* 1623 – Fran &# 231 ; ois de Laval, French bishop ( d. 1708 )

* 1623 – Stanisław Lubieniecki, Polish theologian, historian, astronomer, and writer ( d. 1675 )

Andrea Andreani ( 1540 – 1623 ) was an Italian engraver on wood, who was among the first printmakers in Italy to use chiaroscuro, which required multiple colours.

Although anthems were written in the Elizabethan period by Tallis ( 1505 – 1585 ), Byrd ( 1539 – 1623 ), and others, they are not mentioned in the Book of Common Prayer until 1662, when the famous rubric " In quires and places where they sing here followeth the Anthem " first appears.

Blaise Pascal (; 19 June 1623 – 19 August 1662 ), was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer and Christian philosopher.

The Pian Breviary was again altered by Sixtus V in 1588, who introduced the revised Vulgate, in 1602 by Clement VIII ( through Baronius and Bellarmine ), especially as concerns the rubrics ; and by Urban VIII ( 1623 – 1644 ), a purist who altered the text of certain hymns.

* 1673 – Margaret Cavendish, English writer ( b. 1623 )

# Federico Ubaldo della Rovere ( 1605 – 1623 )-title became extinct with his death

Despite the arguably greater architectural inventiveness of Borromini and Cortona, Bernini's artistic pre-eminence, particularly during the reigns of popes Urban VIII ( 1623 – 1644 ) and Alexander VII ( 1655 – 1665 ), meant he was able to secure the most important commission in the Rome of his day, St. Peter's Basilica.

Volume one ( 1623 – 1692 ).

1540 – 1623 ).

* 1623 – William Byrd, English composer ( b. 1540 )

* 1556 – Uesugi Kagekatsu, Japanese samurai and warlord ( d. 1623 )

# Erdmuthe ( 26 June 1561 – 13 November 1623 ), married in 1577 to Duke John Frederick of Pomerania

* 1551 – William Camden, English historian ( d. 1623 )

* 1546 – Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter, English politician ( d. 1623 )

* 1623 – John Egerton, 2nd Earl of Bridgewater, English politician ( d. 1686 )

There were a number of theologians who defended Calvinistic orthodoxy against Amyraut and Saumur, including Friedrich Spanheim ( 1600 – 1649 ) and Francis Turretin ( 1623 – 1687 ).

Mustafa I Deli ( 1591 – January 20, 1639 ) (), son of Mehmed III, was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1617 to 1618 and from 1622 to 1623.

His inability to rule led to deposition and confinement by Osman II's younger half-brother, Murad IV ( 1623 – 40 ).

Murad IV Ghazi ( Ottoman Turkish: مراد رابع Murād-i rābi ‘) < span dir =" ltr ">( July 26 / 27, 1612 – February 9, 1640 )</ span > was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1623 to 1640, known both for restoring the authority of the state and for the brutality of his methods.

** Andrea Andreani, Italian wood engraver ( d. 1623 )

** Asprilio Pacelli, Italian Baroque composer ( d. 1623 )

* October 14 – Antonio Cesti, Italian composer ( b. 1623 )

1623 ), Italian composer of madrigals

Giovan Battista Marino's masterpiece, Adone, published in 1623, is a long, sensual poem, which elaborates the myth of Adonis, and represents the transition in Italian literature from Mannerism to the Baroque.

5 August 1623 – 14 October 1669 ), known today primarily as an Italian composer of the Baroque era, was also a singer ( tenor ), and organist.

), Metaphysica ( 1609 – 1623 ), Theologia ( 1613 – 1624 ), and his most famous work, The City of the Sun ( originally written in Italian in 1602 ; published in Latin in Frankfurt ( 1623 ) and later in Paris ( 1638 )).

His most famous work, however, is Guzmán de Alfarache, which was translated into French in 1600, into Italian in 1606, into German in 1615, into English in 1623 by James Mabbe, and into Latin in 1623.

In 1623, as an ardent friend of Spain, the ally of his sovereign and the champion of his faith, he raised troops for the Italian war and served with the Spaniards in Lombardy and the Grisons.

Alessandro Damasceni Peretti di Montalto ( 1571 – June 2, 1623 ) was an Italian Roman Catholic Cardinal Deacon.

1560 – 1623 ) was an Italian composer, teacher and singing master of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras, and a leading member of the Roman School of composers.

Domenico Fetti ( also spelled Feti ) ( c. 1589 – 1623 ) was an Italian Baroque painter active mainly in Rome, Mantua and Venice.

* Jerome de Angelis ( 1567 – 1623 ), Italian Jesuit missionary to Japan ; executed by fire

# (" Captain Alatriste ", 1996 ; UK & USA 2005 ): In 1623, Diego Alatriste and Italian sword-for-hire Gualterio Malatesta are paid by two mysterious masked characters to kill a pair of unknown English visitors in Madrid.

** William Byrd, English composer ( d. 1623 )

William Byrd (; 1540 or late 1539 – 4 July 1623, by the Julian calendar, 14 July 1623, by the Gregorian calendar ) was an English composer of the Renaissance.

Also buried at St Bride's are the organist and composer, Thomas Weelkes ( d. 1623 ) and the poet, Richard Lovelace ( d. 1658 ), as well as author Samuel Richardson ( d. 1761 )

John Playford ( 1623 – 1686 / 7 ) was a London bookseller, publisher, minor composer, and member of the Stationers ' Company, who published books on music theory, instruction books for several instruments, and psalters with tunes for singing in churches.

Thomas Weelkes ( baptised 25 October 1576 – 30 November 1623 ) was an English composer and organist.

On the back of the frontispiece of a copy of the 1621 edition of the First Book of Madrigals, found in the collection of the Liceo Musicale di Bologna, composer Alessandro Grandi had written in 1623 a dedication wherein he begins, " Escono questi Madrigali del Signor Cauaglier Nenna dal sepolchro delle tenebre alla luce del sole ", or " These madrigals of Signor Nenna exit from out the darkness of the grave to the light of the sun ".

* Bartholomaeus Praetorius ( c. 1590 – 1623 ), composer and cornettist

* October 14 – Antonio Cesti, opera composer ( born 1623 )

** Mario Agatea, singer, composer and instrument maker ( born c. 1623 – 28 )

* William Byrd ( circa 1540 – 1623 ), English composer

* William Byrd ( 1540 – 1623 ), English composer