* 1723 – Mathurin Jacques Brisson, French naturalist ( d. 1806 )

* 1674 – Philippe II, Duke of Orléans ( d. 1723 )

* 1646 – Godfrey Kneller, German painter ( d. 1723 )

* 1642 – Cosimo III de ' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany ( d. 1723 )

* 1723 – Guillaume Dubois, French cardinal and statesman ( b. 1656 )

* 1723 – Giovanni Marco Rutini, Italian composer ( d. 1797 )

The first, most important and successful was The Beggar's Opera of 1728, with a libretto by John Gay and music arranged by John Christopher Pepusch, both of whom probably influenced by Parisian vaudeville and the burlesques and musical plays of Thomas D ' Urfey ( 1653 – 1723 ), a number of whose collected ballads they used in their work.

What is most likely the oldest preserved drawing dates back to the early microscopist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek ( 1632 – 1723 ).

* 1640 – Claude Fleury, French historian ( d. 1723 )

* 1723 – Friedrich Melchior, baron von Grimm, German writer ( d. 1807 )

* 1652 – Augustus Quirinus Rivinus, German physician ( d. 1723 )

* 1723 – Carl Friedrich Abel, German composer ( d. 1787 )

Ecological concepts such as food chains, population regulation, and productivity were first developed in the 1700s, through the published works of microscopist Antoni van Leeuwenhoek ( 1632 – 1723 ) and botanist Richard Bradley ( 1688 ?– 1732 ).

* 1723 – John Burgoyne, British general ( d. 1792 )

* 1723 – Richard Price, Welsh philosopher ( d. 1791 )

* 1723 – Louis-Pierre Anquetil, French historian ( d. 1808 )

* Frederick V of Denmark ( 1723 – 1766 ), king of Denmark and Norway

Telemann returned to Hamburg, but would still supplement his income by taking up additional jobs: in 1723 – 1726 he served as Kapellmeister von Haus aus to the Bayreuth court, and between 1725 and 1730 he acted as corresponding agent to the court at Eisenach, supplying news from northern Europe.

During the 18th century, Dutch microscopist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek ( 1632 – 1723 ) discovered " animalcules " in the sperm of humans and other animals.

* 1703: William Frederick ( before 1686 – 1723 )

* 1723: Charles William ( 1712 – 1757 )

** the Régence, a period of regency under Philip II of Orléans, 1715 – 1723

Image: Ikeno Taiga 001. jpg | Ike no Taiga, ( 1723 – 1776 ), Fish in Spring, Japanese

Most foreign militaries operated under the umbrella of the Multinational force in Iraq ( the MNF – I ), authorized under United Nations Security Council Resolution 1546, 1637, 1723, and 1790 until December 31, 2008.

* probable – Susanna Centlivre, actress ( died 1723 )

Susanna Centlivre ( c. 1667 to 1670 – 1 December 1723 ) born Susanna Freeman, also known professionally as Susanna Carroll, was an English poet, actress and " the most successful female playwright of the eighteenth century ".

*** Their son, Moses Fairchild ( 1723 – 1787 ), who married Susanna Bosworth in 1745

Centlivre died on 1 December 1723 and was buried three days later at the actor's church, St. Paul's, Covent Garden.

* 1723 – William Blackstone, English politician and jurist ( d. 1780 )

Sir Joshua Reynolds RA FRS FRSA ( 16 July 1723 – 23 February 1792 ) was an influential 18th-century English painter, specialising in portraits and promoting the " Grand Style " in painting which depended on idealization of the imperfect.

* 1723 – Joshua Reynolds, English painter ( d. 1792 )

* 1650 – John Robinson, English diplomat ( d. 1723 )

Along with the inventor and microscopist Robert Hooke ( 1635 – 1703 ), Sir Christopher Wren ( 1632 – 1723 ) and Sir Isaac Newton ( 1642 – 1727 ), English scientist and astronomer Edmond Halley ( 1656 – 1742 ) was trying to develop a mechanical explanation for planetary motion.

* November 3 – Theophilus Lindsey, English theologian ( b. 1723 )

* November 7 – John Robinson, English diplomat ( d. 1723 )

* October 20 – Sir Christopher Wren, English architect, astronomer, and mathematician ( d. 1723 )

* February 14 – William Blackstone, English jurist ( b. 1723 )

* October 20 – Robert Bertie, 1st Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, English statesman ( d. 1723 )

Antonie Philips van Leeuwenhoek ( in Dutch also Anthonie, Antoni, or Theunis, in English, Antony or Anton ;, ; October 24, 1632 – August 26, 1723 ) was a Dutch tradesman and scientist from Delft, Netherlands.

Sir Christopher Michael Wren FRS ( 20 October 1632 – 25 February 1723 ) is one of the most highly acclaimed English architects in history.

The English Baroque, brick-built, western range of Wentworth Woodhouse was begun in 1725 by Thomas Watson-Wentworth, after 1728 Lord Malton after he inherited it from his father in 1723.

It was translated into English in 1723 by his younger brother John, dean of Salisbury.

Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1st Baronet ( 8 August 1646 – 19 October 1723 ) was the leading portrait painter in England during the late 17th and early 18th centuries, and was court painter to English and British monarchs from Charles II to George I.

Richard Price ( 23 February 1723 – 19 April 1791 ) was a Welsh moral philosopher and preacher in the tradition of English Dissenters, and a political pamphleteer, active in radical, republican, and liberal causes such as the American Revolution.

Sir William Blackstone KC SL ( 10 July 1723 – 14 February 1780 ) was an English jurist, judge and Tory politician of the eighteenth century.

* Sir William Blackstone ( 1723 – 1780 ), English jurist

Northfield was first colonized in 1673 by the English and was officially incorporated in 1723.

While canon regular and librarian of the abbey of St Genevieve at Paris, he conducted a correspondence with Archbishop William Wake on the subject of episcopal succession in England, which supplied him with material for his work, Dissertation sur la validité des ordinations des Anglais et sur la succession des évéques de l ' Eglise anglicane, avec les preuves justificatives des faits avancés ( Brussels, 1723 ), an attempt to prove that there has been no break in the line of ordination from the apostles to the English clergy.

* Theophilus Lindsey — ( 1723 – 1808 ), English theologian

* William Mayo ( MP ) ( died 1723 ), English Member of Parliament

* John Robinson ( bishop of London ) ( 1650 – 1723 ), English diplomat, Bishop of Bristol, Lord Privy Seal etc.

* Christopher Wren ( 1632 – 1723 ) was a 17th century English designer, astronomer, geometer, mathematician-physicist and one of the greatest English architects in history.