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===1601–1900===
*[[1611]] &ndash; [[James Harrington (author)|James Harrington]], English political theorist (died 1677)<ref>{{cite web|title=James Harrington|url=http://www.miltonmalsorhistory.org.uk/times/harrington|website=Milton Malsor Historical Society|access-date=2019-05-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160404162359/http://miltonmalsorhistory.org.uk/times/harrington/|archive-date=2016-04-04|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1698]] &ndash; [[Pietro Metastasio]], Italian poet and songwriter (died 1782)<ref>{{cite book|first=Samuel Taylor|last=Coleridge|author-link=Samuel Taylor Coleridge|title=The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5ybJUBDU_vIC&pg=PA464|year=1856|publisher=Harper & brothers|pages=464}}</ref>
*[[1710]] &ndash; [[Richard Gridley]], American soldier and engineer (died 1796)<ref>{{cite book|title=Memorial Services of Commemoration Day, Held in Canton, May 30, 1877, Under the Auspices of Revere Encampment, Post 94, Grand Army of the Republic|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zeg7AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA7|year=1877|publisher=William Bense, printer|pages=7}}</ref>
*[[1722]] &ndash; [[Fredrik Hasselqvist]], Swedish biologist and explorer (died 1752)<ref>{{cite book|first=Fredrik|last=Hasselquist|author-link=Fredrik Hasselqvist|title=Voyages and Travels in the Levant in the Years 1749, 50, 51, 52|url=https://archive.org/details/voyagesandtrave00hassgoog|year=1766|publisher=L. Davis and C. Reymers|pages=[https://archive.org/details/voyagesandtrave00hassgoog/page/n115 1]}}</ref>
*[[1731]] &ndash; [[Angelo Emo]], Venetian admiral and statesman (died 1792)<ref>{{DBI|url=http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/angelo-emo_res-b26e58d3-87ec-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51_(Dizionario-Biografico)|title=EMO, Angelo|last=Preto|first=Paolo|volume=42}}</ref>
*[[1760]] &ndash; [[Veerapandiya Kattabomman]], Indian ruler (died 1799)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thequoteunquote.com/culture/436/Kattabomman-The-Ultimate-Warrior|title=Kattabomman: The Ultimate Warrior|date=2018-01-12|website=QuoteUnquote|language=en|access-date=2019-05-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190329150555/https://www.thequoteunquote.com/culture/436/Kattabomman-The-Ultimate-Warrior|archive-date=2019-03-29|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1775]] &ndash; [[Francis Caulfeild, 2nd Earl of Charlemont]] (died 1863)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.leighrayment.com/orders/patrick.htm|last=Rayment|first=Leigh|title=Knights of the Order of St Patrick|access-date=2019-05-04|url-status=usurped|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190301214021/http://www.leighrayment.com/orders/patrick.htm|archive-date=2019-03-01}}</ref>
*[[1778]] &ndash; [[Antoni Melchior Fijałkowski]], Polish archbishop (died 1861)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bfiia.html|title=Archbishop Antoni Melchior Fijałkowski|last=Cheney|first=David|access-date=2019-05-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190504164213/http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bfiia.html|archive-date=2019-05-04|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1793]] &ndash; [[Lucretia Mott]], American activist (died 1880)<ref>{{cite book|last1=Mott|first1=Lucretia|author-link1=Lucretia Mott|last2=Palmer|first2=Beverly Wilson|title=Selected letters of Lucretia Coffin Mott|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5NI5mhy5CR8C&pg=PR5|page=39 |publisher=University of Illinois Press|location=Urbana, Illinois|year=2002|isbn=978-0-252-02674-4}}</ref>
*[[1802]] &ndash; [[Charles Pelham Villiers]], English lawyer and politician (died 1898)<ref>{{cite ODNB|first=A. C.|last=Howe|title=Villiers, Charles Pelham (1802–1898)|date=2004|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/28286|edition=online edn, Oct 2009|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/28286|access-date=2019-05-05}}</ref>
