- Jan 21 Willem B Schepers, Dutch merchant/ship owner, dies at about 83
- Feb 2 Guillaume F A de l'Hospital, French mathematician, dies at about 62
- Feb 23 Georg Muffat, French/German organist/composer, dies at 50
- Feb 24 Marc-Antoine Charpentier, French composer (church music), dies
- Mar 17 Menno, Baron van Coehoorn, Dutch military engineer (Coevorden mortar), dies at 63
- Apr 8 Henry Sydney, 1st Earl of Romney, English statesman, dies at 63
- Apr 8 Hiob Ludolf, German orientalist (b. 1624)
- Apr 10 William Egon of Fürstenberg, Bishop of Strassburg (b. 1629)
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (1627-1704)
Apr 12 French bishop and writer (Louis XIV court preacher), dies at 77
- Apr 12 Johan van Waveren Hudde, Dutch mathematician (Concerning Reduction of Equations) and Mayor of Amsterdam (1672-1703), dies at 76
- May 3 Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber, Bohemian-Austrian violinist and composer, dies at 59
- May 13 Louis Bourdaloue, French Jesuit preacher, dies at 71
- Jun 18 Thomas "Tom" Brown, English translator and writer of satire (Amusements Serious and Comical, calculated for the Meridian of London), dies at 41
- Jun 30 John Quelch, English pirate, hanged for piracy in Boston at 38
- Jul 3 Sophia Alekseyevna, Regent of Russia (1682-89), dies at 46
- Jul 9 Yan Ruoqu, Chinese scholar of Qing dynasty, dies at 67
- Jul 17 Pierre-Charles Le Sueur, French fur trader and explorer (Minnesota River Valley), dies of yellow fever
- Jul 20 Peregrine White, First English child born in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, dies at 83
- Aug 14 Roland Laporte, French Protestant leader (b. 1675)
- Oct 1 Cornelis Dusart, Dutch painter and engraver, dies at 44
- Oct 3 Jean-Baptiste Denys, French physician who performed the 1st human blood transfusion, a xenotransfusion, dies at about 61
John Locke (1632-1704)
Oct 28 English empiricist philosopher; influential Enlightenment thinker and "Father of Liberalism" (Two Treatises of Government), dies at 72
