1670s

The 1670s decade ran from January 1, 1670, to December 31, 1679.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	16th century 17th century 18th century
Decades:	1650s 1660s 1670s 1680s 1690s
Years:	1670 1671 1672 1673 1674 1675 1676 1677 1678 1679
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Events

1670

January–June[]

• April 29 – Pope Clement X succeeds Pope Clement IX, as the 239th pope.^[1]
• May 2 – The Hudson's Bay Company is founded in England, to operate in Canada.
• June 1 – At Dover, England, Charles II of England and Louis XIV of France sign the Secret Treaty of Dover, ending hostilities between their kingdoms. Louis will give Charles 200,000 pounds annually. In return Charles will relax the laws against Catholics, gradually re-Catholicize England, support French policy against the Dutch Republic (leading England into the Third Anglo-Dutch War), and convert to Catholicism himself.
• June 15 – The first stone of Fort Ricasoli is laid down in Malta.^[2]

July–December[]

• July 18 (July 8, O.S.) – Treaty of Madrid (1670): Spain recognises Jamaica and the Cayman Islands as English possessions.
• August – Spanish frigates attack Charleston, South Carolina.
• September 1–5 – William Penn and William Mead are tried in London, after a Quaker sermon.
• November 24 – Louis XIV of France authorises work to commence on the construction of Les Invalides, a veterans' hospital in Paris, France.
• December 15 – Welsh privateer in English service, Henry Morgan, recaptures Santa Catalina Island, Colombia.
• December 27 – Henry Morgan captures Fort San Lorenzo, on Panama's Caribbean coast.
• December 31 – The expedition of John Narborough leaves Corral Bay having surveyed the coast and lost four hostages to the Spanish.^[3]

Date unknown[]

• Stenka Razin begins the rebellion of Cossacks in the Ukraine.
• Niani, capital of the Mali Empire, is sacked by the Bambara people of the emerging Segou Empire.
• The first French settlers arrive on the Petite Côte, of modern-day Senegal.

1671

January–June[]

• April – Battle of Saraighat: Ahom general Lachit Borphukan defeats the Mughal forces on the outskirts of present day Guwahati, of then sovereign Assam.
• April 2 – In Rome, Pope Clement X canonizes Rose of Lima, making her the first Catholic saint of the Americas.
• May 9 – Thomas Blood, disguised as a clergyman, attempts to steal the Crown Jewels of the United Kingdom from the Tower of London. He is immediately caught, because he is too drunk to run with the loot. He is later condemned to death, and then mysteriously pardoned and exiled by King Charles II.
• June 22 – The Ottoman Empire declares war on Poland.

July–December[]

• December – The first Seventh Day Baptist church in America is founded at Newport, Rhode Island.
• December 30 – The Académie royale d'architecture is founded by Louis XIV of France in Paris, France (the world's first school of architecture).

Undated[]

• The first Jewish families settle in Berlin, moving from Vienna at the invitation of Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg.

1672

January–June[]

• March – The Synod of Jerusalem brings together bishops and representatives from the whole of Eastern Orthodox Christendom, to discuss Orthodox dogma against the challenge of Protestantism.
• March 15 – Charles II of England issues the Royal Declaration of Indulgence, suspending execution of Penal Laws against Protestant nonconformists and Roman Catholics in his realms;^[4] this will be withdrawn the following year under pressure from the Parliament of England.
• March 17 – Third Anglo-Dutch War: The Kingdom of England declares war on the Dutch Republic.^[4]
• April 8 – France declares war on the Dutch Republic, invading the country on April 29.
• May 2 – John Maitland becomes Duke of Lauderdale and Earl of March.
• June 1 – Münster and Cologne begin their invasion of the Dutch Republic; hence 1672 becomes known as het rampjaar ("the disaster year") in the Netherlands.
• June 7 – Third Anglo-Dutch War – Battle of Solebay: An indecisive sea battle results, between the Dutch Republic, and the joined forces of England and France.^[5]
• June 12 – French forces under king Louis XIV cross the Rhine into the Netherlands. The city of Utrecht is occupied by the French Army.

July–December[]

• July 4 – William III of Orange is appointed Stadtholder of Holland and Zeeland.
• August 20 – Johan de Witt, Grand Pensionary of Holland and his brother Cornelis de Witt are killed by a mob in The Hague.
• September – Raimondo Montecuccoli and the Great Elector assemble at Halberstadt, to attack the French and the bishops of Münster and Cologne in their back. Bernard von Galen slowly withdraws from the city of Groningen to the south.
• October – Spain begins construction on the masonry fort that will become Castillo de San Marcos, designed to protect St. Augustine, Florida.
• October 18 – The Treaty of Buchach between the Ottoman Empire and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth is signed.

Undated[]

• Richard Hoare becomes a partner in the London goldsmith's business which, as private banking house C. Hoare & Co., will survive through to the 21st century.^[6]
• Foundation of the Chorina Comedy, the first theater in Russia.

1673

January–June[]

• January 22 – Impostor Mary Carleton is hanged at Newgate Prison in London, for multiple thefts and returning from penal transportation.
• February 10 – Molière's comédie-ballet The Imaginary Invalid premiers in Paris. During the fourth performance, on February 17, the playwright, playing the title rôle, collapses on stage, dying soon after.
• March 29 – Test Act: Roman Catholics and others who refuse to receive the sacrament of the Church of England cannot vote, hold public office, preach, teach, attend the universities or assemble for meetings in England. On June 12, the king's Catholic brother, James, Duke of York, is forced to resign the office of Lord High Admiral because of the Act.^[7]
• April 27? – Jean-Baptiste Lully's first opera, Cadmus et Hermione, is premièred in France.
• May 17 – In America, trader Louis Joliet and Jesuit missionary-explorer Jacques Marquette begin exploring the Mississippi River and the Great Lakes.
• June 7 – First Battle of Schooneveld: In a sea battle of the Third Anglo-Dutch War, fought off the Netherlands coast, the Dutch Republic fleet (commanded by Michiel de Ruyter) defeats the allied Anglo-French fleet, commanded by Prince Rupert of the Rhine.
• June 14 – The Dutch fleet again defeats the jointed Anglo-French fleet in the Second Battle of Schooneveld.
• June 17 – French explorers Father Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet reach the headwaters of the Mississippi River, and descend to Arkansas.

July–December[]

• July 6 – French troops conquer Maastricht.
• July 11 – The Netherlands and Denmark sign a defense treaty.
• July 24 – Edmund Halley enters The Queen's College, Oxford, as an undergraduate.
• August 8 – In the American colonies, a Dutch battle fleet of 23 ships demands the surrender of New York.
• August 9 – Dutch forces under Admiral Cornelis Evertsen de Jonge recapture New York from the English; the city is known as New Orange until regained by the English in 1674.
• August 21 – Battle of Texel (Kijkduin): The Dutch fleet under Michiel de Ruyter defeats the English and French fleet. This prevents England's Blackheath Army from landing in Zeeland.
• August 30 – Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor, Spain, Netherlands and the Lutherans form an anti-French covenant.
• September 12 – William, Prince of Orange occupies Naarden, Netherlands.
• October 3 – Kintai Bridge was officially completed in Iwakuni, Suō Province (currently Yamaguchi Prefecture), Japan.^{[citation needed]}
• November 9 – King Charles II of England removes Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury, from his position as Lord Chancellor.
• November 11 – Battle of Khotyn: Polish and Lithuanian military units, under the command of soon-to-be-king Jan Sobieski, defeat the Turkish army. In this battle, rockets of Kazimierz Siemienowicz are successfully used.
• November 13 – Dutch troops commanded by Raimondo Montecuccoli and William, Prince of Orange conquer Bonn.
• November 14 – Christopher Wren is knighted in England.
• November 23 – James, Duke of York, marries Mary of Modena;^[8] they meet for the first time immediately before the ceremony in Dover.

Date unknown[]

• France begins its expedition against Ceylon.
• Chelsea Physic Garden, the second oldest botanic garden in England, is founded by the Society of Apothecaries, for the study of medicinal and other plants.
• The Mitsui family's trading and banking house is founded in Japan.
• The stalactic grotto of Antiparos (Aegean Sea) is discovered.
• Archpriest Petrovich Avvakum writes his Zhitie (Life), as the first Russian autobiography.

1674

January–June[]

• February 19 – England and the Netherlands sign the Treaty of Westminster, ending the Third Anglo-Dutch War. Its provisions come into effect gradually – see November 10.
• March 14 – Third Anglo-Dutch War: Battle of Ronas Voe – The English Royal Navy captures the Dutch East India Company ship Wapen van Rotterdam in Shetland.
• May 21 – John III Sobieski is elected by the nobility, as King of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (to 1696).
• June 6 – Shivaji is crowned as Chatrapati Shivaji, at Raigad Fort in India.

July–December[]

• August 11 – The French army under Louis II de Bourbon, Prince de Condé defeats the Dutch–Spanish–Austrian army under William III of Orange in the Battle of Seneffe.
• November 10 – As provided in the Treaty of Westminster of February 19, the Dutch Republic cedes its colony of New Netherland to England. This includes the colonial capital, New Orange, which is returned to its English name of New York. The colonies of Surinam, Essequibo and Berbice remain in Dutch hands.
• December 4 – Father Jacques Marquette founds a mission on the shores of Lake Michigan, to minister to the Illinois Confederation (which will in time grow into the city of Chicago).

