Year (''' MDCLXX ''') was a Common Year Starting On Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Year Starting On Saturday of the 10-day slower Julian Calendar ).
- January 24 - William Congreve , English playwright (d. 1729 )
- February 28 - Benjamin Wadsworth , American President of Harvard University (d. 1737 )
- May 8 - Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke Of St Albans , English soldier (d. 1726 )
- May 12 - King Frederick Augustus I Of Poland (d. 1733 )
- June 10 - Jabez Lewis (in Barnstable, MA.) (d. 1738 )
- July 18 - Giovanni Bononcini , Italian composer (d. 1747 )
- July 19 - Richard Leveridge , English bass and composer (d. 1758 )
- August 21 - James FitzJames, 1st Duke Of Berwick , French military commander (d. 1734 )
- November 30 - John Toland , Irish philosopher (d. 1722 )
- December 4 - John Aislabie , English politician and director of the South Sea Company (d. 1742 )
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- January 3 - George Monck, 1st Duke Of Albemarle , English soldier (b. 1608 )
- January 25 - Nicholas II, Duke Of Lorraine (b. 1612 )
- February 19 - King Frederick III Of Denmark (b. 1609 )
- March 10 - Johann Glauber , German chemist (b. 1604 )
- March 15 - John Davenport , Connecticut pioneer (b. 1597 )
- April - Ahom King Swargadeo Chakradhwaj Singha or Supangmung of Assam , India
- May 21 - Niccolò Zucchi , Italian astronomer and physicist (b. 1586 )
- May 23 - Ferdinando II De' Medici, Grand Duke Of Tuscany (b. 1610 )
- June 30 - Princess Henrietta Anne Stuart of Scotland, England, and Ireland (b. 1644 )
- October 27 - Vavasor Powell , Welsh non-conformist leader (b. 1617 )
- November 15 - Comenius , Czech writer (b. 1592 )
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