March 3 – Robert Hooke, English scientist (b. 1635) March 12 – Aubrey de Vere, 20th Earl of Oxford (b. 1627) March 31 – Johann Christoph Bach, German composer (b. 1642) April 1 – Thomas Jermyn, 2nd Baron Jermyn, Governor of Jersey (b. 1633) April 20 – Lancelot Addison, English royal chaplain (b. 1632) May 3 – Sir Richard Grobham Howe, 2nd Baronet, English Member of Parliament (b. 1621) May 6 – John Murray, 1st Marquess of Atholl (b. 1631) May 16 – Charles Perrault, French author (b. 1628) May 26 Louis-Hector de Callière, French politician (b. 1648) Samuel Pepys, English civil servant and diarist (b. 1633) June 14 – Jean Herauld Gourville, French adventurer (b. 1625) June 19 – William Stanhope, English politician (b. 1626) July 17 – Roemer Vlacq I, Dutch naval captain (b. 1637) July 20 Changning, prince during the Qing Dynasty (b. 1657) Statz Friedrich von Fullen, German-born nobleman (b. 1638) August 10 – Fuquan (prince), Chinese Qing Dynasty prince (b. 1653) August 21 – Thomas Tryon, British hat maker (b. 1634) September 22 – Vincenzo Viviani, Italian mathematician and scientist (b. 1622) September 25 – Archibald Campbell, 1st Duke of Argyll, Scottish privy councillor (b. 1658) September 29 – Charles de Saint-Évremond, French soldier (b. 1610) September 30 – Walter J. Johnson, English explorer, fur trader (b. 1611) October 3 – Alessandro Melani, Italian composer (b. 1639) October 5 – Anthony Ettrick, English politician (b. 1622) October 8 – Tomás Marín de Poveda, 1st Marquis of Cañada Hermosa, Royal Governor of Chile (b. 1650) October 11 – Roger Cave, English politician (b. 1655) October 14 – Thomas Kingo, Danish bishop (b. 1634) October 28 – John Wallis, English mathematician (b. 1616) November 19 – The Man in the Iron Mask (identity unknown) November 27 – Henry Winstanley, English engineer (b. 1644) November 30 – Nicolas de Grigny, French organist and composer (b. 1672) December 28 – Mustafa II, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1664) date unknown Phetracha, king of Ayutthaya (b. 1632) Anastasiya Dabizha, princess of Moldavia and Wallachia and Hetmana of Ukraine. References