Sep 6 Famiano Strada, Italian jesuit (bello belgico decades duae), dies at 77 Sep 6 Robert Dudley, English navigator and writer (Arcano del Mare), dies at 75 Sep 15 John Floyd, English Jesuit preacher (b. 1572) Sep 28 Ottavio Vernizzi, Italian composer, dies at 79 1648 Famous Deaths by Year 1650