- Jan 1 Filippo Baldinucci, Florentine biographer & art historian, dies at 71
- Jan 6 Carlo Mannelli, Italian composer, dies at 56
- Jan 26 Georg Mohr, Danish mathematician (b. 1640)
- Jan 28 John Fenwick, English conspirator
- Feb 3 Sjoucke Gabbes, Frisian sailor, dies/buried on Dirk-Hartog Island
- Mar 1 Francesco Redi, Italian physician, dies at 71
- Mar 26 Godfrey McCulloch, Scottish politician and murderer involved in a clan feud, executed by Maiden (Scottish guillotine) (b. 1640)
- Mar 27 Simon Bradstreet, English colonial magistrate, last governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony, dies at 93
- Apr 5 Charles XI, King of Sweden (1660-97), dies of cancer at 41
- Apr 8 Niels Juel, Danish-Norwegian admiral, dies at 68
- Apr 8 Nikolaus Bruhns, Danish-German composer and organist, dies (b. 1665)
- May 18 Guillaume Dumanoir, French composer, dies at 81
- Nov 2 Constantine Huygens Jr., Dutch poet, painter and cartoonist, dies at 69 (burial date)
- Nov 22 Libéral Bruant, French architect (b. 1635)