Editing 1698 (section)

=== 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>