Deaths
- 4 April - Joseph Haines, entertainer and author (year of birth unknown)
- 20 August - Charles Sedley, playwright (born 1639)
- 22 August - John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, royalist statesman (born 1628)
- 16 September - King James II of England/James VII of Scotland (born 1633)
- 3 October - Joseph Williamson, politician (born 1633)
- 5 November - Charles Gerard, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield, French-born English politician (born c.1659)
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