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===1601–1900===
*[[1605]] &ndash; [[William Dugdale]], English genealogist and historian (d. 1686)
*[[1690]] &ndash; [[Peter Dens]], Flemish theologian and academic (d. 1775)<ref>{{cite book|author=Peter Le Page Renouf|title=The Letters of Peter Le Page Renouf (1822–1897): Pembroke College, Oxford (1840–1842). St. Mary's College, Oscott (1842–1846)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QUNtAAAAMAAJ|year=2002|publisher=University College Dublin Press|isbn=978-1-900621-65-6|page=224}}</ref>
*[[1736]] &ndash; [[Hsinbyushin]], Burmese king (d. 1776)
*[[1739]] &ndash; [[Mary Fletcher (preacher)|Mary Bosanquet Fletcher]], [[Methodism|Methodist]] preacher and philanthropist (d. 1815)<ref>{{Cite book |title=Women Preachers in Community: Sarah Ryan, Sarah Crosby, Mary Bosanquet |last=Burge |first=Janet |publisher=Foundery Press |year=1996 |isbn=9781858520629 |page=11}}</ref>
*[[1740]] &ndash; [[Johann Heinrich Jung]], German author and academic (d. 1817)
*[[1768]] &ndash; [[Benjamin Carr]], English-American singer-songwriter, educator, and publisher (d. 1831)
*[[1797]] &ndash; [[Samuel Joseph May]], American activist (d. 1871)
*[[1812]] &ndash; [[Edward Shepherd Creasy]], English historian and jurist (d. 1878)
*  1812   &ndash; [[Richard March Hoe]], American engineer and businessman, invented the [[Rotary printing press]] (d. 1886)
*[[1818]] &ndash; [[Richard Jordan Gatling]], American inventor, invented the [[Gatling gun]] (d. 1903)
*  1818   &ndash; [[Theodor Kullak]], German pianist, composer, and educator (d. 1882)
*[[1828]] &ndash; [[William Morgan (South Australian politician)|William Morgan]], English-Australian politician, 14th [[Premier of South Australia]] (d. 1883)
*[[1829]] &ndash; [[Anselm Feuerbach]], German painter (d. 1880)
*  1829   &ndash; [[Charles Dudley Warner]], American essayist and novelist (d. 1900)<ref>Fields, Annie. (1904). ''Charles Dudley Warner''. McClure, Phillips & Co., New York.</ref>
*[[1830]] &ndash; [[William Sprague IV|William Sprague]], American businessman and politician, 27th [[Governor of Rhode Island]] (d. 1915)
*[[1837]] &ndash; [[Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse]] (d. 1892)
*[[1852]] &ndash; [[H. H. Asquith]], English lawyer and politician, [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] (d. 1928)<ref>{{cite book|title=The American Whitaker Almanac and Encyclopedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W1QwAAAAIAAJ|year=1915|page=516}}</ref>
*[[1855]] &ndash; [[Simon-Napoléon Parent]], Canadian lawyer and politician, 12th [[Premier of Quebec]] (d. 1920)
*[[1856]] &ndash; [[Johann Heinrich Beck]], American composer and conductor (d. 1924)
*[[1857]] &ndash; [[Manuel Espinosa Batista]], Colombian pharmacist and politician (d. 1919)
*[[1862]] &ndash; [[Carl Eytel]], German-American painter and illustrator (d. 1925)
*[[1866]] &ndash; [[Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon]], English cricketer and politician, 13th [[Governor General of Canada]] (d. 1941)
*[[1869]] &ndash; [[Paweł Owerłło]], Polish actor (d. 1957)
*[[1875]] &ndash; [[Matsunosuke Onoe]], Japanese actor and director (d. 1926)
*[[1880]] &ndash; [[H. L. Mencken]], American journalist and critic (d. 1956)
*[[1882]] &ndash; [[Ion Agârbiceanu]], Romanian journalist, politician, and archbishop (d. 1963)
*[[1884]] &ndash; [[Martin Klein (wrestler)|Martin Klein]], Estonian wrestler and coach (d. 1947)
*[[1885]] &ndash; [[Heinrich Hoffmann (photographer)|Heinrich Hoffmann]], German photographer and art dealer (d. 1957)
*[[1888]] &ndash; [[Maurice Chevalier]], French actor, singer, and dancer (d. 1972)<ref>{{cite book|author=James Monaco|title=The Encyclopedia of Film|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kqcYAQAAIAAJ&pg=RA2-PA1977|year=1991|publisher=Perigee Books|isbn=978-0-399-51604-7|pages=112}}</ref>
*[[1889]] &ndash; [[Ugo Pasquale Mifsud]], Maltese politician, 3rd [[Prime Minister of Malta]] (d. 1942)
*[[1891]] &ndash; [[Pedro Albizu Campos]], Puerto Rican lawyer and politician (d. 1965)
*  1891   &ndash; [[Jean-François Martial]], Belgian actor (d. 1977)
*  1891   &ndash; [[Arthur Hays Sulzberger]], American publisher (d. 1968)
*[[1892]] &ndash; [[Alfred A. Knopf Sr.]], American publisher, founded [[Alfred A. Knopf|Alfred A. Knopf Inc.]] (d. 1984)
*[[1894]] &ndash; [[Kyuichi Tokuda]], Japanese lawyer and politician (d. 1953)
*  1894   &ndash; [[Dorothy Maud Wrinch]], Argentinian-English mathematician, biochemist and philosopher (d. 1976)<ref>{{cite book |last=Ware |first=Susan |title=Notable American Women: A Biographical Dictionary Completing the Twentieth Century |volume=5 | place=Cambridge Mass. |publisher=Belknap Press |year=2004 |isbn=9780674014886| page=703}}</ref>
*[[1895]] &ndash; [[Freymóður Jóhannsson]], Icelandic painter and composer (d. 1973)
*[[1897]] &ndash; [[Irène Joliot-Curie]], French chemist and physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. 1956)<ref>{{cite book |last=Crossfield |first=E. Tina |chapter=Irène Joliot-Curie: Following in Her Mother's Footsteps |editor-first1=Marelene F. |editor-last1=Rayner-Canham| editor-first2=Geoffrey W. |editor-last2=Rayner-Canham |title=A Devotion to Their Science: Pioneer Women of Radioactivity |place=Montreal |publisher=McGill-Queens University Press |year=1997 |isbn=978-0-7735-1642-7 |page=97}}</ref>
*  1897   &ndash; [[Walter B. Gibson]], American magician and author (d. 1985)
*[[1898]] &ndash; [[Salvador Bacarisse]], Spanish composer (d. 1963)
*  1898   &ndash; [[Alma Moodie]], Australian violinist and educator (d. 1943)
*  1898   &ndash; [[Ben Shahn]], Lithuanian-American painter and photographer (d. 1969)
*[[1900]] &ndash; [[Martha Atwell]], American radio director (d. 1949)<ref>Howes, Durward, ed. (1937). ''[https://archive.org/details/americanwomenoff02howe/page/26/mode/2up?q=%22Atwell+Martha%22 American Women : The Official Who's Who Among the Women of the Nation, Vol. II (1937–38)]''. Los Angeles: American Publications, Inc. p.&nbsp;26. [[OCLC|435906904]].</ref>
*  1900   &ndash; [[Haskell Curry]], American mathematician, logician, and academic (d. 1982)