- Jan 3 Hillel ben Naphtali Zevi, Lithuanian rabbi (b. 1615)
- Feb 7 William Morice, English royalist statesman
- Feb 22 Charles Le Brun, French classical painter who helped establish the French Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture, dies at 70
- Mar 18 Charles, duke of Lutherans, dies
- Apr 18 Charles V, Duke of Lorraine & Austrian field marshal, dies at 47
- Apr 25 David Teniers the Younger, Flemish painter (Pictorium), dies at 79
- May 21 John Eliot, English missionary in Massachusetts, dies at 85
- Jul 10 Jan van Brakel, Dutch vice admiral (Chatham), dies in battle at 48
- Jul 11 Friedrich H duke van Schomberg, marshal, dies in battle at 75
- Jul 23 Richard Gibson, English painter of portrait miniatures and a court dwarf, dies at around 75
- Sep 2 Philipp Wilhelm, Elector Palatine (b. 1615)
- Oct 3 Robert Barclay, Scottish writer (b. 1648)
- Oct 16 Margaretha M Alacoque, French mystic/saint, dies at 43
- Oct 30 Hieronymus van Beverningk, Dutch general, dies at 76
- Nov 17 Charles de Sainte-Maure, duc de Montausier, French soldier, dies at 80