Editing 1666

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[[File:8 The Great Fire of London 1666.JPG|thumb|300px|[[September 2]]: The [[Great Fire of London]] breaks out and destroys much of the English capital over the next four days.]]
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[[File:St. James Day Fight, Pic 1.jpg|thumb|300px|[[August 4]]: The Dutch Navy fails to invade the British Isles after the English triumph in the [[St. James's Day Battle]]]]
{{Year article header|1666}} This is the first year to be designated as an ''[[Annus mirabilis]]'', in [[John Dryden]]'s 1667 [[Annus Mirabilis (poem)|poem so titled]], celebrating [[Kingdom of England|England]]'s failure to be beaten either by the Dutch or by fire.

== Events ==
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=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 17]] &ndash; The [[Chair of Saint Peter]] (''Cathedra Petri'', designed by [[Gian Lorenzo Bernini|Bernini]]) is set above the altar in [[St. Peter's Basilica]] in [[Rome]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.saintpetersbasilica.org/Altars/Cathedra/Cathedra.htm|title=Cathedra Petri &ndash; Altar of the Chair of St. Peter|publisher=St Peters Basilica|access-date=2013-03-01}}</ref>
* [[January 27]] &ndash; [[Mughal conquest of Chittagong]]: [[Mughal Empire|Mughal]] forces of Emperor [[Aurangzeb]], in alliance with the Portuguese, under [[Shaista Khan]] and his son ''Buzurg'' Umed Khan, expel the [[Rakhine State|Arakan]]s from the [[Bengal]] port city of [[Chittagong]], renaming the city as Islamabad.
* [[February 1]] &ndash; The joint English and Scottish royal court returns to London as the [[Great Plague of London]] subsides.<ref name=CBH190191>{{cite book |last1=Palmer |first1=Alan |last2=Palmer |first2=Veronica |year=1992 |title=The Chronology of British History |publisher=Century Ltd |location=London |pages=190–191 |isbn=0-7126-5616-2}}</ref>
* [[March 11]] &ndash; The tower of [[St. Peter's Church, Riga]], collapses, burying eight people in the rubble.
* March &ndash; The [[Tavernier Blue]], precursor to the [[Hope Diamond]], is first recorded, when French gem merchant [[Jean-Baptiste Tavernier]] purchases it from the [[Kollur Mine]] in the [[Mughal Empire]] in uncut form.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Wise|first=Richard W.|year=2010|title=Historical Time Line, The French Blue / Part III|url=http://thefrenchblue.com/timeline3.htm|access-date=2024-12-15|website=The French Blue}}</ref>

=== April&ndash;June ===
* [[April 20]] &ndash; In colonial British North America, "[[1666 Articles of Peace and Amity|Articles of Peace and Amity]]" are signed between the governments of the [[Province of Maryland]] and 12 Eastern Algonquian tribes — the [[Piscataway people|Piscataways]], [[Nacotchtank|Anacostancks]], [[Doeg people|Doegs]], [[Mattawomans]], [[Potapoco|Portobackes]], [[Chaptico|Chopticos]], Mikikiwomans, Manasquesends, Chingwawateicks, Hangemaicks, Sacayos, and Panyayos.
