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===1601–1900===
*[[1642]] &ndash; [[Mehmed IV]], Ottoman sultan (died 1693)<ref>{{cite book|author=Lucienne Thys-Şenocak|title=Ottoman Women Builders: The Architectural Patronage of Hadice Turhan Sultan|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IfpPAAAAMAAJ|year=2006|publisher=Ashgate|isbn=978-0-7546-3310-5}}</ref>
*[[1647]] &ndash; [[Nathaniel Bacon (Virginia colonist and rebel)|Nathaniel Bacon]], English-American rebel leader (died 1676)<ref>{{cite book|author=Charles Henry Browning|title=Americans of Royal Descent: Collection of Genealogies Showing the Lineal Descent from Kings of Some American Families ...|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eyik0rO0HlsC&pg=PA347|year=1969|publisher=Genealogical Publishing Com|isbn=978-0-8063-0054-2|pages=347–}}</ref>
*[[1699]] &ndash; [[Osman III]], Ottoman sultan (died 1757)<ref>{{cite book|author=John Freely|title=Inside the Seraglio: Private Lives of the Sultans in Istanbul|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=85ODDQAAQBAJ&pg=PT152|date=11 October 2016|publisher=I.B.Tauris|isbn=978-0-85772-870-8|pages=152–}}</ref>
*[[1713]] &ndash; [[Marie Dumesnil]], French actress (died 1803)<ref>{{cite book|author=Paul Cheramy|title=A favourite of Napoleon|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2MAIAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA72|publisher=Рипол Классик|isbn=978-5-518-59405-0|pages=72–}}</ref>
*[[1727]] &ndash; [[James Wolfe]], English general (died 1759)<ref>{{cite book|author1=Eliakim Littell|author2=Robert S. Littell|title=Littell's Living Age|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tptIAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA158|year=1850|publisher=T.H. Carter & Company|pages=158}}</ref>
*[[1732]] &ndash; [[František Brixi]], Czech organist and composer (died 1771)<ref>{{cite book|author=David Mason Greene|title=Greene's Biographical Encyclopedia of Composers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m3S7PIxe0mwC&pg=PA342|year=1985|publisher=Reproducing Piano Roll Fnd.|isbn=978-0-385-14278-6|pages=342}}</ref>
*[[1777]] &ndash; [[Christian Daniel Rauch]], German sculptor and educator (died 1857)<ref>{{cite book|author=Herbert Treadwell Wade|title=The New International Encyclopaedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CborAQAAMAAJ|year=1930|publisher=Dodd, Mead and company}}</ref>
*[[1803]] &ndash; [[Guglielmo Libri Carucci dalla Sommaja]], Italian mathematician and academic (died 1869)<ref>{{cite book|author=David E. Smith|title=History of Mathematics|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=56lzDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA545|date=June 1958|publisher=Courier Corporation|isbn=978-0-486-20429-1|pages=545–}}</ref>
*[[1822]] &ndash; [[Rudolf Clausius]], Polish-German physicist and mathematician (died 1888)<ref>{{cite book|author=Edward E. Daub|title=Rudolph Clausius and the Nineteenth Century Theory of Heat|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=u_JrAAAAMAAJ|year=1966|publisher=University of Wisconsin}}</ref>
*[[1827]] &ndash; [[Pyotr Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky]], Russian geographer and statistician (died 1914)<ref>{{cite book|title=Russian Life|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IvXbI2ioYSQC|year=1997|publisher=Rich Frontier Publishing Company}}</ref>
*[[1833]] &ndash; [[Frederick A. Johnson]], American banker and politician (died 1893)<ref>{{cite book|title=American Political Leaders 1789-2009|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ktR1AwAAQBAJ&pg=PA167|date=22 September 2009|publisher=CQ Press|isbn=978-1-4522-6726-5|pages=167}}</ref>
*[[1836]] &ndash; [[Mendele Mocher Sforim]], Russian author (died 1917)<ref>{{cite book|title=The Encyclopedia Americana: International Edition|url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaamer29danb|url-access=registration|year=1994|publisher=Grolier|isbn=978-0-7172-0125-9}}</ref>
*  1836 &ndash; [[Queen Emma of Hawaii]] (died 1885)<ref name="Kanahele1999">{{cite book|author=George S. Kanahele|title=Emma: Hawaii's Remarkable Queen|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WLtlBNRt_V4C&pg=PA8|year=1999|publisher=University of Hawaii Press|isbn=978-0-8248-2240-8|pages=8}}</ref>
