Year (''' MDCLXXX ''') was a Leap Year Starting On Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap Year Starting On Thursday of the 10-day slower Julian Calendar ).
- January 23 - Joseph Ames , English author (died 1759 )
- February 14 - John Sidney, 6th Earl Of Leicester , English privy councillor (died 1737 )
- February 23 - Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne De Bienville , French colonizer and Governor of Louisiana (died 1767 )
- April 9 - Philippe Néricault Destouches , French dramatist (died 1754 )
- June 22 - Ebenezer Erskine , Scottish religious dissenter (died 1754 )
- September 22 - Barthold Heinrich Brockes , German poet (died 1747 )
- October 19 - John Abernethy , Irish Protestant minister (died 1740 )
- November 22 - Edward Teach (Blackbeard), Pirate (died 1718 )
- ''date unknown'' - John Machin , English mathematician (died 1752 )
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- February - Reverend Ralph Davenant , founder of Davenant Foundation School
- February 17
- --- Denzil Holles, 1st Baron Holles , English statesman and writer (born 1599 )
- --- Jan Swammerdam , Dutch scientist (born 1637 )
- February 22 - Catherine Monvoisin , French sorceress (born c. 1607 )
- March 14 - René Le Bossu , French critic (born 1631 )
- March 17 - François De La Rochefoucauld , French writer (born 1613 )
- March 23 - Nicolas Fouquet , French statesman (born 1615 )
- April 3 - Shivaji , founder of the Maratha Empire (born 1630 )
- May 31 - Joachim Neander , German Calvinist clergyman (born 1650 )
- June 18 - Samuel Butler , English poet (born 1612 )
- June 10 - Johan Göransson Gyllenstierna , Swedish statesman (born 1635 )
- July 10 - Louis Moréri , French encylopedist (born 1643 )
- July 26 - John Wilmot, 2nd Earl Of Rochester , English poet (born 1647 )
- July 30 - Thomas Butler, Earl Of Ossory , Irish naval commander (born 1634 )
- August 20 - William Bedloe , English informer (born 1650 )
- August 22 - John George II, Elector Of Saxony (born 1613 )
- August 24 - Thomas Blood , thief of the English Crown Jewels (born 1618 )
- August 25 - Simeon Of Polotsk , Belarusian churchman and poet (born 1629 )
- September 2 - Per Brahe (the Younger) , Swedish soldier and statesman (born 1602 )
- September 9 - Henry Marten , English regicide (born 1602 )
- September 10 - Baldassare Ferri , Italian castrato (born 1610 )
- September 11
- --- Roger Crab , English Puritan political writer (born 1621 )
- --- Emperor Go-Mizunoo Of Japan (born 1596 )
- October 4 - Pierre Paul Riquet , French engineer and canal builder (born c. 1640 )
- October 30 - Antoinette Bourignon , Flemish mystic (born 1616 )
- November 27 - Athanasius Kircher , German Jesuit scholar (born 1602 )
- November 28 - Gian Lorenzo Bernini , Italian sculptor (born 1598 )
- November 28 - Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi , Italian architect and painter (born 1606 )
- December 4 - Thomas Bartholin , Danish physician, mathematician, and theologian (born 1616 )
- December 8 - Henry Pierrepont, 1st Marquess Of Dorchester , English politician (born 1606 )
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