* [[April 23]] &ndash; On [[Saint Christopher Island]] more commonly called [[St Kitts]], a Caribbean Sea island divided between colonies of England and France, a battle near [[Sandy Point Town]] over control of the territory ends with a victory by the French over a numerically-superior English force two days after English Deputy Governor [[William Watts (colonial administrator)|William Watts]] of Anguilla had sent an expedition to capture the neighbouring island of [[Saint Martin (island)|Saint Martin]].  Governor Watts and the French Governor of Saint-Christophe, [[Charles de Sales]], are both killed in the battle.<ref>W. Earle Lockerby, "Le serment d'allégeance, le service militaire, les déportations et les Acadiens: opinions de France et de Québec aux 17e et 18e siècles", ''Acadiensis'' (March 2008) </ref>
* [[May 12]] &ndash; In [[India]], General [[Shivaji|Shivaji Bhonsale]] of the [[Maratha Empire]] arrives at the [[Agra Fort]] for a meeting with Emperor [[Aurangzeb]] of the [[Mughal Empire]], as part of the terms of peace under the 1665 [[Treaty of Purandar (1665)|Treaty of Purandar]].  After taking offence at the disrespect shown to him, he gets angry and attempts to leave; he and his son Sambhaji are immediately placed under arrest and imprisoned at the fort.<ref>Stewart Gordon, ''The Marathas, 1600–1818'' (Cambridge University Press, 1993) p. 78</ref>
* [[May 13]] &ndash; French theologian [[Louis-Isaac Lemaistre de Sacy]] is imprisoned in the [[Bastille]] after his conviction for [[heresy]] in connection with the [[Jansenism|Jansenist movement]]. Sacy uses his two and one-half years of incarceration (which lasts until November 14, 1668), to create the ''Bible du Port-Royal'', a first [[French language]] rendition of the Bible, finishing a translation of the [[Old Testament]] from the [[Vulgate]], written in [[Latin language|Latin]], that had been started by his brother Antoine, and then beginning work on the [[New Testament]]. 
* [[May 21]]
**The [[Holy Roman Empire]], ruled by [[Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor|Leopold I]], repurchases the territory of the [[Duchy of Opole and Racibórz]] (Oppeln und Ratibor), which it had ceded to Poland in 1645, for the sum of 120,000 [[Hungarian forint|guldens]] and consolidates it with Upper Silesia. The territory will be ceded from [[Germany]] to [[Poland]] in 1945 at the end of [[World War II]].
**[[Iliaș Alexandru]] becomes the [[List of rulers of Moldavia|ruler of Moldavia]], part of modern-day [[Romania]].
* [[June 4]] &ndash; [[Molière]]'s comedy of manners ''[[The Misanthrope]]'' is premièred at the [[Théâtre du Palais-Royal (rue Saint-Honoré)|Théâtre du Palais-Royal]] in [[Paris]] by the King's Players with himself in the title role.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W5-nmMMLKn4C&pg=PA19|title=The Misanthrope and Other Plays by Molière|first=Donald M|last=Frame|year=1968|publisher=New American Library |isbn=9780451524157}}</ref>
* [[June 6]] &ndash; [[Al-Rashid of Morocco|Moulai al-Rashid]] is let into [[Fes]] by the city's Jews, establishing the power of [[Morocco]]'s [[Alawi dynasty]], which will continue into the 21st century.<ref>{{Cite book|editor=Houdas, O.|author=Abū al-Qāsim ibn Aḥmad al-Zayyānī|url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5598026d/f32.item#|title=Le Maroc de 1631 à 1812|year=1886|location=Paris|publisher=Ernest Leroux|page=2|language=fr}}</ref>
* [[June 14]] (June 4 [[Julian calendar]]) &ndash; The [[Four Days' Battle]] between the [[Dutch Republic]] fleet (84 ships under the command of Admiral [[Michiel de Ruyter]]) and the English Royal Navy (79 ships led by the [[George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle|Duke of Albemarle]]) in the [[North Sea]], one of the longest naval engagements in history, ends with a retreat by the English after having started on June 11.<ref>Frank L. Fox, ''The Four Days' Battle of 1666: The Greatest Sea Fight of the Age of Sail'' (Seaforth Publishing, 2009)</ref> A part of the [[Second Anglo-Dutch War]], the battle ends with a Dutch victory, but heavy losses are sustained on both sides: the English lose 1,000 men and 10 ships are sunk, while the Dutch lose four ships and 1,550 men. Damaged, but not destroyed, the English fleet sets about repairs and refitting, and meets the Dutch fleet again on July 25 in the [[St. James's Day Battle]].

=== July&ndash;September ===
* [[July 1]] &ndash; During the [[Portuguese Restoration War]] between Portugal and Spain, the [[Battle of the Berlengas (1666)|Battle of the Berlengas]] ends after four days as a fleet of 15 Spanish warships obtains the surrender of [[Fort of São João Baptista (Berlengas)|Fort of São João Baptista]].
