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===1601–1900===
*[[1640]] &ndash; [[Pu Songling]], Chinese author (d. 1715)
*[[1646]] &ndash; [[Elena Cornaro Piscopia]], Italian mathematician and philosopher (d. 1684)
*[[1660]] &ndash; [[Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough]] (d. 1744)
*[[1757]] &ndash; [[Pierre Jean George Cabanis]], French physiologist and philosopher (d. 1808)
*[[1760]] &ndash; [[Johan Gadolin]], Finnish chemist, physicist, and mineralogist (d. 1852)
*[[1771]] &ndash; [[Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover]] (d. 1851)<ref>{{citation |editor1-last=Gibbs |editor2-last=Doubleday |editor1-first=Vicary |editor2-first=H. A. |title=The Complete Peerage |volume=III |year=1913 |publisher=St Catherine Press |page=575 |chapter=Cumberland, Duke of}}</ref>
*[[1781]] &ndash; [[Christian Lobeck]], German scholar and academic (d. 1860)
*[[1801]] &ndash; [[William Scamp]], English architect and engineer (d. 1872)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hughes |first1=Quentin |last2=Thake |first2=Conrad |title=Malta, War & Peace: An Architectural Chronicle 1800–2000 |date=2005 |publisher=Midsea Books Ltd |isbn=9789993270553 |page=250 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=75IgAAAACAAJ}}</ref>
*[[1819]] &ndash; [[John Couch Adams]], English mathematician and astronomer (d. 1892)<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle=Adams, John Couch |volume=1 |pages=177–178}}</ref>
*[[1830]] &ndash; [[Carmine Crocco]], Italian soldier (d. 1905)
*[[1850]] &ndash; [[Pat Garrett]], American sheriff (d. 1908)
*[[1862]] &ndash; [[Allvar Gullstrand]], Swedish ophthalmologist and optician, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. 1930)
*[[1868]] &ndash; [[James Connolly]], Scottish-born Irish rebel leader (d. 1916)
*[[1870]] &ndash; [[Bernard de Pourtalès]], Swiss captain and sailor (d. 1935)
*[[1876]] &ndash; [[Isaac Heinemann]], German-Israeli scholar and academic (d. 1957)
*[[1877]] &ndash; [[Willard Miller]], Canadian-American sailor, [[Medal of Honor]] recipient (d. 1959)
*[[1878]] &ndash; [[Pancho Villa]], Mexican general and politician, [[Governor of Chihuahua]] (d. 1923)
*[[1879]] &ndash; [[Robert Mayer (philanthropist)|Robert Mayer]], German-English businessman and philanthropist (d. 1985)
*[[1883]] &ndash; [[John Maynard Keynes]], English economist, philosopher, and academic (d. 1946)
*  1883   &ndash; [[Mary Helen Young]], Scottish nurse and resistance fighter during World War II (d. 1945)<ref>{{cite ODNB |title=Young, Mary Helen (1883–1945), nurse and resistance worker |url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-73212 |year=2004 |access-date=24 August 2022 |language=en |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/73212 |isbn=978-0-19-861412-8 |last1=Watson |first1=Fiona R.}}</ref>
*[[1884]] &ndash; [[Ralph Benatzky]], Czech-Swiss composer (d. 1957)
*  1884   &ndash; [[Ivy Compton-Burnett]], English author (d. 1969)
*  1884   &ndash; [[Frederick Lorz]], American runner (d. 1914)
*[[1892]] &ndash; [[Jaan Kikkas]], Estonian weightlifter (d. 1944)
*[[1894]] &ndash; [[Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet]], Canadian-English publisher and academic (d. 1976)
*[[1895]] &ndash; [[William Boyd (actor)|William Boyd]], American actor and producer (d. 1972)
*  1895   &ndash; [[William Roberts (painter)|William Roberts]], English soldier and painter (d. 1980)
*[[1898]] &ndash; [[Salvatore Ferragamo]], Italian shoe designer, founded [[Salvatore Ferragamo S.p.A.]] (d. 1960)
*  1898   &ndash; [[Federico García Lorca]], Spanish poet, playwright, and director (d. 1936)
*[[1899]] &ndash; [[Otis Barton]], American diver, engineer, and actor, designed the [[bathysphere]] (d. 1992)
*  1899   &ndash; [[Theippan Maung Wa]], Burmese writer (d. 1942)
*[[1900]] &ndash; [[Dennis Gabor]], Hungarian-English physicist and engineer, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. 1979)