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===1601–1900=== *[[1656]] – [[John Leake]], Royal Navy admiral (died 1720) *[[1694]] – [[Louis-Claude Daquin]], French organist and composer (died 1772) *[[1715]] – [[Christian Fürchtegott Gellert]], German poet and academic (died 1769) *[[1719]] – [[Michel-Jean Sedaine]], French playwright (died 1797) *[[1729]] – [[George Leonard (Congressman)|George Leonard]], American lawyer, jurist and politician (died 1819) *[[1753]] – [[Jean-Pierre Blanchard]], French inventor, best known as a pioneer in balloon flight (died 1809) *[[1790]] – [[George Everest]], Welsh geographer and surveyor (died 1866) *[[1799]] – [[Oscar I of Sweden]] (died 1859)<ref>{{cite web |title=Oscar I {{!}} king of Sweden and Norway |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Oscar-I |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=15 December 2020 |language=en}}</ref> *[[1804]] – [[Nathaniel Hawthorne]], American novelist and short story writer (died 1864) *[[1807]] – [[Giuseppe Garibaldi]], Italian general and politician (died 1882) *[[1816]] – [[Hiram Walker]], American businessman, founded [[Canadian Club|Canadian Club whisky]] (died 1899) *[[1826]] – [[Stephen Foster]], American songwriter and composer (died 1864) *[[1842]] – [[Hermann Cohen]], German philosopher (died 1918) *[[1845]] – [[Thomas John Barnardo]], Irish philanthropist and humanitarian (died 1905) *[[1847]] – [[James Anthony Bailey]], American circus ringmaster, co-founded [[Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus]] (died 1906) *[[1854]] – [[Victor Babeș]], Romanian physician and biologist (died 1926) *[[1868]] – [[Henrietta Swan Leavitt]], American astronomer and academic (died 1921)<ref>{{cite book|first1=Deborah|last1=Todd|first2=Joseph|last2=Angelo|title=A to Z of Scientists in Space and Astronomy|location=New York|publisher=Facts of File|year=2003|page=200|isbn=978-0-81604-639-3}}</ref> *[[1886]] – [[Tom Longboat]], Canadian runner and soldier (died 1949)<ref>[http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/military-heritage/first-world-war/first-world-war-1914-1918-cef/Pages/image.aspx?Image=238864a&URLjpg=http%3a%2f%2fdata2.archives.ca%2fcef%2fwell2%2f238864a.gif&Ecopy=238864a Thomas Longboat's CEF Attestation Paper], at [[Library and Archives Canada]]</ref> *[[1871]] – [[Hubert Cecil Booth]], English engineer (died 1955)<ref>{{cite journal|title=Obituary. Hubert Cecil Booth. 1871–1955|journal=ICE Proceedings |author=Institution of Civil Engineers|year=1955|volume=4|issue=4|pages=631–632|publisher=Thomas Telford Publishing|doi=10.1680/iicep.1955.11412|doi-access=free}}</ref> *[[1872]] – [[Calvin Coolidge]], American lawyer and politician, 30th [[President of the United States]] (died 1933) *[[1874]] – [[John McPhee (politician)|John McPhee]], Australian journalist and politician, 27th [[Premier of Tasmania]] (died 1952) *[[1880]] – [[Victor Kraft]], Austrian philosopher from the Vienna Circle (died 1975) *[[1881]] – [[Ulysses S. Grant III]], American general (died 1968) *[[1883]] – [[Rube Goldberg]], American sculptor, cartoonist, and engineer (died 1970) *[[1887]] – [[Pio Pion]], Italian engineer and businessman (died 1965) *[[1888]] – [[Henry Armetta]], Italian-American actor and singer (died 1945) *[[1895]] – [[Irving Caesar]], American songwriter and composer (died 1996) *[[1896]] – [[Mao Dun]], Chinese journalist, author, and critic (died 1981) *[[1897]] – [[Alluri Sitarama Raju]], Indian activist (died 1924) *[[1898]] – [[Pilar Barbosa]], Puerto Rican-American historian and activist (died 1997) * 1898 – [[Gertrude Lawrence]], British actress, singer, and dancer (died 1952) * 1898 – [[Gulzarilal Nanda]], Indian politician (died 1998) * 1898 – [[Gertrude Weaver]], American supercentenarian (died 2015) *[[1900]] – [[Belinda Dann]], Indigenous Australian who was one of the [[Stolen Generation]], reunited with family aged 107 (died 2007) * 1900 – [[Nellie Mae Rowe]], American folk artist (died 1982)
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