], English scholar and author (d. 1978)
*[[1899]] &ndash; [[Glen Kidston]], English racing driver and pilot (d. 1931)
*[[1900]] &ndash; [[William Ifor Jones]], Welsh organist and conductor (d. 1988)