Births
- March (possible date) - Seki Takakazu, Japanese mathematician (died 1708)
- December 25 (OS) - Isaac Newton, English polymath (died 1727)
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“As the births of living creatures, at first, are ill-shapen: so are all Innovations, which are the births of time.”
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