* [[July 6]] &ndash; On 3 Muharram 1077 AH on the Muslim calendar, [[Sa'd ibn Zayd]], a descendant of [[Hasan ibn Ali]] and of [[Muhammad]] (founder of [[Islam]]) becomes the new [[Sharif of Mecca]], in modern-day [[Saudi Arabia]]. His ascension to the post follows the death of his father, [[Zayd ibn Muhsin]], who had been the Sharif since 1631.
* [[July 13]] &ndash; The [[Battle of Matwy]], the bloodiest engagement of [[Lubomirski's rebellion]], takes place in [[Poland]] at the village of [[Matwy]]. [[Jerzy Sebastian Lubomirski]], who has led the revolt against Poland's [[John II Casimir Vasa|King Jan II Kazimierz]], defeats a larger number of troops led by [[John III Sobieski]] of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Poland and Lithuania sustain 4,000 deaths compared to 200 rebel casualties.  
* [[July 31]] &ndash; The [[Agreement of Legonice]] is signed, with Poland restoring the titles of Jerzy Sebastian Lubomirski and Lubomirski's officers, granting amnesty to all the rebels, and King Jan II Kazimierz abandoning further reform plans.
* [[August 2]] ([[July 23]] [[Julian calendar]]) &ndash; A hurricane sweeps through the Caribbean Sea near [[Guadeloupe]] five days after Barbados colonial Governor [[Francis Willoughby, 5th Baron Willoughby of Parham|Francis Willoughby]] led a force of two Royal Navy frigates, 12 commandeered vessels and over 1,000 men in a battle against French colonies during the Second Anglo-Dutch War. Willoughby and most of his crew die in the sinking of his flagship, HMS ''Hope''
* [[August 4]] ([[July 25]] [[Julian calendar]]) &ndash; In the [[St. James's Day Battle]] of the [[Second Anglo-Dutch War]], the English Royal Navy, under the command of [[Prince Rupert of the Rhine]] and [[George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle]], defeats the Dutch Republic navy off the [[North Foreland]] of England. The victory comes 6 weeks after the British fleet had sustained a heavy loss in the [[Four Days' Battle]]. The Dutch ships ''Sneek'' and ''Tholen'' are sunk, with the loss of 800 men, while 300 Englishmen die in the sinking of [[HMS Resolution (1660)|HMS ''Resolution'']].
* [[August 17]] &ndash; In [[India]], General [[Shivaji|Shivaji Bhonsale]], future ruler of the [[Maratha Confederacy|Maratha Empire]], and his son [[Sambhaji]] escape from house arrest at the [[Agra Fort]], where they have been held prisoner since May 12.
* [[August 19]] ([[August 9]] Julian calendar) &ndash; Rear Admiral [[Robert Holmes (Royal Navy officer)|Robert Holmes]] leads an English Royal Navy raid on the Dutch island of [[Terschelling]], destroying 150 merchant ships in the [[Vlie]] estuary over a period of two days, and pillaging the town of [[West-Terschelling]].  The action becomes known as "[[Holmes's Bonfire]]". 
