Necrology 1623

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This is a list of famous people who died in 1623 . The entries are made alphabetically within the individual data. Animals can be found in the necrology for animals .

January

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
January 1st	Paul Hentzner	German lawyer and travel writer	64
January 8th	Andreas Crappius	German hymn composer
January 14th	Joachim Stephani	German legal scholar	78
15. January	Leonhardus Lessius	Jesuit and theologian	68
15. January	Paolo Sarpi	Italian religious and historian	70
January 26th	Johannes Olearius	German Lutheran theologian and philologist	76
January 27th	Caspar Reinhard	Hydraulics specialist and well master

February

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
February 7th	Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter	English military and politician	80
21st of February	Johann Spies	German printer and publisher
February 22	Hans Rudolf Sager	Schultheiss of Bern
	Martin Beheim	German painter in Nuremberg	50

March

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
1st March	Francisco de Mendoza	Spanish general in the Eighty Years War
7th March	Luis Mendez de Vasconcellos	Grand Master of the Order of Malta
7th March	Nicolaus de Smit	Dutch textile manufacturer, clothing maker and merchant	81
9th March	Reinhard Scheffer the Younger	German lawyer and statesman	62
March 13th	Johann Adolf von Daun-Falkenstein	German nobleman	40
March 16	Valentin von Winther	Pomeranian politician, ducal councilor, author of a description of the country	44
19th March	Philipp Sigismund of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel	Protestant prince-bishop of Verden and Osnabrück	54
25th March	Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, duc de Bouillon	Marshal of France and Duke of Bouillon	67
March 29	Scévole de Sainte-Marthe	French writer in French and New Latin	87

April

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
2nd of April	George Keith, 4th Earl Marischal	Scottish nobleman
2nd of April	Michael Wolf	German mathematician, physicist, logician and metaphysician	38
3rd of April	Hans Adam Gienger von Wolfseck	Vice Cathedral of Upper Austria	64

May

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
May 4th	Asprilio Pacelli	Italian conductor and composer
5th of May	Philip Rosseter	British composer
May 6th	Wolfgang Werther Mühlpfordt	German legal scholar	47
May 19th	Mariam uz-Zamani	Wife of the Grand Mogul Akbar; Mother of the heir to the throne Jahangir	80
May 24th	Peter Eberlin	German painter

June

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
2th of June	Alessandro Peretti	Italian cardinal
June 9th	Johann Jacob Reiter	German medic	31
June 11th	Gutierre Fernández Hidalgo	Spanish or South American composer
June 13th	Vito Carrera	Italian painter
20th June	Johannes Posselius	German university professor, professor of Greek language	58
23rd June	Pure Bontius	Dutch medic
June 28th	Federico Ubaldo della Rovere	Prince of Urbino	18th

July

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
July 6th	William Byrd	English composer and organist
8th of July	Gregory XV.	Pope (1621–1623)	69
21 July	Jean de La Ceppède	French Baroque writer

August

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
6th of August	Anne Hathaway	William Shakespeare's wife
8th August	Johann Theodor de Bry	Publisher and engraver
August 9	George	Count of Nassau-Beilstein, later Nassau-Dillenburg	60
August 10	Erasmus Gold from Lampoding	Lower Austrian sub-marshal
12. August	Antonio Priuli	94. Doge of Venice	75
17th August	Aron Bonn	German-Jewish businessman
17th August	Heinrich Leuchter	German Evangelical Lutheran theologian
August 28th	Nicolaus Eck	Mayor and Burgrave of Riga
August	Otto Siegfried Harnisch	German cantor and composer

September

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
17th of September	Lothar von Metternich	Archbishop and Elector of Trier	72
21st September	Wichmann school raven	German Protestant theologian, school principal, pastor, superintendent and author	74
September 27th	John VII	Count of Nassau-Siegen	62
September 28th	Johann Georg	Prince of Hohenzollern-Hechingen
September	Jan van de Velde I	Dutch painter and calligrapher

October

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age	receipt
October 14th	Jürgen Röttger	German sculptor and carver
October 24th	Sebastian from Bergen	German lawyer and mayor of Hamburg

November

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
November 5th	Adolf	Count of Tecklenburg	46
November 9th	William Camden	English historian and antiquarian	72
November 11th	Philippe Duplessis-Mornay	Reformed theologian and statesman	74
November 12th	Josaphat Kunzewitsch	Saint and Archbishop of Polock
November 13th	Erdmuthe of Brandenburg	Duchess of Pomerania-Szczecin	62
November 16	Francisco Sanches	Philosopher and doctor
November	William Jaggard	Printer and editor in the time of William Shakespeare

December

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
12th of December	Johannes Schickhardt	municipal clerk in Herrenberg	37
19. December	Heinrich Brockes I.	Mayor of Lübeck	56
24th of December	Michel Coignet	Belgian instrument maker and mathematician
25 December	Jakob Ludwig Beuther	Palatinate administrative officer and historian	50
25 December	Lucio Sanseverino	Italian cardinal, Archbishop of Salerno

Date unknown

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age	receipt
	Osias Beert the Elder	Dutch still life painter
	Ernst von Börstel	High Court Marshal and Prefect of the Collegium Mauritianum in Kassel
	Hans Fleming	Flemish builder, stonemason and sculptor
	Johann IX.	Wild and Rhine Count of Kyrburg, Count of Salm
	Jan Joosten	Dutch seaman and trader
	Peder Munk	Danish admiral
	Antonio Muttone	Italian architect
	Giovanni Bernardino Nanino	Italian conductor and composer
	Jacob Paix	German organist, organ builder, conductor, composer and publisher
	Mogens Pedersøn	Danish composer
	Isaac Posch	Austrian composer and organist
	Bartholomaeus Praetorius	German composer and musician
	Rogier Michael	Musician and composer
	Tulsidas	Indian poet and philosopher
	Thomas Weelkes	English Renaissance composer
	Hans Werner	German sculptor
	Rodrigo Zamorano	Spanish mathematician and cosmographer