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The 1680s decade ran from January 1, 1680, to December 31, 1689.

1680

January–March

January 2 – King Amangkurat II of Mataram (located on the island of Java, part of modern-day Indonesia), invites Trunajaya, who had led a failed rebellion against him until his surrender on December 26, for a ceremonial visit to the royal palace. After Trunajaya arrives, King Amangkurat stabs his guest to death.
January 24 – William Harris, one of the four English Puritans who established the Plymouth Colony and then the Providence Plantations at Rhode Island in 1636, is captured by Algerian pirates, when his ship is boarded while he is making a voyage back to England. After being sold into slavery on February 23, he remains a slave until ransom is paid. He dies in 1681, three days after his return to England.
February 12 – The Marquis de Croissy, Charles Colbert, becomes France's Minister of Foreign Affairs and serves for 16 years until his death, when he is succeeded as Foreign Minister by his son Jean-Baptiste Colbert.
February 16 – Rev. Ralph Davenant's will provides for foundation of the Davenant Foundation School for poor boys in Whitechapel, in the East End of London.^[1]
February 22 – Catherine Deshayes Monvoisin, a fortune teller in France who organized a ring of killers in what became known as the "Affair of the Poisons" that killed at least 1,000 people, is burned at the stake after being convicted of witchcraft. In all, 36 people are executed for their role in the poisoning.
February 24 – The German Duchy of Saxe-Coburg is divided by treaty among the sons of the late Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Gotha, who had died in 1675. The oldest son, Frederick, receives Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg. The rest is divided among Albert (Duke of Saxe-Coburg); Bernhard (Saxe-Meiningen); Henry (Saxe-Römhild); Christian (Saxe-Eisenberg); Ernest (Saxe-Hildburghausen); and John Ernest (Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld).
March 24 – The Earl of Shaftesbury informs the Privy Council of England that the Roman Catholics of Ireland were about to launch a rebellion, backed by France. The investigation leads to the arrest and ultimate execution of the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Armagh, Oliver Plunkett.
March 25 – Troops sent by the Sultan of Morocco, Ismail Ibn Sharif, begin a blockade of the port of Tangier, occupied by the English and located on the North African coast. Palmes Fairborne is dispatched to defend Tangier as the colonial governor and commander-in-chief of English forces.
March 27 – The London Penny Post delivery service begins operations after being created by Robert Murray and William Dockwra, with a policy of delivering letters to any part of London or its suburbs for the price of one English penny.
March 30 – A total eclipse of the Sun takes place and is visible over central Africa, with totality over the Opala Territory in the modern-day Democratic Republic of the Congo.

April–June

April 21 – Prince Rajaram Bhosle, the 10-year-old son of the Shivaji, the Chhatrapati (Emperor) of the Maratha Empire in India, is installed on the throne as the new Emperor, less than three weeks after the death of his father. Sambhaji Bhosle, the eldest son of Shivaji, learns the news while imprisoned at Panhala and makes plans to escape prison and take over the throne.
April 27 – Prince Sambhaji and fellow prisoners kill the commander of the Panhala prison and take control of the fort, as he makes plans to become ruler of the Maratha Empire.
April 30 – The first French Huguenots in the New World arrive at Charleston, South Carolina, as 45 of the religious exiles arrive at Oyster Point on the ship Richmond, after being sent there by King Charles II of England.^[2]
May 6 – King Charles XI of Sweden marries Princess Elonora, daughter of the late King Frederick III of Denmark-Norway and sister of King Christian V.
May – The volcano Krakatoa erupts, probably on a relatively small scale.
June 4 – Tokugawa Tsunayoshi becomes the new Shōgun of Japan upon the death of his older brother, Tokugawa Ietsuna, who had been shōgun for 29 years.
June 10 – England and Spain sign a mutual defense treaty.^[3]
June 11 – Elizabeth Cellier, an English Catholic midwife, is tried and acquitted of treason for pamphleting against the government.
June 16 – Sambhaji Bhosle and his troops capture Raigad, the capital of the Maratha Empire and Sambhaji becomes the new Chhatrapati or Emperor. Sambhaji deposes his younger brother Rajaram I and places Rajaram and Rajaram's mother under house arrest.
June 22 – The Sanquhar Declaration, written by Richard Cameron, leader of the Covenanters who oppose the control of religion in Scotland by King Charles, is read aloud by Richard's brother Michael Cameron at the public square in the village of Sanquhar in Dumfriesshire.
June 30 – During the Spanish Inquisition, an auto-da-fé takes place in the Plaza Mayor, Madrid.

July–September

July 8 – The first documented tornado in America kills a servant at Cambridge, Massachusetts.
August 10 – A Pueblo medicine man named Popé begins an attack by the Puebloans and their Apache allies on Spanish outposts throughout what is the modern-day U.S. state of New Mexico, choosing the campaign to begin before a supply caravan can reach the Spaniards.^[4]
August 20 (August 10 Old Style) – The settlement of Karlskrona in Sweden is founded,^[5] as the Royal Swedish Navy relocates there.
August 21 – In the Pueblo Revolt, the native Pueblo people capture Santa Fe (now in New Mexico) from the Spanish colonists.
August 24 – Comédie-Française is founded by decree of Louis XIV of France as La maison de Molière in Paris.
September 15
- A four month truce between England and Morocco expires and the Alcaid Omar, Viceroy of Morocco, begins a bombardment of the English fort at Tangier.^[6]
- A treaty is concluded between the Dutch Republic and the Ottoman Empire for Ottoman Sultan Mehmed IV and his subjects to apply Dutch law to Dutch visitors to Ottoman territory.^[7]
September 21 – Spanish troops make a counterattack on Santa Fe in the modern-day U.S. state of New Mexico, allowing the remaining Spanish troops in the besieged city to flee to El Paso (now in Texas).^[4]
September 30 – Robert Boyle, having rediscovered the process of manufacturing phosphorus from bone ash, deposits his summary of the directions with The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge.^[8] Boyle's assistant, Ambrose Godfrey, later develops Boyle's discovery to produce phosphorus commercially.

October–December

October 9 – A massive 9.0 magnitude M_w earthquake destroys part of Málaga and other cities in the province of the same name.^[9]
October 29 – At the request of King Charles XI of Sweden, the Riksdag in Sweden enacts the Great Reduction, returning fiefs which had been granted to the Swedish nobility to the Crown. The nation becomes an absolute monarchy under the rule of Charles. ^[10]
November 14 – The Great Comet of 1680 is first sighted by Gottfried Kirch, the first comet discovered by telescope.^[11]
November 17 – The Green Ribbon Club, a predecessor of the British Whigs, organizes a procession to burn an effigy of the Pope in London for the second year running.^[12]
December 17 (December 7 O.S.) – The trial for treason of William Howard, 1st Viscount Stafford before his fellow members of the House of Lords having concluded after seven days, the Lords vote on whether to convict him of the articles of impeachment. The Lords vote, 55 to 31 to convict him and to impose the death sentence ^[13] and Lord Stafford is beheaded on 29 December (8 January 1681 N.S.)

Date unknown

Chambers of Reunion (French courts under Louis XIV) decide on the complete annexation of Alsace.
The first Portuguese governor is appointed to Macau.
Johann Pachelbel writes his Canon in D Major

Births

1680

January 23 – Joseph Ames, English author (d. 1759)
February 14 – John Sidney, 6th Earl of Leicester, English privy councillor (d. 1737)
February 23 – Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, French colonizer and Governor of Louisiana (d. 1767)
April 9 – Philippe Néricault Destouches, French dramatist (d. 1754)
April 23 – Anna Canalis di Cumiana, morganatic spouse of Victor Amadeus II of Savoy (d. 1769)
June 22 – Ebenezer Erskine, Scottish religious dissenter (d. 1754)
September 22 – Barthold Heinrich Brockes, German poet (d. 1747)
October 19 – John Abernethy, Irish Protestant minister (d. 1740)
date unknown – Bulleh Shah, Sufi poet (d. 1757)
date unknown – Julianna Géczy, Hungarian heroine (d. 1714)
approximate – Edward Teach (Blackbeard), English pirate (d. 1718)

1681

March 24 – Georg Philipp Telemann, German composer (d. 1767)
June 26 – Hedvig Sophia of Sweden, Swedish princess (d. 1708)
August 5 – Vitus Bering, Danish-born Russian explorer (d. 1741)
September 11 – Johann Gottlieb Heineccius, German jurist (d. 1741)
September 28 – Johann Mattheson, German composer (d. 1764)
October 1 – Giulia Lama, Italian painter (d. 1747)^[157]
November 17 – Pierre François le Courayer, French theologian (d. 1776)
November 28 – Jean Cavalier, French Protestant rebel leader (d. 1740)

1682

February 25 – Giovanni Battista Morgagni, Italian anatomist (d. 1771)
April 16 – John Hadley, English inventor (d. 1744)
May 17 – Bartholomew Roberts, a.k.a. Black Bart, Welsh pirate (d. 1722)
June 17 – King Charles XII of Sweden (d. 1718)
July 10 – Roger Cotes, English mathematician (d. 1716)
August 16 – Louis, duc de Bourgogne, heir to the throne of France (d. 1712)
October 29 – Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix, French historian (d. 1761)
date unknown – Margareta Capsia, Finnish artist (d. 1759)

1683

January 13 – Christoph Graupner, German composer (d. 1760)
January 29 – Juan de Galavís, Spanish Catholic Archbishop of Santo Domingo, Bogotá (d. 1739)
February 4 – Jean-Baptiste Bénard de la Harpe, French explorer of North America (d. 1765)
February 28 – René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, French scientist (d. 1757)
March 1 – Caroline of Ansbach, British queen and regent, wife of George II of Great Britain (d. 1737)
April 3 – Mark Catesby, English naturalist (d. 1749)
June 23 – Étienne Fourmont, French orientalist (d. 1745)
September 7 – Maria Anna of Austria, Archduchess of Austria and Queen consort of Portugal (d. 1754)
September 11 – Farrukhsiyar, Mughal Emperor (d. 1719)
September 25 – Jean-Philippe Rameau, French composer (d. 1764)
October 17 – Aixinjueluo Yuntang, born Aixinjueluo Yintang, Qing prince (d. 1726)
October 25 – Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton, British politician (d. 1757)
November 10 – King George II of Great Britain (d. 1760)
November 30 – Ludwig Andreas von Khevenhüller, Austrian field marshal (d. 1744)
December 19 – King Philip V of Spain (d. 1746)
December 27 – Conyers Middleton, English minister (d. 1750)
date unknown
- Anna Maria Thelott, Swedish artist (d. 1710)
- Benedicta Margareta von Löwendal, German industrialist (d. 1776)

