Editing March 3 (section)

===1601–1900===
*[[1606]] &ndash; [[Edmund Waller]], English poet and politician (died 1687)<ref>{{cite book|author=Samuel Johnson|title=The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e_sTAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA168|year=1819|publisher=Benjamin Warner, no. 171, Market street; and Benjamin C. Buzby, no. 28, North Third street|pages=168|access-date=2020-02-26|archive-date=2020-08-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200806010947/https://books.google.com/books?id=e_sTAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA168|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1652]] &ndash; [[Thomas Otway]], English playwright and author (died 1685)<ref>{{cite book|author=Thomas Otway|title=The works of Thomas Otway: plays, poems, and love-letters|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gn8PAQAAIAAJ|date=July 1968|publisher=Clarendon Press|page=6|isbn=9780198114833|access-date=2020-02-26|archive-date=2020-08-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200805180112/https://books.google.com/books?id=gn8PAQAAIAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1678]] &ndash; [[Madeleine de Verchères]], Canadian rebel leader (died 1747)<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|editor-first=Kenneth H|editor-last=Pearson|title=Encyclopedia Canadiana|location=Toronto|publisher=Grolier of Canada|year=1972|volume=10|page=222|isbn=978-0-71721-600-0}}</ref>
*[[1756]] &ndash; [[William Godwin]], English journalist and author (died 1836)
*[[1778]] &ndash; [[Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz]] (died 1841)
*[[1793]] &ndash; [[William Macready]], English actor and manager (died 1873)
*[[1800]] &ndash; [[Heinrich Georg Bronn]], German geologist and paleontologist (died 1862)
*[[1803]] &ndash; [[Thomas Field Gibson]], English manufacturer who aided the welfare of the [[Spitalfields]] silk weavers (died 1889)
*[[1805]] &ndash; [[Jonas Furrer]], Swiss politician (died 1861)
*[[1816]] &ndash; [[William James Blacklock]], English-Scottish painter (died 1858)
*[[1819]] &ndash; [[Gustave de Molinari]], Dutch-Belgian economist and theorist (died 1912)
*[[1825]] &ndash; [[Shiranui Kōemon]], Japanese sumo wrestler (died 1879)
*[[1831]] &ndash; [[George Pullman]], American engineer and businessman, founded the [[Pullman Company]] (died 1897)
*[[1839]] &ndash; [[Jamsetji Tata]], Indian businessman, founded [[Tata Group]] (died 1904)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Lala |first1=Russi M. |title=For the Love of India: The Life and Times of Jamsetji Tata |date=2006 |publisher=Penguin Books India |location=New Delhi |isbn=9780143062066 |page=19}}</ref>
*[[1841]] &ndash; [[John Murray (oceanographer)|John Murray]], Canadian-Scottish oceanographer and biologist (died 1914)
*[[1845]] &ndash; [[Georg Cantor]], Russian-German mathematician and philosopher (died 1918)
*[[1847]] &ndash; [[Alexander Graham Bell]], Scottish-American engineer and academic, invented the [[telephone]] (died 1922)
*[[1860]] &ndash; [[John Montgomery Ward]], American baseball player and manager (died 1925)
*[[1866]] &ndash; [[Fred A. Busse]], American lawyer and politician, 39th [[Mayor of Chicago]] (died 1914)
*[[1868]] &ndash; [[Émile Chartier]], French philosopher and journalist (died 1951)
*[[1869]] &ndash; [[Henry Wood]], English conductor (died 1944)
*[[1871]] &ndash; [[Maurice Garin]], Italian-French cyclist (died 1957)
*[[1872]] &ndash; [[Frida Felser]], German opera singer and actress (died 1941)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Eisenberg|first1=Ludwig|author1-link=Ludwig Eisenberg (writer)|title=Ludwig Eisenberg's großes biographisches Lexikon der deutschen Bühne im XIX.|date=1903|location=Leipzig|page=251|url=https://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/0006/bsb00067974/images/index.html?id=00067974&groesser=&fip=193.174.98.30&no=&seite=267|language=de}}</ref>
*[[1873]] &ndash; [[William Green (labor leader)|William Green]], American union leader and politician (died 1952)
*[[1880]] &ndash; [[Florence Auer]], American actress and screenwriter (died 1962)
*  1880 &ndash; [[Yōsuke Matsuoka]], Japanese politician, [[Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Japan)|Japanese Minister of Foreign Affairs]] (died 1946)
*[[1882]] &ndash; [[Elisabeth Abegg]], German anti-Nazi resistance fighter (died 1974)<ref>{{Cite book|date=2002-01-01|chapter=Abegg, Elisabeth (1882–1974)|url=https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G2-2591300055.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160108130828/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G2-2591300055.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2016-01-08 |title=Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia}}</ref>
*  1882 &ndash; [[Charles Ponzi]], Italian businessman and convicted con man (died 1949)
*[[1883]] &ndash; [[Cyril Burt]], English psychologist and geneticist (died 1971)
*  1883 &ndash; [[Paul Marais de Beauchamp]], French zoologist (died 1977)
*[[1887]] &ndash; [[Lincoln J. Beachey]], American pilot (died 1915)
*[[1891]] &ndash; [[Damaskinos of Athens]], Greek archbishop (died 1949)
*[[1893]] &ndash; [[Beatrice Wood]], American illustrator and potter (died 1998)
*[[1895]] &ndash; [[Ragnar Frisch]], Norwegian economist and academic, [[Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences|Nobel Prize]] laureate (died 1973)
*  1895 &ndash; [[Matthew Ridgway]], American general (died 1993)
*[[1898]] &ndash; [[Emil Artin]], Austrian-German mathematician and academic (died 1962)
*[[1900]] &ndash; [[Edna Best]], British stage and film actress (died 1974)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://projects.latimes.com/hollywood/star-walk/edna-best/|title=Edna Best - Hollywood Star Walk - Los Angeles Times|website=projects.latimes.com|language=en|access-date=2017-10-24|archive-date=2017-10-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171023063243/http://projects.latimes.com/hollywood/star-walk/edna-best/|url-status=live}}</ref>