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- January – Colley Cibber's play Love's Last Shift is first performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in London.[1]
- March 5 – William Penn marries his second wife, Hannah Callowhill.[2]
- September – The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London, stages The Female Wits, an anti-feminist satire targeting Mary Pix, Delarivier Manley and Catherine Trotter, the three significant women dramatists of the era. The play is a hit, and runs for three nights straight (unusual in the repertory system of the day).[3]
- November 21 – John Vanbrugh's first play, the comedy The Relapse, or Virtue in Danger, a sequel to Love's Last Shift, is first performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, with Cibber in the cast.[4]
- unknown date
- January 3 – Mary Mollineux, English Quaker poet (born c.1651)
- March 14 – Jean Domat, French jurist (born 1625)[14]
- March 18 – Bonaventura Baron, Irish theologian, philosopher and writer in Latin (born 1610)
- April 17 – Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, French author (born 1626)[15]
- April 27 – Simon Foucher, French polemic philosopher (born 1644)
- May 10 – Jean de La Bruyère, French essayist (born 1645)[16]
- June 9 – Antoine Varillas, French historian (born 1626)[17]
- August 9 – Wacław Potocki, Polish nobleman (Szlachta), moralist, Baroque poet and writer (born 1621)
- September 8 – Henry Birkhead, English academic, lawyer, Latin poet and founder of the Oxford Chair of Poetry (born 1617)
- November 26 – Gregório de Matos, Brazilian Baroque poet (born 1636)
- December 31 – Samuel Annesley, English Puritan minister noted for his sermons (born c.1620)[18]
- Unknown dates
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John A Newton ‘ Samuel Annesley 1620-1696)’ Proceedings of the Wesley Historical Society v.XLV 1985-6 pp 29-45 p.37