- Jan 27 Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang, Empress of Manchu (1643-62), dies at 74
- Feb 2 Abraham Duquesne, French naval officer (b. 1610)
- Feb 17 Rev James Renwick, hanged in Scotland for being a Presbyterian
- Mar 9 Claude Mellan, French engraver, cartoonist and painter, dies at 89
- May 8 Pierre de Troyes, French officer and explorer in North America (re-took James Bay forts from the English), dies at Fort Niagara [1]
- May 9 Frederick William, Great Elector, ruler of Brandenburg (1640-88), dies at 68
- May 14 Antoine Furetière, French writer (b. 1619)
- May 22 Johannes Andreas Quenstedt, German Lutheran theologian, dies at 70
- Jun 3 Maximilian Henry of Bayern, Archbishop-Elector of Cologne, Bishop of Hildesheim and Bishop of Liège, dies at 66
- Jun 5 Constantine Phaulkon, Greek adventurer who served as advisor to King Narai of Ayutthaya (Siam), decapitated and disemboweled for high treason (b. 1647)
- Jun 8 Hans Bontemantel, Amsterdams merchant, buried
- Jun 26 Ralph Cudworth, philosopher/cleric, dies
- Jul 11 King Narai 'the Great' of the Ayutthaya Kingdom (Siam) (1656-88), dies at 55
- Jul 19 Cornelis van Aerssen, Dutch governor of Suriname (1683-88), murdered at 50
- Jul 21 James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde, English statesman and soldier (b. 1610)
Henry Morgan (c. 1635-1688)
Aug 25 Welsh pirate and privateer who raided Spanish settlements and shipping, dies at 53
John Bunyan (1628-1688)
Aug 31 English minister and author (The Pilgrim's Progress), dies at 59
- Sep 2 Robert Viner, Lord Mayor of London (b. 1631)
- Oct 4 Philips Koninck, Dutch landscape painter, dies at 68
- Oct 6 Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle, English statesman, dies at 35
- Oct 9 Claude Perrault, French physician and architect (East Façade of the Louvre; Paris Observatory), dies at 75
- Oct 23 Charles du Fresne, du Cange, French philologist and scholar, dies at 77
- Nov 26 Philippe Quinault, French playwright (L'amant Indiscreet), dies at 53
- Dec 15 Gaspar Fagel, Dutch lawyer, Netherlands grand pensionary (1672-88), dies at 54
- Dec 23 Jean-Louis Lully, French composer and son of Jean-Baptiste Lully, dies at 21
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