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===1601–1900===
*[[1601]] &ndash; [[Baltasar Gracián]], Spanish priest and author (died 1658)<ref>{{cite book|author=Virginia Ramos Foster|title=Baltasar Gracián|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CoQNAAAAIAAJ|year=1975|publisher=Twayne Publishers|isbn=978-0-8057-2398-4|page=11}}</ref>
*[[1626]] &ndash; [[Jean Talon]], first Intendant of New France (died 1694)<ref>{{Cite web |last=Vachon |first=André |year=2020 |orig-date=1966 |title=Talon, Jean (Talon Du Quesnoy) |url=http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/talon_jean_1E.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230610184530/http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/talon_jean_1E.html |archive-date=10 June 2023 |access-date=8 January 2023 |website=Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 1 |publisher=University of Toronto/Université Laval}}</ref>
*[[1628]] &ndash; [[François-Henri de Montmorency, duc de Luxembourg]], French general (died 1695)<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Luxemburg, François Henri de Montmorency-Bouteville, Duke of |volume= 17 | pages = 144&ndash;145; see page 144 line two |quote=...was born at Paris on the 8th of January 1628. }}</ref>
*[[1632]] &ndash; [[Samuel von Pufendorf]], German economist and jurist (died 1694)<ref>{{cite book|author1=Serge Dauchy|author2=Georges Martyn|author3=Anthony Musson|title=The Formation and Transmission of Western Legal Culture: 150 Books that Made the Law in the Age of Printing|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7r2iDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA219|date=1 December 2016|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-3-319-45567-9|page=219}}</ref>
*[[1635]] &ndash; [[Luis Manuel Fernández de Portocarrero]], Spanish cardinal (died 1709)<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle=Portocarrero, Luis Manuel Fernandez de |volume=22|page=123; see line two |quote=....and was born on the 8th of January 1635.}}</ref>
*[[1638]] &ndash; [[Elisabetta Sirani]], Italian painter (died 1665)<ref>{{cite book|author=Laura Maria Roberts Ragg|title=The Women Artists of Bologna|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3b0MAQAAIAAJ|year=1907|publisher=Methuen|page=233}}</ref>
*[[1735]] &ndash; [[John Carroll (bishop)|John Carroll]], American archbishop, founder of [[Georgetown University]] (died 1815)<ref>{{cite EB1911 |wstitle=Carroll, John}}</ref>
*[[1763]] &ndash; [[Edmond-Charles Genêt]], French-American translator and diplomat (died 1834)<ref>{{cite book|author1=Charles Fenno Hoffman|author2=Timothy Flint|author3=Lewis Gaylord Clark|author4=Kinahan Cornwallis|author5= John Holmes Agnew|title=The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LsdGAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA284|year=1850|page=284}}</ref>
*[[1786]] &ndash; [[Nicholas Biddle (banker)|Nicholas Biddle]], American banker and financier (died 1844)<ref>{{cite book|title=The Bankers Magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AOMzAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA614|year=1869|publisher=Warren, Gorham & Lamont, Incorporated|page=614}}</ref>
*[[1788]] &ndash; [[Archduke Rudolf of Austria (1788–1831)|Rudolf of Austria]], Austrian archduke and archbishop (died 1831)<ref>{{cite book|author=Susan Kagan|title=Archduke Rudolph, Beethoven's Patron, Pupil, and Friend: His Life and Music|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XsD7i4To5sEC&pg=PA1|year=1988|publisher=Pendragon Press|isbn=978-0-945193-45-6|page=1}}</ref>
*[[1792]] &ndash; [[Lowell Mason]], American composer and educator (died 1872)<ref>{{cite book|author1=Edith L. Blumhofer|author2=Edith Waldvogel Blumhofer|title=Her Heart Can See: The Life and Hymns of Fanny J. Crosby|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9LWkw81bRXwC&pg=PA127|date=12 May 2005|publisher=Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing|isbn=978-0-8028-4253-4|page=127}}</ref>