1684

January 1 – Arnold Drakenborch, Dutch classical scholar (d. 1748)^[158]
January 4
- Henry Coote, 5th Earl of Mountrath, British politician (d. 1720)^[159]
- Henry Grove, English nonconformist minister (d. 1738)^[160]
January 14
- Johann Matthias Hase, German astronomer, mathematician and cartographer (d. 1742)^[161]
- Jean-Baptiste van Loo, French subject and portrait painter (d. 1745)^[162]
January 18 – Johann David Köhler, German historian (d. 1755)^[163]
January 23 – Christian Rantzau, Danish noble (d. 1771)^[164]
January 24 – Charles Alexander, Duke of Württemberg, regent of the Kingdom of Serbia (1720–1733) (d. 1737)^[165]
February 16 – Bohuslav Matěj Černohorský, Czech composer (d. 1742)^[166]
February 19 – George Duckett, English Member of Parliament (d. 1732)^[167]
February 20 – Edward Bayly, Irish politician (d. 1741)^[168]
February 21 – Justus van Effen, Dutch author (d. 1735)^[169]
February 22 – Charles, Count of Armagnac, French noble (d. 1751)^[170]
February 24 – Matthias Braun, Czech sculptor (d. 1738)^[171]
March 2 – Christopher Wandesford, 2nd Viscount Castlecomer, Anglo-Irish Member of Parliament (d. 1719)^[172]
March 19 – Jean Astruc, French physician and scholar (d. 1766)^[173]
March 21 – Oley Douglas, English Member of Parliament (d. 1719)^[174]
March 22
- Matthias Bel, Hungarian pastor, polymath (d. 1749)^[175]
- William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath, English noble (d. 1764)^[176]
March 24 – Samuel von Schmettau, Prussian field marshal (d. 1751)
March 28 – Tekle Haymanot I, Emperor of Ethiopia (d. 1708)
March 31 – Francesco Durante, Neapolitan composer (d. 1755)^[177]
April 2 – Henry Somerset, 2nd Duke of Beaufort, English noble (d. 1714)^[178]
April 10 – Joseph Paris Duverney, French banker (d. 1770)
April 15 – Catherine I of Russia, empress consort (d. 1727)^[179]
April 25 – Marco Benefial, Italian painter (d. 1764)^[180]
May 2 – William Henry, Prince of Nassau-Usingen, Prince of Nassau-Usingen (1702–1718) (d. 1718)^[181]
May 5 – Françoise Charlotte d'Aubigné, French noble (d. 1739)^[182]
May 23 – Hachisuka Muneteru, Japanese daimyō of the Edo period (d. 1743)
May 27 – Wilhelm Reinhard von Neipperg, Austrian field marshal (d. 1774)^[183]
May 31
- Timothy Cutler, American Episcopal clergyman, rector of Yale College (d. 1765)^[184]
- Georg Engelhard Schröder, Swedish artist (d. 1750)^[185]
June 4 – Louis Charles, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Franzhagen, German nobleman (d. 1707)
June 6 – Nathaniel Lardner, English theologian (d. 1768)^[186]
June 15 – Ernest Leopold, Landgrave of Hesse-Rotenburg, German noble (d. 1749)^[187]
June 22 – Francesco Manfredini, Italian Baroque composer (d. 1762)^[188]
July 3 – Jean-Baptiste Baudry, Canadian gunsmith (d. 1755)^[189]
August 22 – Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria (d. 1696)
August 24 – Sir Robert Munro, 6th Baronet, British politician (d. 1746)^[190]
August 30 – Marguerite de Launay, baronne de Staal, French author (d. 1750)^[191]
September 1 – Jaime Álvares Pereira de Melo, 3rd Duke of Cadaval, Portuguese noble and statesman (d. 1749)^[192]
September 17
- Henry Cantrell, Anglican clergyman, writer (d. 1773)^[193]
- Elizabeth Hanson, American captive of Native Americans and writer (d. 1737)
September 18 – Johann Gottfried Walther, German music theorist, organist and composer (d. 1748)^[194]
September 22 – Charles Louis Auguste Fouquet, duc de Belle-Isle, French general and statesman (d. 1761)^[195]
October 2 – Thomas Seaton, English religious writer (d. 1741)^[196]
October 8 – Karl Aigen, Austrian painter (d. 1762)
October 9 – Christopher of Baden-Durlach, German prince (d. 1723)^[197]
October 10 – Jean-Antoine Watteau, French painter (d. 1721)^[198]
October 16 – Peter Walkden, English Presbyterian minister and diarist (d. 1769)^[199]
October 26 – Kurt Christoph Graf von Schwerin, Prussian Generalfeldmarschall (d. 1757)^[200]
October 28 – Paul Alphéran de Bussan, French bishop (d. 1757)^[201]
November 1 – Mikhail Mikhailovich Golitsyn, Russian admiral (d. 1764)
November 11 – Algernon Seymour, 7th Duke of Somerset, English noble (d. 1750)^[202]
November 12 – Edward Vernon, English admiral (d. 1757)
November 16 – Allen Bathurst, 1st Earl Bathurst, English noble (d. 1775)^[203]
November 25 – Paul-Hippolyte de Beauvilliers, duke of Saint-Aignan, French diplomat and soldier (d. 1776)^[204]
December 3 – Ludvig Holberg, Norwegian historian and writer (d. 1754)^[205]
December 9 – Abraham Vater, German anatomist (d. 1751)^[206]
December 14 – Siwart Haverkamp, Dutch classical scholar (d. 1742)
December 15
- James Jurin, British mathematician, doctor (d. 1750)^[207]
- August Friedrich Müller, German legal scholar, logician (d. 1761)^[208]
December 16 – Samuel Clark of St Albans, English theologian (d. 1750)^[209]
December 21 – Ippolito Desideri, Italian Tibetologist (d. 1733)^[210]
December 31 – William Grimston, 1st Viscount Grimston, Irish noble (d. 1756)^[211]
Date unknown
- Celia Grillo Borromeo, Genovese scientist and mathematician (d. 1777)^[212]
- Jaime de la Té y Sagau, Spanish composer (d. 1736)^[213]

1685

January 1 – Joseph Burroughs, English minister (d. 1761)
January 6 – Manuel de Montiano, Spanish colonial administrator (d. 1762)
January 7
- Jonas Alströmer, Swedish pioneer of agriculture and industry (d. 1761)
- George Clifford III, Dutch banker and gardener (d. 1760)
January 9 – Tiberius Hemsterhuis, Dutch philologist and critic (d. 1766)
January 24 – Giuseppe Alessandro Furietti, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1764)
February 6 – Sir John Rushout, 4th Baronet, England (d. 1775)
February 8 – Charles-Jean-François Hénault, French writer and historian (d. 1770)
February 9 – Francesco Loredan, Doge of Venice (d. 1762)
February 10 – Aaron Hill (writer), English dramatist and miscellaneous writer (d. 1750)
February 12 – George Hadley, English lawyer and amateur meteorologist (d. 1768)
February 23 – George Frideric Handel, German composer (d. 1759)
February 24 – Hieronymus Pez, Austrian historian (d. 1762)
March 2 – Moses Williams (antiquarian), Welsh scholar (d. 1742)
March 11
- William Flower, 1st Baron Castle Durrow, Irish politician (d. 1746)
- Jean-Pierre Nicéron, French encyclopedist (d. 1738)
March 12 – George Berkeley, Irish philosopher (d. 1753)
March 13 – Johann Paul Schiffelholz, German Baroque composer (d. 1758)
March 17 – Jean-Marc Nattier, French painter (d. 1766)
March 18 – Ralph Erskine (preacher), Scottish churchman (d. 1752)
March 24 – John Fane, 7th Earl of Westmorland, British politician (d. 1762)
March 26
- Germain Louis Chauvelin, French politician (d. 1762)
- Johann Alexander Thiele, German painter (d. 1752)
March 27 – Simon Hatley, English sailor (d. 1723)
March 31 – Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer (d. 1750)
April 4 – Claude Sallier, French librarian (d. 1761)
April 18 – Jacques-Pierre de Taffanel de la Jonquière, Marquis de la Jonquière, French admiral, colonial administrator (d. 1752)
April 24 – Cosimo Imperiali, Italian cardinal (d. 1764)
April 30 – Hermann Friedrich Teichmeyer, German botanist (d. 1746)
May 4 – Akdun, Chinese Manchu statesman (d. 1756)
May 6 – Sophia Louise of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Prussian queen consort (d. 1735)
May 19 – Neri Maria Corsini, Italian Catholic priest and cardinal (d. 1770)
June 6 – Spencer Phips, Acting governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay (d. 1757)
June 10 – Harry Grey, 3rd Earl of Stamford, English peer (d. 1739)
June 11 – Thomas Wedgwood III, English potter, father of Josiah Wedgwood (d. 1739)
June 14 – Princess Charlotte Wilhelmine of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, countess by marriage of Hanau-Münzenberg (d. 1767)
June 23 – Antonio Bernacchi, Italian opera singer (d. 1756)
June 24 – Hans von Lehwaldt, German general (d. 1768)
June 30
- John Gay, English writer (d. 1732)^[214]
- Dominikus Zimmermann, German Rococo architect, stuccoist (d. 1766)
July 3 – Sir Robert Rich, 4th Baronet, British cavalry officer (d. 1768)
July 22 – Henrik Magnus von Buddenbrock, Swedish general, noble (d. 1743)
July 28 – Richard Newport (MP) (d. 1716)
August 6 – Martin Bouquet, French Benedictine monk and historian (d. 1754)
August 7 – Claude Lamoral, 6th Prince of Ligne, Austrian field marshal (d. 1766)
August 8 – Claude Joseph Geoffroy, brother of Étienne François Geoffroy (d. 1752)
August 15 – Jacob Theodor Klein, German scholar (d. 1759)
August 18 – Brook Taylor, English mathematician (d. 1731)
September 2 – Christiane Charlotte of Nassau-Ottweiler, Countess, later Landgravine of Hesse-Homburg (d. 1761)
September 3 – Charles Powlett, 3rd Duke of Bolton (d. 1754)
September 4 – Johann Adolf II, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels (d. 1746)
September 14 – Didier Diderot, French craftsman (d. 1759)
September 16 – Daniel Gottlieb Messerschmidt, German scientist (d. 1735)
September 17
- Joshua Allen, 2nd Viscount Allen, Irish politician (d. 1742)
- Charles August, Prince of Nassau-Weilburg, Prince of Nassau-Weilburg (1719-1753) (d. 1753)
- Robert Marsham, 1st Baron Romney, British politician (d. 1724)
- Uvedale Tomkins Price, British politician (d. 1764)
September 20 – Giuseppe Matteo Alberti, Italian Baroque composer and violinist (d. 1751)
September 29 – George Brudenell, 3rd Earl of Cardigan (d. 1732)
October 1 – Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1740)
October 13 – Henri François Le Dran, French surgeon (d. 1770)
October 15 – Diederik van Domburg, 23rd Governor of Zeylan, during the Dutch period in Ceylon (d. 1736)
October 21 – George Forbes, 3rd Earl of Granard, English Royal Navy admiral (d. 1765)
October 26 – Domenico Scarlatti, Italian composer (d. 1757)
October 28 – Hans Gram (historian), Danish historian (d. 1748)
October 31 – John Murray, 2nd Earl of Dunmore, Scottish soldier and peer (d. 1752)
November 3 – François Roettiers, Flemish engraver, medallist, painter, sculptor (d. 1742)
November 5 – Peter Angelis, French painter (d. 1734)
November 7
- Jared Eliot, Connecticut farmer, author on horticulture (d. 1763)
- Georg Lenck, German musician (d. 1744)
November 10 – Duncan Forbes, Lord Culloden, Scottish politician, judge (d. 1747)
November 11
- Florida Cevoli, Italian Capuchin Poor Clare (d. 1767)
- Jean Charles de Saint-Nectaire, French general (d. 1771)
November 15 – Balthasar Denner, German artist (d. 1749)
November 17 – Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye, French Canadian military officer (d. 1749)
November 24 – Princess Dorothea of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck, German noble (d. 1761)
November 25 – Eiler Hagerup d.e., Norwegian bishop (d. 1743)
November 29 – John Willes (judge), English lawyer (d. 1761)
December 6 – Marie Adélaïde of Savoy, wife of Louis, Dauphin of France, Duke of Burgundy (d. 1712)
December 8 – Johann Maria Farina, Italian-born German perfumier (d. 1766)
December 12 – Lodovico Giustini, Italian composer (d. 1743)
December 17 – Thomas Tickell, minor English poet and man of letters (d. 1740)
date unknown
- Henri-Guillaume Hamal, Walloon musician and composer (d. 1752)^[215]
- Antoinette Larcher, French engraver (d. unknown)
- Aldegonde Jeanne Pauli, banker in the Austrian Netherlands (d. 1761)
- Mary Read, English-born pirate (d. 1721)^[216]
- Marie Wulf, Danish Pietist leader (d. 1738)

