Deaths
- March 30 - François le Métel de Boisrobert, French poet (born 1592)
- June 13 - Richard Adams, English poet (born 1619)
- August 7 - Jin Shengtan, Chinese editor, writer and critic (born 1608)
- October 4 - Jacqueline Pascal, poet and dramatist, sister of Blaise Pascal (born 1625)
- November 29 - Bishop Brian Walton, English scholar responsible for the Polyglot Bible (born 1600)
- December 29 - Antoine Girard de Saint-Amant, French poet (born 1594)
- date unknown - Sarmad Kashani, Persian poet and mystic
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