*[[1805]] &ndash; [[John Bigler]], American lawyer, politician, and diplomat, 3rd [[Governor of California]] (died 1871)<ref>{{cite book|author1=Howard Brett Melendy|author2=Benjamin Franklin Gilbert|title=The Governors of California: Peter H. Burnett to Edmund G. Brown|url=https://archive.org/details/governorsofcalif0000unse|url-access=registration|year=1965|publisher=Talisman Press|page=[https://archive.org/details/governorsofcalif0000unse/page/n53 50]}}</ref>
*  1805 &ndash; [[Orson Hyde]], American religious leader, 3rd [[President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles (LDS Church)|President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles]] (died 1878)<ref>{{cite book|author=Howard H. Barron|title=Orson Hyde: Missionary, Apostle, Colonizer|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-J7tAAAAMAAJ|year=1977|publisher=Horizon Publishers|isbn=978-0-88290-076-6|page=5}}</ref>
*[[1812]] &ndash; [[Sigismond Thalberg]], Swiss pianist and composer (died 1871)<ref>{{cite book|author=Alan Walker|title=Franz Liszt|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5hckAAAAMAAJ|year=1983|publisher=Knopf|page=232|isbn=978-0-394-52540-2}}</ref>
*[[1817]] &ndash; [[Theophilus Shepstone]], English-South African politician (died 1893)<ref>{{cite book|author=Ruth E. Gordon|title=Shepstone: the Role of the Family in the History of South Africa, 1820-1900|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rQ8fAAAAMAAJ|year=1968|publisher=A. A. Balkema|page=2}}</ref>
*[[1821]] &ndash; [[James Longstreet]], American general and diplomat, [[United States Ambassador to Turkey]] (died 1904)<ref>{{cite book|author=Luther William Minnigh|title=Gettysburg: "what They Did Here"|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EdPTAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA146|year=1863|page=146}}</ref>
*[[1823]] &ndash; [[Alfred Russel Wallace]], Welsh geographer, biologist, and explorer (died 1913)<ref>{{cite book|author=Alfred Russel Wallace|title=Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters from the Malay Archipelago|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cRyRAAAAQBAJ&pg=PR12|date=24 October 2013|publisher=OUP Oxford|isbn=978-0-19-968399-4|page=12}}</ref>
*[[1824]] &ndash; [[Wilkie Collins]], English novelist, playwright, and short story writer (died 1889)<ref>{{cite book|author1=Professor Department of Sociology Michael S Kimmel|author2=Amy B Aronson|title=Men and Masculinities: A-J|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jWj5OBvTh1IC&pg=PA165|year=2004|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-1-57607-774-0|page=165}}</ref>
*  1824 &ndash; [[Francisco González Bocanegra]], Mexican poet and composer (died 1861)<ref>{{cite book|author=Eladio Cortés|title=Dictionary of Mexican Literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=j-K-13qmBSoC&pg=PA284|year=1992|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-26271-5|page=284}}</ref>
*[[1830]] &ndash; [[Hans von Bülow]], German pianist and composer (died 1894)<ref>{{cite book|author=Hans von Bülow|title=The Early Correspondence of Hans Von Bülow|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ycM5AAAAIAAJ|year=1896|publisher=T.F. Unwin|page=4}}</ref>
*[[1836]] &ndash; [[Lawrence Alma-Tadema]], Dutch-English painter and academic (died 1912)<ref>{{cite book|title=The Art Journal: New series|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tbJCAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA9|year=1875|publisher=D. Appleton & Company|page=9}}</ref>
*[[1843]] &ndash; [[Frederick Abberline]], English police officer (died 1929)<ref>{{cite book|author=M.J. Trow|title=Ripper Hunter: Abberline and the Whitechapel Murders|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SWgqVCSNwikC&pg=PT106|date=19 December 2012|publisher=Pen and Sword|isbn=978-1-78337-855-5|page=106}}</ref>
*[[1852]] &ndash; [[James Milton Carroll]], American pastor and author (died 1931)<ref>[http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fca66 Carroll, James Milton] J. A. Reynolds, Handbook of Texas Online, Uploaded on June 12, 2010. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.</ref>
