Editing May 7 (section)

===1601–1900===
*[[1605]] &ndash; [[Patriarch Nikon of Moscow]] (d. 1681)
*[[1643]] &ndash; [[Stephanus Van Cortlandt]], American politician, 10th [[Mayor of New York City]] (d. 1700)
*[[1700]] &ndash; [[Gerard van Swieten]], Dutch-Austrian physician (d. 1772)
*[[1701]] &ndash; [[Carl Heinrich Graun]], German tenor and composer (d. 1759)<ref>{{cite book|author1=Oscar Thompson|author2=Nicolas Slonimsky|title=The International Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dHEkAQAAMAAJ|year=1958|publisher=Dodd, Mead|page=2385}}</ref>
*[[1711]] &ndash; [[David Hume]], Scottish economist, historian, and philosopher (d. 1776)<ref>{{cite book|author=Thomas Guggenheim|title=Preclassical Monetary Theories|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GNsvAAAAMAAJ|year=1989|publisher=Pinter Publishers|isbn=978-0-86187-958-8|page=68}}</ref>
*[[1724]] &ndash; [[Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser]], French-Austrian field marshal (d. 1797)
*[[1740]] &ndash; [[Nikolai Arkharov]], Russian police officer and general (d. 1814)
*[[1748]] &ndash; [[Olympe de Gouges]], French playwright and philosopher (d. 1793)<ref>{{cite book|title=The Englishwoman|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kYye3zSwa5sC|year=1910|publisher=G. Richards|page=165}}</ref>
*[[1751]] &ndash; [[Stephen Badlam]], American artisan and military officer (d. 1815)<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |last=Nash |first=Susan Higginson |date=January 26, 1958 |title=Badlam Famed Dorchester Cabinet Maker |pages=7 |work=[[Boston Herald]] |url=https://www.genealogybank.com/newspaper-clippings/badlam-famed-dorchester-cabinet-maker/cbnqbgittqltpchprnzhkkgoliqgdrzg_ip-10-166-46-104_1700872831162}}</ref>
*[[1763]] &ndash; [[Józef Poniatowski]], Polish general (d. 1813)
*[[1767]] &ndash; [[Princess Frederica Charlotte of Prussia]] (d. 1820)
*[[1774]] &ndash; [[William Bainbridge]], American commodore (d. 1833)
*[[1787]] &ndash; [[Jacques Viger (1787–1858)|Jacques Viger]], Canadian archaeologist and politician, 1st [[mayor of Montreal]] (d. 1858)
*[[1812]] &ndash; [[Robert Browning]], English poet and playwright (d. 1889)<ref>{{cite book|author=Harold Bloom|title=Robert Browning|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-eDem_w7AcAC&pg=PA12|year=2009|publisher=Infobase Publishing|isbn=978-1-4381-1582-5|pages=12}}</ref>
*[[1833]] &ndash; [[Johannes Brahms]], German pianist and composer (d. 1897)<ref>{{cite book|author=Johannes Brahms|title=Johannes Brahms: Life and Letters|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=07f0MCZusp8C&pg=PA1|year=2001|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-924773-8|pages=1}}</ref>
*[[1836]] &ndash; [[Joseph Gurney Cannon]], American lawyer and politician, 40th [[Speaker of the United States House of Representatives]] (d. 1926)
*[[1837]] &ndash; [[Karl Mauch]], German geographer and explorer (d. 1875)
*[[1840]] &ndash; [[Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky]], Russian composer and educator (d. 1893)
*[[1845]] &ndash; [[Mary Eliza Mahoney]], American nurse and activist (d. 1926)
*[[1847]] &ndash; [[Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery]], English politician, [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] (d. 1929)
*[[1857]] &ndash; [[William A. MacCorkle]], American lawyer and politician, 9th [[Governor of West Virginia]] (d. 1930)
*[[1860]] &ndash; [[Tom Norman]], English businessman (d. 1930)
*[[1861]] &ndash; [[Rabindranath Tagore]], Indian author and poet, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. 1941)<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Kumar |first1=Siva |title=Tagore, Rabindranath (1861–1940) |journal=Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism |date=2016 |doi=10.4324/9781135000356-REM1633-1|isbn=9781135000356 }}</ref>
*[[1867]] &ndash; [[Władysław Reymont]], Polish novelist, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. 1925)
*[[1875]] &ndash; [[William Hoyt (athlete)|Bill Hoyt]], American pole vaulter (d. 1951)
*[[1880]] &ndash; [[Pandurang Vaman Kane]], Indologist and Sanskrit scholar, [[Bharat Ratna]] awardee (d. 1972)
*[[1881]] &ndash; [[George E. Wiley]], American cyclist (d. 1954)
*[[1882]] &ndash; [[Willem Elsschot]], Belgian author and poet (d. 1960)
*[[1885]] &ndash; [[George "Gabby" Hayes]], American actor (d. 1969)
*[[1889]] &ndash; [[Viktor Puskar]], Estonian colonel (d. 1943)
*[[1891]] &ndash; [[Harry McShane]], Scottish engineer and activist (d. 1988)
*[[1892]] &ndash; [[Archibald MacLeish]], American poet, playwright, and lawyer (d. 1982)
*  1892   &ndash; [[Josip Broz Tito]], Yugoslav field marshal and politician, 1st [[President of Yugoslavia]] (d. 1980)
*[[1893]] &ndash; [[Frank J. Selke]], Canadian ice hockey coach and manager (d. 1985)
*[[1896]] &ndash; [[Kathleen McKane Godfree]], English tennis and badminton player (d. 1992)
*[[1899]] &ndash; [[Alfred Gerrard]], English sculptor and academic (d. 1998)