1523
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Year 1523 (MDXXIII) is the 23rd year of the 16th century, and the 4th year of the 1520s decade.
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Events
- End of the Knights' Revolt
Literature
Fiction
Non-fiction
Visual art
- Two Witches by Hans Baldung
- Deuttung der cwo grewlichen Figuren
- The Pope Ass by Lucas Cranach the Elder
Music
Architecture
Births
- January 29 – Enea Vico, Italian engraver (d. 1567)
- April 5 – Blaise de Vigenère, French diplomat and cryptographer (d. 1596)
- July 4 – Pier Francesco Orsini, Italian condottiero and art patron (d. 1583)
- date unknown – Gabriele Falloppio, Italian anatomist and physician (d. 1562)
Deaths
- Luca Signorelli (c.1445-1523)
- August 13 – Gerard David, Flemish artist (b. c. 1455)
- August 29 – Ulrich von Hutten, Lutheran reformer (b. 1488)
- September 14 – Pope Adrian VI (b. 1459)
- October 16 – Luca Signorelli (b. 1441/1445)
- date unknown – Pietro Perugino, Italian painter (b. 1446)
Deaths
- February 4 – Thomas Ruthall, English chancellor of the University of Cambridge
- March 28 – Louis I, Count of Löwenstein, founder of the House of Löwenstein-Wertheim (b. 1463)
- April 6 – Henry Stafford, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, English nobleman (b. 1479)
- May 7
- Antonio Grimani, Italian admiral (b. 1434)
- Franz von Sickingen, German knight (b. 1481)
- May 23 – Ashikaga Yoshitane, Japanese shōgun (b. 1466)
- May 24 – Henry Marney, 1st Baron Marney, English politician (b. 1447)
- July 1 – Johann Esch and Heinrich Voes, Flemish Lutheran martyrs
- July 7 – Wijerd Jelckama, Frisian rebel and warlord (b. 1490)
- October 5 – Bogislaw X, Duke of Pomerania (1474–1523) (b. 1454)
- October 11 – Bartolomeo Montagna, Italian painter (b. 1450)
- November 10 – Lachlan Cattanach Maclean, 11th Chief, Scottish clan chief (b. 1465)
- October – William Cornysh, English composer (b. 1465)
- date unknown
- Cecilia Månsdotter, Swedish noble (b. c. 1476)
- Alessandro Alessandri, Italian jurist (b. 1461)
- Pietro Perugino, Italian painter (b. 1446)
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