1686

January 8 – William Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (1703–1723) (d. 1723)^[217]
January 12 – Adam Christian Thebesius, German anatomist (d. 1732)^[218]
January 17 – Archibald Bower, Scottish historian (d. 1766)^[219]
January 23 – Moritz Georg Weidmann, German bookseller (d. 1743)^[220]
January 31 – Hans Egede, Norwegian Lutheran missionary who launched mission efforts to Greenland (d. 1758)^[221]
February 1 – Suzanne Henriette of Lorraine, French noblewoman, Duchess of Mantua and Montferrat (d. 1710)^[222]
February 2 – John Eames, English academic (d. 1744)^[223]
February 10 – Jan Frederik Gronovius, Dutch botanist notable as a patron of Linnaeus (d. 1762)
February 11 – William Bowles, British politician (d. 1748)^[224]
February 13 – John Churchill, Marquess of Blandford, British noble (d. 1703)
February 14 – Harry Pulteney, British politician (d. 1767)^[225]
February 16 – Eleonore of Löwenstein-Wertheim, German countess (d. 1753)
March 17 – Jean-Baptiste Oudry, French painter (d. 1755)^[226]
March 22 – James Hamilton, 7th Earl of Abercorn (d. 1744)^[227]
March 27 – Johann Jakob Quandt, Lutheran theologian, translated the Bible into Lithuanian (d. 1772)^[228]
April 1 – Jan Frans van Bredael, Flemish painter (d. 1750)^[229]
April 7 – François Victor Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, French nobleman (d. 1743)^[230]
April 8 – Stefano Felice Ficatelli, Italian painter of the late Baroque period (d. 1771)
April 9 – James Craggs the Younger, English politician (d. 1721)^[231]
April 19 – Vasily Tatishchev, Russian statesman, ethnographer (d. 1750)^[232]
April 28 – Michael Brokoff, Czech sculptor (d. 1721)
April 29 – Peregrine Bertie, 2nd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven (d. 1742)^[233]
May 19 – Samuel-Jacques Bernard, French billionaire (d. 1753)^[234]
May 24 – Gabriel Fahrenheit, German physicist, inventor of the Fahrenheit temperature scale (d. 1736)^[235]
May 25 – William Steuart (d. 1768)^[236]
May 31 – Antonina Houbraken, Dutch artist (d. 1736)^[237]
June 5
- Edward Howard, 9th Duke of Norfolk, British peer (d. 1777)^[238]
- Ignatius of Santhià, Italian Catholic priest (d. 1770)^[239]
June 6 – John Reading, Colonial Governor of New Jersey (d. 1767)^[240]
June 7
- Adolphus Frederick III, Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1752)
- Armand de La Richardie, French missionary (d. 1758)^[241]
June 9
- Andrei Osterman, Russian statesman (d. 1747)^[242]
- Andrew Michael Ramsay, Scottish writer (d. 1743)^[243]
June 24 – Domenico Montagnana, Italian luthier (d. 1750)
June 29 – Pietro Paolo Troisi, Maltese artist (d. 1743)^[244]
July 3 – Edward Watson, Viscount Sondes, Member of the Parliament of Great Britain (d. 1722)^[245]
July 5 – Jan Macaré, interim Dutch governor of Ceylon (d. 1742)^[246]
July 6 – Antoine de Jussieu, French naturalist (d. 1758)^[247]
July 9 – Philip Livingston, American politician (d. 1749)^[248]
July 24 – Benedetto Marcello, Italian composer (d. 1739)^[249]
July 25 – William Hardres, British politician (d. 1736)^[250]
July 27 – Mary Butterworth, American colonial counterfeiter (d. 1775)^[251]
July 31 – Charles, Duke of Berry, grandson of Louis XIV of France (d. 1714)
August 3 – Gervais Baudoin, Canadian physician (d. 1752)^[252]
August 10 – Johann Georg Christian, Prince of Lobkowicz, Austrian field marshal (d. 1755)^[253]
August 12
- John Balguy, English divine and philosopher (d. 1748)^[254]
- Bendix Grodtschilling the Youngest, Danish painter (d. 1737)^[255]
August 17 – Nicola Porpora, Neapolitan composer of Baroque operas and teacher of singing (d. 1768)^[256]
August 18 – Peter von Bemmel, German artist (d. 1754)
August 19 – Eustace Budgell, English writer and politician (d. 1737)^[257]
August 22 – Albert Schultens, Dutch philologist (d. 1750)^[258]
August 26 or August 27 – Agostino Cornacchini, Italian sculptor and painter of the Rococo period (d. 1754)^[259]^[260]
August 29 – Aloysius Centurione, Italian Jesuit (d. 1757)^[261]
September 5 – Antoine Touron, French historian (d. 1775)
September 29 – Cosmas Damian Asam, German painter and architect during the late Baroque period (d. 1739)^[262]
September 30 – John Alexander (d. 1743)
October 15 – Allan Ramsay, Scottish poet (or makar) (d. 1758)^[263]
October 17 – Jacques Hardion, French historian (d. 1766)^[264]
October 17 (bapt.) ? – John Machin, English mathematician (d. 1751)
October 19 – Peter van der Bosch, Jesuit hagiographer (d. 1736)^[265]
October 30 – Charles Jean-Baptiste Fleuriau, French politician (d. 1732)^[266]
October 31 – Senesino, Italian singer (d. 1758)^[267]
November 1
- Colin Campbell, Scottish businessman (d. 1757)^[268]
- Axel Löwen, Swedish duke (d. 1773)^[269]
November 13 – Eleonora Luisa Gonzaga, Tuscan princess (d. 1741)^[270]
November 15 – Claude Louis d'Espinchal, marquis de Massiac, French politician (d. 1770)
November 16 – Yinxiang, Manchu prince of the Qing Dynasty (d. 1730)^[271]
November 23 – Ignácio Barbosa-Machado, Portuguese historian (d. 1734)^[272]
November 30 – Richard Lumley, 2nd Earl of Scarbrough (d. 1740)^[273]
December 8 – John Dawnay, British politician (d. 1740)^[274]
December 15 – Jean-Joseph Fiocco, Flemish composer (d. 1746)^[275]
December 25 – Giovanni Battista Somis, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1763)^[276]
date unknown –
- William Law, English cleric (d. 1761)^[277]
- Netawatwees, Indigenous American (Lenape) leader (d. 1776)^[278]
approximate date – Queen Nanny of the Maroons, Jamaican national heroine (d. 1755)

1687

January 27 – Johann Balthasar Neumann, German architect (d. 1753)
February 4 – Joseph Effner, German architect (d. 1745)
March 7 – Jean Lebeuf, French historian (d. 1760)
March 16 – Sophia Dorothea of Hanover, queen consort of Frederick William I (d. 1757)
May 12 – Johann Heinrich Schulze, German professor and polymath (d. 1744)
June 24 – Johann Albrecht Bengel, German scholar (d. 1752)
September 7 – Durastante Natalucci, Italian historian (d. 1772)
October 4 – Robert Simson, Scottish mathematician (d. 1768)
October 5 – Maria Maddalena Martinengo, Italian nun (d. 1737)
October 21 – Nicolaus I Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (d. 1759)
November 7 – William Stukeley, English archaeologist (d. 1765)
December 5 – Francesco Geminiani, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1762)
December 24 – Richard Hancorne, Welsh clergyman (d. 1732)
December 26 – Johann Georg Pisendel, German musician (d. 1755)
date unknown
- Gabriel de Clieu, French naval officer and governor of Guadeloupe (1737-1752) (d. 1774)
- Shahzada Assadullah Khan Abdali, Persian Governor of Herat (d. 1720)

1688

January 15 – Maria van Lommen, Dutch gold- and silversmith (d. 1742)^[279]
January 18 – Lionel Cranfield Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (d. 1765)^[280]
January 23 – Queen Ulrika Eleonora of Sweden (d. 1741)^[281]
January 29 – Emanuel Swedenborg, Swedish scientist, philosopher and theologian (d. 1772)^[282]
February 4 – Pierre de Marivaux, French playwright (d. 1763)^[283]
March – William Burnet, British colonial administrator (d. 1729)^[284]
March 14 – Anna Maria Garthwaite, British designer (d. 1763)^[285]
April 4 – Joseph-Nicolas Delisle, French astronomer (d. 1768)^[286]
April 15 – Johann Friedrich Fasch, German composer (d. 1758)^[287]
May 21 – Alexander Pope, English poet (d. 1744)^[288]
June 10 – James Francis Edward Stuart, The Old Pretender, claimant to the English and Scottish throne (d. 1766)^[289]
July 19 – Giuseppe Castiglione, Italian missionary to China (d. 1766)^[290]
June 30 – Abu l-Hasan Ali I, ruler of Tunisia (d. 1756)
August 14 – King Frederick William I of Prussia (d. 1740)
September 12 – Ferdinand Brokoff, Czech sculptor (d. 1731)^[291]
October 17 – Domenico Zipoli, Italian-born composer (d. 1726)^[292]
October 22 – Nader Shah of Persia (d. 1747)^[293]
November 15 (bapt.) – Charles Rivington, English publisher (d. 1742)^[294]

