Year (''' MDCLXXXVII ''') 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 ).
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- January 13 - Jean Claude , French Protestant clergyman (born 1619 )
- January 28 - Johannes Hevelius , astronomer (born 1611 )
- March 19 - René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur De La Salle , French explorer (born 1643 )
- March 22 - Jean-Baptiste Lully , French composer (born 1632 )
- March 28 - Constantijn Huygens , Dutch poet and composer (born 1596 )
- April 12 - Ambrose Dixon , Virginia Colony pioneer (born c. 1628 )
- April 16 - George Villiers, 2nd Duke Of Buckingham , English statesman (born 1628 )
- September 1 - Henry More , English philosopher (born 1614 )
- September 12 - John Alden , Mayflower pilgrim (born c. 1599 )
- September 28 - Francis Turretin , Swiss theologian (born 1623 )
- October 13 - Geminiano Montanari , Italian astronomer (born 1633 )
- October 21 - Edmund Waller , English poet (born 1606 )
- November 14 - Nell Gwynne , English mistress of Charles II Of England (born 1650 )
- December 16 - Sir William Petty , English philosopher (born 1623 )
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