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===1601β1900=== *[[1718]] – [[Elizabeth Montagu]], English author and critic (died 1800)<ref>{{cite web |title=Elizabeth Montagu | English intellectual |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Elizabeth-Montagu |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=6 September 2021 |language=en}}</ref> *[[1768]] – [[William Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford]], English general and politician (died 1854)<ref>{{cite web |title=William Carr Beresford, Viscount Beresford | British general |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Carr-Beresford-Viscount-Beresford |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=6 September 2021 |language=en}}</ref> *[[1798]] – [[Charles Albert of Sardinia|Charles Albert, King of Sardinia (1831β49)]] (died 1849)<ref>{{cite web |title=Charles Albert | king of Sardinia-Piedmont |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Charles-Albert |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=6 September 2021 |language=en}}</ref> *[[1800]] – [[Nat Turner]], American slave and uprising leader (died 1831)<ref>{{cite web |title=Nat Turner | Biography, Rebellion, & Facts |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Nat-Turner |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=6 September 2021 |language=en}}</ref> *[[1815]] – [[James Agnew]], Irish-Australian politician, [[Premier of Tasmania]] (died 1901)<ref>{{cite dictionary |last1=Green |first1=F. C. |title=James Agnew |chapter=Agnew, Sir James Willson (1815β1901) |chapter-url=https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/agnew-sir-james-willson-2871 |dictionary=Australian Dictionary of Biography |publisher=National Centre of Biography, Australian National University |access-date=6 September 2021}}</ref> *[[1821]] – [[Alexander P. Stewart]], American general (died 1908)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Tucker |first1=Spencer C. |title=American Civil War: The Definitive Encyclopedia and Document Collection [6 volumes]: The Definitive Encyclopedia and Document Collection |date=2013 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=978-1-85109-682-4 |page=1872 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9dvYAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA1872 |language=en}}</ref> *[[1828]] – [[Charles Floquet]], French lawyer and politician, [[Prime Minister of France]] (died 1896)<ref>{{cite web |title=Charles Floquet | French politician |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Charles-Thomas-Floquet |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=6 September 2021 |language=en}}</ref> *[[1832]] – [[Edward Burnett Tylor]], English anthropologist (died 1917)<ref>{{cite web |title=Sir Edward Burnett Tylor | British anthropologist |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Edward-Burnett-Tylor |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=6 September 2021 |language=en}}</ref> *[[1847]] – [[Paul von Hindenburg]], German field marshal and politician, 2nd [[President of Germany (1919β1945)|President of Germany]] (died 1934)<ref>{{cite web |title=Paul von Hindenburg | German president |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Paul-von-Hindenburg |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=6 September 2021 |language=en}}</ref> *[[1851]] – [[Ferdinand Foch]], French field marshal (died 1929)<ref>{{cite web |title=Ferdinand Foch | Biography, World War I, & Facts |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ferdinand-Foch |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=6 September 2021 |language=en}}</ref> *[[1852]] – [[William Ramsay]], Scottish chemist and academic, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (died 1916)<ref>{{cite web |title=Who was Sir William Ramsay and how did he change the periodic table? |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/william-ramsay-google-doodle-who-periodic-table-sir-noble-gases-death-a9128671.html |website=The Independent |access-date=6 September 2021 |language=en |date=2 October 2019}}</ref> *[[1854]] – [[Patrick Geddes]], Scottish biologist, sociologist, geographer, and philanthropist (died 1932)<ref>{{cite web |title=Sir Patrick Geddes | Scottish biologist and sociologist |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Patrick-Geddes |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=7 September 2021 |language=en}}</ref> *[[1866]] – [[Swami Abhedananda]], Indian mystic and philosopher (died 1939)<ref>{{Cite web|title=Swami Abhedananda|url=https://belurmath.org/holy-lives/swami-abhedananda/|website=belurmath.org}}</ref> *[[1869]] – [[Mahatma