Editing 1698 (section)

== Deaths ==
[[File:Moyse Charas - Portrait.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Moyse Charas]] died [[17 January]]]]
[[File:Catherine de Bar.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Mechtilde of the Blessed Sacrament]] died [[6 April]]]]
[[File:Jacob Sasportas.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Jacob ben Aaron Sasportas]] died [[15 April]]]]
[[File:Elizabeth Murray (1626–1698), by Peter Lely.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Elizabeth Maitland, Duchess of Lauderdale]] died [[5 June]]]]
[[File:Raja Ravi Varma, Maharana Jai Singh.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Jai Singh of Mewar]] died [[23 September]]]]
[[File:Louis de Buade, comte de Frontenac et de Palluau (1622-1698).jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Louis de Buade de Frontenac]] died [[28 November]]]]

=== January–March ===
* [[January 10]] – [[Louis-Sébastien Le Nain de Tillemont]], French ecclesiastical historian (b. [[1637]])
* [[January 15]]
** [[Girolamo Borghese]], Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Pienza (1668–1698) (b. [[1616]])
** [[Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Burlington]], Anglo-Irish nobleman, Lord High Treasurer of Ireland, Cavalier (b. [[1612]])
* [[January 17]] – [[Moyse Charas]], apothecary in France during the reign of Louis XIV (b. [[1619]])
* [[January 20]] – [[Giannicolò Conti]], Roman Catholic cardinal (b. [[1617]])
* [[January 22]] – [[Frederick Casimir Kettler]], [[Duke of Courland and Semigallia]] (b. [[1650]])
* [[January 23]] – [[Ernest Augustus, Elector of Brunswick-Lüneburg]] (b. [[1629]])
* [[February 9]] – [[Francis Bernard (physician)|Francis Bernard]], English apothecary (b. [[1628]])
* [[February 16]] – [[Sir James Rushout, 1st Baronet]], English politician (b. [[1644]])
* [[February 21]] – [[Rowland Thomas]], English colonist of Springfield, Massachusetts, selectman, stonemason, surveyor, and proprietor (b. [[1621]])
* [[March 2]] – [[Jacques Quétif]], French Dominican and noted bibliographer (b. [[1618]])
* [[March 6]] – [[Philip Sidney, 3rd Earl of Leicester]], English politician (b. [[1619]])
* [[March 14]] – [[Claes Rålamb]], Swedish statesman (b. [[1622]])
* [[March 16]] – [[Leonora Christina Ulfeldt]], Danish countess (b. [[1621]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Lund |first1=Emil Ferdinand Svitzer |title=Danske malede portraetter: en beskrivende katalog |volume=2 |date=1897 |publisher=Gyldendal |location=Copenhagen |pages=193–203 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GAkwAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA193 |chapter=Leonora Christina, Grevinde Ulfeld |language=da}}</ref>

=== April–June ===
* [[April 6]] – [[Mechtilde of the Blessed Sacrament]], French nun (b. [[1614]])
* [[April 9]] – [[Charles d'Albert d'Ailly]], French diplomat (b. [[1625]])
* [[April 11]] – [[Charles Morton (educator)|Charles Morton]], Cornish nonconformist minister (b. [[1627]])
* [[April 15]] – [[Jacob ben Aaron Sasportas]], Rabbi, Kabbalist, anti-Shabbethaian (b. [[1610]])
* [[April 29]] – [[Charles Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis]], First Lord of the British Admiralty (b. [[1655]])
* [[May 4]] – [[Minye Kyawhtin]], king of Toungoo dynasty of Burma (Myanmar) (b. [[1651]])
* [[May 15]] – [[Marie Champmeslé]], French actress (b. [[1642]])
* [[May 19]] – [[Vere Fane, 5th Earl of Westmorland]] (b. [[1678]])
* [[May 24]] – [[William Blundell of Crosby]], English Royalist landowner and topographer (b. [[1620]])
* [[June 5]]
** [[Elizabeth Maitland, Duchess of Lauderdale]], influential British noblewoman (b. [[1626]])
** [[Domenico Minio]], Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Caorle (1684–1698) (b. [[1628]])
* [[June 10]] – [[Gerrit Berckheyde]], Dutch Golden Age painter (b. [[1638]])
* [[June 11]] – [[Balthasar Bekker]], Dutch minister and author of philosophical and theological works (b. [[1634]])
* [[June 29]] – [[Paluzzo Paluzzi Altieri degli Albertoni]], Italian Catholic Cardinal and Cardinal-Nephew to Pope Clement X (b. [[1623]])
* [[June 30]] – [[Charles Cheyne, 1st Viscount Newhaven]], English Member of Parliament (b. [[1625]])

=== July–September ===
* [[July 11]] – [[Antonio Molinari (bishop)|Antonio Molinari]], Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Lettere-Gragnano (1676–1698) (b. [[1626]])
* [[July 13]] – [[Charles Somerset, Marquess of Worcester]], English nobleman and politician (b. [[1660]])
* [[July 18]] – [[Johann Heinrich Heidegger]], Swiss theologian (b. [[1633]])
* [[July 29]] – [[Bartolomeo Gradenigo (bishop of Brescia)|Bartolomeo Gradenigo]], Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Brescia (1682–1698) (b. [[1636]])
* [[August 14]] – [[Francisco de Aguiar y Seijas]], Spanish cleric and bishop (b. [[1632]])
* [[August 25]] – [[Fleetwood Sheppard]], English poet (b. [[1634]])
* [[August 31]] – [[Miguel Jerónimo de Molina]], Spanish prelate and bishop (b. [[1638]])
* [[September 23]] – [[Jai Singh of Mewar]], Maharana of Mewar from 1680 to 1698 (b. [[1653]])

=== October–December ===
* [[October 11]] – [[William Molyneux]], Irish philosopher and writer (b. [[1656]])
* [[October 23]] – [[David Klöcker Ehrenstrahl]], German artist (b. [[1628]])
* [[October 24]] – [[Daniel de Rémy de Courcelle]], Canadian politician (b. [[1626]])
* [[November 4]] – [[Rasmus Bartholin]], Danish physician and grammarian (b. [[1625]])
* [[November 10]] – [[John George II, Duke of Saxe-Eisenach]] (b. [[1665]])
* [[November 13]] – [[Johann, Count of Leiningen-Dagsburg-Falkenburg]], German nobleman (b. [[1662]])
* [[November 20]] – [[Giovanni Battista De Pace]], Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Capaccio (1684–1698) (b. [[1627]])
* [[November 23]] – [[César-Pierre Richelet]], French grammarian and lexicographer (b. [[1626]])
* [[November 28]] – [[Louis de Buade de Frontenac]], Governor of New France (b. [[1622]])
* [[December 1]] – [[Ferdinand Joseph, Prince of Dietrichstein]], German prince (b. [[1636]])
* [[December 7]] – [[Andrea Guarneri]], Italian luthier (b. [[1626]])
* [[December 9]] – [[José González Blázquez]], Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Plasencia (1695–1698) (b. [[1630]])
* [[December 16]] – [[Simone Pignoni]], Italian painter (b. [[1611]])
* [[December 26]] – [[Wolfgang Julius, Count of Hohenlohe-Neuenstein]], German field marshal and the last count of Hohenlohe-Neuenstein (b. [[1622]])
* ''date unknown'' 
** [[Nicholas Barbon]], English economist (b. c. [[1640]])
** [[Franciscus Mercurius van Helmont]], Flemish alchemist (b. [[1614]])
* ''in fiction'' – [[Mircalla Karnstein]], Countess of Karnstein (b. [[1680]])