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===1601–1900===
*[[1683]] &ndash; [[Edward Young]], English poet, dramatist and literary critic (''[[Night-Thoughts]]'') (died 1765)
*[[1685]] &ndash; [[Sir Robert Rich, 4th Baronet]], English field marshal and politician (died 1768)
*[[1728]] &ndash; [[Robert Adam]], Scottish-English architect, designed [[Culzean Castle]] (died 1792)
*[[1738]] &ndash; [[John Singleton Copley]], American painter (died 1815)
*[[1778]] &ndash; [[Carl Ludvig Engel]], German architect (died 1840)
*[[1789]] &ndash; [[Johann Friedrich Overbeck]], German-Italian painter and engraver (died 1869)
*[[1814]] &ndash; [[Ferdinand Didrichsen]], Danish botanist and physicist (died 1887)
*[[1823]] &ndash; [[Ahmed Vefik Pasha]], Greek-Ottoman statesman, diplomat, playwright, and translator (died 1891)
*[[1844]] &ndash; [[Dankmar Adler]], German-born American architect and engineer (died 1900)
*[[1846]] &ndash; [[Achilles Alferaki]], Russian composer and politician, [[Governor of Taganrog]] (died 1919)
*[[1851]] &ndash; [[Charles Bannerman]], English-Australian cricketer and umpire (died 1930)
*[[1854]] &ndash; [[Leoš Janáček]], Czech composer and theorist (died 1928)
*[[1860]] &ndash; [[Charlotte Perkins Gilman]], American sociologist and author (died 1935)<ref>{{cite book|first=Lynne E.|last=Ford|title=Encyclopedia of Women and American Politics|location=New York|publisher=Facts on File|year=2007|isbn=978-0-81605-491-6|page=209}}</ref>
*[[1866]] &ndash; [[Albert Gottschalk]], Danish painter (died 1906)
*[[1869]] &ndash; [[Svend Kornbeck]], Danish actor (died 1933)
*[[1870]] &ndash; [[R. B. Bennett]], Canadian lawyer and politician, 11th [[Prime Minister of Canada]] (died 1947)
*[[1871]] &ndash; [[W. H. Davies|William Henry Davies]], Welsh poet and writer (died 1940)
*[[1874]] &ndash; [[Jean Collas]], French rugby player and [[tug of war]] competitor (died 1928)
*[[1875]] &ndash; [[Ferdinand Sauerbruch]], German surgeon and academic (died 1951)
*[[1876]] &ndash; [[Ralph Barton Perry]], American philosopher and academic (died 1957)
*[[1878]] &ndash; [[George M. Cohan]], American songwriter, actor, singer, and dancer (died 1942)
*[[1879]] &ndash; [[Alfred Korzybski]], Polish-American mathematician, linguist, and philosopher (died 1950)
*[[1880]] &ndash; [[Carl Schuricht]], Polish-German conductor (died 1967)
*[[1883]] &ndash; [[Franz Kafka]], Czech-Austrian author (died 1924)<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Franz Kafka, Party Animal |first1=Becca |last1=Rothfeld |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/01/16/the-diaries-of-franz-kafka-party-animal |date=9 January 2023 |access-date=13 January 2023 |volume=98 |issue=45 |issn=0028-792X |page=66 |magazine=The New Yorker}}</ref>
*[[1885]] &ndash; [[Anna Dickie Olesen]], American politician (died 1971)<ref>{{cite book|last=De Bower Johnson|chapter=Anna Dickie Olesen, Senate Candidate|editor-first1=Barbara|editor-last1=Stuhler|editor-first2=Gretchen V|editor-last2=Kreuter|title=Women of Minnesota: Selected Biographical Essays|location=St. Paul|publisher=Minnesota Historical Society Press|year=1998|page=226|isbn=978-0-87351-367-8}}</ref>
*[[1886]] &ndash; [[Raymond A. Spruance]], American admiral and diplomat, [[United States Ambassador to the Philippines]] (died 1969)
*[[1888]] &ndash; [[Ramón Gómez de la Serna]], Spanish author and playwright (died 1963)
*[[1889]] &ndash; [[Richard Cramer]], American actor (died 1960)
*[[1893]] &ndash; [[Sándor Bortnyik]], Hungarian painter and graphic designer (died 1976)
*[[1896]] &ndash; [[Doris Lloyd]], English actress (died 1968)
*[[1897]] &ndash; [[Jesse Douglas]], American mathematician and academic (died 1965)
*[[1898]] &ndash; [[Stefanos Stefanopoulos]], Greek politician, [[Prime Minister of Greece]] (died 1982)
*[[1900]] &ndash; [[Alessandro Blasetti]], Italian director and screenwriter (died 1987)