Deaths
- 8 March - Abraham Darby I, first of that name of three generations of a Quaker family that was key to the development of the Industrial Revolution (born 1678)
- 19 March - John Campbell, 1st Earl of Breadalbane and Holland, royalist (born 1636)
- 20 May - John Trevor, Speaker of the House of Commons (born 1637)
- August
- William Blathwayt, civil servant and politician (born c. 1649)
- William Cochrane, MP (year of birth unknown, after 1659)
- 30 August - William Lloyd, bishop (born 1627)
- 17 September - Robert Cotton, politician (born 1644)
- 26 October - Catherine Sedley, Countess of Dorchester, mistress of James II of England (born 1657)
- 26 November - Daniel Purcell, English composer (born 1664)
- 4 December - William Hamilton, surgeon in the British East India Company (year of birth unknown)
- 5 December - Richard Onslow, 1st Baron Onslow, politician (born 1654)
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“I sang of death but had I known
The many deaths one must have died
Before he came to meet his own!”
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