1689

January 7 – Robert Murray, Brigadier-General, Scottish soldier, Member of Parliament (d. 1738)
January 11 – Charles Parkin, English clergyman and antiquarian (d. 1765)
January 15 – Giovanni Gaetano Bottari, Italian scholar and critic (d. 1775)
January 16 – Edmond Jean François Barbier, French historian (d. 1771)
January 18
- Montesquieu, French social commentator and political thinker (d. 1755)
- Jan Abel Wassenbergh, painter from the Northern Netherlands (d. 1750)
January 21 – Daniel Henchman, bookseller (d. 1761)
January 22 – Philibert Orry, French politician (d. 1747)
January 23 – Joseph Ames, English bibliographer and antiquary (d. 1759)
January 24 – Gaspare Diziani, Italian painter (d. 1767)
January 29 – James Rait, Bishop of Brechin (d. 1777)
February 1 – Thomas Jenner, English academic (d. 1768)
February 3 – Blas de Lezo, admiral of the Spanish Empire (d. 1741)
February 23 – Leonardo Antonio Olivieri, Italian painter (d. 1752)
c. February 23 – Samuel Bellamy, English pirate captain (d. 1717)
February 27
- Pietro Gnocchi, Italian composer (d. 1775)
- John Roosevelt, American businessman and alderman (d. 1750)
- Maximilian Emanuel of Württemberg-Winnental, German noble (d. 1709)
March 3 – Thomas Ingoldsby, British politician (d. 1768)
March 3 – Mattias Alexander von Ungern-Sternberg, Swedish politician and field marshal (d. 1763)
March 7 – Charles-Michel Mesaiger, Jesuit priest (d. 1766)
March 11
- Roger Handasyd, British Army officer (d. 1763)
- Nanbu Toshimoto, mid-Edo period Japanese samurai, the 6th daimyō of Morioka Domain (d. 1725)
March 19 – Pierre-Joseph Alary, French ecclesiastic and writer (d. 1770)
March 20 – Thomas Robie, Colonial American scientist and physician (d. 1729)
March 25 – Peder Hersleb, Norwegian bishop (d. 1757)
March 26 – Archduchess Maria Magdalena of Austria, Austrian Royal (d. 1743)

April 2 – Arthur Dobbs, Irish politician, governor of the Province of North Carolina (d. 1765)
April 5 – William Holmes, English academic and Dean of Exeter (d. 1748)
April 14 – William Murray, Marquess of Tullibardine, Scottish army officer and Jacobite leader (d. 1746)
April 15 – Richard Ward, American colonial governor (d. 1763)
April 18 – Marie Anne de Bourbon, French noble (d. 1720)
April 21 – Johann Jakob Fried, German obstetrician (d. 1769)
April 24 – Giovanni Antonio Faldoni, Italian painter and engraver (d. 1770)
April 30 – Jean-Jacques Amelot de Chaillou, French politician (d. 1749)
May 1 – Martha Fowke, English poet (d. 1736)
May 2 – Franz de Paula Ferg, Austrian painter (d. 1740)
May 5 – John Tufts, American minister and music educator (d. 1750)
May 10 – José Manso de Velasco, 1st Count of Superunda, Royal Governor of Chile (d. 1767)
May 11 – Heinrich Karl Ludwig de Herault, Prussian Army general (d. 1757)
May 15 – Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, writer and poet from England (d. 1762)
May 16 – Samuel Adams Sr., American brewer (d. 1748)
May 21 – André-François Deslandes, French philosopher (d. 1757)
May 24 – Daniel Finch, 8th Earl of Winchilsea, British politician (d. 1769)
May 27 – Andreas Jakob von Dietrichstein, Archbishop of Salzburg (d. 1753)
May 28 – Maximilian of Hesse-Kassel, German prince (d. 1753)
May 29 – Louis de Gramont, 6th Duke of Gramont, French general (d. 1745)
June 1 – Henri François, comte de Ségur, French general (d. 1751)
June 2 – Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, British politician, bibliophile, collector and patron of the arts (d. 1741)
June 6 – Algernon Coote, 6th Earl of Mountrath, Irish politician (d. 1744)
June 7 – Antoine Louis Rouillé, French noble (d. 1761)
June 12 – Sir Richard Grosvenor, 4th Baronet, British politician; (d. 1732)
June 19 – Montague Blundell, 1st Viscount Blundell, Irish Viscount (d. 1756)
June 23 – George Hay, 8th Earl of Kinnoull, British diplomat (d. 1758)
June 24 – Giovanni Casini, Portrait painter and sculptor (d. 1748)
June 26
- Edward Holyoke, American academic administrator, 9th president of Harvard (d. 1769)
- James Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Derwentwater, English noble (d. 1716)
July 6 – Johann Friedrich Karl von Ostein, Roman Catholic archbishop (d. 1763)
July 9 – Alexis Piron, French writer (d. 1773)
July 14 – Antoine Gaubil, French missionary (d. 1759)
July 15 – Mary Montagu, Duchess of Montagu (d. 1751)
July 16 – Samuel Molyneux, Irish politician (d. 1728)
July 17 – Christian, Landgrave of Hesse-Wanfried-Rheinfels (d. 1755)
July 21 – John Quincy, American soldier and politician (d. 1767)
July 22 – Szymon Czechowicz, Polish artist (d. 1775)
July 24 – Prince William, Duke of Gloucester, son of Queen Anne (d. 1700)
July 26 – Maria Anna Josepha Althann, Spanish noble (d. 1755)
August 1 – Pedro de Calatayud, writer (d. 1773)
August 3 – Ladislas Ignace de Bercheny, Marshal of France (d. 1778)
August 4 – James Cotter the Younger, Leader of the Catholics of Cork (d. 1720)
August 7 – Henric Benzelius, Swedish archbishop (d. 1758)
August 8 – Wenzel Lorenz Reiner, Czech painter (d. 1743)
August 19 – Samuel Richardson, English writer and printer (d. 1761)
August 21 – Josep Prades i Gallent, Organist and composer (d. 1757)
September 1
- Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer, Czech architect (d. 1751)
- Philipp Segesser, Swiss missionary (d. 1762)
September 4
- Hugh Bethell, British Member of Parliament (d. 1747)
- Thomas Lawrence, American mayor (d. 1754)
- Anna Sophie Schack, Danish noblewoman (d. 1760)
September 13 – Johan Fredrik Peringskiöld, Swedish translator (d. 1725)
September 17 – Ferdinand Charles, comte d'Aspremont-Lynden, army general (d. 1772)
September 18 – Gabriel Malagrida, Italian missionary (d. 1761)
September 21 – Jan Klemens Branicki, Polish noble (d. 1771)
September 22 – Catharina Backer, painter from the Northern Netherlands (d. 1766)
September 23 – Antonio Denzio, Italian opera singer (d. 1763)
September 24 – Johann Adam Steinmetz, German pastor (d. 1762)
September 26 – Nijō Yoshitada, Japanese noble (d. 1737)
September 27 – Edward Stanley, 11th Earl of Derby, English noble and politician (d. 1776)
September 29 – Henry Perrot, British Member of Parliament (d. 1740)
September 30 – Jacques Aubert, French composer and violinist (d. 1753)
October 10 – Francesco Maria Pratilli, Italian priest, antiquarian, famed for skilled forgeries (d. 1763)
October 15 – Nicolas-Ignace de Beaubois, French missionary (d. 1770)
October 22
- King John V of Portugal, Portuguese king (d. 1750)
- Matthew Skinner, English serjeant-at-law, judge and politician (d. 1749)
October 29 – Tokugawa Yoshimichi, daimyo (d. 1713)
October 31 – Mildmay Fane, British politician (d. 1715)
November 2
- Michael Cox, Anglican archbishop in Ireland (d. 1779)
- Charles-François Panard, French chansonnier and poet (d. 1765)
- Joan Paul Schaghen, Dutch governor (d. 1746)
November 3
- Jan Josef Ignác Brentner, Czech composer (d. 1742)
- John Crowley, British Member of Parliament (d. 1728)
November 4 – Luís Carlos Inácio Xavier de Meneses, 1st Marquis of Louriçal, Portuguese nobleman and statesman (d. 1742)
November 6
- Reynolds Calthorpe, politician (d. 1714)
- Christoph Schütz, German theologian (d. 1750)
November 8 – Henry XXXV, Prince of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen (d. 1758)
November 17 – Jean François Foppens, Flemish historian (d. 1761)
November 21 – Jacques I, Prince of Monaco, Prince consort of Monaco (d. 1751)
November 29 – Johann Theodor Eller, German chemist and physician (d. 1760)
November 30
- Lars Gathenhielm, Swedish privateer (d. 1718)
- Joseph Wamps, French painter (d. 1744)
December 1 – Hieronymus Albrecht Hass, harpsichord maker (d. 1752)
December 4 – Gottfried Lengnich, historian and politician (d. 1774)
December 8 – Albert Wolfgang of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, Titular margrave of Brandenburg, imperial general (d. 1734)
December 11 – Ignatius van der Beken, Flemish painter (d. 1774)
December 14 – Agostino Veracini, Italian painter (d. 1762)
December 21 – Arthur Ingram, 6th Viscount of Irvine, British peer and politician (d. 1736)
December 23 – Joseph Bodin de Boismortier, French composer (d. 1755)
December 24 – Frans van Mieris the Younger, Dutch painter (d. 1763)
December 27 – Jacob August Franckenstein, Encyclopedia editor, professor (d. 1733)

Deaths

date unknown

Phillip Calvert, Colonial governor of Maryland (b. c. 1626)
Mariam Dadiani, Queen Dowager of Kartli (b. 1599/1609)
The Great 5th Dalai Lama of Tibet (b. 1617)

1680

January 2
- John Jolliffe, English politician and businessman (b. 1613)
- Trunajaya, Maduran prince and rebel leader, murdered (b. 1649)
January 18 – John Hervey, English courtier and politician (b. 1616)
January 20 – Ann, Lady Fanshawe, English memoirist (b. 1625)
January 23 – Capel Luckyn, English Member of Parliament (b. 1622)
February – Ralph Davenant, English rector and founder of Davenant Foundation School
February 11 – Elisabeth of the Palatinate, German princess, philosopher and Calvinist (b. 1618)
February 17
- Denzil Holles, 1st Baron Holles, English statesman and writer (b. 1599)
- Frans Post, Dutch painter (b. 1612)
- Jan Swammerdam, Dutch scientist (b. 1637)
February 22 – Catherine Monvoisin, French fortune teller and poisoner (b. c. 1640)
February 27 – Philippe Balthazar de Gand, French noble (b. 1616)
March 14 – René Le Bossu, French critic (b. 1631)
March 17
- William Brereton, 3rd Baron Brereton, English politician (b. 1631)
- François de La Rochefoucauld, French writer (b. 1613)^[295]
March 23 – Nicolas Fouquet, French statesman (b. 1615)
April 1 – David Denicke, German jurist and hymnwriter (b. 1603)
April 3 – Chhatrapati Shivaji Bhosale, founder of the Maratha Empire (b. 1630)
April 19 – Marie Hedwig of Hesse-Darmstadt, Duchess consort of Saxe-Meiningen (1671–1680) (b. 1647)
April 25
- Louise of Anhalt-Dessau, Duchess suo jure of Oława and Wołów (1672–1680) (b. 1631)
- Simon Paulli, Danish physician (b. 1603)
April 29 – Nicolas Cotoner, Spanish 61st Grandmaster of the Knights Hospitaller (b. 1608)
May 29 – Abraham Megerle, Austrian composer and organist (b. 1607)
May 31 – Joachim Neander, German Calvinist clergyman (b. 1650)
June 4
- Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels, administrator of the archbishopric of Magdeburg (b. 1614)
- Tokugawa Ietsuna, Japanese Tokugawa shōgun (b. 1641)
June 18 – Samuel Butler, English poet (b. 1612)
June 10
- Johan Göransson Gyllenstierna, Swedish statesman (b. 1635)
- Louis Moréri, French encyclopedist (b. 1643)

