page_title: 1523
section_title: Deaths
hierarchical_section_title: 1523 / Deaths
caption_attribution_description: Pope Adrian VI (Hadrian VI) (1459-1523)
context_page_description: Year 1523 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar.
context_section_description: 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)
  August 13 – Gerard David, Flemish artist (b. c. 1455)
  August 27 – Domenico Grimani, Italian nobleman (b. 1461)
  August 29 – Ulrich von Hutten, Lutheran reformer (b. 1488)
  September 14 – Pope Adrian VI (b. 1459)
  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)
caption: Pope Adrian VI
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