- Jan 4 Louis Willem I, Margrave of Baden-Baden, dies at 51
- Jan 8 John Dalrymple, 1st Earl of Stair, Scottish politician (b. 1648)
- Jan 10 Philibert, comte de Gramont, French writer (b. 1621)
- Jan 20 Humphrey Hody, English theologian (b. 1659)
- Mar 3 Aurangzeb, 6th Mughal Emperor (1658-1707), dies at 88
- Mar 30 Vauban, French architect (b. 1633)
- Apr 6 Willem Van de Velde, the Young, Dutch seascape painter, dies at 73
- Apr 20 Johann Christoph Denner, German musician and inventor (clarinet), dies at 51
- Apr 29 George Farquhar, Irish dramatist (b. 1678)
- May 3 Michiel de Swaen, South Netherlands physician/poet, dies at 53
- May 9 Dietrich Buxtehude, German organist & composer, dies at about 69
- May 27 Marquise de Montespan, French mistress of Louis XIV of France (b. 1640)
- May 28 Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart, Marquise de Montespan, French mistress of King Louis XIV of France, dies at 66
- Jun 16 Marie d'Orleans-Longueville, Duchess de Nemours, sovereign princess of Neuchâtel and writer (b. 1625)
- Jun 23 John Mill, English theologian
- Jun 24 Kaspar von Stieler, German poet (Teutsche Wolredner), dies at 74
- Aug 18 William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire, English statesman and Whig politician (1661-84), dies at 67
- Aug 20 Nicolas Gigault, French organist and composer (b. 1627)
- Sep 15 George Stepney, English poet and diplomat (b. 1663)
- Sep 24 Vincenzo da Filicaja, Italian poet (b. 1642)
- Oct 2 Anne Jules duke the Noailles, marshal of France (huguenot), dies at 57
- Oct 5 Daniel Speer, German composer, dies at 71
- Oct 22 Cloudesley Shovell, Admiral, drowns at Scilly
- Dec 1 Jeremiah Clarke, composer, dies
- Dec 24 Noel Coypel, French painter, dies at 78
- Dec 27 Jean Mabillon, French palaeograopher and diplomat (b. 1632)