Count Palatine of Sulzbach (1632-1708) (b. 1622) May 6 – François de Laval, first bishop of New France (b. 1623) May 11 – Jules Hardouin-Mansart, French Baroque architect (b. 1646) May 12 – Adolphus Frederick II, Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (b. 1658) June 5 – Ignatius George II, Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch (b. 1648) June 21 – John Hamilton, 2nd Lord Belhaven and Stenton, Scottish politician (b. 1656) June 28 – Melchor Liñán y Cisneros, Spanish Catholic archbishop (b. 1629) June 30 – Emperor Tekle Haymanot I of Ethiopia (stabbed to death) (b. 1706) July 5 – Ferdinando Carlo Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua and Montferrat, only child of Duke Charles II (b. 1652) July 10 – James Kendall, English soldier, politician (b. 1647) July 21 – Conrad von Reventlow, Danish statesman and the first Grand Chancellor of Denmark (b. 1644) August 1 – Edward Tyson, British scientist (b. 1651) September 6 – Sir John Morden, 1st Baronet, English merchant and philanthropist (b. 1623) September 19 – Francis Newport, 1st Earl of Bradford, English politician (b. 1620) September 29 – Sir James Oxenden, 2nd Baronet, English politician (b. 1641) October 1 – John Blow, British composer (b. 1649) October 2 – Anne Jules de Noailles, French general (b. 1650) October 7 – Guru Gobind Singh, 10th Guru Sahib of Sikhism, social reformist, poet and revolutionary (b. 1666) October 9 – Olympia Mancini, French courtier (b. 1638) October 10 – David Gregory, Scottish astronomer (b. 1659) October 11 – Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus, German mathematician (b. 1651) October 21 – Christian Weise, German writer, dramatist, poet, pedagogue and librarian (b. 1642) October 22 Cesare Pronti, Italian painter (b. 1626) Hermann Witsius, Dutch theologian (b. 1636) October 24 – Seki Kōwa, Japanese mathematician (b. c. 1640) October 28 – Prince George of Denmark, consort of Anne, Queen of Great Britain (b. 1653) October 31 – Nathaniel Higginson, English politician (b. 1652) November 3 – Countess Henriette Catherine of Nassau, daughter of Frederick Henry (b. 1637) November 10 – David Makeléer, Swedish politician (b. 1646) November 13 – Charles, Count of Marsan, French noble (b. 1648) November 16 – Alexander Edward, Scottish landscape architect (b. 1651) November 17 – Ludolf Bakhuizen, Dutch painter (b. 1631) December 16 Juan Ortega y Montañés, Spanish Catholic bishop, colonial administrator in Guatemala and New Spain (b. 1627) Nicolas Pasquin, early pioneer in New France (now Quebec) (b. 1648)