1623
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Year 1623 (MDCXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar.
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Art and culture
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Literature
- La Doctrine curieuse des beaux esprits de ce temps, ou prétendus tels is a pamphlet by François Garasse.
- Procopius' long-lost Secret History is rediscovered in the Vatican Library.
- Giambattista Marini publishes his long poem Adone.
- Jacques Ferrand publishes Maladie d'amour ou Mélancolie érotique
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Events
- August 18 – Théophile de Viau is sentenced to appear bare foot before Notre Dame in Paris and to be burned alive
- Wilhelm Schickard invents his "Calculating Clock", an early mechanical calculator.
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Births
- June 19 – Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher (d. 1662)
- August 5 – (baptism) Antonio Cesti, Italian composer (d. 1669)
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Deaths
- August 6 – Anne Hathaway, Shakespeare's wife
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