January 11: Mount Etna volcano erupts in Italy, leading to earthquake that kills 60,000 people.
1693 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar 1693
MDCXCIII
Ab urbe condita 2446
Armenian calendar 1142
ԹՎ ՌՃԽԲ
Assyrian calendar 6443
Balinese saka calendar 1614–1615
Bengali calendar 1099–1100
Berber calendar 2643
English Regnal year Will. & Mar. – 6 Will. & Mar.
Buddhist calendar 2237
Burmese calendar 1055
Byzantine calendar 7201–7202
Chinese calendar 壬申年 (Water Monkey)
4390 or 4183
    — to —
癸酉年 (Water Rooster)
4391 or 4184
Coptic calendar 1409–1410
Discordian calendar 2859
Ethiopian calendar 1685–1686
Hebrew calendar 5453–5454
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat 1749–1750
 - Shaka Samvat 1614–1615
 - Kali Yuga 4793–4794
Holocene calendar 11693
Igbo calendar 693–694
Iranian calendar 1071–1072
Islamic calendar 1104–1105
Japanese calendar Genroku 6
(元禄6年)
Javanese calendar 1616–1617
Julian calendar Gregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar 4026
Minguo calendar 219 before ROC
民前219年
Nanakshahi calendar 225
Thai solar calendar 2235–2236
Tibetan calendar ཆུ་ཕོ་སྤྲེ་ལོ་
(male Water-Monkey)
1819 or 1438 or 666
    — to —
ཆུ་མོ་བྱ་ལོ་
(female Water-Bird)
1820 or 1439 or 667

1693 (MDCXCIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1693rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 693rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 93rd year of the 17th century, and the 4th year of the 1690s decade. As of the start of 1693, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Events

January–March

  • January 11 – The Mount Etna volcano erupts in Italy, causing a devastating earthquake that kills 60,000 people in Sicily and Malta.[1]
  • January 22 – A total lunar eclipse is visible across North and South America.[2]
  • February 8 – The College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia is granted a Royal charter.
  • February 27 – The publication of the first women's magazine, titled The Ladies' Mercury, takes place in London.[3] It is published by the Athenian Society.
  • March 27Bozoklu Mustafa Pasha becomes the new Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire, after Sultan Ahmed II appoints him as the successor of Çalık Ali Pasha.

April–June

  • April 4Anne Palles becomes the last accused witch to be executed for witchcraft in Denmark, after having been convicted of using powers of sorcery. King Christian V accepts her plea not to be burned alive, and she is beheaded before her body is set afire.
  • April 5 – The Order of Saint Louis, the first medal to be awarded in France to military personnel who are not members of nobility, is created by order of King Louis XIV, and named after his ancestor, King Louis IX.
  • April 28 – The 90-gun English Royal Navy warship HMS Windsor Castle is wrecked beyond repair on the Goodwin Sands.
  • AprilTituba, a slave who had been convicted at the Salem witch trials of practicing witchcraft after making a confession, is released from jail in Boston after 13 months when an unknown purchaser pays her jail fees.[4]
  • May 18 – Forces of Louis XIV of France attack Heidelberg, capital of the Electorate of the Palatinate.
  • May 22 – Heidelberg is taken by the invading French forces; on May 23 Heidelberg Castle is surrendered, after which the French blow up its towers using mines.
  • June 5 – The first performance of the opera Didon by French composer Henri Desmarets takes place at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal in Paris.
  • June 27Nine Years' WarBattle of Lagos off Portugal: The French fleet defeats the joint Dutch and English fleet.

July–September

  • July 17 – A total lunar eclipse is visible in New Zealand and across the Pacific Ocean.[5]
  • July 29Nine Years' WarBattle of Landen: William III of England is defeated by the French (with Irish Jacobite mercenaries).
  • August 21 – The Indian Ocean port of Pondicherry, capital of French India is captured by a 17-ship fleet from the Netherlands and 1,600 men under the command of Laurens Pit the Younger.
  • September 9Francesco Invrea, King of Corsica, begins a two-year term as the Doge of the Republic of Genoa in Italy, succeeding Giovanni Battista Cattaneo Della Volta.
  • September 10 – France begins the siege of the Spanish Netherlands (now Belgium) fort of Charleroi.
  • September 14 – King Louis XIV of France sends a letter to Pope Innocent XII announcing the rescission of the Declaration of the Clergy of France issued in 1682.
  • September 23 – Manuel Afonso Nzinga a Nlenke, ruling as King Manuel I of the Kingdom of Kongo (in present-day northern Angola) is executed on orders of the new king, Álvaro X.

