1701 deaths

King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 1685 to 1688 (1633–1701)

French writer (1607–1701)

French prince (1640-1701)

Scottish sailor who was tried and executed for piracy after returning from a voyage to the Indian Ocean

Austrian field marshal (1638-1701)

Monegasque prince (1642-1701)

Polish noble

daimyo of the early Edo period; 2nd lord of Mito (1628-1701)

Polish Roman Catholic priest and saint

French naval commander who served under King Louis XIV

Italian Baroque sculptor (1625-1701)

queen; Korean royal consort

royal consort (1659-1701)

French poet and novelist (1624-1701)

Duchess of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (1633-1701)

Duchess consort of Saxe-Merseburg (1634-1701)

Daimyō of the Akō Domain; immortalized in Chūshingura

Prince of Nassau-Dillenburg (1641-1701)

185px|thumbnail|right|Bust of Mezzo Morto Hüseyin Pasha in the Mersin Naval Museum.

Dutch Golden Age painter active in Italy (1637–1701)

thumb|upright=1.5|Keichū was a Buddhist priest and a scholar of Kokugaku in the mid Edo period. Keichū's grandfather was a personal retainer of Katō Kiyomasa but his father was a rōnin from the Amagasaki fief. When he was 13, Keichū left home to become an acolyte of the Shingon sect, studying at Kaijō in Myōhōji, Imasato, Osaka. He subsequently attained the post of Ajari (or Azari) at Mount Kōya, and then became chief priest at Mandara-in in Ikutama, Osaka. It was at this time that he became friends with the poet-scholar Shimonokōbe Chōryū (下河辺長流, 1624–1686).

Italian historian (1630-1701)

Mother-in-law of King Stanislaus I of Poland (1660-1701)

Italian cardinal

English politician (1639-1701)

Italian general, imperial field marshal (1631-1701)

Dutch painter (1636-1701)

German composer (1648-1701)

Jewish poet

King of Imereti

French writer (1611-1701)

Dutch general and noble (1659-1701)

German nobleman (1666-1701)

German composer and bass viol player

Portuguese cardinal (1630-1702)

French architect

17th century Lithuanian soldier and statesman

English duke

French writer

German jurist, poet and hymn writer (1629-1701)

Salem witch trial magistrate, Massachusetts colonial official (1631–1701)

French statesman (1668-1701)

German princess (1632-1701)

French royal valet

French aristocrat and cleric (1629-1701)

Chief Consort of Mughal Empire

Calvinist theologian (1632-1701)

English writer and academic

18th-century Catholic cardinal

Italian priest and writer

Flemish composer and musician

Polish architect (1622-1701)

last Subahdar of Bengal during the reign of emperor Aurangzeb

English politician (1646-1701)

Dutch painter and engraver (1656-1701)

Colonial governor of New York, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts

English civil servant, diplomat and politician; (1633-1701)

Italian anatomist (1656–1701)

morganatic wife of Duke Rudolf August of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel

Flemish still life painter