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===1601–1900=== *[[1608]] – [[Gaspar Schott]], German mathematician and physicist (died 1666) *[[1626]] – [[Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné]], French author (died 1696)<ref>{{cite book|first=Arthur Augustus|last=Tilley|title=Madame de Sévigné: Some Aspects of Her Life and Character|location=Cambridge|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=2016|page=153|isbn=978-1-31662-004-5}}</ref> *[[1650]] – [[Anne Jules de Noailles]], French general (died 1708) *[[1703]] – [[Gilbert Tennent]], Irish-American minister (died 1764) *[[1723]] – [[John Witherspoon]], Scottish-American minister and academic (died 1794) *[[1725]] – [[James Otis Jr.]], American lawyer and politician (died 1783) *[[1748]] – [[Christian Gottlob Neefe]], German composer and conductor (died 1798) *[[1788]] – [[Robert Peel]], English lieutenant and politician, [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] (died 1850) *[[1795]] – [[Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger]], Austrian mineralogist, geologist, and physicist (died 1871) *[[1804]] – [[Johan Ludvig Runeberg]], Finnish poet and hymn-writer (died 1877) *[[1808]] – [[Carl Spitzweg]], German painter and poet (died 1885) *[[1810]] – [[Ole Bull]], Norwegian violinist and composer (died 1880) *[[1827]] – [[Peter Lalor]], Irish-Australian activist and politician (died 1889) *[[1837]] – [[Dwight L. Moody]], American evangelist and publisher, founded [[Moody Church]], [[Moody Bible Institute]], and [[Moody Publishers]] (died 1899) *[[1840]] – [[John Boyd Dunlop]], Scottish businessman, co-founded [[Dunlop Rubber]] (died 1921) * 1840 – [[Hiram Maxim]], American engineer, invented the [[Maxim gun]] (died 1916) *[[1847]] – [[Eduard Magnus Jakobson]], Estonian missionary and engraver (died 1903) *[[1848]] – [[Joris-Karl Huysmans]], French author and critic (died 1907) * 1848 – [[Ignacio Carrera Pinto]], Chilean lieutenant (died 1882) *[[1852]] – [[Terauchi Masatake]], Japanese field marshal and politician, 9th [[Prime Minister of Japan]] (died 1919) *[[1866]] – [[Domhnall Ua Buachalla]], Irish politician, 3rd and last [[Governor-General of the Irish Free State]] (died 1963) *[[1870]] – [[C. E. Brock|Charles Edmund Brock]], British painter and book illustrator (died 1938) *[[1876]] – [[Ernie McLea]], Canadian ice hockey player (died 1931) *[[1878]] – [[André Citroën]], French engineer and businessman, founded [[Citroën]] (died 1935) *[[1880]] – [[Gabriel Voisin]], French pilot and engineer (died 1973) *[[1889]] – [[Patsy Hendren]], English cricketer and footballer (died 1962) * 1889 – [[Ernest Tyldesley]], English cricketer (died 1962) * 1889 – [[Recep Peker]], Turkish officer and politician (died 1950) *[[1891]] – [[Renato Petronio]], Italian rower (died 1976) *[[1892]] – [[Elizabeth Ryan]], American tennis player (died 1979) *[[1897]] – [[Dirk Stikker]], Dutch businessman and politician, 3rd [[Secretary General of NATO]] (died 1979) *[[1900]] – [[Adlai Stevenson II]], American soldier, politician, and diplomat, 5th [[List of ambassadors of the United States to the United Nations|United States Ambassador to the United Nations]] (died 1965)<ref>{{cite news|title=Adlai Ewing Stevenson: An Urbane, Witty, Articulate Politician and Diplomat|work=The New York Times|date=July 15, 1965|page=10}}</ref>
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