What is 1723?
{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2011}} {{Year nav|1723}} {{C18 year in topic}} {{Year article header|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 (barrister)|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]], [[United States|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]]) [[File:Adam Smith The Muir portrait.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Adam Smith]]]] * [[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 Blackston