- Dec 1 Cristobal de Isla Diego, Spanish composer, dies at 65
- Dec 6 Anna Roemers Visscher, Dutch poetess, dies at 68
- Dec 14 Pierre Dupuy, French historian & scholar, dies at 69
- Dec 17 Wolfgang Schonsleder, Germany composer and clergyman, dies at 81
- Dec 18 Francisco the Melo, Portuguese-Spanish earl of Assumar, dies at 54