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===1601–1900===
*[[1606]] &ndash; [[William Dugard]], English printer (d. 1662)<ref>{{cite book|author=Matthew J. Bruccoli|title=British Rhetoricians and Logicians, 1500-1660: Second series|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e9EUAQAAIAAJ|year=2003|publisher=Gale Group|isbn=978-0-7876-6025-3|page=78|access-date=2020-07-30|archive-date=2023-07-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230725121042/https://books.google.com/books?id=e9EUAQAAIAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1624]] &ndash; [[Empress Meishō]] of Japan (d. 1696)<ref>{{cite book|author1=John E. Lane|author2=Stanleigh H. Jones|title=Researches in the social sciences on Japan: essays and abstracts|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9uoDAQAAIAAJ|year=1957|publisher=Reproduced for private distribution by the East Asian Institute of Columbia University|page=22}}</ref>
*[[1645]] &ndash; [[Sir William Villiers, 3rd Baronet]], English noble and politician (date baptized;<ref>A.A. Hanham, 'Villiers, Sir William, 3rd Bt. (1645-1712), of Brooksby Hall, Leics.', in D. Hayton, E. Cruickshanks and S. Handley (eds), ''The History of Parliament: The House of Commons 1690-1715'' (from Boydell and Brewer, 2002), [https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1690-1715/member/villiers-sir-william-1645-1712 History of Parliament Online].</ref> d. 1712)
*[[1674]] &ndash; [[Reinhard Keiser]], German composer (d. 1739)<ref>{{cite book|author1=John Warrack|author2=Ewan West|title=The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera|url=https://archive.org/details/conciseoxforddic00warr|url-access=registration|date=7 March 1996|publisher=Oxford University Press, USA|isbn=978-0-19-280028-2|pages=[https://archive.org/details/conciseoxforddic00warr/page/261 261]}}</ref>
*[[1685]] &ndash; [[Tiberius Hemsterhuis]], Dutch philologist and critic (d. 1766)<ref>{{cite book|title=Chamber's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rPdMAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA308|year=1871|publisher=W & R Chambers|pages=308}}</ref>
*[[1728]] &ndash; [[Thomas Warton]], English poet, historian, and critic (d. 1790)
*[[1735]] &ndash; [[John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent]], English admiral and politician (d. 1823)
*[[1745]] &ndash; [[Caleb Strong]], American lawyer and politician, 6th [[Governor of Massachusetts]] (d. 1819)
*[[1753]] &ndash; [[Luísa Todi]], Portuguese soprano and actress (d. 1833)<ref>{{cite book|author=Randel Don|title=The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jEGpMqRcQjIC&pg=PA920|year=1996|publisher=Harvard University Press|isbn=978-0-674-37299-3|pages=920}}</ref>
*[[1773]] &ndash; [[Cassandra Austen]], English painter and illustrator (d. 1845)<ref>{{cite book|author=Paul Poplawski|title=A Jane Austen Encyclopedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hW-OXDSc3rAC&pg=PA57|year=1998|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-30017-2|pages=57}}</ref>
*[[1778]] &ndash; [[Hammamizade İsmail Dede Efendi]], Turkish [[Ney]] player and composer (d. 1846)<ref>{{cite book|author=Mohamed el Fers|title=Mevlana Rumi|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lSrUj_7tW-AC&pg=PA244|year=1992|publisher=Mohamed el-Fers|isbn=978-90-5330-049-7|pages=244}}</ref>
*[[1811]] &ndash; [[Gilbert Abbott à Beckett]], English journalist and author (d. 1856)
*[[1818]] &ndash; [[Antoine Samuel Adam-Salomon]], French sculptor and photographer (d. 1881)
*[[1819]] &ndash; [[James Francis (politician)|James Francis]], English-Australian businessman and politician, 9th [[Premier of Victoria]] (d. 1884)
*[[1822]] &ndash; [[Carol Benesch]], Czech-Romanian architect, designed the [[Peleș Castle]] (d. 1896)
*[[1823]] &ndash; [[Friedrich von Esmarch]], German surgeon and academic (d. 1908)
*[[1829]] &ndash; [[Thomas William Robertson]], English director and playwright (d. 1871)
*  1829 &ndash; [[Adolf Schlagintweit]], German botanist and explorer (d. 1857)
*[[1832]] &ndash; [[Félix-Gabriel Marchand]], Canadian journalist and politician, 11th [[Premier of Quebec]] (d. 1900)
*[[1839]] &ndash; [[John Knowles Paine]], American composer and academic (d. 1906)
*[[1848]] &ndash; [[Princess Frederica of Hanover]] (d. 1926)<ref>{{cite book|title=Dod's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, of Great Britain and Ireland, for ...: Including All the Titled Classes|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_wEdAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA75|year=1855|publisher=S. Low, Marston & Company|pages=75}}</ref>
*[[1849]] &ndash; [[John Hartley (tennis)|John Hartley]], English tennis player (d. 1935)
