Editing July 22 (section)

===1601–1900===
*[[1615]] &ndash; [[Marguerite of Lorraine]], princess of Lorraine, duchess of Orléans (d. 1672)
*[[1618]] &ndash; [[Johan Nieuhof]], Dutch traveler (d. 1672)
*[[1621]] &ndash; [[Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury]], English politician, [[Lord Chancellor|Lord Chancellor of the United Kingdom]] (d. 1683)
*[[1630]] &ndash; [[Madame de Brinvilliers]], French aristocrat (d. 1676)
*[[1647]] &ndash; [[Margaret Mary Alacoque]], French nun, mystic and saint (d. 1690)
*[[1651]] &ndash; [[Ferdinand Tobias Richter]], Austrian organist and composer (d. 1711)
*[[1711]] &ndash; [[Georg Wilhelm Richmann]], German-Russian physicist and academic (d. 1753)
*[[1713]] &ndash; [[Jacques-Germain Soufflot]], French architect, designed the [[Panthéon]] (d. 1780)
*[[1733]] &ndash; [[Mikhail Shcherbatov]], Russian philosopher and historian (d. 1790)
*[[1755]] &ndash; [[Gaspard de Prony]], French mathematician and engineer (d. 1839)
*[[1784]] &ndash; [[Friedrich Bessel]], German mathematician and astronomer (d. 1846)
*[[1820]] &ndash; [[Oliver Mowat]], Canadian politician, 3rd [[Premier of Ontario]], 8th [[Lieutenant Governor of Ontario]] (d. 1903)<ref>{{cite DCB |last=Romney |first=Paul |title=Mowat, Sir Oliver |volume=13 |url=http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/mowat_oliver_13E.html}}</ref>
*[[1839]] &ndash; [[Jakob Hurt]], Estonian theologist and linguist (d. 1907)
*[[1844]] &ndash; [[William Archibald Spooner]], English priest and scholar (d. 1930)
*[[1848]] &ndash; [[Adolphus Frederick V, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz]] (d. 1914)
*[[1849]] &ndash; [[Emma Lazarus]], American poet and educator (d. 1887)
*[[1856]] &ndash; [[Octave Hamelin]], French philosopher (d. 1907)
*[[1862]] &ndash; [[Cosmo Duff-Gordon]], Scottish fencer (d. 1931)
*[[1863]] &ndash; [[Alec Hearne]], English cricketer (d. 1952)
*[[1878]] &ndash; [[Janusz Korczak]], Polish pediatrician and author (d. 1942)
*[[1881]] &ndash; [[Augusta Fox Bronner]], American psychologist, specialist in juvenile psychology (d. 1966)
*[[1882]] &ndash; [[Edward Hopper]], American painter and etcher (d. 1967)
*[[1884]] &ndash; [[Odell Shepard]], American poet and politician, 66th [[Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut]] (d. 1967)
*[[1886]] &ndash; [[Hella Wuolijoki]], Estonian-Finnish author (d. 1954)
*[[1887]] &ndash; [[Gustav Ludwig Hertz]], German physicist and academic, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. 1975)
*[[1888]] &ndash; [[Kirk Bryan (geologist)|Kirk Bryan]], American geologist and academic (d. 1950)
*  1888   &ndash; [[Selman Waksman]], Jewish-American biochemist and microbiologist, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. 1973)
*[[1889]] &ndash; [[James Whale]], English director (d. 1957)
*[[1890]] &ndash; [[Rose Kennedy]], American philanthropist (d. 1995)
*[[1892]] &ndash; [[Jack MacBryan]], English cricketer and field hockey player (d. 1983)
*[[1893]] &ndash; [[Jesse Haines]], American baseball player and coach (d. 1978)
*  1893   &ndash; [[Karl Menninger]], American psychiatrist and author (d. 1990)
*[[1895]] &ndash; [[León de Greiff]], Colombian poet, journalist, and diplomat (d. 1976)
*[[1898]] &ndash; [[Stephen Vincent Benét]], American poet, short story writer, and novelist (d. 1943)
*[[1899]] &ndash; [[Sobhuza II]] of Swaziland (d. 1982)