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) 1648 Famous Deaths by Year 1650