October–December

  • OctoberWilliam Congreve's comedy The Double-Dealer is first performed in London.[6][7]
  • October 4Battle of Marsaglia near Turin in the Duchy of Savoy: A French force under the command of General Nicolas Catinat defeats the Savoyard forces, leaving 10,000 dead or wounded, while sustaining only 1,000 casualties.
  • October 11Charleroi falls to French forces.
  • October 29 – The Great Storm changes the course of rivers and alters the coastline from Virginia to Long Island in America.[8]
  • November 7King Charles II of Spain issues a royal edict providing sanctuary in Spanish Florida for escaped slaves from the English colony of South Carolina.[9][10]
  • November 14 – General Santaji Ghorpade of the Maratha Empire in India is defeated by General Himmat Khan of the Mughal Empire near Vikramhalli, and retreats. A week later, after regrouping his troops, Santaji defeats Himmat at their next encounter.
  • November 21 – The 46-gun Royal Navy frigate HMS Mordaunt founders off of the coast of Cuba.
  • November 29 – A fleet of 30 English and Dutch ships captures the French port of Saint-Malo
  • December 16Diego de Vargas, Spanish colonial governor of Santa Fe de Nuevo México (now the area around the capital of the U.S. state of New Mexico), returns to the walled city of Santa Fe and requests the Pueblo people to accept the authority of the colonial government. Negotiations fail and a siege begins on December 29. The Pueblo defenders surrender the next day and the 70 rebels are executed soon after. The 400 civilian women and children are made slaves and distributed to the Spanish colonists.[11]
  • December 27 – The new 80-gun English Navy warship HMS Sussex departs Portsmouth on its maiden voyage, escorting a fleet of 48 warships and 166 merchant ships to the Mediterranean Sea. The fleet runs into a storm on February 27, 1694, and on March 1, Sussex and 12 other warships sink, along with a cargo of gold.

Date unknown

  • China concentrates all its foreign trade on Canton; European ships are forbidden to land anywhere else.
  • A religious schism takes place in Switzerland, within a group of Swiss and Alsatian Anabaptists led by Jakob Ammann. Those who follow Ammann become the Mennonite Amish sect.[12]
  • The Knights of the Apocalypse are formed in Italy.
  • The Academia Operosorum Labacensium is established in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
  • Financier Richard Hoare relocates Hoare's Bank (founded 1672) from Cheapside to Fleet Street in London.
  • Italian barber Giovanni Paolo Feminis creates a perfume water called Aqua Admirabilis, earliest known form of eau de Cologne.[13]
  • John Locke publishes his influential book Some Thoughts Concerning Education.[14]
  • William Penn publishes his proposal for European federation, Essay on the Present and Future Peace of Europe.[7]
  • English astronomer Edmond Halley studies records of births and deaths in Breslau (Poland), producing a life table consolidating year of birth and age at death. He uses this to work out the price of life annuities.[15]
  • Dimitrie Cantemir presents his Kitâbu 'İlmi'l-Mûsiki alâ Vechi'l-Hurûfât (The Book of the Science of Music through Letters) to Sultan Ahmed II, which deals with melodic and rhythmic structure and practice of Ottoman music, and contains the scores for around 350 works composed during and before his own time, in an alphabetical notation system he invented.

Births

Matthew Hutton (archbishop of Canterbury) born 3 January
José del Campillo born 13 February
Malhar Rao Holkar born 16 March
Mary Alexander born 16 April
Anne Sophie Reventlow born 16 April
Thomas Gent born 4 May
Diego de Torres Villarroel born 17 June
Christian August Hausen born 19 June
Joseph Emanuel Fischer von Erlach born 13 September
Marie-Madeleine de Parabère born 6 October
Louise Élisabeth de Bourbon born 22 November
Nathaniel Appleton born 9 December

