Sultan Mehmed IV (b. 1627) August 18 – Charles Hart, English actor (b. 1625) August 22 – Sir John Hobart, 3rd Baronet, English landowner and politician (b. 1628) August 24 – John Owen, English non-conformist theologian (b. 1616) September 6 – Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French minister of finance (b. 1619) September 12 – King Afonso VI of Portugal (b. 1643) September 17 – John Campanius, Swedish Lutheran minister in New Sweden (b. 1601) October 8 – Philipp Friedrich Böddecker, German organist and composer (b. 1607) October 9 – Francesco Caetani, 8th Duke of Sermoneta, Governor of the Duchy of Milan (b. 1613) October 25 – William Scroggs, lord chief justice of England (b. c. 1623) November 10 John Collins, English mathematician (b. 1625) Robert Morison, Scottish botanist and taxonomist (b. 1620) November 16 – Margareta Huitfeldt, Norwegian-Swedish noble (b. 1608) November 29 – John Wright, British politician (b. 1615) December 7 John Oldham, English poet (smallpox) (b. 1653) Algernon Sidney, English politician (b. 1623) December 13 – Anna Sophia II, Abbess of Quedlinburg, Abbesses of Quedlinburg (b. 1638) December 15 – Izaak Walton, English writer (b. 1593) December 16 – John Knight, Member of the Parliament of England (b. 1613) December 25 – Samuel Clarke, English writer and priest (b. 1599) December 27 – Maria Francisca of Savoy, Queen consort of Portugal (b. 1646) Date unknown Birgitta Durell, Swedish industrialist (b. 1616) Roger Williams, English theologian and colonist (b. 1603) References