All Births

• Edna Purviance, American actress (died 1958) · 1895
  
• Edogawa Ranpo, Japanese author and critic (died 1965) · 1894
  
• Krishna Singh, Indian lawyer and politician, 1st Chief Minister of Bihar (died 1961) · 1887
  
• Eugene Burton Ely, American soldier and pilot (died 1911) · 1886
  
• Claire Waldoff, German singer and actress (died 1957) · 1884
  
• Oswald Avery, Canadian-American physician and microbiologist (died 1955) · 1877
  
• Tan Kah Kee, Chinese businessman, community leader, communist and philanthropist (died 1961) · 1874
  
• Ernest Swinton, British Army officer (died 1951) · 1868
  
• George Ulyett, English cricketer and footballer (died 1898) · 1851
  
• Giuseppe Giacosa, Italian poet and playwright (died 1906) · 1847
  
• Will Carleton, American poet and journalist (died 1912) · 1845
  
• Alfred Nobel, Swedish chemist and engineer, invented dynamite and founded the Nobel Prize (died 1896) · 1833
  
• Sims Reeves, English tenor and actor (died 1900) · 1821
  
• Filippo Colini, Italian operatic baritone (died 1863) · 1811
  
• James Clark, American Jesuit (died 1885) · 1809
  
• Alphonse de Lamartine, French poet and politician, French Head of State (died 1869) · 1790
  
• Giuseppe Baini, Italian priest, composer, and critic (died 1844) · 1775
  
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet, philosopher, and critic (died 1834) · 1772
  
• Herman Willem Daendels, Dutch general, lawyer, and politician, 36th Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (died 1818) · 1762
  
• Pierre Augereau, French general (died 1816) · 1757
  
• Franz Moritz von Lacy, Austrian field marshal (died 1801) · 1725
  
• James Steuart, Scottish economist and author (died 1780) · 1712
  
• Nicolaus I Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician and theorist (died 1759) · 1687
  
• Emperor Higashiyama of Japan (died 1710) · 1675
  
• Henri de Boulainvilliers, French nobleman (died 1722) · 1658
  
• Jean Bart, French admiral (died 1702) · 1650
  
• Domenichino, Italian painter (died 1641) · 1581
  
• Joachim Ernest, Prince of Anhalt (died 1586) · 1536
  
• Louis I, Cardinal of Guise (died 1578) · 1527
  
• George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence, Irish-English son of Cecily Neville, Duchess of York (died 1478) · 1449
  
• Alessandro Sforza, Italian condottiero (died 1473) · 1409
  
• Hongwu Emperor of China (died 1398) · 1328