Date unknown[]

• The British East India Company arranges a trading treaty with the Maratha Empire, that has recently been founded by Shivaji Bhonsle in central India.
• The first Dutch West India Company is dissolved.
• Two skeletons of children are discovered at the White Tower (Tower of London), and believed at this time to be the remains of the Princes in the Tower.^[9]

1675

January–June[]

• January 5 – Franco-Dutch War – Battle of Turckheim: The French defeat Austria and Brandenburg.
• January 29 – John Sassamon, an English-educated Native American Christian, dies at Assawampsett Pond, an event which will trigger a year-long war between the English American colonists of New England, and the Algonquian Native American tribes.
• March 30 – The guild organisation Maîtresses couturières is founded in Paris.
• April – English merchant Anthony de la Roché, blown off course after rounding Cape Horn eastabout, makes the first discovery of land south of the Antarctic Convergence, landing on South Georgia and (probably) Gough Island.^[10][11][12]
• June 8 – John Sassamon's alleged murderers are executed at Plymouth.
• June 11 – Armed Wampanoags are reported traveling around Swansea, Massachusetts.
• June 14–25 – Colonial authorities of Rhode Island, Plymouth, and Massachusetts attempt a negotiation with Metacomet (King Philip), leader of the Wampanoags, and seek guarantees of fidelity from the Nipmuck and Narragansett tribes.
• June 24 – King Philip's War breaks out, as the Wampanoags attack Swansea.
• June 26 – Massachusetts troops march to Swansea, to join the Plymouth troops.
• June 26–29 – Wampanoags assault Rehoboth and Taunton; the natives elude colonial troops and leave Mount Hope for Pocasset, Massachusetts. The Mohegan tribe travels to Boston, in order to side with the English colonists against the Wampanoags.
• June 28 – Brandenburg defeats the Swedes in the Battle of Fehrbellin.

July–December[]

• July 15 – The Narragansett tribe signs a peace treaty with Connecticut.
• July 16–24 – An envoy from Massachusetts attempts to negotiate with the Nipmuck tribe.
• August 2–4 – The Nipmucks attack Massachusetts troops and besiege Brookfield, Massachusetts.
• August 10 – King Charles II of England places the foundation stone of the Royal Greenwich Observatory in London; construction begins.
• August 13 – The Massachusetts Council orders that Christian Indians are to be confined to designated praying towns.
• September 1–2 – While Wampanoags and Nipmucks attack Deerfield, Massachusetts, Captain Samuel Moseley commands Massachusetts troops in an attack on the Pennacook tribe.
• September 12 – English colonists abandon Deerfield, Squakeag, and Brookfield due to a coalition of Indian attacks.
• September 15 – The Bremen-Verden Campaign of the Northern Wars begins, with the invasion of Amt Wildeshausen by the Münster army, and their advance on Verden via the city of Bremen.
• September 18 – The Narragansetts sign a treaty with the English in Boston; meanwhile, Massachusetts troops are ambushed near Northampton, Massachusetts.
• September 20 – In England, a fire destroys most of the town of Northampton. According to a contemporary account, "the market place (which was a very goodly one), the stately church of Allhallows, 2 other parish churches and above three-fourth parts of the whole town was consumed and laid in ashes.".^[13]
• October 5 – The Pocomtuc tribe attacks and destroys Springfield, Massachusetts.
• October 13 – The Massachusetts Council convenes and agrees that all Christian Indians should be ordered to move to Deer Island.
• October 29 – Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz makes the first use of the long s (∫) as a symbol of the integral in calculus.
• November 2–12 – Commissioners of the Thirteen Colonies^{[dubious – discuss]} organize a united force to attack the Narragansett tribe.
• November 11
  • Guru Teg Bahadur, ninth of the Sikh gurus, is executed by Mughal rulers; he prefers execution, to defend the right of Hindus to practice their own religion. He is succeeded by Guru Gobind Singh as tenth Guru.
  • Gottfried Leibniz uses infinitesimal calculus on a function.
• December 11 – Antonio de Vea expedition enters San Rafael Lake in western Patagonia.^[14]
• December 19 – United colonial forces attack the Narragansetts at the Great Swamp Fight.
• December 24 – 1675–1676 Malta plague epidemic begins.

Date unknown[]

• Cassini discovers Saturn's Cassini Division.
• Antonie van Leeuwenhoek begins to use a microscope for observing human tissues and liquids.

1676

January–June[]

• January – Six months into King Philip's War, Metacomet (King Philip), leader of the Algonquian tribe known as the Wampanoag, travels westward to the Mohawk nation, seeking an alliance with the Mohawks against the English colonists of New England; his efforts in creating such an alliance are a failure.
• January 29 – Feodor III becomes Tsar of Russia.
• February 10 – After the Nipmuc tribe attacks Lancaster, Massachusetts, colonist Mary Rowlandson is taken captive, and lives with the Indians until May.
• February 14 – Metacomet and his Wampanoags attack Northampton, Massachusetts; meanwhile, the Massachusetts Council debates whether a wall should be erected around Boston.
• February 23 – While the Massachusetts Council debates how to handle the Christian Indians they had exiled to Deer Island on October 13, 1675, a coalition of Indians led by Metacomet attacks colonial settlements just 16 km (9.9 mi) outside of Boston.
• March 29 – Providence, Rhode Island is attacked and destroyed by Native Americans.
• May 2–3 – Mary Rowlandson is released from captivity, and returns to Boston.
• May 19 – Peskeomskut Massacre – Battle of Turner's Falls: Captain William Turner leads a raid at first light, on an encampment consisting mainly of women and children. An estimated 300-400 lives are taken in less than half an hour, first from gunshot directly into the sleeping tents, then by sword and by drowning as the victims try to flee. This incident happens on the west bank of the Connecticut River, just above the falls known as Turner's Falls in Gill, Massachusetts.
• May 26 – A fire destroys the town hall and 624 houses in Southwark, England.^[15]
• May 31 – The Massachusetts Council finally decides to move the Christian Indians from Deer Island to Cambridge, Massachusetts (approximate date).
• June – Bacon's Rebellion begins in the Virginia Colony. On July 30, Nathaniel Bacon and his followers issue the Declaration of the People of Virginia.
• June 1 – Battle of Öland: A combined fleet of the Dutch Republic and Denmark–Norway decisively defeats the Swedish Navy, which loses its flagship Kronan.
• June 12 – The Indian coalition attacks Hadley, Massachusetts, but are repelled by Connecticut troops.
• June 19 – Massachusetts issues a declaration of amnesty, to any Indian who surrenders.

July–December[]

• July 2 – Major John Talcott and his troops begin sweeping Connecticut and Rhode Island, capturing large numbers of Native Americans from Algonquian tribes and exporting them out of the Thirteen Colonies as slaves.
• July 4 – Captain Benjamin Church and his soldiers begin sweeping Plymouth Colony, for any remaining Wampanoag tribesmen.
• July 11 – The Wampanoags attack Taunton, Massachusetts, but are repelled by colonists.
• July 17 – In France, Madame de Brinvilliers is executed for poisoning her father and brothers. The case also scares King Louis XIV into starting a series of investigations about possible poisonings and witchcraft (later called the Affair of the Poisons).
• July 27 – Nearly 200 Nipmuc tribesmen surrender to the English colonists in Boston.
• July 30 – Virginia colonist Nathaniel Bacon and his makeshift army issue a Declaration of the People of Virginia, instigating Bacon's Rebellion against the rule of Governor William Berkeley.
• August 2 – Captain Benjamin Church captures Metacomet's wife and son.
• August 12 – King Philip (Metacomet), chief of the Wampanoags that had waged a war throughout southern New England that bore his name, is killed by an Indian named Alderman, a soldier led by Captain Benjamin Church.
• August 17 – Sweden gains a decisive victory over Denmark–Norway in the Battle of Halmstad (fought at Fyllebro).
• August 28 – Irish Donation of 1676 is shipped from Dublin to relieve Boston in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
• September 19
  • The Russo-Turkish War (1676–1681) begins, with Russo-Ukrainian troops forcing pro-Ottoman Hetman Ivan Samoylovych to surrender Chyhyryn.
  • Bacon's Rebellion: Jamestown is burned to the ground by the forces of Nathaniel Bacon.
• September 21 – Pope Innocent XI succeeds Pope Clement X, as the 240th pope.
• October 13 – Trunajaya defeats the Mataram Sultanate in the Battle of Gegodog.
• October 17 – The Treaty of Żurawno is signed, between the Ottoman (Turkish) Empire and Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
• November 16 – A prison is founded on Nantucket Island, in the English colony of Massachusetts.
• November 27 – A fire in Boston, Massachusetts, is accidentally set by a careless and sleepy apprentice, who drops a lighted candle, or leaves it too near some combustible substance; this is the largest fire known at this time in the district. The Rev. Increase Mather’s church, dwelling and a portion of his personal library are destroyed.^[16]
• December 4 – Scanian War: Sweden defeats the forces of Denmark in the Battle of Lund.
• December 7 – Ole Rømer makes the first quantitative measurements of the speed of light.

Date unknown[]

• Emperor Yohannes I of Ethiopia decrees that Muslims must live separately from Christians throughout his realm.
• Anton van Leeuwenhoek discovers microorganisms.
• An Åbo Lantdag (assembly) meets in Turku, Finland.
• The French East India Company founds its principal Indian base at Pondicherry, on the Coromandel Coast.

