Famous People Who Died in 1676

  • Jan 14 Pier Francesco Cavalli, Italian opera composer, dies at 73
  • Feb 8 Alexis of Russia [Aleksey Mikhailovich], Second Romanov Tsar of Russia, dies at 46 [OS 29 Jan]
  • Feb 14 Abraham Bosse, French engraver and artist
  • Mar 21 Henri Sauval, French historian (b. 1623)
  • 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 Chomedey de Maisonneuve, French army officer (b. 1612)
  • 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 G Schottel [Schottelius], German linguistic/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