Editing October 21 (section)

===1601–1900===
*[[1650]] &ndash; [[Jean Bart]], French admiral (d. 1702)
*[[1658]] &ndash; [[Henri de Boulainvilliers]], French nobleman (d. 1722)
*[[1675]] &ndash; [[Emperor Higashiyama]] of Japan (d. 1710)
*[[1687]] &ndash; [[Nicolaus I Bernoulli]], Swiss mathematician and theorist (d. 1759)
*[[1712]] &ndash; [[James Steuart (economist)|James Steuart]], Scottish economist and author (d. 1780)<ref>{{cite web |title=Sir James Steuart Denham, 4th Baronet {{!}} Scottish economist {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sir-James-Steuart-Denham-4th-Baronet |website=www.britannica.com |access-date=31 May 2022 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[1725]] &ndash; [[Franz Moritz von Lacy]], Austrian field marshal (d. 1801)
*[[1757]] &ndash; [[Pierre Augereau]], French general (d. 1816)
*[[1762]] &ndash; [[Herman Willem Daendels]], Dutch general, lawyer, and politician, 36th [[Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies]] (d. 1818)
*[[1772]] &ndash; [[Samuel Taylor Coleridge]], English poet, philosopher, and critic (d. 1834)
*[[1775]] &ndash; [[Giuseppe Baini]], Italian priest, composer, and critic (d. 1844)
*[[1790]] &ndash; [[Alphonse de Lamartine]], French poet and politician, [[French Head of State]] (d. 1869)
*[[1809]] &ndash; [[James Clark (Jesuit)|James Clark]], American Jesuit (d. 1885)<ref>{{Cite book|last=Mendizàbal|first=Rufo|url=https://jesuitarchives.omeka.net/items/show/826|title=Catalogus defunctorum in renata Societate Iesu ab a. 1814 ad a. 1970|year=1972|location=Rome|pages=91–122|language=la|trans-title=Catalogue of the dead in a revival of the Society of Jesus from 1814 to 1970|oclc=884102|access-date=February 22, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211019104247/https://jesuitarchives.omeka.net/items/show/826|archive-date=October 19, 2021|url-status=live|via=Jesuit Archives}}</ref>
*[[1811]] &ndash; [[Filippo Colini]], Italian operatic baritone (d. 1863)
*[[1821]] &ndash; [[Sims Reeves]], English tenor and actor (d. 1900)
*[[1833]] &ndash; [[Alfred Nobel]], Swedish chemist and engineer, invented [[dynamite]] and founded the [[Nobel Prize]] (d. 1896)
*[[1845]] &ndash; [[Will Carleton]], American poet and journalist (d. 1912)
*[[1847]] &ndash; [[Giuseppe Giacosa]], Italian poet and playwright (d. 1906)
*[[1851]] &ndash; [[George Ulyett]], English cricketer and footballer (d. 1898) 
*[[1868]] &ndash; [[Ernest Swinton]], British Army officer (d. 1951)
*[[1874]] &ndash; [[Tan Kah Kee]], Chinese businessman, community leader, communist and philanthropist (d. 1961)
*[[1877]] &ndash; [[Oswald Avery]], Canadian-American physician and microbiologist (d. 1955)
*[[1884]] &ndash; [[Claire Waldoff]], German singer and actress (d. 1957)
*[[1886]] &ndash; [[Eugene Burton Ely]], American soldier and pilot (d. 1911)
*[[1887]] &ndash; [[Krishna Singh (politician)|Krishna Singh]], Indian lawyer and politician, 1st [[Chief Minister of Bihar]] (d. 1961)
*[[1894]] &ndash; [[Edogawa Ranpo]], Japanese author and critic (d. 1965)
*[[1895]] &ndash; [[Paavo Johansson]], Finnish javelin thrower and decathlete (d. 1983)
*  1895   &ndash; [[Edna Purviance]], American actress (d. 1958)
*[[1896]] &ndash; [[Esther Shumiatcher-Hirschbein]], Russian-Canadian poet and screenwriter (d. 1985)
*[[1898]] &ndash; [[Eduard Pütsep]], Estonian wrestler and actor (d. 1960)
*[[1900]] &ndash; [[Andrée Boisson]], French Olympic fencer (d. 1973)