*[[1803]] &ndash; [[Douglas William Jerrold]], English journalist and playwright (died 1857)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.yvonnejerrold.com/FamilyTree/0-DouglasJerrold%27sFamilyTree.html|title=The family tree of Douglas Jerrold (1803-1857)|last=Jerrold|first=Yvonne|website=yvonnejerrold.com|access-date=2019-05-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170116131511/http://www.yvonnejerrold.com/FamilyTree/0-DouglasJerrold%27sFamilyTree.html|archive-date=2017-01-16|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1806]] &ndash; [[Henriette Sontag]], German soprano and actress (died 1854)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Henriette-Sontag|title=Henriette Sontag|access-date=2019-05-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190505164344/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Henriette-Sontag|archive-date=2019-05-05|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1810]] &ndash; [[Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie]], French geographer, ethnologist, linguist, and astronomer (died 1897)<ref>{{cite web |title=Antoine-Thomson d’ Abbadie and Arnaud-Michel d’ Abbadie {{!}} Explorers, Ethnographers, Basque Country {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Antoine-Thomson-d-Abbadie-and-Arnaud-Michel-d-Abbadie#ref255225 |website=www.britannica.com |access-date=11 May 2025 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[1816]] &ndash; [[Samuel C. Pomeroy]], American businessman and politician (died 1891)<ref name=cyclopedia>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Pomeroy, Samuel Clark|encyclopedia=Kansas: A Cyclopedia of State History, Embracing Events, Institutions, Industries, Counties, Cities, Towns, Prominent Persons, etc.|editor-last=Blackmar|editor-first=Frank|location=Chicago, IL|publisher=Standard Publishing Company|date=1912|pages=485{{en dash}}86|url=http://ksgenweb.org/archives/1912/p/pomeroy_samuel_clark.html|access-date=2019-05-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180808011622/http://ksgenweb.org/archives/1912/p/pomeroy_samuel_clark.html|archive-date=2018-08-08|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1819]] &ndash; [[Charles Piazzi Smyth]], Italian-Scottish astronomer and academic (died 1900)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.piazzismyth.org/about-piazzi-smyth/|title=Who was Charles Piazzi Smyth?|access-date=2019-05-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190508154605/https://www.piazzismyth.org/about-piazzi-smyth/|archive-date=2019-05-08|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1831]] &ndash; [[Savitribai Phule]], Indian poet, educator, and activist (died 1897)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.livemint.com/Leisure/DmR1fQSnVD62p4D3eyq9mO/The-life-and-times-of-Savitribai-Phule.html|title=The life and times of Savitribai Phule|last=Kandukuri|first=Divya|date=2019-01-11|language=en|access-date=2019-05-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190419145822/https://www.livemint.com/Leisure/DmR1fQSnVD62p4D3eyq9mO/The-life-and-times-of-Savitribai-Phule.html|archive-date=2019-04-19|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1836]] &ndash; [[Sakamoto Ryōma]], Japanese samurai and rebel leader (died 1867)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2010/04/27/reference/sakamoto-the-man-and-the-myth/#.XNPyDqTTXYU|title=Sakamoto, the man and the myth|last=Hongo|first=Jun|date=2010-04-27|website=The Japan Times|access-date=2019-05-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170808165832/http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2010/04/27/reference/sakamoto-the-man-and-the-myth/#.XNPyDqTTXYU|archive-date=2017-08-08|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1840]] &ndash; [[Father Damien]], Flemish priest and missionary (died 1889)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sscc.org/pages/x_Damien/damien_bio.htm|title=Blessed Damien de Veuster, ss.cc.|website=[[Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary]]|access-date=2019-05-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120717020345/http://www.sscc.org/pages/x_Damien/damien_bio.htm|archive-date=2012-07-17|url-status=dead}}</ref>
*[[1847]] &ndash; [[Ettore Marchiafava]], Italian physician (died 1935)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://notes9.senato.it/Web/senregno.NSF/643aea4d2800e476c12574e50043faad/5c7b809cde3094de4125646f005d1581?OpenDocument|language=it|title=MARCHIAFAVA Ettore|access-date=2019-05-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140312212659/http://notes9.senato.it/web/senregno.nsf/643aea4d2800e476c12574e50043faad/5c7b809cde3094de4125646f005d1581?OpenDocument|archive-date=2014-03-12|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1853]] &ndash; [[Sophie Elkan]], Swedish writer (died 1921)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://sok.riksarkivet.se/Sbl/Mobil/Artikel/16006|title=Sophie Elkan (f. Salomon)|website=sok.riksarkivet.se|access-date=2019-01-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190130053522/https://sok.riksarkivet.se/Sbl/Mobil/Artikel/16006|archive-date=2019-01-30|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1855]] &ndash; [[Hubert Bland]], English businessman (died 1914)<ref>{{cite book|last=Briggs|first=Julia|date=2000|title=A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zRS_AAAAQBAJ|publisher=New Amsterdam Books|page=40|isbn=978-1-46-163622-9}}</ref>