1677

January–June[]

• January 1 – Jean Racine's tragedy Phèdre is first performed, in Paris.
• January 21 – The first medical publication in America (a pamphlet on smallpox) is produced in Boston.
• February – The first arrest is made in the case that will develop into the "Affair of the Poisons" in France.
• March 17 – Franco-Dutch War: Siege of Valenciennes (1676–77) in the Spanish Netherlands ends with surrender of the town to the French.
• April 6 – Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor visits the University of Innsbruck.
• April 11 – Franco-Dutch War: Battle of Cassel – A French force under Philippe I, Duke of Orléans, defeats a combined Dutch-Spanish force under William of Orange in French Flanders.
• April 16 – The Statute of Frauds is passed into English law.
• May 29 – The Treaty of Middle Plantation establishes peace between the Virginia colonists and the local Indians.
• May 31 – Scanian War: Battle of Møn – Danish ships clash with a Swedish fleet under Niels Juel, between Fehmarn and Warnemünde; the Danish defeat the Swedish and capture a number of ships.
• June 25–26 – Scanian War: Siege of Malmö – Danish attackers fail to take the town from the Swedish.

July–December[]

• July 14 – Sweden defeats the Danes in the Battle of Landskrona.
• August – The French guild of the Maitresses bouquetieres is founded in Paris.
• October 29 – Michel le Tellier becomes Chancellor of France.
• November 4 – The future Mary II of England marries William of Orange.
• November 16 – French troops occupy Freiburg.

Date unknown[]

• The Second London Baptist Confession of Faith is written (published in 1689).
• Spinoza's Ethics (Ethica, ordine geometrico demonstrata) is published as part of his Opera Posthuma in Amsterdam.
• Elias Ashmole gifts the collection that begins the Ashmolean Museum to the University of Oxford in England.
• Charles II of England makes Henry Purcell his court musician.
• Jules Hardouin Mansart begins la place Vendôme in Paris (it is completed in 1698).
• Francis Aungier, 3rd Baron Aungier of Longford, is created 1st Earl of Longford in the Peerage of Ireland.
• The John Roan School is established in Greenwich, London.
• Belgian missionary Louis Hennepin observes and describes the Niagara Falls, thus bringing them to the attention of Europeans.
• Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz gives a complete solution to the tangent problem.^[17]
• Antonie van Leeuwenhoek observes spermatozoa under the microscope.
• The use of male impotence is ended as a factor in French divorce proceedings.
• Ice cream becomes popular in Paris.^[18]
• The population of Paris first exceeds 500,000.

1678

January–June[]

• January 27 – The first fire engine company (in what will become the United States) goes into service.
• February 18 – The first part of English nonconformist preacher John Bunyan's Christian allegory, The Pilgrim's Progress, is published in London.
• May 11 – French admiral Jean d'Estrees runs his whole fleet aground in Curaçao.
• June – French buccaneer Michel de Grammont leads 6 pirate ships and 700 men in a daring raid on Spanish-held Venezuela, reaching inland as far as Trujillo.
• June 25 – Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia becomes the first woman to be awarded a university degree, a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Padua.

July–December[]

• August–December – Kediri campaign: Mataram and Dutch East India Company forces defeat the Trunajaya rebellion in eastern Java.
• August 3 – Robert LaSalle builds the Le Griffon, the first known ship built on the Great Lakes.
• August 10 – The Treaties of Nijmegen end the Franco-Dutch War. The County of Burgundy is ceded to the Kingdom of France.
• August 14–15 – The Battle of Saint-Denis is fought after the peace was signed between France and the Dutch Republic in the Treaties of Nijmegen on 10 August.
• September 6 – Titus Oates begins to present allegations of the Popish Plot, a supposed Roman Catholic conspiracy to assassinate king Charles II of England. Oates applies the term Tory to those who disbelieve his allegations.
• October 17 – English magistrate Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey is found murdered in Primrose Hill, London. Titus Oates claims it as a proof of his allegations.
• December 3 – The Test Act provides that members of both the House of Lords and House of Commons of England must swear an anti-Catholic oath, before taking office.

Date unknown[]

• Rebellion breaks out in southern China.
• About 1,200 Irish families sail from Barbados, to Virginia and the Carolinas.
• In Ireland, the vacant Bishopric of Leighlin is given to the Bishop of Kildare, to form the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kildare and Leighlin.
• The first chrysanthemums are planted in Europe.

1679

January–June[]

• January 24 – King Charles II of England dissolves the "Cavalier Parliament", after nearly 18 years.^[19]
• March 6–May 27 – In England, the "Habeas Corpus Parliament" (or "First Exclusion Parliament") meets.^[19] It is dissolved on July 12, while in recess, by royal prerogative, to prevent it from passing a bill excluding the king's brother, the Catholic James, Duke of York, from the succession to the English throne, as part of the Exclusion Crisis.
• May 27 – The Parliament of England passes the Habeas Corpus Act, "for the better securing the liberty of the subject".^[19]
• June 1 – Battle of Drumclog: Scottish Covenanters defeat a small government force.
• June 4 – Armenia earthquake: A tremor with an estimated surface wave magnitude of 6.4 takes place, in the Yerevan region of the Persian Empire.
• June 22 – Battle of Bothwell Bridge, Scotland: Royal forces led by James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth and John Graham of Claverhouse subdue the Scottish Covenanters.

July–December[]

• August 7 – The brigantine Le Griffon, commissioned by René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, is towed to the southern end of the Niagara River, to become the first ship to sail the upper Great Lakes.
• September 2 – The 8.0 M_w Sanhe-Pinggu earthquake devastates Beijing and Hebei in China with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X ("Extreme").
• September 18 – New Hampshire becomes a county of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
• November 27 – A fire in Boston, Massachusetts, burns all of the warehouses, 80 houses, and all of the ships in the dockyards.

Date unknown[]

• The Tibet–Ladakh–Mughal War (1679–84) begins with the Tibetan invasion of Ladakh.
• French explorer Daniel Greysolon, Sieur du Lhut, explores the Saint Louis River; the city of Duluth, Minnesota, will take its name from him.
• Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb reimposes jizya.
• Malpas Tunnel on the Canal du Midi in Hérault, France, Europe's first navigable canal tunnel, is excavated by Pierre-Paul Riquet (165 metres (541 ft), concrete lined).^[20]

Births[]

1670

• January 24 – William Congreve, English playwright (d. 1729)^[21]
• February 25 – Maria Margarethe Kirch, German astronomer (d. 1720)
• February 28 – Benjamin Wadsworth, American president of Harvard University (d. 1737)
• May 8 – Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St Albans, English soldier (d. 1726)
• May 12 – King Frederick Augustus I of Poland (d. 1733)
• June 22 – Eva von Buttlar, German mystic sectarian (d. 1721)
• July 18 – Giovanni Bononcini, Italian composer (d. 1747)^[22]
• July 19 – Richard Leveridge, English bass player and composer (d. 1758)
• August 21 – James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick, French military commander (d. 1734)
• November 15 – Bernard Mandeville, Dutch-born economic philosopher (d. 1733)^[23]
• December 4 – John Aislabie, English politician, director of the South Sea Company (d. 1742)
• date unknown – Sultan Abdullah Khan Abdali, Persian Governor of Herat, Shah of Herat (d. 1721)

1671

• January 11 – François-Marie, 1st duc de Broglie, French military leader (d. 1745)
• February 26 – Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, English politician and philosopher (d. 1713)
• March 7 – Rob Roy MacGregor, Scottish folk hero (d. 1734)
• April 6 – Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, French poet (d. 1741)
• April 21 – John Law, Scottish economist (d. 1729)
• May 24 – Gian Gastone de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1737)
• June 8 – Tomaso Albinoni, Italian composer (d. 1751)
• June 11 – Colley Cibber, English poet (d. 1757)
• June 21 – Christian Detlev Reventlow, Danish diplomat and military leader, brother-in-law of king Frederick IV of Denmark, (d. 1738)
• July 9 – Margareta von Ascheberg, Swedish land owner, countess and acting regimental colonel (d. 1753)
• July 14 – Jacques d'Allonville, French astronomer and mathematician (d. 1732)
• October 1 – Guido Grandi, Italian mathematician (d. 1742)
• October 11 – King Frederick IV of Denmark (d. 1730)
• November 6 – Colley Cibber, English actor-manager (d. 1757)

1672

• January 4 – Hugh Boulter, Irish Archbishop of Armagh (d. 1742)
• January 18 – Antoine Houdar de la Motte, French writer (d. 1731)^[24]
• February 13 – Étienne François Geoffroy, French chemist (d. 1731)
• February 26 – Antoine Augustine Calmet, French theologian (d. 1757)
• May 1 – Joseph Addison, English politician and writer (d. 1719)^[25]
• June 9 – Emperor Peter I of Russia (d. 1725)^[26]
• June 11 – Francesco Antonio Bonporti, Italian priest and composer (d. 1749)
• July 13 – Nicolás Salzillo, Spanish artist (d. 1727)
• August 2 – Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Swiss scholar (d. 1733)
• September 8 – Nicolas de Grigny, French organist and composer (d. 1703)^[27]
• October 11 – Pylyp Orlyk, Ukrainian Zaporozhian Cossack starshina, diplomat (d. 1742)
• October 21 – Ludovico Antonio Muratori, Italian historian, scholar (d. 1750)
• October 27 – Maria Gustava Gyllenstierna, Swedish writer (d. 1737)^[28]
• date unknown – Ann Baynard, English natural philosopher (d. 1697)

1673

• January 31 – St. Louis Maria Grignion de Montfort, French missionary priest (d. 1716)
• April 27 – Claude Gillot, French artist (d. 1722)
• July 20 – John Dalrymple, 2nd Earl of Stair, Scottish soldier and diplomat (d. 1747)
• August 8 – John Ker, Scottish spy (d. 1726)
• August 10 – Johann Konrad Dippel, German alchemist (d. 1734)
• August 11 – Richard Mead, English physician (d. 1754)
• August 18 – Louise Élisabeth de Joybert, politically active Canadian governors' wife (d. 1740)
• October 26 – Dimitrie Cantemir, Moldavian linguist and scholar (d. 1723)
• December 30 – Ahmed III, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1736)

