Deaths
- July 25 - François Hédelin, abbé d'Aubignac (born 1604)
- August 17 - Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen, novelist (born 1621)
- September 2 - Edward Worsley, Jesuit writer (born 1605)
- October 25 - Justus Georg Schottel, grammarian (born 1612)
- November 1 - Gisbertus Voetius, theologian (born 1589)
- December 18 - Edward Benlowes, poet (born 1603)
- December 25 - William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle, polymath (born 1592)
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