*[[1859]] &ndash; [[Fanny Bullock Workman]], American mountaineer, geographer, and cartographer (died 1925)<ref>{{cite book|author=Margo McLoone|title=Women Explorers of the Mountains: Nina Mazuchelli, Fanny Bullock Workman, Mary Vaux Walcott, Gertrude Benham, Junko Tabei|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1TeHkUIocC8C&pg=PA17|date=August 1999|publisher=Capstone|isbn=978-0-7368-0311-3|page=17}}</ref>
*[[1860]] &ndash; [[Emma Booth-Tucker]], English author (died 1903)<ref>{{cite book|author1=John Arthur Garraty|author2=Mark C. Carnes|title=American National Biography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hYYRAQAAMAAJ|year=1999|publisher=Oxford University|isbn=978-0-19-512782-9|page=201}}</ref>
*[[1862]] &ndash; [[Frank Nelson Doubleday]], American publisher, founded the [[Doubleday (publisher)|Doubleday Publishing Company]] (died 1934)<ref>{{cite book|author=John N. Ingham|title=Biographical Dictionary of American Business Leaders|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qzxy3pejsdoC&pg=PA1792|year=1983|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-21362-5|page=1792}}</ref>
*[[1864]] &ndash; [[Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale]] (died 1892)<ref>{{cite book|author=James H. Murphy|title=Abject Loyalty: Nationalism and Monarchy in Ireland During the Reign of Queen Victoria|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nnh22zBI5uAC&pg=PA308|year=2001|publisher=CUA Press|isbn=978-0-8132-1076-6|page=308}}</ref>
*[[1865]] &ndash; [[Winnaretta Singer]], American philanthropist (died 1943)<ref>{{cite book|author1=Gabriel Fauré|title=His Life Through Letters|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UqIHAQAAMAAJ|year=1984|publisher=M. Boyars|isbn=978-0-7145-2768-0|page=153}}</ref>
*[[1866]] &ndash; [[William G. Conley]], American educator and politician, 18th [[Governor of West Virginia]] (died 1940)<ref>{{cite book|author=Charles A. Thomas|title=Preston County|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fS35x8TQej8C&pg=PA93|date=1 January 1998|publisher=Arcadia Publishing|isbn=978-0-7385-4319-2|page=93}}</ref>
*[[1867]] &ndash; [[Emily Greene Balch]], American economist and author, [[Nobel Peace Prize|Nobel Prize]] laureate (died 1961)<ref>{{cite book|author=Judith Freeman Clark|title=Almanac of American Women in the 20th Century|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ryMqAAAAYAAJ|year=1987|publisher=Prentice Hall|isbn=978-0-13-022658-7|page=88}}</ref>
*[[1870]] &ndash; [[Miguel Primo de Rivera]], Spanish general and politician, [[Prime Minister of Spain]] (died 1930)<ref>{{cite book|author1=Charles Petrie|author2=Charles Alexander Petrie, Sir bart.|title=King Alfonso XIII and His Age|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zvk8AAAAMAAJ|year=1963|publisher=Chapman & Hall|page=179}}</ref>
*[[1871]] &ndash; [[James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon]], Irish captain and politician, 1st [[Prime Minister of Northern Ireland]] (died 1940)<ref>{{cite book|author=Patrick Buckland|title=James Craig: Lord Craigavon|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DgM0AAAAMAAJ|year=1980|publisher=Gill and Macmillan|page=3|isbn=978-0-7171-1078-0}}</ref>
*[[1873]] &ndash; [[Iuliu Maniu]], Romanian lawyer and politician, 32nd [[Prime Minister of Romania]] (died 1953)<ref>{{Cite web|title=Iuliu Maniu {{!}} prime minister of Romania|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Iuliu-Maniu|access-date=2021-02-12|website=Britannica.com|language=en}}</ref>
*[[1881]] &ndash; [[Henrik Shipstead]], American dentist and politician (died 1960)<ref>{{cite book|author=James Stuart Olson|title=Historical Dictionary of the Great Depression, 1929-1940|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CDD1aGiJJTkC&pg=PA255|year=2001|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-30618-1|page=255}}</ref>
*  1881 &ndash; [[Linnie Marsh Wolfe]], American librarian and author (died 1945)<ref>"Linnie Marsh Wolfe." ''Contemporary Authors Online''. Detroit: Gale, 2001. ''Gale Biography In Context''. Retrieved September 4, 2012.</ref>
*[[1883]] &ndash; [[Pavel Filonov]], Russian painter and poet (died 1941)<ref>{{cite book|author=John E. Bowlt|title=Russian Art, 1875-1975: A Collection of Essays|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wmx6DAjZCxsC&pg=PA140|year=1976|publisher=Ardent Media|isbn=978-0-8422-0547-4|page=140}}</ref>
