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===1601–1900=== *[[1643]] ([[Old Style and New Style dates|NS]]) – [[Isaac Newton]], English mathematician and physicist (died 1726/27)<ref>{{cite book|author=Patrick Hamill|title=Intermediate Dynamics|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G1GhFvSiNsUC&pg=PA80|date=11 January 2012|publisher=Jones & Bartlett Publishers|isbn=978-1-4496-8267-5|pages=80}}</ref> *[[1654]] – [[Lars Roberg]], Swedish physician and academic (died 1742)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://runeberg.org/nfcc/0275.html|title=Nordisk familjebok / Uggleupplagan. 23. Retzius - Ryssland|website=runeberg.org|access-date=25 June 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190417005428/http://runeberg.org/nfcc/0275.html|archive-date=17 April 2019|url-status=live}}</ref> *[[1672]] – [[Hugh Boulter]], English-Irish archbishop (died 1742)<ref>{{cite book|title=The List of the Queen's Scholars of St. Peter's College, Westminster|url=https://archive.org/details/listqueensschol00welcgoog|year=1852|publisher=G.W. Ginger|pages=[https://archive.org/details/listqueensschol00welcgoog/page/n51 30]}}</ref> *[[1710]] – [[Giovanni Battista Pergolesi]], Italian composer, violinist, and organist (died 1736)<ref>{{cite book|author=Christopher Baker|title=Absolutism and the Scientific Revolution, 1600-1720: A Biographical Dictionary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SDy-MtS9mvgC&pg=PA297|year=2002|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-30827-7|pages=297}}</ref> *[[1720]] – [[Johann Friedrich Agricola]], German organist and composer (died 1774)<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Agricola, Johann Friedrich |volume= 01 | page = 387; lines one and two |quote=....was born at Dobitschen in Saxe-Altenburg, on the 4th of January 1720}}</ref> *[[1731]] – [[Karl Abraham Zedlitz]], Prussian minister of education (died 1793)<ref>{{Cite ADB|44|744|748|Zedlitz, Karl Abraham Freiherr von |Rethwisch, Conrad |ADB:Zedlitz, Karl Abraham Freiherr von}}</ref> *[[1785]] – [[Jacob Grimm]], German philologist and mythologist (died 1863)<ref>{{cite book|title=The English Cyclopædia: A New Dictionary of Universal Knowledge|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_7dCAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA210|year=1856|publisher=Bradbury and Evans|pages=209}}</ref> *[[1809]] – [[Louis Braille]], French educator, invented [[Braille]] (died 1852)<ref>{{cite book|author1=Bhushan Punani|author2=Nandini Rawal|title=Visual Handicap: Hand Book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=43baAAAAMAAJ|date=1 January 1993|publisher=Ashish Publishing House|isbn=978-81-7024-596-4|page=127}}</ref> *[[1813]] – [[Isaac Pitman]], English linguist and educator (died 1897)<ref>{{cite book|title=Browne's Phonographic Monthly|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zXt763A6RR8C&pg=PA43|year=1877|publisher=D. L. Scott-Browne|pages=43}}</ref> *[[1832]] – [[George Tryon]], English admiral (died 1893)<ref>{{cite book|title=Journal of the Royal Naval Medical Service|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=I82Q_JiPn9UC|year=1993|publisher=J. Bale, Sons, & Danielsson|page=91}}</ref> *[[1838]] – [[General Tom Thumb]], American circus performer (died 1883)<ref>{{cite book|author=Henry Alden|title=Alden's illustrated family miscellany [afterw.] record, and Oxford monthly advertiser, publ. by H. Alden|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6nUOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PT76|year=1864|pages=76}}</ref> *[[1839]] – [[Carl Humann]], German archaeologist, architect, and engineer (died 1896)<ref>{{cite book|author=Encyclopaedia Britannica, inc|title=The New Encyclopaedia Britannica|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qH4xAQAAIAAJ|year=1998|publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica|isbn=978-0-85229-633-2|page=139|access-date=2019-06-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170416130243/https://books.google.com/books?id=qH4xAQAAIAAJ|archive-date=2017-04-16|url-status=live}}</ref> *[[1848]] – [[Katsura Tarō]], Japanese general and politician, 6th [[Prime Minister of Japan]] (died 1913)<ref>{{cite book|author1=Mayako Shimamoto|author2=Koji Ito|author3=Yoneyuki Sugita|title=Historical Dictionary of Japanese Foreign Policy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g8PyCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA152|date=1 July 2015|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield Publishers|isbn=978-1-4422-5067-3|pages=152}}</ref> *[[1858]] – [[Carter Glass]], American publisher and politician, 47th [[United States Secretary of the Treasury]] (died 1946)<ref>{{cite book|author=Lyon Gardiner Tyler|title=Men of Mark in Virginia: Ideals of American Life; a Collection of Biographies of the Leading Men in the State|url=https://archive.org/details/menmarkinvirgin01unkngoog|year=1906|publisher=Men of Mark Publishing Company|page=311}}</ref> *[[1864]] – [[Clara Emilia Smitt]], Swedish doctor and author (died 1928)<ref>Sveriges dödbok 1901–2013, (Version 6.0) Sveriges släktforskarförbund (2014) {{ISBN|9187676648}} (in Swedish)</ref> *[[1869]] – [[Tommy Corcoran (baseball)|Tommy Corcoran]], American baseball player and umpire (died 1960)<ref>{{cite book|author=Contemporary Books|title=Chase's sports calendar of events: 1997|year=1996|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t1vS43orTU0C|publisher=Contemporary Books|page=1|isbn=9780809231331}}</ref> *[[1874]] – [[Josef Suk (composer)|Josef Suk]], Czech violinist and composer (died 1935)<ref>{{cite book|author=Nicolas Slonimsky|title=Music Since 1900|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W5PlAAAAMAAJ|year=1938|publisher=W.W. Norton, Incorporated|page=483}}</ref> *[[1877]] – [[Gibson Gowland]], English film actor (died 1951)<ref>{{cite book|last=Katchmer|first=George A.