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1523 births

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Queen regnant of Poland and Grand Duchess of Lithuania

Gabriele Falloppio

Italian anatomist (1523-1562)

Margaret of France, Duchess of Berry

daughter of King Francis I of France

Blaise de Vigenère

French cryptographer (1523-1596)

Italian poet (1523-1554)

Charles, Cardinal de Bourbon

Catholic cardinal (1523–1590)

Czech linguist and writer (1523-1571)

Dutch-born Flemish Renaissance painter

thumb|260px|Portrait of Stradanus by Hendrick Goltzius, 1591 Johannes Stradanus (Dutch Jan van der Straet or Italian Giovanni Stradano; 1523 – 2 November 1605) was a Flemish artist active mainly in 16th-century Florence, Italy. He was a wide-ranging talent who worked as an easel and fresco painter, designer of tapestries, draughtsman, designer of prints and pottery decorator. His subject range was varied and included history subjects, mythological scenes, allegories, landscapes, genre scenes, portraits, architectural scenes and animals. After training in his native Flanders, he left his

Marco Antonio Bragadin

military officer of the Republic of Venice and last Captain-General of Venetian Cyprus (1523-1571)

Francisco Sánchez de las Brozas

Spanish philologist and humanist

Henry Brandon, 1st Earl of Lincoln

Laura Battiferri

Italian poet and writer

Islamic scholar

Marco Antonio Colonna

Roman Catholic cardinal

Giovanni Francesco Commendone

Catholic cardinal (1523-1585)

German Lutheran bishop (1523-1587)

Giacomo Savelli

Italian cardinal

Giulia da Varano

duchess of Camerino

Rodrigo de Castro Osorio

Spanish cardinal

George II of Brieg

Duke of Brzeg from 1547 until his death

Lorenzo Strozzi

Catholic cardinal (1523-1571)

Spanish general

Italian engraver (1523–1567)

Pier Francesco Orsini

Italian condottiero and patron of the arts

Uesugi Norimasa

daimyō of feudal Japan

Carlo Visconti Borromeo

Catholic cardinal

Chrispijn van den Broeck

Flemish painter, draughtsman and print designer (1523-1591)

Catholic cardinal

Joachim Hoppers

Dutch jurist and university professor (1523-1576)

Galasso Alghisi

Italian architect and military engineer (1523-1573)

Francesco Abbondio Castiglioni

Roman Catholic cardinal (1523-1568)

Alonso de Góngora Marmolejo

Spanish conquistador and chroniclre

Guido Panciroli

French jurist (1523-1603)

Hieronymus Harder

German botanist (1523-1607)

Kaspar Eberhard

German theologian (1523-1575)

Francisco Foreiro

Portuguese Dominican theologian

German martyrologist (1523-1592)

Helene Magenbuch

Eleonore of Fürstenberg

Wife of Philip IV, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg (1523-1544)

Antonius of Weert

Franciscan friar and priest (1523–1572)

Tsutsui Junshō

Japanese Daimyo

Francesco Piccolomini

Italian philosopher (1520-1604)

Bertrand Salignac de la Mothe Fénelon

French diplomat

Valentin Naboth

German astronomer and mathematician (1523-1593)