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- Robert Barclay – Theses Theologiae
- Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery – English-Adventures by a Person of Honor
- Charles Cotton – Cotton's Angler (a continuation of Izaak Walton's The Compleat Angler)
- Ann, Lady Fanshawe – Memoir (of her deceased courtier husband, Sir Richard Fanshawe, 1st Baronet)
- Domingo Fernández Navarrete – Tratados historicos, politicos, ethicos, y religiosos de la monarchia de China (An Account of the Empire of China, Historical, Political, Moral, and Religious)
- Gabriel de Foigny – La Terre Australe connue (The Southern Land, Known)[4]
- Thomas Tomkinson – Truth's Triumph. A book on Muggletonianism.
- Izaak Walton – The Compleat Angler, 5th edition
- March 22 – Lady Anne Clifford, English patron and correspondent (born 1590)[5]
- July 25 – François Hédelin, abbé d'Aubignac, French writer and cleric (born 1604)
- August 17 – Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen, German writer (born 1621)
- September 2 – Edward Worsley, English religious writer (born 1605)
- October 25 – Justus Georg Schottel, German grammarian (born 1612)
- November 1 – Gisbertus Voetius, Dutch theologian (born 1589)
- December 18 – Edward Benlowes, English poet (born 1603)
- December 25 – William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle, English polymath (born 1592)
Everett, Jason M., ed. (2006). "1676". The People's Chronology. Gale Group, Inc.