1723

## Births 
* January 5 &ndash; Nicole-Reine Lepaute, French astronomer, mathematician (d. 1788)
* January 11 &ndash; Prithvi Narayan Shah, First Monarch of Nepal (d. 1775)
* January 12 &ndash; Samuel Langdon, American President of Harvard University (d. 1797)
* January 31 &ndash; Petronella Johanna de Timmerman, Dutch poet, scientist (d. 1786)
* February 15 &ndash; John Witherspoon, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1794)
* February 17 &ndash; Tobias Mayer, German astronomer (d. 1761)
* February 21 &ndash; Louis-Pierre Anquetil, French historian (d. 1808)
* February 23 &ndash; Richard Price, Welsh philosopher (d. 1791)
* March 22 &ndash; Charles Carroll, American lawyer, Continental Congressman (d. 1783)
* March 25 &ndash; Catharina Mulder, Dutch organist (d. 1798) 
* March 31 &ndash; King Frederick V of Denmark (d. 1766)
* April 5 &ndash; Catherine Charlotte De la Gardie, Swedish countess (d. 1763) 
* April 20 &ndash; Cornelius Harnett, American Continental Congressman (d. 1781)
* April 30 &ndash; Mathurin Jacques Brisson, French naturalist (d. 1806)
* June 3 &ndash; Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, Italian-born physician, naturalist (d. 1788)
* June 11 &ndash; Johann Georg Palitzsch, German astronomer (d. 1788)
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* June 16 &ndash; (baptised) Adam Smith, Scottish economist, philosopher (d. 1790)
* June 20
** Adam Ferguson, Scottish philosopher, historian (d. 1816)
** Theophilus Lindsey, English theologian (d. 1808)
* July 1 &ndash; Pedro Rodríguez, Count of Campomanes, Spanish statesman, writer (d. 1802)
* July 10 &ndash; William Blackstone, English jurist (d. 1780)
* July 11 &ndash; Jean-François Marmontel, French historian, writer (d. 1799)
* July 16 &ndash; Sir Joshua Reynolds, English painter (d. 1792)
* September 11 &ndash; Johann Bernhard Basedow, German educational reformer (d. 1790)
* October 4 &ndash; Nikolaus Poda von Neuhaus, German entomologist (d. 1798)
* October 11 &ndash; Hedvig Strömfelt, Swedish psalm writer (d. 1766) 
* November 8 &ndash; John Byron, English admiral (d. 1786) 
* November 30 &ndash; William Livingston, American politician, journalist (d. 1790)
* December 22 &ndash; Carl Friedrich Abel, German composer (d. 1787)
* December 26 &ndash; Friedrich Melchior, baron von Grimm, German writer (d. 1807)
* *Date unknown* &ndash; Carl Albert von Lespilliez, German draftsman, architect and printmaker (d. 1796)
** Eva Merthen, Finnish political activist (d. 1811)

## Deaths 
* January 14 &ndash; Charles Henri, Prince of Commercy (b. 1649)
* February 23 &ndash; Anne Henriette of Bavaria, Duchess of Guise (b. 1648)
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* February 25 &ndash; Sir Christopher Wren, English architect, astronomer, and mathematician (b. 1632)
* February 26 &ndash; Thomas d'Urfey, English writer (b. 1653)
* March 13 &ndash; René Auguste Constantin de Renneville, French writer (b. 1650)
* March 15 &ndash; Johann Christian Günther, German poet (b. 1695)
* March 30 &ndash; Filippo Bonanni, Italian Jesuit scholar (b. 1638)
* March 31 &ndash; Edward Hyde, 3rd Earl of Clarendon, British Governor of New York and New Jersey (b. 1661)
* April 5 &ndash; Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach, Austrian architect (b. 1656)
* April 11 &ndash; John Robinson, English diplomat (b. 1650)
* May 2 &ndash; Christopher of Baden-Durlach, German prince (b. 1684)
* May 11 &ndash; Jean Galbert de Campistron, French dramatist (b. 1656)
* May 12 &ndash; Johannes Voorhout, Dutch painter (b. 1647)
* May 29 &ndash; Jean de La Chapelle, French writer and dramatist (b. 1651)
* June 4 &ndash; Léopold Clément, Hereditary Prince of Lorraine, French prince (b. 1707)
* June 8 &ndash; Isaac Chayyim Cantarini, Italian rabbi (b. 1644)
* June 14 &ndash; Richard Newport, 2nd Earl of Bradford, English politician (b. 1644)
* July 14 &ndash; Claude Fleury, French historian (b. 1640)
* July 26 &ndash; Robert Bertie, 1st Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, English statesman (b. 1660)
* July 28 &ndash; Mariana Alcoforado, Portuguese nun (b. 1640)
* August 4 &ndash; William Fleetwood, Anglican bishop (b. 1656)
* August 10 &ndash; Guillaume Dubois, French cardinal, statesman (b. 1656)
* August 14 &ndash; Edward Northey (barrister), British barrister and politician (b. 1652)
* August 17 &ndash; Joseph Bingham, English scholar (b. 1668)
* August 21 &ndash; Dimitrie Cantemir, Moldavian linguist and scholar (b. 1673)
* August 23 &ndash; Increase Mather, American Puritan minister (b. 1639)
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* August 26 &ndash; Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch scientist (b. 1632)
* September 19 &ndash; Robert Sutton, 2nd Baron Lexinton, English diplomat (b. 1662)
* October 1 &ndash; Frédéric Maurice Casimir de La Tour d'Auvergne, French prince (b. 1702)
* October 10 &ndash; William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper, Lord Chancellor of England (b. c. 1665)
* October 13 &ndash; Praskovia Saltykova, Russian tsarina (b. 1664)
* October 19 &ndash; Godfrey Kneller, German-born artist (b. 1646)
* October 28 &ndash; Christopher Vane, 1st Baron Barnard, English politician and peer (b. 1653)
* October 31 &ndash; Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1642)
* November 19 &ndash; Antoine Nompar de Caumont, French courtier and statesman (b. 1632)
* December 1 &ndash; Susanna Centlivre, English dramatist, actress (b. 1669)
* December 2 &ndash; Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, regent of France (b. 1674) 
* December 7 &ndash; Jan Santini Aichel, Czech architect (b. 1677)
* December 20 &ndash; Augustus Quirinus Rivinus, German physician, botanist (b. 1652)