Deaths
- February 18 - Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac, French essayist (born 1697)
- February 19 - Edmund Chilmead, writer and translator (born 1610)
- April 5 - Jacobus Trigland, Dutch theologian (born 1583)
- November 30
- William Habington, poet (born 1605)
- John Selden, jurist, scholar (born 1584)
- December - Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Ancram, Scottish nobleman and writer (born c.1578)
- date unknown
- Edward Misselden, Mercantilist writer (born 1608)
- Alexander Ross, Scottish controversialist (born c.1590)
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