• Anne Bracegirdle, English actress
• Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington, Prime Minister of Great Britain (d. 1743)

1674

• January 12 – Alexis Simon Belle, French portrait painter (d. 1734)
• January 15 – Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, French writer (d. 1762)
• January 24 – Thomas Tanner, English bishop and antiquarian (d. 1735)
• March – Jethro Tull, English agriculturist (d. 1741)
• June 3 – Matthias Buchinger, German artist (d. 1740)
• July 12 – Abigail Williams, American accuser in the Salem witch trials (d. 1765)
• July 17 – Isaac Watts, English hymnist (d. 1748)
• August 2 – Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, regent of France (d. 1723)
• August 9 – František Maxmilián Kaňka, Czech architect (d. 1766)
• August 16 – Catharine Trotter Cockburn, English novelist, dramatist and philosopher (d. 1749)
• December 25 – Thomas Halyburton, Scottish theologian (d. 1712)
• date unknown – Jeremiah Clarke, English baroque composer (suicide 1707)

1675

• January 16 – Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, French writer (d. 1755)
• January 27 – Erik Benzelius the younger, Swedish priest (d. 1743)
• February 8 – Anna Moroni, Italian educator (b. 1613)
• February 21 – Franz Xaver Josef von Unertl, Bavarian politician (d. 1750)
• February 28 – Guillaume Delisle, French cartographer (d. 1726)
• March 31 – Pope Benedict XIV (d. 1758)
• May 29 – Humphry Ditton, English mathematician (d. 1715)
• June 1 – Francesco Scipione, marchese di Maffei, Italian archaeologist (d. 1755)
• July 5 – Mary Walcott, American accuser at the Salem witch trials
• July 12 – Evaristo Abaco, Italian composer (d. 1742)
• July 14 – Claude Alexandre de Bonneval, French soldier (d. 1747)
• September 2 – William Somervile, English poet (d. 1742)
• September 3 – Paul Dudley, Attorney-General of Massachusetts (d. 1751)
• September 27 – Dorothea Krag, Danish General Postmaster and noble (d. 1754)
• October 11 – Samuel Clarke, English philosopher (d. 1729)^[29]
• October 21 – Emperor Higashiyama of Japan (d. 1710)
• October 24 – Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham, English soldier and politician (d. 1749)
• date unknown
  • William Jones (mathematician), (d. 1749)
  • Tarabai, Indian queen regent of the Maratha Empire (d. 1761)
  • Cille Gad, Norwegian poet (d. 1711)

1676

• March 17 – Thomas Boston, Scottish church leader (d. 1732)
• March 27 – Francis II Rákóczi, Hungarian rebel against the Habsburgs (d. 1735)
• April 23 – King Frederick I of Sweden (d. 1751)
• May 26 – Maria Clara Eimmart, German astronomer, engraver and designer (d. 1707)
• May 28 – Jacopo Riccati, Italian mathematician (d. 1754)
• June 17 – Louise de Maisonblanche, illegitimate daughter of Louis XIV of France (d. 1718)
• June 21 – Anthony Collins, English philosopher (d. 1729)
• July 3 – Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, Prussian field marshal (d. 1747)
• July 14 – Caspar Abel, German theologian, historian, poet (d. 1763)
• August 26 – Robert Walpole, first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1745)^[30]
• September 13 – Élisabeth Charlotte d'Orléans, duchess and regent of Lorraine (d. 1744)
• September 18 – Eberhard Louis, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1733)
• October 8 – Benito Jerónimo Feijóo y Montenegro, Spanish scholar (d. 1764)
• October 19 – Rodrigo Anes de Sá Almeida e Meneses, 1st Marquis of Abrantes, Portuguese diplomat (d. 1733)
• November 8 – Louise Bénédicte de Bourbon, duchess of Maine, daughter in law of Louis XIV (d.1753)
• date unknown – Alexander Selkirk, Scottish sailor (d. 1721)

1677

• February 3 – Jan Santini Aichel, Czech architect (d. 1723)
• February 4 – Johann Ludwig Bach, German composer (d. 1731)
• February 8 – Jacques Cassini, French astronomer (d. 1756)
• May 4 – Françoise-Marie de Bourbon, youngest daughter of Louis XIV (d. 1749)
• August 27 – Otto Ferdinand von Abensperg und Traun, Austrian field marshal (d. 1748)
• September 17 – Stephen Hales, English physiologist, chemist, and inventor (d. 1761)
• October 20 – Stanisław Leszczyński, King of Poland (d. 1766)
• date unknown
  • William Dummer, acting Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (d. 1761)
  • Li Ching-Yuen, Chinese herbalist, martial artist and tactical advisor (d. 1933) (claimed)

1678

• May 3 – Amaro Pargo, Spanish corsair (d. 1747)
• March 4 – Antonio Vivaldi, Italian composer (d. 1741)
• March 7 – Filippo Juvara, Italian architect (d. 1736)
• April 14 – Abraham Darby I, one of the English fathers of the Industrial Revolution (d. 1717)
• May 16 – Andreas Silbermann, German organ builder (d. 1734)
• July 26 – Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1711)
• September 16 – Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, English statesman and philosopher (d. 1751)
• September 29 – Adrien-Maurice, 3rd duc de Noailles, French soldier (d. 1766)
• October 10 – John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll, Scottish soldier (d. 1743)
• October 16 – Anna Waser, Swiss painter (d. 1714)
• November 26 – Jean Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan, French geophysicist (d. 1771)
• December 8 – Horatio Walpole, 1st Baron Walpole of Wolterton, English diplomat (d. 1757)
• December 13 – Yongzheng Emperor of China (d. 1735)
• December 14 – Daniel Neal, English historian (d. 1743)
• December 30 – William Croft, English composer (d. 1727)
• date unknown
  • George Farquhar, Irish dramatist (d. 1707)
  • Maria Faxell, Swedish vicar's wife and war heroine (d. 1738)
  • Joachim Ludwig Schultheiss von Unfriedt, German architect (d. 1753)
  • Pierre Fauchard, French physician and author, considered The father of modern dentistry (d. 1761)
  • John Senex, British geographer (d. 1740)^[31]

1679

• January 24 – Christian Wolff, German philosopher (d. 1754)
• March 18 – Matthew Decker, English merchant and writer (d. 1749)
• March 29 – Benedict Calvert, 4th Baron Baltimore, colonial governor of Maryland (d. 1715)
• May 29 – Antonio Farnese, Duke of Parma (d. 1731)
• August 16 – Catharine Trotter Cockburn, English novelist, dramatist, philosopher (d. 1749)
• August 22 – Pierre Guérin de Tencin, French cardinal (d. 1758)
• October 13 – Princess Magdalena Augusta of Anhalt-Zerbst, Duchess of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (d. 1740)
• October 16 – Jan Dismas Zelenka, Bohemian composer (d. 1745)
• October 18 – Ann Putnam, Jr., American accuser in the Salem witch trials (d. 1716)
• November 11 – Firmin Abauzit, French scientist (d. 1767)
• date unknown
  • James Erskine, Lord Grange, Scottish judge (d. 1754)
  • Francesco Zerafa, Maltese architect (d. 1758)

Deaths[]

1670

• January 3 – George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle, English soldier (b. 1608)
• January 6
  • Sir Gilbert Gerard, 1st Baronet of Harrow on the Hill, English politician (b. 1587)
  • Charles of Sezze, Italian Franciscan friar and saint (b. 1613)
• January 21
  • Claude Duval, French-born highwayman^[32]
  • Honorat de Bueil, seigneur de Racan, French aristocrat (b. 1589)
• January 25 – Nicholas Francis, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1609)
• February 9 – King Frederick III of Denmark (b. 1609)^[33]
• February 12 – Niklaus Dachselhofer, Swiss politician (b. 1595)
• February 17 – Elizabeth Barnard, granddaughter of William Shakespeare (b. 1608)^[34]
• March 1 – Giovanna Maria Bonomo, beatified Italian Catholic nun (b. 1606)
• March 2 – François-Henri Salomon de Virelade, French lawyer (b. 1620)
• March 10
  • Johann Glauber, German chemist (b. 1604)
  • Ludovicus a S. Carolo, French monk (b. 1608)
• March 15 – John Davenport, Connecticut pioneer (b. 1597)
• April – Ahom King Swargadeo Chakradhwaj Singha or Supangmung of Assam, India
• April 5 – Leonora Baroni, Italian singer (b. 1611)
• April 12 – George, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (b. 1582)
• April 23 – Loreto Vittori, Italian singer and composer (b. 1600)
• May 10 – Claude Vignon, French painter (b. 1593)
• May 21
  • Niccolò Zucchi, Italian astronomer and physicist (b. 1586)
  • Giovanni Andrea Sirani, Italian painter (b. 1610)
• May 19 – Ferdinando Ughelli, Italian Cistercian monk, church historian (b. 1595)^[35]
• May 23 – Ferdinando II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1610)
• May 31 – Josceline Percy, 11th Earl of Northumberland, English noble (b. 1644)
• June 12 – Hasanuddin of Gowa, 16th Ruler of The Sultanate of Gowa (b. 1631)
• June 25 – Lorens von der Linde, Swedish field marshal (b. 1610)
• June 27 – Thomas Bennet, English civil lawyer (b. 1592)
• June 28 – Hendrik Martenszoon Sorgh, Dutch painter (b. 1610)
• June 30
  • Princess Henrietta Anne Stuart of Scotland, England, and Ireland (b. 1644)
  • Frederick, Prince of Anhalt-Harzgerode (b. 1613)
• July 16 – Abraham Diepraam, Dutch painter (b. 1622)
• August 24 – William Neile, English mathematician and founder member of the Royal Society (b. 1637)
• September 11 – Jeanne Chezard de Matel, French mystic (b. 1596)
• September 16 – William Penn, English admiral and politician (b. 1621)
• September 26 – Abraham Teniers, Flemish painter (b. 1629)^[36]
• September 28 – Alexander Morus, Franco-Scottish Calvinist preacher (b. 1616)
• August 10 – Richard Ottley, English politician (b. 1626)
• October 3 – Sir Henry Yelverton, 2nd Baronet, English Member of Parliament (b. 1633)
• October 27 – Vavasor Powell, Welsh non-conformist leader (b. 1617)^[37]
• November 8 – Emmanuel, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen, German prince of the House of Ascania (b. 1631)
• November 15 – Comenius, Czech writer (b. 1592)^[38]
• November 21 – William VII, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (b. 1651)
• November 22 – Landgravine Sophie of Hesse-Kassel, Countess of Schaumburg-Lippe (b. 1615)
• December 4 – Emilie of Oldenburg-Delmenhorst, Regent of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt (1646–1662) (b. 1614)
• date unknown – Alena Arzamasskaia, Russian rebel leader (b. year unknown)

