page_title: 670s
section_title: Deaths
hierarchical_section_title: 670s / Deaths
caption_attribution_description: Pope Vitalian (Vitalianus)
context_page_description: The 670s decade ran from January 1, 670, to December 31, 679.
context_section_description: 670 
  February 15 – Oswiu, king of Northumbria
  August 18 – Fiacre, Irish hermit
  Audomar, bishop of Thérouanne (approximate date)
  Geom Mojam, military leader of Goguryeo
  Hasan ibn Ali, grandson of Muhammad and second Shi'a Imam (b. 625)
  Javanshir, king of Caucasian Albania
  Li Chunfeng, Chinese mathematician and historian (b. 602)
  Merewalh, king of Magonsæte (approximate date)
  Safiyya bint Huyayy, wife of Muhammad (approximate date)
  Theodard, bishop of Maastricht (approximate date)
  671 
  Grimoald I, king of the Lombards
  672 
  January 7 – Tenji, emperor of Japan (b. 626)
  January 27 – Pope Vitalian
  March 2 – Chad of Mercia, Anglo-Saxon abbot
  August 21 – Kōbun, emperor of Japan (b. 648)
  Cenwalh, king of Wessex (approximate date)
  Jiang Ke, general of the Tang Dynasty
  Recceswinth, king of the Visigoths
  Xu Jingzong, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty (b. 592)
  673 
  July 4 – Ecgberht, king of Kent
  August 18 – Kim Yu-shin, general of Silla (b. 595)
  Agilbert, Anglo-Saxon bishop (approximate date)
  Chlothar III, king of Neustria and Burgundy (b. 652)
  Domangart mac Domnaill, king of Dál Riata (Scotland)
  Remaclus, Frankish missionary (approximate date)
  Yan Liben, painter and official of the Tang Dynasty
  Ziyad ibn Abi Sufyan, Muslim general
  674 
  Abu Ayyub al-Ansari, friend (sahabah) of Muhammad (approximate date)
  Hassan ibn Thabit, Arab poet and companion of Muhammad
  Hongren, Chán (Buddhist) patriarch of the Tang Dynasty (b. 601)
  Seaxburh, queen of Wessex (approximate date)
  675 
  February 18 – Colmán, bishop of Lindisfarne
  February 21 – Randoald of Grandval, prior of the Benedictine monastery of Grandval
  May 25 – Li Hong, prince of the Tang Dynasty (b. 652)
  Amandus, bishop and saint
  Bilichild, Frankish queen
  Childeric II, king of the Franks
  Germanus of Granfelden, Frankish abbot
  Lupus I, duke of Aquitaine (approximate date)
  Máel Dub, Irish monk (approximate date)
  Wulfhere, king of Mercia
  676 
  June 17 – Pope Adeodatus II
  Æscwine, king of Wessex
  Clovis III, king of Austrasia
  Le Yanwei, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty
  Mangsong Mangtsen, emperor of Tibet
  Wang Bo, Chinese poet
  677 
  Constantine I, patriarch of Constantinople
  Drest VI, king of the Picts
  Vincent Madelgarius, Frankish monk
  Warinus, Frankish nobleman
  678 
  April 11 – Pope Donus
  May 3 – Tōchi, Japanese princess
  Abdullah ibn Aamir, Arab general (b. 622)
  Ælfwine, king of Deira (approximate date)
  Aisha, wife of Muhammad
  Arbogast, bishop of Strasbourg
  Nathalan, Scottish bishop
  Wechtar, Lombard duke of Friuli
  Zhang Wenguan, chancellor of the Tang dynasty (b. 609)
  679 
  June 23 – Æthelthryth, queen of Northumbria
  October 2, Leodegar, bishop of Autun
  December 23 – Dagobert II, king of Austrasia
  Ælfwine, king of Deira (approximate date)
  Cenn Fáelad mac Ailella, Irish scholar
  Dai Zhide, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty
  Sigebert IV, Frankish prince (approximate date)
  Xu Yushi, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty
caption: Pope Vitalian
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