- Feb 9 Gerrit Dou / Gerard Douw, Dutch painter (b. 1613)
- Mar 18 Arthur Chichester, 1st Earl of Donegall, Irish soldier (b. 1606)
- Apr 12 Richard Bennett, English Colonial Governor of Virginia, dies at 65
- May 18 Jacques Marquette, French Jesuit missionary explorer (Mississippi river), dies at 37
- May 18 Stanisław Lubieniecki, Polish astronomer, dies at 51
- May 27 Gaspard Dughet, French painter (b. 1613)
- Jun 12 Charles Emmanuel II, Duke of Savoy (1638-75), dies at 40
- Jul 25 Nicolas Saboly, French composer and poet, dies at 61
- Jul 27 Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne, Marshal of France, dies at 63
- Jul 28 Bulstrode Whitelocke, English lawyer (b. 1605)
- Aug 12 Karl Rabenhaupt, German-Dutch baron of Sucha/army leader, dies at 73
- Aug 16 Bogdan Chmilnicki, cosack leader/murderer of 300,000 Jews, dies
- Sep 3 Pieter Boel, Flemish painter and etcher, dies
- Sep 8 Amalia, countess of Solms-Braunfels and wife of Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, dies at 73
- Sep 18 Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine (1624-75), dies at 71
- Sep 23 Valentin Conrart, founder of the Académie Française (b. 1603)
- Oct 26 William Sprague, English co-founder of Charlestown, Massachusetts (b. 1609)
- Oct 27 Gilles de Roberval, French mathematician (b. 1602)
- Nov 5 Cort Adeler, Norwegian admiral and ship designer (served Dutch, Venetian and Danish navies), dies at 52
- Nov 11 Guru Teg Bahadur Ji, Ninth of ten gurus who founded the Sikh religion and leader (1665-75), executed and beheaded under the orders of the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb at 54
- Nov 11 Thomas Willis, English Physician (epidemiology, anatomy of the brain and nervous system), dies at 54
- Nov 20 Francisco de Moura y Cortereal, Spanish Vicroy of Sardinia and Governor of Hapsburg Netherlands (1664-68)
- Nov 28 Basil Feilding, 2nd Earl of Denbigh, English Civil War soldier (c. 1608)
- Nov 28 Leonard Hoar, American President of Harvard University (b. 1630)
- Nov 30 Cæcilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, colonial Governor of Maryland (b. 1605)
- Dec 5 John Lightfoot, English theologist and scholar (Horae Hebraicae), dies at 73
Jan Vermeer (1632-1675)
Dec 15 Dutch painter (Girl with a Pearl Earring, The Astronomer), dies at 43
- Dec 23 Caesar, duc de Choiseul, French marshal and diplomat (b. 1602)
Assassination
Car Crash
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Plane Crash
Poisoning