- Jan 10 Louis-Sébastien Le Nain de Tillemont, French ecclesiastical historian, dies at 60
- Mar 14 Claes Rålamb, Swedish statesman, dies at 75
- Apr 29 Charles Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis, First Lord of the British Admiralty (b. 1655)
- May 15 Marie Champmeslé, French actress (Fête de Vénus), dies at 56
- Jun 10 Gerrit Berckheyde, Dutch painter, dies at 59
- Jun 11 Balthasar Bekker, Dutch theologist (helped end persecution of witches), dies at 64
- Jul 16 Cristoph Kaldenbach, Prussian poet, dies at 84
- Jul 18 Johann Heinrich Heidegger, Swiss theologian, dies at 65
- Sep 2 Justus Vingboons, Architect, buried
- Nov 4 Rasmus Bartholin, Danish physician, mathematician and physicist, dies at 73
- Nov 28 Louis de Buade de Frontenac, French soldier and Governor General of New France, dies at 76