July 26
- John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, English poet (b. 1647)
- Sir Hugh Smith, 1st Baronet, English Member of Parliament (b. 1632)
July 30 – Thomas Butler, 6th Earl of Ossory (b. 1634)
August 19 – John Eudes, French missionary (b. 1601)
August 20 – William Bedloe, English informer (b. 1650)
August 22 – John George II, Elector of Saxony (b. 1613)
August 24
- Ferdinand Bol, Dutch painter, etcher and draftsman (b. 1616)
- Thomas Blood, thief of the English Crown Jewels (b. 1618)
August 25 – Symeon of Polotsk, Belarusian churchman and poet (b. 1629)
August 27 – Joan Cererols, Catalan musician and Benedictine monk (b. 1618)
August 28 – Charles I Louis, Elector Palatine (b. 1617)
September 1 – Anna Sophia I, Abbess of Quedlinburg, Dutch abbess (b. 1619)
September 2 – Per Brahe the Younger, Swedish soldier and statesman (b. 1602)
September 3
- Anna Elisabeth of Anhalt-Bernburg, duchess consort of Württemberg-Bernstadt (b. 1647)
- Paul Ragueneau, French Jesuit missionary (b. 1608)
September 9 – Henry Marten, English regicide (b. 1602)
September 10 – Baldassare Ferri, Italian castrato (b. 1610)
September 11
- Roger Crab, English Puritan political writer (b. 1621)
- Emperor Go-Mizunoo of Japan (b. 1596)
September 26 – John Dury, Scottish-born Calvinist minister (b. 1596)
September 30 – Johann Grueber, Austrian Jesuit missionary and astronomer (b. 1623)
October 4 – Pierre-Paul Riquet, French engineer and canal builder (b. 1609)
October 13 – Lelio Colista, Italian composer and lutenist (b. 1629)
October 16 – Raimondo Montecuccoli, Italian general (b. 1609)
October 17 – Charles FitzCharles, 1st Earl of Plymouth, illegitimate son of King Charles II (b. 1657)
October 30 – Antoinette Bourignon, Flemish mystic (b. 1616)
November 9 – Hungerford Dunch, English politician (b. 1639)
November 27 or November 28 – Athanasius Kircher, German Jesuit scholar (b. 1602)
November 28
- Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Italian sculptor (b. 1598)^[296]
- Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi, Italian architect and painter (b. 1606)^[297]
November 30 – Peter Lely, Dutch painter (b. 1618)
December 4 – Thomas Bartholin, Danish physician, mathematician, and theologian (b. 1616)
December 8 – Henry Pierrepont, 1st Marquess of Dorchester, English politician (b. 1606)
December 10 – Marco Uccellini, Italian composer and violinist (b. 1603 or 1610)
December 20 – Princess Elisabeth Sophie of Saxe-Altenburg, German princess (b. 1619)
December 29
- Arent Berntsen, Norwegian statistician (b. 1610)
- William Howard, 1st Viscount Stafford of England (b. 1614)
November 30 – Christopher Sandius, Dutch Arian writer (b. 1644)

Zhou Youde, Chinese official
Marie Meurdrac, French chemist and alchemist (b. 1610)

1681

January 5 – Pietro Vidoni, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1610)
January 7 – Magdalena Sibylla of Saxe-Weissenfels, German noblewoman (b. 1648)
January 27 – Edmund Bowyer, English politician (b. 1613)
January 28 – Richard Allestree, English royalist churchman (b. c. 1621)
March 6 – Michel de Marolles, French translator and churchman (b. 1600)
March 12 – Frans van Mieris the Elder, Dutch painter (b. 1635)
March 17 – Zheng Jing, Chinese pirate (b. 1642)
April 3 – Lucas Franchoys the Younger, Flemish painter (b. 1616)
April 8 – Gabriel Druillettes, French missionary (b. 1610)
April 10 – Philip I, Count of Schaumburg-Lippe (1640–1681) (b. 1601)
April 11 – Frederick Louis, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken (b. 1619)
April 12 – Pietro Paolini, Italian painter (b. 1603)
April 22
- Jeffrey Daniel, English politician (b. 1626)
- Marie Fouquet, French medical writer and philanthropist (b. 1590)
April 23 – Justus Sustermans, Flemish painter (b. 1597)
April 26 – Charles Howard, 3rd Earl of Nottingham, son of Charles Howard (b. 1610)
May 4 – Johannes Musaeus, German theologian (b. 1613)
May 6 – Catherine Trianon, French fortune teller and poisoner (b. 1627)
May 6 – Sir Philip Wodehouse, 3rd Baronet, English baronet (b. 1608)
May 24 – Nicodemus Tessin the Elder, Swedish architect (b. 1615)
May 25 – Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Spanish dramatist and poet (b. 1600)
June 9 – William Lilly, English astrologer (b. 1602)
June 12 – Sigmund von Birken, German Baroque poet (b. 1626)
July 1 – Oliver Plunkett, Irish saint (b. 1629)
July 8 – Georg Neumark, German poet and composer of hymns (b. 1621)
July 10 – Christian Lupus, Flemish historian (b. 1612)
July 20 – Louis Günther II, Count of Schwarzburg-Ebeleben (1642–1681) (b. 1621)
July 25 – Urian Oakes, English-born president of Harvard University (b. 1631)
July 31 – Sir Baynham Throckmorton, 3rd Baronet, English Member of Parliament (b. 1629)
August 12 – Sir George Wharton, 1st Baronet, English baronet (b. 1617)
August 17 – Patriarch Nikon of Moscow, Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church (b. 1605)
August 18 – Thomas Allen, English politician (b. 1603)
August 22 – Philippe Delano, Dutch Plymouth Colony settler (b. 1602)
August 27 – William Christoph, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg (b. 1625)
September 11
- Dirk van Bleiswijk, Dutch politician, writer (b. 1639)
- Godfrey Henschen, Jesuit hagiographer (b. 1601)
September 16 – Jahanara Begum, Mughal princess (b. 1614)
September 27 – Jacob Masen, German poet (b. 1606)
October 7 – Nicolaas Heinsius the Elder, Dutch scholar (b. 1620)
October 15 – Johann Ludwig Schönleben, Carniolan priest (b. 1618)
November 2 – Eleanor of Anhalt-Zerbst, duchess consort of Schleswig-Holstein-Sønderburg-Norburg (b. 1608)
November 13 – Arnold Braemes, English politician (b. 1602)
November 17 – Tito Livio Burattini, Italian inventor, Egyptologist and instrument-maker (b. 1617)
November 23 – Hedwig of the Palatinate-Sulzbach, Archduchess of Austria, Duchess of Saxe-Lauenburg (b. 1650)
November 26
- Jean Garnier, French historian (b. 1612)
- Giovanni Paolo Oliva, Italian Jesuit (b. 1600)
December 4 – Maurice, Duke of Saxe-Zeitz (b. 1619)
December 5 – Agatha Christine of Hanau-Lichtenberg, German noblewoman (b. 1632)
December 8 – Gerard ter Borch, Dutch painter (b. 1617)
December 12 – Hermann Conring, German philosopher (b. 1606)
December 15 – James Compton, 3rd Earl of Northampton, English politician (b. 1622)
December 16 – François Vavasseur, French writer (b. 1605)
December 18 – Olimpia Aldobrandini, Italian Aldobrandini family member, heiress (b. 1623)
December 21 – Lacuzon, Franche-Comté military leader (b. 1607)
December 22 – Richard Alleine, English Puritan clergyman (b. 1611)
c. December – John Pordage, Anglican vicar (b. 1607)
date unknown – Fatima Soltan, sovereign queen of the Qasim Khanate

1682

January 1 – Jacob Kettler, German noble (b. 1610)
January 3 – Olaus Verelius, scholar of Old Norse and Scandinavian studies (b. 1618)
February 2 – Jean Le Pautre, French designer and engraver (b. 1618)
February 10 – Sir William Hickman, 2nd Baronet, Member of the House of Commons of England (b. 1629)
February 15
- Claude de la Colombière, French Jesuit priest and saint (b. 1641)
- Gu Yanwu, Chinese philologist and geographer (b. 1613)
February 18 – Pierre Dupuis, French painter (b. 1610)
February 19 – Frederick of Hesse-Darmstadt, German Catholic cardinal (b. 1616)
February 25
- Robert Packer, English politician (b. 1614)
- Alessandro Stradella, Italian composer (b. 1639)
March 13 – Dorothea Augusta of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorp, German duchess (b. 1602)
March 14 – Jacob Isaakszoon van Ruisdael, Dutch painter (b. c. 1628)
March 24 – Frederick, Duke of Württemberg-Neuenstadt, German duke (b. 1615)
March 31 – John Frescheville, 1st Baron Frescheville, English politician (b. 1607)
April 1 – Franz Egon of Fürstenberg, German politician and Archbishop of Strasbourg (b. 1625)
April 3 – Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Spanish painter (b. 1618)
April 6 – Johann von Hoverbeck, Prussian diplomat (b. 1606)
April 8 – François Perrochel, French cleric (b. 1602)
April 27 – Heo Mok, Korean politician, poet and scholar (b. 1595)
May 7 – Tsar Feodor III of Russia (b. 1661)
May 28 – Henri, Duke of Verneuil, French bishop (b. 1601)
July 12 – Jean Picard, French astronomer (b. 1620)
July 19 – Yohannes I, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. c. 1640)
August 12 – Jean-Louis Raduit de Souches, German Imperial field marshal (b. 1608)
August 24
- John Maitland, 1st Duke of Lauderdale (b. 1616)
- Marie Charlotte de la Trémoille, French noble (b. 1632)
August 26 – William Wirich, Count of Daun-Falkenstein, German nobleman (b. 1613)
September 8 – Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz, Spanish writer (b. 1606)
September 16 – Yamazaki Ansai, Japanese philosopher (b. 1619)
October 19 – Sir Thomas Browne, English author, physician and philosopher (b. 1605)
October 20 – António das Chagas, Portuguese Franciscan friar and ascetical writer (b. 1631)
November 2 – Francis Browne, 3rd Viscount Montagu in the Peerage of England (b. 1610)
November 4 – Dirck Rembrantsz van Nierop, Dutch astronomer and cartographer (b. 1610)
November 14 – Rijcklof van Goens, Dutch colonial governor (b. 1619)
November 23 – Claude Lorrain, Lorraine-born landscape painter (b. c. 1600)
November 28 – Valentine Greatrakes, Irish faith healer (b. 1628)
November 29 – Prince Rupert of the Rhine, German soldier, Royalist commander in the English Civil War (b. 1619)
December 18
- Heneage Finch, 1st Earl of Nottingham, English politician (b. 1621)
- Guðríður Símonardóttir, Icelandic woman victim of the Turkish Abductions (b. 1598)

