Editing 1699 (section)

=== January–March ===
* [[January 3]] – [[Mattia Preti]], Italian Baroque artist who worked in Italy and Malta (b. [[1613]])
* [[January 14]] – [[Federico Caccia]], Cardinal Archbishop of Milan (b. [[1635]])
* [[January 21]] – [[Obadiah Walker]], English writer (b. [[1616]])
* [[January 23]] – [[Kinoshita Jun'an]], Japanese philosopher and Confucian scholar (b. [[1621]])
* [[January 27]] – [[Sir William Temple, 1st Baronet]], English statesman and essayist (b. [[1628]])
* [[February 1]]
** [[Thomas Chicheley]], English politician (b. [[1614]])
** [[Manuel Fernández de Santa Cruz]], Spanish religious writer, Catholic prelate and bishop (b. [[1637]])
** [[Countess Charlotte Johanna of Waldeck-Wildungen]], daughter of Count Josias II (b. [[1664]])
* [[February 6]] – [[Joseph Ferdinand of Bavaria]], son of Maximilian II Emanuel (b. [[1692]])
* [[February 18]] – [[Giovanni Giacomo Cavallerini]], Roman Catholic cardinal (b. [[1639]])
* [[February 20]] – [[Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer]], Franco-Flemish painter who specialised in flower pieces (b. [[1636]])
* [[February 25]] – [[Lambert Darchis]], arts patron from Liège (b. [[1625]])
* [[March 12]]
** [[Peder Griffenfeld]], Danish statesman (b. [[1635]])
** [[Matsudaira Tsunamasa]] (b. [[1661]])
* [[March 17]] – [[Serafina of God]], founder of seven Carmelite monasteries of nuns in southern Italy (b. [[1621]])
* [[March 20]]
** [[Charles Montecatini]], Roman Catholic prelate who served as Titular Archbishop of ''Chalcedon'' (1690–1699) (b. [[1615]])
** [[Erhard Weigel]], German mathematician, astronomer and philosopher (b. [[1625]])
* [[March 22]] – [[William Chaloner]] (b. [[1650]])
* [[March 27]] – [[Edward Stillingfleet]], British theologian and scholar (b. [[1635]])