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===1601–1900=== *[[1604]] – [[Arcangela Tarabotti]], Venetian nun and feminist (died 1652) *[[1619]] – [[Charles Le Brun]], French painter and theorist (died 1690) *[[1622]] – [[Johannes Clauberg]], German theologian and philosopher (died 1665) *[[1709]] – [[Jacques de Vaucanson]], French engineer (died 1782) *[[1721]] – [[John McKinly]], Irish-American physician and politician, 1st [[List of Governors of Delaware|Governor of Delaware]] (died 1796) *[[1723]] – [[John Burgoyne]], English general and politician (died 1792) *[[1736]] – [[Charles Alexander, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach]] (died 1806) *[[1743]] – [[Joseph Banks]], English botanist and explorer (died 1820) *[[1762]] – [[Charles Frederick Horn]], German-English composer and educator (died 1830) *[[1767]] – [[Rama II of Siam]] (died 1824) *[[1774]] – [[Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge]] (died 1850) *[[1786]] – [[Martin W. Bates]], American lawyer and politician (died 1869) * 1786 – [[Wilhelm Grimm]], German anthropologist, author, and academic (died 1859) *[[1788]] – [[Johan Christian Dahl]], Norwegian-German painter (died 1857) *[[1797]] – [[Samuel Lover]], Irish composer, writer and painter (died 1868)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Samuel Lover | Irish writer, poet, musician | Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Samuel-Lover |access-date=2024-10-03 |website=Encyclopædia Britannica}}</ref> *[[1827]] – [[Lydia Becker]], English-French activist (died 1890) *[[1829]] – [[Friedrich Spielhagen]], German novelist, literary theorist and translator<ref>{{Cite web |title=Friedrich von Spielhagen | Novelist, Critic, Poet | Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Friedrich-von-Spielhagen |access-date=2024-10-03 |website=Encyclopædia Britannica}}</ref> *[[1830]] – [[Karolina Světlá]], Czech female author<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Catalogue |url=https://katalog.ahmp.cz/pragapublica/permalink?xid=A42B37BF70DB473BA002CAF3EED5FA77&scan=222#scan222 |access-date=2024-10-03 |website=katalog.ahmp.cz}}</ref> *[[1831]] – [[Leo von Caprivi]], German general and politician, [[List of Chancellors of Germany|Chancellor of Germany]] (died 1899) *[[1835]] – [[Julius Vogel]], English-New Zealand journalist and politician, 8th [[Prime Minister of New Zealand]] (died 1899) *[[1836]] – [[Winslow Homer]], American painter and illustrator (died 1910) *[[1837]] – [[Rosalía de Castro]], Spanish poet (died 1885)<ref>{{cite book|first1=Anna-Marie|last1=Aldaz|first2=Barbara N.|last2=Gantt|first3=Anne C.|last3=Bromley|title=Poems|location=Albany|publisher=State University of New York Press|year=1991|page=xix|isbn=978-0-79140-582-6}}</ref> *[[1842]] – [[Arrigo Boito]], Italian journalist, author, and composer (died 1918) *[[1848]] – [[Andrew Inglis Clark]], Australian engineer, lawyer, and politician (died 1907) *[[1852]] – [[George Moore (novelist)|George Moore]], Irish author, poet, and playwright (died 1933) *[[1857]] – [[Emma Ann Browne]],British-born Australian philanthropist (died 1941)<ref>{{Citation |last=Richards |first=Paul A. C. |title=Emma Ann Browne (1857–1941) |work=Australian Dictionary of Biography |url=https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/browne-emma-ann-13265 |access-date=2024-11-08 |place=Canberra |publisher=National Centre of Biography, Australian National University |language=en}}</ref> *[[1868]] – [[Édouard Alphonse James de Rothschild]], French financier and polo player (died 1949) *[[1869]] – [[Zara DuPont]], American suffragist (died 1946)<ref>{{cite web |last1=Troyer |first1=Andrew |last2=Heaphy |first2=Leslie |title=Biographical Sketch of Zara DuPont |url=https://documents.alexanderstreet.com/d/1009860177 |website=Biographical Database of NAWSA Suffragists, 1890-1920 |publisher=Alexander Street Documents |access-date=27 December 2019 |archive-date=16 October 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191016224634/https://documents.alexanderstreet.com/d/1009860177 |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1874]] – [[Honus Wagner]], American baseball player, coach, and manager (died 1955) *[[1877]] – [[Rudolph Ganz]], Swiss pianist, composer, and conductor (died 1972) * 1877 – [[Ettie Rout]], Australian-New Zealand educator and activist (died 1936) * [[1881]] – [[Abdelaziz of Morocco|Moulay Abd al-Aziz bin Hassan]], Sultan of Morocco (died 1943)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Abd al-Aziz | Reformer, Modernization, Protector | Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Abd-al-Aziz-sultan-of-Morocco |access-date=2024-09-21 |website=Encyclopædia Britannica}}</ref><ref name=":0" /> *[[1885]] – [[Chester W. Nimitz]], American admiral (died 1966) * 1885 – [[Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz]], Polish author, poet, and painter (died 1939) *[[1890]] – [[Marjorie Main]], American actress (died 1975) *[[1895]] – [[Şehzade Osman Fuad]], Ottoman prince (died 1973)<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/burkesroyalfamil0002unse/mode/2up |title=Burke's royal families of the world |date=1977 |publisher=Burke's Peerage |isbn=9780850110234 |editor-last=Massingberd |editor-first=Hugh Montgomery |location=London |publication-date=1997-01-01 |pages=28, 173}}</ref> *[[1896]] – [[Richard Thorpe]], American director and screenwriter (died 1991) *[[1898]] – [[Kurt Tank]], German pilot and engineer (died 1983) *[[1900]] – [[Irmgard Bartenieff]], German-American dancer and physical therapist, leading pioneer of [[dance therapy]] (died 1981)
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