- Apr 5 Anne Marie Louise d'Orléans, Duchess of Montpensier (Grand Mademoiselle), dies at 65
- Apr 9 Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy, French writer, dies at 74
- May 3 Claude de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, French courtier (b. 1607)
- May 25 Marie-Madeleine Pioche de la Vergne, comtesse de la Fayette, French writer (b. 1634)
- Jun 2 John Wildman, English soldier and politician
- Jul 12 John Ashby, English admiral
- Jul 13 Hendrik Trajectinus, Count of Solms, Dutch lieutenant-general (b. 1636)
- Jul 31 Willem Calf, Rotterdams still life painter, dies at 73
- Jul 31 Willem Kalf, Dutch painter (still lifes), dies at 73
- Sep 14 Aert Jansse van Nes, Dutch naval commander, dies at 67
- Sep 19 Johann Weikhard von Valvasor, Slovenian polymath and natural historian, dies at 52
- Oct 1 Pedro Abarca, Spanish theologian (b. 1619)
- Oct 26 Coenraad van Beuningen, mayor of Amsterdam/diplomat, dies at 71
- Nov 24 William Sancroft, 79th Archbishop of Canterbury, dies at 76
- Dec 13 Dodoftei, Romanian metropolitan of Moldavia/writer (Saint Lives), dies
- Dec 13 Willem Van de Velde, Dutch the Old, seascape painter, dies at about 82