1723

Events

Births

• January 5 - Nicole-Reine Lepaute, French astronomer, mathematician
• January 11 - Prithvi Narayan Shah, First Monarch of Nepal
• January 12 - Samuel Langdon, American President of Harvard University
• January 31 - Petronella Johanna de Timmerman, Dutch poet, scientist
• February 15 - John Witherspoon, American signer of the Declaration of Independence
• February 17 - Tobias Mayer, German astronomer
• February 21 - Louis-Pierre Anquetil, French historian
• February 23 - Richard Price, Welsh philosopher
• March 22 - Charles Carroll, American lawyer, Continental Congressman
• March 25 - Catharina Mulder, Dutch organist
• March 31 - King Frederick V of Denmark
• April 5 - Catherine Charlotte De la Gardie, Swedish countess
• April 20 - Cornelius Harnett, American Continental Congressman
• April 30 - Mathurin Jacques Brisson, French naturalist
• June 3 - Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, Italian-born physician, naturalist
• June 11 - Johann Georg Palitzsch, German astronomer
• June 16 - Adam Smith, Scottish economist, philosopher
• June 20
• * Adam Ferguson, Scottish philosopher, historian
• * Theophilus Lindsey, English theologian
• July 1 - Pedro Rodríguez, Count of Campomanes, Spanish statesman, writer
• July 10 - William Blackstone, English jurist
• July 11 - Jean-François Marmontel, French historian, writer
• July 16 - Sir Joshua Reynolds, English painter
• September 11 - Johann Bernhard Basedow, German educational reformer
• October 4 - Nikolaus Poda von Neuhaus, German entomologist
• October 11 - Hedvig Strömfelt, Swedish psalm writer
• November 8 - John Byron, English admiral
• November 30 - William Livingston, American politician, journalist
• December 22 - Carl Friedrich Abel, German composer
• December 26 - Friedrich Melchior, baron von Grimm, German writer
• Date unknown - Carl Albert von Lespilliez, German draftsman, architect and printmaker
• * Eva Merthen, Finnish political activist

  Deaths

• January 14 - Charles Henri, Prince of Commercy
• February 23 - Anne Henriette of Bavaria, Duchess of Guise
• February 25 - Sir Christopher Wren, English architect, astronomer, and mathematician
• February 26 - Thomas d'Urfey, English writer
• March 13 - René Auguste Constantin de Renneville, French writer
• March 15 - Johann Christian Günther, German poet
• March 30 - Filippo Bonanni, Italian Jesuit scholar
• March 31 - Edward Hyde, 3rd Earl of Clarendon, British Governor of New York and New Jersey
• April 5 - Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach, Austrian architect
• April 11 - John Robinson, English diplomat
• May 2 - Christopher of Baden-Durlach, German prince
• May 11 - Jean Galbert de Campistron, French dramatist
• May 12 - Johannes Voorhout, Dutch painter
• May 29 - Jean de La Chapelle, French writer and dramatist
• June 4 - Léopold Clément, Hereditary Prince of Lorraine, French prince
• June 8 - Isaac Chayyim Cantarini, Italian rabbi
• June 14 - Richard Newport, 2nd Earl of Bradford, English politician
• July 14 - Claude Fleury, French historian
• July 26 - Robert Bertie, 1st Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, English statesman
• July 28 - Mariana Alcoforado, Portuguese nun
• August 4 - William Fleetwood, Anglican bishop
• August 10 - Guillaume Dubois, French cardinal, statesman
• August 14 - Edward Northey, British barrister and politician
• August 17 - Joseph Bingham, English scholar
• August 21 - Dimitrie Cantemir, Moldavian linguist and scholar
• August 23 - Increase Mather, American Puritan minister
• August 26 - Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch scientist
• September 19 - Robert Sutton, 2nd Baron Lexinton, English diplomat
• October 1 - Frédéric Maurice Casimir de La Tour d'Auvergne, French prince
• October 10 - William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper, Lord Chancellor of England
• October 13 - Praskovia Saltykova, Russian tsarina
• October 19 - Godfrey Kneller, German-born artist
• October 28 - Christopher Vane, 1st Baron Barnard, English politician and peer
• October 31 - Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany
• November 19 - Antoine Nompar de Caumont, French courtier and statesman
• December 1 - Susanna Centlivre, English dramatist, actress
• December 2 - Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, regent of France
• December 7 - Jan Santini Aichel, Czech architect
• December 20 - Augustus Quirinus Rivinus, German physician, botanist