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1688 deaths

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English Christian writer and preacher (1628-1688)

Welsh pirate (1635-1688)

Frederick William of Brandenburg

Elector of Brandenburg and Duke of Prussia

Claude Perrault

French architect and doctor of medicine (1613–1688)

Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange

French philologist (1610–1688)

Philippe Quinault

French opera librettist

Ferdinand Verbiest

Flemish Jesuit missionary in Qing dynasty China (1623–1688)

François Bernier

French physician and traveller

King Narai the Great (, , ), or Ramathibodi III ( ), was the 27th monarch of Ayutthaya Kingdom, the 4th and last monarch of the Prasat Thong dynasty. He was the king of Ayutthaya Kingdom from 1656 to 1688 and arguably the most famous king of the Prasat Thong dynasty.

Joachim von Sandrart the Elder

German Baroque art-historian and painter (1606-1688)

Bohuslav Balbín

Czech baroque writer, philosopher, historian, linguist, religion writer, educator, writer, science writer and roman catholic priest

English clergyman, theologian, philosopher, and Cambridge Platonist (1617–88)

Antoine Furetière

French writer and scholar (1619-1688)

Philips Koninck

painter from the Northern Netherlands (1619–1688)

Konstantinos Phaulkon

Greek adventurer (1647-1688)

Maximilian Henry of Bavaria

Roman Catholic bishop (1621-1688)

Marcantonio Giustinian

Abraham Duquesne

French naval officer (1610–1688)

Șerban I Cantacuzino, Prince of Wallachia

Prince of Wallachia from 1678 to 1688

French painter and engraver (1598–1688)

Otto Wilhelm Königsmarck

(1639-1688) Swedish military officer

Frederick, Duke of Mecklenburg-Grabow

German noblemen, titular Duke of Mecklenburg

Countess Sophie Amalie of Nassau-Siegen

Baltic German noble, duchess consort of Courland (1650-1688)

Maria of Nassau

Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang

empress dowager of Shunzhi Emperor, Qing Dynasty

Georg Samuel Dörffel

German astronomer and theologian

French mathematician (1607-1688)

Winston Churchill

English soldier, historian, and politician (1620–1688)

James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde

Anglo-Irish statesman

'''Po'pay, sometimes spelled Popé''', (, , ; – ) was a Tewa religious leader from Ohkay Owingeh, who led the Pueblo Revolt in 1680 against Spanish colonial rule. In the first successful anticolonial revolt against a European colonial power in the Western Hemisphere, the Pueblo expelled the colonists and kept them out of the territory for twelve years. Thereafter, Po'pay ruled over the Pueblo peoples until his death.

Aurangabadi Mahal

concubine of Aurangzeb

Marie de Lorraine

Duchess of Guise

Cosimo Fancelli

Italian painter (1620-1688)

Johannes Andreas Quenstedt

German theologian

Carlo Pallavicino

Italian composer

Bengt Gottfried Forselius

Estonian writer (1660-1688)

queen; Korean royal consort (1624 - 1688)

Francesco Foggia

Italian composer of the Baroque

Last person hanged in Boston, Massachusetts as a witch

François Andréossy

French engineer

Peder Hansen Resen

Danish historian

Abaza Siyavuş Pasha

Ottoman grand vizier

Johann Sigismund Elsholtz

German naturalist and physician (1623-1688)

Grand Pensionary of Holland (1634-1688)

Japanese philosopher (1618–1688)

Felice Rospigliosi

Italian cardinal

Inayat Zakiatuddin Syah

Sultana of Aceh

Pieter Verbrugghen the Elder

Flemish sculptor (1615–1686)

Lucas Fernandez de Piedrahita

17th-century Catholic bishop

Daniel Sinapius-Horčička

Slovak writer and evangelist

Louis Victor de Rochechouart de Mortemart

Anna Elisabeth of Saxe-Lauenburg

Landgravine consort of Hesse-Homburg (1624-1688)

Jan Wielopolski

Polish noble (1630-1688)

Salvador de Sá

Portuguese soldier and politician

Jean Baptiste de La Quintinie

French agronomist and lawyer

Frederick, Burgrave of Dohna

Dutch officer, and governor of Orange (1621-1688)

Jean-Jacques de Mesmes

French magistrate (1640-1688)

Charles of Mecklenburg-Güstrow

Duke of Mecklenburg, hereditary prince of Mecklenburg-Güstrow (1664-1688)

Jean-Louis Lully

French Baroque composer (1667-1688)

Giovanni Battista Benaschi

Italian painter (1636-1688)