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===1601–1900===
*[[1601]] &ndash; [[Robert Wallop]], English politician (d. 1667)
*[[1620]] &ndash; [[Nikolaes Heinsius the Elder]], Dutch poet and scholar (d. 1681)
*[[1649]] &ndash; [[William Bentinck, 1st Earl of Portland]] (d. 1709)
*[[1754]] &ndash; [[Antoine Destutt de Tracy]], French philosopher and academic (d. 1836)
*[[1757]] &ndash; [[Garsevan Chavchavadze]], Georgian politician and diplomat (d. 1811)
*[[1762]] &ndash; [[Jakob Haibel]], Austrian tenor and composer (d. 1826)
*[[1774]] &ndash; [[Auguste de Marmont]], French general (d. 1852)
*[[1789]] &ndash; [[Mahmud II]], Ottoman sultan (d. 1839)
*[[1804]] &ndash; [[Richard Owen]], English biologist, anatomist, and paleontologist (d. 1892)
*[[1816]] &ndash; [[Sir William Bowman]], English surgeon, histologist and anatomist. (d. 1892)<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=25305 |date=4 January 1884 |page=78}}</ref>
*[[1822]] &ndash; [[Gregor Mendel]], Austro-German monk, geneticist and botanist (d. 1884)
*[[1838]] &ndash; [[Augustin Daly]], American playwright and manager (d. 1899)
*[[1830]] &ndash; [[Clements Markham]], English explorer (d. 1916)<ref>{{cite book|last = Markham|first = A. H.|date = 1917|chapter = Childhood and school-days|title = The Life of Sir Clements R. Markham, K.C.B., F.R.S.|chapter-url = https://archive.org/details/lifeofsirclement00markiala|location = London|publisher = John Murray|quote = He was the son of William Markham, of Becca Hall, Aberford, and the grandson of Dr. William Markham, who was Archbishop of York from 1777 to 1807.}}</ref>
*  1838   &ndash; [[William Paine Lord]], American lawyer and politician, 9th [[Governor of Oregon]] (d. 1911)
*  1838   &ndash; [[Sir George Trevelyan, 2nd Baronet]], English civil servant and politician, [[Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster]] (d. 1928)
*[[1847]] &ndash; [[Max Liebermann]], German painter and academic (d. 1935)
*[[1849]] &ndash; [[Robert Anderson Van Wyck]], American lawyer and politician, 91st [[Mayor of New York City]] (d. 1918)
*[[1852]] &ndash; [[Theo Heemskerk]], Dutch lawyer and politician, [[Prime Minister of the Netherlands]] (d. 1932)
*[[1854]] &ndash; [[Philomène Belliveau]], Canadian artist (d. 1940)
*[[1864]] &ndash; [[Erik Axel Karlfeldt]], Swedish poet, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. 1931)
*  1864   &ndash; [[Ruggero Oddi]],  Italian physiologist and anatomist (d. 1913)
*[[1868]] &ndash; [[Miron Cristea]], Romanian cleric and politician, 38th [[Prime Minister of Romania]] (d. 1939)
*[[1873]] &ndash; [[Alberto Santos-Dumont]], Brazilian pilot (d. 1932)
*[[1876]] &ndash; [[Otto Blumenthal]], German mathematician and academic (d. 1944)
*[[1877]] &ndash; [[Tom Crean (explorer)|Tom Crean]], Irish sailor and explorer (d. 1938)
*[[1882]] &ndash; [[Olga Hahn-Neurath]], Austrian mathematician and philosopher (d. 1937)
*[[1889]] &ndash; [[John Reith, 1st Baron Reith]], Scottish broadcaster, co-founded [[BBC]] (d. 1971)
*[[1890]] &ndash; [[Verna Felton]], American actress (d. 1966)
*  1890   &ndash; [[Julie Vinter Hansen]], Danish-Swiss astronomer and academic (d. 1960)
*  1890   &ndash; [[Giorgio Morandi]], Italian painter (d. 1964)    
*[[1893]] &ndash; [[George Llewelyn Davies]], English soldier (d. 1915)
*[[1895]] &ndash; [[László Moholy-Nagy]], Hungarian painter, photographer, and sculptor (d. 1946)
*[[1897]] &ndash; [[Tadeusz Reichstein]], Polish-Swiss chemist and academic, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. 1996)
*[[1900]] &ndash; [[Maurice Leyland]], English cricketer and coach (d. 1967)