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===1601–1900===
*[[1634]] &ndash; [[Adam Krieger]], German organist and composer (d. 1666)<ref>{{cite book|author=Albert Ernest Wier|title=The Macmillan Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians: In One Volume|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nx8KAQAAMAAJ|year=1938|publisher=Macmillan|page=987}}</ref>
*[[1647]] &ndash; [[William Louis, Duke of Württemberg]] (d. 1677)<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.leo-bw.de/themen/biographisches-lexikon-des-hauses-wurttemberg |title=Das Haus Württemberg. Ein biographisches Lexikon |publisher=[[LEO-BW]] |year=1997 |editor-last=Sönke |editor-first=Lorenz |edition=Online |location=Stuttgart |pages=161–162 |language=de |chapter=Württemberg, Wilhelm Ludwig, Herzog |editor-last2=Dieter |editor-first2=Mertens |editor-last3=Volker |editor-first3=Press |editor-link3=Volker Press |chapter-url=https://www.leo-bw.de/detail/-/Detail/details/PERSON/ubt_hauswuerttemberg/104183586/W%C3%BCrttemberg+Wilhelm+Ludwig+Herzog}}</ref>
*[[1685]] &ndash; [[Jonas Alströmer]], Swedish agronomist and businessman (d. 1761)<ref>{{cite book|title=The Biographical Dictionary of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fMk5AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA331|year=1843|publisher=Longman, Brown|pages=331}}</ref>
*[[1706]] &ndash; [[Johann Heinrich Zedler]], German publisher (d. 1751)<ref>{{cite book|author=Thomas Spencer Baynes|title=The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Qc87AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA196|year=1878|publisher=C. Scribner's sons|pages=196}}</ref>
*[[1713]] &ndash; [[Giovanni Battista Locatelli (opera director)|Giovanni Battista Locatelli]], Italian opera director and manager (d. 1785)<ref>{{cite book|author=Stanley Sadie|title=The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1lENAQAAIAAJ|year=1980|publisher=Macmillan Publishers|isbn=978-0-333-23111-1|page=104}}</ref>
*[[1718]] &ndash; [[Israel Putnam]], American general (d. 1790)<ref>{{cite book|author=John Warner Barber|title=Connecticut|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1Px4AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA418|year=1836|pages=418|isbn=9780722249598 }}</ref>
*[[1746]] &ndash; [[George Elphinstone, 1st Viscount Keith]], Scottish admiral and politician (d. 1823)<ref>{{cite book|author=Alexander Allardyce|title=Memoir of Admiral Lord Keith|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XJsBAAAAQAAJ|page=1}}</ref>
*[[1768]] &ndash; [[Joseph Bonaparte]], Italian king (d. 1844)<ref>{{cite book|title=The Patrician|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K_c8AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA319|year=1846|pages=319| last1=Burke | first1=John | last2=Burke | first2=Bernard }}</ref>
*[[1797]] &ndash; [[Mariano Paredes (President of Mexico)|Mariano Paredes]], Mexican general and 16th president (1845–1846) (d. 1849)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://presidentes.mx/mariano-paredes-y-arrillaga|title=Mariano Paredes y Arrillaga|publisher=Presidentes.mx|language=es|access-date=May 27, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190528032142/https://presidentes.mx/mariano-paredes-y-arrillaga|archive-date=May 28, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1800]] &ndash; [[Millard Fillmore]], American politician, 13th [[President of the United States]] (d. 1874)<ref>{{cite book|author=Abner Dumont Jones|title=American Portrait Gallery, Containing Correct Portraits and Brief Notices of the Principal Actors in American History...|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yYgMAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA697|year=1869|publisher=Henry Miller|pages=697}}</ref>
*[[1814]] &ndash; [[Robert Nicoll]], Scottish poet (d. 1837)<ref>{{cite book|author=Robert Nicoll|title=Poems by Robert Nicoll|url=https://archive.org/details/poemsbyrobertni00johngoog|year=1853|publisher=G. H. Whitney|pages=[https://archive.org/details/poemsbyrobertni00johngoog/page/n17 13]}}</ref>
*[[1815]] &ndash; [[Elizabeth Louisa Foster Mather]], American writer (d. 1882)<ref name="Hanson1884">{{cite book|last=Hanson|first=E. R.|title=Our Woman Workers: Biographical Sketches of Women Eminent in the Universalist Church for Literary, Philanthropic and Christian Work|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l73TAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA111|edition=Public domain|year=1884|publisher=Star and Covenant Office|pages=111–}}</ref>