1671

• January 6 – Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh (b. 1643)
• January 24 – Philipp, Prince of Hohenzollern-Hechingen (b. 1616)
• January 25 – Henry X, Count of Reuss-Lobenstein, Rector of the University of Leipzig (b. 1621)
• February 18 – John Mennes, English Royal Navy admiral (b. 1599)
• February 22 – Adam Olearius, German scholar (b. 1599)
• February 19 – Tokugawa Yorinobu, Japanese nobleman (b. 1602)
• March 1
  • Marzio Ginetti, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1585)
  • Leopold Wilhelm, Margrave of Baden-Baden, Imperial Field Marshal (b. 1626)
• March 7 – Antonio de la Cerda, 7th Duke of Medinaceli, Grandee of Spain (b. 1607)
• March 15 – Axel Urup, Danish general (b. 1601)
• March 31 – Anne Hyde, wife of the future James II of England (b. 1637)
• April 20 – Daniel Hay du Chastelet de Chambon, French mathematician (b. 1596)
• April 21,– ,American housewife (b. (1651)
• April 23 – Theodorick Bland of Westover, American politician (b. 1629)
• April 30
  • Petar Zrinski, Croatian Ban (title) and nobleman (b. 1621)
  • Fran Krsto Frankopan, Croatian poet and nobleman (b. 1643)
• May 5 – Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester, English politician (b. 1602)
• May 8 – Sébastien Bourdon, French painter and engraver (b. 1616)
• May 12 – Pedro de Villagómez Vivanco, Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Lima, then Bishop of Arequipa (b. 1589)
• May 16 – Sir John Langham, 1st Baronet, English Member of Parliament (b. 1584)
• May 19 – John Scudamore, 1st Viscount Scudamore, English politician and Viscount (b. 1601)
• June 2
  • Edward Leigh, English writer (b. 1602)
  • Sophia Eleonore of Saxony, German duchess (b. 1609)
• June 9 – Sebastian von Rostock, German bishop (b. 1607)
• June 25 – Giovanni Battista Riccioli, Italian astronomer (b. 1598)
• July 4 – Jan Cossiers, Flemish painter (b. 1600)
• July 14 – Méric Casaubon, English classical scholar (b. 1599)
• July 30 – Louis Joseph, Duke of Guise (b. 1650)
• August 3 – Antonio Barberini, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1607)
• August 10 – Sir John Evelyn, 1st Baronet, of Godstone, English noble (b. 1633)
• September 1 – Hugues de Lionne, French statesman (b. 1611)
• September 11 – Roshanara Begum, Mughal princess (b. 1617)
• September 19 – Gilbert Ironside the elder, English bishop (b. 1588)
• October 5 – Joachim Ernest, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön (1622–1671) (b. 1595)
• October 26 – Sir John Gell, 1st Baronet, English politician (b. 1593)
• November 12 – Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron, English Civil War general (b. 1612)
• December 13 – Antonio Grassi, Italian Roman Catholic priest and beatus (b. 1592)
• December 18 – Samuel Gott, English politician (b. 1614)
• December 28 – Johann Friedrich Gronovius, German classical scholar (b. 1611)

1672

• January – Denis Gaultier, French lutenist and composer (b. 1603)^[39]
• January 15 – John Cosin, English clergyman (b. 1594)
• January 21 – Adriaen van de Velde, Dutch painter (b. 1636)
• January 28 – Pierre Séguier, Chancellor of France (b. 1588)
• February 17 – Madeleine Béjart, French actress and theatre director (b. 1618)
• February 19 – Charles Chauncy, English-born president of Harvard College (b. 1592)
• February 28
  • Christian, Duke of Brieg, Duke of Legnica (1663–1672) and Brieg (1664–1672) (b. 1618)
  • Ralph Hare, English politician (b. 1623)
• March – Archibald Armstrong, court jester to James I of England and Charles I of England
• March 4 – Luis Guillermo de Moncada, 7th Duke of Montalto, Spanish Catholic cardinal (b. 1614)
• March 8 – Thomas Tyrrell, English judge and politician (b. 1594)
• March 18 – Agneta Horn, Swedish writer (b. 1629)
• April 2
  • Pedro Calungsod, Filipino saint (b. 1654)
  • Diego Luis de San Vitores, Spanish Jesuit missionary to Guam (b. 1627)
• April 4 – Henry Ernest, Count of Stolberg (b. 1593)
• April 13 – Marguerite of Lorraine, princess of Lorraine, duchess of Orléans (b. 1615)
• April 14
  • Friedrich Wilhelm III, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg (b. 1657)
  • King Pye Min of Burma (b. 1619)
• April 17 – Gryzelda Konstancja Zamoyska, Polish noble (b. 1623)
• April 21 – Antoine Godeau, French bishop and poet (b. 1605)
• April 22 – Georg Stiernhielm, Swedish poet (b. 1598)
• April 26 – Lionel Lockyer, English alchemist, quack doctor (b. 1600)
• April 30 – Marie of the Incarnation, French foundress of the Ursuline Monastery in Quebec (b. 1599)
• May 5 – Samuel Cooper, English painter (b. 1609)
• May 8 – Jean-Armand du Peyrer, Comte de Tréville and French Officer (b. 1598)
• May 11 – Charles Seton, 2nd Earl of Dunfermline, English royalist (b. 1615)
• May 28
  • Frescheville Holles, English Member of Parliament (b. 1642)
  • Edward Montagu, 1st Earl of Sandwich (b. 1625)
  • John Trevor, Welsh politician (b. 1626)
• June 7 – Willem Joseph van Ghent, Dutch admiral (b. 1626)
• June 14 – Matthew Wren, English politician (b. 1629)
• June 17 – Orazio Benevoli, Italian composer (b. 1605)
• June 27 – Roger Twysden, English antiquarian and royalist (b. 1597)
• July 3 – Francis Willughby, English biologist (b. 1635)
• July 21 – Captain John Underhill, English settler and soldier (b. 1597)
• August 2 – Amable de Bourzeys, French writer and academic (b. 1606)
• August 8 – Sir John Borlase, 1st Baronet, English politician (b. 1619)
• August 20
  • Johan de Witt, Dutch politician (b. 1625)
  • Cornelis de Witt, Dutch politician (b. 1623)
• September 9 – François-Joseph Bressani, Italian missionary (b. 1612)
• September 12 – Tanneguy Lefebvre, French classical scholar (b. 1615)
• September 14 ��� Henri Charles de La Trémoille, son of Henry de La Trémoille (b. 1620)
• September 16 – Anne Bradstreet, American colonial writer (b. c. 1612)
• October 8 – Johan Nieuhof, Dutch traveler who wrote about his journeys to Brazil (b. 1618)
• October 24 – John Webb, English architect (b. 1611)
• November 4 – Lucas van Uden, Dutch painter (b. 1595)
• November 6 – Heinrich Schütz, German composer (b. 1585)^[40]
• November 16 – Esaias Boursse, Dutch painter (b. 1631)
• November 19
  • Franciscus Sylvius, Dutch physician and scientist (b. 1614)
  • John Wilkins, English Bishop of Chester (b. 1614)
• December 6
  • King John II Casimir of Poland (b. 1609)^[41]
  • Pedro Antonio Fernández de Castro, 10th Count of Lemos, Viceroy of Peru (b. 1632)
• December 7 – Richard Bellingham, Massachusetts colonial magistrate (b. 1592)
• December 8 – Johann Christian von Boyneburg, German politician (b. 1622)
• December 19 – Dorothea Diana of Salm, German noblewoman (b. 1604)
• December 21 – Charles Stanley, 8th Earl of Derby, English noble (b. 1628)
• December 27 – Jacques Rohault, French philosopher (b. 1618)^[42]
• December 30 – Hendrick Bloemaert, Dutch painter (b. 1601)

