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===1601–1900=== *[[1622]] – [[Abraham Diepraam]], Dutch painter (died 1670) *[[1719]] – [[John Landen]], English mathematician and theorist (died 1790) *[[1737]] – [[John Hancock]], American general and politician, first [[Governor of Massachusetts]] (died 1793)<ref>{{cite book|author=Abram English Brown|title=John Hancock: His Book|url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924032746368|year=1898|publisher=Lee and Shepard}}</ref> *[[1745]] – [[William Jessop]], English engineer, built the [[Cromford Canal]] (died 1814) *[[1752]] – [[Muzio Clementi]], Italian pianist, composer, and conductor (died 1832)<ref>{{cite book|author=EVA BADURA-SKODA|title=The Eighteenth-Century Fortepiano Grand and Its Patrons: From Scarlatti to Beethoven|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ui48DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA432|date=20 November 2017|publisher=Indiana University Press|isbn=978-0-253-02264-6|pages=432}}</ref> *[[1780]] – [[Georgios Karaiskakis]], Greek general (died 1827) *[[1783]] – [[Stendhal]], French novelist (died 1842) *[[1786]] – [[Auguste de Montferrand]], French-Russian architect, designed [[Saint Isaac's Cathedral]] and [[Alexander Column]] (died 1858) *[[1799]] – [[Alois Negrelli]], Tyrolean engineer and railroad pioneer active in the Austrian Empire (died 1858) *[[1809]] – [[Surendra Sai]], Indian activist (died 1884) *[[1813]] – [[Camilla Collett]], Norwegian novelist and activist (died 1895) *[[1828]] – [[Saigō Takamori]], Japanese samurai (died 1877) *[[1832]] – [[Édouard Manet]], French painter (died 1883) *[[1833]] – [[Muthu Coomaraswamy]], Sri Lankan lawyer and politician (died 1879) *[[1838]] – [[Marianne Cope]], German-American nun and saint (died 1918) *[[1840]] – [[Ernst Abbe]], German physicist and engineer (died 1905) *[[1846]] – [[Nikolay Umov]], Russian physicist and mathematician (died 1915) *[[1853]] – [[John Marks Moore]], American politician (died 1902)<ref>{{cite book|last=Daniell|first=Lewis E.|title=Personnel of the Texas State Government with Sketches of Distinguished Texans, Embracing the Executive Staff, Heads of Departments, United States Senators and Representatives, Members of the XXth legislature|date=1887|publisher=Press of the City Printing Company|publication-place=Austin|lccn=19016834|page=19|quote=The Secretary of State, was born in Houston county, Texas, on the twenty-third day of January, 1853.}}</ref> *[[1855]] – [[John Browning]], American weapons designer, founded the [[Browning Arms Company]] (died 1926) *[[1857]] – [[Andrija Mohorovičić]], Croatian meteorologist and seismologist (died 1936) *[[1862]] – [[David Hilbert]], German mathematician and academic (died 1943) * 1862 – [[Frank Shuman]], American inventor and engineer (died 1918) *[[1872]] – [[Paul Langevin]], French physicist and academic (died 1946) * 1872 – [[Jože Plečnik]], Slovenian architect, designed [[Plečnik Parliament]] (died 1957) *[[1876]] – [[Otto Diels]], German chemist and academic, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (died 1954) *[[1878]] – [[Rutland Boughton]], English composer (died 1960) *[[1880]] – [[Antonio Díaz Soto y Gama]], Mexican politician (died 1967) *[[1889]] – [[Claribel Kendall]], American mathematician (died 1965)<ref>{{cite book | first=Ruth Rebekka | last=Struik | chapter=Claribel Kendall | editor-last1=Grinstein | editor-first1=Louise S. | editor-last2=Campbell | editor-first2=Paul J. | title=Women of Mathematics: a Biobibliographic Sourcebook | place=New York | publisher=Greenwood Press | year=1987 | isbn=978-0-3132-4849-8 | page=[https://archive.org/details/womenofmathemati0000unse/page/92 92] | chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/womenofmathemati0000unse/page/92 }}</ref> *[[1894]] – [[Jyotirmoyee Devi]], Indian author (died 1988) *[[1896]] – [[Alf Blair]], Australian rugby league player and coach (died 1944) * 1896 – [[Alf Hall]], English-South African cricketer (died 1964) *[[1897]] – [[Subhas Chandra Bose]], Indian freedom fighter and politician (died 1945) * 1897 – [[Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky]], Austrian architect (died 2000) * 1897 – [[Ieva Simonaitytė]], Lithuanian author (died 1978) * 1897 – [[William Stephenson]], Canadian captain and spy (died 1989) *[[1898]] – [[Georg Kulenkampff]], German violinist (died 1948) * 1898 – [[Randolph Scott]], American actor (died 1987) * 1898 – [[Freda Utley]], English scholar and author (died 1978) *[[1899]] – [[Glen Kidston]], English racing driver and pilot (died 1931) *[[1900]] – [[William Ifor Jones]], Welsh organist and conductor (died 1988)
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