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===1601–1900=== *[[1606]] – [[William Dugard]], English printer (died 1662)<ref>{{cite book|author=Matthew J. Bruccoli|title=British Rhetoricians and Logicians, 1500-1660: Second series|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e9EUAQAAIAAJ|year=2003|publisher=Gale Group|isbn=978-0-7876-6025-3|page=78|access-date=2020-07-30|archive-date=2023-07-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230725121042/https://books.google.com/books?id=e9EUAQAAIAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref> *[[1624]] – [[Empress Meishō]] of Japan (died 1696)<ref>{{cite book|author1=John E. Lane|author2=Stanleigh H. Jones|title=Researches in the social sciences on Japan: essays and abstracts|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9uoDAQAAIAAJ|year=1957|publisher=Reproduced for private distribution by the East Asian Institute of Columbia University|page=22}}</ref> *[[1645]] – [[Sir William Villiers, 3rd Baronet]], English noble and politician (date baptized;<ref>A.A. Hanham, 'Villiers, Sir William, 3rd Bt. (1645-1712), of Brooksby Hall, Leics.', in D. Hayton, E. Cruickshanks and S. Handley (eds), ''The History of Parliament: The House of Commons 1690-1715'' (from Boydell and Brewer, 2002), [https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1690-1715/member/villiers-sir-william-1645-1712 History of Parliament Online].</ref> (died 1712) *[[1674]] – [[Reinhard Keiser]], German composer (died 1739)<ref>{{cite book|author1=John Warrack|author2=Ewan West|title=The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera|url=https://archive.org/details/conciseoxforddic00warr|url-access=registration|date=7 March 1996|publisher=Oxford University Press, USA|isbn=978-0-19-280028-2|pages=[https://archive.org/details/conciseoxforddic00warr/page/261 261]}}</ref> *[[1685]] – [[Tiberius Hemsterhuis]], Dutch philologist and critic (died 1766)<ref>{{cite book|title=Chamber's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rPdMAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA308|year=1871|publisher=W & R Chambers|pages=308}}</ref> *[[1728]] – [[Thomas Warton]], English poet, historian, and critic (died 1790) *[[1735]] – [[John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent]], English admiral and politician (died 1823) *[[1745]] – [[Caleb Strong]], American lawyer and politician, 6th [[Governor of Massachusetts]] (died 1819) *[[1753]] – [[Luísa Todi]], Portuguese soprano and actress (died 1833)<ref>{{cite book|author=Randel Don|title=The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jEGpMqRcQjIC&pg=PA920|year=1996|publisher=Harvard University Press|isbn=978-0-674-37299-3|pages=920}}</ref> *[[1773]] – [[Cassandra Austen]], English painter and illustrator (died 1845)<ref>{{cite book|author=Paul Poplawski|title=A Jane Austen Encyclopedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hW-OXDSc3rAC&pg=PA57|year=1998|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-30017-2|pages=57}}</ref> *[[1778]] – [[Hammamizade İsmail Dede Efendi]], Turkish [[Ney]] player and composer (died 1846)<ref>{{cite book|author=Mohamed el Fers|title=Mevlana Rumi|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lSrUj_7tW-AC&pg=PA244|year=1992|publisher=Mohamed el-Fers|isbn=978-90-5330-049-7|pages=244}}</ref> *[[1811]] – [[Gilbert Abbott à Beckett]], English journalist and author (died 1856) *[[1818]] – [[Antoine Samuel Adam-Salomon]], French sculptor and photographer (died 1881) *[[1819]] – [[James Francis (politician)|James Francis]], English-Australian businessman and politician, 9th [[Premier of Victoria]] (died 1884) *[[1822]] – [[Carol Benesch]], Czech-Romanian architect, designed the [[Peleș Castle]] (died 1896) *[[1823]] – [[Friedrich von Esmarch]], German surgeon and academic (died 1908) *[[1829]] – [[Thomas William Robertson]], English director and playwright (died 1871) * 1829 – [[Adolf Schlagintweit]], German botanist and explorer (died 1857) *[[1832]] – [[Félix-Gabriel Marchand]], Canadian journalist and politician, 11th [[Premier of Quebec]] (died 1900) *[[1839]] – [[John Knowles Paine]], American composer and academic (died 1906) *[[1848]] – [[Princess Frederica of Hanover]] (died 1926)<ref>{{cite book|title=Dod's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, of Great Britain and Ireland, for ...: Including All the Titled Classes|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_wEdAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA75|year=1855|publisher=S. Low, Marston & Company|pages=75}}</ref> *[[1849]] – [[John Hartley (tennis)|John Hartley]], English tennis player (died 1935) *[[1854]] – [[Lady Randolph Churchill|Jennie Jerome]], American-born wife of [[Lord Randolph Churchill]], mother of Sir [[Winston Churchill]] (died 1921)<ref>G. H. L. Le May, "Churchill, Jeanette [Lady Randolph Churchill] (1854–1921)", rev. ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004; online ed., May 2006, accessed 18 September 2010</ref> *[[1856]] – [[Anton Aškerc]], Slovenian priest and poet (died 1912) *[[1859]] – [[Carrie Chapman Catt]], American activist, founded the [[League of Women Voters]] and [[International Alliance of Women]] (died 1947)<ref>{{cite book|editor-first=Edward T.|editor-last=James|title=Notable American Women, 1607-1950: A Biographical Dictionary|volume=1|year=1971|isbn=978-0-67462-734-5|page=309|publisher=Harvard University Press }}</ref> *[[1864]] – [[Vladimir Steklov (mathematician)|Vladimir Steklov]], Russian mathematician and physicist (died 1926) *[[1868]] – [[S. P. L. Sørensen]], Danish chemist and academic (died 1939)<ref>{{cite book|author1=Heinz Holter|author2=K. Max Møller|author3=Carlsbergfondet|title=The Carlsberg Laboratory, 1876/1976|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iq4LAQAAIAAJ|year=1976|publisher=Carlsberg Foundation : Rhodos|isbn=978-87-7496-539-8|page=63}}</ref> *[[1870]] – [[Joseph Strauss (engineer)|Joseph Strauss]], American engineer, co-designed the [[Golden Gate Bridge]] (died 1938) *[[1873]] – [[Hayim Nahman Bialik]], Ukrainian-Austrian journalist, author, and poet (died 1934) * 1873 – [[Thomas Curtis (athlete)|Thomas Curtis]], American sprinter and hurdler (died 1944) * 1873 – [[John Flanagan (hammer thrower)|John Flanagan]], Irish-American hammer thrower (died 1938) *[[1875]] – [[Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney]], American sculptor and art collector, founded the [[Whitney Museum of American Art]] (died 1942)<ref>{{cite book|author1=Frank Northen Magill|author2=Alison Aves|title=Dictionary of World Biography: The 20th century, O-Z|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uiQAaGgOChIC&pg=PA3969|date=November 1999|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-57958-048-3|pages=3969|access-date=2020-10-27|archive-date=2023-10-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231004045422/https://books.google.com/books?id=uiQAaGgOChIC&pg=PA3969#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}</ref> *[[1879]] – [[John B. Watson]], American psychologist and academic (died 1958) *[[1881]] – [[Lascelles Abercrombie]], English poet and critic (died 1938) * 1881 – [[Giovanni Papini]], Italian journalist, author, and poet (died 1956) *[[1885]] – [[Charles Bacon]], American runner and hurdler (died 1968) *[[1886]] – [[Lloyd Loar]], American sound engineer and instrument designer (died 1943) *[[1889]] – [[Vrindavan Lal Verma]], Indian author and playwright (died 1969) *[[1890]] – [[Karel Čapek]], Czech author and playwright (died 1938)<ref>{{cite book|author1=O. Classe|author2=[Anonymus AC02468681]|title=Encyclopedia of Literary Translation Into English: A-L|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=myLDA0_brhcC&pg=PA227|year=2000|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-884964-36-7|pages=227}}</ref> * 1890 – [[Kurt Tucholsky]], German-Swedish journalist and author (died 1935) *[[1892]] – [[Eva Bowring]], American lawyer and politician (died 1985) *[[1893]] – [[Edwin Baker (CNIB)|Edwin Baker]], Canadian soldier and educator, co-founded the [[Canadian National Institute for the Blind]] (died 1968) *[[1896]] – [[Warwick Braithwaite]], New Zealand-English conductor and director (died 1971) *[[1897]] – [[Karl Löwith]], German philosopher, author, and academic (died 1973) * 1897 – [[Halyna Kuzmenko]], Ukrainian teacher and anarchist revolutionary (died 1978)<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Patterson |first1=Sean |title=[[Makhno and Memory: Anarchist and Mennonite Narratives of Ukraine's Civil War, 1917–1921]] |year=2020 |language=en |isbn=978-0-88755-578-7 |oclc=1134608930 |location=[[Manitoba]] |publisher=[[University of Manitoba Press]] |pages=35–36}}</ref> *[[1898]] – [[Gracie Fields]], English actress and singer (died 1979)<ref>{{cite book|author1=Terry Wyke|author2=Harry Cocks|title=Public Sculpture of Greater Manchester|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mFOhWSH9B6wC&pg=PA326|year=2004|publisher=Liverpool University Press|isbn=978-0-85323-567-5|pages=326}}</ref> *[[1899]] – [[Harald Tammer]], Estonian journalist and weightlifter (died 1942) *[[1900]] – [[Richard Halliburton]], American journalist and author (died 1939)
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