Deaths
- January 16 - Madeleine de Souvré, marquise de Sablé, salon hostess and writer
- April 12 - Sir Thomas Stanley, poet, author and translator (born 1625)
- May 4 - Abraham Woodhead, Catholic writer (born 1609)
- August 16 - Andrew Marvell, poet (born 1621)
- August 17 - Guillaume Herincx, Belgian Franciscan theologian (born 1621)
- November 21 - Robert Thoroton, antiquary (born 1623)
- date unknown
- Theophilus Gale, theologian (born 1628)
- Jean de Launoy, French historian (born 1603)
- probable - Richard Flecknoe (born c.1600)
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