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===1601–1900===
*[[1621]] &ndash; [[Jean de La Fontaine]], French author and poet (d. 1695)<ref>{{cite book|author=Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley|title=Montaigne, Rabelais, Corneille, Rochefoucauld, Moliere, La Fontaine, Pascal, Madame De Sévigné, Boileau, Racine, Fénélon|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tSzBJGDQuJMC&pg=PA165|year=1840|publisher=Lea and Blanchard|pages=165}}</ref>
*[[1760]] &ndash; [[Christian Kramp]], French mathematician and academic (d. 1826)
*[[1766]] &ndash; [[Dominique Jean Larrey]], French surgeon (d. 1842)
*[[1779]] &ndash; [[Giorgio Pullicino]], Maltese painter and architect (d. 1851)
*[[1819]] &ndash; [[Francis Leopold McClintock]], Irish admiral and explorer (d. 1907)
*[[1830]] &ndash; [[Frederick W. Seward]], American lawyer and politician, 6th [[United States Assistant Secretary of State]] (d. 1915)
*[[1831]] &ndash; [[John Pemberton]], American chemist and pharmacist, invented [[Coca-Cola]] (d. 1888)
*[[1836]] &ndash; [[Joseph Chamberlain]], English businessman and politician, [[Secretary of State for the Colonies]] (d. 1914)
*[[1838]] &ndash; [[Eli Lilly]], American soldier, chemist, and businessman, founded [[Eli Lilly and Company]] (d. 1898)
*  1838   &ndash; [[Ferdinand von Zeppelin]], German general and businessman, founded the [[Zeppelin|Zeppelin Airship Company]] (d. 1917)
*[[1839]] &ndash; [[John D. Rockefeller]], American businessman and philanthropist, founded the [[Standard Oil Company]] (d. 1937)
*[[1851]] &ndash; [[Arthur Evans]], English archaeologist and academic (d. 1941)
*  1851   &ndash; [[John Murray (Victorian politician)|John Murray]], Australian politician, 23rd [[Premier of Victoria]] (d. 1916)
*[[1857]] &ndash; [[Alfred Binet]], French psychologist and graphologist (d. 1911)
*[[1867]] &ndash; [[Käthe Kollwitz]], German painter and sculptor (d. 1945)
*[[1876]] &ndash; [[Alexandros Papanastasiou]], Greek sociologist and politician, [[Prime Minister of Greece]] (d. 1936)
*[[1882]] &ndash; [[Percy Grainger]], Australian-American pianist and composer (d. 1961)
*[[1885]] &ndash; [[Ernst Bloch]], German philosopher, author, and academic (d. 1977)
*  1885   &ndash; [[Hugo Boss (fashion designer)|Hugo Boss]], German fashion designer, founded [[Hugo Boss]] (d. 1948)
*[[1890]] &ndash; [[Stanton Macdonald-Wright]], American painter (d. 1973)
*[[1892]] &ndash; [[Richard Aldington]], English author and poet (d. 1962)
*  1892   &ndash; [[Pavel Korin]], Russian painter (d. 1967)
*[[1893]] &ndash; [[R. Carlyle Buley]], American historian and author (d. 1968)
*[[1894]] &ndash; [[Pyotr Kapitsa]], Russian physicist and academic, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. 1984)
*[[1895]] &ndash; [[Igor Tamm]], Russian physicist and academic, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. 1971)
*[[1898]] &ndash; [[Melville Ruick]], American actor (d. 1972)
*[[1900]] &ndash; [[George Antheil]], American pianist, composer, and author (d. 1959)