*[[1861]] &ndash; [[Ernest Renshaw]], English tennis player (died 1899)<ref>{{cite web|title=James Ernest (Ernest) Renshaw: Stats|url=http://www.tennisarchives.com/player.php?playerid=4797|website=tennisarchives.com|access-date=2019-05-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160402004532/http://tennisarchives.com/player.php?playerid=4797|archive-date=2016-04-02|url-status=live}}</ref>
*  1861 &ndash; [[William Renshaw]], English tennis player (died 1904)<ref>{{cite web|title=William Charles Renshaw: Stats|url=http://www.tennisarchives.com/player.php?playerid=4798|website=tennisarchives.com|publisher=Tennis Archives|access-date=2019-05-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160402004507/http://tennisarchives.com/player.php?playerid=4798|archive-date=2016-04-02|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1862]] &ndash; [[Matthew Nathan]], English soldier and politician, 13th [[Governor of Queensland]] (died 1939)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/nathan-sir-matthew-7728/text13539|title=Nathan, Sir Matthew (1862–1939)|last=Wilson|first=Paul |date=1986|website=Australian Dictionary of Biography|publisher=National Centre of Biography, Australian National University|access-date=2019-05-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190513152113/http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/nathan-sir-matthew-7728/text13539|archive-date=2019-05-13|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1865]] &ndash; [[Henry Lytton]], English actor (died 1936)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://pinafore.www3.50megs.com/h-lytton.html|title=Henry Lytton|last=Collingwood|first=Frances|access-date=2019-05-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010223174907/http://pinafore.www3.50megs.com/h-lytton.html|archive-date=2001-02-23|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1870]] &ndash; [[Henry Handel Richardson]], Australian-English author (died 1946)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.henryhandelrichardsonsociety.org.au/henry_handel_richardson.html|title=About Henry Handel Richardson|website=Henry Handel Richardson Society|access-date=2019-05-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190514195022/http://www.henryhandelrichardsonsociety.org.au/henry_handel_richardson.html|archive-date=2019-05-14|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1873]] &ndash; [[Ichizō Kobayashi]], Japanese businessman and art collector, founded the [[Hankyu Hanshin Holdings]] (died 1957)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.itsuo-museum.com/profile/history_itsuo.html|title=ja:小林一三年譜|language=ja|publisher=Itsuo Art Museum| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20091103045040/http://www.itsuo-museum.com/profile/history_itsuo.html|archive-date= 3 November 2009 |access-date=2019-05-15}}</ref>
*[[1876]] &ndash; [[Wilhelm Pieck]], German carpenter and politician, 1st [[Leadership of East Germany|President of the German Democratic Republic]] (died 1960)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bundesstiftung-aufarbeitung.de/wer-war-wer-in-der-ddr-%2363%3B-1424.html?ID=2653|title=Pieck, Wilhelm (Friedrich Wilhelm Reinhold) * 3.1.1876, † 7.9.1960 Präsident der DDR|work=Wer war wer in der DDR?|author1=Horst Laude|author2=Helmut Müller-Enbergs|publisher=Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin & Bundesstiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur, Berlin|access-date=2019-05-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190728165218/https://www.bundesstiftung-aufarbeitung.de/wer-war-wer-in-der-ddr-%252363;-1424.html?ID=2653|archive-date=2019-07-28|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1877]] &ndash; [[Josephine Hull]], American actress (died 1957)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/josephine-hull-45928|title=Josephine Hull|website=IBDB|access-date=2019-05-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190103112749/https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/josephine-hull-45928|archive-date=2019-01-03|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1880]] &ndash; [[Francis Browne]], Irish Jesuit priest and photographer (died 1960)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/titanic-biography/francis-browne.html|title=Rev Francis M. Browne|last=Söldner|first=Hermann|website=Encyclopedia Titanica|access-date=2019-05-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190417141805/https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/titanic-biography/francis-browne.html|archive-date=2019-04-17|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1883]] &ndash; [[Clement Attlee]], English soldier, lawyer, and politician, [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] (died 1967)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Clement-Attlee|title=Clement Attlee|last=Jenkins|first=Roy|author-link=Roy Jenkins|website=Encyclopædia Britannica|access-date=2019-05-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181124093516/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Clement-Attlee|archive-date=2018-11-24|url-status=live}}</ref>