1683

January 2 – Sir Thomas Twisden, 1st Baronet, English politician (b. 1602)
January 14 – Edward Thurland, English politician (b. 1607)
January 15 – Philip Warwick, English writer and politician (b. 1609)
January 21 – Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury, British politician (b. 1621)
January 28 – Julian Maunoir, French Jesuit priest (b. 1606)
January 30 – Cesare Facchinetti, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1608)
February 18 – Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem, Dutch painter (b. 1620)
February 27 – Engel de Ruyter, Dutch admiral (b. 1649)
February 28 – Johann Paul Freiherr von Hocher, Austrian chancellor (b. 1616)
March 6 – Guarino Guarini, Italian architect of the Piedmontese Baroque (b. 1624)
March 8 – Robert Paston, 1st Earl of Yarmouth, English politician, earl (b. 1631)
March 11 – Giovanni Bernardo Carboni, Italian painter (b. 1614)
March 14 – Robert Montagu, 3rd Earl of Manchester, English politician (b. 1634)
March 16 – Henrik Bjelke, Norwegian military officer (b. 1615)
March 19 – Thomas Killigrew, English dramatist (b. 1612)
April 28 – Daniel Casper von Lohenstein, German writer, diplomat and lawyer (b. 1635)
March 29 – Yaoya Oshichi, young Japanese girl burned at the stake for arson (b. 1667)
May 2 – Stjepan Gradić, Croatian philosopher and scientist (b. 1613)
May 15 – John Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Weimar (b. 1627)
June 4 – Wolfgang George Frederick von Pfalz-Neuburg, German bishop (b. 1659)
July 7 – Elisabeth Henriette of Hesse-Kassel, daughter of William VI (b. 1661)
July 10 – François Eudes de Mézeray, French historian (b. 1610)
July 13 – Arthur Capell, 1st Earl of Essex, English statesman (b. 1631)
July 21 – William Russell, Lord Russell, English politician (b. 1639)
July 26 – Jean Le Vacher, French Lazarist missionary and French consul (b. 1619)
July 30 – Maria Theresa of Spain, French queen, married to Louis XIV of France (b. 1638)
August 4 – Turhan Hatice Sultan, Ottoman Valide Sultan, married to Ibrahim and the mother of Sultan Mehmed IV (b. 1627)
August 18 – Charles Hart, English actor (b. 1625)
August 22 – Sir John Hobart, 3rd Baronet, English landowner and politician (b. 1628)
August 24 – John Owen, English non-conformist theologian (b. 1616)
September 6 – Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French minister of finance (b. 1619)
September 12 – King Afonso VI of Portugal (b. 1643)
September 17 – John Campanius, Swedish Lutheran minister in New Sweden (b. 1601)
October 1 – John Hull, colonial American merchant and politician (b. 1624)^[298]
October 8 – Philipp Friedrich Böddecker, German organist and composer (b. 1607)
October 9 – Francesco Caetani, 8th Duke of Sermoneta, Governor of the Duchy of Milan (b. 1613)
October 25 – William Scroggs, lord chief justice of England (b. c. 1623)
November 10
- John Collins, English mathematician (b. 1625)
- Robert Morison, Scottish botanist and taxonomist (b. 1620)
November 16 – Margareta Huitfeldt, Norwegian-Swedish noble (b. 1608)
November 29 – John Wright, British politician (b. 1615)
December 7
- John Oldham, English poet (smallpox) (b. 1653)
- Algernon Sidney, English politician (b. 1623)
December 13 – Anna Sophia II, Abbess of Quedlinburg, Abbesses of Quedlinburg (b. 1638)
December 15 – Izaak Walton, English writer (b. 1593)
December 16 – John Knight, Member of the Parliament of England (b. 1613)
December 25 – Samuel Clarke, English writer and priest (b. 1599)
December 27 – Maria Francisca of Savoy, Queen consort of Portugal (b. 1646)

Birgitta Durell, Swedish industrialist (b. 1616)
Roger Williams, English theologian and colonist (b. 1603)

1684

January 4 – Louis-Isaac Lemaistre de Sacy, French Bible translator (b. 1613)
January 11 – Cornelis Speelman, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (b. 1628)^[299]
January 13 – Henry Howard, 6th Duke of Norfolk, English noble (b. 1628)^[300]
January 15 – Alvise Contarini, Doge of Venice (b. 1601)^[301]
January 21 – Queen Myeongseong, Korean royal consort (b. 1642)
January 29 – Angélique de Saint-Jean Arnauld d'Andilly, French Jansenist nun (b. 1624)^[302]
February 6 – Ernst Bogislaw von Croÿ, German Lutheran administrator (b. 1620)^[303]
February 11 – Sir Thomas Peyton, 2nd Baronet, English politician (b. 1613)^[304]
February 25 – Dorothy Spencer, Countess of Sunderland, English noblewoman (b. 1617)^[305]
March 24
- Pieter de Hooch, Dutch painter (b. 1629)^[306]
- Elizabeth Ridgeway, English poisoner (burned at the stake)^[307]
April 3 – Marc Restout, French painter (b. 1616)
April 5
- Lord William Brouncker, English mathematician (b. 1602)
- Karl Eusebius, Prince of Liechtenstein (b. 1611)^[308]
April 6 – Domenico Maria Canuti, Italian Baroque painter (b. 1625)^[309]
April 12 – Nicola Amati, Cremonese violin-maker (b. 1596)^[310]
April 13 – Nicolás Antonio, Spanish bibliographer (b. 1617)^[311]
April 24 – Johann Olearius, German hymnwriter (b. 1611)
May 4 – John Nevison, English highwayman (hanged) (b. 1639)
May 10 – Anne Carr, Countess of Bedford, English noble (b. 1615)^[312]
May 12 – Edme Mariotte, French physicist and priest (b. c. 1620)^[313]
June 24 – Sir Edward Dering, 2nd Baronet, Irish politician (b. 1625)^[314]
July 6 – Peter Gunning, English royalist churchman (b. 1614)^[315]
July 12 – John Rogers, American President of Harvard University (b. 1630)^[316]
July 26 – Elena Cornaro Piscopia, Venetian philosopher of noble descent (b. 1646)^[317]
August 8 – George Booth, 1st Baron Delamer, English royalist politician, soldier and landowner (b. 1622)^[318]
August 20 – Maria d'Este, Italian noble (b. 1644)^[319]
September 9 – Jakob Thomasius, German philosopher (b. 1622)^[320]
October 1 – Pierre Corneille, French playwright (b. 1606)^[321]
October 11 – James Tuchet, 3rd Earl of Castlehaven, Anglo-Irish noble and soldier (b. c. 1617)^[322]
October 12 – William Croone, English physician, an original Fellow of the Royal Society (b. 1633)^[323]
October 15
- Géraud de Cordemoy, French historian, philosopher and lawyer (b. 1626)^[324]
- Julius Siegmund, Duke of Württemberg-Juliusburg, German noble (b. 1653)^[325]
October 24 – Duchess Marie Elisabeth of Saxony (b. 1610)^[326]
October 25 – Dud Dudley, English ironmaster (b. 1600?)^[327]
November 20
- Bartolomé Garcia de Escañuela, Spanish Catholic prelate and bishop (b. 1627)^[328]
- Cornelius Van Steenwyk, American politician (b. 1626)^[329]
November 23 – William Cavendish, 3rd Earl of Devonshire, English noble (b. 1617)^[330]
December 10 – Sir Thomas Sclater, 1st Baronet, English politician (b. 1615)^[331]
December 22 – Francis Hawley, 1st Baron Hawley, English politician (b. 1608)^[332]
date unknown – Alexandra Mavrokordatou, Greek intellectual, salonist (b. 1605)^[333]

1685

January 2 – Harbottle Grimston, English politician (b. 1603)
January 13 – Daniello Bartoli, Italian Jesuit priest (b. 1608)
February 6 – King Charles II of England, Scotland and Ireland (b. 1630)^[334]
February 11 – David Teniers III, Flemish painter (b. 1638)
February 20 – Sophie Amalie of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Danish queen (b. 1628)
February 24
- Archduchess Isabella Clara of Austria, Austrian archduchess (b. 1629)
- Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Carlisle, English politician and military leader (b. 1629)
March 6 – Sir Thomas Spencer, 3rd Baronet, English Member of Parliament (b. 1639)
March 7 – Giles Hungerford, English politician (b. 1614)
March 9 – Carpoforo Tencalla, Swiss-Italian Baroque painter of canvases and frescoes (b. 1623)
March 11 – Klara Izabella Pacowa, politically active Polish court official (b. 1631)
March 17 – Sir Richard Bulkeley, 1st Baronet, Irish politician (b. 1634)
March 19 – René-François de Sluse, Walloon mathematician (b. 1622)
March 22 – Emperor Go-Sai of Japan (b. 1638)
March 25 – Nicolas Robert, French painter (b. 1614)
March 30 – Friedrich Casimir, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg (1641–1680) and Hanau-Münzenberg (1642–1680) (b. 1623)
March 31 – Juan Hidalgo de Polanco, Spanish composer (b. 1614)
April – Adriaen van Ostade, Dutch painter and engraver (b. 1610)
April 5 – Samuel Sandys, English politician (b. 1615)
April 14 – Thomas Otway, English dramatist (b. 1652)
May 11 – Margaret Wilson (Scottish martyr) (b. c. 1667)
May 25 – Sir John Marsham, 1st Baronet, English politician (b. 1602)
May 26 – Karl II, Elector Palatine (b. 1651)
June 10 – Henry Goring, English politician (b. 1646)
June 16 – Anne Killigrew, English poet and painter (b. 1660)
June 26 – John Evelyn, English politician (b. 1601)
June 30 – Archibald Campbell, 9th Earl of Argyll, Scottish peer (b. 1629)
July 6 – Nicholas Pedley, English politician (b. 1615)
July 15 – James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, illegitimate son of Charles II of England (beheaded) (b. 1649)
July 28 – Henry Bennet, 1st Earl of Arlington, English statesman (b. 1618)
August 8 – Giovanni Battista Salvi da Sassoferrato (b. 1609)
September 1 – Leoline Jenkins, Welsh lawyer and diplomat (b. 1625)
September 5 – Francis North, 1st Baron Guilford (b. 1637)
September 9 – Richard Ingoldsby, English politician (b. 1617)
September 17 – Arthur Spry, English politician (b. 1612)
September 24 – Gustaf Otto Stenbock, Swedish soldier and politician (b. 1614)
October 1 – Kanō Yasunobu, Japanese painter of the Kanō school of painting, during the Edo period (b. 1614)
October 3
- Juan Carreño de Miranda, Spanish artist (b. 1614)
- Johann Heinrich Roos, Dutch painter (b. 1631)
October 12
- Christoph Ignaz Abele, Austrian jurist (b. 1628)
- Gerard Brandt, Dutch historian (b. 1626)
October 23 – Yamaga Sokō, Japanese philosopher (b. 1622)
October 29 – Anne Wharton, English poet (b. 1659)
October 30 – Michel Le Tellier, French statesman (b. 1603)
November 4 – Girolamo Grimaldi-Cavalleroni, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1597)
November 7 – Sir William Maynard, 1st Baronet, English politician (b. 1641)
November 9 – Louis Armand I, Prince of Conti (b. 1661)
November 18 – George Courthope, English politician (b. 1616)
November 28
- Maffeo Barberini, Prince of Palestrina (b. 1631)
- Nicolas de Neufville de Villeroy, Marshal of France (b. 1598)
December 12 – John Pell, English mathematician (b. 1610)
date unknown – Nalan Xingde, Chinese poet who became a scholar and officer in the Imperial Bodyguard (b. 1655)

