- Jan 2 Henry Booth, 1st Earl of Warrington, English politician, dies at 42
- Jan 6 Francesco Morosini, Italian army general, dies
- Jan 7 Charles Gerard, 1st Earl of Macclesfield, English general (bc. 1618)
- Feb 1 John L baron van Elderen, 63rd bishop of Liege (1688-94), dies at 73
- Feb 4 Nataliya Kyrillovna Naryshkina, Tsaritsa of Russia (b. 1651)
- Apr 3 Ferdinand van Apshoven de Jongere, Flemish painter, buried at 64
- Apr 27 Johan Georg IV, Elector of Saxony (1691-94), dies at 25
- Jun 17 Philip Howard, English Roman Catholic Cardinal, dies at 64
- Jul 7 Dokusho, Zen teacher, Obaku line, dies
- Aug 8 Antoine Arnauld [le grand Arnauld], French lawyer/theology, dies at 82
- Sep 28 Gabriel Mouton, French abbot and mathematician, dies at about 76
- Oct 12 Matsuo Basho, greatest Japanese haiku poet, dies
- Oct 16 Samuel Freiherr von Pufendorf, German lawyer, dies at 62
- Nov 8 Ulrik Huber, Frisian lawyer, law historian and polemist, dies at 58
- Nov 22 John Tillotson, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1630)
- Nov 25 Ismael Bullialdus, French astronomer (Astronomia Philolaica) and mathematician, dies at 89
- Nov 30 Marcello Malpighi, Italian physician who founded the science of microscopic anatomy, dies at 66
- Dec 2 Pierre Paul Puget, French artist, dies at 74
- Dec 11 Ranuccio II Farnese, Duke of Parma, dies at 64
- Dec 28 Mary II, Queen of England Scotland and Ireland, dies after 5 years of rule at 32