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===1601–1900=== *[[1602]] – [[Mildmay Fane, 2nd Earl of Westmorland]], English politician (died 1666) *[[1619]] – [[Yamazaki Ansai]], Japanese philosopher (died 1682) *[[1643]] – [[Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset]], English poet and politician, [[Lord Chamberlain|Lord Chamberlain of Great Britain]] (died 1706) *[[1664]] – [[John Vanbrugh]], English architect and dramatist (died 1726)<ref>{{cite book|author=Stanley Hochman|title=McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama: An International Reference Work in 5 Volumes|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=88xIQiXVMCQC&pg=PA79|year=1984|publisher=VNR AG|isbn=978-0-07-079169-5|pages=79}}</ref> *[[1670]] – [[William Congreve]], English playwright and poet (died 1729)<ref>{{cite book|author=David Thomas|title=William Congreve|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CkldDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA2|date=30 September 1992|publisher=Macmillan International Higher Education|isbn=978-1-349-22322-0|pages=2}}{{Dead link|date=February 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> *[[1672]] – [[Margrave Albert Frederick of Brandenburg-Schwedt]], German Lieutenant General (died 1731) *[[1674]] – [[Thomas Tanner (bishop)|Thomas Tanner]], English bishop (died 1735) *[[1679]] – [[Christian Wolff (philosopher)|Christian Wolff]], German philosopher and academic (died 1754) *[[1684]] – [[Charles Alexander, Duke of Württemberg]], German noble (died 1737) *[[1705]] – [[Farinelli]], Italian castrato singer (died 1782)<ref>{{cite book|author=Charles Dickens|title=All the Year Round|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KdUNAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA21|year=1862|publisher=Charles Dickens|pages=21}}</ref> *[[1709]] – [[Dom Bédos de Celles]], French monk and organist (died 1779) *[[1712]] – [[Frederick the Great]], Prussian king (died 1786)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Reddaway |first1=William F. |title=Frederick the Great and the Rise of Prussia |date=1908 |publisher=G. P. Putnam's Sons |location=New York |page=25}}</ref> *[[1732]] – [[Pierre Beaumarchais]], French playwright and financier (died 1799) *[[1739]] – [[Jean Nicolas Houchard]], French General of the [[French Revolution]] (died 1793) *[[1746]] – [[Gustav III of Sweden]] (died 1792) *[[1749]] – [[Charles James Fox]], English businessman and politician, [[Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs]] (died 1806) *[[1754]] – [[Andrew Ellicott]], American soldier and surveyor (died 1820) *[[1761]] – [[Louis Klein]], French general (died 1845) *[[1763]] – [[Louis Alexandre Andrault de Langeron]], French-Ukrainian general and politician (died 1831) *[[1776]] – [[E. T. A. Hoffmann]], German jurist, author, and composer (died 1822) *[[1787]] – [[Christian Ludwig Brehm]], German pastor and ornithologist (died 1864) *[[1804]] – [[Delphine de Girardin]], French author (died 1855) *[[1814]] – [[Duchess Helene of Mecklenburg-Schwerin]], French Crown Princess (died 1858) * 1814 – [[John Colenso]], British mathematician (died 1883) *[[1816]] – [[Wilhelm Henzen]], German philologist and epigraphist (died 1887) *[[1828]] – [[Ferdinand Cohn]], German biologist (died 1898) *[[1829]] – [[Yechiel Michel Epstein]], Rabbi and [[posek]] (died 1908) *[[1836]] – [[Signe Rink]], Greenland-born Danish writer and ethnologist (died 1909) *[[1843]] – [[Josip Stadler]], Croatian archbishop (died 1918) *[[1848]] – [[Vasily Surikov]], Russian painter (died 1916) *[[1850]] – [[Hermann Ebbinghaus]], German psychologist (died 1909) *[[1853]] – [[Sigbert Josef Maria Ganser]], German psychiatrist (died 1931) *[[1856]] – [[Friedrich Grünanger]], Transylvanian Hungarian-German architect (died 1929) *[[1858]] – [[Constance Naden]], English poet and philosopher (died 1889) *[[1862]] – [[Edith Wharton]], American novelist and short story writer (died 1937) *[[1863]] – [[August Adler]], Czech and Austrian mathematician (died 1923) *[[1864]] – [[Marguerite Durand]], French actress, journalist, and activist (died 1936) * 1864 – [[Gaetano Giardino]], Italian soldier and [[Marshal of Italy]] (died 1935) *[[1866]] – [[Jaan Poska]], Estonian lawyer and politician, 1st [[Minister of Foreign Affairs (Estonia)|Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs]] (died 1920) *[[1869]] – [[Helena Maud Brown Cobb]], American educator and missionary (died 1922)<ref>{{Cite web|title=Helena Maud Brown Cobb {{!}} Georgia Women of Achievement|url=https://www.georgiawomen.org/helena-maud-brown-cobb|access-date=2021-05-18|website=georgiawomen|language=en|archive-date=2021-05-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210518225712/https://www.georgiawomen.org/helena-maud-brown-cobb|url-status=live}}</ref> *[[1870]] – [[Herbert Kilpin]], English footballer (died 1916) *[[1871]] – [[Jiří Karásek ze Lvovic]], Czech poet, writer and literary critic (died 1951) * 1871 – [[Thomas Jaggar]], American volcanologist (died 1953) *[[1872]] – [[Yuly Aykhenvald]], Russian literary critic (died 1928) * 1872 – [[Konstantin Bogaevsky]], Russian painter (died 1943) * 1872 – [[Morris Travers]], English chemist and academic (died 1961) *[[1873]] – [[Dmitry Ushakov]], Russian philologist and lexicographer (died 1942) *[[1882]] – [[Harold D. Babcock]], American astronomer (died 1968) * 1882 – [[Ödön Bodor]], Hungarian athlete (died 1927) *[[1885]] – [[Marjory Stephenson]], British biochemist (died 1948)<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Rayner-Canham |first1=M. F. |last2=Rayner-Canham |first2=G. W. |title=Marjory Stephenson: Founder of Microbial Biochemistry |journal=ACS Symposium Series |date=January 2018 |volume=1311 |pages=53–66 |doi=10.1021/bk-2018-1311.ch003|isbn=978-0-8412-3391-1 }}</ref> *[[1886]] – [[Henry King (director)|Henry King]], American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1982) *[[1887]] – [[Jean-Henri Humbert]], French botanist (died 1967) *[[1888]] – [[Vicki Baum]], Austrian author and screenwriter (died 1960) * 1888 – [[Ernst Heinkel]], German engineer and businessman, founded the [[Heinkel|Heinkel Aircraft Manufacturing Company]] (died 1958) *[[1889]] – [[Victor Eftimiu]], Romanian poet and playwright (died 1972) * 1889 – [[Charles Hawes]], American historian and author (died 1923) * 1889 – [[Hermann-Bernhard Ramcke]], German general of paratroop forces during [[World War II]] (died 1968) *[[1891]] – [[Walter Model]], German field marshal (died 1945) *[[1892]] – [[Franz Aigner (weightlifter)|Franz Aigner]], Austrian weightlifter (died 1970) *[[1895]] – [[Eugen Roth]], German poet and songwriter (died 1976) *[[1897]] – [[Paul Fejos]], Hungarian-born American director (died 1963) *[[1899]] – [[Hoyt Vandenberg]], U.S. Air Force general (died 1954) * 1900 – [[René Guillot]], French writer (died 1969)
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