Editing 1680 (section)

=== January&ndash;June ===
* [[January 2]]
** [[John Jolliffe (merchant)|John Jolliffe]], English politician and businessman (b. [[1613]])
** [[Trunajaya]], [[Madura Island|Maduran]] prince and rebel leader, murdered (b. [[1649]])
* [[January 18]] &ndash; [[John Hervey (died 1680)|John Hervey]], English courtier and politician (b. [[1616]])
* [[January 20]] &ndash; [[Ann, Lady Fanshawe]], English memoirist (b. [[1625]])
* [[January 23]] &ndash; [[Capel Luckyn]], English Member of Parliament (b. [[1622]])
* [[February]] &ndash; [[Ralph Davenant]], English rector and founder of [[Davenant Foundation School]]
* [[February 11]] &ndash; [[Elisabeth of the Palatinate]], German princess, philosopher and Calvinist (b. [[1618]])
* [[February 17]]
** [[Denzil Holles, 1st Baron Holles]], English statesman and writer (b. [[1599]])
** [[Frans Post]], Dutch painter (b. [[1612]])
** [[Jan Swammerdam]], Dutch scientist (b. [[1637]])
* [[February 22]] &ndash; [[Catherine Monvoisin]], French fortune teller and poisoner (b. c. [[1640]])
* [[February 27]] &ndash; [[Philippe Balthazar de Gand]], French noble (b. [[1616]])
* [[March 14]] &ndash; [[René Le Bossu]], French critic (b. [[1631]])
* [[March 17]]
** [[William Brereton, 3rd Baron Brereton]], English politician (b. [[1631]])
** [[François de La Rochefoucauld (writer)|François de La Rochefoucauld]], French writer (b. [[1613]])<ref>{{cite book | last = Chevalier | first = Tracy | title = Encyclopedia of the essay | publisher = Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers | location = London Chicago | year = 1997 | isbn = 9781884964305 | page=463 | language=en}}</ref>
* [[March 23]] &ndash; [[Nicolas Fouquet]], French statesman (b. [[1615]])
* [[April 1]] &ndash; [[David Denicke]], German jurist and hymnwriter (b. [[1603]])
* [[April 3]]  &ndash; Chhatrapati [[Shivaji Bhosale]], founder of the Maratha Empire (b. [[1630]])
* [[April 19]] &ndash; [[Marie Hedwig of Hesse-Darmstadt]], Duchess consort of Saxe-Meiningen (1671–1680) (b. [[1647]])
* [[April 25]] 
** [[Louise of Anhalt-Dessau]], Duchess ''[[suo jure]]'' of Oława and Wołów (1672–1680) (b. [[1631]])
** [[Simon Paulli]], Danish physician (b. [[1603]])
* [[April 29]] &ndash; [[Nicolas Cotoner]], Spanish 61st Grandmaster of the [[Knights Hospitaller]] (b. [[1608]])
* [[May 29]] &ndash; [[Abraham Megerle]], Austrian composer and organist (b. [[1607]])
* [[May 31]] &ndash; [[Joachim Neander]], German Calvinist clergyman (b. [[1650]])
* [[June 4]]
** [[Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels]], administrator of the archbishopric of Magdeburg (b. [[1614]])
** [[Tokugawa Ietsuna]], Japanese Tokugawa shōgun (b. [[1641]])
* [[June 18]] &ndash; [[Samuel Butler (1612–1680)|Samuel Butler]], English poet (b. [[1612]])
* [[June 10]]
** [[Johan Göransson Gyllenstierna]], Swedish statesman (b. [[1635]])
** [[Louis Moréri]], French encyclopedist (b. [[1643]])