Editing May 16 (section)

===1601–1900===
*[[1606]] &ndash; [[John Bulwer]], British doctor (d. 1656)
*[[1611]] &ndash; [[Pope Innocent XI]] (d. 1689)<ref>{{cite book|author=ARTAUD DE MONTOR, ALEXIS FRANCOIS.|title=The Lives and Times of the Roman Pontifs, from St. Peter to Pius Ix|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bqgbUCHi8OkC&pg=PA137|year=1866|publisher=D. & J. Sadlier|pages=137}}</ref>
*[[1641]] &ndash; [[Dudley North (economist)|Dudley North]], English economist and politician (d. 1691)<ref>{{cite book|author=Roger North|title=The Life of the Honourable Sir Dudley North, Knt.|url=https://archive.org/details/lifehonourables00nortgoog|year=1744|publisher=editor and sold|pages=[https://archive.org/details/lifehonourables00nortgoog/page/n26 1]}}</ref>
*[[1710]] &ndash; [[William Talbot, 1st Earl Talbot]], English politician, [[Lord Steward of the Household]] (d. 1782)
*[[1718]] &ndash; [[Maria Gaetana Agnesi]], Italian mathematician and philosopher (d. 1799)<ref>{{cite book | last1=Grinstein | first1=Louise S. | last2=Campbell | first2=Paul J. | title=Women of Mathematics : a Biobibliographic Sourcebook | place=New York | publisher=Greenwood Press | year=1987 | isbn=978-0-3132-4849-8 | page=[https://archive.org/details/womenofmathemati0000unse/page/4 4] | url=https://archive.org/details/womenofmathemati0000unse/page/4 }}</ref>
*[[1763]] &ndash; [[Louis Nicolas Vauquelin]], French pharmacist and chemist (d. 1829)
*[[1788]] &ndash; [[Friedrich Rückert]], German poet and translator (d. 1866)
*[[1801]] &ndash; [[William H. Seward]], American lawyer and politician, 24th [[United States Secretary of State]] (d. 1872)
*[[1804]] &ndash; [[Elizabeth Peabody|Elizabeth Palmer Peabody]], American educator who founded the first U.S. kindergarten (d. 1894)
*[[1819]] &ndash; [[Johann Voldemar Jannsen]], Estonian journalist and poet (d. 1890)
*[[1821]] &ndash; [[Pafnuty Chebyshev]], Russian mathematician and statistician (d. 1894)
*[[1824]] &ndash; [[Levi P. Morton]], American banker and politician, 22nd [[United States Vice President]] (d. 1920)
*  1824   &ndash; [[Edmund Kirby Smith]], American general (d. 1893)
*[[1827]] &ndash; [[Pierre Cuypers]], Dutch architect, designed the [[Amsterdam Centraal railway station]] and [[Rijksmuseum]] (d. 1921)
*[[1831]] &ndash; [[David Edward Hughes]], Welsh-American physicist, co-invented the [[microphone]] (d. 1900)
*[[1859]] &ndash; [[Horace Hutchinson]], English golfer (d. 1932)<ref>{{cite web |author1=Paul @ Golfing Herald |title=Legends : Horace Hutchinson |url=https://golfingherald.com/horace-hutchinson/ |website=Golfing Herald |access-date=9 August 2020 |date=10 February 2020}}</ref>
*[[1862]] &ndash; [[Margaret Fountaine]], English [[lepidopterist]] and diarist (d. 1940)
*[[1876]] &ndash; [[Fred Conrad Koch]], American biochemist and endocrinologist (d. 1948)<ref>{{cite web |last1=Blustein |first1=Bonnie Ellen |title=Koch, Fred Conrad (1876-1948), biochemist |url=https://www.anb.org/view/10.1093/anb/9780198606697.001.0001/anb-9780198606697-e-1300932 |website=American National Biography |year=2000 |language=en |doi=10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.1300932 |isbn=978-0-19-860669-7 }}</ref>
*[[1879]] &ndash; [[Pierre Gilliard]], Swiss author and academic (d. 1962)
*[[1882]] &ndash; [[Simeon Price]], American golfer (d. 1945)
*[[1883]] &ndash; [[Celâl Bayar]], Turkish politician, 3rd [[President of Turkey]] (d. 1986)
*[[1887]] &ndash; [[Maria Lacerda de Moura]], Brazilian teacher and anarcha-feminist (d. 1945)<ref>{{cite book|first=Míriam Lifchitz Moreira|last=Leite|title=Outra Face do Feminismo: Maria Lacerda de Moura|location=São Paulo|publisher=Ática|year=1984|page=viii|language=pt|oclc=12190289}}</ref>
*[[1888]] &ndash; [[Royal Rife]], American microbiologist and instrument maker (d. 1971)
*[[1890]] &ndash; [[Edith Grace White]], American ichthyologist (d. 1975)<ref>{{cite book|author1=Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie|author2=Joy Dorothy Harvey|author1-link=Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie|author2-link=Joy Harvey|title=The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: L-Z|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LTSYePZvSXYC&pg=PA1370|year=2000|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-0-415-92040-7|pages=1370}}</ref>
*[[1892]] &ndash; [[Osgood Perkins]], American actor (d. 1937)
*[[1894]] &ndash; [[Walter Yust]], American journalist and writer (d. 1960)
*[[1897]] &ndash; [[Zvi Sliternik]], Israeli entomologist and academic (d. 1994)
*[[1898]] &ndash; [[Tamara de Lempicka]], Polish-American painter (d. 1980)
*  1898   &ndash; [[Desanka Maksimović]], Serbian poet and academic (d. 1993)
*  1898   &ndash; [[Kenji Mizoguchi]], Japanese director and screenwriter (d. 1956)