Editing March 2 (section)

===1601–1900===
*[[1628]] &ndash; [[Cornelis Speelman]], Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (d. 1684)
*[[1651]] &ndash; [[Carlo Gimach]], Maltese architect, engineer and poet (d. 1730)
*[[1705]] &ndash; [[William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield]], Scottish lawyer, judge, and politician, [[Chancellor of the Exchequer]] (d. 1793)
*[[1740]] &ndash; [[Nicholas Pocock]], English naval painter (d. 1821)
*[[1760]] &ndash; [[Camille Desmoulins]], French journalist and politician (d. 1794)
*[[1769]] &ndash; [[DeWitt Clinton]], American lawyer and politician, 6th [[Governor of New York]] (d. 1828)
*[[1770]] &ndash; [[Louis-Gabriel Suchet]], French general (d. 1826)
*[[1779]] &ndash; [[Joel Roberts Poinsett]], American physician and politician, 15th [[United States Secretary of War]] (d. 1851)
*[[1793]] &ndash; [[Sam Houston]], American soldier and politician, 1st [[President of the Republic of Texas]] (d. 1863)
*[[1800]] &ndash; [[Yevgeny Baratynsky]], Russian-Italian poet and philosopher (d. 1844)
*[[1810]] &ndash; [[Pope Leo XIII]] (d. 1903)
*[[1816]] &ndash; [[Alexander Bullock]], American lawyer and politician, 26th [[Governor of Massachusetts]] (d. 1882)
*[[1817]] &ndash; [[János Arany]], Hungarian journalist and poet (d. 1882)
*[[1820]] &ndash; [[Multatuli]], Dutch writer (d. 1887)
*[[1824]] &ndash; [[Bedřich Smetana]], Czech pianist and composer (d. 1884)
*[[1829]] &ndash; [[Carl Schurz]], German-American general, lawyer, and politician, 13th [[United States Secretary of the Interior]] (d. 1906)
*[[1836]] &ndash; [[Henry Billings Brown]], American lawyer and judge (d. 1913)
*[[1842]] &ndash; [[Carl Jacobsen]], Danish brewer, art collector, and philanthropist (d. 1914)
*[[1846]] &ndash; [[Marie Roze]], French soprano (d. 1926)
*[[1849]] &ndash; [[Robert Means Thompson]], American commander, lawyer, and businessman (d. 1930)
*[[1859]] &ndash; [[Sholem Aleichem]], Ukrainian-American author and playwright (d. 1916)
*[[1860]] &ndash; [[Susanna M. Salter]], American activist and politician (d. 1961)
*[[1862]] &ndash; [[John Jay Chapman]], American lawyer, author, and poet (d. 1933)
*[[1869]] &ndash; [[Julien Félix]], French military officer and aviator (d. 1914)<ref>[https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6554320t/f16.image.r=F%C3%A9lix.langFR "La Mort Du Commandant Félix"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210603050142/https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6554320t/f16.image.r=F%C3%A9lix.langFR |date=2021-06-03 }} ''La Revue Aérienne'' (June 25, 1914, p. 342) via [[Bibliothèque nationale de France|BnF]]; retrieved April 7, 2021</ref>
*[[1876]] &ndash; [[James A. Gilmore]], American businessman and baseball executive (d. 1947)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/james-gilmore/|title=James Gilmore – Society for American Baseball Research|access-date=2021-06-18|archive-date=2021-06-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210624195454/https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/james-gilmore/|url-status=live}}</ref>
*  1876   &ndash; [[Pope Pius XII]] (d. 1958)
*[[1880]] &ndash; [[René Vallon]], French aviator (d. 1911)<ref>{{cite book
 |url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k9808029q/f218.item.texteImage
 |last=Dépagniat 
 |first=Roger 
 |language=French
 |title=Les Martyrs de l'Aviation
 |trans-title=The Martyrs of Aviation
 |publisher=E. Basset and Co.
 |location=Paris
 |date=1912
}}</ref>
*[[1886]] &ndash; [[Willis H. O'Brien]], American animator and director (d. 1962)
*  1886   &ndash; [[Kurt Grelling]], German logician and philosopher (d. 1942)
*[[1900]] &ndash; [[Kurt Weill]], German-American pianist and composer (d. 1950)