1673

• January 11 – Bartholomew Mastrius, Italian theologian (b. 1602)
• January 22 – Mary Carleton, Englishwoman who used false identities (b. 1642)
• January 26 – Jérôme Lalemant, French Jesuit priest and missionary to Canada (b. 1593)
• February 2 – Kaspar Förster, German singer and composer (b. 1616)
• February 12, – Johann Philipp von Schönborn, Archbishop-Elector of Mainz (1647– (b. 1605)
• February 17 – Molière, French writer and actor (b. 1622)
• February 22 – Anna Magdalene of Hanau, German countess (b. 1600)
• March 6 – Isaack Luttichuys, Dutch Golden Age painter (b. 1616)
• March 12 – Margaret Theresa of Spain (b. 1651)
• March 15 – Salvator Rosa, Italian painter and poet (b. 1615)
• March 20
  • Anna Margareta von Haugwitz, Swedish countess (b. 1622)
  • Augustyn Kordecki, Polish prior (b. 1603)
• April 21 – Ignace-Gaston Pardies, French physicist (b. 1636)
• May 14 – Sir Gerrard Napier, 1st Baronet, English politician (b. 1606)
• May 6 – Werner Rolfinck, German physician, chemist, botanist, philosopher (b. 1599)
• May 9 – Jacques Vallée, Sieur Des Barreaux, French poet (b. 1599)
• May 27 – Henry Hungerford, English politician (b. 1611)
• May 30 – Sir Edward Bagot, 2nd Baronet, English politician (b. 1616)
• June 6 – Eugene Maurice, Count of Soissons, Italian noble (b. 1635)
• June 18 – Jeanne Mance, French Canadian settler (b. 1606)
• June 28 – Johan Schatter, Dutch member of the Haarlem schutterij (b. 1594)
• June 25 – Charles de Batz-Castelmore d'Artagnan, French soldier (b. 1611)
• July 4 – Robert Moray, English Freemason (b. 1608 or 1609)
• July 15 – Helena Fourment, Dutch model, second wife of Peter Paul Rubens (b. 1614)
• August 17 – Regnier de Graaf, Dutch physician and anatomist (b. 1641)
• August 21
  • Henry Grey, 1st Earl of Stamford, English soldier (b. c. 1599)
  • Daniel Pawłowski, Polish writer (b. 1627)
  • Isaac Sweers, Dutch admiral (b. 1622)
• August 25 – Bartram de Fouchier, Dutch painter (b. 1609)
• September 6 – Jan Thomas van Ieperen, Flemish engraver and painter (b. 1617)
• September 21 – Lorenzo Imperiali, Italian cardinal (b. 1612)
• October 5 – Francesco Grue, Italian artist (b. 1618)
• October 13 – Christoffer Gabel, Danish statesman (b. 1617)
• October 17 – Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, English statesman (b. 1630)
• November 6 – Robert Harley, English politician (b. 1626)
• November 10 – Michał Korybut Wiśniowiecki, King of Poland (b. 1640)
• November 17 – Thomas Wendy, English politician (b. 1614)
• November 29 – Armand de Gramont, Comte de Guiche, French nobleman (b. 1637)
• December 15 – Margaret Cavendish, English writer (b. 1623)
• December 21 – Joan Blaeu, Dutch cartographer (b. 1596)
• December 29 – Manuel da Câmara III, Portuguese noble (b. 1630)
• December 31 – Oliver St John, English statesman and judge (b. c. 1598)

1674

• January 3 – Claude Maltret, French Jesuit (b. 1621)
• January 5 – Ebba Brahe, Swedish countess, landowner, and courtier (b. 1596)
• January 10 – Jacob de Witt, Mayor of Dordrecht (b. 1589)
• January 12 – Giacomo Carissimi Italian composer (b. 1605)
• January 21
  • Cornelis Bisschop, Dutch painter (b. 1630)
  • Henri de La Trémoille, French general and noble (b. 1598)
• February 13 – Jean de Labadie, 17th-century French pietist (b. 1610)
• February 14 – Carlo de Tocco, Italian nobleman (b. 1592)
• February 22
  • Jean Chapelain, French writer (b. 1595)
  • John Wilson, English composer (b. 1595)
• February 24 – Matthias Weckmann, German composer (b. 1616)
• February 26 – Jean Pecquet, French anatomist (b. 1622)
• March 2 – Salomon Sweers, Dutch businessman (b. 1611)
• March 8 – Charles Sorel, sieur de Souvigny, French writer (b. 1597)
• March 15 – Edward Digges, English barrister and colonist, Colonial Governor of Virginia (b. 1620)
• March 19 – Queen Inseon, Korean royal consort (b. 1619)
• March 23 – Henry Cromwell, 4th son of Oliver Cromwell and Elizabeth Bourchier (b. 1628)
• March 29 – Ove Bjelke, Norwegian civil servant (b. 1611)
• April 5 – George Frederick, Prince of Nassau-Siegen, Count of Nassau-Siegen (b. 1606)
• April 18 – John Graunt, English demographer (b. 1620)
• April 24 – Frances Seymour, Duchess of Somerset (b. 1599)
• June 1 – Beata Rosenhane, Swedish writer (b. 1638)
• June 4 – Jan Lievens, Dutch painter (b. 1607)
• June 8 – Henry Hildyard, English Member of Parliament (b. 1610)
• June 14 – Marin le Roy de Gomberville, French writer (b. 1600)
• June 16 – Empress Xiaochengren, Chinese Qing Dynasty empress (b. 1653)
• June 25
  • Sir Orlando Bridgeman, 1st Baronet, of Great Lever (b. 1606)
  • Mauritia Eleonora of Portugal, Princess of Portugal and countess consort of Nassau-Siegen (b. 1609)
• July 2 – Eberhard III, Duke of Württemberg (b. 1614)
• July 29 – Eva Krotoa, Khoi translator and interpreter (b. 1643)
• July 30
  • Hans Conrad Werdmüller, Swiss military commander (b. 1606)
  • Francisco Ignacio Alcina, Jesuit missionary and historian (b. 1610)
• August 8 – Maeda Toshitsugu, Japanese daimyō of the early Edo period (b. 1617)
• August 12 – Philippe de Champaigne, French painter (b. 1602)
• September 12 – Nicolaes Tulp, Dutch anatomist and politician (b. 1593)
• September 17 – Hyeonjong of Joseon, 18th monarch of the Korean Joseon Dynasty (b. 1641)
• September 22 – Herman Egon, Prince of Fürstenberg, High Chamberlain of the Elector of Bavaria (b. 1627)
• September 27 – Robert Arnauld d'Andilly, French writer (b. 1589)
• September 29 – Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, Dutch painter (b. 1621)
• October 12 – Jeremias van Rensselaer, Dutch colonial governor (b. 1632)
• October 15 – Robert Herrick, English poet (b. 1591)
• October 27 – Hallgrímur Pétursson, Icelandic poet (b. 1614)
• November 8 – John Milton, English Puritan poet (b. 1608)
• November 16 – Isbrand van Diemerbroeck, Dutch physician (b. 1609)
• November 18 – Charles Lallemant, French Jesuit (b. 1587)
• December 9 – Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, English statesman and historian (b. 1609)
• December 10 – John Vaughan, English judge (b. 1603)
• December 28 – John Oxenbridge, English Nonconformist divine (b. 1608)
• date unknown
  • Hu Zhengyan, Chinese artist, printmaker, calligrapher and publisher (b. c. 1584)
  • Thomas Traherne, English poet (b. c. 1637)

1675

• January 9 – Francesco Maria Brancaccio, Catholic cardinal (b. 1592)
• January 26 – Domenico II Contarini, Doge of Venice (b. 1585)
• February 9 – Gerhard Douw, Dutch painter (b. 1613)
• February 10 – Gervase Holles, English Member of Parliament (b. 1607)
• March 14 – Francis Davies, British bishop (b. 1605)
• March 18 – Arthur Chichester, 1st Earl of Donegall, Irish soldier (b. 1606)
• April 8 – Veit Erbermann, German theologian (b. 1597)
• April 10 – Dorothea of Saxe-Altenburg, Duchess of Saxe-Altenburg by births and by marriage Duchess of Saxe-Eisenach (b. 1601)
• April 12 – Richard Bennett, British Colonial Governor of Virginia (b. 1609)
• May 1 – Jonathan Rashleigh, English politician (b. 1591)
• May 6 – August Philipp, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck, Danish-German prince and member of the House of Oldenburg (b. 1612)
• May 18
  • Stanisław Lubieniecki, Polish Socinian theologian (b. 1623)
  • Father Jacques Marquette, French missionary and explorer (b. 1636)
• May 27 – Gaspard Dughet, French painter (b. 1613)
• June 5 – John Mordaunt, 1st Viscount Mordaunt, English politician (b. 1626)
• June 11
  • Sir Anthony Cope, 4th Baronet, English Member of Parliament (b. 1632)
  • Dorothea Maria of Saxe-Weimar, Duchess of Saxe-Zeitz, by marriage Duchess of Saxe-Zeitz (b. 1641)
• June 12 – Charles Emmanuel II, Duke of Savoy (b. 1634)
• July 14 – Daniel Hallé, French painter (b. 1614)
• July 20 – Giles Strangways, English politician (b. 1615)
• July 25 – Johan Stiernhöök, Swedish lawyer (b. 1596)
• July 27 – Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne, Marshal of France (b. 1611)
• July 28 – Bulstrode Whitelocke, English lawyer (b. 1605)
• August 5 – Brynjólfur Sveinsson, Icelandic bishop and scholar (b. 1605)
• August 16 – António Luís de Meneses, 1st Marquis of Marialva, Portuguese general and noble (b. 1596)
• August 29 – Joachim Irgens von Westervick, Dano–Norwegian nobleman (b. 1611)
• September 8
  • Amalia of Solms-Braunfels, Princess consort to Frederick Henry (b. 1602)
  • Frederick, Count of Nassau-Weilburg, ruling Count of Nassau-Weilburg (b. 1640)
• September 18 – Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1604)
• September 23 – Valentin Conrart, French founder of the Académie française (b. 1603)
• October 10 – Tommaso Tamburini, Italian theologian (b. 1591)
• October 15 – William Wadsworth, American colonial pioneer (b. 1594)
• October 26 – William Sprague, English co-founder of Charlestown, Massachusetts (b. 1609)
• October 27 – Gilles de Roberval, French mathematician (b. 1602)
• November – Feodosia Morozova, Russian religious dissident martyr (b. 1632)
• November 1 – Guru Tegh Bahadur, 9th Sikh Guru (b. 1621)
• November 4 – Remigius van Leemput, painter from the Southern Netherlands (b. 1607)
• November 10 – Leopoldo de' Medici, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1617)
• November 11 – Thomas Willis, English doctor who played an important part in the history of anatomy (b. 1621)
• November 15 – Preben von Ahnen, German-born civil servant and landowner in Norway (b. 1606)
• November 21 – George William, Duke of Liegnitz (b. 1660)
• November 28 – Basil Feilding, 2nd Earl of Denbigh, English Civil War soldier
• November 28 – Leonard Hoar, American President of Harvard University (b. 1630)
• November 30
  • Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, colonial Governor of Maryland (b. 1605)
  • Sir John Lowther, 1st Baronet, of Lowther, English politician (b. 1605)
• December 6 – John Lightfoot, English churchman, scholar (b. 1602)
• December 15 (bur.) – Johannes Vermeer, Dutch painter (b. 1632)
• December 16 – Armand-Nompar de Caumont, duc de La Force, Marshal of France (b. 1580)
• December 23 – Caesar, duc de Choiseul, French marshal and diplomat (b. 1602)
• date unknown – Margareta Beijer, director of the Swedish Royal Post Office (b. 1625)

