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===1601–1900=== *[[1612]] – [[Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Burlington]], Anglo-Irish nobleman, Lord High Treasurer of Ireland, Cavalier (d. 1698)<ref>{{cite book|author1=Nicholas Canny|author2=Nicholas P. Canny|title=The Upstart Earl: A Study of the Social and Mental World of Richard Boyle, First Earl of Cork, 1566–1643|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5fQ8AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA78|date= 1982|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-24416-9|page=78}}</ref> *[[1616]] – [[Thomas Bartholin]], Danish physician, mathematician, and theologian (d. 1680)<ref>{{cite book|author1=John Lemprière|author2=Eleazar Lord|title=Lempriere's Universal Biography: Containing a Critical and Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Labours of Eminent Persons, in All Ages and Countries. Together with Selections of Foreign Biography from Watkin's Dictionary, Recently Published, and about Eight Hundred Original Articles of American Biography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=06kDAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA177|year=1825|publisher=R. Lockwood|page=177}}</ref> *[[1620]] – [[Aelbert Cuyp]], Dutch painter (d. 1691) *[[1632]] – [[Edward Hungerford (spendthrift)|Edward Hungerford]], English politician (d. 1711)<ref>{{cite book|author=Fayette Phelps Leach|title=Thomas Hungerford of Hartford and New London, Conn: And Some of His Descendants with Their English Ancestors. Supplement|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aFZmAAAAMAAJ|year=1932}}</ref> *[[1660]] – [[Robert Bertie, 1st Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven]], English politician, [[Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster]] (d. 1723)<ref>{{cite book|author=Sylvanus Urban|title=The Gentleman's Magazine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TMEUAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA767|year=1864|page=767}}</ref> *[[1677]] – [[Stanisław Leszczyński]], King of Poland (d. 1766)<ref>{{cite book|author1=Stanley S. Sokol|author2=Sharon F. Mrotek Kissane|author3=Alfred L. Abramowicz|title=The Polish Biographical Dictionary: Profiles of Nearly 900 Poles who Have Made Lasting Contributions to World Civilization|url=https://archive.org/details/polishbiographic00soko|url-access=registration|year=1992|publisher=Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers|isbn=978-0-86516-245-7|pages=[https://archive.org/details/polishbiographic00soko/page/229 229]–}}</ref> *[[1679]] – [[Samuel von Cocceji]], Prussian jurist and statesman (d. 1755)<ref>{{Cite book |title=The Bloomsbury Dictionary of Eighteenth-Century German Philosophers |year=2016 |isbn=9781474255981 |editor-last=Klemme |editor-first=Heiner F. |pages=138–139 |chapter=Cocceji, Samuel von |publisher=Bloomsbury |editor-last2=Kuehn |editor-first2=Manfred |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YH6fCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA138}}</ref> *[[1711]] – [[Timothy Ruggles]], American lawyer, jurist, and politician, (d. 1795)<ref>{{cite book|author=Henry Stoddard Ruggles|title=General Timothy Ruggles, 1711–1795|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b3sjAQAAMAAJ|year=1897|publisher=Priv. print.}}</ref> *[[1718]] – [[Catherine Gordon, Duchess of Gordon]], Scottish aristocrat (d. 1779)<ref>George Naylor, The Register's of Thorrington (n.n.: n.n., 1888). Hereinafter cited as Registers of Thorrington.</ref> *[[1719]] – [[Gottfried Achenwall]], German historian, economist, and jurist (d. 1772)<ref>{{cite book|author1=Norman L. Johnson|author2=Samuel Kotz|title=Leading Personalities in Statistical Sciences: From the Seventeenth Century to the Present|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AzZZ-uW6WuEC&pg=PA5|date=2011|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=978-1-118-15072-6|page=5}}</ref> *[[1740]] – [[Isabelle de Charrière]], Dutch author and poet (d. 1805) *[[1759]] – [[Chauncey Goodrich]], American lawyer and politician, 8th [[Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut]] (d. 1815) *[[1780]] – [[Pauline Bonaparte]], French sister of [[Napoleon]] (d. 1825) *[[1784]] – [[Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston]], English academic and politician, [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] (d. 