Deaths
- 6 January - Bishop Seth Ward, mathematician and astronomer (born 1617)
- 18 March - John Dixwell, judge (born 1607)
- 16 April - Aphra Behn, author (born 1640)
- 18 April - Judge Jeffreys, Lord Chief Justice (born 1648)
- 25 June - William Thomas, bishop (born 1613)
- 29 December - Thomas Sydenham, physician (born 1624)
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