Editing October 22 (section)

===1601–1900===
*[[1659]] &ndash; [[Georg Ernst Stahl]], German chemist and physician (d. 1734)<ref>Stahl's date of birth is often given erroneously as 1660. The correct date is recorded in the parish register of St. John's church, Ansbach. See {{cite journal |last=Gottlieb |first=B.J. |year=1942 |title=Vitalistisches Denken in Deutschland im Anschluss an Georg Ernst Stahl |journal=Klinische Wochenschrift |volume=21 |issue=20 |pages=445–448 |doi=10.1007/bf01773817 |s2cid=41987182}}</ref>
*[[1689]] &ndash; [[John V of Portugal|John V]], Portuguese king (d. 1750)<ref>{{Cite web |title=John V, King of Portugal, 1689-1750 |url=https://www.nli.org.il/en/authorities/987007460192505171 |access-date=15 February 2025 |website=The National Library of Israel}}</ref>
*[[1701]] &ndash; [[Maria Amalia, Holy Roman Empress]] (d. 1756)<ref>{{Cite web |last=Schmid |first=Alois |date=1990 |title=Maria Amalia |url=https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/11949213X.html?language=en#ndbcontent |access-date=15 February 2025 |website=Neue Deutsche Biographie |language=de}}</ref>
*[[1729]] &ndash; [[Johann Reinhold Forster]], German pastor and botanist (d. 1798)<ref>{{Cite web |last=Iredale |first=Tom |date=1966 |title=Johann Reinhold Forster (1729–1798) |url=https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/forster-johann-reinhold-2057 |access-date=15 February 2025 |website=Australian Dictionary of Biography}}</ref>
*[[1749]] &ndash; [[Cornelis van der Aa]], Dutch historian and bookseller (d. 1816)<ref>{{Cite web |date=25 December 2023 |title=Aa, Cornelis van der, 1749-1816 |url=https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no91000799.html |access-date=15 February 2025 |website=Library of Congress}}</ref>
*[[1778]] &ndash; [[Javier de Burgos]], Spanish [[jurist]] and politician (d. 1848)<ref>{{cite web |title=Francisco Javier de Burgos y del Olmo - letra R |url=https://www.rae.es/academico/francisco-javier-de-burgos-y-del-olmo |access-date=26 May 2023 |website=[[Real Academia Española]] |language=es}}</ref>
*[[1781]] &ndash; [[Louis Joseph, Dauphin of France]] (d. 1789)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Notice de Personne: Louis (1781-1789 ; dauphin de France) |url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb135141853 |access-date=14 February 2025 |website=Bibliothèque nationale de France: Catalog générale |language=fr}}</ref>
*[[1783]] &ndash; [[Constantine Samuel Rafinesque]], Ottoman-French polymath and naturalist (d. 1840)<ref>{{Cite web |date=19 September 2023 |title=Rafinesque, C. S. (Constantine Samuel), 1783-1840 |url=https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79135521.html |access-date=14 February 2025 |website=Library of Congress}}</ref>
*[[1809]] &ndash; [[Volney Howard]], American lawyer, jurist, and statesman, [[Texas Attorney General]] (d. 1889)<ref>{{Cite web |title=HOWARD, Volney Erskine: 1809 – 1889 |url=https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/H000845 |access-date=14 February 2025 |website=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress}}</ref>
*[[1811]] &ndash; [[Franz Liszt]], Hungarian pianist and composer (d. 1886)<ref>{{cite book|author=Alan Walker|title=Franz Liszt: The virtuoso years, 1811-1847|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lCw4cxHmpgYC&pg=PA55|year=1987|publisher=Cornell University Press|isbn=0-8014-9421-4|pages=55}}</ref>
*[[1818]] &ndash; [[Leconte de Lisle]], French poet and author (d. 1894)<ref>{{cite book|author=William Darrach Halsey|title=Collier's Encyclopedia: With Bibliography and Index|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A8QJAAAAIAAJ|year=1985|publisher=Macmillan Educational Company|page=437}}</ref>
*[[1821]] &ndash; [[Collis Potter Huntington]], American businessman (d. 1900)<ref>{{Cite web |date=23 May 2015 |title=Huntington, Collis Potter, 1821-1900 |url=https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88609739.html |access-date=14 February 2025 |website=Library of Congress}}</ref>
*[[1832]] &ndash; [[August Labitzky]], Czech composer and conductor (d. 1903)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Labitzky, August |url=https://www.bmlo.lmu.de/l0016 |access-date=14 February 2025 |website=bayerisches musiker lexikon online |language=de}}</ref>
*[[1843]] &ndash; [[James Strachan-Davidson]], English classical scholar, academic administrator, translator, and author (d. 1916)<ref>{{cite book |last1 = Mackail |first1 = John W. |title = James Leigh Strachan-Davidson Master of Balliol: a Memoir |publisher=[[Clarendon Press]] |page=10 |year=1925 |oclc=2328170 |author-link1=John William Mackail }}</ref>
*[[1844]] &ndash; [[Sarah Bernhardt]], French actress and manager (d. 1923)<ref>{{Cite web |date=24 May 2018 |title=Bernhardt, Sarah, 1844-1923 |url=https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80057050.html |access-date=14 February 2025 |website=Library of Congress}}</ref>