*[[1837]] &ndash; [[Mily Balakirev]], Russian pianist and composer (died 1910)<ref>{{cite book|author=L. C. Harnsberger|title=Essential Dictionary of Music|date=1997 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Mzu1eaR0ikAC&pg=PA71|publisher=Alfred Music|isbn=978-1-4574-1112-0|pages=71}}</ref>
*[[1857]] &ndash; [[M. Carey Thomas]], American educator and activist (died 1935)<ref>{{cite book|author=Judith A. Leavitt|title=American Women Managers and Administrators: A Selective Biographical Dictionary of Twentieth-century Leaders in Business, Education, and Government|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Jk_uzzu36rgC&pg=PA269|year=1985|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-23748-5|pages=269}}</ref>
*[[1860]] &ndash; [[Dugald Campbell Patterson]], Canadian engineer (died 1931)<ref>{{cite book|title=British Columbia, Pictorial and Biographical|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fuAwAQAAMAAJ|year=1914|publisher=S.J. Clarke Publishing Company|page=647}}</ref>
*  1860   &ndash; [[William Corless Mills]], American historian and curator (died 1928)<ref>{{cite book|author=William Richard Cutter|title=American Biography: A New Cyclopedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hpUMAQAAMAAJ|year=1932|publisher=Pub. under the direction of the American historical society|page=219}}</ref>
*[[1866]] &ndash; [[Gilbert Murray]], Australian-English playwright and scholar (died 1957)<ref>{{cite book|title=Greece & Rome|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3ZZOAAAAIAAJ|year=1957|publisher=At the Clarendon Press|page=112}}</ref>
*[[1870]] &ndash; [[Ernst Barlach]], German sculptor and playwright (died 1938)<ref>{{cite book|author=Kristian Sotriffer|title=Expressionism and Fauvism|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g6VPAAAAMAAJ|year=1972|publisher=McGraw-Hill|page=129|isbn=9780070597648}}</ref>
*  1870   &ndash; [[Tex Rickard]], American boxing promoter and businessman (died 1929)<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fri15 |title=Rickard, George Lewis (1871-1929) |encyclopedia=[[Handbook of Texas|The Handbook of Texas Online]] |access-date=2019-04-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190420165808/https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fri15 |archive-date=2019-04-20 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1873]] &ndash; [[Antonie Pannekoek]], Dutch astronomer and theorist (died 1960)<ref>{{cite book|author=A. T. Lane|title=Biographical Dictionary of European Labor Leaders|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H3vjdU-v4isC&pg=PA728|year=1995|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-29900-1|pages=728}}</ref>
*  1873   &ndash; [[Thérèse of Lisieux]], French nun and saint (died 1897)<ref>{{cite book|author1=Alban Butler|author2=Paul Burns|title=Butler's Lives of the Saints|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WmiNrUarzLUC&pg=PA1|date=1 January 1995|publisher=A&C Black|isbn=978-0-86012-259-3|pages=1}}</ref>
*[[1878]] &ndash; [[Jaakko Mäki]], Finnish politician (died 1938)<ref>{{cite web |title=Kansanedustajat: Jaakko Mäki |url=https://www.eduskunta.fi/FI/kansanedustajat/Sivut/911109.aspx |publisher=[[Parliament of Finland]] |access-date=4 January 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190501004312/https://www.eduskunta.fi/FI/kansanedustajat/Sivut/911109.aspx |archive-date=1 May 2019 |location=Helsinki, Finland |language=fi}}</ref>
*  1878   &ndash; [[Mannathu Padmanabha Pillai]], Indian activist, founded the [[Nair Service Society]] (died 1970)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://nssminnesota.org/about-us-1|title=Nair Service Society of Minnesota - About Us|website=Nair Service Society of Minnesota|access-date=15 March 2019|archive-date=2 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200802003020/https://nssminnesota.org/about-us-1|url-status=dead}}</ref>
*[[1884]] &ndash; [[Ben-Zion Dinur]], Russian-Israeli historian and politician, 4th [[Ministry of Education (Israel)|Israeli Minister of Education]] (died 1973)<ref name="Arthur Saul Super 1969 119">{{cite book|author=Arthur Saul Super|title=Zionist Year Book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wXdAAQAAIAAJ|year=1969|publisher=Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland|page=119}}</ref>
