Deaths
- February 23 - Henry Noris, Italian church historian and theologian (born 1631)
- April 12 - Jacques Bénigne Bossuet, French writer (born 1627)
- June 18 - Tom Brown (satirist) (born 1662)
- August 19 - Jane Leade, visionary and Christian mystic writer (born 1624)
- October 28 - John Locke, philosopher (born 1632)
- December 11 - Roger L'Estrange, Royalist pamphleteer (born 1616)
- date unknown - Henry Herringman, bookseller and publisher
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