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===1601–1900===
*[[1612]] &ndash; [[Frans Post]], Dutch painter (d. 1680)
*[[1633]] &ndash; [[Geminiano Montanari]], Italian astronomer and academic (d. 1687)
*[[1637]] &ndash; [[Jacques Marquette]], French missionary and explorer (d. 1675)
*[[1653]] &ndash; [[Georg Muffat]], French organist and composer (d. 1704)
*[[1675]] &ndash; [[Francesco Scipione, marchese di Maffei]], Italian archaeologist and playwright (d. 1755)
*[[1762]] &ndash; [[Edmund Ignatius Rice]], Irish priest and missionary, founded the [[Irish Christian Brothers]] (d. 1844)
*[[1765]] &ndash; [[Christiane Vulpius]], mistress and wife of [[Johann Wolfgang Goethe]] (d. 1816)<ref>{{cite book|title=The Life of Goethe|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eenWqWMU-zIC&pg=PA444|year=1864|publisher=Ardent Media|pages=444}}</ref>
*[[1770]] &ndash; [[Friedrich Laun]], German author (d. 1849)
*[[1790]] &ndash; [[Ferdinand Raimund]], Austrian actor and playwright (d. 1836)
*[[1796]] &ndash; [[Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot]], French physicist and engineer (d. 1832)
*[[1800]] &ndash; [[Edward Deas Thomson]], Australian educator and politician, [[Chief Secretary of New South Wales]] (d. 1879)
*[[1801]] &ndash; [[Brigham Young]], American religious leader, 2nd [[President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]] (d. 1877)<ref>{{cite book|author=Leah Eudora Dunford Widtsoe|title=The Life Story of Brigham Young|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h81LAAAAMAAJ|year=1930|publisher=Macmillan|page=xxii|isbn=9780836958867}}</ref>
*[[1804]] &ndash; [[Mikhail Glinka]], Russian composer (d. 1857)<ref>{{cite book|title=BBC Music Magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Zho9AQAAIAAJ|year=1997|publisher=BBC magazines|page=44}}</ref>
*[[1808]] &ndash; [[Henry Parker (Australian politician)|Henry Parker]], English-Australian politician, 3rd [[Premier of New South Wales]] (d. 1881)
*[[1815]] &ndash; [[Otto of Greece]] (d. 1862)<ref>{{cite EB1911|wstitle=Otto|volume=20|page=372}}</ref>
*[[1819]] &ndash; [[Francis V, Duke of Modena]] (d. 1875)
*[[1822]] &ndash; [[Clementina Maude, Viscountess Hawarden]], English portrait photographer (d. 1865)
*[[1825]] &ndash; [[John Hunt Morgan]], American general (d. 1864)<ref>{{cite book|author=Basil Wilson Duke|title=Morgan's Cavalry|url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924030921542|year=1906|publisher=Neale Publishing Company|page=[https://archive.org/details/cu31924030921542/page/n21 14]}}</ref>
*[[1831]] &ndash; [[John Bell Hood]], American general (d. 1879)
*[[1833]] &ndash; [[John Marshall Harlan]], American lawyer, [[Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States|associate justice]] of the [[Supreme Court of the United States|U.S. Supreme Court]], and politician; [[Attorney General of Kentucky]] (d. 1911)
*[[1843]] &ndash; [[Henry Faulds]], Scottish physician and missionary, developed [[fingerprinting]] (d. 1930)
*[[1869]] &ndash; [[Richard Wünsch]], German philologist (d. 1915)
*[[1873]] &ndash; [[Elena Alistar]], Bessarabian politician (d. 1955)
*[[1874]] &ndash; [[Yury Nikolaevich Voronov]], Russian botanist (d. 1931)
*[[1878]] &ndash; [[John Masefield]], English author and poet (d. 1967)
*1878 – [[Sam Dreben]], American soldier and mercenary (d. 1925)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Sam Dreben: Fighting Jew - Forgotten Hero |url=http://www.worldwar1.com/dbc/dreben.htm |archive-url=https://archive.is/xnYgl |archive-date=January 5, 2013 |access-date=2025-05-15 |website=www.worldwar1.com}}</ref>
*[[1879]] &ndash; [[Max Emmerich]], American triathlete and gymnast (d. 1956)
*[[1887]] &ndash; [[Clive Brook]], English actor (d. 1974)
*[[1889]] &ndash; [[Charles Kay Ogden]], English linguist and philosopher (d. 1957)
*[[1890]] &ndash; [[Frank Morgan]], American actor (d. 1949)
*[[1892]] &ndash; [[Amanullah Khan]], sovereign of the [[Kingdom of Afghanistan]], (d. 1960)
*[[1896]] &ndash; [[Sydney Kyte]], British bandleader (d. 1981)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Sydney Kyte Songs, Albums, Reviews, Bio & More... |url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/sydney-kyte-mn0001443279 |access-date=2024-11-28 |website=[[AllMusic]] |language=en}}</ref>