Editing May 23 (section)

===1601–1900===
*[[1606]] &ndash; [[Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz]], Spanish mathematician and philosopher (d. 1682)
*[[1614]] &ndash; [[Bertholet Flemalle]], Flemish Baroque painter (d. 1675)
*[[1617]] &ndash; [[Elias Ashmole]], English astrologer and politician (d. 1692)
*[[1629]] &ndash; [[William VI, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel]], noble of Hesse-Kassel (d. 1663)
*[[1707]] &ndash; [[Carl Linnaeus]], Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist (d. 1778)
*[[1718]] &ndash; [[William Hunter (anatomist)|William Hunter]], Scottish-English anatomist and physician (d. 1783)
*[[1729]] &ndash; [[Giuseppe Parini]], Italian poet and educator (d. 1799)
*[[1730]] &ndash; [[Prince Augustus Ferdinand of Prussia]], Prussian prince and general (d. 1813)
*[[1734]] &ndash; [[Franz Mesmer]], German physician and astrologer (d. 1815)
*[[1741]] &ndash; [[Andrea Luchesi]], Italian organist and composer (d. 1801)
*[[1789]] &ndash; [[Franz Schlik]], Austrian earl and general (d. 1862)
*[[1790]] &ndash; [[Jules Dumont d'Urville]], French admiral and explorer (d. 1842)
*  1790   &ndash; [[James Pradier]], French neoclassical sculptor (d. 1852)
*[[1794]] &ndash; [[Ignaz Moscheles]], Czech pianist and composer (d. 1870)
*[[1795]] &ndash; [[Charles Barry]], English architect, designed the [[Upper Brook Street Chapel, Manchester|Upper Brook Street Chapel]] and [[Halifax Town Hall]] (d. 1860)
*[[1800]] &ndash; [[Rómulo Díaz de la Vega]], Mexican general and president (1855) (d. 1877)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://calderon.presidencia.gob.mx/mexico/gobernantes/mexico-1821-actualidad/romulo-diaz-de-la-vega/|publisher=Presidencia de la Republica de Mexico|title=RÓMULO DÍAZ DE LA VEGA|language=es|access-date=May 27, 2019}}</ref>
*[[1810]] &ndash; [[Margaret Fuller]], American journalist and critic (d. 1850)
*[[1817]] &ndash; [[Manuel Robles Pezuela]], Unconstitutional Mexican interim president (d. 1862)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://calderon.presidencia.gob.mx/mexico/gobernantes/mexico-1821-actualidad/manuel-robles-pezuela/|publisher=Presidencia de la Republica de Mexico|title=MANUEL ROBLES PEZUELA|language=es |access-date=May 28, 2019}}</ref> 
*[[1820]] &ndash; [[James Buchanan Eads]], American engineer, designed the [[Eads Bridge]] (d. 1887)
*  1820   &ndash; [[Lorenzo Sawyer]], American lawyer and judge (d. 1891)
*[[1824]] &ndash; [[Ambrose Burnside]], American general and politician, 30th [[Governor of Rhode Island]] (d. 1881)
*[[1834]] &ndash; [[Jānis Frīdrihs Baumanis]], Latvian architect (d. 1891)
*  1834   &ndash; [[Carl Bloch]], Danish painter and academic (d. 1890)
*[[1837]] &ndash; [[Anatole Mallet]], Swiss mechanical engineer and inventor (d. 1919)
*  1837   &ndash; [[Józef Wieniawski]], Polish pianist and composer (d. 1912)
*[[1838]] &ndash; [[Amaldus Nielsen]], Norwegian painter (d. 1932)
*[[1840]] &ndash; [[George Throssell]], Irish-Australian politician, 2nd [[Premier of Western Australia]] (d. 1910)
*[[1844]] &ndash; [[ʻAbdu'l-Bahá]], Iranian religious leader (d. 1921)
*[[1848]] &ndash; [[Otto Lilienthal]], German pilot and engineer (d. 1896)
*[[1855]] &ndash; [[Isabella Ford]], English author and activist (d. 1924)
*[[1861]] &ndash; [[József Rippl-Rónai]], Hungarian painter (d. 1927)
*[[1863]] &ndash; [[Władysław Horodecki]], Polish architect (d. 1930)
*[[1864]] &ndash; [[William O'Connor (fencer)|William O'Connor]], American fencer (d. 1939)
*[[1865]] &ndash; [[Epitácio Pessoa]], Brazilian jurist and politician, 11th [[President of Brazil]] (d. 1942)
*[[1875]] &ndash; [[Alfred P. Sloan]], American businessman and philanthropist (d. 1966)
*[[1882]] &ndash; [[William Halpenny]], Canadian pole vaulter (d. 1960)
*[[1883]] &ndash; [[Douglas Fairbanks]], American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1939)
*[[1884]] &ndash; [[Corrado Gini]], Italian sociologist and demographer (d. 1965)
*[[1887]] &ndash; [[Thoralf Skolem]], Norwegian mathematician and theorist (d. 1963)
*  1887   &ndash; [[Nikolai Vekšin]], Estonian-Russian sailor and captain (d. 1951)
*  1887   &ndash; [[C. R. M. F. Cruttwell]], English historian (d. 1941)<ref name= EllisODNB>{{cite ODNB|last= Ellis|first= Geoffrey|title= Cruttwell, Charles Robert Mowbray Fraser|url= http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/32655|year= 2007|doi= 10.1093/ref:odnb/32655|access-date= 1 November 2010}} {{subscription required}}</ref>
*[[1888]] &ndash; [[Adriaan Roland Holst]], Dutch writer (d. 1976)
*  1888   &ndash; [[Zack Wheat]], American baseball player and police officer (d. 1972)
*[[1889]] &ndash; [[Ernst Niekisch]], German educator and politician (d. 1967)
*[[1890]] &ndash; [[Herbert Marshall]], English-American actor and singer (d. 1966)
*[[1891]] &ndash; [[Pär Lagerkvist]], Swedish novelist, playwright, and poet, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. 1974)
*[[1892]] &ndash; [[Albert Spencer, 7th Earl Spencer]], British peer (d. 1975)
*[[1896]] &ndash; [[Felix Steiner]], Russian-German [[SS]] officer (d. 1966)
*[[1897]] &ndash; [[Jimmie Guthrie]], Scottish motorcycle racer (d. 1937)
*[[1898]] &ndash; [[Scott O'Dell]], American soldier, journalist, and author (d. 1989)
*  1898   &ndash; [[Josef Terboven]], German soldier and politician (d. 1945)
*[[1899]] &ndash; [[Jeralean Talley]], American super-centenarian (d. 2015)
*[[1900]] &ndash; [[Hans Frank]], German lawyer and politician (d. 1946)
*  1900   &ndash; [[Franz Leopold Neumann]], German lawyer and theorist (d. 1954)