*  1844   &ndash; [[Louis Riel]], Canadian Métis scholar and politician (d. 1885)<ref>{{Cite web |date=17 September 2023 |title=Riel, Louis, 1844-1885 |url=https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80038477.html |access-date=14 February 2025 |website=Library of Congress}}</ref>
*[[1847]] &ndash; [[Koos de la Rey]], South African Boer general (d. 1914)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Jacobus Herculaas de la Rey |url=http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/people/bios/delaRey,j.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090604092044/http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/people/bios/delaRey,j.htm |archive-date=4 June 2009 |access-date=13 February 2025 |website=South African History Online}}</ref>
*[[1850]] &ndash; [[Charles Kingston]], Australian politician, 20th [[Premier of South Australia]] (d. 1908)<ref name="adb2">{{Australian Dictionary of Biography|last=Playford|first=John|year=1983|id=A090604b|title=Kingston, Charles Cameron (1850–1908)|access-date=22 November 2007}}</ref>
*[[1858]] &ndash; [[Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein]] (d. 1921)<ref>{{cite book|author1=Otto Bismarck|author2=Orro Vow Bismarck|title=The Kaiser Vs. Bismarck: Suppressed Letters by the Kaiser and New Chapters from the Autobiography of the Iron Chancellor|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FFAbAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA7|year=1921|publisher=Harper|pages=7|isbn=9780404008697}}</ref>
*[[1859]] &ndash; [[Prince Ludwig Ferdinand of Bavaria]] (d. 1949)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Prince Ludwig Ferdinand of Bavaria |url=https://entities.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJbtjqP8rtW3qdwBMr4cyd.html |access-date=13 February 2025 |website=WorldCat Entities}}</ref>
*[[1865]] &ndash; [[Borghild Holmsen]], Norwegian pianist, composer and music critic (d. 1938)<ref>{{cite book|last1=Dahm|first1=Cecilie|title=Kvinner komponerer : ni portretter av norske kvinnelige komponister i tiden 1840-1930|date=1987|publisher=Solum|location=Oslo|isbn=8256004851|page=115|url=https://www.nb.no/items/bfe57b65465a02307a9db5d1e6f2bd9c?page=113 |language=no}}</ref>
*  1865 &ndash; [[Kristjan Raud]], Estonian painter and illustrator (d. 1943)<ref>{{cite book|author=Aleksandr Mikhaĭlovich Prokhorov|title=Great Soviet Encyclopedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6FkNAQAAMAAJ|year=1973|publisher=Macmillan|page=508}}</ref>
*[[1870]] &ndash; [[Ivan Bunin]], Russian author and poet, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. 1953)<ref>{{Cite Britannica|title=Ivan Bunin: Russian author|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ivan-Bunin|access-date=13 February 2025}}</ref>
*  1870   &ndash; [[Lord Alfred Douglas]], English author and poet (d. 1945)<ref>{{Cite web |date=25 September 2020 |title=Douglas, Alfred Bruce, 1870-1945 |url=https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50027698.html |access-date=13 February 2025 |website=Library of Congress}}</ref>
*[[1873]] &ndash; [[Gustaf John Ramstedt]], Finnish linguist and diplomat (d. 1950)<ref>{{Cite web |date=8 September 2023 |title=Ramstedt, G. J. (Gustaf John), 1873-1950 |url=https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79003952.html |access-date=13 February 2025 |website=Library of Congress}}</ref>
*  1873   &ndash; [[Rama Tirtha]], Indian philosopher and educator (d. 1906)<ref>{{Cite web |date=2 July 2013 |title=Rama Tirtha, Swami, 1873-1906 |url=https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83129216.html |access-date=13 February 2025 |website=Library of Congress}}</ref>
*[[1875]] &ndash; [[Théodore Monbeig]], French Catholic missionary and botanist (d. 1914)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://irfa.paris/en/missionnaire/2423-monbeig-jean-theodore/ |title=Jean-Théodore MONBEIG |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=<!--Not stated--> |website=irfa.paris |access-date=25 July 2022}}</ref>
*  1875   &ndash; [[David van Embden]], Dutch economist and politician (d. 1962)<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia |title=EMBDEN, David van (1875-1962) |encyclopedia=Biografisch Woordenboek van Nederland |url=https://resources.huygens.knaw.nl/bwn1880-2000/lemmata/bwn1/embden |access-date=13 February 2025 |last=Vries |first=O. |date=12 November 2013 |language=Dutch}}</ref>
*[[1881]] &ndash; [[Clinton Davisson]], American physicist and academic, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. 1958)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Clinton Davisson: Facts |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1937/davisson/facts/ |access-date=13 February 2025 |website=The Nobel Prize}}</ref>