* [[September 2]] &ndash; The [[Great Fire of London]] begins as a blaze in a bakery owned by [[Thomas Farriner]] on [[Pudding Lane]], near [[London Bridge]]. Over a period of four days, the fire destroys more than 13,000 buildings (including [[Old St Paul's Cathedral]]), but only six people are known to have died,<ref name="Pocket On This Day">{{cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-14-102715-0|year=2006}}</ref> while at least 80,000<ref>{{cite book |last1=Tinniswood |first1=Adrian |author-link1=Adrian  Tinniswood |title=By Permission of Heaven: The Story of the Great Fire of London |date=2003 |publisher=Jonathan Cape |location=London |isbn=9780224062268 |page=4, 101}}</ref> are left destitute and homeless. The events are recorded by [[Samuel Pepys]] in his diary. The resurveying of property is credited with advancing both cartography and the practices of surveying, as well as resulting in the modern definition by [[John Ogilby]] of the [[statute mile]], as 1,760 yards.<ref>{{cite book|title=[[Connections (book)|Connections]]|edition=Pbk|page=265|authorlink=James Burke (science historian)|first=James|last=Burke}}</ref>
* [[September 4]] &ndash; Mughal Emperor [[Aurangzeb]] grants the [[Louis XIV's East India Company|French East India Company]] a royal mandate to trade at the port of [[Surat]].<ref>Gregory Mole, ''Privileging Commerce: The Compagnie des Indes and the politics of trade in old Regime France'' (doctoral dissertation, Carolina Digital Repository, 2016) p. 35</ref>
* [[September 6]] &ndash; The ''[[Cestui Que Vie Act 1666]]'' is passed by the [[Parliament of England]], to provide for the disposal of the property of missing persons.
* [[September 16]] &ndash; The [[Apostasy]] of [[Sabbatai Zevi]] begins in [[Istanbul]].

=== October&ndash;December ===
* [[October 10]] &ndash; A "day of humiliation and fasting" is held in [[London]] churches a month after the Great Fire of London.
* [[October 11]] &ndash; The Sieur de Buat, Captain [[Henri de Fleury de Coulan]] of the Army of the Dutch Republic, is beheaded in public at [[The Hague]] after being convicted of attempting to overthrow Dutch leader [[Johan de Witt]].
* [[October 17]] &ndash; In North America, [[Carignan-Salières Regiment|a French Army regiment]] led by [[Alexandre de Prouville de Tracy]] erects crosses in the [[Mohawk people|Mohawk]] lands of the eastern [[Iroquois Confederacy]] territory along the [[Mohawk River]] as part of an invasion that started on September 29.<ref>Jack Verney, ''The Good Regiment'' (McGill-Queen's University Press, 1991)</ref> During the expedition, Prouville's forces find four abandoned Mohawk villages in the area, located in the modern U.S. state of New York near the village of [[Schenectady, New York|Schenectady]] but never confront any Mohawk defenders, and the French never attempt to enforce their claim.
* [[October 23]] &ndash; The most intense tornado on record in English history, an F4 storm on the [[Fujita scale]] or T8 on the [[TORRO scale]], strikes the county of [[Lincolnshire]] with a path of destruction through the villages of Welbourn, Wellingore, Navenby and Boothby Graffoe, with winds of more than {{convert|213|mph}}.<ref>[https://www.torro.org.uk/research/tornadoes/extremes "British and European Extremes"], The Tornado and Storm Research Organisation (TORRO)</ref>
* [[October 26]] &ndash; [[Abbas II of Persia|Abbas II]], the [[Shah of Iran]], dies at the age of 34 after a reign of 24 years, without designating a successor.<ref>H. R. Roemer, "The Safavid period", in ''The Cambridge History of Iran'' (Cambridge University Press, 1986), p. 301</ref> His 18-year old son Sam Mirza is crowned as the new Safavid dynasty emperor six days later.<ref>'' The Muslim World: A Historical Survey, Part III: The Last Great Muslim Empires'' (E. J. Brill, 1969) p. 210</ref>
* [[October 27]] &ndash; [[Robert Hubert]], a Frenchman who has made a false confession to having started the Great Fire of London (despite not arriving in England until two days after the blaze started), is executed based on his statements.
* [[November 28]] &ndash; The [[Battle of Rullion Green]] takes place in the [[Pentland Hills]] near [[Midlothian]] in [[Scotland]] as the culmination of the brief 'Pentland Rising' which began on November 15 as a rebellion by the [[Covenanters]] who oppose changes in the [[Church of Scotland]]. At least 2,000 men of the Scottish Royal Army, led by General [[Tam Dalyell of the Binns|Thomas Dalyell]], defeat more than 750 Covenanter rebels who have been under the command of [[James Wallace of Auchens]].
