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===1601–1900=== *[[1618]] – [[Elisabeth of the Palatinate]], German princess, philosopher, and Calvinist (died 1680) *[[1628]] – [[John Page (Middle Plantation)|John Page]], English Colonial<!-- He was not American, as America was not a country until decades after his death, as shown by the reference. --><ref name="YoungNash2011">{{cite book |author1=Fabian Young, Alfred |author2=Nash, Gary B. |author3=Raphael, Ray |title=Revolutionary Founders: Rebels, Radicals, and Reformers in the Making of the Nation |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QEzaLJ4u_MEC&pg=PA4 |year=2011 |publisher=Random House Digital |isbn=978-0-307-27110-5 |pages=4–7}}</ref> politician (died 1692) *[[1646]] – [[Robert Bolling]], English/English Colonial<ref name="YoungNash2011"/> merchant and planter (died 1709) *[[1687]] – [[Johann Georg Pisendel]], German violinist and composer (died 1755) *[[1716]] – [[Thomas Gray]], English poet and scholar (died 1771) * 1716 – [[Jean François de Saint-Lambert]], French soldier and philosopher (died 1803) *[[1723]] – [[Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm]], German-French author and playwright (died 1807) *[[1737]] – [[Prince Josias of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld]] (died 1815) *[[1751]] – [[Lord George Gordon]], English lieutenant and politician (died 1793) * 1751 – [[Clemens Maria Hofbauer]], Austrian priest, missionary, and saint (died 1820) *[[1769]] – [[Ernst Moritz Arndt]], German writer and poet (died 1860) *[[1780]] – [[Mary Somerville]], Scottish mathematician, astronomer, and author (died 1872)<ref>{{cite web |title=Mary Somerville: Biography on Undiscovered Scotland |url=https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/usbiography/s/marysomerville.html |website=undiscoveredscotland.co.uk |access-date=23 January 2020}}</ref> *[[1785]] – [[Étienne Constantin de Gerlache]], Belgian lawyer and politician, 1st [[Prime Minister of Belgium]] (died 1871) *[[1782]] – [[Philaret Drozdov]], Russian metropolitan and saint (died 1867) *[[1791]] – [[Charles Babbage]], English mathematician and engineer, invented the [[Difference engine]] (died 1871) *[[1803]] – [[Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald]], Estonian physician and author (died 1882) *[[1819]] – [[E. D. E. N. Southworth]], American author and educator (died 1899) *[[1820]] – [[Dion Boucicault]], Irish actor and playwright (died 1890) *[[1837]] – [[Morgan Bulkeley]], American soldier and politician, 54th [[List of Governors of Connecticut|Governor of Connecticut]] (died 1922) * 1837 – [[George Dewey]], American admiral (died 1917) *[[1852]] – [[Johannes François Snelleman]], Dutch zoologist, orientalist, and ethnographer (died 1938) *[[1853]] – [[René Bazin]], French author and academic (died 1932) *[[1854]] – [[José Yves Limantour]], Mexican financier and politician, [[Secretariat of Finance and Public Credit (Mexico)|Mexican Secretary of Finance]] (died 1935) *[[1859]] – [[William Stephens (American politician)|William Stephens]], American lawyer and politician, 24th [[Governor of California]] (died 1944) *[[1863]] – [[Charles Pathé]], French record producer, co-founded [[Pathé Records]] (died 1957) *[[1864]] – [[Yun Chi-ho]], Korean activist and politician (died 1945) *[[1867]] – [[Phan Bội Châu]], Vietnamese activist (died 1940) *[[1869]] – [[Mathieu Cordang]], Dutch cyclist (died 1942) *[[1870]] – [[Virginia Bolten]], Argentine feminist and trade unionist (died 1960)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Bolten, Virginia 1870-1960? {{!}} libcom.org |url=https://libcom.org/article/bolten-virginia-1870-1960 |access-date=2024-09-21 |website=libcom.org}}</ref> *[[1872]] – [[Norman Angell]], English journalist, academic, and politician, [[Nobel Peace Prize|Nobel Prize]] laureate (died 1967) *[[1873]] – [[Thomas Wass]], English cricketer (died 1953) *[[1874]] – [[Khan Bahadur Ahsanullah]], Bangladeshi theologian and academic (died 1965) *[[1883]] – [[Maurice Utrillo]], French painter (died 1955) *[[1885]] – [[Bazoline Estelle Usher]], African-American educator (died 1992)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://georgiawomen.org/2014/04/usher-bazoline|title=Usher, Bazoline {{!}} Georgia Women|date=2016-03-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160311165214/http://georgiawomen.org/2014/04/usher-bazoline|url-status=dead|archive-date=11 March 2016|access-date=2019-01-31}}</ref> *[[1887]] – [[Arthur Percival]], English general (died 1966) *[[1888]] – [[Marius Canard]], French orientalist and historian (died 1982) *[[1889]] – [[Ragnhild Kaarbø]], Norwegian painter (died 1949)<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Ragnhild Kaarbø |encyclopedia=[[Store norske leksikon]] |date= 23 August 2023|editor-last=Bolstad | editor-first=Erik |publisher=Norsk nettleksikon |location=Oslo |url=https://snl.no/Ragnhild_Kaarbø |language=no|access-date=27 March 2024}}</ref> *[[1890]] – [[Konstantinos Georgakopoulos]], Greek lawyer and politician, [[Prime Minister of Greece]] (died 1973) * 1890 – [[Percy Hodge]], English runner (died 1967) *[[1891]] – [[Henry Miller]], American author and painter (died 1980) *[[1892]] – [[Don Barclay (actor)|Don Barclay]], American actor and illustrator (died 1975) *[[1893]] – [[Mao Zedong]], Chinese politician, [[Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party]] (died 1976) *[[1894]] – [[Jean Toomer]], American author and poet (died 1967) *[[1900]] – [[Evelyn Bark]], leading member of the [[British Red Cross]], first female recipient of the [[Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George|CMG]] (died 1993)<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-evelyn-bark-1493450.html|title=Obituary: Evelyn Bark|date=1993-06-24|work=The Independent|access-date=2017-10-20}}</ref>
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