Who was alive in 1723?
32 of the people we track were surely alive in 1723. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.
Born in 1723: Adam Smith.
Died in 1723: Antonie van Leeuwenhoek.
- Isaac Newton80
- Johann Sebastian Bach38
- Voltaire29
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau11
- Adam Smithborn
- Benjamin Franklin17
- Carl Linnaeus16
- Leonhard Euler16
- Peter the Great51
- Antonio Vivaldi45
- Jonathan Swift56
- George Frideric Handel38
- Montesquieu34
- David Hume12
- Denis Diderot10
- Daniel Defoe61–64
- Samuel Johnson14
- Frederick II of Prussia11
- Alexander Pope35
- Jean Le Rond d'Alembert6
- George Berkeley38
- Mikhail Lomonosov12
- Antonie van Leeuwenhoek90 †
- Louis XV of France13
- Maria Theresa of Austria6
- Edmond Halley67
- Anders Celsius22
- Carlo Goldoni16
- Benedict XIV48
- Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon16
- Robert Walpole47
- Pius VI6