*[[1854]] &ndash; [[Lady Randolph Churchill|Jennie Jerome]], American-born wife of [[Lord Randolph Churchill]], mother of Sir [[Winston Churchill]] (d. 1921)<ref>G. H. L. Le May, "Churchill, Jeanette [Lady Randolph Churchill] (1854–1921)", rev. ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004; online ed., May 2006, accessed 18 September 2010</ref> 
*[[1856]] &ndash; [[Anton Aškerc]], Slovenian priest and poet (d. 1912)
*[[1859]] &ndash; [[Carrie Chapman Catt]], American activist, founded the [[League of Women Voters]] and [[International Alliance of Women]] (d. 1947)<ref>{{cite book|editor-first=Edward T.|editor-last=James|title=Notable American Women, 1607-1950: A Biographical Dictionary|volume=1|year=1971|isbn=978-0-67462-734-5|page=309|publisher=Harvard University Press }}</ref>
*[[1864]] &ndash; [[Vladimir Steklov (mathematician)|Vladimir Steklov]], Russian mathematician and physicist (d. 1926)
*[[1868]] &ndash; [[S. P. L. Sørensen]], Danish chemist and academic (d. 1939)<ref>{{cite book|author1=Heinz Holter|author2=K. Max Møller|author3=Carlsbergfondet|title=The Carlsberg Laboratory, 1876/1976|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iq4LAQAAIAAJ|year=1976|publisher=Carlsberg Foundation : Rhodos|isbn=978-87-7496-539-8|page=63}}</ref>
*[[1870]] &ndash; [[Joseph Strauss (engineer)|Joseph Strauss]], American engineer, co-designed the [[Golden Gate Bridge]] (d. 1938)
*[[1873]] &ndash; [[Hayim Nahman Bialik]], Ukrainian-Austrian journalist, author, and poet (d. 1934)
*  1873 &ndash; [[Thomas Curtis (athlete)|Thomas Curtis]], American sprinter and hurdler (d. 1944)
*  1873 &ndash; [[John Flanagan (hammer thrower)|John Flanagan]], Irish-American hammer thrower (d. 1938)
*[[1875]] &ndash; [[Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney]], American sculptor and art collector, founded the [[Whitney Museum of American Art]] (d. 1942)<ref>{{cite book|author1=Frank Northen Magill|author2=Alison Aves|title=Dictionary of World Biography: The 20th century, O-Z|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uiQAaGgOChIC&pg=PA3969|date=November 1999|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-57958-048-3|pages=3969|access-date=2020-10-27|archive-date=2023-10-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231004045422/https://books.google.com/books?id=uiQAaGgOChIC&pg=PA3969#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1879]] &ndash; [[John B. Watson]], American psychologist and academic (d. 1958)
*[[1881]] &ndash; [[Lascelles Abercrombie]], English poet and critic (d. 1938)
*  1881 &ndash; [[Giovanni Papini]], Italian journalist, author, and poet (d. 1956)
*[[1885]] &ndash; [[Charles Bacon]], American runner and hurdler (d. 1968)
*[[1886]] &ndash; [[Lloyd Loar]], American sound engineer and instrument designer (d. 1943)
*[[1889]] &ndash; [[Vrindavan Lal Verma]], Indian author and playwright (d. 1969)
*[[1890]] &ndash; [[Karel Čapek]], Czech author and playwright (d. 1938)<ref>{{cite book|author1=O. Classe|author2=[Anonymus AC02468681]|title=Encyclopedia of Literary Translation Into English: A-L|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=myLDA0_brhcC&pg=PA227|year=2000|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-884964-36-7|pages=227}}</ref>
*  1890 &ndash; [[Kurt Tucholsky]], German-Swedish journalist and author (d. 1935)
*[[1892]] &ndash; [[Eva Bowring]], American lawyer and politician (d. 1985)
*[[1893]] &ndash; [[Edwin Baker (CNIB)|Edwin Baker]], Canadian soldier and educator, co-founded the [[Canadian National Institute for the Blind]] (d. 1968)
*[[1896]] &ndash; [[Warwick Braithwaite]], New Zealand-English conductor and director (d. 1971)
*[[1897]] &ndash; [[Karl Löwith]], German philosopher, author, and academic (d. 1973)
*  1897 &ndash; [[Halyna Kuzmenko]], Ukrainian teacher and anarchist revolutionary (d. 1978)<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Patterson |first1=Sean |title=[[Makhno and Memory: Anarchist and Mennonite Narratives of Ukraine's Civil War, 1917–1921]] |year=2020 |language=en |isbn=978-0-88755-578-7 |oclc=1134608930 |location=[[Manitoba]] |publisher=[[University of Manitoba Press]] |pages=35–36}}</ref>
*[[1898]] &ndash; [[Gracie Fields]], English actress and singer (d. 1979)<ref>{{cite book|author1=Terry Wyke|author2=Harry Cocks|title=Public Sculpture of Greater Manchester|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mFOhWSH9B6wC&pg=PA326|year=2004|publisher=Liverpool University Press|isbn=978-0-85323-567-5|pages=326}}</ref>
*[[1899]] &ndash; [[Harald Tammer]], Estonian journalist and weightlifter (d. 1942)
*[[1900]] &ndash; [[Richard Halliburton]], American journalist and author (d. 1939)