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===1601–1900===
*[[1617]] &ndash; [[Christoffer Gabel]], Danish politician (d. 1673)<ref>{{cite book|author=Paul Robert Kruse|title=The Story of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1768-1943|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9lUzAQAAMAAJ|year=1958|publisher=Department of Photoduplication, University of Chicago Library|page=378}}</ref>
*[[1632]] &ndash; [[Anne Hamilton, 3rd Duchess of Hamilton]], Scottish peeress (d. 1716)<ref>G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume VI, page 264.</ref>
*[[1655]] &ndash; [[Eleonor Magdalene of Neuburg]] (d. 1720)<ref>{{cite book|author1=Anne Commire|author2=Deborah Klezmer|title=Women in World History: Ead-Fur|url=https://archive.org/details/womeninworldhist13comm|url-access=registration|year=2000|publisher=Yorkin Publications|isbn=978-0-7876-4064-4|page=[https://archive.org/details/womeninworldhist13comm/page/106 106]}}</ref>
*[[1673]] &ndash; [[James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos]], English academic and politician, [[Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire]] (d. 1744)<ref>{{cite book|author=John Philips|title=Cider: a poem in two books|url=https://archive.org/details/ciderapoemintwo00philgoog|year=1791|publisher=Printed by G. Stafford for T. Cadell|pages=[https://archive.org/details/ciderapoemintwo00philgoog/page/n86 66]}}</ref>
*[[1695]] &ndash; [[Giuseppe Sammartini]], Italian [[oboe]] player and composer (d. 1750)<ref>{{cite book|author1=David Mason Greene|author2=Constance Green|title=Greene's Biographical Encyclopedia of Composers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m3S7PIxe0mwC&pg=PA271|year=1985|publisher=Reproducing Piano Roll Fnd.|isbn=978-0-385-14278-6|pages=271}}</ref>
*[[1702]] &ndash; [[José de Nebra]], Spanish composer (d. 1768)<ref>{{cite journal|title=Nuevas datos para el estudio de los musicos Nebra en Aragon|language=es|author=Antonio Ezquerro Esteban|journal=Anuario Musical|volume=57|year=2002|page=113}}</ref>
*[[1714]] &ndash; [[Percivall Pott]], English surgeon (d. 1788)<ref>{{cite book|title=Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_GdRAQAAIAAJ|year=1972|publisher=Royal College of Surgeons of England|page=54}}</ref>
*[[1745]] &ndash; [[Jacques-Etienne Montgolfier]], French co-inventor of the hot air balloon (d. 1799)<ref>{{cite book|author=Steve Gietschier|title=Chase's sports calendar of events|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PtsIZ66FgWQC|date=1 November 1999|publisher=Contemporary Books|isbn=978-0-8092-2600-9|page=6}}</ref>
*[[1766]] &ndash; [[José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia]], Paraguayan lawyer and politician, first dictator of Paraguay (d. 1840)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jose-Gaspar-Rodriguez-de-Francia |title=José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia |publisher=Britannica.com |location=Edinburgh |access-date=13 June 2020 |archive-date=21 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210121144330/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jose-Gaspar-Rodriguez-de-Francia |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1785]] &ndash; [[Andreas Moustoxydis]], Greek historian and philologist (d. 1860)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://data.bnf.fr/en/12889198/andreas_moustoxy_di_s/ |url-access= |title=Andréas Moustoxýdīs (1785-1860) |author=Bibliothèque nationale de France |author-link=Bibliothèque nationale de France |date=January 14, 2021 |language=French |access-date=May 20, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210520194941/https://data.bnf.fr/en/12889198/andreas_moustoxy_di_s/ |archive-date=May 20, 2021 }}</ref>
*[[1793]] &ndash; [[James Madison Porter]], American lawyer and politician, 18th [[United States Secretary of War]] (d. 1862)<ref>{{cite book|author=William Baxter Owen|title=Historical Sketches of Lafayette College: With an Account of Its Present Organization and Courses of Study|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m3uDY63xxCQC&pg=PA4|year=1876|publisher=publisher not identified|pages=4}}</ref>
*[[1795]] &ndash; [[Anselme Payen]], French chemist and academic (d. 1871)<ref>{{cite book|title=American journal of pharmacy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=khZTAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA432|year=1871|pages=432}}</ref>
*[[1799]] &ndash; [[Jedediah Smith]], American hunter, explorer, and author (d. 1831)<ref>{{cite book|author1=Lawrence O. Christensen|author2=William E. Foley|author3=Gary Kremer|title=Dictionary of Missouri Biography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6gyxWHRLAWgC&pg=PA703|date=October 1999|publisher=University of Missouri Press|isbn=978-0-8262-6016-1|pages=703}}</ref>
