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=== October–December ===
* [[October 6]] – [[Giuseppe Cesare Abba]], Italian patriot, writer (d. [[1910]])
* [[October 8]] – [[John Hay]], diplomat, private secretary to [[Abraham Lincoln]], 37th [[United States Secretary of State]] (d. 1905)
* [[October 25]] – [[Georges Bizet]], [[France|French]] composer (d. [[1875]])
* [[October 31]] – King [[Luís I of Portugal]] (d. [[1889]])
* [[November 1]] – [[Khedrup Gyatso, 11th Dalai Lama]] (d. [[1856]])
* [[November 4]] – [[Constantin Budișteanu]] (birth also reported as [[September 21]]), Wallachian-born Romanian soldier and politician (d. [[1911]])
* [[November 7]] – [[Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam]], French writer (d. [[1889]])
* [[November 8]] – [[Rufus W. Peckham]], [[Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States]] (d. [[1909]])
* [[November 13]] – [[Joseph F. Smith]], 6th president of [[the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]] (d. [[1918]])
* [[November 17]] – [[Sir Lambton Loraine, 11th Baronet]], British naval officer (d. [[1917]])
* [[November 20]] – [[Hedvig Raa-Winterhjelm]], pioneer Scandinavian actor (d. [[1907]])
* [[November 23]] – [[Stephanos Skouloudis]], 34th Prime Minister of Greece (d. [[1928]])
* [[November 29]] – [[Giovanni Losi]], Italian Combonian missionary (d. [[1882]])
* [[December 3]] –  [[Cleveland Abbe]], American meteorologist (d. [[1916]])
* [[December 3]] –  [[Octavia Hill]], British social reformer (d. [[1912]])
* [[December 19]] – [[Darinka Petrovic]], Princess consort of Montenegro (d. [[1892]])
* [[December 20]] – [[Edwin Abbott Abbott]], English theologian, author (d. [[1926]])
* [[December 30]] – [[Émile Loubet]], 8th [[President of France]] (d. [[1929]])