Date unknown Celia Grillo Borromeo, Genovese scientist and mathematician (d. 1777) Jaime de la Té y Sagau, Spanish composer (d. 1736) Deaths January 4 – Louis-Isaac Lemaistre de Sacy, French Bible translator (b. 1613) January 11 – Cornelis Speelman, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (b. 1628) January 13 – Henry Howard, 6th Duke of Norfolk, English noble (b. 1628) January 15 – Alvise Contarini, Doge of Venice (b. 1601) January 21 – Queen Myeongseong, Korean royal consort (b. 1642) January 29 – Angélique de Saint-Jean Arnauld d'Andilly, French Jansenist nun (b. 1624) February 5 – Dorothy Spencer, Countess of Sunderland, English noblewoman (b. 1617) February 6 – Ernst Bogislaw von Croÿ, German Lutheran administrator (b. 1620) February 11 – Sir Thomas Peyton, 2nd Baronet, English politician (b. 1613) March 24 Pieter de Hooch, Dutch painter (b. 1629) Elizabeth Ridgeway, English poisoner (burned at the stake) April 3 – Marc Restout, French painter (b. 1616) April 5 Lord William Brouncker, English mathematician (b. 1602) Karl Eusebius, Prince of Liechtenstein (b. 1611) April 6 – Domenico Maria Canuti, Italian Baroque painter (b. 1625) April 12 – Nicola Amati, Cremonese violin-maker (b. 1596) April 13 – Nicolás Antonio, Spanish bibliographer (b. 1617) April 24 – Johann Olearius, German hymnwriter (b. 1611) May 4 – John Nevison, English highwayman (hanged) (b. 1639) May 10 – Anne Carr, Countess of Bedford, English noble (b. 1615) May 12 – Edme Mariotte, French physicist and priest (b. c. 1620) June 24 – Sir Edward Dering, 2nd Baronet, Irish politician (b. 1625) July 2 – John Rogers, American President of Harvard University (b. 1630) July 6 – Peter Gunning, English royalist churchman (b. 1614) July 26 – Elena Cornaro Piscopia, Venetian philosopher of noble descent (b. 1646) August 8 – George Booth, 1st Baron Delamer, English royalist politician, soldier and landowner (b. 1622) August 20 – Maria d'Este, Italian noble (b. 1644) September 9 – Jakob Thomasius, German philosopher (b. 1622) October 1 – Pierre Corneille, French playwright (b. 1606) October 11 – James Tuchet, 3rd Earl of Castlehaven, Anglo-Irish noble and soldier (b. c. 1617) October 12 – William Croone, English physician, an original Fellow of the Royal Society (b. 1633) October 15 Géraud de Cordemoy, French historian, philosopher and lawyer (b. 1626) Julius Siegmund, Duke of Württemberg-Juliusburg, German noble (b. 1653) October 24 – Duchess Marie Elisabeth of Saxony (b. 1610) October – Dud Dudley,