Gandhi]], Indian freedom fighter, activist and philosopher (died 1948)<ref name=Chase2019>{{cite book |title=Chase's Calendar of Events 2020: The Ultimate Go-to Guide for Special Days, Weeks and Months |date=2019 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=978-1-64143-316-7 |page=492 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6dKpDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA492 |language=en}}</ref> *[[1871]] – [[Cordell Hull]], American politician, [[United States Secretary of State]], [[Nobel Peace Prize|Nobel Prize]] laureate (died 1955)<ref name=Chase2019 /> * 1871 – [[Martha Brookes Hutcheson]], American landscaper and author (died 1959)<ref>{{cite book |title=Past and Promise: Lives of New Jersey Women |date= 1997 |publisher=Syracuse University Press |isbn=978-0-8156-0418-1 |page=155 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h-6WCBQPZdoC&pg=PA155 |language=en}}</ref> *[[1873]] – [[Stephen Warfield Gambrill]], American lawyer and politician (died 1924)<ref>{{cite book |last1=House |first1=United States Congress |title=Memorial Services Held in the House of Representatives of the United States: Together with Remarks Presented in Eulogy of Stephen Warfield Gambrill, Late a Representative from Maryland |date=1939 |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |page=5 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oahYAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA5 |language=en}}</ref> * 1873 – [[Pelham Warner]], English cricketer and manager (died 1963)<ref>{{cite web |title=Pelham Warner profile and biography, stats, records, averages, photos and videos |url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/player/pelham-warner-22311 |website=ESPNcricinfo |access-date=7 September 2021 |language=en}}</ref> *[[1875]] – [[Pattie Ruffner Jacobs]], American suffragist (died 1935)<ref>{{cite web |title=Jacobs, Pattie Ruffner (1875β1935), suffragist and social reformer |url=https://www.anb.org/view/10.1093/anb/9780198606697.001.0001/anb-9780198606697-e-1501042 |website=American National Biography |year=2000 |access-date=7 September 2021 |language=en |doi=10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.1501042|isbn=978-0-19-860669-7 |last1=Johnson |first1=Joan Marie }}</ref> *[[1879]] – [[Wallace Stevens]], American poet (died 1955)<ref>{{cite web |title=Wallace Stevens | American poet |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Wallace-Stevens |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=7 September 2021 |language=en}}</ref> *[[1882]] – [[Boris Shaposhnikov]], Russian colonel (died 1945)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Tucker |first1=Spencer C. |title=World War II: The Definitive Encyclopedia and Document Collection [5 volumes]: The Definitive Encyclopedia and Document Collection |date= 2016 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=978-1-85109-969-6 |page=1487 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wm_YDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA1487 |language=en}}</ref> *[[1883]] – [[Karl von Terzaghi]], Austrian geologist and engineer (died 1963)<ref>{{cite web |title=Karl Terzaghi | American engineer |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Karl-Anton-von-Terzaghi |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=7 September 2021 |language=en}}</ref> *[[1890]] – [[Groucho Marx]], American comedian and actor (died 1977)<ref name=Chase2019 /> *[[1893]] – [[Leroy Shield]], American composer and conductor (died 1962)<ref>{{cite web |title=LeRoy Shields |url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2badb00157 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201202161523/https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2badb00157 |url-status=dead |archive-date=December 2, 2020 |website=BFI |access-date=7 September 2021 |language=en}}</ref> *[[1895]] – [[Ruth Cheney Streeter]], American colonel (died 1990)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Frank |first1=Lisa Tendrich |title=An Encyclopedia of American Women at War: From the Home Front to the Battlefields [2 volumes] |date= 2013 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=978-1-59884-444-3 |page=520 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nn7Dj6qUn6kC&pg=PA520 |language=en}}</ref> *[[1900]] – [[Leela Roy|Leela Roy Nag]], Indian freedom fighter, social reformer and politician (died 1970)<ref>{{Cite web|title=Leela Roy: Bengal's Only Woman In The Constituent Assembly|url=https://feminisminindia.com/2018/08/14/leela-roy-freedom-fighter/|website=Feminism in India|date=13 August 2018}}</ref>
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