1676

• January 7 – Marco Faustini, Italian opera manager (b. 1606)
• January 13 – Isaac Commelin, Dutch historian (b. 1598)
• January 14 – Francesco Cavalli, Italian composer (b. 1602)
• January 16 – Georg Arnold, Austrian musician (b. 1621)
• January 29 – Tsar Alexis of Russia (b. 1629)
• February 3 – François Chauveau, French painter (b. 1613)
• February 14 – Abraham Bosse, French engraver and artist (b. c. 1604)
• February 20 – Hugh Forth, English politician (b. 1610)
• March 2 – Juan de Almoguera, Roman Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Lima (1673–1676) and Bishop of Arequipa (1659–1673) (b. 1605)
• March 21 – Henri Sauval, French historian (b. 1623)
• March 22 – Lady Anne Clifford, 14th Baroness de Clifford (b. 1590)
• March 23 – Paul Würtz, Swedish general (b. 1612)
• March 27 – Bernardino de Rebolledo, Spanish poet, soldier and diplomat (b. 1597)
• April 5 – John Winthrop the Younger, Governor of Connecticut (b. 1606)
• April 8 – Claudia Felicitas of Austria, Holy Roman Empress (b. 1653)
• April 20 – John Clarke, English physician (b. 1609)
• April 29 – Michiel de Ruyter, Dutch admiral (b. 1607)
• May 5 – Sir Richard Lloyd, English politician (b. 1606)
• May 7 – Henri Valois, French historian (b. 1603)
• May 25 – Johann Rahn, Swiss mathematician (b. 1622)
• May 26 – Thomas Rouse, English politician (b. 1608)
• June 1 – Karl Kaspar von der Leyen, German Catholic archbishop (b. 1618)
• June 7 – Paul Gerhardt, German hymnist (b. 1606)
• June 13 – Princess Henriette Adelaide of Savoy, wife of Ferdinand Maria (b. 1636)
• June 16 – Nathaniel Dickinson, American settler (b. 1601)
• June 29 – Hendrik van der Borcht II, German painter (b. 1614)
• July – Jesse Wharton colonial governor of Maryland
• July 5 – Carl Gustaf Wrangel, Swedish soldier (b. 1613)
• July 8 – Francis I Rákóczi, Hungarian prince of Transylvania (b. 1645)
• July 12 – Duchess Elisabeth Sophie of Mecklenburg, German poet composer and (by marriage) Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg (b. 1613)
• July 22 – Pope Clement X (b. 1590)
• July 25 – François Hédelin, abbé d'Aubignac, French writer (b. 1604)
• July 17 – Madame de Brinvilliers, French murderer (b. 1630)
• August 11 – Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen, German writer (b. 1621)
• August 14 – Nicolò Sagredo, 105th Doge of Venice (b. 1606)
• August 28 – Margravine Louise Charlotte of Brandenburg, Duchess of Courland by marriage (1645–1676) (b. 1617)
• August 31 – Lars Stigzelius, Swedish Lutheran archbishop (b. 1598)
• September 4 – John Ogilby, Scottish-born impresario and cartographer active in Dublin and London (b. 1600)
• September 9 – Paul de Chomedey, Sieur de Maisonneuve, French military officer, founder of Montreal in New France (b. 1612)
• September 10 – Gerrard Winstanley, English religious reformer (b. 1609)
• September 11 – Anna de' Medici, Archduchess of Austria (b. 1616)
• September 17 – Sabbatai Zevi, Montenegrin rabbi, kabbalist and founder of the Jewish Sabbatean movement (b. 1626)
• September 28 – Anna Maria Antigó, Spanish Catholic nun (b. 1602)
• October 6 – Claudia Rusca, Italian composer, singer, and organist (b. 1593)
• October 7 – Richard Neville, English soldier and MP (b. 1615)
• October 10 – Sebastian Knüpfer, German composer (b. 1633)
• October 13 – Juan de Arellano, Spanish artist (b. 1614)
• October 15 – Simon de Vos, Flemish painter (b. 1603)
• October 26 – Nathaniel Bacon, Virginian colonist and instigator of Bacon's Rebellion (b. circa 1640s)
• October 28 – Jean Desmarets, French writer (b. 1595)
• November 1 – Gisbertus Voetius, Dutch theologian (b. 1589)
• November 9 – Allart Pieter van Jongestall, Dutch jurist, politician, and diplomat (b. 1612)
• November 12 – Shang Kexi, Chinese general (b. 1604)
• December 11 – Roland Fréart de Chambray, French writer (b. 1606)
• December 12 – William Morice, English politician (b. 1602)
• December 18 – Edward Benlowes, English poet (b. 1603)
• December 19 – Adolph, Prince of Nassau-Schaumburg and Count of Nassau-Schaumburg (1653–1676) (b. 1629)
• December 25
  • Matthew Hale, Lord Chief Justice of England (b. 1609)
  • William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, English soldier, politician, writer (b. 1592)

1677

• January 8 – Sir John Fowell, 2nd Baronet, English politician (b. 1623)
• January 18 – Jan van Riebeeck, Dutch founder of Cape Town (b. 1619)
• January 31 – Frederick VI, Margrave of Baden-Durlach (b. 1617)
• February 9 – George Horner, English politician (b. 1605)
• February 21 – Baruch Spinoza, Dutch philosopher (b. 1632)^[43]
• March 18 – Marie Luise von Degenfeld, morganatic second wife of Charles I Louis, Elector Palatine of Germany (b. 1634)
• March 28 – Václav Hollar, Czech-born actor (b. 1607)
• April 22 – Václav Eusebius František, Prince of Lobkowicz, Austrian field marshal and prince (b. 1609)
• May 4 – Isaac Barrow, English mathematician (b. 1630)
• May 20 – George Digby, 2nd Earl of Bristol, English statesman (b. 1612)
• May 22 – William, Margrave of Baden-Baden (b. 1593)
• May 23 – John, Count of Nassau-Idstein (1629–1677) (b. 1603)
• May 24 – Anders Bording, Danish writer (b. 1619)
• June 11 – Jacques Esprit, French writer (b. 1611)
• June 23 – Wilhelm Ludwig, Duke of Württemberg (b. 1647)
• June 18 – Johann Franck, German poet and hymnist (b. 1618)
• June 26 – Francesco Buonamici, Italian architect, painter and engraver (b. 1596)^[44]
• July 11 – Timothy Turner, English judge, actor (b. 1585)
• July 27 – Johannes Loccenius, German historian (b. 1598)
• July 30 – Fabian von Fersen, Swedish soldier (b. 1626)
• August
  • Matthew Locke, English composer (b. 1621)
  • Joseph Pardo, English-Jewish hazzan (b. c. 1624)
• August 1 – George Christian, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg (1669–1671) (b. 1626)
• August 20 – Pierre Petit, French astronomer, military engineer, and physicist (b. 1594)
• August 28 – Wallerant Vaillant, painter of the Dutch Golden Age (b. 1623)
• September 11 – James Harrington, English political philosopher (b. 1611)
• September 12
  • Tønne Huitfeldt, Norwegian landowner and military officer (b. 1625)
  • Camillo Massimo, Italian cardinal, patron of the arts (b. 1620)
• October 9 – Gustav Adolph, Count of Nassau-Saarbrücken and general sergeant of the Holy Roman Empire at the Rhine (b. 1632)
• October 14 – Józef Bartłomiej Zimorowic, Polish poet (b. 1597)
• November 2 – Robert Sidney, 2nd Earl of Leicester, English politician (b. 1595)
• November 9 – Aernout van der Neer, Dutch painter (b. 1603)
• November 11
  • Johann Weikhard of Auersperg, Austrian prime minister (b. 1615)
  • Barbara Strozzi, Italian singer and composer (d. 1619)
• November 14 – Matthias Abele, Austrian jurist, mine official (b. 1618)
• December 13 – Thomas Howard, 5th Duke of Norfolk, English noble (b. 1627)
• December 14 – Christian Albert, Burgrave and Count of Dohna, German nobleman and general in the army of Brandenburg (b. 1621)
• December 26 – Bernhard Gustav of Baden-Durlach, Swedish general, Prince-Abbot and cardinal (b. 1631)
• date unknown – Gilbert Sheldon, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1598)

