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===1601–1900===
*[[1635]] &ndash; [[Johann Joachim Becher]], German physician and alchemist (d. 1682)
*[[1668]] &ndash; [[Alain-René Lesage]], French author and playwright (d. 1747)
*[[1680]] &ndash; [[Jean-Baptiste Stuck]], Italian-French cellist and composer (d. 1755)
*[[1713]] &ndash; [[Charles Batteux]], French philosopher and academic (d. 1780)
*[[1714]] &ndash; [[Anton Raaff]], German tenor (d. 1797)
*[[1742]] &ndash; [[Jean Senebier]], Swiss pastor and physiologist (d. 1809)
*[[1758]] &ndash; [[André Masséna]], French general (d. 1817)
*  1758   &ndash; [[Maximilien Robespierre]], French politician (d. 1794)<ref>{{cite web |title=BBC - History - Historic Figures: Maximilien Robespierre (1758-1794) |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/robespierre_maximilien.shtml |website=www.bbc.co.uk |access-date=17 June 2022 |archive-date=17 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220617134047/https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/robespierre_maximilien.shtml |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1769]] &ndash; [[Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany]] (d. 1824)
*  1769   &ndash; [[Jean Nicolas Pierre Hachette]], French mathematician and academic (d. 1834)
*[[1781]] &ndash; [[Karl Christian Friedrich Krause]], German philosopher and author (d. 1832)
*[[1797]] &ndash; [[Joseph Brackett]], American religious leader and composer (d. 1882)
*[[1800]] &ndash; [[Roman Sanguszko]], Polish general (d. 1881)
*[[1827]] &ndash; [[Hermann Raster]], German-American journalist and politician (d. 1891)
*[[1836]] &ndash; [[Max Eyth]], German engineer and author (d. 1906)
*[[1843]] &ndash; [[Grove Karl Gilbert]], American geologist and academic (d. 1918)
*[[1848]] &ndash; [[Henry Edward Armstrong]], English chemist and academic (d. 1937)
*[[1851]] &ndash; [[Aristide Bruant]], French singer and actor (d. 1925)
*[[1856]] &ndash; [[Sigmund Freud]], Austrian neurologist and psychoanalyst (d. 1939)
*  1856   &ndash; [[Robert Peary]], American admiral and explorer (d. 1920)
*[[1861]] &ndash; [[Motilal Nehru]], Indian lawyer and politician, [[President of the Indian National Congress]] (d. 1931)
*[[1868]] &ndash; [[Gaston Leroux]], French journalist and author (d. 1927)
*[[1869]] &ndash; [[Junnosuke Inoue]], Japanese businessman and central banker, 8th and 11th Governor of the [[Bank of Japan]] (d. 1932)
*[[1870]] &ndash; [[Walter Rutherford (golfer)|Walter Rutherford]], Scottish golfer (d. 1936)
*[[1871]] &ndash; [[Victor Grignard]], French chemist and academic, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. 1935)
*  1871   &ndash; [[Christian Morgenstern]], German author and poet (d. 1914)
*[[1872]] &ndash; [[Willem de Sitter]], Dutch mathematician, physicist, and astronomer (d. 1934)
*  1872   &ndash; [[Djemal Pasha]], Ottoman general (d. 1922)
*[[1879]] &ndash; [[Bedřich Hrozný]], Czech orientalist and linguist (d. 1952)
*  1879   &ndash; [[Hendrik van Heuckelum]], Dutch footballer (d. 1929)
*[[1880]] &ndash; [[Winifred Brunton]], English-South African painter and illustrator (d. 1959)
*  1880   &ndash; [[Ernst Ludwig Kirchner]], German-Swiss painter (d. 1938)
*[[1883]] &ndash; [[Alberto Collo]], Italian actor (d. 1955) 
*[[1895]] &ndash; [[Júlio César de Mello e Souza]], Brazilian mathematician and author (d. 1974)
*  1895   &ndash; [[Fidél Pálffy]], Hungarian soldier and politician, [[Minister of Agriculture (Hungary)|Hungarian Minister of Agriculture]] (d. 1946)
*  1895   &ndash; [[Rudolph Valentino]], Italian actor (d. 1926)
*[[1896]] &ndash; [[Rolf Maximilian Sievert]], Swedish physicist and academic (d. 1966)
*[[1897]] &ndash; [[Paul Alverdes]], German author and poet (d. 1979)
*[[1898]] &ndash; [[Konrad Henlein]], Czech soldier and politician (d. 1945)