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== Deaths ==
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* [[January 2]] &ndash; [[Richard Pepys]], English politician (b. [[1589]])
* [[January 15]] &ndash; [[Juliana of Hesse-Darmstadt]], Countess of East Frisia (b. [[1606]])
* [[January 16]] &ndash; [[Charles Annibal Fabrot]], French lawyer (b. [[1580]])
* February &ndash; [[Willem Drost]], Dutch painter and printmaker (b. [[1633]])
* [[February 4]] &ndash; [[Francis Osborne]], English writer (b. [[1593]])
* [[February 11]] &ndash; [[Guillaume Colletet]], French writer (b. [[1598]])
* [[February 12]] &ndash; [[Duchess Magdalene Sibylle of Prussia]], Electress of Saxony (b. [[1586]])
* [[February 15]] &ndash; [[John Arrowsmith (scholar)|John Arrowsmith]], English theologian and academic (b. [[1602]])
* [[February 17]] &ndash; [[Abel Servien]], French diplomat (b. [[1593]])
* [[February 27]] &ndash; [[Henry Dunster]], first president of Harvard College (b. [[1609]])
* [[March 9]] &ndash; [[Peter Bulkley]], English and later American Puritan (b. [[1583]])
* [[March 29]] &ndash; [[Juan Bautista de Lezana]], Spanish theologian (b. [[1586]])
* [[April 15]] &ndash; [[Simon Dach]], German poet (b. [[1605]])
* [[May 6]] &ndash; [[Anne Eleonore of Hesse-Darmstadt]], Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg by marriage (b. [[1601]])
* [[May 20]] &ndash; [[Étienne de Courcelles]], French scholar (b. [[1586]])
* [[May 29]] &ndash; [[Robert Rich, 3rd Earl of Warwick]] (b. [[1611]])
* [[June 3]] &ndash; [[Morgan Llwyd]], Welsh Puritan preacher and writer (b. [[1619]])
* [[June 6]] &ndash; [[Nadira Banu Begum]], Mughal princess (b. [[1618]]) 
* [[June 21]] &ndash; [[Afonso Mendes]], Patriarch of Ethiopia (b. [[1579]])
* [[June 23]] &ndash; [[Hyojong of Joseon]], 17th king of the Joseon dynasty of Korea (1649-1659) (b. [[1619]])
* [[July 5]] &ndash; [[Gironima Spana]], Italian poisoner and central figure of the [[Spana Prosecution]] (executed)  (b. [[1615]])
* [[August 7]] &ndash; [[Jonathan Brewster (colonist)|Jonathan Brewster]], American settler (b. [[1593]])
* [[August 10]]
** [[Eleonora Ramirez di Montalvo]], Italian educator (b. [[1602]])
** [[Frederick III, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp]] (b. [[1597]])
* [[August 30]] 
** [[Alexander Lindsay, 1st Earl of Balcarres]], Scottish politician and noble (b. [[1618]])
** [[Dara Shikoh]], Indian prince (b. [[1615]])
* [[September 8]] &ndash; [[Frederick V, Margrave of Baden-Durlach]] (1622–1659) (b. [[1594]])
* [[September 27]] &ndash; [[Andreas Tscherning]], German poet (b. [[1611]])
* [[September 30]] &ndash; [[Giovanni Pesaro]], Doge of Venice (b. [[1589]])
* [[October 1]] &ndash; [[Juan de Palafox y Mendoza]], Spanish politician, clergyman (b. [[1600]])
* [[October 8]]
** [[Jean de Quen]], French Jesuit missionary and historian (b. c. [[1603]])
** [[Robert Cholmondeley, 1st Earl of Leinster]], English politician (b. [[1584]])
* [[October 10]] &ndash; [[Abel Tasman]], Dutch explorer (b. [[1603]])
* [[October 27]] &ndash; [[Giovanni Francesco Busenello]], Italian librettist (b. [[1598]])
* [[October 31]] &ndash; [[John Bradshaw (judge)|John Bradshaw]], English judge (b. [[1602]])
* [[November 6]] &ndash; [[Jérôme le Royer de la Dauversière]], French nobleman, founder of Montreal and an order of nursing Sisters (b. [[1597]])
* [[November 7]] &ndash; [[Jens Bjelke]], Norwegian noble (b. [[1580]])
* [[November 10]] &ndash; [[Afzal Khan (general)|Afzal Khan]], Indian commander of the Bijapur Adilshahi forces
* [[December 5]] &ndash; [[Fra Bonaventura Bisi]], Italian painter (b. [[1601]])
* [[December 31]] 
** [[János Apáczai Csere]], Hungarian mathematician (b. [[1625]])
** [[Alain de Solminihac]], French bishop and beatified person (b. [[1593]])
* ''date unknown'' &ndash; [[Anne Greene]], English domestic servant and execution survivor (b. {{circa}} [[1628]])