*[[1803]] &ndash; [[Henri Herz]], Austrian pianist and composer (d. 1888)<ref>{{cite book|title=Etude: The Music Magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_kVFAQAAMAAJ|year=1888|publisher=Presser|page=13}}</ref>
*[[1807]] &ndash; [[Joseph Petzval]], German-Hungarian mathematician and physicist (d. 1891)<ref>{{cite book|title=The Penrose Annual|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=trYqAQAAIAAJ|year=1920|publisher=Hastings House|page=81}}</ref>
*[[1808]] &ndash; [[Joseph Pitty Couthouy]], American conchologist and paleontologist (d. 1864)<ref>{{cite book|title=Occasional Papers on Mollusks|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oygcAQAAIAAJ|year=1945|publisher=Department of Mollusks, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University|page=33}}</ref>
*[[1811]] &ndash; [[Charles Sumner]], American lawyer and politician (d. 1874)<ref>{{cite book|author1=United States. 43d Cong. 1st sess. 1873-1874|author2=United States. Congress|title=Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of Charles Sumner, (a Senator of Massachusetts)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GqYSAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA53|year=1874|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|pages=53}}</ref>
*[[1822]] &ndash; [[Heinrich Schliemann]], German archaeologist and businessman (d. 1890)<ref>{{cite book|title=The Illustrated American|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ONg6AQAAMAAJ|year=1891|publisher=Illustrated American Publishing Company|page=337}}</ref>
*[[1832]] &ndash; [[Gustave Doré]], French painter and sculptor (d. 1883)<ref>{{cite book|author=Richard Muther|title=The History of Modern Painting|url=https://archive.org/details/historymodernpa03muthgoog|year=1896|publisher=Henry and Company|page=[https://archive.org/details/historymodernpa03muthgoog/page/n825 808]}}</ref>
*[[1838]] &ndash; [[Max Bruch]], German composer and conductor (d. 1920)<ref>{{cite book|author=Hugo Riemann|title=Catechism of Musical History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e0j0AAAAMAAJ|year=1892|publisher=Augener|page=169}}</ref>
*[[1842]] &ndash; [[Clarence King]], American geologist, mountaineer, and critic (d. 1901)<ref>{{cite book|author=Thurman Wilkins|title=Clarence King: A Biography|url=https://archive.org/details/clarencekingbiog0000wilk|url-access=registration|year=1958|publisher=Macmillan|page=[https://archive.org/details/clarencekingbiog0000wilk/page/11 11]}}</ref>
*[[1856]] &ndash; [[Giuseppe Martucci]], Italian pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1909)<ref>{{cite book|title=The Musical Times|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F5cPAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA456|year=1909|publisher=Novello|pages=456}}</ref>
*[[1857]] &ndash; [[Hugh Mahon]], Irish-Australian publisher and politician, 10th [[Minister for Foreign Affairs (Australia)|Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs]] (d. 1931)<ref>{{cite Australian Dictionary of Biography | first=H. J. | last=Gibbney | title =Mahon, Hugh (1857–1931)|id=A100372b | access-date = 19 January 2020}}</ref>
*  1857 &ndash; [[William Russell (governor)|William Russell]], American lawyer and politician, 37th [[Governor of Massachusetts]] (d. 1896)
*[[1859]] &ndash; [[Samuel Alexander]], Australian-English philosopher and academic (d. 1938)<ref>{{cite book|author=Australian Jewish Historical Society|title=Journal and Proceedings|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=j0eMTMBmT6gC|year=1939|page=172}}</ref>
*[[1860]] &ndash; [[Morton Selten]], British actor (d. 1939)<ref>{{cite book|author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.-->|title=Who's Who in the Theatre|location=London|publisher=Pitman|oclc=1604876|date=1936|page=1304}}</ref>
*[[1861]] &ndash; [[Victor Horta]], Belgian architect, designed [[Hôtel van Eetvelde]] (d. 1947)<ref>{{cite book|title=Memo from Belgium|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=I-7gAAAAMAAJ|year=1971|page=6}}</ref>
*  1861 &ndash; [[George Lloyd (bishop of Saskatchewan)|George Lloyd]], English-Canadian bishop and theologian (d. 1940)<ref>{{cite book|author1=D. F. Acton|author2=L. S. Crosson|title=Guidebook Tours: 11th Congress, International Society of Soil Science|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LnYmAQAAMAAJ|year=1978|publisher=ISSS|page=81}}</ref>