|title=Biographical Dictionary of Silent Film Western Actors and Actresses|location=Jefferson, N.C.|publisher=McFarland|date=2009|isbn=9780786446933|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VnGeCQAAQBAJ|page=139|postscript=none|access-date=2024-01-04|archive-date=2023-07-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230725084529/https://books.google.com/books?id=VnGeCQAAQBAJ|url-status=live}}; {{cite news|title=Obituary: Gibson Gowland|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=14 September 1951|page=12}}</ref> * 1877 – [[Marsden Hartley]], American painter and poet (died 1943)<ref>{{cite book|author=Townsend Ludington|title=Marsden Hartley: The Biography of an American Artist|url=https://archive.org/details/marsdenhartleybi0000ludi|url-access=registration|year=1998|publisher=Cornell University Press|isbn=0-8014-8580-0|pages=[https://archive.org/details/marsdenhartleybi0000ludi/page/15 15]}}</ref> *[[1878]] – [[A. E. Coppard]], English poet and short story writer (died 1957)<ref>{{cite book|author=Louis Untermeyer|title=Modern British poetry: a critical anthology|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.215174|year=1942|publisher=Harcourt, Brace & World}}</ref> * 1878 – [[Augustus John]], Welsh painter and illustrator (died 1961)<ref>{{cite book|author1=Augustus John|author2=Malcolm Easton|author3=Michael Holroyd|title=The Art of Augustus John|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kr7pAAAAMAAJ|year=1975|publisher=David R. Godine|isbn=978-0-87923-113-2}}</ref> *[[1881]] – [[Wilhelm Lehmbruck]], German sculptor (died 1919)<ref>{{cite book|author=August Hoff|title=Wilhelm Lehmbruck: Life and Work|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vL1CAAAAIAAJ|year=1969|publisher=Praeger}}</ref> *[[1883]] – [[Max Eastman]], American author and poet (died 1969)<ref>{{cite book|title=The WRITER and his CRAFT|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jkDnpcB7CgcC|year=1954}}</ref> * 1883 – [[Johanna Westerdijk]], Dutch pathologist and academic (died 1961)<ref>{{cite book|author1=Klaas Van Berkel|author2=Albert Van Helden|author3=L. C. Palm|title=The History of Science in the Netherlands: Survey, Themes and Reference|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1jwjTsRu6AMC&pg=PA603|year=1999|publisher=BRILL|isbn=90-04-10006-7|pages=603}}</ref> *[[1884]] – [[Guy Pène du Bois]], American painter, critic, and educator (died 1958)<ref>{{cite book|author=Richard Carl Medford|title=Guy Pène Du Bois|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ib5NAAAAYAAJ|year=1940|publisher=Washington county museum of fine arts|page=13}}</ref> *[[1889]] – [[M. Patanjali Sastri]], Indian lawyer and jurist, 2nd [[Chief Justice of India]] (died 1963)<ref>{{cite book|author=G.A. Natesan|title=The Indian Review|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gG_jAAAAMAAJ|year=1951|publisher=G.A. Natesan & Company|page=605}}</ref> *[[1891]] – [[Edward Brooker]], English-Australian sergeant and politician, 31st [[Premier of Tasmania]] (died 1948)<ref>R. P. Davis, [http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A130300b.htm 'Brooker, William Edward (1891 - 1948)'] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110525030721/http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A130300b.htm |date=2011-05-25 }}, ''[[Australian Dictionary of Biography]]'', Volume 13, [[Melbourne University Press]], 1993, p. 265.</ref> *[[1895]] – [[Leroy Grumman]], American engineer and businessman, co-founded [[Grumman|Grumman Aeronautical Engineering Co.]] (died 1982)<ref>{{cite book|author1=Robert B. MacKay|author2=Geoffrey Louis Rossano|title=Between Ocean and Empire: An Illustrated History of Long Island|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XvcpAQAAMAAJ|year=1985|publisher=Windsor Publications|isbn=9780897811439}}</ref> *[[1896]] – [[Everett Dirksen]], American politician (died 1969)<ref>{{cite book|author=Harvard Sitkoff|title=Postwar America: A Student Companion|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eU_nCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA86|year=2000|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-510300-7|pages=86}}</ref> * 1896 – [[André Masson]], French painter and illustrator (died 1987)<ref>{{cite book|author=Wayne Andrews|title=The Surrealist Parade|url=https://archive.org/details/surrealistparade00andr|url-access=registration|year=1990|publisher=New Directions Publishing|isbn=978-0-8112-1126-0|pages=[https://archive.org/details/surrealistparade00andr/page/88 88]}}</ref> *[[1897]] – [[Chen Cheng]], Chinese politician, [[Vice President of the Republic of China]] (died 1965)<ref>{{cite book|author=Pak-Wah Leung|title=Political Leaders of Modern China: A Biographical Dictionary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lpR8yKWjHRQC&pg=PA13|year=2002|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-30216-9|pages=13}}</ref> *[[1900]] – [[James Bond (ornithologist)|James Bond]], American ornithologist and zoologist (died 1989)<ref>{{cite book|title=The Annual Obituary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p1QYAAAAIAAJ|year=1989|publisher=St. Martin's|isbn=978-1-55862-056-8|page=82}}</ref>
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