- Jan 15 Philip Warwick, English writer and politician (b. 1609)
- Jan 21 Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st earl of Shaftesbury, English statesman who tried to bar Catholic James II from throne (Lord Chancellor 1672-73), dies at 61
- Feb 18 Nicolaes Pietersz Berchem, Dutch landscape painter and etcher, dies at 62
- Mar 19 Thomas Killigrew, English dramatist and humorist (leader of the King's Men), dies at 71
- Mar 29 Yaoya Oshichi, a young girl burned at the stake for arson in 17th Century Japan (b. 1667)
- May 2 Stjepan Gradić, Croatian philosopher and scientist (b. 1613)
- Jul 10 François-Eudes de Mézeray, French historian (b. 1610)
- Jul 13 Arthur Capell, 1st Earl of Essex, English statesman (b. 1631)
- Jul 21 Lord William Russell, English politician and plotter against Charles II, beheaded at 43
- Aug 18 Charles Hart, British Shakespearean actor, dies
- Aug 24 John Owen, English non-conformist theologian (b. 1616)
- Aug 26 Christoph Schultze, German composer, dies at 76
- Sep 5 Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French statesman (First Minister of State, 1661-83; Minister of the Navy, 1689-83), dies at 64
- Sep 9 Algernon Sidney, English Whig politician and political theorist, beheaded for treason at 60
- Sep 12 Afonso VI, mentally ill King of Portugal (1656-67), dies at 40
- Oct 8 Philipp Friedrich Boddecker, German composer and organist, dies at 76
- Dec 7 John Oldham, English satirical poet, dies of smallpox at 30
- Dec 15 Izaak Walton, English biographer and author (The Compleat Angler), dies at 90
- Dec 25 Kara Mustafa Pasha Turkish grand-vizier (1676-83) and Ottoman general (siege of Vienna), executed by strangulation (b. 1634)
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