*[[1827]] &ndash; [[Sandford Fleming]], Scottish-Canadian engineer, created [[Universal Standard Time]] (d. 1915)
*[[1830]] &ndash; [[Albert Bierstadt]], American painter (d. 1902)<ref>{{cite book|title=Scribner's Monthly: An Illustrated Magazine for the People|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h5RYAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA605|year=1872|publisher=Century Company|pages=605}}</ref>
*[[1831]] &ndash; [[Heinrich von Stephan]], German postman, founded the [[Universal Postal Union]] (d. 1897)<ref>{{cite book|title=The New Volumes of the Encyclopædia Britannica|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7_UbN2qsIsIC|year=1902|publisher=A. & C. Black|page=851}}</ref>
*[[1832]] &ndash; [[James Munro (Australian politician)|James Munro]], Scottish-Australian publisher and politician, 15th [[Premier of Victoria]] (d. 1908)<ref>{{cite book|author=Philip Mennell|title=The Dictionary of Australasian Biography: Comprising Notices of Eminent Colonists from the Inauguration of Responsible Government Down to the Present Time (1855-1892)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vFsHAQAAIAAJ|year=1892|publisher=Hutchinson|page=336}}</ref>
*[[1834]] &ndash; [[Johann Philipp Reis]], German physicist and academic, invented the [[Reis telephone]] (d. 1874)<ref>{{cite book|author=Silvanus Phillips Thompson|title=Philipp Reis, Inventor of the Telephone|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dzU-AQAAMAAJ|year=1974|publisher=Arno Press|page=1|isbn=9780405060601}}</ref>
*[[1837]] &ndash; [[Thomas Henry Ismay]], English businessman, founded the [[White Star Line|White Star Line Shipping Company]] (d. 1899)<ref>{{cite book|author=David J. Jeremy|title=Dictionary of Business Biography: H-L|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dh9bhINkvFgC|year=1984|publisher=Butterworths|page=455}}</ref>
*[[1844]] &ndash; [[Bernadette Soubirous]], French nun and saint (d. 1879)<ref>{{cite book|author=Francis Trochu|title=Saint Bernadette Soubirous, 1844-1879|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PVomAQAAMAAJ|date=January 1957|publisher=Tan Books and Publishers, Incorporated|isbn=978-0-89555-253-2|page=48}}</ref>
*[[1852]] &ndash; [[Quianu Robinson]], New Mexican Congressman and political ally of [[Conrad Hilton]] (d. 1919)<ref>{{Cite book |title=The Silver Spade: The Conrad Hilton Story. |publisher=[[Farrar, Straus and Young]]. |year=1954}}</ref>
*[[1858]] &ndash; [[Eliezer Ben-Yehuda]], Belarusian lexicographer and journalist (d. 1922)<ref>{{cite book|title=Jewish Affairs|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iZUSAAAAIAAJ|year=1958|publisher=South African Jewish Board of Deputies|page=41}}</ref>
*[[1863]] &ndash; [[Anna Murray Vail]], American botanist and first librarian of the [[New York Botanical Garden]] (d. 1955)<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=amtGAwAAQBAJ&q=Anna+Murray+Vail+December+1955&pg=PA15|title=Ladies in the Laboratory? American and British Women in Science, 1800-1900: A Survey of Their Contributions to Research|last=Creese|first=Mary R. S.|date=2000|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=9780585276847|pages=15|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nybg.org/library/finding_guide/archv/vail_ppf.html|title=Anna Murray Vail Papers (PP)|website=New York Botanical Garden|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190319115906/https://www.nybg.org/library/finding_guide/archv/vail_ppf.html|archive-date=2019-03-19|access-date=2019-08-11|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1871]] &ndash; [[Émile Borel]], French mathematician and politician (d. 1956)<ref>{{cite book|author=Brigham Narins|title=Notable Scientists from 1900 to the Present: A-C|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=byIvAQAAIAAJ|date=1 January 2001|publisher=Gale Group|isbn=978-0-7876-1752-3|page=247}}</ref>
*[[1873]] &ndash; [[Charles Péguy]], French poet and journalist (d. 1914)<ref>{{cite book|author=Tracy Chevalier|title=Encyclopedia of the Essay|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LJtz0iWO4O4C&pg=PA645|year=1997|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-884964-30-5|pages=645}}</ref>
