III Gonzaga, Duke of Guastalla, Italian noble (b. 1618) January 12 – Robert Ellison, English politician (b. 1614) January 23 – Sir William Curtius FRS, German magistrate and English baronet b. (1599) January 24 – Joan Maetsuycker, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (b. 1606) January 27 – Maria Overlander van Purmerland, Dutch noble (b. 1603) January 29 – Jeronimo Lobo, Portuguese Jesuit missionary (b. 1593) February 7 – Sir Philip Musgrave, 2nd Baronet, English politician (b. 1607) November 20 – Daniel Clasen, German academic (b. 1622) March 3 – Philip Bell, British colonial governor (b. 1590) March 10 – Jean de Launoy, French historian (b. 1603) March 27 – Juan de Leyva de la Cerda, conde de Baños, Spanish noble (b. 1604) April 12 – Mary Rich, Countess of Warwick, 7th daughter of Richard Boyle (b. 1625) April 23 – Walter Aston, 2nd Lord Aston of Forfar, second and eldest surviving son of Walter Aston (b. 1609) April 24 – Louis VI, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (1661–1678) (b. 1630) April 27 – Nicolas Roland, French priest and founder (b. 1642) May 2 – Willem Nieupoort, Dutch politician, and diplomat (b. 1607) May 3 – Bernhard II, Duke of Saxe-Jena, German noble (b. 1638) May 4 or May 14 – Anna Maria van Schurman, Dutch poet and scholar (b. 1607) May 16 – Tamura Muneyoshi, Japanese daimyō of the Iwanuma Domain (b. 1637) May 18 – Miyamoto Iori, Japanese samurai (b. 1612) June 2 – Pieter de Groot, Dutch diplomat (b. 1615) June 17 – Giacomo Torelli, Italian stage designer, engineer, and architect (b. 1608) June 19 – Benedict Arnold, Rhode Island colonial governor (b. 1615) August 5 – Juan García de Zéspedes, Mexican musician and composer (b. 1619) August 16 – Andrew Marvell, English writer (b. 1621) August 17 – Guillaume Herincx, Flemish theologian, Bishop of Ypres (b. 1621) August 28 – John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton, English soldier (b. 1602) August 31 – Louis VII, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (b. 1658) September 1 – Jan Brueghel the Younger, Flemish painter (b. 1601) September 8 – Pietro della Vecchia, Italian painter (b. 1603) September 19 – Christoph Bernhard von Galen, Westphalian Catholic prince-bishop of Münster and military leader (b. 1606) September 28 – Maurizio Cazzati, Italian composer (b. 1616) October 5 – Hedevig Ulfeldt, daughter of King Christian IV of Denmark and Kirsten Munk (b. 1626) October 11 –