Editing October 31 (section)

===1601–1900===
*[[1620]] &ndash; [[John Evelyn]], English gardener and author (d. 1706)
*[[1632]] &ndash; [[Johannes Vermeer]], Dutch painter (d. 1675)
*[[1636]] &ndash; [[Ferdinand Maria, Elector of Bavaria]] (d. 1679)
*[[1638]] &ndash; [[Meindert Hobbema]], Dutch painter (d. 1709)
*[[1686]] &ndash; [[Senesino]], Italian singer and actor (d. 1758)
*[[1692]] &ndash; [[Anne Claude de Caylus]], French archaeologist and author (d. 1765)
*[[1694]] &ndash; [[Yeongjo of Joseon]] (d. 1776)
*[[1705]] &ndash; [[Pope Clement XIV]] (d. 1774)<ref>{{cite web |title=Clement XIV {{!}} pope |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Clement-XIV |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=1 October 2020 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[1711]] &ndash; [[Laura Bassi]], Italian physician, physicist, and academic (d. 1778)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Laura-Bassi|title=Laura Bassi {{!}} Italian scientist|last=Gregersen|first=Erik|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|language=en|access-date=2019-08-27}}</ref>
*[[1714]] &ndash; [[Hedvig Taube]], Swedish courtier (d. 1744)
*[[1724]] &ndash; [[Christopher Anstey]], English author and poet (d. 1805)
*[[1729]] &ndash; [[Alonso Núñez de Haro y Peralta]], Spanish cleric, Archbishop of Mexico, [[Viceroy of New Spain]] (d. 1800)
*[[1737]] &ndash; [[James Lovell (Continental Congress)|James Lovell]], American educator and politician (d. 1789)
*[[1760]] &ndash; [[Hokusai|Katsushika Hokusai]], Japanese artist and printmaker (d. 1849)
*[[1795]] &ndash; [[John Keats]], English poet (d. 1821)
*[[1809]] &ndash; [[Edmund Sharpe]], English architect, architectural historian, railway engineer, and sanitary reformer (d. 1877)<ref>{{Citation | last = O'Donoghue| first = Freeman Marius |title= Sharpe, Edmund (1809–1877), architect |publisher= Oxford University Press | url = http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/olddnb/25228| access-date =18 March 2012}}</ref>
*[[1815]] &ndash; [[Thomas Chapman (Australian politician)|Thomas Chapman]], English-Australian politician, 5th [[Premier of Tasmania]] (d. 1884)
*  1815   &ndash; [[Karl Weierstrass]], German mathematician and academic (d. 1897)
*[[1825]] &ndash; [[Charles Lavigerie]], French-Algerian cardinal and academic (d. 1892)
*[[1831]] &ndash; [[Paolo Mantegazza]], Italian neurologist, physiologist, and anthropologist (d. 1910)
*[[1835]] &ndash; [[Adelbert Ames]], American general and politician, 27th [[Governor of Mississippi]] (d. 1933)
*  1835   &ndash; [[Krišjānis Barons]], Latvian linguist and author (d. 1923)
*  1835   &ndash; [[Adolf von Baeyer]], German chemist and academic, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. 1917)
*[[1838]] &ndash; [[Luís I of Portugal]] (d. 1889)
*[[1847]] &ndash; [[Galileo Ferraris]], Italian physicist and engineer (d. 1897)
*[[1848]] &ndash; [[Boston Custer]], American soldier (d. 1876)
*[[1849]] &ndash; [[Marie Louise Andrews]], American story writer and journalist  (d. 1891)
*[[1851]] &ndash; [[Louise of Sweden]] (d. 1926)
*[[1856]] &ndash; [[Charles Leroux]], American balloonist and skydiver (d. 1889)
*[[1858]] &ndash; [[Saint Geevarghese Mar Dionysius of Vattasseril]], Indian Orthodox Saint (d. 1934)
*[[1860]] &ndash; [[Juliette Gordon Low]], American scout leader, founded the [[Girl Scouts of the United States of America]] (d. 1927)
*  1860   &ndash; [[Andrew Volstead]], American politician (d. 1947)
*[[1868]] &ndash; [[John Weir Troy]], American journalist, and politician, 5th [[List of Governors of Alaska|Governor]] of the [[Territory of Alaska]] (d. 1942)
*[[1875]] &ndash; [[Eugene Meyer (financier)|Eugene Meyer]], American businessman and publisher (d. 1954)
*  1875   &ndash; [[Vallabhbhai Patel]], Indian lawyer, freedom fighter and politician, 1st [[Deputy Prime Minister of India]] (d. 1950)
*[[1876]] &ndash; [[Natalie Clifford Barney]], American poet and playwright (d. 1972)
*[[1879]] &ndash; [[Karel Hašler]], Czech actor, director, and composer (d. 1941)
*[[1880]] &ndash; [[Julia Peterkin]], American author (d. 1961)
*  1880   &ndash; [[Mikhail Tomsky]], Soviet politician, member of the [[Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union]] (d. 1936)
*[[1881]] &ndash; [[Toshizō Nishio]], Japanese general (d. 1960)
*[[1883]] &ndash; [[Marie Laurencin]], French painter and illustrator (d. 1956)
*  1883   &ndash; [[Anthony Wilding]], New Zealand tennis player, cricketer, and soldier (d. 1915)
*[[1887]] &ndash; [[Chiang Kai-shek]], Chinese general and politician, 1st [[List of Presidents of the Republic of China|President of the Republic of China]] (d. 1975)
*  1887   &ndash; [[Newsy Lalonde]], Canadian ice hockey player and lacrosse player (d. 1970)
*[[1888]] &ndash; [[Napoleon Lapathiotis]], Greek poet and author (d. 1944)
*[[1892]] &ndash; [[Alexander Alekhine]], Russian chess player and author (d. 1946)
*[[1895]] &ndash; [[B. H. Liddell Hart]], English soldier, historian, and theorist (d. 1970)
*[[1896]] &ndash; [[Ethel Waters]], American singer and actress (d. 1977)
*[[1897]] &ndash; [[Constance Savery]], English author (d. 1999)<ref>{{cite web |title=Obituary: Constance Savery |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-constance-savery-1081314.html |website=The Independent |date=18 March 1999 |publisher=independent.uk |access-date=August 24, 2018}}</ref>
*[[1900]] &ndash; [[Asbjørg Borgfelt]], Norwegian sculptor (d. 1976)