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===1601–1900=== *[[1653]] – [[Thomas Pitt]], English businessman and politician (died 1726)<ref>{{cite web |title=Thomas Pitt | British merchant |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Pitt |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=20 September 2021 |language=en}}</ref> *[[1670]] – [[Dorothea Sophie of Neuburg]], countess palatine (died 1748) *[[1675]] – [[Mary Walcott]], American accuser and witness at the [[Salem witch trials]] (died 1719) *[[1709]] – [[Étienne de Silhouette]], French translator and politician, [[Controller-General of Finances]] (died 1767) *[[1717]] – [[Peter III of Portugal|Peter III]], Portuguese king (died 1786)<ref>{{cite book| last = Sousa| first = António Caetano de| language = pt| title = História genealógica da Casa Real portuguesa| volume = VIII| publisher = Silviana| location = Lisbon| pages = 369–70}}</ref> *[[1718]] – [[Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford]], English politician, [[Lord Lieutenant of Ireland]] (died 1794) *[[1745]] – [[Carl Arnold Kortum]], German physician and poet (died 1824) *[[1755]] – [[Sarah Siddons]], English actress (died 1831)<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle=Siddons, Sarah}}</ref> *[[1780]] – [[François Carlo Antommarchi]], French physician (died 1838) *[[1781]] – [[Stamford Raffles]], English politician, founded [[Singapore]] (died 1826) <ref>{{Cite book|last1=Raffles|first1=Lady Sophia|author-link1=Sophia Hull|last2=Raffles|first2=Thomas Stamford|author-link2=Thomas Stamford Raffles|date=1830|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B-tdAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA2|title=Memoir of the life and public services of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, F.R.S. &c.; particularly in the government of Java, 1811–1816; and of Bencoolen and its dependencies, 1817–1824; with details of the commerce and resources of the Eastern archipelago; and selections from his correspondence|language=en-gb|location=[[London]], England|publisher=[[John Murray (publishing house)|John Murray]] ([[John Murray III]])|via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref> *[[1793]] – [[Pavel Pestel]], Russian officer (died 1826) *[[1794]] – [[Sylvester Graham]], American minister and activist (died 1851) *[[1801]] – [[David Farragut]], American admiral (died 1870) *[[1802]] – [[Pavel Nakhimov]], Russian admiral (died 1855) *[[1803]] – [[George Borrow]], British writer (died 1881) *[[1805]] – [[Robert FitzRoy]], English captain, meteorologist, and politician, 2nd [[Governor of New Zealand]] (died 1865) *[[1810]] – [[P. T. Barnum]], American businessman, co-founded [[Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus]] (died 1891) *[[1820]] – [[William John Macquorn Rankine]], Scottish physicist, mathematician, and engineer (died 1872) *[[1829]] – [[Ignacio Mariscal]], Mexican politician and diplomat, [[Secretary of Foreign Affairs (Mexico)|Secretary of Foreign Affairs for Mexico]] (died 1910) *[[1832]] – [[Pavel Chistyakov]], Russian painter and educator (died 1919) *[[1841]] – [[William Collins Whitney]], American financier and politician, 31st [[United States Secretary of the Navy]] (died 1904) *[[1849]] – [[William Thomas Stead]], English journalist (died 1912) *[[1853]] – [[Cecil Rhodes]], English-South African businessman and politician, 6th [[Prime Minister of the Cape Colony]] (died 1902) *[[1857]] – [[Clara Zetkin]], German theorist and activist (died 1933) * 1857 – [[Julien Tiersot]], French musicologist and composer (died 1936) *[[1860]] – [[Robert Bacon]], American colonel and politician, 39th [[United States Secretary of State]] (died 1919) * 1860 – [[Mathieu Jaboulay]], French surgeon (died 1913) *[[1862]] – [[George Nuttall]], American-British bacteriologist (died 1937) * 1862 – [[Horatio Caro]], English chess master (died 1920) *[[1864]] – [[Stephan Krehl]], German composer (died 1924) *[[1867]] – [[A. E. Douglass]], American astronomer (died 1962) *[[1872]] – [[Édouard Herriot]], French lawyer and politician, [[Prime Minister of France]] (died 1957) *[[1874]] – [[Eugen Fischer]], German physician and academic (died 1967) *[[1879]] – [[Dwight F. Davis]], American tennis player and politician, 49th [[United States Secretary of War]] (died 1945) * 1879 – [[Wanda Landowska]], Polish-French [[harpsichord]] player and educator (died 1959) *[[1880]] – [[Jan Kubelík]], Czech violinist and composer (died 1940) * 1880 – [[Constantin Tănase]], Romanian actor and playwright (died 1945) *[[1882]] – [[Inayat Khan]], Indian mystic and educator (died 1927) *[[1883]] – [[Gustave Lanctot]], Canadian historian, author, and academic (died 1975) *[[1884]] – [[Enrico Dante]], Italian cardinal (died 1967) *[[1885]] – [[Blas Infante]], Spanish historian and politician (died 1936) * 1885 – [[André Lhote]], French sculptor and painter (died 1962) *[[1886]] – [[Willem Drees]], Dutch politician and historian, [[Prime Minister of the Netherlands]] (1948–1958) (died 1988) * 1886 – [[Prince John Konstantinovich of Russia]] (died 1918) *[[1888]] – [[Herbert Spencer Gasser]], American physiologist and academic, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel Prize]] laureate (died 1963) * 1888 – [[Louise Freeland Jenkins]], American astronomer and academic (died 1970) *[[1889]] – [[Jean Cocteau]], French novelist, poet, and playwright (died 1963) *[[1890]] – [[Frederick Lewis Allen]], American historian and journalist (died 1954) *[[1891]] – [[John Howard Northrop]], American chemist and academic, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (died 1987) * 1891 – [[Tin Ujević]], Croatian poet and translator (died 1955) *[[1893]] – [[Anthony Berkeley Cox]], English writer (died 1971) * 1893 – [[Giuseppe Caselli]], Italian painter (died 1976) *[[1894]] – [[Ants Lauter]], Estonian actor and director (died 1973) *[[1896]] – [[Thomas Playford IV]], Australian politician, 33rd [[Premier of South Australia]] (died 1981) *[[1898]] – [[Georgios Grivas]], Greek general (died 1974) *[[1899]] – [[Marcel Achard]], French playwright, screenwriter, and author (died 1974) *[[1900]] – [[Yoshimaro Yamashina]], Japanese ornithologist, founded the [[Yamashina Institute for Ornithology]] (died 1989) * 1900 – [[Bernardus Johannes Alfrink]], Dutch cardinal (died 1987)
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