1675 in literature

• November 11 – Gottfried Leibniz's notebooks record a breakthrough in his work on calculus.{{cite book|author=Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz|title=The Early Mathematical Manuscripts of Leibniz|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7d8_4WPc9SMC&pg=PA1|date=1 December 2008|publisher=Cosimo, Inc.|isbn=978-1-60520-533-5|pages=90}}

• Joshua Barnes – Gerania; a New Discovery of a Little Sort of People, anciently discoursed of, called Pygmies{{cite book|author1=J. H. Burns|author2=James Henderson Burns|author3=Mark Goldie|title=The Cambridge History of Political Thought 1450-1700|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TiVKeH-cMPUC&pg=PA341|date=17 November 1994|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-47772-7|pages=341}}
• John Barret – Fifty Queries Seriously Propounded to those that Question or Deny Infants Right to Baptism{{cite book|author=Dr. Williams's Library|title=Catalogue of the Library in Red Cross Street, Cripplegateurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=CkArMWElTNgC&pg=PA20|year=1841|publisher=R. and J.E. Taylor|pages=20}}
• Friderich Martens – Spitzbergische oder Groenlandische Reise-Beschreibung, gethan im Jahre 1671
• Edward Phillips – Theatrum poetarum
• A Satire Against Separatists, variously attributed to Abraham Cowley or Peter Hausted{{cite book|author=Laurens Joseph Mills|title=Peter Hausted, Playwright, Poet, and Preacher|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oJkxAQAAIAAJ|year=1944|publisher=Indiana University|page=53}}
• Philipp Jakob Spener – Pia Desideria
• Marie-Catherine de Villedieu – Les Désordres de l’amour{{cite book|author=Madame de Villedieu|title=Memoirs of the Life of Henriette-Sylvie de Moliere: A Novel|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6CS5Suag1IYC&pg=PA19|date=1 November 2007|publisher=University of Chicago Press|isbn=978-0-226-14421-4|pages=19}}
• John Wilkins – Of the Principle and Duties of Natural Religion
• Miguel de Molinos
• Guía espiritual
• Breve tratado de la comunión cotidiana
• Denis Vairasse – The History of the Sevarites or Sevarambi

• John Crowne
• Calisto, or the Chaste Nymph (masque){{cite book|author1=Alfred Harbage|author2=Sylvia S. Wagonheim|title=Annals of English Drama, 975-1700: An Analytical Record of All Plays, Extant Or Lost, Chronologically Arranged and Indexed by Authors, Titles, Dramatic Companies etc|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NL4X5uzf26wC&pg=PA178|year=1989|publisher=Psychology Press|isbn=978-0-415-01099-3|pages=178}}
• Country Wit
• John Dryden – Aureng-zebe
• Thomas Duffet – Psyche Debauch'd
• Sir Francis Fane – Love in the Dark
• Nathaniel Lee –
• Nero, Emperor of Rome
• Sophonisba
• Thomas Otway – Alcibiades
• Henry Nevil Payne – The Siege of Constantinople
• Thomas Shadwell – The Libertine
• William Wycherley – The Country Wife

• John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester – A Satire Against Mankind (published 1679)

• February 26 (baptized) – Abel Evans, English clergyman, academic and poet (died 1737)
• September 2 – William Somervile, English poet (died 1742){{cite book|title=The Book Collector|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ohrhAAAAMAAJ|year=2001|publisher=Collector Limited|isbn=978-88-222-4738-4|page=350}}
• October 11 – Samuel Clarke, English philosopher and cleric (died 1729)

• April 8 – Veit Erbermann, German theologian and controversialist (born 1597)
• September – Heinrich Müller, German devotional writer (born 1631)
• September 12 – Girolamo Graziani, Italian poet (born 1604){{cite book|author=Charles Dudley Warner|title=A Library of the World's Best Literature - Ancient and Modern - Vol.XLII (Forty-Five Volumes); Dictionary of Authors (A-J)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0g7UAtyUJYMC&pg=PA231|date=1 July 2008|publisher=Cosimo, Inc.|isbn=978-1-60520-248-8|pages=231}}
• September 23 – Valentin Conrart, co-founder of French Academie (born 1603)
• November 11 – Thomas Willis, English physician and natural philosopher (born 1621)
• December 6 – John Lightfoot, English scholar and cleric (born 1602)

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