Year (''' MDCXCVII ''') was a Common Year Starting On Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Year Starting On Friday of the 10-day slower Julian Calendar ).
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- January 8 - Thomas Aikenhead (hanged) (born c. 1678 )
- January 26 - Georg Mohr , Danish mathematician (born 1640 )
- January 28 - John Fenwick , English conspirator (born c. 1645 )
- March 1 - Francesco Redi , Italian physician (born 1626 )
- March 19 - Nicolaus Bruhns , German organist and composer (born 1665 )
- March 26 - Godfrey McCulloch , Scottish politician and murderer (executed) (born 1640 )
- March 27 - Simon Bradstreet , English colonial magistrate (born 1603 )
- April 5 - King Charles XI Of Sweden (stomach cancer) (born 1655 )
- April 8 - Niels Juel , Danish admiral (born 1629 )
- October 31 - William Moore, Captain William Kidd's gunner ( Hemorrhage in head caused by Captain Kidd hitting him with a bucket)Cordingly, David (1995); ''Under The Black Flag : The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates'', Harcourt Brace & Company.
- November 22 - Libéral Bruant , French architect (born c. 1635 )
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