(d. 1749) August 22 – Pierre Guérin de Tencin, French cardinal (d. 1758) October 13 – Princess Magdalena Augusta of Anhalt-Zerbst, Duchess of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (d. 1740) October 16 – Jan Dismas Zelenka, Bohemian composer (d. 1745) October 18 – Ann Putnam, Jr., American accuser in the Salem witch trials (d. 1716) November 11 – Firmin Abauzit, French scientist (d. 1767) date unknown James Erskine, Lord Grange, Scottish judge (d. 1754) George Psalmanazar, French-born imposter and essayist (d. 1763) Francesco Zerafa, Maltese architect (d. 1758) Deaths January 1 – Jan Steen, Dutch painter January 8 – Raymond Breton, French missionary (b. 1609) January 14 – Jacques de Billy, French Jesuit mathematician (b. 1602) January 15 – Pierre Lambert de la Motte, French bishop (b. 1624) January 24 Ulderico Carpegna, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1595) Maurice Henry, Prince of Nassau-Hadamar (1653–1679) (b. 1626) January 29 – Carlo Ceresa, Italian painter (b. 1609) February 5 – Joost van den Vondel, Dutch dramatist and poet (b. 1587) February 6 – Margherita de' Medici, Italian duchess regent of Parma (b. 1612) February 18 – Lady Anne Finch Conway, English philosopher (b. 1631) February 19 – Henricus Regius, Dutch philosopher (b. 1598) February 19 – Thomas Hales, Connecticut settler (b. 1610) February 22 – Henrik Rysensteen, Dutch military engineer (b. 1624) March 11 Sir John Covert, 1st Baronet, English politician (b. 1620) Luise Marie of the Palatinate, German princess (b. 1647) March 16 John Leverett, Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (b. 1616) Johan Frederik von Marschalck, German-born landowner, Chancellor of Norway (b. 1618) Johannes Schefferus, Alsatian-born humanist (b. 1621) March 27 – Abraham Mignon, Dutch golden age painter (b. 1640) April – Thomas Notley, Colonial governor of Maryland April 5 – Anne Geneviève de Bourbon, French princess and political activist (b. 1619) May 3 – James Sharp, Scottish archbishop (assassinated) (b. 1613) May 5 – Magnus Celsius, Swedish astronomer and mathematician (b. 1621) May 6 – Peregrine Hoby, English politician (b. 1602) May 10 – Dorothy, Lady Pakington, English religious writer (b. 1623) May 14 – August of Legnica, Silesian nobleman (b. 1627) May 26 – Ferdinand Maria, Elector of Bavaria (b. 1636) June 3 – Francisque Millet, Flemish-French painter (b. 1642) June 7 – Princess Christine Elisabeth of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg, German noblewoman (b. 1638) June 15 – Guillaume Courtois, French painter (b. 1628) June 27 – Pablo Bruna, blind Spanish composer and organist (b. 1611)