*  1883   &ndash; [[Duncan Gillis]], Canadian discus thrower and hammer thrower (died 1963)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/gi/duncan-gillis-1.html|title=Duncan Gillis|access-date=2019-05-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190902161745/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/gi/duncan-gillis-1.html|archive-date=2019-09-02|url-status=dead}}</ref>
*[[1884]] &ndash; [[Raoul Koczalski]], Polish pianist and composer (died 1948)<ref>{{cite book|last=Schonberg|first=Harold|author-link=Harold C. Schonberg|date=1987|title=Great Pianists|url=https://archive.org/details/greatpianists00scho|url-access=registration|publisher=[[Simon and Schuster]]|page=[https://archive.org/details/greatpianists00scho/page/513 513]|isbn=978-0-671-63837-5}}</ref>
*[[1885]] &ndash; [[Harry Elkins Widener]], American businessman (died 1912)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/titanic-victim/harry-elkins-widener.html|title=Mr Harry Elkins Widener|website=Encyclopedia Titanica|access-date=2019-05-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190517073019/https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/titanic-victim/harry-elkins-widener.html|archive-date=2019-05-17|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1886]] &ndash; [[John Gould Fletcher]], American poet and author (died 1950)<ref>{{cite book|last=Carpenter|first=Lucas|title=Autobiography of John Gould Fletcher|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5nw1nKgOiBkC|publisher=University of Arkansas Press|page=7|isbn=978-1-61075-053-0}}</ref>
*  1886   &ndash; [[Arthur Mailey]], Australian cricketer (died 1967)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/australia/content/player/6465.html|title=Arthur Mailey|website=ESPNcricinfo|access-date=2019-05-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190529061821/http://www.espncricinfo.com/australia/content/player/6465.html|archive-date=2019-05-29|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1887]] &ndash; [[August Macke]], German-French painter (died 1914)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/August-Macke|title=August Macke|website=Encyclopædia Britannica|access-date=2019-05-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171031104929/https://www.britannica.com/biography/August-Macke|archive-date=2017-10-31|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1892]] &ndash; [[J.R.R. Tolkien]], English writer, poet, and philologist (died 1973)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.tolkiensociety.org/author/biography/|last=Doughan|first=David|title=J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biographical Sketch|website=The Tolkien Society|date=27 October 2016|access-date=2019-05-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190515184533/https://www.tolkiensociety.org/author/biography/|archive-date=2019-05-15|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1894]] &ndash; [[ZaSu Pitts]], American actress (died 1963)<ref>{{cite book|last=Stumpf|first=Charles|date=2010|title=ZaSu Pitts: The Life and Career|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fSP4lHULPwsC|publisher=McFarland|page=3|isbn=9780786460236}}</ref>
*[[1897]] &ndash; [[Eithne Coyle]], [[Irish republican]] revolutionary, (died 1985)<ref>McCoole, Sinéad, ''No ordinary women: Irish female activists in the revolutionary years, 1900–1923'', O'Brien, 2003, p. 155</ref>
*  1897   &ndash; [[Marion Davies]], American actress and comedian (died 1961)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.goldensilents.com/stars/mariondavies.html|title=Marion Davies|website=Golden Silents|access-date=2019-05-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080509144109/http://www.goldensilents.com/stars/mariondavies.html|archive-date=2008-05-09|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1898]] &ndash; [[Carolyn Haywood]], American author and illustrator (died 1990)<ref>{{cite book|last=Telgen|first=Diane|title=Something about the author|date=1993|publisher=[[Gale (publisher)|Cengage Gale]]|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pVTzNRcjkW0C&q=Carolyn+Haywood,+1898-1990,|page=83|isbn=9780810322851}}</ref>
*[[1900]] &ndash; [[Donald J. Russell]], American businessman (died 1985)<ref>{{cite book|last=Hofsommer|first=Don|title=The Southern Pacific, 1901–1985|date=2009|publisher=[[Texas A&M University Press]]|page=225|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BsRvIUwLwFwC&pg=PA225|isbn=978-1-60344-127-8}}</ref>