* [[December 12]] &ndash; A [[Synod#Orthodox usage|sobor]] (church council) of the [[Russian Orthodox Church]] deposes [[Patriarch Nikon of Moscow]], but accepts his liturgical reforms. Dissenters from these, known as [[Old Believers]], continue into the 21st century.
* [[December 19]] &ndash; [[Lund University]] is founded in [[Lund]], Sweden.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Foss|first1=Lene|last2=Gibson|first2=David V.|title=The Entrepreneurial University: Context and Institutional Change|year=2015|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-317-56894-0|page=133|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_UusCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA133}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Lund University 350 years|url=https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/about-university/university-glance/history-lund-university/lund-university-350-years|publisher=Lund University|accessdate=2024-12-15|language=en}}</ref>
* [[December 22]] &ndash; The [[French Academy of Sciences]], founded by [[Louis XIV of France|Louis XIV]], first meets.<ref>{{cite book|last=Clericuzio|first=Antonio|title=Elements, principles, and corpuscles: a study of atomism and chemistry in the seventeenth century|publisher=Kluwer Academic|location=Dordrecht; Boston|year=2000|isbn=9780792367826|page=179| language=en}}</ref>

=== Date unknown ===
* [[Isaac Newton]] uses a prism to split sunlight, as referenced in his alchemical works as [[Divine Light|Lux Dei]], into the component colours of the [[optical spectrum]], assisting the understanding of the scientific nature of [[light]]. He also develops differential [[calculus]] simultaneously with Leibniz. His discoveries this year lead to it being referred to as his ''[[Annus mirabilis#Isaac Newton|Annus mirabilis]]'' or Newton's "Year of the Morning Star".
* [[Jean Talon]] completes a [[1666 census of New France|census of New France]], the first [[census]] in [[North America]].
* Dutch artist [[Johannes Vermeer]] paints ''[[The Art of Painting]]'', his largest and most complex work.
* The first completed printed [[Bible translations into Armenian|Bible translation into Armenian]], ''{{lang|hy|Astuacašunč hnoc' ew noroc' ktakaranac}}'' (''Oskanean Bible''), is published in [[Amsterdam]], edited by Bishop [[Oskan Yerevantsi]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Armenian Bible|url=http://armenianbible.org/|access-date=2016-12-11}}</ref></onlyinclude>

== Births ==
[[File:Guru Gobind Singh.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Guru Gobind Singh]]]]
* [[February 1]] &ndash; [[Marie Thérèse de Bourbon]], Princess of Conti and titular queen of Poland (d. [[1732]])
* [[February 9]] &ndash; [[George Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney]], British soldier (d. [[1737]])
* [[March 15]] &ndash; [[George Bähr]], German architect (d. [[1738]])
* [[May 14]] &ndash; [[Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia]] (d. [[1732]])
* [[July 10]] &ndash; [[John Ernest Grabe]], German-born Anglican theologian (d. [[1711]])
* [[July 23]] &ndash; [[Thomas Parker, 1st Earl of Macclesfield]] (d. [[1732]])
* [[August 4]] &ndash; [[Maria Sophia of Neuburg]], [[Queen consort of Portugal]] (d. [[1699]]) 
* [[August 13]] &ndash; [[William Wotton]], English scholar (d. [[1727]])
* [[September 5]] &ndash; [[Gottfried Arnold]], German church historian (d. [[1714]])
* [[September 6]] &ndash; Tsar [[Ivan V of Russia]] (d. [[1696]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Ivan V {{!}} emperor of Russia |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ivan-V |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=29 June 2020 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[November 12]] &ndash; [[Mary Astell]], English writer (d. [[1731]])
