Deaths
- January 11 - Johann Georg Graevius, critic (born 1632)
- February 17 - Philippe Goibaud-Dubois, translator (born 1626)
- March 3 - Robert Hooke, natural philosopher (born 1635)
- March 5 - Gabrielle Suchon, moral philosopher (born 1631)
- April 20 - Lancelot Addison, father of Joseph Addison (born 1632)
- May 8 - Vincent Alsop, religious writer and wit (born c.1630)
- May 16 - Charles Perrault, French writer of fairy tales (born 1628)
- May 26 - Samuel Pepys, diarist (born 1633)
- September 29 - Charles de Saint-Évremond, French essayist and literary critic (born 1613)
- November 19 - the original "Man in the Iron Mask" (true identity unknown)
- date unknown - Samuel Johnson, pamphleteer (born 1649)
- probable - John Crowne, dramatist
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