Year (''' MDCLXXIX ''') was a Common Year Starting On Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Year Starting On Wednesday of the 10-day slower Julian Calendar ).
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- January 1 - Jan Steen , Dutch painter
- March 16 - John Leverett , Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (b. 1616 )
- March 26 - Johannes Schefferus , Alsatian-born humanist (b. 1621 )
- May 3 - James Sharp , English archbishop (assassinated) (b. 1613 )
- May 26 - Ferdinand Maria, Elector Of Bavaria (b. 1636 )
- June 15 - Guillaume Courtois , French painter (b. 1628 )
- July 11 - William Chamberlayne , English poet (b. 1619 )
- August 6 - John Snell , English royalist (b. 1629 )
- August 24 - Jean François Paul De Gondi, Cardinal De Retz , French churchman and agitator (b. 1614 )
- September 17 - John Of Austria The Younger , Spanish general (b. 1629 )
- October 12 - William Gurnall , English writer (b. 1617 )
- October 26 - Roger Boyle, 1st Earl Of Orrery , British soldier, statesman, and dramatist (b. 1621 )
- December 4 - Thomas Hobbes , English philosopher (b. 1588 )
- December 31 - Giovanni Alfonso Borelli , Italian physiologist and physicist (b. 1608 )
- ''date unknown'' - Lady Anne Finch Conway , English philosopher (b. 1631 )
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