Editing May 4 (section)

===1601–1900===
*[[1634]] &ndash; [[Katherine Ferrers]], English aristocrat and heiress (d. 1660)
*[[1649]] &ndash; [[Chhatrasal]], Indian ruler (d. 1731)
*[[1655]] &ndash; [[Bartolomeo Cristofori]], Italian instrument maker, invented the [[piano]] (d. 1731)
*[[1677]] &ndash; [[Françoise-Marie de Bourbon]], French noblewoman (d. 1749)
*[[1715]] &ndash; [[Richard Graves]], English minister and author (d. 1804)
*[[1733]] &ndash; [[Jean-Charles de Borda]], French mathematician, physicist, and sailor (d. 1799)
*[[1752]] &ndash; [[John Brooks (governor)|John Brooks]], American soldier and politician, 11th [[Governor of Massachusetts]] (d. 1825)
*[[1757]] &ndash; [[Manuel Tolsá]], Spanish sculptor and first director of the [[Academy of San Carlos]] in Mexico City (d. 1816)
*[[1767]] &ndash; [[Tyagaraja]], Indian composer (d. 1847)
*[[1770]] &ndash; [[François Gérard]], French painter (d. 1837)
*[[1772]] &ndash; [[Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus]], German publisher (d. 1823)
*[[1796]] &ndash; [[Horace Mann]], American educator and politician (d. 1859)
*  1796   &ndash; [[William Pennington]], American lawyer and politician, 13th [[Governor of New Jersey]], 23rd [[Speaker of the United States House of Representatives]] (d. 1862)
*  1796   &ndash; [[William H. Prescott]], American historian and scholar (d. 1859)
*[[1820]] &ndash; [[Julia Gardiner Tyler]], American wife of [[John Tyler]], 11th [[First Lady of the United States]] (d. 1889)
*  1820   &ndash; [[John Whiteaker]], American soldier, judge, and politician, 1st [[Governor of Oregon]] (d. 1902)
*[[1822]] &ndash; [[Charles Boucher de Boucherville]], Canadian physician and politician, 3rd [[Premier of Quebec]] (d. 1915)
*[[1825]] &ndash; [[Thomas Henry Huxley]], English biologist, anatomist, and academic (d. 1895)
*  1825   &ndash; [[Augustus Le Plongeon]], English-American historian, photographer, and academic (d. 1908)
*[[1826]] &ndash; [[Frederic Edwin Church]], American painter (d. 1900)
*[[1827]] &ndash; [[John Hanning Speke]], English soldier and explorer (d. 1864)
*[[1843]] &ndash; [[Bianka Blume]], German opera singer (d. 1896)<ref>{{cite book|last1=Kutsch|first1=Karl-Josef|last2=Riemens|first2=Leo|last3=Rost|first3=Hansjörg|author1-link=Karl-Josef Kutsch|author2-link=Leo Riemens|title=Großes Sängerlexikon Volume 4|date=22 February 2012|publisher=De Gruyter|isbn=9783598440885|page=456 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dsfq_5dFeL0C|language=de}}</ref>
*[[1851]] &ndash; [[Thomas Dewing]], American painter (d. 1938)
*[[1852]] &ndash; [[Alice Liddell]], English model (d. 1934)
*[[1883]] &ndash; [[Wang Jingwei]], Chinese politician (d. 1944)
*[[1884]] &ndash; [[Richard Baggallay (cricketer)|Richard Baggallay]], English army officer and cricketer (d. 1975)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/230191.html |website=ESPNCricinfo|publisher=Wisden|title= Obituaries in 1975|date=19 December 2005|access-date=4 May 2021}}</ref>
*[[1887]] &ndash; [[Andrew Dasburg]], French-American painter (d. 1979)
*[[1889]] &ndash; [[Francis Spellman]], American cardinal (d. 1967)<ref>{{cite book|url=https://www.anb.org/view/10.1093/anb/9780198606697.001.0001/anb-9780198606697-e-0801438|title=Spellman, Francis Joseph (1889-1967), Roman Catholic prelate |website=[[American National Biography]] |year=2000 |doi=10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.0801438 |isbn=978-0-19-860669-7 |access-date=May 4, 2021|last1=Fogarty |first1=Gerald P. }}</ref>
*[[1890]] &ndash; [[Franklin Carmichael]], Canadian painter (d. 1945)