Editing September 17 (section)

===1601–1900===
*[[1605]] &ndash; [[Francesco Sacrati]], Italian composer (d. 1650)
*[[1630]] &ndash; [[Ranuccio II Farnese, Duke of Parma|Ranuccio II Farnese]], Duke of Parma (d. 1694)
*[[1639]] &ndash; [[Hans Herr]], Swiss bishop (d. 1725)<ref>{{cite book|author=Lancaster County Historical Society (Pa.)|title=Papers Read Before the Lancaster County Historical Society|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TdHQ8Fxw8mQC|year=1925|publisher=Lancaster County Historical Society|page=80}}</ref>
*[[1688]] &ndash; [[Maria Luisa of Savoy]], queen consort of Spain (d. 1714)
*[[1730]] &ndash; [[Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben]], Prussian-American general (d. 1794)
*[[1739]] &ndash; [[John Rutledge]], American judge and politician, 2nd [[Chief Justice of the United States]] (d. 1800)
*[[1743]] &ndash; [[Marquis de Condorcet]], French mathematician and political scientist (d. 1794)
*[[1771]] &ndash; [[Johann August Apel]], German jurist and author (d. 1816)<ref>{{cite book|author=Albert Ernest Wier|title=The Macmillan Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians: In One Volume|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nx8KAQAAMAAJ|year=1938|publisher=Macmillan|page=60}}</ref>
*[[1773]] &ndash; [[Jonathan Alder]], American captain and farmer (d. 1849)
*[[1783]] &ndash; [[Nadezhda Durova]], Russian soldier (d. 1866)
*[[1797]] &ndash; [[Heinrich Kuhl]], German naturalist and zoologist (d. 1821)
*[[1817]] &ndash; [[Herman Adolfovich Trautschold|Herman Adolfovich Trautscohold]], German geologist and paleontologist (d. 1902)
*[[1819]] &ndash; [[Marthinus Wessel Pretorius]], South African general and politician, 1st [[President of the South African Republic]] (d. 1901)<ref>{{cite book|title=They Made this Land|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=URUaAAAAIAAJ|year=1981|publisher=Donker|isbn=978-0-949937-78-0|page=247}}</ref>
*[[1820]] &ndash; [[Émile Augier]], French playwright (d. 1889)
*  1820   &ndash; [[Earl Van Dorn]], Confederate general (d. 1863)
*[[1821]] &ndash; [[Arthur Saint-Léon]], French choreographer (d. 1870)
*[[1825]] &ndash; [[Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II]], American jurist and politician, 16th [[United States Secretary of the Interior]] (d. 1893)
*[[1826]] &ndash; [[Bernhard Riemann]], German-Italian mathematician and academic (d. 1866)
*[[1850]] &ndash; [[Guerra Junqueiro]], Portuguese journalist, lawyer, and politician (d. 1923)
*[[1853]] &ndash; [[Frederick Corbett]], British officer and [[Victoria Cross]] recipient (d. 1912)
*[[1854]] &ndash; [[David Dunbar Buick]], Scottish-American businessman, founded [[Buick|Buick Motor Company]] (d. 1929)
*[[1857]] &ndash; [[Konstantin Tsiolkovsky]], Russian scientist and engineer (d. 1935)
*[[1859]] &ndash; [[Frank Dawson Adams]], Canadian geologist and academic (d. 1942)
*  1859   &ndash; [[Billy the Kid]], American gunman (d. 1881)
*  1859   &ndash; [[I. L. Patterson]], American politician, 18th [[Governor of Oregon]] (d. 1929)
*[[1860]] &ndash; [[Mihkel Martna]], Estonian journalist and politician (d. 1934)
*[[1864]] &ndash; [[Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky]], Ukrainian writer (d. 1913)
*  1864   &ndash; [[James Tancred]], English admiral (d. 1943)
*[[1865]] &ndash; [[William Murray McPherson]], Australian politician, 31st [[Premier of Victoria]] (d. 1932)
*[[1867]] &ndash; [[Vera Yevstafievna Popova]], Russian chemist (d. 1896)
*[[1868]] &ndash; [[James Alexander Calder]], Canadian educator and politician, [[Minister of Militia and Defence (Canada)|Canadian Minister of Militia and Defence]] (d. 1956)
*[[1869]] &ndash; [[Christian Lous Lange]], Norwegian political scientist, historian, and academic, [[Nobel Peace Prize|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. 1938)
*[[1871]] &ndash; [[Eivind Astrup]], Norwegian explorer (d. 1895)<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Eivind Astrup |first=Susan |last=Barr |encyclopedia=[[Store norske leksikon]] |date=22 August 2023 |editor-last=Bolstad | editor-first=Erik |publisher=Norsk nettleksikon |location=Oslo |url=https://snl.no/Eivind_Astrup |language=no|access-date=29 March 2024}}</ref>
*[[1874]] &ndash; [[Walter Murdoch]], Australian author and academic (d. 1970)
*[[1878]] &ndash; [[Vincenzo Tommasini]], Italian composer (d. 1950)
*[[1879]] &ndash; [[Rube Foster]], American baseball player and manager (d. 1930)
*  1879   &ndash; [[Periyar E. V. Ramasamy]], Indian businessman, social activist,  and politician (d. 1973)
*[[1881]] &ndash; [[Alfred Carpenter]], English admiral, [[Victoria Cross]] recipient (d. 1955)<ref>{{cite book|title=The Dictionary of National Biography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g6ZZAAAAYAAJ|year=1951|publisher=Oxford University Press|page=188}}</ref>
*[[1883]] &ndash; [[William Carlos Williams]], American poet, short story writer, and essayist (d. 1963)<ref>{{cite book|author=William Carlos Williams|title=William Carlos Williams|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C1DlFf127E8C&pg=PA4|year=2003|publisher=Sterling Publishing Co., Inc.|isbn=978-1-4027-0006-4|page=4}}</ref>
*[[1884]] &ndash; [[Charles Griffes]], American pianist and composer (d. 1920)
*[[1886]] &ndash; [[Anton Irv]], Estonian captain (d. 1919)
*[[1897]] &ndash; [[Earl Webb]], American baseball player and coach (d. 1965)
*[[1900]] &ndash; [[Hughie Critz]], American baseball player (d. 1980)
*  1900   &ndash; [[Lena Frances Edwards]], African-American physician, awarded the [[Presidential Medal of Freedom]] (d. 1986)
*  1900   &ndash; [[J. Willard Marriott]], American businessman, founded the [[Marriott Corporation]] (d. 1985)
*  1900   &ndash; [[Martha Ostenso]], Canadian screenwriter and novelist (d. 1963)
*  1900   &ndash; [[Hedwig Ross]], New Zealand-born educator and political activist, founding member of the [[Communist Party of New Zealand]] (d. 1971)