*  1873   &ndash; [[Adolph Zukor]], Hungarian-American film producer, co-founded [[Paramount Pictures]] (d. 1976)<ref>{{cite book|title=American Hebrew and Jewish Tribune|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KOtNAAAAYAAJ|year=1937|publisher=American Hebrew|page=173}}</ref>
*[[1875]] &ndash; [[Gustav Flatow]], German gymnast (d. 1945)<ref>{{cite book|author=Joseph M. Siegman|title=The International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Qpiphgls99IC&pg=PA122|year=1992|publisher=SP Books|isbn=978-1-56171-028-7|pages=122}}</ref>
*[[1876]] &ndash; [[William Hurlstone]], English pianist and composer (d. 1906)<ref>{{cite book|author=Arthur Eaglefield Hull|title=Music, Classical, Romantic & Modern|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4W0zAAAAIAAJ|year=1927|publisher=J. M. Dent & sons Limited|page=386}}</ref>
*[[1877]] &ndash; [[William Clarence Matthews]], American baseball player, coach, and lawyer (d. 1928)<ref>{{cite book|author=Frank Lincoln Mather|title=Who's who of the Colored Race: A General Biographical Dictionary of Men and Women of African Descent; Vol. 1|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tWTXAAAAMAAJ|year=1915|page=186|isbn=9780598610218 }}</ref>
*[[1889]] &ndash; [[Vera de Bosset]], Russian-American ballerina (d. 1982)<ref>In "Stravinsky: Discoveries and Memories" (Craft, Robert, Naxos Books, 2013, {{ISBN|978-1-84379-753-1}}, p. 154), Robert Craft recalls that "after an emotionally and physically exhausting day...Vera abruptly announced that she could not keep up, and that she was four years older than the dates on her passport."  This would mean her true birth date was 1/7/1885, and her age at death 97.</ref>
*[[1890]] &ndash; [[Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson]], American soldier, pulp magazine writer, and pioneer of the American comic book (d. 1965)<ref>{{cite book|last=Wheeler-Nicholson|first=Nicky|chapter=Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson|title=Comics Through Time: A History of Icons, Idols, and Ideas. Vol. 4|editor-last=Booker|editor-first=M. Keith|location=Santa Barbara, Calif.|publisher=Greenwood Press|date=2014|isbn=9780313397509|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jxfOEAAAQBAJ|page=417}}</ref>
*[[1891]] &ndash; [[Zora Neale Hurston]], American novelist, short story writer, and folklorist (d. 1960)<ref>{{cite book|author=Jennifer L. Lord|title="De inside meaning of words": dialogic selves in the autobiography of Zora Neale Hurston|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KMRbAAAAMAAJ|year=2001|publisher=University of Wisconsin--Madison|page=7}}</ref>
*[[1895]] &ndash; [[Hudson Fysh]], Australian pilot and businessman, co-founded [[Qantas|Qantas Airways Limited]] (d. 1974)<ref>{{cite book|title=100 Famous Australian Lives|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VFwZAAAAIAAJ|year=1969|publisher=Hamlyn|page=402}}</ref>
*[[1898]] &ndash; [[Al Bowlly]], Mozambican-English singer-songwriter (disputed;<ref>{{cite book|author=Ray Pallett|title=They Called Him Al: The Musical Life of Al Bowlly|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jPNLCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT279|year=2010|publisher=BearManor Media|pages=279}}</ref> d. 1941)
*[[1899]] &ndash; [[Francis Poulenc]], French pianist and composer (d. 1963)<ref>{{cite book|author=Mark Morris|title=A guide to 20th-century composers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ph8KAQAAMAAJ|date=4 November 1996|publisher=Methuen|isbn=978-0-413-45601-4|page=153}}</ref>
*  1899   &ndash; [[F. Orlin Tremaine]], American magazine executive, writer, and magazine editor (''[[Astounding Stories]]'') (d. 1956)<ref>{{cite book|last=Ashley|first=Michael|title=The History of the Science Fiction Magazine|location=London|publisher=New English Library|date=1974|isbn=9780450021824|page=38|postscript=none}}; {{cite news|title=F. Orlin Tremaine, Editor, Publisher|work=The New York Times|date=October 24, 1956|page=36}}</ref>
*[[1900]] &ndash; [[John Brownlee (baritone)|John Brownlee]], Australian actor and singer (d. 1969)<ref>{{cite book|author1=Barbara Mackenzie|author2=Thomas Findlay Mackenzie|title=Singers of Australia: From Melba to Sutherland|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9r0iAAAAMAAJ|year=1967|publisher=Lansdowne|page=117}}</ref>