Year (''' MDCLXXII ''') was a Leap Year Starting On Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap Year Starting On Monday of the 10-day slower Julian Calendar ).
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- January 15 - John Cosin , English clergyman (born 1594 )
- February 19 - Charles Chauncy , English-born president of Harvard College (born 1592 )
- April 22 - Georg Stiernhielm , Swedish poet (born 1598 )
- May 5 - Samuel Cooper , English painter (born 1609 )
- May 8 - Jean-Armand Du Peyrer , Comte de Tréville and French Officer (born 1598 )
- May 11 - Charles Seton, 2nd Earl Of Dunfermline , English royalist (born 1615 )
- May 28 - John Trevor , English politician (born 1626 )
- June 27 - Roger Twysden , English antiquarian and royalist (born 1597 )
- July 3 - Francis Willughby , English biologist (born 1635 )
- August 20 - Johan De Witt , Dutch politician (born 1625 )
- August 20 - Cornelis De Witt , Dutch politician (born 1623 )
- September 12 - Tanneguy Lefebvre , French classical scholar (born 1615 )
- September 16 - Anne Bradstreet , American colonial writer (born c. 1612 )
- October 24 - John Webb , English architect (born 1611 )
- November 6 - Heinrich Schütz , German composer (born 1585 )
- November 19 - John Wilkins , English Bishop of Chester (born 1614 )
- December 6 - King John II Casimir Of Poland (born 1609 )
- December 7 - Richard Bellingham , Massachusetts colonial magistrate (born 1592 )
- ''date unknown'' - Denis Gaultier , French lutenist and composer (born 1603 )
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