January–March

  • January 1Francesco Carlo Rusca, Swiss painter (d. 1769)
  • January 3
    • Giovanni Bianchi, Italian physician and zoologist (d. 1775)
    • Matthew Hutton, Archbishop of York and Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1758)
  • January 12Queen Jeongseong, Queen Consort of Korea (d. 1757)
  • January 16Francesco Campora, Italian painter (d. 1763)
  • January 17Melchor de Navarrete, Spanish colonial governor of Florida and Mexico (d. 1761)
  • January 19
    • Jonathan Rashleigh, politician (d. 1764)
    • Hyacinthe Collin de Vermont, French painter (d. 1761)
  • January 23Georg Bernhard Bilfinger, German mathematician (d. 1750)
  • January 26William Robinson, deputy governor of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (d. 1751)
  • January 28
    • Robert Sawyer Herbert, British Member of Parliament (d. 1769)
    • Empress Anna of Russia, Empress of Russia (d. 1740)
    • Gregor Werner, Austrian composer (d. 1766)
  • January 29Henry Herbert, 9th Earl of Pembroke, English peer and architect (d. 1750)
  • January 30Countess Palatine Maria Anna of Neuburg, Countess Palatine of Neuburg by birth, Duchess of Bavaria (d. 1751)
  • February 12Avdotya Chernysheva, Russian lady-in-waiting (d. 1747)
  • February 13José del Campillo, Spanish politician (d. 1743)
  • February 15Peter Schenk the Younger, German engraver and map publisher (d. 1775)
  • February 24
    • James Quin, English actor (d. 1766)
    • Johann Jacob Rambach, German theologian (d. 1735)
  • March 2Sir Thomas Wheate, 2nd Baronet, English politician (d. 1746)
  • March 5Johann Jakob Wettstein, Swiss theologian (d. 1754)
  • March 6Edward Willes, English Anglican bishop and cryptanalyst (d. 1773)
  • March 7Pope Clement XIII, pope of the Catholic Church (d. 1769)[16]
  • March 15Sir William Heathcote, 1st Baronet, British politician (d. 1751)
  • March 16Malhar Rao Holkar, Indian nobleman (d. 1766)
  • March 17Countess Palatine Elisabeth Auguste Sofie of Neuburg, Grandmother of Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria (d. 1728)

April–June

  • April 1Melusina von der Schulenburg, Countess of Walsingham, British Countess (d. 1778)
  • April 3
    • George Edwards, English naturalist (d. 1773)
    • John Harrison, English clockmaker, horologist and inventor of the marine chronometer (d. 1776)
  • April 4John West, 1st Earl De La Warr, British general (d. 1766)
  • April 13Johann Georg Keyßler, German polymath (d. 1743)
  • April 16
    • Mary Alexander, British American merchant (d. 1760)
    • Anne Sophie Reventlow, Danish royal consort, Queen of Denmark-Norway (d. 1743)
  • April 20Daniel Brodhead II, American justice of the peace (d. 1755)
  • April 25Sir Charles Hotham, 5th Baronet, British diplomat (d. 1738)
  • April 26William Wollaston, British politician (d. 1757)
  • April 29Asmus Ehrenreich von Bredow (d. 1756)
  • April 30Giuseppe Maria Feroni, Italian cardinal (d. 1767)
  • May 4Thomas Gent, Irish printer and writer (d. 1778)
  • May 9Charles Howard, 7th Earl of Suffolk, English Earl (d. 1722)
  • May 10
    • John Fox, English biographer (d. 1763)
    • Henry Hare, 3rd Baron Coleraine, Irish peer and politician (d. 1749)
  • May 15Henry Winder, English chronologist (d. 1752)
  • May 24Georg Rafael Donner, Austrian sculptor (d. 1741)
  • May 31Bartolomeo Nazari, Italian painter (d. 1758)
  • June 1
    • Alexey Bestuzhev-Ryumin, Russian diplomat, chancellor of the Russian Empire (d. 1768)
    • Johann Dietrich von Hülsen, German canon (d. 1767)
  • June 17
    • Prince Charles William of Hesse-Darmstadt, Prince of Hesse-Darmstadt and Obrist (d. 1707)
    • Diego de Torres Villarroel, Spanish writer (d. 1770)
    • Johann Georg Walch, German theologian (d. 1775)
  • June 19Christian August Hausen, German mathematician and physicist (d. 1743)
  • June 20Wilhelmina Maria Frederica of Rochlitz, Polish noble (d. 1729)
  • June 29Juan Bautista de Anza I, Spanish militar and explorer (d. 1740)

