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===1601–1900=== *[[1637]] – [[Jan van der Heyden]], Dutch painter and engineer (died 1712) *[[1658]] – [[Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac]], French explorer and politician, 3rd [[List of colonial governors of Louisiana|Colonial Governor of Louisiana]] (died 1730) *[[1693]] – [[Johann Jakob Wettstein]], Swiss theologian and scholar (died 1754) *[[1696]] – [[Giovanni Battista Tiepolo]], Italian painter (died 1770) *[[1703]] – [[Vasily Trediakovsky]], Russian poet and playwright (died 1768) *[[1713]] – [[Edward Cornwallis]], English general and politician, [[Governor of Gibraltar]] (died 1776) * 1713 – [[Frederick Cornwallis]], English archbishop (died 1783) *[[1723]] – [[Princess Mary of Great Britain]] (died 1773) *[[1733]] – [[Vincenzo Galeotti]], Italian-Danish dancer and choreographer (died 1816) *[[1739]] – [[Benjamin Ruggles Woodbridge]], American colonel and physician (died 1819) *[[1748]] – [[Jonas Carlsson Dryander]], Swedish botanist and biologist (died 1810) * 1748 – [[William Shield]], English violinist and composer (died 1829) *[[1750]] – [[Jean-Baptiste-Gaspard d'Ansse de Villoison]], French scholar and academic (died 1805) *[[1751]] – [[Jan Křtitel Kuchař]], Czech organist, composer, and educator (died 1829)<ref>{{cite Grove |last1=Poštolka |first1=Milan |title=Kuchař [Kucharsch, Kucharz, Kucharž], Jan Křtitel |date=2001 |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.15614}}</ref> *[[1774]] – [[Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse]], Danish organist and composer (died 1842)<ref>{{cite Grove |last1=Larsen |first1=Jens Peter |last2=Busk |first2=Gorm |title=Weyse, Christoph Ernst Friedrich |date=2001 |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.30191}}</ref> *[[1779]] – [[Benjamin Gompertz]], English mathematician and statistician (died 1865) *[[1785]] – [[Carlo Odescalchi]], Italian cardinal (died 1841) *[[1794]] – [[Jacques Babinet]], French physicist, mathematician, and astronomer (died 1872)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Nitschelm |first1=Christian |chapter=Babinet, Jacques |title=The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers |date=2007 |pages=77–78 |doi=10.1007/978-0-387-30400-7_90|isbn=978-0-387-31022-0 }}</ref> * 1794 – [[Robert Cooper Grier]], American lawyer and jurist (died 1870) *[[1800]] – [[Georg Friedrich Daumer]], German poet and philosopher (died 1875) *[[1814]] – [[Wilhelm von Giesebrecht]], German historian and academic (died 1889) *[[1815]] – [[John Wentworth (Illinois politician)|John Wentworth]], American journalist and politician, 19th [[Mayor of Chicago]] (died 1888) *[[1817]] – [[Austen Henry Layard]], English archaeologist, academic, and politician, [[Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs]] (died 1894) *[[1830]] – [[Étienne-Jules Marey]], French physiologist and chronophotographer (died 1904) * 1830 – [[Charles Wyville Thomson]], Scottish historian and zoologist (died 1882) *[[1834]] – [[Félix de Blochausen]], Luxembourgian politician, 6th [[List of Prime Ministers of Luxembourg|Prime Minister of Luxembourg]] (died 1915) * 1834 – [[Marietta Piccolomini]], Italian soprano (died 1899) *[[1853]] – [[Howard Pyle]], American author and illustrator (died 1911) *[[1862]] – [[Siegbert Tarrasch]], German chess player and theoretician (died 1934) *[[1867]] – [[Louis-Alexandre Taschereau]], Canadian lawyer and politician, 14th [[Premier of Quebec]] (died 1952) *[[1869]] – [[Michael von Faulhaber]], German cardinal (died 1952) *[[1870]] – [[Frank Norris]], American journalist and author (died 1902) * 1870 – [[Evgeny Paton]], French-Ukrainian engineer (died 1953) *[[1871]] – [[Rosa Luxemburg]], Polish-Russian economist and philosopher (died 1919) * 1871 – [[Konstantinos Pallis]], Greek general and politician, [[Minister Governor-General of Macedonia]] (died 1941) *[[1873]] – [[Olav Bjaaland]], Norwegian skier and explorer (died 1961) *[[1874]] – [[Henry Travers]], English-American actor (died 1965) *[[1875]] – [[Harry Lawson (politician)|Harry Lawson]], Australian politician, 27th [[Premier of Victoria]] (died 1952) *[[1876]] – [[Thomas Inskip, 1st Viscount Caldecote]], English lawyer and politician, 8th [[Lord Chief Justice of England]] (died 1947) * 1876 – [[Elisabeth Moore]], American tennis player (died 1959) *[[1879]] – [[William Beveridge]], English economist and academic (died 1963) * 1879 – [[Andres Larka]], Estonian general and politician, 1st [[Estonian Minister of War]] (died 1943) *[[1880]] – [[Sergei Natanovich Bernstein]], Russian mathematician and academic (died 1968) *[[1882]] – [[Dora Marsden]], English author and activist (died 1960)<ref>{{cite web | first=John | last=Simkin | title=Dora Marsden | url=https://spartacus-educational.com/WmarsdenD.htm | publisher=Spartacus Education | date=September 1997 |access-date=22 March 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130303183627/http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/WmarsdenD.htm |archive-date=3 March 2013 |url-status=dead}}</ref> *[[1883]] – [[Pauline Sperry]], American mathematician (died 1967)<ref>{{cite book | first=Florence D. | last=Fasanelli| chapter=Pauline Sperry | editor-last1=Grinstein | editor-first1=Louise S. | editor-last2=Campbell | editor-first2=Paul J. | title=Women of Mathematics: a Biobibliographic Sourcebook | place=New York | publisher=Greenwood Press | year=1987 | isbn=978-0-3132-4849-8 | page=217}}</ref> *[[1885]] – [[Marius Barbeau]], Canadian ethnographer and academic (died 1969) *[[1886]] – [[Dong Biwu]], Chinese judge and politician, [[List of Presidents of the People's Republic of China|Chairman of the People's Republic of China]] (died 1975) * 1886 – [[Freddie Welsh]], Welsh boxer (died 1927) *[[1887]] – [[Heitor Villa-Lobos]], Brazilian guitarist and composer (died 1959)<ref>{{cite Grove |last1=Lopes |first1=Luiz Fernando |title=Villa-Lobos, Heitor |date=25 July 2022 |doi=10.1093/omo/9781561592630.013.90000337933}}</ref> *[[1894]] – [[Henry Daniell]], English-American actor (died 1963) *[[1898]] – [[Zhou Enlai]], Chinese politician, 1st [[Premier of the People's Republic of China]] (died 1976) * 1898 – [[Misao Okawa]], Japanese super-centenarian (died 2015) *[[1900]] – [[Lilli Jahn]], Jewish German doctor (died 1944)<ref>{{Cite book|title=My wounded heart : the life of Lilli Jahn, 1900-1944|last=Martin.|first=Doerry|date=2004|publisher=Bloomsbury|others=Brownjohn, John.|isbn=1582343705|edition=1st U.S.|location=New York, N.Y.|oclc=53001452}}</ref> * 1900 – [[Johanna Langefeld]], German guard and supervisor of three Nazi concentration camps (died 1974)
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