Dec 6 William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle, English aristocrat and Royalist general in the English Civil War, born in Handsworth, England (d. 1676)
Famous Deaths
Dec 2 Alexander Farnese, land guardian of Neth (1579-92), dies at 46
Dec 3 Alessandro Farnese, Duke of Parma and Italian diplomat, dies at 47