July–September

  • July 7Gilles-François de Beauvais, French Jesuit (d. 1773)
  • July 12Jean-Baptiste de Brancas, Roman Catholic archbishop (d. 1770)
  • July 16Cecilia Rosa de Jesús Talangpaz, Servant of God (d. 1731)
  • July 17Gerard Melder, miniature and watercolor painter from the Northern Netherlands (d. 1754)
  • July 21Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle, Prime Minister of Great Britain (d. 1768)[17]
  • July 26Alexandre Le Riche de La Poupelinière, Patron of music and literature (d. 1762)
  • August 1Hugh Hughes, Welsh poet (d. 1776)
  • August 7
    • Sir Edmund Bacon, 5th Baronet, British politician (d. 1738)
    • Charles, Prince of Rochefort, French noble (d. 1763)
  • August 8Laurent Belissen, French composer (d. 1762)
  • August 9
    • Anne Cecil, Countess of Salisbury, British noble (d. 1757)
    • Princess Sophia Wilhelmina of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Princess of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld by birth and by marriage Princess of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt (d. 1727)
  • August 11Francisco de Merlo, Spanish noblemen, military and notary (d. 1758)
  • August 13Gustavus Handcock, Irish politician (d. 1751)
  • September 3Charles Radclyffe, Titular 5th Earl of Derwentwater (d. 1746)
  • September 7Victor I, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym (d. 1772)
  • September 9Quinault-Dufresne, French actor (d. 1767)
  • September 10James MacSparran, Church of England clergyman in America (d. 1757)
  • September 13Joseph Emanuel Fischer von Erlach, Austrian architect (d. 1742)
  • September 19Louis Charles Armand Fouquet, French general and diplomat (d. 1747)
  • September 21Thomas Secker, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1768)
  • September 22Simon Nikolaus Euseb von Montjoye-Hirsingen, Prince Bishop of Basel (d. 1775)

October–December

  • October 3Conway Blennerhassett, Irish politician (d. 1724)
  • October 5Johann Christian Buxbaum, German physician, botanist and traveller (d. 1730)
  • October 6Marie-Madeleine de Parabère, French aristocrat (d. 1755)
  • October 9Johann Lorenz von Mosheim, German church historian (d. 1755)
  • October 11
    • Frederick Charles, Prince of Stolberg-Gedern (d. 1767)
    • John Hobart, 1st Earl of Buckinghamshire, British politician (d. 1756)
  • October 14Daniel Maichel, German philosopher (d. 1752)
  • October 15Sir Edward Wilmot, 1st Baronet, Royal surgeon (d. 1786)
  • October 18
    • John Chandler, American judge and sheriff (d. 1762)
    • John Gilbert, Archbishop of York (d. 1761)
    • Jeremiah Markland, British classical scholar (d. 1776)
  • October 20Gideon Wanton, Rhode Island colonial governor (d. 1767)
  • October 21
    • Adriaan van der Burg, painter from the Northern Netherlands (d. 1733)
    • Frederik Nannestad, Norwegian bishop (d. 1774)
  • October 22Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron, American planter (d. 1781)
  • October 25Antoine Ferrein, French anatomist (d. 1769)
  • October 28Šimon Brixi, Czech composer (d. 1735)
  • October 30Samuel Chew, American judge (d. 1743)
  • November 5Ivan Neplyuyev, Russian noble (d. 1773)
  • November 9Countess Henriette Charlotte of Nassau-Idstein, German princess (d. 1734)
  • November 10Roland-Michel Barrin de La Galissonière, French admiral (d. 1756)
  • November 13Thomas Watson-Wentworth, 1st Marquess of Rockingham, British politician (d. 1750)
  • November 22
    • Louise Élisabeth de Bourbon, daughter of Louis (d. 1775)
    • Zheng Xie, Chinese painter (d. 1766)
  • November 28Anthonie van der Heim, Dutch politician, urban magistrate and judge in Rotterdam, Grand Pensionary of Holland (d. 1746)
  • November 30Christoph Förster, German composer (d. 1745)
  • December 9Nathaniel Appleton, Congregational minister (d. 1784)
  • December 29Pierre Joseph Céloron de Blainville, French explorer (d. 1759)
  • date unknownHeyat Mahmud, Bengali poet (d. 1760)

