Editing July 9 (section)

===1601–1900===
*[[1654]] &ndash; [[Emperor Reigen]] of Japan (d. 1732)
*[[1686]] &ndash; [[Philip Livingston (1686–1749)|Philip Livingston]], American merchant and politician (d. 1749)
*[[1689]] &ndash; [[Alexis Piron]], French epigrammatist and playwright (d. 1773)
*[[1721]] &ndash; [[Johann Nikolaus Götz]], German poet and author (d. 1781)
*[[1753]] &ndash; [[William Waldegrave, 1st Baron Radstock]], English admiral and politician, 34th [[Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland]] (d. 1825)
*[[1764]] &ndash; [[Ann Radcliffe|Ann Ward]], English author and poet (d. 1823)<ref>{{cite book | last=Miles | first=Robert | title=Ann Radcliffe: The Great Enchantress | location=Manchester | publisher=Manchester University Press | year=1995 | isbn=978-0-7190-3828-0 | page=21}}</ref>
*[[1775]] &ndash; [[Matthew Lewis (writer)|Matthew Lewis]], English author and playwright (d. 1818)
*[[1777]] &ndash; [[Paavo Ruotsalainen]], Finnish farmer and lay preacher (d. 1852)<ref>[https://www.aholansaari.fi/paavo-ruotsalainen/ Paavo Ruotsalainen – Aholansaari] (in Finnish)</ref>
*[[1800]] &ndash; [[Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle]], German physician, pathologist, and anatomist (d. 1885)
*[[1808]] &ndash; [[Alexander William Doniphan]], American lawyer and colonel (d. 1887)
*[[1819]] &ndash; [[Elias Howe]], American inventor, invented the [[sewing machine]] (d. 1867)
*[[1825]] &ndash; [[A. C. Gibbs]], American lawyer and politician, 2nd [[Governor of Oregon]] (d. 1886)
*[[1828]] &ndash; [[Luigi Oreglia di Santo Stefano]], Italian cardinal (d. 1913)
*[[1834]] &ndash; [[Jan Neruda]], Czech journalist and poet (d. 1891)
*[[1836]] &ndash; [[Camille of Renesse-Breidbach]] (d. 1904)
*[[1848]] &ndash; [[Robert I, Duke of Parma]] (d. 1907)
*[[1853]] &ndash; [[William Turner Dannat]], American painter (d. 1929)
*[[1856]] &ndash; [[John Verran]], English-Australian politician, 26th [[Premier of South Australia]] (d. 1932)
*[[1858]] &ndash; [[Franz Boas]], German-American anthropologist and linguist (d. 1942)
*[[1867]] &ndash; [[Georges Lecomte]], French author and playwright (d. 1958)
*[[1879]] &ndash; [[Carlos Chagas]], Brazilian physician and parasitologist (d. 1934)
*  1879   &ndash; [[Ottorino Respighi]], Italian composer and conductor (d. 1936)
*[[1887]] &ndash; [[James Ormsbee Chapin]], American-Canadian painter and illustrator (d. 1975)
*  1887   &ndash; [[Saturnino Herrán]], Mexican painter (d. 1918)
*  1887   &ndash; [[Samuel Eliot Morison]], American admiral and historian (d. 1976)
*[[1889]] &ndash; [[Léo Dandurand]], American-Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and referee (d. 1964)
*[[1893]] &ndash; [[George Geary]], English cricketer and coach (d. 1981)