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===1601–1900=== *[[1606]] – [[Joachim von Sandrart]], German art-historian and painter (d. 1688) *[[1622]] – [[Louis de Buade de Frontenac]], French-Canadian soldier and politician, third [[Governor General of New France]] (d. 1698) *[[1626]] – [[Louis Hennepin]], Flemish priest and missionary (d. 1705) *[[1670]] – [[Augustus II the Strong]], Polish king (d. 1733) *[[1700]] – [[Luigi Vanvitelli]], Italian architect and engineer, designed the [[Palace of Caserta]] and [[Royal Palace of Milan]] (d. 1773) *[[1725]] – [[Louis Philippe I, Duke of Orléans]] (d. 1785)<ref>{{cite web |title=Louis-Philippe, duke d'Orléans &124; Reign of Louis-Philippe, Restoration, Constitutional Monarch &124; Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Louis-Philippe-duc-dOrleans |website=www.britannica.com |access-date=27 August 2024 |language=en}}</ref> *[[1739]] – [[Johann Baptist Wanhal]], Czech-Austrian organist and composer (d. 1813) *[[1754]] – [[Franz Anton Hoffmeister]], German composer and publisher (d. 1812) *[[1755]] – [[Giovanni Battista Viotti]], Italian violinist and composer (d. 1824) *[[1767]] – [[Manuel Godoy]], Spanish field marshal and politician, [[Prime Minister of Spain]] (d. 1851) *[[1774]] – [[Ellis Cunliffe Lister]], English politician (d. 1853) *[[1776]] – [[José de La Mar]], Peruvian military leader, President of Peru (d. 1830)<ref>{{cite book |title=Archivo Diplomático Peruano |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gVw0AQAAIAAJ&pg=PR7 |year=1957 |publisher=Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores del Perú |location=Lima |volume=VI |pages=VII |language=es}}</ref> *[[1777]] – [[Mary Reibey]], Australian businesswoman (d. 1855)<ref>{{cite book |author1=Dale Spender |author2=Flora Eldershaw |title=The Peaceful Army |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kQ79cmSAb50C&pg=PA53 |year=1988 |publisher=Spinifex Press |isbn=978-0-14-011231-3 |pages=53}}</ref> *[[1803]] – [[Justus von Liebig]], German chemist and academic (d. 1873)<ref>{{cite book |title=Arthur's Illustrated Home Magazine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-y8ZAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA17 |year=1875 |publisher=T.S. Arthur & Sons |pages=17}}</ref> *[[1804]] – [[Robert Baldwin]], Canadian lawyer and politician, third [[List of Joint Premiers of the Province of Canada|Premier of West Canada]] (d. 1858) *[[1806]] – [[Johan Vilhelm Snellman]], Finnish philosopher and politician (d. 1881) *[[1812]] – [[Edward Lear]], English poet and illustrator (d. 1888)<ref>{{cite book |author=Madhuri R. Shah, Ramesh Mohan |title=Symphony: A Book of Poems |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fxmpcg2aMtkC&pg=PA94 |publisher=Allied Publishers |pages=94}}</ref> *[[1814]] – [[Adolf von Henselt]], German pianist and composer (d. 1889) *[[1820]] – [[Florence Nightingale]], Italian-English nurse, social reformer, and statistician (d. 1910)<ref>{{cite book |first=Joyce J. |last=Fitzpatrick |title=Encyclopedia of Nursing Research |location=New York |publisher=Springer |year=2017 |page=343 |isbn=978-0-82613-304-5}}</ref> *[[1825]] – [[Orélie-Antoine de Tounens]], French lawyer and explorer (d. 1878) *[[1828]] – [[Dante Gabriel Rossetti]], English poet and painter (d. 1882)<ref>{{cite book |author=Rodolphe Louis Mégroz |title=Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Painter Poet of Heaven in Earth |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OktnPOm5lZoC&pg=PA21 |year=1928 |publisher=Ardent Media |pages=21}}</ref> *[[1829]] – [[Pavlos Carrer]], Greek composer and educator (d. 1896) *[[1839]] – [[Tôn Thất Thuyết]], Vietnamese [[mandarin (bureaucrat)|mandarin]] (d. 1913) *[[1840]] – [[Alejandro Gorostiaga]], Chilean colonel (d. 1912) *[[1842]] – [[Jules Massenet]], French composer (d. 1912) *[[1845]] – [[Gabriel Fauré]], French pianist, composer, and educator (d. 1924) *[[1850]] – [[Henry Cabot Lodge]], American historian and politician (d. 1924) * 1850 – [[Frederick Holder]], Australian politician, 19th [[Premier of South Australia]] (d. 1909) *[[1859]] – [[William Alden Smith]], American lawyer and politician (d. 1932) * 1859 – [[Frank Wilson (Australian politician)|Frank Wilson]], English-Australian politician, ninth [[Premier of Western Australia]] (d. 1918) *[[1863]] – [[Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury]], Bengali writer, painter, violin player and composer, technologist and entrepreneur (d. 1915) *[[1867]] – [[Hugh Trumble]], Australian cricketer and accountant (d. 1938) *[[1869]] – [[Carl Schuhmann]], German gymnast, wrestler, and weightlifter (d. 1946) *[[1872]] – [[Anton Korošec]], Slovenian priest and politician, tenth [[Prime Minister of Yugoslavia]] (d. 1940) *[[1873]] – [[J. E. H. MacDonald]], English-Canadian painter (d. 1932) *[[1874]] – [[Clemens von Pirquet]], Austrian pediatrician and immunologist (d. 1929) *[[1875]] – [[Charles Holden]], English architect, designed the [[Bristol Central Library]] (d. 1960) *[[1880]] – [[Lincoln Ellsworth]], American explorer (d. 1951) *[[1885]] – [[Paltiel Daykan]], Lithuanian-Israeli lawyer and jurist (d. 1969) *[[1886]] – [[Ernst A. Lehmann]], German captain and pilot (d. 1937) *[[1889]] – [[Abelardo L. Rodríguez]], substitute president of Mexico (d. 1967)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.buscabiografias.com/biografia/verDetalle/10005/Abelardo_L._Rodriguez |title=Abelardo L. Rodríguez |publisher=Busca Biografias |language=es |access-date=May 29, 2019}}</ref> * 1889 – [[Otto Frank]], German-Swiss businessman and Holocaust survivor; father of diarist [[Anne Frank]] (d. 1980) *[[1892]] – [[Fritz Kortner]], Austrian-German actor and director (d. 1970) *[[1895]] – [[William Giauque]], Canadian-American chemist and academic, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. 1982)<ref>{{cite web |title=The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1949 |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1949/giauque/facts/ |website=NobelPrize.org |access-date=February 25, 2022}}</ref> * 1895 – [[Jiddu Krishnamurti]], Indian-American philosopher and author (d. 1986) * [[1897]] – [[Earle Nelson]], American serial killer and rapist (d. 1928)<ref>{{Cite book |publisher=Pocket Books |isbn=978-1-4165-2174-7 |last1=Schechter |first1=Harold |last2=Everitt |first2=David |title=The A to Z encyclopedia of serial killers |location=New York |date=2006 |page=196}}</ref> *[[1900]] – [[Helene Weigel]], Austrian-German actress (d. 1971)<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/weigel-helene |title=Helene Weigel &124; Jewish Women's Archive |website=jwa.org |language=en |access-date=October 26, 2017}}</ref>
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