| 1601 September 27 | Birth | Louis XIII | King of France |
| 1605 April 8 | Birth | King Phillip IV | King of Spain |
| 1606 July 15 | Birth | Rembrandt van Rijn | Dutch Painter. |
| 1608 October 15 | Birth | Evangelista Torricelli | Inventor of the Barometer. |
| 1610 April 22 | Birth | Pope Alexander VIII (1689-91) | |
| 1613 October 3 | Birth | Marion Delorme in Paris | a celebrated French Courtesan. |
| 1615 November 4 | Birth | Ibrahin, Ottoman Sultan | (1640-48) |
| 1622 November 8 | Birth | Charles X | King of Sweden. |
| 1626 October 4 | Birth | Richard Cromwell | Lord Protector of England. |
| 1630 May 29 | Birth | King Charles II of England | (1660-85) |
| 1632 August 29 | Birth | John Lock | |
| 1632 October 18 | Birth | Luca Giordano | Napolitan Painter. |
| 1632 October 24 | Birth | Anthony van Leeuwenhoek | Dutch Naturalist. |
| 1632 October 31 | Birth | Jan Vermeer | Dutch painter. |
| 1633 October 14 | Birth | James II | King of England. |
| 1638 September 10 | Birth | Marie Therese | Queen-Consort of France. |
| 1638 September 10 | Birth | Marie-Therese | |
| 1638 September 16 | Birth | Louis XIV | King of France |
| 1640 June 9 | Birth | Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor | (1658-1705). |
| 1644 October 14 | Birth | William Penn | |
| 1644 September 25 | Birth | Olaus Roemer | Who proved that te speed of light was finite. |
| 1646 August 19 | Birth | John Flamsteed | First Astronomer Royal in England. |
| 1646 July 1 | Birth | Gottfried W Leibnitz | Mathematician. |
| 1647 July 22 | Birth | Saint Marguerite Marie Alacoque. | |
| 1649 July 23 | Birth | Pope Clement XI | |
| 1650 June 24 | Birth | John Churchill | Duke of Marlborough and an English General |
| 1650 November 4 | Birth | William III | King of England and Ruler of Holland. |
| 1656 November 8 | Birth | Edmund Halley | English Astronomer who had the comet named after him! |
| 1656 October 29 | Birth | Edmund Halley | Astronomer. |
| 1660 May 28 | Birth | King George I of England | (1714-27) |
| 1672 May 30 | Birth | Peter the Great | Tzar of Russia (1682-1725) |
| 1674 May 7 | Birth | Innocent X, 236th Pope | Giambattista Pamfili. |
| 1685 October 1 | Birth | Charles VI | Holy Roman Emperor (1711-40) |
| 1686 May 14 | Birth | Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit | Prussian inventor (Thermometer) |
| 1688 June 10 | Birth | James III Edward, the Old Pretender | Regonnised as King of England by the Pope. |
| 1688 May 21 | Birth | Alexander Pope | English Poet. |
| 1694 November 21 | Birth | Voltaire | Birth of this great thinnker. |
| 1699 November 1 | Birth | Martin Luther | Church reformer. |
| 1703 June 17 | Birth | John Wesley | Co-founder of the Methodist movement. |
| 1709 September 18 | Birth | Samuel Johnson | Boswell's tour guide. |
| 1712 June 28 | Birth | Jean Jacques Rousseau | Socialist. |
| 1713 September 23 | Birth | Ferdinand VI | King of Spain (1746-59) |
| 1717 September 24 | Birth | Horace Walpole | Author |
| 1718 June 5 | Birth | Thomas Chippendale | Cabinet Maker. |
| 1722 September 27 | Birth | Samuel Adams | Rebel Rouser and creator of beers. |
| 1723 July 16 | Birth | Joshua Reynolds (Sir) | English Painter |
| 1725 April 6 | Birth | Casonova | A Ladies man! |
| 1728 April 23 | Birth | Samuel Wallis | Explorer - Wallis Island. |
| 1729 May 2 | Birth | Catherine II "The Great" | of Russia. |
| 1730 June 26 | Birth | Charles Messier | Cataloguer of Stars. |
| 1731 October 10 | Birth | Henry Cavendish | Physicist and chemist. |
| 1735 September 5 | Birth | Johann Christian Bach | Composer |
| 1737 April 27 | Birth | Edward Gibbon | Author - The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. |
| 1737 May 8 | Birth | Edward Gibbon - Author | Deline and Fall of the Roman Empire. |
| 1738 May 24 | Birth | King George III of England | (1760-1820) |
| 1740 October 29 | Birth | James Boswell | Biographer of Samual Johnson. |
| 1749 August 28 | Birth | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Philosopher. |
| 1758 October 16 | Birth | Noah Webster | Lexicographer and Dictionary man! |
| 1759 May 28 | Birth | William Pitt the Younger | English PM 1783-1801 and 1804-06 |
| 1761 June 3 | Birth | Henry Scrapnel | English Inventor (Shrapnel steel) |
| 1769 August 15 | Birth | Napoleon Bonaparte | French General? |
| 1769 May 6 | Birth | Ferdinand III | Archduke of Austria/ruler of Toscane |
| 1771 April 13 | Birth | Richard Trevithick | Inventor (?) of the Steam Engine. |
| 1772 October 21 | Birth | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Poet. |
| 1776 June 11 | Birth | John Constable | English Landscape Painter |
| 1776 June 11 | Birth | John Constable | English Painter. |
| 1777 October 18 | Birth | Heinrich von Kleist | German dramatist and poet. |
| 1778 June 7 | Birth | George Bryan "Beau" Brummel | An English Dandy. |
| 1778 June 7 | Birth | Beau Brummel | a man of fashion! |
| 1781 June 9 | Birth | George Stevenson | Inventor (Steam locomotion) |
| 1783 August 7 | Birth | John Heathcoat | Invented lace-making machinery. |
| 1787 November 21 | Birth | Sir Samuel Cunard | Founder of the great Atlantic shipping line. |
| 1789 November 18 | Birth | Louis Daguerre | Creator of the Daguerre photographic method. |
| 1791 April 27 | Birth | Samuel Morse | Inventor of Morse Code. |
| 1795 October 31 | Birth | John Keats | Poet. |
| 1797 August 30 | Birth | Mary Shelley | Author of Frankenstein |
| 1799 June 18 | Birth | William Lassell | discovered Uranus and Neptune. |
| 1802 February 26 | Birth | Victor (Marie) Hugo | French Novelist and poet. |
| 1846 February 26 | Birth | William Cody | "Buffalo Bill" the cowboy. |
| 1852 February 26 | Birth | John Harvey Kellogg | of Cornflakes fame. |