(b. 1615) April 17 Juana Inés de la Cruz, Mexican nun, writer, philosopher, composer and poet (b. 1648) Henri Testelin, French painter (b. 1616) April 20 – Georg Caspar Wecker, German composer (b. 1632) April 23 Petronella Dunois, Dutch art collector (b. 1650) Henry Vaughan, Welsh author, physician and metaphysical poet (b. 1621) April 27 John Trenchard, English politician (b. 1649) John Trenchard, English statesman (b. 1640) April 29 – Jan Karol Dolski, Polish-Lithuanian noble (b. 1637) April 30 – Ikegusuku Anken, sanshikan of Ryukyu (b. 1635) May 1 – Goeku Chōsei, sanshikan of Ryukyu (b. 1621) May 5 – Daniel Brevint, Jersey writer and clergyman (b. 1616) May 9 – Lambert van Haven, Danish architect (b. 1630) May 15 – Patrick Lyon, 3rd Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, Scottish peer (b. 1643) May 17 – Cornelis de Heem, Dutch painter (b. 1631) May 24 – Matsudaira Yorishige, daimyo of the early Edo period; 1st lord of Takamatsu (b. 1622) May 29 Sürmeli Ali Pasha, Ottoman grand vizier (b. 1645) Giuseppe Recco, Italian painter (b. 1634) May 30 Andreas Albinowski, Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Włocławek (1695– (b. 1640) Pierre Mignard, French painter (b. 1612) June 3 – Philip Aranda, Spanish Jesuit theologian (b. 1642) June 7 – Elias Rudolph Camerarius Sr., German physician (b. 1641) June 11 – André Félibien, French architect (b. 1619) June 15 – Jean Dieu de Saint-Jean, French painter (b. 1654) June 27 – Prince Christian of Denmark, Danish prince (b. 1675) June 29 – Sir Edward Wyndham, 2nd Baronet, politician (b. 1667) July–September July 8 – Christiaan Huygens, Dutch mathematician and physicist who developed the wave theory of light (b. 1629) July 18 – Johannes Camphuys, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (b. 1634) July 23 – Charles Philip of Brandenburg-Schwedt, Titular Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt (b. 1673) August 2 Mattia de Rossi, Italian painter (b. 1637) Gabriel Tammelin, Lutheran clergyman (b. 1641) August 6 François de Harlay de Champvallon, Roman Catholic archbishop of Paris (b. 1625) Thomas Moore, English politician (b. 1618) August 8 – Carel de Vogelaer, Dutch still life painter (b. 1653) August 9 – Paulus de Roo, Dutch colonial governor (b. 1658) August 12 – Huang Zongxi, Chinese political theorist, philosopher, writer, and soldier (b. 1610) August 19 Jean-Gilles Delcour, Flemish painter (b. 1632) Christopher Merret, English physician and scientist (b. 1614) August 20 – Giuseppe Francesco Borri, Italian alchemist,