*[[1885]] &ndash; [[Gordon Flowerdew]], Canadian lieutenant, [[Victoria Cross]] recipient (died 1918)<ref>{{cite book|author=Frank Meeres|title=Norfolk in the First World War|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=INQWAQAAIAAJ|year=2004|publisher=Phillimore|isbn=978-1-86077-290-0|page=183}}</ref>
*[[1886]] &ndash; [[Apsley Cherry-Garrard]], English explorer and author (died 1959)<ref>{{cite book|title=The Dictionary of National Biography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g6ZZAAAAYAAJ|year=1951|publisher=Oxford University Press|page=214}}</ref>
*[[1889]] &ndash; [[Bertram Stevens (politician)|Bertram Stevens]], Australian accountant and politician, 25th [[Premier of New South Wales]] (died 1973)<ref>{{cite book| first=John M.| last=Ward| title=Stevens, Sir Bertram Sydney Barnsdale (1889–1973)| chapter=Stevens, Sir Bertram Sydney (1889–1973)| publisher=Australian National University| work=[[Australian Dictionary of Biography]]| chapter-url=http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A120089b.htm| access-date=19 March 2019| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110630052603/http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A120089b.htm| archive-date=30 June 2011| url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1891]] &ndash; [[Giovanni Michelucci]], Italian architect and urban planner, designed the [[Firenze Santa Maria Novella railway station]] (died 1990)<ref>{{cite book|title=The Architects' Journal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bypNAAAAYAAJ|year=1991|publisher=Architectural Press|page=9}}</ref>
*[[1892]] &ndash; [[Seiichiro Kashio]], Japanese tennis player (died 1962)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.itftennis.com/procircuit/players/player/profile.aspx?playerid=10003756|title=Seiichiro KASHIO|website=ITF Tennis|access-date=13 March 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160317205050/http://www.itftennis.com/procircuit/players/player/profile.aspx?PlayerID=10003756|archive-date=17 March 2016|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1895]] &ndash; [[Folke Bernadotte]], Swedish diplomat (died 1948)<ref>{{cite book|author=S. Steinberg|title=The Statesman's Year-Book: Statistical and Historical Annual of the States of the World for the Year 1949|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pErODQAAQBAJ&pg=PA1318|date=28 December 2016|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-0-230-27078-7|pages=1318}}</ref>
*[[1896]] &ndash; [[Dziga Vertov]], Polish-Russian director and screenwriter (died 1954)<ref>{{cite book|author1=David C. Gillespie|author2=Professor David Gillespie|title=Early Soviet Cinema: Innovation, Ideology and Propaganda|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PXmBkc-5WEgC&pg=PA67|year=2000|publisher=Wallflower Press|isbn=978-1-903364-04-8|pages=67}}</ref>
*  1896   &ndash; [[Lawrence Wackett]], Australian commander and engineer (died 1982)<ref>{{cite book|title=Cross & Cockade Journal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xJbvAAAAMAAJ|year=1983|publisher=Cross & Cockade, the Society of World War I Aero Historians|page=379}}</ref>
*[[1897]] &ndash; [[Theodore Plucknett]], English legal historian (died 1965)<ref>{{cite book|author=Kelly Boyd|title=Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0121vD9STIMC&pg=PA925|year=1999|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-884964-33-6|pages=925}}</ref>
*[[1900]] &ndash; [[Una Ledingham]], British physician, known for research on [[Diabetes mellitus and pregnancy|diabetes in pregnancy]] (died 1965)<ref>{{cite book|author1=Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie|author2=Joy Dorothy Harvey|author-link=Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie|author2-link=Joy Harvey|title=The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: L-Z|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LTSYePZvSXYC&pg=PA763|year=2000|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-0-415-92040-7|pages=763}}</ref>