- Dec 4 Outgert Arisz Akersloot, Dutch silversmith, dies at about 73
- Dec 4 William Drummond of Hawthornden, Scottish poet, dies at 63
- Dec 7 Charles Garnier, French Jesuit missionary in New France, killed at 43
- Dec 8 Noël Chabanel, French Jesuit missionary (b. 1613)