1686

January 10 – Ana de los Angeles Monteagudo, Peruvian nun (b. 1602)^[335]
January 17 – Carlo Dolci, Italian painter (b. 1616)^[336]
January 19 – Simon Digby, 4th Baron Digby, English politician (b. 1657)^[337]
January 21 – François Blondel, French architect (b. 1618)^[338]
January 22 – Duchess Johanna Magdalena of Saxe-Altenburg (b. 1656)^[339]
January 31 – Jean Mairet, French dramatist (b. 1604)^[340]
February 6 (dubious) – Dorothy White, English Quaker and writer (b. 1630)^[341]
February 10 – William Dugdale, English antiquarian (b. 1605)^[342]
February 21 – Sibylle Christine of Anhalt-Dessau, Princess of Anhalt-Dessau (b. 1603)^[343]
March 17 – Elisabeth Marie, Duchess of Oels, Regent of Oels (b. 1625)
March 22 – John Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (b. 1654)^[344]^: 146
March 26 – Charlotte, Landgravine of Hesse-Kassel, German noble (b. 1627)
April 6 – Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Anglesey, English royalist statesman (b. 1614)^[345]
April 19 – Antonio de Solís y Ribadeneyra, Spanish writer (b. 1610)^[346]
April 23 – Henrietta Wentworth, 6th Baroness Wentworth of England (b. 1660)^[347]
April 26 – Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie, Swedish statesman and military man (b. 1622)^[348]
May 11 – Otto von Guericke, German physicist and inventor of the Magdeburg Hemispheres (b. 1602)^[349]
May 29 – Ove Juul, Governor-General of Norway (b. 1615)^[350]
May 31 – Nicholas Barré, French Minim friar, priest and founder (b. 1621)^[351]
June 23 – William Coventry, English statesman (b. c.1628)^[352]
July 10 – John Fell, English churchman (b. 1625)^[353]
July 16 – John Pearson, English theologian (b. 1612)^[354]
August 3 – Anna Margaret of Hesse-Homburg, Duchess consort of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Wiesenburg (b. 1629)^[344]^: 73
August 13 – Louis Maimbourg, French-born historian (b. 1610)^[355]
September 19 – John George I, Duke of Saxe-Eisenach, German duke (b. 1634)^[356]
October 26 – John Egerton, 2nd Earl of Bridgewater, English politician (b. 1623)^[357]
November 1 – William Duckett, English politician (b. 1624)^[358]
November 25 – Nicolas Steno, Danish pioneer in anatomy and geology, bishop (b. 1638)^[359]
November 28 – Nicolas Letourneux, French preacher, ascetical writer (b. 1640)^[360]
December 6 – Eleonora Gonzaga, Queen consort of Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1630)^[361]
December 11 – Louis, Grand Condé, French general (b. 1621)^[362]
December 12 – Charles de Noyelle, French Jesuit Superior General (b. 1615)^[363]
December 24 – Philip Packer, British barrister and architect (b. 1618)
date unknown but before May 8 – Joseph Bridger, Colonial Governor of Virginia (b. 1631)^[364]

1687

January 11 – Jean Claude, French Protestant clergyman (b. 1619)
January 28 – Johannes Hevelius, Polish astronomer (b. 1611)
January 31 – Francisco Varo, Spanish linguist (b. 1627)
February 15 – Marie Elisabeth of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, German noblewoman (b. 1638)
February 16 – Charles Cotton, English poet and writer (b. 1630)
February 22 – Jean Hamon, French doctor and writer (b. 1618)
February 26 – Magdalena Elisabeth of Hanau, German noblewoman (b. 1611)
March 19 – René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, French explorer (b. 1643)
March 20 – Margravine Magdalene Sibylle of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, Electress of Saxony by marriage (b. 1612)
March 20 – Marie Eleonore of Dietrichstein, Countess of Kaunitz and Oppersdorf (b. 1623)
March 22 – Jean-Baptiste Lully, French composer, established opera in France (b. 1632)
March 28 – Constantijn Huygens, Dutch poet and composer (b. 1596)
April 12 – Ambrose Dixon, Virginia Colony pioneer (b. c. 1628)
April 16 – George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, English statesman (b. 1628)
April 20 – Richard Olmsted, Connecticut settler (b. 1612)
April 23 – Ferdinand Albert I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (b. 1636)
April 25 – Johannes Caioni, Transylvanian Franciscan friar (b. 1629)
July 19 – Laura Martinozzi, Duchess consort of Modena (b. 1639)
August 9 – Niccolò Albergati-Ludovisi, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1608)
September 1 – Henry More, English philosopher (b. 1614)
September 12 – John Alden, English-born Mayflower crewman (b. c. 1599)
September 28 – Francis Turretin, Swiss theologian (b. 1623)
October 13 – Geminiano Montanari, Italian astronomer (b. 1633)
October 19 – Giulio Bartolocci, Italian Biblical scholar (b. 1613)
October 21 – Edmund Waller, English poet (b. 1606)
October 24 – Countess Palatine Maria Eufrosyne of Zweibrücken, Swedish princess (b. 1625)
November 4
- Jacques Leneuf de La Poterie, Norman nobleman, seigneur and fur trader in New France (b. 1604)
- Johanna Walpurgis of Leiningen-Westerburg, German noblewoman, by marriage Duchess of Saxe-Weissenfels (b. 1647)
November 6 – Charles de Grimaldi-Régusse, French aristocrat (b. 1612)
November 14 – Nell Gwyn, English actress, a mistress of Charles II of England (b. 1650)
November 18 – Anton Janson, Dutch typefounder and printer (b. 1620)
December 10 – Horatio Townshend, 1st Viscount Townshend, English viscount (b. 1630)
December 16 – Sir William Petty, English philosopher, scientist and economist (b. 1623)^[365]
December 21 – Elizabeth Tilley, English pilgrim settler in North America who was one of the original passengers of the Mayflower (b. 1607)
date unknown – Josias Fendall, Colonial governor of Maryland (b. c. 1628)

1688

January 7 – James Howard, 3rd Earl of Suffolk^[366]
January 27 – Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang, concubine of Qing Dynasty ruler Hong Taiji (b. 1613)^[367]
January 28 – Ferdinand Verbiest, Flemish Jesuit missionary in China (b. 1623)^[368]
February 2 – Abraham Duquesne, French naval officer (b. 1610)^[369]
February 13 – David Christiani, German mathematician and philosopher (b. 1610)^[370]
February 17 – James Renwick, Scottish minister and Covenanter martyr (b. 1662)^[371]
February 28 – Johann Sigismund Elsholtz, German naturalist and physician (b. 1623)^[372]
March 1 – Sir Thomas Slingsby, 2nd Baronet of England (b. 1636)^[373]
March 3 – Marie de Lorraine, Duchess of Guise (b. 1615)^[374]
March 8 – Honoré Fabri, French mathematician (b. 1608)^[375]
March 20 – Maria of Orange-Nassau, Dutch princess (b. 1642)^[376]
March 23 – Marcantonio Giustinian, 107th Doge of Venice (b. 1619)^[377]
March 26 – Winston Churchill, English noble, soldier (b. 1620)^[378]
March 27 – Frederick, Burgrave of Dohna, Dutch officer, and governor of Orange (b. 1621)^[379]
April 28 – Frederick, Duke of Mecklenburg-Grabow, German nobleman, titular Duke of Mecklenburg (b. 1638)^[380]
April 29 – Friedrich Wilhelm, Elector of Brandenburg (b. 1620)^[116]
May 14 – Antoine Furetière, French writer (b. 1619)^[381]
May 22 – Johannes Andreas Quenstedt, German theologian (b. 1617)^[382]
June 1 – Peder Hansen Resen, Danish historian (b. 1625)^[383]
June 3 – Maximilian Henry of Bavaria, Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1621)^[384]
June 5 – Constantine Phaulkon, Greek adventurer (b. 1647)^[120]
June 26
- John Claypole, English politician (b. 1625)^[385]
- Ralph Cudworth, English philosopher (b. 1617)^[386]
June 28 – Richard Winwood, English politician (b. 1609)^[387]
June 29 – Ippolito Lante Montefeltro della Rovere, Italian nobleman and Duke of Bomarzo (b. 1618)^[388]
July 11 – King Narai of Thailand (b. 1639)^[117]^: 453
July 21 – James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde, Irish statesman (b. 1610)^[389]
August 25 – Henry Morgan, Welsh privateer and Governor of Jamaica (b. c. 1635)^[390]
August 31 – John Bunyan, English writer (b. 1628)^[391]
September 2 – Robert Viner, Lord Mayor of London (b. 1631)^[392]
September 9 – Claude Mellan, French painter and engraver (b. 1598)^[393]
September 13 – Sir John Bright, 1st Baronet, English politician (b. 1619)^[394]
September 20 – Queen Jangnyeol, Korean royal consort (b. 1624)
November 26 – Jacques Goulet, early pioneer in New France (now Québec) (b. 1615)^[395]
October 4
- Philips Koninck, Dutch painter (b. 1619)^[396]^[397]
- Roger Pepys, English lawyer and politician (b. 1617)^[398]
October 6 – Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle, English statesman (b. 1653)^[399]
October 9 – Claude Perrault, French architect (b. 1613)^[400]
October 14 – Joachim von Sandrart, German Baroque art-historian and painter (b. 1606)^[401]
October 23 – Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange, French philologist (b. 1610)^[402]
November 26 – Philippe Quinault, French dramatist (b. 1635)^[403]
November 29 – Bohuslav Balbín, Czech writer and Jesuit (b. 1621)^[404]
December 4 – Sir Edward Seymour, 3rd Baronet, Member of Parliament (b. 1610)^[405]
December 8 – Thomas Flatman, British artist (b. 1635)^[406]
December 15 – Gaspar Fagel, Dutch statesman (b. 1634)^[407]
December 15 – Louis Victor de Rochechouart de Mortemart, French military man, brother of Madame de Montespan (b. 1636)^[408]