*[[1870]] &ndash; [[Gustav Bauer]], German journalist and politician, 11th [[Chancellor of Germany (German Reich)|Chancellor of Germany]] (d. 1944)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz2255.html|title=Biografie Gustav Bauer(German)|publisher=Bayerische Staatsbibliothek|access-date=11 January 2020|archive-date=12 January 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200112130003/https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz2255.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1872]] &ndash; [[Alexander Scriabin]], Russian pianist and composer (d. 1915)<ref>{{cite book|author=Marion Elizabeth Cullen|title=Memorable days in music|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2cs4AQAAIAAJ|date=May 1970|publisher=Scarecrow Press|page=10|isbn=9780810802933}}</ref>
*[[1874]] &ndash; [[Fred Niblo]], American actor, director, and producer (d. 1948)<ref>{{cite book|author1=Donald W. McCaffrey|author2=Christopher P. Jacobs|title=Guide to the Silent Years of American Cinema|url=https://archive.org/details/guidetosilentyea00mcca|url-access=registration|year=1999|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-30345-6|pages=[https://archive.org/details/guidetosilentyea00mcca/page/209 209]}}</ref>
*[[1878]] &ndash; [[Adeline Genée]], Danish-born British ballerina (d. 1970)<ref>{{cite book|author1=Anne Commire|author2=Deborah Klezmer|title=Women in World History: Gab-Harp|url=https://archive.org/details/womeninworldhist13comm|url-access=registration|year=1999|publisher=Yorkin Publications|isbn=978-0-7876-4065-1|page=[https://archive.org/details/womeninworldhist13comm/page/143 143]}}</ref>
*  1878 &ndash; [[Carl Sandburg]], American poet and historian (d. 1967)<ref>{{cite book|author=Vernon Loggins|title=I Hear America ...: Literature in the United States Since 1900|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hZWzrW_cqk8C&pg=PA272|year=1967|publisher=Biblo & Tannen Publishers|isbn=978-0-8196-0197-1|pages=272}}</ref>
*[[1880]] &ndash; [[Tom Mix]], American cowboy and actor (d. 1940)<ref>{{cite book|title=Westerner|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bXAvAQAAMAAJ|year=1974|publisher=Behn-Miller Publishers|page=16}}</ref>
*[[1881]] &ndash; [[Ion Minulescu]], Romanian author, poet, and critic (d. 1944)<ref>[[Matei Călinescu]], "Prefaţă" ("Introduction"), "Tabel cronologic" ("Chronological Table"), in Ion Minulescu, ''Romanţe pentru mai târziu şi alte poezii'' ("Songs for Later On and Other Poems"), Editura pentru literatură, Bucharest, 1967, p.&nbsp;V-XLX. {{OCLC|6434366}}</ref>
*[[1882]] &ndash; [[Fan S. Noli]], Albanian-American bishop and politician, 13th [[Prime Minister of Albania]] (d. 1965)<ref>{{cite book|author=Constance J. Tarasar|title=Orthodox America, 1794-1976: Development of the Orthodox Church in America|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-ftCAAAAIAAJ|year=1975|publisher=Orthodox Church in America, Department of History and Archives|page=148}}</ref>
*  1882 &ndash; [[Sam Rayburn]], American lawyer and politician, 48th [[Speaker of the United States House of Representatives]] (d. 1961)<ref>{{cite book|title=Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2epHAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA273|year=1991|publisher=Naval Historical Center, Department of the Navy|pages=273|isbn = 9780160020551}}</ref>
*[[1883]] &ndash; [[Kahlil Gibran]], Lebanese-American poet, painter, and philosopher (d. 1931)<ref>{{cite book|author1=Stephen Phillips|author2=Galloway Kyle|title=Poetry Review|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JEkrAQAAIAAJ|year=1931|publisher=Poetry Society|page=426}}</ref>
*[[1891]] &ndash; [[Ted McDonald]], Australian cricketer (d. 1937)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/australia/content/player/ted-mcdonald-6555.html|title=Ted McDonald profile and biography, stats, records, averages, photos and videos|website=ESPNcricinfo}}</ref>
*[[1898]] &ndash; [[James Fitzmaurice (pilot)|James Fitzmaurice]], Irish soldier and pilot (d. 1965)<ref>{{cite book|author1=Hermann Köhl|author2=James C. Fitzmaurice|author3=James Fitzmaurice (C.)|author4=Ehrenfried Günther Freiherr von Hünefeld|title=The Three Musketeers of the Air: Their Conquest of the Atlantic from East to West|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6_EHAAAAMAAJ|year=1928|publisher=G. P. Putnam's Sons|page=114}}</ref>
*[[1899]] &ndash; [[Heinrich Nordhoff]], German engineer (d. 1968)<ref>{{cite book|author=H. R. Etzold|title=The Beetle: The Chronicles of the People's Car: Design and Evolution -- The Story|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KfEoAQAAIAAJ|date=1 January 1990|publisher=Haynes|isbn=978-0-85429-845-7|page=132}}</ref>
*[[1900]] &ndash; [[Maria of Yugoslavia]], Queen of Yugoslavia (d. 1961)<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.royalfamily.org/dynasty/hm-queen-maria-of-yugoslavia/|title=HM Queen Maria of Yugoslavia|work=Royal Family of Serbia|access-date=2017-10-24|language=en-US|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140413202412/http://www.royalfamily.org/dynasty/hm-queen-maria-of-yugoslavia/|archive-date=2014-04-13|url-status=live}}</ref>