Dec 1 Pierre d'Hozier, French genealogist, dies at 68 Dec 3 Jacques Sarazin, French sculptor/painter, dies at about 70 Dec 22 André Tacquet, Flemish mathematician (b. 1612) Dec 24 Mary [Maria Henrietta], English Princess Royal, Princess of Orange, wife of Willem II, dies of smallpox at 29 [NS] 1659 Famous Deaths by Year 1661