Deaths

Mehmed IV died 6 January
Marguerite de la Sablière died 6 January
Federico Visconti died 7 January
John de Britto died 4 February
Constantin Cantemir died 24 March
Adriaantje Hollaer died 31 March
Roger de Rabutin, comte de Bussy died 9 April
Rutger von Ascheberg died 17 April
Madame de La Fayette died 25 May
Willem Kalf died 31 July
Flavio Chigi died 13 September
Bankei Yōtaku died 30 September
Theodor von Strattman died 25 October
Kyprian Zochovskyj died 26 October
Job Adriaenszoon Berckheyde died 23 November
Willem van de Velde the Elder died 13 December

January–March

  • January 1Theodor Undereyck, German theologian (b. 1635)
  • January 4Thomas Hanford, first minister in Norwalk, Connecticut (b. 1621)
  • January 6
    • Mehmed IV, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1648 to 1687 (b. 1642)
    • Marguerite de la Sablière, French salonist and polymath (b. 1640)
  • January 7
    • Marco Antonio Tomati, Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1583)
    • Federico Visconti, Cardinal Archbishop of Milan (b. 1617)
  • January 8Jan Andrzej Morsztyn, Polish poet (b. 1621)
  • January 21Honda Toshinaga, daimyo (b. 1635)
  • January 27Anthony Lowther, English politician (b. 1641)
  • January 31
    • Ahasuerus Fromanteel, English clockmaker (b. 1607)
    • Baptist Levinz, English bishop (b. 1644)
  • February 4John de Britto, Portuguese Jesuit missionary and martyr (b. 1647)
  • February 7Paul Pellisson, French writer (b. 1624)
  • February 9William Turner, English Sheriff, Lord Mayor and M.P. of London (b. 1615)
  • February 11John de Brito, Portuguese Jesuit missionary and martyr (b. 1647)
  • February 13Johann Caspar Kerll, German composer and organist (b. 1627)
  • February 18Elias Tillandz, Swedish physician, botanist, professor of medicine and university rector (Royal Academy of Turku) (b. 1640)
  • February 21Pierre-Joseph-Marie Chaumonot, French missionary (b. 1611)
  • February 22Henrik Horn, Swedish military leader and noble (b. 1618)
  • February 24Filippo Alferio Ossorio, Catholic Bishop of Fondi (b. 1634)
  • March 3William Stockdale, Member of Parliament (b. 1634)
  • March 6Antonio Caraffa, Austrian Military commander (b. 1646)
  • March 8Countess Palatine Leopoldine Eleonora of Neuburg (b. 1679)
  • March 10Carlo Cesare Malvasia, Italian art historian (b. 1616)
  • March 13John Rashleigh, English politician (b. 1619)
  • March 17Richard Whithed, English politician (b. 1660)
  • March 21Walter Chetwynd, English antiquary, politician (b. 1633)
  • March 24Constantin Cantemir, Ruler of Moldavia (b. 1612)
  • March 27Sylvanus Morgan, English painter (b. 1620)
  • March 31Adriaantje Hollaer, Dutch painter (b. 1610)

