- Feb 2 Martin Lister, English naturalist and physician to Queen Anne, dies at 72
- Feb 12 Marie-Adélaïde of Savoy, mother of Louis XV of France, dies of measles at 26
- Feb 18 Louis, Duke of Burgundy, heir-apparent to the French throne, dies at 29
- Feb 27 Bahādur Shah I, 8th Mughal Emperor of India (1702-12), dies at 68
- Mar 25 Nehemiah Grew, English naturalist (b. 1641)
- Mar 28 Jan van der Heyden, Dutch painter and inventor (fire hose; street lighting), dies at 75
- Apr 5 John Luyken, Dutch poet and etcher (species company), dies at 63
- Apr 10 Yusuf Nabi, Turkish poet (Hayriye), dies at about 77
- Apr 11 Richard Simon, French Biblical critic (b. 1638)
- Apr 29 Juan Bautista Jose Cabanilles, Spanish organist and composer, dies at 67
- Apr 30 Philipp van Limborch, Dutch Remonstrants theologist and vicar, dies at 78
- Jun 11 Louis Joseph, duc de Vendôme, Marshal of France (b. 1654)
- Jun 24 Simon van der Stel, 1st governor of Dutch Cape Colony (1679-99), dies at 72
Richard Cromwell (1626-1712)
Jul 12 Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland (1658-59), dies at 85
- Jul 26 Thomas Osborne, 1st Duke of Leeds, English statesman (Lord President of the Council, 1689-99; Lord High Treasurer, 1673-79), helped bring William and Mary to the throne), dies at 80
- Aug 3 Joshua Barnes, English scholar (b. 1654)
- Aug 4 Johann Jacob de Neufville, German composer, dies at 27
- Aug 7 Friederich Wilhelm Zachow, German musician composer (Georg Frideric Handel's master), dies at 48
- Aug 18 Richard Savage, 4th Earl Rivers, English soldier
- Aug 24 Thomas Bullis, Jr. English organist and composer, dies at 54 (burial date)
- Aug 26 Sebastian Anton Scherer, German composer, dies at 80
- Aug 29 Gregory King, English statistician (law of King), dies at 63
- Sep 14 Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Italian French mathmetician and astronomer (discovered four moons of Saturn), dies at 87
- Sep 22 José Solana, Spanish composer and organist, dies at 69
- Sep 30 Johann Michael Zächer, Austrian composer, dies at 61
- Nov 6 Johann Bernhard Staudt, Austrian Jesuit composer, dies at 58
- Nov 15 Charles Mohun, 4th Baron Mohun, English politician (b. 1675)
- Nov 15 Giuseppe Vignola, Italian composer, dies at 50
- Nov 15 James Douglas, 4th Duke of Hamilton, Scottish nationalist (b. 1658)
- Dec 15 Sidney 1st earl of Godolphine, English minister of Finance, dies at 67
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