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===1601–1900=== *[[1678]] – [[Antonio de Benavides]], colonial governor of Florida (died 1762)<ref name="Millares1872">{{cite book|author=Agustín Millares|title=Biografias de canarios célebres|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Uq_-FgdNIbsC&pg=PA120|year=1872|publisher=Imp. de Víctor Doreste|pages=120–121}}</ref> * 1678 – [[Horatio Walpole, 1st Baron Walpole]], English politician and diplomat, [[British Ambassador to France]] (died 1757) *[[1699]] – [[Maria Josepha of Austria]] (died 1757) *[[1708]] – [[Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor]] (died 1765) *[[1724]] – [[Claude Balbastre]], French organist and composer (died 1799) *[[1730]] – [[Jan Ingenhousz]], Dutch physician, physiologist, and botanist (died 1799) *[[1731]] – [[František Xaver Dušek]], Czech pianist and composer (died 1799) *[[1756]] – [[Archduke Maximilian Francis of Austria]] (died 1801) *[[1765]] – [[Eli Whitney]], American engineer, invented the [[cotton gin]] (died 1825) *[[1795]] – [[Peter Andreas Hansen]], Danish astronomer and mathematician (died 1874) *[[1807]] – [[Friedrich Traugott Kützing]], German pharmacist, botanist and [[phycology|phycologist]] (died 1893) *[[1813]] – [[August Belmont]], Prussian-American financier and diplomat, 16th [[United States Ambassador to the Netherlands]] (died 1890) *[[1815]] – [[Adolph Menzel]], German painter and illustrator (died 1905) *[[1817]] – [[Christian Emil Krag-Juel-Vind-Frijs]], Danish lawyer and politician, 10th [[Prime Minister of Denmark]] (died 1896) *[[1818]] – [[Charles III, Prince of Monaco]] (died 1889) *[[1822]] – [[Jakov Ignjatović]], Hungarian-Serbian author (died 1889) *[[1832]] – [[Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson]], Norwegian-French author and playwright, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (died 1910) *[[1860]] – [[Amanda McKittrick Ros]], Irish author and poet (died 1939)<ref>{{cite book|first=Frank|last=Ormsby|title=Thine in Storm and Calm: An Amanda McKittrick Ros Reader|location=Belfast St Paul|publisher=Blackstaff Press|year=1988|isbn=978-0-85640-408-5|page=2}}</ref> *[[1861]] – [[William C. Durant]], American businessman, founded [[General Motors]] and [[Chevrolet]] (died 1947) * 1861 – [[Aristide Maillol]], French sculptor and painter (died 1944) * 1861 – [[Georges Méliès]], French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1938) *[[1862]] – [[Georges Feydeau]], French playwright (died 1921) *[[1863]] – [[Charles Lincoln Edwards]], American zoologist (died 1937) *[[1864]] – [[Camille Claudel]], French illustrator and sculptor (died 1943)<ref>{{cite book|last=Schmoll|first=Josef A.|title=Auguste Rodin and Camille Claudel|location=Munich|publisher=Prestel|year=1999|page=13|isbn=978-3-79132-005-2}}</ref> *[[1865]] – [[Rüdiger von der Goltz]], German general (died 1946) * 1865 – [[Jacques Hadamard]], French mathematician and academic (died 1963) * 1865 – [[Jean Sibelius]], Finnish violinist and composer (died 1957)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jean-Sibelius|title=Jean Sibelius|website=Britannica|access-date=10 October 2018}}</ref> *[[1874]] – [[Ernst Moro]], Austrian physician and pediatrician (died 1951) *[[1875]] – [[Frederik Buch]], Danish actor and screenwriter (died 1925) *[[1877]] – [[Paul Ladmirault]], French pianist, violinist, and composer (died 1944) *[[1880]] – [[Johannes Aavik]], Estonian linguist and philologist (died 1973) *[[1881]] – [[Tuomas Bryggari]], Finnish politician (died 1964)<ref>{{cite web |title=Kansanedustajat: Tuomas Bryggari |url=http://www.eduskunta.fi/triphome/bin/hx5000.sh?{hnro}=910315&{kieli}=su&{haku}=kaikki |publisher=[[Parliament of Finland]] |access-date= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110611171008/http://www.eduskunta.fi/triphome/bin/hx5000.sh?{hnro}=910315&{kieli}=su&{haku}=kaikki |archive-date=11 June 2011 |location=Helsinki, Finland |language=fi}}</ref> * 1881 – [[Albert Gleizes]], French painter (died 1953) *[[1884]] – [[Francis Balfour (colonial administrator)|Francis Balfour]], English colonel and politician (died 1965) *[[1886]] – [[Diego Rivera]], Mexican painter and educator (died 1957) *[[1887]] – [[Elizabeth Daryush]], English poet (died 1977) <ref>{{cite web|url=https://mypoeticside.com/poets/elizabeth-daryush-poems|title=Elizabeth Daryush|website=mypoeticside|access-date=4 December 2023}}</ref> *[[1890]] – [[Bohuslav Martinů]], Czech-American pianist and composer (died 1959) *[[1892]] – [[Marcus Lee Hansen]], American historian, author, and academic (died 1938) *[[1894]] – [[E. C. Segar]], American cartoonist, created ''[[Popeye]]'' (died 1938) * 1894 – [[James Thurber]], American humorist and cartoonist (died 1961) *[[1899]] – [[Arthur Leslie]], English-Welsh actor and playwright (died 1970) * 1899 – [[John Qualen]], Canadian-American actor (died 1987) *[[1900]] – [[Sun Li-jen]], Chinese general and politician (died 1990) * 1900 – [[Ants Oras]], Estonian-American author and academic (died 1982)
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