April–June

  • April 4
    • Isaac Aboab da Fonseca, Portuguese Sephardic rabbi (b. 1605)
    • Anne Palles, Danish witch (b. 1619)
  • April 5
    • Philip William August, Count Palatine of Neuburg, Eighth son of Elector Palatine Philip William (b. 1668)
    • Anne Marie Louise d'Orléans, Duchess of Montpensier, French writer (b. 1627)
    • George Louis I, Count of Erbach-Erbach (b. 1643)
    • Christian Scriver, German hymnwriter (b. 1629)
  • April 9Roger de Rabutin, comte de Bussy, French writer (b. 1618)
  • April 15
    • Pierre Cureau de La Chambre, French priest (b. 1640)
    • Sir John Cutler, 1st Baronet, English merchant and financier (b. 1608)
  • April 17Rutger von Ascheberg, Courland-born soldier in Swedish service (b. 1621)
  • April 20Claudio Coello, Spanish Baroque painter (b. 1642)
  • May 2Ernest, Landgrave of Hesse-Rheinfels and later of Hessen-Rheinfels-Rotenburg (b. 1623)
  • May 3Claude de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, French courtier (b. 1607)
  • May 6
    • François Tallemant the Elder, French translator (b. 1620)
    • William Yardley, Quaker minister (b. 1632)
  • May 8Jan Verkolje, painter from the Northern Netherlands (b. 1650)
  • May 13Thomas Jervoise, English politician (b. 1616)
  • May 15
    • Jacques Du Frische, theologian (b. 1640)
    • John Hamilton, 2nd Lord Bargany, Scottish peer accused of treason and cleared of charges (b. 1640)
  • May 16Philippe Couplet, Flemish Jesuit missionary (b. 1623)
  • May 18Giacomo Altoviti, Italian religious (b. 1604)
  • May 21Henry Erskine, 3rd Lord Cardross, Scottish nobleman and covenanter (b. 1650)
  • May 25
    • Al-Hurr al-Amili, Muslim cleric and scholar (b. 1624)
    • Madame de La Fayette, French writer (b. 1634)
  • May 27
    • Asano Mitsuakira (b. 1617)
    • John Spencer, English clergyman, scholar, Master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (b. 1630)
  • June 3Camille de Neufville de Villeroy, Archbishop of Lyon (b. 1606)
  • June 4John Wildman, English soldier and politician (b. 1621)
  • June 6Dirck Ferreris, Dutch painter (b. 1634)
  • June 7Miklós Erdődy, Ban of Croatia (b. 1630)
  • June 12
    • John Ashby, Royal Navy admiral (b. 1646)
    • Christen Jensen Lodberg, Danish bishop (b. 1625)
  • June 17Francisco Marcos de Velasco, Spanish military governor, commander of Antwerp Citadel (b. 1633)
  • June 18Johann Heinrich von Anethan, German vicar general and canon (b. 1628)
  • June 20Juliana of Hesse-Eschwege, German noblewoman (b. 1652)
  • June 22Wolfgang Leinberer, German astronomer, philosopher, mathematician, professor, priest in the Society of Jesus (b. 1635)
  • June 23Sir John Wittewrong, 1st Baronet, English parliamentarian (b. 1618)
  • June 24
    • Sir Henry Lyttelton, 2nd Baronet, English politician (b. 1624)
    • Pavel Josef Vejvanovský, Czech composer (b. 1633)
    • Isaac Willaerts, painter from the Northern Netherlands (b. c. 1620)
  • June 26John Philip II, Wild- and Rhinegrave of Salm-Dhaun (b. 1645)
  • June 30Christina zu Mecklenburg, princess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (b. 1639)

