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===1601–1900===
*[[1629]] &ndash; [[Archibald Campbell, 9th Earl of Argyll]], Scottish peer (died 1685)
*[[1651]] &ndash; [[Quirinus Kuhlmann]], German Baroque poet and mystic (died 1689)<ref>{{cite book |last=Schmidt-Biggemann |first=Wilhelm |title=Salvation through Philology: The Poetical Messianism of Quirinus Kuhlmann (1651–1689) |work=Toward the Millennium: Messianic Expectations from the Bible to Waco |editor1-first=Peter |editor1-last=Schäfer |editor2-first=Mark R. |editor2-last=Cohen |year=1998 |publisher=Brill |location=Leiden |page=259 |isbn=978-90-04110-37-3}}</ref>
*[[1671]] &ndash; [[Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury]], English philosopher and politician (died 1713)
*[[1672]] &ndash; [[Antoine Augustin Calmet]], French monk and theologian (died 1757)
*[[1677]] &ndash; [[Nicola Fago]], Italian composer and teacher (died 1745)
*[[1718]] &ndash; [[Johan Ernst Gunnerus]], Norwegian bishop, botanist and zoologist (died 1773)
*[[1720]] &ndash; [[Gian Francesco Albani]], Italian cardinal (died 1803)
*[[1729]] &ndash; [[Anders Chydenius]], Finnish economist, philosopher and Lutheran priest (died 1803)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://sok.riksarkivet.se/sbl/Presentation.aspx?id=14849|title=Anders Chydenius|publisher=Svenskt Biografiskt Lexikon|access-date=February 26, 2022|language=sv|archive-date=February 26, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220226153556/https://sok.riksarkivet.se/sbl/Presentation.aspx?id=14849|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://kansallisbiografia.fi/kansallisbiografia/henkilo/2432|title=Chydenius, Anders (1729 - 1803)|work=SKS Henkilöhistoria|publisher=[[The National Biography of Finland]]|access-date=February 26, 2022|language=fi|archive-date=May 12, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210512231137/https://kansallisbiografia.fi/kansallisbiografia/henkilo/2432|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1746]] &ndash; [[Maria Amalia, Duchess of Parma]] (died 1804)<ref>{{cite book|first=Hugh|last=Montgomery-Massingberd|title=Burke's Royal Families of the World Volume I: Europe & Latin America|location=London|publisher=Burke's Peerage Ltd|year=1977|isbn=978-0-85011-023-4|page=19}}</ref>
*[[1770]] &ndash; [[Anton Reicha]], Bohemian composer and flautist (died 1836)
*[[1777]] &ndash; [[Matija Nenadović]], Serbian priest, historian, and politician, 1st [[Prime Minister of Serbia]] (died 1854)
*[[1786]] &ndash; [[François Arago]], French mathematician and politician, 25th [[Prime Minister of France]] (died 1853)
*[[1802]] &ndash; [[Victor Hugo]], French author, poet, and playwright (died 1885)
*[[1808]] &ndash; [[Honoré Daumier]], French painter, illustrator, and sculptor (died 1879)
*  1808 &ndash; [[Nathan Kelley]], American architect, designed the [[Ohio Statehouse]] (died 1871)
*[[1829]] &ndash; [[Levi Strauss]], German-American fashion designer, founded [[Levi Strauss & Co.]] (died 1902)
*[[1842]] &ndash; [[Camille Flammarion]], French astronomer and author (died 1925)
*[[1846]] &ndash; [[Buffalo Bill]], American soldier and hunter (died 1917)
*[[1852]] &ndash; [[John Harvey Kellogg]], American surgeon, co-created [[Corn flakes]] (died 1943)
*[[1857]] &ndash; [[Émile Coué]], French psychologist and pharmacist (died 1926)
*[[1861]] &ndash; [[Ferdinand I of Bulgaria]] (died 1948)
*  1861 &ndash; [[Nadezhda Krupskaya]], Russian soldier and politician (died 1939)
*[[1866]] &ndash; [[Herbert Henry Dow]], Canadian-American businessman, founded the [[Dow Chemical Company]] (died 1930)
*[[1871]] &ndash; [[Matti Turkia]], Finnish politician (died 1946)<ref>{{cite web |title=Kansanedustajat: Matti Turkia |url=https://www.eduskunta.fi/FI/kansanedustajat/Sivut/911650.aspx |publisher=[[Parliament of Finland]] |access-date=27 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200725145056/https://www.eduskunta.fi/FI/kansanedustajat/Sivut/911650.aspx |archive-date=25 July 2020 |location=Helsinki, Finland |language=fi}}</ref>
*[[1877]] &ndash; [[Henry Barwell]], Australian politician, 28th [[Premier of South Australia]] (died 1959)
*  1877 &ndash; [[Rudolph Dirks]], German-American illustrator (died 1968)
*[[1879]] &ndash; [[Frank Bridge]], English viola player and composer (died 1941)
*[[1880]] &ndash; [[Kenneth Edgeworth]], Irish astronomer (died 1972)
*[[1881]] &ndash; [[Janus Djurhuus]], Faroese poet (died 1948)
*[[1882]] &ndash; [[Husband E. Kimmel]], American admiral (died 1968)
*[[1885]] &ndash; [[Aleksandras Stulginskis]], Lithuanian farmer and politician, 2nd [[President of Lithuania]] (died 1969)
*[[1887]] &ndash; [[Grover Cleveland Alexander]], American baseball player and coach (died 1950)
*  1887 &ndash; [[William Frawley]], American actor and vaudevillian (died 1966)
*  1887 &ndash; [[Stefan Grabiński]], Polish author and educator (died 1936)
*[[1893]] &ndash; [[Wallace Fard Muhammad]], American religious leader, founded the [[Nation of Islam]] (disappeared 1934)
*  1893 &ndash; [[Dorothy Whipple]], English novelist (died 1966)
*[[1896]] &ndash; [[Andrei Zhdanov]], Ukrainian-Russian civil servant and politician (died 1948)
*[[1899]] &ndash; [[Max Petitpierre]], Swiss jurist and politician, 54th [[List of Presidents of the Swiss Confederation|President of the Swiss Confederation]] (died 1994)
*[[1900]] &ndash; [[Halina Konopacka]], Polish discus thrower and poet (died 1989)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.olimpijski.pl/pl/bio/1020,konopacka-matuszewska-szczerbinska-halina-wlasciwie-leonarda-kazimiera.html|title=Biografie • Polski Komitet Olimpijski|last=Olimpijski|first=Polski Komitet|website=olimpijski.pl|language=pl|access-date=2017-10-24|archive-date=2018-10-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181014212253/http://www.olimpijski.pl/pl/bio/1020,konopacka-matuszewska-szczerbinska-halina-wlasciwie-leonarda-kazimiera.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
*  1900 &ndash; [[Fritz Wiessner]], German-American mountaineer (died 1988)