Editing March 17 (section)

===1601–1900===
*[[1611]] &ndash; [[Robert Douglas, Count of Skenninge]], Swedish field marshal (d. 1662)
*[[1665]] &ndash; [[Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre]], French [[harpsichord]] player and composer (d. 1729)<ref>{{cite book|first=Cecelia|last=Hopkins Porter|title=Five Lives in Music: Women Performers, Composers, and Impresarios from the Baroque to the Present|location=Urbana|publisher=University of Illinois Press|year=2014|isbn=978-0-25208-009-8|page=53}}</ref>
*[[1676]] &ndash; [[Thomas Boston]], Scottish philosopher and theologian (d. 1732)
*[[1686]] &ndash; [[Jean-Baptiste Oudry]], French painter and engraver (d. 1755)
*[[1725]] &ndash; [[Lachlan McIntosh]], Scottish-American general and politician (d. 1806)
*[[1777]] &ndash; [[Patrick Brontë]], Irish-English priest and author (d. 1861)
*  1777   &ndash; [[Roger B. Taney]], American politician and jurist, 5th [[Chief Justice of the United States]] (d. 1864)
*[[1780]] &ndash; [[Thomas Chalmers]], Scottish minister, economist, and educator (d. 1847)
*[[1781]] &ndash; [[Ebenezer Elliott]], English poet and educator (d. 1849)
*[[1804]] &ndash; [[Jim Bridger]], American fur trader and explorer (d. 1881)
*[[1806]] &ndash; [[Norbert Rillieux]], African American inventor and chemical engineer (d. 1894)
*[[1820]] &ndash; [[Jean Ingelow]], English poet and author (d. 1897){{sfn|Shattock|1993|page=225}}
*[[1834]] &ndash; [[Gottlieb Daimler]], German engineer and businessman, co-founded [[Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft]] (d. 1900)
*[[1839]] &ndash; [[Josef Rheinberger]], Liechtensteiner-German organist and composer (d. 1901)
*[[1842]] &ndash; [[Rosina Heikel]], Finnish [[physician]] (d. 1929)<ref>{{cite book|first=Arvid|last=Bernce|title=Efter 1809 en Krönika i ord och bild om Finlandssvenskarna|location=Helsingfors|publisher=Bernces förlag|year=1981|page=2003|isbn=978-9-15000-408-3|language=SV}}</ref>
*[[1846]] &ndash; [[Kate Greenaway]], English author and illustrator (d. 1901){{sfn|Shattock|1993|page=189}}
*[[1849]] &ndash; [[Charles F. Brush]], American businessman and philanthropist, co-invented the [[Arc lamp]] (d. 1929)
*  1849   &ndash; [[Cornelia Clapp]], American marine biologist (d. 1934)<ref>{{cite book|first=Moira Davison|last=Reynolds|title=American Women Scientists: 23 Inspiring Biographies, 1900-2000|location=Jefferson NC|publisher=McFarland|year=2004|page=5|isbn=978-0-78642-161-9}}</ref>
*[[1856]] &ndash; [[Mikhail Vrubel]], Russian painter (d. 1910)
*[[1862]] &ndash; [[Martha P. Falconer]], American social reformer (d. 1941)<ref>''U.S. Passport Applications, 1795-1925''</ref>
*1862 &ndash; [[Silvio Gesell]], Belgian merchant and economist (d. 1930)
*[[1864]] &ndash; [[Joseph Baptista]], Indian engineer, lawyer, and politician (d. 1930)
*[[1866]] &ndash; [[Pierce Butler (justice)|Pierce Butler]], American lawyer and jurist (d. 1939)
*[[1867]] &ndash; [[Patrice Contamine de Latour]], Spanish poet (d. 1926)
*[[1877]] &ndash; [[Edith New]], English militant suffragette (d. 1951)<ref>{{cite ODNB|first=Frances|last=Bevan|title=New, Edith Bessie|doi=10.1093/odnb/9780198614128.013.56249}}</ref>
*  1877   &ndash; [[Otto Gross]], Austrian-German psychoanalyst and philosopher (d. 1920)
*  1877   &ndash; [[Ville Kiviniemi]], Finnish politician (d. 1951)<ref>{{cite web |title=Kansanedustajat: Ville Kiviniemi |url=https://www.eduskunta.fi/FI/kansanedustajat/Sivut/910748.aspx |publisher=[[Parliament of Finland]] |access-date=13 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190315165100/https://www.eduskunta.fi/FI/kansanedustajat/Sivut/910748.aspx |archive-date=15 March 2019 |location=Helsinki, Finland |language=fi}}</ref>
*[[1880]] &ndash; [[Patrick Hastings]], English lawyer and politician, [[Attorney General for England and Wales]] (d. 1952)
*  1880   &ndash; [[Lawrence Oates]], English lieutenant and explorer (d. 1912)
*[[1881]] &ndash; [[Walter Rudolf Hess]], Swiss physiologist and academic, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. 1973)
*[[1884]] &ndash; [[Alcide Nunez]], American clarinet player (d. 1934)
*[[1885]] &ndash; [[Ralph Rose]], American track and field athlete (d. 1913)
*[[1886]] &ndash; [[Princess Patricia of Connaught]] (d. 1974)
*[[1888]] &ndash; [[Paul Ramadier]], French lawyer and politician, [[Prime Minister of France]] (d. 1961)
*[[1889]] &ndash; [[Harry Clarke]], Irish stained-glass artist and book illustrator (d. 1931)
*[[1891]] &ndash; [[Ross McLarty]], Australian politician, 17th [[Premier of Western Australia]] (d. 1962)<ref>''[http://www.ccentre.wa.gov.au/ExhibitionsOnline/GovernorsAndPremiers/Premiers/Pages/Mclarty.aspx Duncan Ross McLarty (Liberal) 1 April 1947 to 23 February 1953]'' Constitutional Centre of Western Australia</ref>
*[[1892]] &ndash; [[Floyd B. Barnum]], American college football coach (d. 1965)<ref name="CBisFBB1">Staff (September 15, 1921). [https://www.newspapers.com/image/?clipping_id=75378739 "Jamestown College Fall Semester Begins Sept. 20"]. ''Jamestown Weekly Alert''. Retrieved April 9, 2021.</ref><ref name="CBisFBB2">Staff (September 24, 1921). [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/75368158/the-bismarck-tribune/ "27 Men Are Out at Jamestown"]. ''The Bismarck Tribune''. Retrieved April 9, 2021.</ref><ref name="CBisFBB3">Staff (October 8, 1921). [https://www.newspapers.com/image/?clipping_id=75379507 "Jamestown Will Play Here Today"]. ''Grand Forks Herald''. Retrieved April 9, 2021.</ref><ref>[https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JBVS-1WB United States Social Security Death Index]. [[FamilySearch]]. Retrieved April 9, 2021.</ref>
*  1892   &ndash; [[Sayed Darwish]], Egyptian singer-songwriter and producer (d. 1923)
*[[1894]] &ndash; [[Paul Green (playwright)|Paul Green]], American playwright and academic (d. 1981)
*[[1895]] &ndash; [[Lloyd Rees]], Australian painter (d. 1988)
*[[1900]] &ndash; [[Alfred Newman (composer)|Alfred Newman]], American composer and conductor (d. 1970)