* [[December 22]] &ndash; [[Guru Gobind Singh]], 10th Guru of [[Sikhism]], social reformist, poet, and revolutionary (d. [[1708]])
* ''date unknown'' &ndash; 
**[[Arthur Chichester, 3rd Earl of Donegall]] (d. [[1706]])
** [[Mary Pix]], English author (d. [[1709]])<ref>{{cite book |title=Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History Volume 13 Western Europe (1700-1800) |date=2019 |publisher=BRILL |isbn=978-90-04-40283-6 |page=116 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nkOxDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA116 |language=en}}</ref>

== Deaths ==
[[File:Shah Jahan op de pauwentroon.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Shah Jahan]]]]
[[File:Arolsen Klebeband 01 095 4.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Albert VI, Duke of Bavaria]]]]
[[File:After Frans Hals - Portrait of Frans Hals - Indianapolis.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Frans Hals]]]]
* [[January 2]] &ndash; [[John Holles, 2nd Earl of Clare]], English politician and Earl (b. [[1595]])
* [[January 10]] &ndash; [[Henry Hastings, 1st Baron Loughborough]], English Royalist army commander (b. [[1610]])
* [[January 20]] &ndash; [[Anne of Austria]], queen of [[Louis XIII of France]] and regent (b. [[1601]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Anne of Austria {{!}} queen of France |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Anne-of-Austria |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=29 June 2020 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[January 22]] &ndash; [[Shah Jahan]], [[Mughal Emperor]] of India (b. [[1592]])<ref>{{cite book | last = Gressor | first = Megan | title = All for love: great love affairs, great stories | publisher = Pier 9 | location = Millers Point, NSW | year = 2005 | isbn = 9781740455961 | page=31 | language=en}}</ref>
* [[January 24]] &ndash; [[Johann Andreas Herbst]], German composer (b. [[1588]])
* [[January 28]] &ndash; [[Tommaso Dingli]], Maltese architect and sculptor (b. [[1591]])
* [[February 12]] &ndash; [[Mildmay Fane, 2nd Earl of Westmorland]], English politician (b. [[1602]])
* [[February 24]] &ndash; [[Nicholas Lanier]], English composer (b. [[1588]])
* [[February 26]] &ndash; [[Armand de Bourbon, Prince of Conti]], Frondeur (b. [[1629]])
* [[February 27]] 
** [[Luisa de Guzmán]], [[Duchess of Braganza]] and [[Queen consort of Portugal]] (b. [[1613]])
** [[Gustav Evertsson Horn]], Finnish-Swedish politician, Field Marshal (b. [[1614]])
* [[March 1]] &ndash; [[Ecaterina Cercheza]], Princess consort of [[Moldavia]] (b. [[1620]]) 
* [[March 18]] &ndash; [[Jan van Vliet]], Dutch linguist (b. [[1622]])
* [[April 12]] &ndash; [[Johann Rudolf Wettstein]], Swiss diplomat (b. [[1594]])
* [[April 25]] &ndash; [[Johann Reinhard II, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg]], German aristocrat (b. [[1628]])
* [[May 6]] &ndash; [[Paul Siefert]], German composer and organist (b. [[1586]])
* [[May 13]] &ndash; [[Pier Francesco Mola]], Italian painter of the High Baroque (b. [[1612]])
* [[May 22]] &ndash; [[Gaspar Schott]], German Jesuit scholar (b. [[1608]])
* [[June 11]] &ndash; [[Cornelis Evertsen the Elder]], Dutch admiral (b. [[1610]])
* [[June 12]] &ndash; [[Abraham van der Hulst]], Dutch admiral (b. [[1619]])
* [[June 16]] &ndash; Sir [[Sir Richard Fanshawe, 1st Baronet|Richard Fanshawe]],  British diplomat and translator (b. [[1608]])
* [[June 17]] &ndash; [[Carlo de' Medici (cardinal)|Carlo de' Medici]], Italian Catholic cardinal (b. [[1595]])
