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===1601–1900=== *[[1625]] – [[Giovanni Domenico Cassini]], Italian-French mathematician and astronomer (died 1712) *[[1671]] – [[Tomaso Albinoni]], Italian violinist and composer (died 1751) *[[1717]] – [[John Collins (Continental Congress)|John Collins]], American lawyer and politician, 3rd [[Governor of Rhode Island]] (died 1795)<ref>{{CongBio|C000639}}</ref> *[[1724]] – [[John Smeaton]], English engineer, designed the [[Coldstream Bridge]] and [[Perth Bridge]] (died 1794) *[[1745]] – [[Caspar Wessel]], Norwegian-Danish mathematician and cartographer (died 1818) *[[1757]] – [[Ercole Consalvi]], Italian cardinal (died 1824) *[[1776]] – [[Thomas Rickman]], English architect and architectural antiquary (died 1841)<ref>{{EB1911|wstitle=Rickman, Thomas|volume=21|page=315}}</ref> *[[1788]] – [[Charles A. Wickliffe]], American politician, 14th [[Governor of Kentucky]] (died 1869) *[[1810]] – [[Robert Schumann]], German composer and critic (died 1856)<ref>{{cite book|title=The Musical World|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E5cPAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA499|year=1864|publisher=J. Alfredo Novello|pages=499}}</ref> *[[1829]] – [[John Everett Millais]], English painter and illustrator (died 1896)<ref>{{cite book|author=Richard Muther|title=The History of Modern Painting|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Jt5cAAAAcAAJ|year=1907|publisher=J.M. Dent|page=429}}</ref> *[[1831]] – [[Thomas J. Higgins]], Canadian-American sergeant, [[Medal of Honor]] recipient (died 1917) *[[1842]] – [[John Q. A. Brackett]], American lawyer and politician, 36th [[Governor of Massachusetts]] (died 1918) *[[1851]] – [[Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval]], French physician and physicist (died 1940) *[[1852]] – [[Guido Banti]], Italian physician and pathologist (died 1925) *[[1854]] – [[Douglas Cameron (politician)|Douglas Cameron]], Canadian politician, 8th [[Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba]] (died 1921) *[[1855]] – [[George Charles Haité]], English painter and illustrator (died 1924) *[[1858]] – [[Charlotte Scott]], English mathematician (died 1931)<ref>{{cite book | first=Patricia | last=Clark Kenschaft | chapter=Charlotte Angas Scott | editor1-last=Grinstein | editor1-first=Louise S. | editor2-last=Campbell | editor2-first=Paul J. | title=Women of Mathematics: a Biobibliographic Sourcebook | place=New York | publisher=Greenwood Press | year=1987 | isbn=978-0-3132-4849-8 | page=193}}</ref> *[[1860]] – [[Alicia Boole Stott]], Irish-English mathematician and theorist (died 1940)<ref>{{cite book | first=H.S.M. | last=Coxeter Kenschaft | chapter=Alicia Boole Stott | editor1-last=Grinstein | editor1-first=Louise S. | editor2-last=Campbell | editor2-first=Paul J. | title=Women of Mathematics: a Biobibliographic Sourcebook | place=New York | publisher=Greenwood Press | year=1987 | isbn=978-0-3132-4849-8 | page=220}}</ref> *[[1867]] – [[Frank Lloyd Wright]], American architect, designed the [[Price Tower]] and [[Fallingwater]] (died 1959) *[[1868]] – [[Robert Robinson Taylor]], American architect (died 1942)<ref>{{cite web|last=Williams|first=Clarence G.|date=13 January 1998|title=From 'Tech' to Tuskegee: The Life of Robert Robinson Taylor, 1868-1942|url=http://libraries.mit.edu/archives/mithistory/blacks-at-mit/taylor.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/7963/20190702041158/https://libraries.mit.edu/archives/mithistory/blacks-at-mit/taylor.html|archive-date=July 2, 2019|access-date=July 12, 2020|website=|publisher=Massachusetts Institute of Technology}}</ref> *[[1872]] – [[Jan Frans De Boever]], Belgian painter and illustrator (died 1949) *[[1876]] – [[Alexandre Tuffère]], Greek-French triple jumper (died 1958) *[[1878]] – [[Evan Roberts (minister)|Evan Roberts]], Welsh Revivalist minister (died 1951)<ref>{{Cite DWB |last=Roberts |first=Gomer Morgan |title=ROBERTS, EVAN JOHN (1878 - 1951), 'Y Diwygiwr' (the Revivalist) revivalist preacher |id=s2-ROBE-JOH-1878 |date=2021}}</ref> *[[1885]] – [[Karl Genzken]], German physician (died 1957) *[[1891]] – [[William Funnell (public servant)|William Funnell]], Australian public servant (died 1962) *[[1893]] – [[Ernst Marcus (zoologist)|Ernst Marcus]], German zoologist (died 1968) * 1893 – [[Gaby Morlay]], French actress (died 1964) *[[1894]] – [[Erwin Schulhoff]], Czech composer and pianist (died 1942) *[[1895]] – [[Santiago Bernabéu Yeste]], Spanish footballer and manager (died 1978) *[[1897]] – [[John G. Bennett]], English mathematician and technologist (died 1974) *[[1899]] – [[Eugène Lapierre]], Canadian organist, composer and arts administrator (died 1970) * 1899 – [[Ernst-Robert Grawitz]], German physician (died 1945)<ref>{{cite web|title=The Nazi doctor who experimented on gay people – and Britain helped to escape justice|website=[[TheGuardian.com]] |date=5 May 2015|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/may/05/nazi-doctor-gay-people-carl-vaernet-escaped-justice-danish}}</ref> *[[1900]] – [[Lena Baker]], African-American maid executed for capital murder, later pardoned posthumously (died 1945)<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://bishop.house.gov/media-center/congressional-record-statements/in-honor-of-lena-baker-posthumously|title=In Honor of Lena Baker (Posthumously)|date=2011-01-03|work=Congressman Sanford Bishop|access-date=2017-10-20|language=en|archive-date=2019-08-31|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190831234209/https://bishop.house.gov/media-center/congressional-record-statements/in-honor-of-lena-baker-posthumously|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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