1689

January 6
- Cristoforo Ivanovich, Venetian historian and librettist of Serb origin (b. 1628)
- Bishop Seth Ward, Bishop of Salisbury, mathematician and astronomer (b. 1617)
January 9 – Sir Hugh Cholmeley, 4th Baronet, English politician (b. 1632)
January 16 – Gilbert Holles, 3rd Earl of Clare, English politician (b. 1633)
January 18
- Ernest Günther I, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (b. 1609)
- Humphrey Lloyd, British bishop (b. 1610)
January 24 – Henry Waldegrave, 1st Baron Waldegrave, English peer and Jacobite supporter (b. 1661)
January 27
- Robert Aske, merchant & haberdasher in the City of London (b. 1619)
- Sir Henry Beaumont, 2nd Baronet, English politician (b. 1638)
- Thomas Colepeper, 2nd Baron Colepeper, English noble and colonial governor of Virginia (b. 1635)
January 28 – Bernardino Corniani, Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Pula (b. 1626)
January 29 – Maria van Cortlandt van Rensselaer, Dutch director of Rensselaerswyck (Albany, New York) (b. 1645)
January 31 – Manuel de Herrera, Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Durango (b. 1635)
February 1 – Sir John Borlase, 2nd Baronet, English politician (b. 1642)
February 4 – Moshe ben Yonatan Galante, Ottoman rabbi (b. 1621)
February 5 – William Coddington Jr., Rhode Island colonial governor (b. 1651)
February 6 – Metcalfe Robinson, English politician (b. 1629)
February 8 – Sir John Gell, 2nd Baronet, English politician (b. 1613)
February 12 – Marie Louise d'Orléans, Queen of Spain as the wife of King Charles II (b. 1662)

February 13 – Carlo Pio di Savoia, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1622)

February 18 – Alexander Farnese, Prince of Parma, Spanish politician and military personnel (b. 1635)
February 19 – Khushal Khattak, Afghan poet (b. 1613)
February 21 – Isaac Vossius, Dutch classical scholar (b. 1618)
February 22 – Willem Ogier, Flemish playwright (b. 1618)
February 24 – Elsa Elisabeth Brahe, Swedish countess and duchess (b. 1632)
February 28 – Thomas Benedict, American settler (b. 1617)

March 7 – Franz Johann von Vogt von Altensumerau und Prasberg, Bishop of Constance (b. 1611)
March 8 – Alexander Parker, British minister (b. 1628)
March 9 – François Adhémar de Monteil, French priest, Bishop of Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux (b. 1603)
March 10 – Philip Louis, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Wiesenburg (b. 1620)
March 11
- Kim Ik-hun, Korean General and philosopher, soldier, politician (b. 1619)
- Sambhaji, High Protector of the Maratha Empire (b. 1657)
March 14 – Anthony Coucheron, Norwegian engineer (b. 1650)
March 15 – Yolo, Qing dynasty prince (b. 1625)
March 18 – John Dixwell, regicide (b. 1607)
March 24
- Thomas Ballard, American politician (b. 1630)
- Michiel ten Hove, Grand Pensionary of Holland (b. 1640)
March 26 – Gabriel Milan, Governor of the Danish West Indies (b. 1631)
March 29 – Sir John Hotham, 2nd Baronet, Member of the House of Commons of England (b. 1632)
March 30 – Kazimierz Łyszczyński, Polish philosopher (b. 1634)
March 31 – Tommaso Caracciolo, Bishop of Gerace (b. 1640)
April 4 – Archduchess Maria Anna Josepha of Austria, youngest surviving daughter of Ferdinand III (b. 1654)
April 12 – John Hunting, first ruling elder of the church of Dedham, Massachusetts (b. 1602)
April 14 – Lorenzo Onofrio Colonna, Italian noble (b. 1637)
April 16 – Aphra Behn, British playwright, poet and spy (b. 1640)
April 18 – George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys, Welsh judge, aka the Hanging Judge (b. 1645)
April 19 – Christina, Queen of Sweden, ruled from 1632 until abdication in 1654 (b. 1626)
April 22 – Thomas Proby, English politician (b. 1632)
May 11 – Charles Goodall, English poet (b. 1671)
May 12 – Sir John Reresby, 2nd Baronet, English politician and diarist (b. 1634)
May 15 – Jean Paul Médaille, French Jesuit missionary (b. 1618)
May 20 – Estevão Brioso de Figueiredo, Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Funchal of Olinda (b. 1630)
May 23 – Charles Erskine, Earl of Mar, Scottish noble (b. 1650)
May 25 – Charles Errard, French painter (b. 1606)
June 4 – René Gaultier de Varennes, New France governor (b. 1635)
June 7 – Alphonse de Berghes, Roman Catholic archbishop (b. 1624)
June 8 – Decio Azzolino, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1623)
June 9 – François Bonnemer, French painter and engraver (b. 1638)
June 10 – Christophe Veyrier, sculptor (b. 1637)
June 13 – William Annand, Minister of the Church of Scotland and the Church of England (b. 1633)
June 14 – Conyers Darcy, 1st Earl of Holderness, English noble (b. 1598)
June 17
- Jan Baptist de Crépu, Flemish painter and army officer (b. 1631)
- Marcin Zamoyski, Polish noble (b. 1637)
June 20
- Willem Coucheron, Dutch general in the Dano-Norwegian army (b. 1600)
- Richard Sherlock, English Anglican priest (b. 1612)
June 21 – Thomas Blanchet, French painter (b. 1614)
June 25 – William Thomas, Welsh Anglican bishop (b. 1613)
June 27 – Richard Waldron, colonial settler, acting President of the Province of New Hampshire (b. 1615)
June 28 – Thomas Mainwaring, English politician (b. 1623)
July 1 – Anne Crawford-Lindsay, Scottish nobility (b. 1631)
July 2 – Edward Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham (b. 1620)
July 7 – Princess Louise of Savoy, Hereditary Princess of Baden-Baden (b. 1627)
July 8
- Menahem Mendel Auerbach, Austrian banker and rabbi (b. 1620)
- Edward Wooster, English Connecticut pioneer (b. 1622)
July 19 – Song Si-yeol, Korean philosopher (b. 1607)
July 23 – Frederick Wilhelm von Pfalz-Neuburg, German noble (b. 1665)
July 27 – John Graham, 1st Viscount Dundee, Scottish general (b. 1648)
August 6 – Princess Dorothea Sophie of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, Electress of Brandenburg (b. 1636)
August 9 – Dionisio Lazzari, Italian sculptor and architect (b. 1617)
August 12 – Pope Innocent XI, pope of the Catholic Church (b. 1611)
August 13 – Count Maximilian I, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, Count of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (b. 1636)
August 15 – John Gregory, Connecticut settler (b. 1612)
August 17
- William Boynton, English politician (b. 1641)
- Thomas Street, astronomer (b. 1621)
August 20 – Antonio Marinari, Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Ostia-Velletri, Titular Bishop of Thagaste (b. 1605)
August 21 – William Cleland, Scottish poet and soldier (b. c. 1661)
August 28
- Claude-Jean Allouez, French Jesuit missionary and explorer of North America (b. 1622)
- Alexander Coosemans, Flemish still life painter (b. 1627)
August 29 – Curwen Rawlinson, English politician (b. 1641)
August 30 – John Lake, English bishop (b. 1624)
September 6 – Torii Tadanori, Daimyo who ruled the Takatō Domain in Shinano Province (b. 1646)
September 9 – Jane Lane, Lady Fisher, English Royalist (b. 1626)
September 10 – John Belasyse, 1st Baron Belasyse, English politician and noble (b. 1614)
September 13 – Ciro Ferri, Italian painter, engraver, sculptor and architect (b. 1634)
September 15
- Balthasar Cellarius, German theologian (b. 1614)
- Timoléon Cheminais de Montaigu, French theologian (b. 1652)
September 18 – Sir Richard Head, 1st Baronet, English politician (b. 1600)
September 26 – August, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck (b. 1652)
September 30 – Julius Francis, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg, Bohemian noble (b. 1641)
October 1 – Alexander Voet the Elder, Flemish engraver (b. 1608)
October 4 – Quirinus Kuhlmann, German Baroque poet and mystic (b. 1651)
October 11 – Fyodor Shaklovity, Russian diplomat (b. 1640)
October 13 – George Ent, English scientist and physician; (b. 1604)
October 14 – Adolph John I, Count Palatine of Kleeburg, Swedish prince (b. 1629)
October 15 – Sir Edward Dering, 3rd Baronet, English politician (b. 1650)
October 24 – Stephan Farffler, German inventor (b. 1633)
October 25 – Joseph Maynard, English politician (b. 1639)
October 30 – Pier Antonio Capobianco, Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Lacedonia (b. 1619)
November 9 – Enea Silvio Piccolomini, imperial general (b. 1651)
November 12 – Justus de Verwer, Dutch painter and illustrator (b. 1625)
November 13
- Matteo Borboni, Italian painter (b. 1610)
- Philipp von Zesen, German poet (b. 1619)
November 16 – Cornelis Mahu, Flemish painter (b. 1613)
November 18 – Jacob van der Ulft, painter from the Northern Netherlands (b. 1621)
November 19 – Elizabeth Cavendish, Countess of Devonshire, English noblewoman; (b. 1619)
November 20 – Samuel Peterson, American city founder (b. 1639)
November 24 – Carey Dillon, 5th Earl of Roscommon, Irish nobleman and professional soldier (b. 1627)
November 26 – Marquard Gude, German archaeologist (b. 1635)
December 2 – George Speke, English politician (b. 1623)
December 6 – Pjetër Bogdani, Albanian priest and writer (b. c. 1630)
December 12 – Louis Ferdinand Elle the Elder, French painter (b. 1612)
December 15 – Anne Neville, abbess of Pontoise (b. 1605)
December 16
- Cornelis Geelvinck, Dutch mayor (b. 1621)
- Thomas Wyndham, English Member of Parliament (b. 1640)
December 25 – Oliver Montagu, English Member of Parliament (b. 1655)
December 27 – Gervase Bryan, English clergyman (b. 1622)
December 28 – Pietro Montanini, Italian painter (b. 1626)
December 29
- Olfert Dapper, Dutch physician and writer (b. 1636)
- George Kinnaird, 1st Lord Kinnaird, Scottish aristocrat (b. 1622)
- Françoise Bertaut de Motteville, French writer (b. 1621)
- Thomas Sydenham, English physician (b. 1624)
December 31
- Felipe Fernandez de Pardo, Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Manila (b. 1611)
- Gilbert de Choiseul Duplessis Praslin, Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1613)
- Anders Sinclair, Scottish soldier who joined Swedish service during the Thirty Years' War (b. 1614)

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