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===Pre-1600===
*[[1037]] &ndash; [[Su Shi|Su Dongpo]], Chinese calligrapher and poet (died 1101)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/regional/2010-09/28/content_11357593.htm|title=The life of Su Dongpo|website=China Daily|access-date=9 January 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190109155516/http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/regional/2010-09/28/content_11357593.htm|archive-date=9 January 2019|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1345]] &ndash; [[Kadi Burhan al-Din]], poet, [[qadi|kadi]], and ruler of [[Sivas]] (died 1398)<ref>{{EI2 | volume = 1 | title = Burhãn al-Dīn | last = Rypka | first = J. | pages = 1327–1328 | url=https://doi.org/10.1163/1573-3912_islam_SIM_1543}}</ref> 
*[[1529]] &ndash; [[John Frederick II, Duke of Saxony|John Frederick II]], duke of Saxony (died 1595)<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= John Frederick, Duke of Saxony |volume= 15 | pages = 458&ndash;459; see lines two and three |quote=... Born at Torgau on the 8th of January 1529 }}</ref>
*[[1583]] &ndash; [[Simon Episcopius]], Dutch theologian and academic (died 1643)<ref>{{cite book|title=The British Critic, Quarterly Theological Review, and Ecclesiastical Record|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HEY-AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA74|year=1836|publisher=C. & J. Rivington, and J. Mawman|page=74}}</ref>
*[[1587]] &ndash; [[Johannes Fabricius]], German astronomer and academic (died 1616)<ref>{{cite book|author1=G. Rudiger|author2=Günther Rüdiger|title=Differential Rotation and Stellar Convection: Sun and Solar-type Stars|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cKaE9mLyCaIC&pg=PA13|year=1989|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-2-88124-066-9|page=13}}</ref>
*  1587 &ndash; [[Jan Pieterszoon Coen]], Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (died 1629)<ref>{{cite book|author=Joris van Spilbergen|title=The East and West Indian Mirror: Being an Account of Joris Van Speilbergen's Voyage Round the World (1614-1617), and the Australian Navigations of Jacob Le Maire|url=https://archive.org/details/eastwestindianmispil|year=1906|publisher=Hakluyt Society|page=[https://archive.org/details/eastwestindianmispil/page/n342 151]}}</ref>
*[[1589]] &ndash; [[Ivan Gundulić]], Croatian poet and playwright (died 1638)<ref>{{cite book|author1=Merriam-Webster, Inc|author2=Encyclopaedia Britannica Publishers, Inc. Staff|title=Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature|url=https://archive.org/details/merriamwebsters00merr|url-access=registration|year=1995|publisher=Merriam-Webster|isbn=978-0-87779-042-6|pages=[https://archive.org/details/merriamwebsters00merr/page/501 501]}}</ref>