1865) *[[1785]] – [[George Ormerod]], English historian and author (d. 1873) *[[1790]] – [[Patrick Matthew]]. Scottish farmer and biologist (d. 1874) *[[1801]] – [[Melchior Berri]], Swiss architect and educator, designed the [[Natural History Museum of Basel]] (d. 1854) *[[1808]] – [[Karl Andree]], German geographer and journalist (d. 1875) *[[1819]] – [[Báb]], Iranian religious leader, founded [[Bábism]] (d. 1850) *[[1822]] – [[Thomas Hughes]], English lawyer and judge (d. 1896) *[[1832]] – [[Constantin Lipsius]], German architect and theorist (d. 1894) *[[1847]] – [[Frits Thaulow]], Norwegian painter (d. 1906) *[[1854]] – [[Arthur Rimbaud]], French soldier and poet (d. 1891) *[[1858]] – [[John Burns]], English union leader and politician, [[President of the Board of Trade]] (d. 1943) *[[1859]] – [[John Dewey]], American psychologist and philosopher (d. 1952) *[[1864]] – [[James F. Hinkle]], American banker and politician, 6th [[Governor of New Mexico]] (d. 1951) *[[1873]] – [[Nellie McClung]], Canadian author and suffragist (d. 1951)<ref>{{cite book |last=Gray |first=Charlotte |title=Extraordinary Canadians: Nellie McClung |publisher=[[Penguin Group]] |year=2008 |isbn=978-0-143-18367-9 |location=Toronto |author-link=Charlotte Gray (author) |url=https://archive.org/details/nelliemcclung0000gray |url-access=registration |oclc=213400806 |pages=9–10}}</ref> * 1873 – [[Jussi Merinen]], Finnish politician (d. 1918)<ref>{{cite web |title=Person: Merinen, Juho Rikard |url=https://sotasurmat.narc.fi/en/victims/page/p_15762/table |website=[[War Victims of Finland 1914–1922]] |publisher=[[National Archives of Finland]] |access-date=23 July 2023 |location=Helsinki, Finland}}</ref> *[[1874]] – [[Charles Ives]], American composer (d. 1954) *[[1877]] – [[Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt]], American businessman (d. 1915)<ref>{{cite news|title=Vanderbilt Left His Wife at Home...|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1915/05/08/archives/vanderbilt-left-his-wife-at-home-wealthiest-youth-in-america.html|access-date=27 April 2017|work=The New York Times|date=8 May 1915}}</ref> *[[1882]] – [[Margaret Dumont]], American actress (d. 1965) * 1882 – [[Bela Lugosi]], Hungarian-American actor (d. 1956) *[[1883]] – [[Karl Probst]], American engineer (d. 1963)<ref>{{cite news |title=The Incredible Jeep |first=Ronald |last=Bailey |date=July 14, 2009 |work=HistoryNet |url=http://www.historynet.com/the-incredible-jeep.htm}}</ref> *[[1887]] – [[Prince Yasuhiko Asaka]] of Japan (d. 1981) *[[1889]] – [[Johann Gruber]], Austrian priest and saint (d. 1944) *[[1890]] – [[Aleksander Maaker]], Estonian [[bagpipe]] player (d. 1968) *[[1891]] – [[Samuel Flagg Bemis]], American historian and author (d. 1973)<ref>{{cite book|author1=Heinz Dietrich Fischer|author2=Erika J. Fischer|title=American History Awards, 1917–1991: From Colonial Settlements to the Civil Rights Movement|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BIdEedwsbcEC&pg=PA45|year=1994|publisher=Walter de Gruyter|isbn=978-3-598-30177-3|page=45}}</ref> * 1891 – [[James Chadwick]], English physicist and academic, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. 1974)<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/education-today/gk-current-affairs/story/james-chadwick-the-quiet-genius-who-discovered-the-neutron-2620115-2024-10-20|title=James Chadwick, the quiet genius who discovered the neutron|last=Chakrabarty|first=Roshni|date=20 October 2024|magazine=India Today|access-date=22 October 2024}}</ref> *[[1893]] – [[Charley Chase]], American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1940)<ref>{{cite book|author1=Brian Anthony|author2=Andy Edmonds|title=Smile When the Raindrops Fall: The Story of Charley Chase|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z_7T2JWhJdUC&pg=PA4|date= 1997|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-1-4617-3418-5|page=4}}</ref> *[[1894]] – [[Olive Thomas]], American model and actress (d. 1920) *[[1895]] – [[Rex Ingram (actor)|Rex Ingram]], American actor (d. 1969) * 1895 – [[Morrie Ryskind]], American writer/director (d. 1985) *[[1897]] – [[Yi Un]], South Korean general (d. 1970) *[[1900]] – [[Ismail al-Azhari]], Sudanese politician, 3rd [[President of Sudan]] (d. 1969) * 1900 – [[Wayne Morse]], American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician (d. 1974)
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