Editing November 12 (section)

===1601–1900===
*[[1606]] &ndash; [[Jeanne Mance]], French-Canadian nurse, founded the [[Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal]] (d. 1673)
*[[1615]] &ndash; [[Richard Baxter]], English minister, poet, and theologian (d. 1691)
*[[1627]] &ndash; [[Diego Luis de San Vitores]], Spanish Jesuit missionary (d. 1672)
*[[1651]] &ndash; [[Juana Inés de la Cruz]], Mexican nun, poet, and scholar (d. 1695)<ref>{{cite book|first=Pamela|last=Kirk|title=Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: Religion, Art, and Feminism|location=New York|publisher=Continuum|year=1999|page=18|isbn=978-0-82641-169-3}}</ref>
*[[1655]] &ndash; [[Francis Nicholson]], British Army general and colonial administrator (d. 1727)
*[[1684]] &ndash; [[Edward Vernon]], English admiral and politician (d. 1757)
*[[1729]] &ndash; [[Louis Antoine de Bougainville]], French admiral and explorer (d. 1811)
*[[1755]] &ndash; [[Gerhard von Scharnhorst]], Prussian general and politician, [[Prussian Minister of War]] (d. 1813)
*[[1774]] &ndash; [[Charles Bell]], Scottish surgeon and artist  (d. 1842)<ref>{{cite journal|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P3-1211566921.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924202636/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P3-1211566921.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=24 September 2015 |title=Sir Charles Bell: The artist who went to the roots!|journal= Journal of Postgraduate Medicine|date=1 April 2004|last1=Kazi|first1=Rehan|last2=Rhys-Evans|first2=P.|volume=50 |issue=2 |pages=158–9 |pmid=15235222 }}</ref>
*[[1780]] &ndash; [[Piet Retief]], South African ruler (d. 1838)
*[[1793]] &ndash; [[Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz]], Livonian physician and botanist (d. 1831)
*[[1795]] &ndash; [[Thaddeus William Harris]], American entomologist and botanist (d. 1856)
*[[1815]] &ndash; [[Elizabeth Cady Stanton]], American activist (d. 1902)<ref>{{cite book | last=Kent | first=Deborah | title=Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Woman Knows the Cost of Life | place=Berkeley Heights, New Jersey | publisher=Enslow Publishers | year=2010 | isbn=978-0-7660-3357-3 | page=[https://archive.org/details/elizabethcadysta0000kent/page/114 114] | url-access=registration | url=https://archive.org/details/elizabethcadysta0000kent/page/114 }}</ref>
*[[1817]] &ndash; [[Bahá'u'lláh]], Persian spiritual leader, founded the [[Baháʼí Faith]] (d. 1892)<ref>{{cite book | last1=Melton | first1=J. Gordon | last2=Baumann | first2=Martin | title=Religions of the World : a Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Beliefs and Practices | place=Santa Barbara | publisher=ABC-CLIO | year=2010 | isbn=978-1-5988-4203-6 | page=354}}</ref>
*[[1833]] &ndash; [[Alexander Borodin]], Russian composer and chemist (d. 1887)
*[[1840]] &ndash; [[Auguste Rodin]], French sculptor and illustrator, created [[The Thinker]] (d. 1917)
*[[1842]] &ndash; [[John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh]], English physicist and academic, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. 1919)
*[[1848]] &ndash; [[Eduard Müller (Swiss politician)|Eduard Müller]], Swiss lawyer and politician, 51st [[President of the Swiss Confederation]] (d. 1919)
*[[1850]] &ndash; [[Mikhail Chigorin]], Russian chess player and theoretician (d. 1908)
*[[1866]] &ndash; [[Sun Yat-sen]], Chinese physician and politician, 1st [[President of the Republic of China]] (d. 1925)<ref>{{cite book | last=Chaurasia | first=Radhey Shyam | title=Modern History of China | place=New Delhi | publisher=Atlantic | year=2004 | isbn=978-8-1269-0315-3 | page=131}}</ref>
*[[1872]] &ndash; [[William Fay]], Irish actor and producer (d. 1947)
*[[1881]] &ndash; [[Olev Siinmaa]], Estonian-Swedish architect (d. 1948)
*  1881   &ndash; [[Maximilian von Weichs]], German field marshal (d. 1954)
*[[1886]] &ndash; [[Günther Dyhrenfurth]], German geologist and mountaineer (d. 1975)
*  1886   &ndash; [[Ben Travers]], English author and playwright (d. 1980)
*[[1889]] &ndash; [[DeWitt Wallace]], American publisher and philanthropist, co-founded ''[[Reader's Digest]]'' (d. 1981)
*[[1890]] &ndash; [[Lily Kronberger]], Hungarian figure skater (d. 1974)
*[[1892]] &ndash; [[Tudor Davies]], Welsh tenor and actor (d. 1958)
*[[1894]] &ndash; [[Thorleif Schjelderup-Ebbe]], Norwegian zoologist and comparative psychologist (d. 1976)
*[[1895]] &ndash; [[Manuel Alonso Areizaga]], Spanish tennis player (d. 1984)
*  1895   &ndash; [[Marguerite Henry (scientist)|Marguerite Henry]], Australian zoologist (d. 1982)<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Damkaer |first=David M. |date=2014-07-07 |title=Marguerite Henry (1895-1982), brief candle to Australian entomostracans |url=https://academic.oup.com/jcb/article-lookup/doi/10.1163/1937240X-00002253 |journal=Journal of Crustacean Biology |language=en |volume=34 |issue=4 |pages=534–538 |doi=10.1163/1937240X-00002253 |bibcode=2014JCBio..34..534D |issn=0278-0372}}</ref>
*  1895   &ndash; [[Nima Yooshij]], Iranian poet and academic (d. 1960)
*[[1896]] &ndash; [[Salim Ali]], Indian ornithologist and author (d. 1987)
*[[1897]] &ndash; [[Karl Marx (composer)|Karl Marx]], German composer and conductor (d. 1985)
*[[1898]] &ndash; [[Leon Štukelj]], Slovenian gymnast (d. 1999)
*[[1900]] &ndash; [[Stanley Graham]], New Zealand mass murderer (d. 1941)