Deaths
- January 20 – Isaac Ambrose, Puritan writer (born 1604)
- July 16 – Andreas Gryphius, German lyric poet and dramatist (born 1616)
- August 23 - Jean Bagot, Jesuit theologian (born 1591)
- November 18 – Nikola Zrinski, Croatian and Hungarian military leader, statesman and poet (born 1620)
- date unknown
- Bihari, poet (born 1600)
- Qian Qianyi, Chinese poet and social historian (born 1582)
- probable
- James Heath, Royalist historian (born 1629)
- Henry Robinson, merchant and writer (born c.1604)
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