- Jan 14 Pier Francesco Cavalli, Italian opera composer, dies at 73
- Feb 8 Alexis of Russia [Alexei Mikhailovich], Romanov noble (Tsar of All Russia, 1645-76), dies at 46 [OS 29 Jan]
- Feb 14 Abraham Bosse, French engraver and artist, dies at about 72 (birthdate uncertain, c. 1604)
- Mar 21 Henri Sauval, French historian (b. 1623)
- Mar 22 Anne Clifford, English noblewoman who fought for her inheritance and restored castles, dies at 86 [1]
- Apr 5 John Winthrop, the Younger, American politician (b. 1606)
- Apr 8 Claudia Felicitas of Austria, Empress consort of Germany, dies at 22
- Apr 29 Michiel de Ruyter, Dutch admiral, (famous victories during Anglo-Dutch Wars), dies of his injuries after being hit by a cannonball during fighting at 69
- Jun 1 Creutz, Swedish admiral (Öland), dies in battle
- Jun 1 Uggla, Swedish admiral (Öland), dies in battle
- Jun 7 Paul Gerhardt, German Luthern hymnist, dies at 69
- Jul 5 Carl Gustaf Wrangel, Swedish soldier (b. 1613)
- Jul 22 Clement X [Emilio Altieri], Italian Pope (1670-76), dies at 86
- Jul 25 François Hédelin, abbé d'Aubignac, French writer, dies at 71
- Aug 12 King Philip [Metacomet], leader Wampanoag-indians, shot to death
- Aug 17 Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen, German writer (Simplicius Simplicissimus), dies
- Sep 9 Paul de Chomedey de Maosonneuve, French military officer (founder and head of religious mission Fort Ville-Marie - later Montreal), dies at 64 [1]
- Sep 10 Gerrard Winstanley, English religious reformer (b. 1609)
- Sep 17 Sabbatai Zevi, Montenegrin rabbi, kabbalist, and founder of the Jewish Sabbatean movement, dies at 49
- Oct 10 Sebastian Knupfer, German composer, dies at 43
- Oct 18 Nathaniel Bacon, British-born American colonist (leader of 1676 rebellion against Virginian government), dies of dysentery at 29
- Oct 20 Christopher Gibbons, British composer, dies at 61
- Oct 25 Justus Georgius Schottel [Schottelius], German linguist and poet, dies at 64
- Oct 28 Jean Desmarets, French writer (b. 1595)
- Oct 30 Ahmed Koprulu, Turkish great vizer (siege of Candia, Kreta), dies
- Nov 1 Gisbertus Voetius [Gijsbert Voet], Dutch reformed theologist, dies at 87
- Dec 3 Daniel Stalpaert, Amsterdams master builder, buried
- Dec 4 Johann Georg Ebeling, German composer, dies at 39
- Dec 20 John Galle, Flemish engraver and printer, dies at 76
- Dec 25 Matthew Hale, Lord Chief Justice of England (b. 1609)
- Dec 25 William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle, English aristocrat and Royalist general in the English Civil War, dies at 83
- Dec 26 Domenicus van Tol, Dutch painter, dies
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