* [[June 28]] &ndash; [[Sir Gervase Clifton, 1st Baronet]], English politician (b. [[1587]])
* [[June 30]] &ndash; [[Alexander Brome]], English poet (b. [[1620]])
* [[July 5]] &ndash; [[Albert VI, Duke of Bavaria]] (b. [[1584]])
* [[July 18]] &ndash; [[Sir John Bowyer, 1st Baronet]], English soldier and politician (b. [[1623]])
* [[July 25]] &ndash; [[Henri, Count of Harcourt]] (b. [[1601]])
* [[July 26]] &ndash; [[Camillo Francesco Maria Pamphili]], Italian Catholic cardinal (b. [[1622]])
* [[July 30]] &ndash; [[Francis Erdmann, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg]], Germany (b. [[1629]])
* [[August 5]] &ndash; [[Johan Evertsen]], Dutch admiral (b. [[1600]])
* [[August 6]] &ndash; [[Tjerk Hiddes de Vries]], Frisian naval hero and commander (of wounds received in the [[St. James's Day Battle]]) (b. [[1622]])
* [[August 15]] &ndash; [[Johann Adam Schall von Bell]], German Jesuit missionary (b. [[1591]])
* [[August 19]] &ndash; [[Anton Günther I, Count of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen]] (b. [[1620]])
* [[August 23]] &ndash; [[Johannes Hoornbeek]], Dutch theologian (b. [[1617]])
* [[August 24]] &ndash; [[Francisco Manuel de Mello]], Portuguese writer (b. [[1608]])
* [[August 26]] &ndash; [[Frans Hals]], Dutch painter (b. [[1580]])<ref>{{cite book | last = Krämer | first = Gode | title = Mythos und bürgerliche Welt: Gemälde und Zeichnungen der Haberstock-Stiftung | publisher = Klinkhardt & Biermann | location = München | year = 1991 | isbn = 9783781403161 | page=82 | language=de}}</ref>
* [[September 4]] &ndash; [[Girolamo Colonna]], Catholic cardinal (b. [[1604]])
* [[September 10]] &ndash; [[Christian Günther II, Count of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen-Arnstadt]] (b. [[1616]])
* [[September 17]] &ndash; [[Augustus the Younger, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg]] (b. [[1579]])
* [[September 23]] &ndash; [[François Mansart]], French architect (b. [[1598]])
* [[September 27]] 
** [[Georg Albrecht, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth-Kulmbach]] (b. [[1619]])
** [[János Szalárdi]], Hungarian historian (b. [[1601]])
* [[October 12]] &ndash; [[Dirk Graswinckel]], Dutch jurist (b. [[1600]])
* [[October 27]] &ndash; [[Manuel António of Portugal]], Dutch-Portuguese nobleman (b. [[1600]])
* [[October 29]] &ndash; [[Edmund Calamy the Elder]], English Presbyterian leader (b. [[1600]])
* [[October 29]] &ndash; [[James Shirley]], English dramatist (b. [[1596]])
* [[November 1]] &ndash; [[Jan Albertsz Rotius]], Dutch painter (b. [[1624]])
* [[December 1]] &ndash; [[James Ware (historian)|James Ware]], Irish genealogist (b. [[1594]])
* [[December 8]] &ndash; [[Philippe Charles, Duke of Valois]] (b. [[1664]])
* [[December 20]] &ndash; [[William Strode (of Barrington)|William Strode]], English politician (b. [[1589]])
* [[December 22]] &ndash; [[Guercino]], Italian painter (b. [[1591]])<ref>{{cite book | last = Guercino | first = FirstName | title = Drawings by Guercino from British collections: with an appendix describing the drawings by Guercino, his school and his followers in the British Museum | publisher = British Museum Press in association with Leonardo-De Luca Editori | location = London, Rome | year = 1991 | isbn = 9788878133440 | page=14}}</ref>
* [[December 26]] &ndash; [[Alexandrine von Taxis]], German Imperial General Post Master (b. [[1589]])  
* [[December 30]] &ndash; [[John Strangways (died 1666)|John Strangways]], English politician (b. [[1585]])
* ''date unknown''
** [[Philip Fruytiers]], Flemish painter (b. [[1627]])
** [[James Howell]], British writer (b. c. [[1594]])
** [[Song Yingxing]], Chinese encyclopedist (b. [[1587]])

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