*  1881   &ndash; [[Karl Bernhard Zoeppritz]], German geophysicist and seismologist (d. 1908)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Karl Bernhard Zoeppritz |url=https://entities.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJgRVgRQdTcmwP4bytjV4q.html |access-date=12 February 2025 |website=WorldCat Entities}}</ref>
*[[1882]] &ndash; [[Edmund Dulac]], French-English illustrator (d. 1953)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Notice de Personne: Dulac, Edmund (1882-1953) |url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12933872d |access-date=12 February 2025 |website=Bibliothèque nationale de France: Catalog générale |language=fr}}</ref>
*  1882   &ndash; [[N. C. Wyeth]], American painter and illustrator (d. 1945)<ref>{{Cite web |date=9 September 2023 |title=Wyeth, N. C. (Newell Convers), 1882-1945 |url=https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79054878.html |access-date=12 February 2025 |website=Library of Congress}}</ref>
*[[1885]] &ndash; [[Giovanni Martinelli]], Italian tenor and actor (d. 1969)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Notice de Personne: Martinelli, Giovanni (1885-1969) |url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb13897139t |access-date=12 February 2025 |website=Bibliothèque nationale de France: Catalog générale |language=fr}}</ref>
*[[1886]] &ndash; [[Erik Bergman (Lutheran minister)|Erik Bergman]], Swedish minister (d. 1970)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Notice de Personne: Bergman, Erik (1886-1970) |url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12432891k |access-date=12 February 2025 |website=Bibliothèque nationale de France: Catalog générale |language=fr}}</ref>
*[[1887]] &ndash; [[John Reed (journalist)|John Reed]], American journalist and poet (d. 1920)<ref>{{Cite web |date=12 January 2019 |title=Reed, John, 1887-1920 |url=https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81082936.html |access-date=12 February 2025 |website=Library of Congress}}</ref>
*[[1893]] &ndash; [[Ernst Öpik]], Estonian astronomer and astrophysicist (d. 1985)<ref>{{Cite web |date=4 November 2014 |title=Öpik, Ernst Julius, 1893-1985 |url=https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82090818.html |access-date=11 February 2025 |website=Library of Congress}}</ref>
*  1893   &ndash; [[Luis Otero (footballer)|Luis Otero]], Spanish footballer (d. 1955)<ref>{{cite web |title=Luis Otero |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/24933 |access-date=15 August 2021 |work=Olympedia}}</ref>
*[[1894]] &ndash; [[Mei Lanfang]], Chinese actor and singer (d. 1961)<ref>{{Cite Britannica|title=Mei Lanfang: Chinese singer, actor, and dancer|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mei-Lanfang|access-date=11 February 2025}}</ref>
*[[1895]] &ndash; [[Johnny Morrison (baseball)|Johnny Morrison]], professional baseball player (d. 1966)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Johnny Morrison |url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/morrijo04.shtml |access-date=11 February 2025 |website=Baseball Reference}}</ref>
*[[1896]] &ndash; [[Charles Glen King]], American biochemist and academic (d. 1988)<ref>{{Cite web |date=17 March 2024 |title=King, Charles Glen, 1896-1988 |url=https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n89143845.html |access-date=11 February 2025 |website=Library of Congress}}</ref>
*  1896   &ndash; [[José Leitão de Barros]], Portuguese film director and playwright (d. 1967)<ref>{{Cite web |date=20 November 2021 |title=Maria do Mar (1930): José Leitão de Barros / Bernardo Sassetti |url=https://www.teatromunicipaldoporto.pt/en/programa/maria-do-mar-1930-jose-leitao-de-barros-bernardo-sassetti/ |access-date=28 February 2025 |website=Teatro Municipal do Porto}}</ref>
*[[1897]] &ndash; [[Marjorie Flack]], American author and illustrator (d. 1958)<ref>{{cite book|last=Whitehead|first=Winifred|chapter=Flack, Marjorie|editor-first=D.L.|editor-last=Kirkpatrick|title=Twentieth-century Children's Writers|location=London|publisher=Macmillan|year=1978|isbn=978-0-33323-414-3|page=461}}</ref>
*[[1898]] &ndash; [[Dámaso Alonso]], Spanish poet and [[philologist]] (d. 1990)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Notice de Personne: Alonso, Dámaso (1898-1990) |url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12020631s |access-date=10 February 2025 |website=Bibliothèque nationale de France: Catalog générale |language=fr}}</ref>
*[[1899]] &ndash; [[Salarrué]], Salvadoran writer and painter (d. 1975)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Notice de Personne: Salazar Arrué, Salvador (1899-1975) |url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb118874542 |access-date=10 February 2025 |website=Bibliothèque nationale de France: Catalog générale |language=fr}}</ref>