*  1883 &ndash; [[Patrick J. Hurley]], American general, politician, and diplomat, 51st [[United States Secretary of War]] (died 1963)
*[[1885]] &ndash; [[John Curtin]], Australian journalist and politician, 14th [[Prime Minister of Australia]] (died 1945)<ref>{{cite book|author=Brian Carroll|title=Australia's Prime Ministers: From Barton to Howard|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W8PUBuw4idYC&pg=PA159|year=2004|publisher=Rosenberg Publishing Pty, Limited|isbn=978-1-877058-22-6|page=159}}</ref>
*  1885 &ndash; [[Mór Kóczán]], Hungarian javelin thrower and pastor (died 1972)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ko/mor-koczan-1.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417175050/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ko/mor-koczan-1.html|archive-date=April 17, 2020|title=Mór Kóczán Biography and Olympic Results|publisher=Sports Reference|access-date=April 19, 2012}}</ref>
*  1885 &ndash; [[A. J. Muste]], Dutch-American pastor and activist (died 1967)<ref>{{cite journal|author=Howlett, Charles F.|url=http://www.friendsjournal.org/j-muste-20th-centurys-most-famous-u-s-pacifist|title=A.J. Muste: The 20th Century's Most Famous US Pacifist|journal=[[Friends Journal]]|date= April 2006}}</ref>
*[[1888]] &ndash; [[Richard Courant]], German-American mathematician and academic (died 1972)<ref>{{cite book|author=National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)|title=Report of the National Academy of Sciences|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b5grAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA141|year=1879|publisher=National Academies|page=141}}</ref>
*[[1891]] &ndash; [[Walther Bothe]], German physicist and academic, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (died 1957)<ref>{{cite book|author=M. Melarango|title=Quantification in Science: The VNR Dictionary of Engineering Units and Measures|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DFt6YPLNjMgC&pg=PA35|date=1 July 1991|publisher=CRC Press|isbn=978-0-442-00641-9|page=35}}</ref>
*  1891 &ndash; [[Storm Jameson]], English journalist and author (died 1986)<ref>{{cite book|author1=Patricia Burgess|author2=Trish Burgess|title=Annual Obituary, 1986|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oZPZBuqy_SYC|date=1 August 1989|publisher=St James Press|isbn=978-1-55862-013-1|page=528}}</ref>
*  1891 &ndash; [[Bronislava Nijinska]], Russian dancer and choreographer (died 1972)<ref>{{cite book|author=Clemens Jöckle|title=Encyclopedia of Saints|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GC1GAQAAIAAJ|year=1995|publisher=Alpine Fine Arts Collection|isbn=978-0-88168-226-7|page=319}}</ref>
*[[1896]] &ndash; [[Jaromír Weinberger]], Czech-American composer and academic (died 1967)<ref>{{cite book|author1=David Mason Greene|author2=Constance Green|title=Greene's Biographical Encyclopedia of Composers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m3S7PIxe0mwC&pg=PA1247|year=1985|publisher=Reproducing Piano Roll Fnd.|isbn=978-0-385-14278-6|page=1247}}</ref>
*[[1897]] &ndash; [[Dennis Wheatley]], English soldier and author (died 1977)<ref>{{cite book|author=Clive Barker|title=Clive Barker's A-Z of Horror|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fKAqAQAAIAAJ|year=1997|publisher=BBC|isbn=978-0-563-37152-6|page=56}}</ref>
*[[1899]] &ndash; [[S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike]], Sri Lankan lawyer and politician, 4th [[Prime Minister of Sri Lanka]] (died 1959)
*[[1900]] &ndash; [[Dorothy Adams]], American character actress (died 1988)<ref>{{Citation|title=Dorothy Adams: Classic Movie Hub (CMH)|url=http://www.classicmoviehub.com/bio/dorothy-adams/|access-date=2017-10-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171020083718/http://www.classicmoviehub.com/bio/dorothy-adams/|archive-date=2017-10-20|url-status=live}}</ref>
*  1900 &ndash; [[Serge Poliakoff]], Russian-French painter (died 1969)<ref>{{cite book|author=Wolf Stubbe|title=Graphic Arts in the Twentieth Century|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xfpPAAAAMAAJ|year=1963|publisher=Praeger|page=292}}</ref>