Editing September 2 (section)

===1601–1900===
*[[1661]] &ndash; [[Georg Böhm]], German organist and composer (d. 1733)
*[[1675]] &ndash; [[William Somervile]], English poet and author (d. 1742)
*[[1753]] &ndash; [[Marie Joséphine of Savoy]] (d. 1810)<ref>{{cite book|title=Kings and Queens of France: Biographical Portraits|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JcBWAAAAYAAJ|year=1929|publisher=Lévy et Neurdein|pages=1–14}}</ref>
*[[1778]] &ndash; [[Louis Bonaparte]], French-Dutch king (d. 1846)<ref>{{cite book|author=Frederic T. Briffault|title=Prince Louis Napoleon Bonaparte|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=I1q5DXSWsbgC&pg=PA349|year=1852|publisher=Thomas Cautley Newby|page=349}}</ref>
*[[1805]] &ndash; [[Esteban Echeverría]], Argentinian poet and author (d. 1851)
*[[1810]] &ndash; [[Lysander Button]], American engineer (d. 1898)
*  1810   &ndash; [[William Seymour Tyler]], American historian and educator (d. 1897)
*[[1814]] &ndash; [[Ernst Curtius]], German archaeologist and historian (d. 1896)<ref>{{cite book|author=Thomas Hodgkin|title=Ernst Curtius|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=48kPAAAAQAAJ|year=1906|publisher=H. Frowde|page=1}}</ref> 
*[[1820]] &ndash; [[Lucretia Peabody Hale]], American journalist and author (d. 1900)<ref>{{cite book|first=Kathleen|last=Kuiper|title=Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature|location=Springfield|publisher=Merriam-Webster|year=1995|isbn=978-0-87779-042-6|page=508}}</ref>
*[[1830]] &ndash; [[William P. Frye]], American lawyer and politician (d. 1911)
*[[1838]] &ndash; [[Bhaktivinoda Thakur]], Indian guru and philosopher (d. 1914)
*  1838   &ndash; [[Liliʻuokalani]], Last sovereign monarch of Hawaiʻi (d. 1917)<ref>{{cite book|last=Craig|first=Bryan|chapter=Liliuokalani, Queen|editor-last1=Schlup|editor-first1=Leonard|editor-last2=Ryan|editor-first2=James G.|title=Historical Dictionary of the Gilded Age|location=Armonk, NY|publisher=M.E. Sharp|year=2003|isbn=978-0-76560-331-9|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lhRqUo9HzVwC|page=282}}</ref>
*[[1839]] &ndash; [[Henry George]], American economist and author (d. 1897)
*[[1850]] &ndash; [[Eugene Field]], American author and poet (d. 1895)
*  1850   &ndash; [[Albert Spalding]], American baseball player, manager, and businessman, co-founded the [[Spalding (sports equipment)|Spalding Sporting Goods Company]] (d. 1915)
*  1850   &ndash; [[Woldemar Voigt]], German physicist and academic (d. 1919)
*[[1852]] &ndash; [[Paul Bourget]], French author and critic (d. 1935)<ref>{{cite book|author=Dougal Robertson|title=Survive the Savage Sea|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-lFha0OHvlsC&pg=PA10|year=1974|publisher=Ardent Media|isbn=978-0-8161-6235-2|page=10}}</ref>
*[[1853]] &ndash; [[Wilhelm Ostwald]], Latvian-German chemist and academic, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. 1932)<ref>{{cite web |title=The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1909 |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1909/ostwald/facts/ |website=NobelPrize.org |access-date=29 August 2020}}</ref>
*[[1856]] &ndash; [[John Bowser]], English-Australian politician, 26th [[Premier of Victoria]] (d. 1936)
*[[1865]] &ndash; [[Simeón Ola]], Filipino general and politician (d. 1952)
*[[1866]] &ndash; [[Charles Vintcent]], South African cricketer and rugby player (d. 1943)
*[[1873]] &ndash; [[Lily Poulett-Harris]], Australian cricketer and educator (d. 1897)
*[[1877]] &ndash; [[Frederick Soddy]], English chemist and academic, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. 1956)
*[[1878]] &ndash; [[Herman (Aav)|Herman]], Estonian-Finnish archbishop (d. 1961)
*  1878   &ndash; [[Werner von Blomberg]], German field marshal (d. 1946)
*[[1883]] &ndash; [[Archduchess Elisabeth Marie of Austria]] (d. 1963)
*[[1884]] &ndash; [[Frank Laubach]], American missionary and mystic (d. 1970)
*[[1892]] &ndash; [[Dezső Kertész]], Hungarian actor and film director (d. 1965)  
*[[1894]] &ndash; [[Joseph Roth]], Austrian journalist and author (d. 1939)<ref>{{cite book|author=Donald G. Daviau|title=Major Figures of Modern Austrian Literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=efFdE1xJYL4C|year=1988|publisher=Ariadne Press|isbn=978-0-929497-00-6|page=342}}</ref>
*[[1897]] &ndash; [[Fazlollah Zahedi]], Iranian general and statesman, 36th [[Prime Minister of Iran]] (d. 1963)