1723
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Events
- February 16 – Louis XV of France attains his majority
Births
- February 24 – John Burgoyne, British general (d. 1792)
- March 31 – King Frederick V of Denmark (d. 1766)
- April 30 – Mathurin Jacques Brisson, French zoologist and natural philosopher (d. 1806)
- June 5 – (baptised) Adam Smith, Scottish economist (d. 1790)
- July 10 – William Blackstone, English jurist (d. 1780)
- July 11 – Jean-François Marmontel, French novelist and dramatist (d. 1799)
- July 16 – Sir Joshua Reynolds, English painter (d. 1792)
- November 8 – John Byron, English admiral (d. 1786)
- November 30 – William Livingston, American politician and journalist (d. 1790)
- December 22 – Karl Friedrich Abel, German composer (d. 1787)
Deaths
- February 25 – Sir Christopher Wren, English architect, astronomer, and mathematician (b. 1632)
- March 15 – Johann Christian Gunther, German poet (b. 1695)
- March 31 – Edward Hyde, 3rd Earl of Clarendon, Governor of New York and New Jersey (b. 1661)
- August 10 – Guillaume Dubois, French cardinal and statesman (b. 1656)
- August 23 – Increase Mather, American Puritan minister (b. 1639)
- October 19 – Godfrey Kneller, German-born artist (b. 1646)
- October 24 – Anton van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch lensmaker (b. 1632)
- October 31 – Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1642)
- December 2 – Philippe II of Orléans (b. 1674)
- December 7 – Jan Santini Aichel, Czech architect
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