Editing May 5 (section)

===1601–1900===
*[[1684]] &ndash; [[Françoise Charlotte d'Aubigné]], French wife of [[Adrien Maurice de Noailles]] (d. 1739)
*[[1747]] &ndash; [[Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor]] (d. 1792)
*[[1749]] &ndash; [[Jean-Frédéric Edelmann]], French pianist and composer (d. 1794)
*[[1764]] &ndash; [[Robert Craufurd]], Scottish general and politician (d. 1812)
*[[1800]] &ndash; [[Louis Christophe François Hachette]], French publisher (d. 1864)
*[[1813]] &ndash; [[Søren Kierkegaard]], Danish philosopher and author (d. 1855)
*[[1818]] &ndash; [[Karl Marx]], German philosopher, sociologist, and journalist (d. 1883)
*[[1826]] &ndash; [[Eugénie de Montijo]], French wife of [[Napoleon III]] (d. 1920)<ref>{{cite book | first=Jasper Godwin | last=Ridley | title=Napoleon III and Eugenie | location=London | publisher=Constable | year=1979 | isbn=978-0-09461-380-5 | page=137}}</ref>
*[[1830]] &ndash; [[John Batterson Stetson]], American businessman, founded the [[John B. Stetson Company]] (d. 1906)
*[[1832]] &ndash; [[Hubert Howe Bancroft]], American ethnologist and historian (d. 1918)
*[[1833]] &ndash; [[Ferdinand von Richthofen]], German geographer and academic (d. 1905)
*[[1834]] &ndash; [[Viktor Hartmann]], Russian painter and architect (d. 1873)
*[[1843]] &ndash; [[William George Beers]], Canadian dentist and patriot (d. 1900)
*[[1846]] &ndash; [[Henryk Sienkiewicz]], Polish journalist and author, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. 1916)<ref>{{cite web |title=The Nobel Prize in Literature 1905 |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1905/sienkiewicz/facts/ |website=NobelPrize.org |access-date=23 December 2021}}</ref>
*[[1858]] &ndash; [[John L. Leal]], American physician (d. 1914)
*[[1859]] &ndash; [[Charles B. Hanford]], American Shakespearean actor (d. 1926)<ref>{{cite book|first=A. D.|last= Storms|title=The Players Blue Book|url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924027213259|year=1901|publisher=Sutherland & Storms|location=Worcester, MA|pages=[https://archive.org/details/cu31924027213259/page/n263 258]-259}}</ref>
*[[1864]] &ndash; [[Nellie Bly]], American journalist and author (d. 1922)<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|editor=Commire, Anne|title=Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia|volume=14|year=2002|publisher=Yorkin Publications, Gale Group|location=Waterford|isbn=978-0-78764-073-6|page=65}}</ref>
*[[1865]] &ndash; [[Helen Maud Merrill]], American litterateur and poet (d. 1943)
*[[1866]] &ndash; [[Thomas B. Thrige]], Danish businessman (d. 1938)
*[[1869]] &ndash; [[Fabián de la Rosa]], Filipino painter and educator (d. 1937)
*  1869   &ndash; [[Hans Pfitzner]], German composer and conductor (d. 1949)
*[[1873]] &ndash;  [[Leon Czolgosz]], American assassin of [[William McKinley]] (d. 1901)<ref>{{cite census
| title = Twelfth Census of the United States
| year = 1900
| location = Orange, Cuyahoga, Ohio
| roll = T623 1261
| page = 4A
| line = 34
}}</ref>
*[[1874]] &ndash; [[Thomas Bavin]], New Zealand-Australian politician, 24th [[Premier of New South Wales]] (d. 1941)
*[[1882]] &ndash; [[Sylvia Pankhurst]], English women's suffrage movement leader and socialist activist (d. 1960)
*[[1883]] &ndash; [[Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell]], English general and politician, 43rd [[Governor-General of India]] (d. 1950)
*  1883   &ndash; [[Anna Johnson Pell Wheeler]], American mathematician (d. 1966)<ref>{{cite book | first1=Louise S. | last1=Grinstein | first2=Paul J. | last2=Campbell | chapter=Anna Johnson Pell Wheeler (1883-1966) | editor-last1=Grinstein | editor-first1=Louise S. | editor-last2=Campbell | editor-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=241}}</ref>
*[[1884]] &ndash; [[Chief Bender]], American baseball player and coach (d. 1954)
*[[1885]] &ndash; [[Kingsley Fairbridge]], South African-Australian scholar and politician  (d. 1924)
*[[1887]] &ndash; [[Mervyn S. Bennion]], American captain, [[Medal of Honor]] recipient (d. 1941)
*[[1889]] &ndash; [[Herbie Taylor]], South African cricketer and soldier (d. 1973)
*[[1890]] &ndash; [[Christopher Morley]], American journalist and author (d. 1957)
*[[1892]] &ndash; [[Dorothy Garrod]], British archaeologist (d. 1968)<ref>{{cite book | first=Brian M. | last=Fagan | title=Archaeologists: Explorers of the Human Past | location=Oxford | publisher=Oxford University Press | year=2003 | isbn=978-0-19511-946-6 | page=139}}</ref>
*[[1898]] &ndash; [[Elsie Eaves]], American engineer (d. 1983)<ref>{{cite web | title=Obituary for Elsie Eaves | work= New York Times | date=April 2, 1983 | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1983/04/02/obituaries/elsie-eaves.html | access-date=22 March 2020}}</ref>
*  1898   &ndash; [[Blind Willie McTell]], American Piedmont blues singer and guitar player (d. 1959)
*[[1899]] &ndash; [[Freeman Gosden]], American actor and screenwriter (d. 1982)
*[[1900]] &ndash; [[Helen Redfield]], American geneticist (d. 1988)<ref>{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/biographicaldict02ogil | title=The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: Pioneering Lives from Ancient Times to the mid-20th Century | last1=Ogilvie |first1=Marilyn Bailey | last2=Harvey |first2=Joy Dorothy | year=2000 | publisher=Routledge | author-link=Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie | author-link2=Joy Harvey | isbn=978-0-41592-040-7 | location=New York | pages=[https://archive.org/details/biographicaldict02ogil/page/1082 1082] | oclc=40776839 | url-access=registration}}</ref>