Deaths
- February 2 – Martin Lister, English naturalist and physician (b. c. 1638)
- February 18 – Louis, duc de Bourgogne, heir to the throne of France (b. 1682)
- March 25 – Nehemiah Grew, English naturalist (b. 1641)
- April 11 – Richard Simon, French Biblical critic (b. 1638)
- April 27 – John Crowne, English playwright (b. 1641)
- April 30 – Philipp van Limborch, Dutch Protestant theologian (b. 1633)
- June 11 – Louis Joseph de Bourbon, duc de Vendôme, Marshal of France (b. 1654)
- July 1 – William King, English poet (b. 1663)
- July 12 – Richard Cromwell, Lord Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland (b. 1626)
- July 26 – Thomas Osborne, 1st Duke of Leeds, English statesman (b. 1631)
- August 3 – Joshua Barnes, English scholar (b. 1654)
- August 18 – Richard Savage, 4th Earl Rivers, English soldier (b. c. 1660)
- August 29 – Gregory King, English statistician (b. 1648)
- September 9 – North Carolina Governor Edward Hyde (c. 1650-1712) (b. c. 1650)
- September 12 – Jan van der Heyden, Dutch painter (b. 1637)
- September 14 – Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Italian-French astronomer and engineer (b. 1625)
- September 15 – Sidney Godolphin, 1st Earl of Godolphin, English politician (b. c.1645)
- November 15
- James Douglas, 4th Duke of Hamilton, Scottish nationalist (b. 1658)
- Charles Mohun, 4th Baron Mohun, English politician (b. 1675)
- date unknown – Baltacı Mehmet Pasha, Ottoman (Turkish) grand vizier (b. 1662)
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