Nicolas Fouquet (1615-1680)
Mar 23 French politician and Superintendent of Finances (1653-61) who became fabulously wealthy and later imprisoned for maladministration of state funds, dies in jail in Pinerolo at 65
- Apr 3 Shivaji Bhonsle [Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj], Indian warrior and founder of the Maratha Empire, dies of fever and dysentery around the age of 52
- Apr 17 Kateri Tekakwitha [Lily of the Mohawks], Algonquin-Mohawk Catholic convert and the first Native American saint, dies at 23 or 24
- May 29 Abraham Megerle, Austrian organist, composer, and Kapellmeister, dies at 73
- May 31 Joachim Neander, German clergyman (b. 1650)
- Jun 10 Johan Göransson Gyllenstierna, Swedish statesman (b. 1635)
- Jul 10 Louis Moréri, French encyclopedist (b. 1643)
- Jul 26 John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, English poet (A Satyr Against Reason and Mankind) and courtier of King Charles II, dies of a sexually transmitted infection at 33
- Jul 30 Thomas Butler, Earl of Ossory, Irish naval commander (b. 1634)
- Aug 19 Jean Eudes, French catholic priest, founder of the Eudists, dies at 78
- Aug 20 William Bedloe, English fraudster and Popish Plot informer, dies at 30
- Aug 22 Johann Georg II, Elector of Saxony (1656-80), dies at 67
- Aug 24 Ferdinand Bulb, Dutch painter and etcher, buried
- Aug 24 Thomas Blood, Irish-born thief of the British crown jewels, dies at 62
- Aug 28 Joan Cererols, Catalan musician, composer and monk, dies at 57
- Sep 2 Per Brahe, Swedish soldier and statesman (b. 1602)
- Sep 9 Henry Marten, English parliamentary judge and regicide (signed death warrant of King Charles I), dies imprisoned at Chepstow Castle at about 78
- Sep 10 Baldassare Ferri, Italian castrato singer, dies at 69
- Sep 10 Marco Uccellini, Italian composer and violinist, dies (b. 1603)
- Sep 11 Emperor Go-Mizunoo, 108th Emperor of Japan, dies at 84
- Sep 11 Roger Crab, English Puritan political writer (b. 1621)
- Sep 25 Samuel Butler, English poet and satirist (Hudibras), dies at 67
- Oct 4 Pierre-Paul Riquet, French engineer
- Oct 8 Elisabeth, Princess of Bohemia and abbess of Herford who corresponded with Descartes, dies at 61
- Oct 13 Daniel Elsevier, Dutch book publisher, dies at 54
- Oct 13 François Roberday, French Baroque organist and composer, dies during an epidemic at 56
- Oct 16 Raimondo Montecuccoli, Italian-Austrian general (b. 1608 or 1609)
- Oct 30 Antoinette Bourignon, Flemish-French mystic, dies at 64
- Nov 5 Gillis Valckenier, Regent and Mayor of Amsterdam (1665-79), dies at about 57
- Nov 27 Athanasius Kircher, German Jesuit priest and inventor (magic lantern), dies at 79
Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680)
Nov 28 Italian baroque sculptor, painter and architect (St. Peter's Baldachin), dies at 81
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