- Jan 4 Joan Maetsuyker, Dutch governor-general of Ceylon (1653-78), dies at 71
- Jan 24 Joan Maetsuyker, gov-gen of Neth East-Indies, dies at 72
- Jan 29 Jeronimo Lobo, Portuguese Jesuit missionary (b. 1593)
- Feb 10 Philip Vingboons, Amsterdam's master builder, buried
- May 5 Anna M van Schurman, Dutch poet/spoke 10 languages, dies at about 70
- Jun 2 Pieter the Great, regent/diplomat, dies at 63
- Jun 2 Pieter de Groot, Dutch regent and diplomat (First Stadtholderless Period of the Dutch Republic), dies at 63
- Jun 17 Giacomo Torelli, Italian stage designer, engineer and architect dies at 69
- Aug 16 Andrew Marvell, English poet (Definition of Love), overdoses at 57
- Aug 28 John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton, English soldier (b. 1602)
- Oct 2 Wu San-kuei, gen, invited Manchus to China, dies trying to expel them
- Oct 12 Edmund Berry Godfrey, English magistrate (b. 1621)
- Oct 18 Cornelis Galle II, Flemish engraver/illustrator, dies at 63
- Oct 18 Jacob Jordaens, Flemish baroque painter, dies at 85
- Nov 1 William Coddington, first Governor of Rhode Island (b. 1601)
- Nov 7 Erasmus Quellinus II, Flemish painter and etcher, dies at 70
- Nov 20 Karel Dujardin, Dutch painter and etcher (Learned Dog), dies at about 56
- Nov 30 Andries de Graeff, mayor of Amsterdam (1657..71), dies at 67