1678

• January 11 – Ferrante III Gonzaga, Duke of Guastalla, Italian noble (b. 1618)
• January 12 – Robert Ellison, English politician (b. 1614)
• January 23 – Sir William Curtius FRS, German magistrate and English baronet b. (1599)
• January 24 – Joan Maetsuycker, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (b. 1606)
• January 27 – Maria Overlander van Purmerland, Dutch noble (b. 1603)
• January 29 – Jeronimo Lobo, Portuguese Jesuit missionary (b. 1593)
• February 7 – Sir Philip Musgrave, 2nd Baronet, English politician (b. 1607)
• November 20 – Daniel Clasen, German academic (b. 1622)
• March 3 – Philip Bell, British colonial governor (b. 1590)
• March 10 – Jean de Launoy, French historian (b. 1603)
• March 27 – Juan de Leyva de la Cerda, conde de Baños, Spanish noble (b. 1604)
• April 12 – Mary Rich, Countess of Warwick, 7th daughter of Richard Boyle (b. 1625)
• April 23 – Walter Aston, 2nd Lord Aston of Forfar, second and eldest surviving son of Walter Aston (b. 1609)
• April 24 – Louis VI, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (1661–1678) (b. 1630)
• April 27 – Nicolas Roland, French priest and founder (b. 1642)
• May 2 – Willem Nieupoort, Dutch politician, and diplomat (b. 1607)
• May 3 – Bernhard II, Duke of Saxe-Jena, German noble (b. 1638)
• May 4 or May 14 – Anna Maria van Schurman, Dutch poet and scholar (b. 1607)
• May 16 – Tamura Muneyoshi, Japanese daimyō of the Iwanuma Domain (b. 1637)
• May 18 – Miyamoto Iori, Japanese samurai (b. 1612)
• June 2 – Pieter de Groot, Dutch diplomat (b. 1615)
• June 17 – Giacomo Torelli, Italian stage designer, engineer, and architect (b. 1608)
• June 19 – Benedict Arnold, Rhode Island colonial governor (b. 1615)
• August 5 – Juan García de Zéspedes, Mexican musician and composer (b. 1619)
• August 16 – Andrew Marvell, English writer (b. 1621)
• August 17 – Guillaume Herincx, Flemish theologian, Bishop of Ypres (b. 1621)
• August 28 – John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton, English soldier (b. 1602)
• August 31 – Louis VII, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (b. 1658)
• September 1 – Jan Brueghel the Younger, Flemish painter (b. 1601)
• September 8 – Pietro della Vecchia, Italian painter (b. 1603)
• September 19 – Christoph Bernhard von Galen, German Catholic bishop (b. 1606)
• September 28 – Maurizio Cazzati, Italian composer (b. 1616)
• October 5 – Hedevig Ulfeldt, daughter of King Christian IV of Denmark and Kirsten Munk (b. 1626)
• October 11 – Sir Peter Leycester, 1st Baronet, British historian (b. 1614)
• October 12
  • Pieter Codde, Dutch painter (b. 1599)
  • Edmund Berry Godfrey, English magistrate (b. 1621)
• October 14 – Sir Richard Newdigate, 1st Baronet, English politician (b. 1602)
• October 16 – Cornelis HrR Ridder de Graeff, Dutch nobleman and chief landholder of the Zijpe and Haze Polder (b. 1650)
• October 18 – Jacob Jordaens, Flemish painter (b. 1593)
• October 19 – Samuel Dirksz van Hoogstraten, Dutch painter (b. c. 1627)
• November 1 – William Coddington, first Governor of Rhode Island (b. 1601)
• November 4 – Solomon Swale, English politician (b. 1610)
• November 5 – Giovan Battista Nani, Italian historian and diplomat (b. 1616)
• November 10 – Daniel Zwicker, German physician (b. 1612)
• November 30 – Andries de Graeff, Dutch politician (b. 1611)
• December 3 – Edward Colman, English Catholic courtier under Charles II (b. 1636)
• December 20 – Matthew Marvin, Sr., Connecticut settler (b. 1600)
• December 31 – Charles de Lorme, French physician (b. 1584)

1679

• January 1 – Jan Steen, Dutch painter
• January 8 – Raymond Breton, French missionary (b. 1609)
• January 14 – Jacques de Billy, French Jesuit mathematician (b. 1602)
• January 15 – Pierre Lambert de la Motte, French bishop (b. 1624)
• January 24
  • Ulderico Carpegna, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1595)
  • Maurice Henry, Prince of Nassau-Hadamar (1653–1679) (b. 1626)
• January 29 – Carlo Ceresa, Italian painter (b. 1609)
• February 5 – Joost van den Vondel, Dutch dramatist and poet (b. 1587)
• February 6 – Margherita de' Medici, Italian duchess regent of Parma (b. 1612)
• February 18 – Lady Anne Finch Conway, English philosopher (b. 1631)
• February 19 – Henricus Regius, Dutch philosopher (b. 1598)
• February 19 – Thomas Hales, Connecticut settler (b. 1610)
• February 22 – Henrik Rysensteen, Dutch military engineer (b. 1624)
• March 11
  • Sir John Covert, 1st Baronet, English politician (b. 1620)
  • Luise Marie of the Palatinate, German princess (b. 1647)
• March 16
  • John Leverett, Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (b. 1616)
  • Johan Frederik von Marschalck, German-born landowner, Chancellor of Norway (b. 1618)
  • Johannes Schefferus, Alsatian-born humanist (b. 1621)
• March 27 – Abraham Mignon, Dutch golden age painter (b. 1640)
• April – Thomas Notley, Colonial governor of Maryland
• April 5 – Anne Geneviève de Bourbon, French princess and political activist (b. 1619)
• May 3 – James Sharp, Scottish archbishop (assassinated) (b. 1613)
• May 5 – Magnus Celsius, Swedish astronomer and mathematician (b. 1621)
• May 6 – Peregrine Hoby, English politician (b. 1602)
• May 10 – Dorothy, Lady Pakington, English religious writer (b. 1623)
• May 14 – August of Legnica, Silesian nobleman (b. 1627)
• May 26 – Ferdinand Maria, Elector of Bavaria (b. 1636)
• June 3 – Francisque Millet, Flemish-French painter (b. 1642)
• June 7 – Princess Christine Elisabeth of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg, German noblewoman (b. 1638)
• June 15 – Guillaume Courtois, French painter (b. 1628)
• June 27 – Pablo Bruna, blind Spanish composer and organist (b. 1611)
• July 4 – Antoine Garaby de La Luzerne, French poet (b. 1617)
• July 11 – William Chamberlayne, English poet (b. 1619)
• July 19 – Francis Anderson, English politician (b. 1614)
• July 26 – Edward Bayntun, English politician (b. 1618)
• August – Catherine Lepère, French midwife (b. 1601)
• August 6 – John Snell, English royalist (b. 1629)
• August 12 – Marie de Rohan, French courtier and political activist (b. 1600)
• August 20 – Jacob Alting, Dutch linguist (b. 1618)
• August 24 – Jean François Paul de Gondi, Cardinal de Retz, French churchman and agitator (b. 1614)
• August 28 – Alfonso Litta, Cardinal, Archbishop of Milan (b. 1608)
• August 29 – Margaret Mostyn, English Carmelite nun (b. 1625)
• September 9 – John Gurdon, English politician (b. 1595)
• September 11 – Nicolaes Visscher I (buried), Dutch engraver, cartographer and publisher (b. 1618)
• September 17 – John of Austria the Younger, Spanish general (b. 1629)
• September 25 – Philips Augustijn Immenraet, Flemish painter (b. 1627)
• September 29 – John Manners, 8th Earl of Rutland, English politician when he inherited the peerage (b. 1604)
• October 1 – Antonia of Württemberg, princess, literary figure, patron, and Christian Kabbalist (b. 1613)
• October 2 – Sir William Bowyer, 1st Baronet, English politician (b. 1612)
• October 3 – Hugh Bethell, English Member of Parliament and High Sheriff (b. 1615)
• October 12 – William Gurnall, English writer (b. 1617)
• October 26 – Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery, British soldier, statesman, and dramatist (b. 1621)
• November 11 – Rosina Schnorr, German businessperson (b. 1618)
• November 19 – Roger Conant, Massachusetts governor, founder of Salem, Massachusetts (b. 1592)
• November 27 – Archibald Primrose, Lord Carrington, Scottish judge (b. 1616)
• December 4 – Thomas Hobbes, English philosopher (b. 1588)
• December 10 – Francesco Barberini, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1597)
• December 20 – John Maurice, Prince of Nassau-Siegen (b. 1604)
• December 18 – John Frederick, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Duke of Brunswick-Calenberg (1665–1679) (b. 1625)
• December 21 – Claude Lamoral, 3rd Prince of Ligne, Spanish general and prince (b. 1618)
• December 28
  • Peder Winstrup, Bishop of Lund (b. 1605)
  • Andrzej Trzebicki, nobleman and priest in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (b. 1607)
• December 31 – Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Italian physiologist and physicist (b. 1608)

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