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=== October&ndash;December ===
* [[October 12]] &ndash; [[Abraham van Calraet]], Dutch painter (d. [[1722]])
* [[November 4]] &ndash; [[Zheng Jing]], Chinese pirate (d. [[1681]])
* [[November 5]] &ndash; [[Nils Gyldenstolpe (1642–1709)|Nils Gyldenstolpe]], Swedish count, official and diplomat (d. [[1709]])
* [[November 9]] &ndash; [[Sir John Lowther, 2nd Baronet, of Whitehaven]], English politician (d. [[1706]])
* [[November 11]] &ndash; [[André Charles Boulle]], French cabinet-maker (d. [[1732]])
* [[November 16]] &ndash; [[Cornelis Evertsen the Youngest]], Dutch admiral (d. [[1706]])
* [[November 24]] &ndash; [[Anne Hilarion de Tourville]], French naval commander under King Louis XIV (d. [[1701]])
* [[November 30]] &ndash; [[Andrea Pozzo]], Jesuit Brother, architect and painter (d. [[1709]])
* [[December 6]]
** [[Johann Christoph Bach]], German composer and organist (d. [[1703]])<ref>{{cite book | last = Greene | first = David | title = Greene's biographical encyclopedia of composers | publisher = Doubleday | location = Garden City, N.Y | year = 1985 | isbn = 9780385142786 | page=154 | language=en}}</ref>
** [[Gerard Callenburgh]], Dutch admiral (d. [[1722]])
* [[December 8]] &ndash; [[Nicolas Roland]], French priest and founder (d. [[1678]])
* [[December 13]] &ndash; [[Friedrich Seyler]], Swiss theologian (d. [[1708]])
* [[December 17]]
** [[Francisco Castillo Fajardo, Marquis of Villadarias]], Spanish general (d. [[1716]])
** [[Francis de Geronimo]], Italian priest (d. [[1716]])
* [[December 23]] (O.S.) &ndash; [[John Holt (Lord Chief Justice)|John Holt]], English lawyer (d. [[1710]])
* [[December 25]] (O.S.) &ndash; Sir [[Isaac Newton]], English scientist (d. [[1727]])<ref>{{cite book | last = Brackenridge | first = J | title = The key to Newton's dynamics: the Kepler problem and the Principia: containing an English translation of sections 1, 2, and 3 of book one from the first (1687) edition of Newton's Mathematical principles of natural philosophy | publisher = University of California Press | location = Berkeley | year = 1995 | isbn = 9780520916852 | page=40 | language=en}}</ref>
* [[December 30]]
** [[Vincenzo da Filicaja]], Italian poet (d. [[1707]])
** [[François Roger de Gaignières]], French genealogist, antiquary, collector (d. [[1715]])