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===1601–1900===
*[[1613]] &ndash; [[John George II, Elector of Saxony]] (d. 1680)
*[[1640]] &ndash; [[Michał Korybut Wiśniowiecki]], King of Poland (d. 1673)
*[[1641]] &ndash; [[Patriarch Dositheos II of Jerusalem]] (d. 1707)
*[[1725]] &ndash; [[Ahilyabai Holkar]], Queen of the Malwa Kingdom under the [[Maratha Confederacy|Maratha Empire]] (d. 1795)
*[[1732]] &ndash; [[Count Hieronymus von Colloredo]], Austrian archbishop (d. 1812)
*[[1753]] &ndash; [[Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud]], French lawyer and politician (d. 1793)
*[[1754]] &ndash; [[Andrea Appiani]], Italian painter and educator (d. 1817)
*[[1773]] &ndash; [[Ludwig Tieck]], German poet, author, and critic (d. 1853)
*[[1801]] &ndash; [[Johann Georg Baiter]], Swiss philologist and scholar (d. 1887)
*[[1812]] &ndash; [[Robert Richard Torrens|Robert Torrens]], Irish-Australian politician, 3rd [[Premier of South Australia]] (d. 1884)<ref name=Croucher>Croucher, Rosalind F. (2008) ''[https://www.alrc.gov.au/news/delenda-est-carthago-sir-robert-richard-torrens-and-his-attack-on-the-evils-of-conveyancing-and-dependent-land-titles-a-reflection-on-the-sesquicentenary-of-the-introduction-of-his-great-law-refor/ 'Delenda Est Carthago!' Sir Robert Richard Torrens and his attack on the evils of conveyancing and dependent land titles: a reflection on the sesquicentenary of the introduction of his great law reforming initiative] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210629080912/https://www.alrc.gov.au/news/delenda-est-carthago-sir-robert-richard-torrens-and-his-attack-on-the-evils-of-conveyancing-and-dependent-land-titles-a-reflection-on-the-sesquicentenary-of-the-introduction-of-his-great-law-refor/ |date=2021-06-29 }}'' Alex Castles Memorial Legal History Lecture for Flinders University Law School, Adelaide, 26 August 2008. Retrieved 27 May 2020.</ref>
*[[1815]] &ndash; [[Adye Douglas]], English-Australian cricketer and politician, 15th [[Premier of Tasmania]] (d. 1906)
*[[1818]] &ndash; [[John Albion Andrew]], American lawyer and politician, 25th [[Governor of Massachusetts]] (d. 1867)
*[[1819]] &ndash; [[Walt Whitman]], American poet, essayist, and journalist (d. 1892)
*[[1827]] &ndash; [[Kusumoto Ine]], first Japanese female doctor of Western medicine (d. 1903)<ref>{{cite journal |last=Nakamura |first=Ellen |title=Working the Siebold Network: Kusumoto Ine and Western Learning in Nineteenth-Century Japan |journal=Japanese Studies |issn=1469-9338 |volume=28 |issue=2 |year=2008 |pages=197–211 |doi=10.1080/10371390802249172 |s2cid=145221289}}</ref>
*[[1835]] &ndash; [[Hijikata Toshizō]], Japanese commander (d. 1869)
*[[1838]] &ndash; [[Henry Sidgwick]], English economist and philosopher (d. 1900)
*[[1842]] &ndash; [[John Cox Bray]], Australian politician, 15th [[Premier of South Australia]] (d. 1894)
*[[1847]] &ndash; [[William Pirrie, 1st Viscount Pirrie]], Canadian-Irish businessman and politician, [[Lord Mayor of Belfast]] (d. 1924) 
*[[1852]] &ndash; [[Francisco Moreno]], Argentinian explorer and academic (d. 1919)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Rougier |first1=Guillermo W. |last2=Martinelli |first2=Agustín G. |last3=Forasiepi |first3=Analía M. |title=Mesozoic Mammals from South America and Their Forerunners |date=22 February 2021 |publisher=Springer Nature |isbn=978-3-030-63862-7 |page=10 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E74fEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA10 |language=en}}</ref>
*  1852   &ndash; [[Julius Richard Petri]], German microbiologist, invented the [[Petri dish]] (d. 1921)
*[[1857]] &ndash; [[Pope Pius XI]] (d. 1939)
*[[1858]] &ndash; [[Graham Wallas]], English socialist, social psychologist, and educationalist (d. 1932)
*[[1860]] &ndash; [[Walter Sickert]], English painter (d. 1942)
*[[1863]] &ndash; [[Francis Younghusband]], Indian-English captain and explorer (d. 1942)
*[[1866]] &ndash; [[John Ringling]], American entrepreneur; one of the founders of the [[Ringling Brothers Circus]] (d. 1936)
*[[1875]] &ndash; [[Rosa May Billinghurst]], British suffragette and women's rights activist (d. 1953)
*[[1879]] &ndash; [[Frances Alda]], New Zealand-Australian soprano (d. 1952)
*[[1882]] &ndash; [[Sándor Festetics]], Hungarian politician, [[Ministry of Defence (Hungary)|Hungarian Minister of War]] (d. 1956)
*[[1883]] &ndash; [[Lauri Kristian Relander]], Finnish politician, 2nd [[President of Finland]] (d. 1942)
*[[1885]] &ndash; [[Robert Richards (Australian politician)|Robert Richards]], Australian politician, 32nd [[Premier of South Australia]] (d. 1967)
*[[1887]] &ndash; [[Saint-John Perse]], French poet and diplomat, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. 1975)
*[[1892]] &ndash; [[Michel Kikoine]], Belarusian-French painter (d. 1968)
*  1892   &ndash; [[Erich Neumann (politician)|Erich Neumann]], German lieutenant and politician (d. 1951)
*  1892   &ndash; [[Konstantin Paustovsky]], Russian poet and author (d. 1968)
*  1892   &ndash; [[Gregor Strasser]], German lieutenant and politician (d. 1934)
*[[1894]] &ndash; [[Fred Allen]], American comedian, radio host, game show panelist, and author (d. 1956)
*[[1898]] &ndash; [[Norman Vincent Peale]], American minister and author (d. 1993)
*[[1900]] &ndash; [[Lucile Godbold]], American athlete (d. 1981)