July–September

  • July 4Ermanno Stroiffi, Italian painter (b. 1616)
  • July 8François Duchesne, French historian (b. 1616)
  • July 12
    • John Ashby, English admiral (b. c. 1640)
    • Johan Hadorph, Swedish director-general of the Central Board of National Antiquities (b. 1630)
  • July 13
    • Cataldo Amodei, Sicilian composer (b. 1649)
    • Michiel Nouts, Dutch painter (b. 1628)
    • Johann Konrad von Roggenbach, Prince-Bishop of Basle (b. 1618)
  • July 19Hendrik Trajectinus, Count of Solms, Dutch lieutenant-general (b. 1638)
  • July 22John Davies, Welsh translator and writer (b. 1625)
  • July 26Ulrika Eleonora of Denmark, Queen consort of Sweden (b. 1656)
  • July 31Willem Kalf, painter from the Northern Netherlands (b. 1619)
  • August 7John George II, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau (b. 1627)
  • August 12Mark Sension, Connecticut settler (b. 1630)
  • August 15Gregorio María de Silva y Mendoza, 9th Duke of the Infantado (b. 1649)
  • August 21Patrick Sarsfield, 1st Earl of Lucan, Irish Jacobite peer (b. 1655)
  • August 23Johann Daniel Major, German professor of theoretical medicine (b. 1634)
  • August 27Edward Rawson, American settler (b. 1615)
  • August 28
    • Johann Christoph Bach, German composer (b. 1645)
    • Jane Howard, Duchess of Norfolk, British noble (b. 1640)
  • August 30Laurent Cassegrain, French priest, astronomer and physicist (b. 1629)
  • September 1Nicolas Potier de Novion, French politician (b. 1618)
  • September 5Otto Grote zu Schauen, German politician (b. 1636)
  • September 6Odoardo Farnese, Hereditary Prince of Parma (b. 1666)
  • September 9Ihara Saikaku, Japanese writer (b. 1642)
  • September 12
    • Elisabeth Baulacre, Genevan industrialist (b. 1613)
    • Lionel Copley, Colonial governor of Maryland (b. 1648)[18]
    • Gabrielle de Rochechouart de Mortemart, French noble (b. 1633)
  • September 13
    • Lazar Baranovych, Ukrainian bishop (b. 1616)
    • Flavio Chigi, Italian cardinal and librarian (b. 1631)
  • September 14Aert Jansse van Nes, Dutch admiral (b. 1626)
  • September 16Giovanni Battista de Belli, Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Telese o Cerreto Sannita (b. 1630)
  • September 19Johann Weikhard von Valvasor, Slovenian nobleman and polymath (b. 1641)
  • September 24Henri Justel, French scholar, royal administrator, bibliophile and librarian (b. 1620)
  • September 25William Bassett, English landowner and politician (b. 1628)
  • September 27John Lovelace, 3rd Baron Lovelace, English politician (b. 1640)
  • September 28
    • Pietro Antonio d'Alessandro, Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1628)
    • Thomas Knyvett, 7th Baron Berners, English politician (b. 1656)
  • September 30Bankei Yōtaku, Japanese Zen buddhist monk (b. 1622)

October–December

  • October 1Pedro Abarca, Spanish theologian (b. 1619)
  • October 4Thomas Clayton, English politician (b. 1612)
  • October 5George Lawton, American settler (b. 1607)
  • October 8Thomas Bampfield, English politician (b. 1623)
  • October 9
    • Marquard Sebastian Schenk von Stauffenberg, Prince-Bishop of Bamberg (b. 1644)
    • Unshō, Japanese Buddhist scriptural commentator (b. 1604)
  • October 10Charles Patin, French physician (b. 1633)
  • October 12Sir Christopher Conyers, 2nd Baronet, Conyers baronets and Lord Lieutenant of Durham (b. 1621)
  • October 14Philipp Kilian, German engraver (b. 1628)
  • October 17Charles Schomberg, 2nd Duke of Schomberg, English general (b. 1645)
  • October 25Theodor von Strattman, Austrian diplomat (b. 1637)
  • October 26
    • Coenraad van Beuningen, Dutch diplomat (b. 1622)
    • Kyprian Zochovskyj, Metropolitan of Kyiv (b. 1635)
  • November 2Theodor Kerckring, Dutch anatomist (b. 1638)
  • November 9Samuel Hale, Connecticut settler and politician (b. 1615)
  • November 12Maria van Oosterwijck, Dutch Golden Age painter (b. 1623)
  • November 13Francesco Fortezza, Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1621)
  • November 16Francis Marsh, Irish bishop (b. 1626)
  • November 23Job Adriaenszoon Berckheyde, Dutch painter (b. 1630)
  • November 24William Sancroft, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1617)
  • November 30Francesco Lorenzo Brancati di Lauria, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1612)
  • December 5Levinus Bennet, English politician (b. 1631)
  • December 12Countess Palatine Anna Magdalena of Birkenfeld-Bischweiler, Countess of Hanau-Lichtenberg (b. 1640)
  • December 13
    • Dosoftei, Moldavian Metropolitan (b. 1624)
    • Willem van de Velde the Elder, Dutch painter (b. c. 1611)
  • December 14Giuseppe Felice Tosi, Italian composer (b. 1619)
  • December 16Jacques Rousseau, painter from France (b. 1630)
  • December 21Hendrick Mommers, Dutch painter (b. 1623)
  • December 22Elisabeth Hevelius, Danzig astronomer (b. 1647)
  • December 24Nicolaes Maes, Dutch painter (b. 1634)
  • December 27Henri de Villars, French prelate (b. 1621)
  • December 29Vere Fane, 4th Earl of Westmorland, English Earl (b. 1644)
  • date unknownLars Nilsson, Sami shaman in Sweden

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