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1679 deaths

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English philosopher (1588–1679)

painter from the Northern Netherlands (1626-1679)

Joost van den Vondel

Dutch poet and writer (1587-1679)

Giovanni Alfonso Borelli

Italian physicist (*1608 – †1679)

Jean François Paul de Gondi

French Catholic cardinal (1613–1679)

Ferdinand Maria, Elector of Bavaria

Duke of Bavaria (1636-1679)

John Maurice, Prince of Nassau-Siegen

Dutch soldier and administrator (1604–1679)

English philosopher

John Frederick, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg

Duke of Brunswick-Calenberg (1625-1679)

John of Austria the Younger

Spanish general (1629-1679)

Margherita de' Medici

Duchess consort of Parma and Piacenza

Anne-Geneviève de Bourbon

Duchess of Longueville (1619–1679)

British chemist and doctor

Jan van Kessel the Elder

Flemish painter (1626–1679)

Francesco Barberini

Italian cardinal (1597-1679)

German-Dutch still life painter (1640–1679)

Christian Hoffmann von Hoffmannswaldau

Silesian poet, imperial counselor, council members of Breslau (1618-1679)

Jan van de Cappelle

painter from the Northern Netherlands (1624–1679)

Marie de Rohan, Duchess of Chevreuse

French noble (1600-1679)

Jacques de Billy

French mathematician (1602-1679)

British artist (1606-1679)

Spanish composer and organist (1611-1679)

English Jesuit Catholic priest and martyr

Pierre Lambert de la Motte

French bishop (1624–1679)

Ulderico Carpegna

Catholic cardinal

Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery

English politician (1621-1679)

Giovanni Felice Sances

Italian singer and composer

Henricus Regius

Dutch philosopher

Cardinal Archbishop of Milan

Methodius III of Constantinople

Patriarch of Constantinople

Johann von Sporck

Luise Marie of the Palatinate

German princess

Venetian Dalmatian historian (1604-1679)

Johannes Schefferus

Swedish academic (1621–1679)

Dutch Golden Age painter (1619–1676)

Maurice Henry, Prince of Nassau-Hadamar

Prince of Nassau-Hadamar

Nicolaas van Eyck

Flemish painter (1617-1679)

Nicolaes Visscher

Dutch engraver, cartographer, publisher

Bishop of Lund (1605-1679)

Christiane of Saxe-Merseburg

Dutch military engineer

Antonia of Württemberg

princess of the Duchy of Württemberg, literary figure, patroness, and Christian Kabbalist

Giovanni Battista Passeri

Italian painter (1610-1679)

Sultan bin Saif

Claude Lamoral, 3rd Prince of Ligne

Spanish general and prince (1618-1679)

Christine Elisabeth of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg

Duchess of Saxe-Weimar (1638-1679)

Guillaume Courtois

French painter of the Late Baroque (1628-1679)

Ludolf de Jongh

Dutch painter (1616-1679)

Cornelis van der Lijn

Dutch East Indies Governor-General from 1646 to 1650

Andrzej Maksymilian Fredro

Polish noble (c. 1620–1679)

Henri Louis Habert de Montmor

French scientist

Syrian Muslim historian and faqih

Catherine Bellier

mistress of Louis XIV

John Plessington

English Catholic Franciscan friar and martyr

Juan Lozano y Lozano

Roman Catholic archbishop

Nicolas-Pierre Loir

French painter and engraver (1624-1679)

Peter Hagendorf

German mercenary in the Thirty Years' War and diarist

German lutenist and composer (1636-1679)