Year (''' MDCLXXVI ''') was a Leap Year Starting On Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap Year Starting On Saturday of the 10-day slower Julian Calendar ).
- May 8 - Frederick I Of Sweden (died 1751 )
- March 17 - Thomas Boston , Scottish church leader (died 1732 )
- March 27 - Francis II Rákóczi , leader of the Hungarian uprising against the Habsburg (died April 8 , 1735 )
- April 23 - King Frederick I Of Sweden (died 1751 )
- May 28 - Jacopo Riccati , Italian mathematician (died 1754 )
- June 21 - Anthony Collins , English philosopher (died 1729 )
- July 3 - Leopold I, Prince Of Anhalt-Dessau , Prussian field marshal (died 1747 )
- July 14 - Caspar Abel , German theologian, historian, and poet (died 1763 )
- August 26 - Robert Walpole , first Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom (died 1745 )
- September 19 - Eberhard Ludwig, Duke Of Württemberg (died 1733 )
- October 8 - Benito Jerónimo Feijóo Y Montenegro , Spanish scholar (died 1764 )
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- January 14 - Francesco Cavalli , Italian composer (born 1602 )
- January 29 - Tsar Alexis I Of Russia (born 1629 )
- February 14 - Abraham Bosse , French engraver and artist (born c. 1604 )
- March 21 - Henri Sauval , French historian (born 1623 )
- April 5 - John Winthrop, The Younger , Governor of Connecticut (born 1606 )
- April 29 - Michiel Adriaanszoon De Ruijter , Dutch admiral (born 1607 )
- June 7 - Paul Gerhardt , German hymnist (born 1606 )
- July 5 - Carl Gustaf Wrangel , Swedish soldier (born 1613 )
- July 22 - Pope Clement X (born 1590 )
- July 25 - François Hédelin, Abbé D'Aubignac , French writer (born 1604 )
- August 11 - Hans Jakob Christoffel Von Grimmelshausen , German writer (born 1621 )
- September 10 - Gerrard Winstanley , English religious reformer (born 1609 )
- October 28 - Jean Desmarets , French writer (born 1595 )
- November 1 - Gisbertus Voetius , Dutch theologian (born 1589 )
- December 25 - Matthew Hale , Lord Chief Justice of England (born 1609 )
- December 25 - William Cavendish, 1st Duke Of Newcastle , English soldier, politician, and writer (born 1592 )
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