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1723 deaths

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Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

Dutch scientist known as "the Father of Microbiology", and one of the first microscopists (1632–1723)

Christopher Wren

English architect (1632–1723)

Dimitrie Cantemir

Prince of Moldavia

Philippe II, Duke of Orléans

member of the royal family of France, Regent of the Kingdom from 1715 to 1723 (1674–1723)

Godfrey Kneller

German-born British painter (1646–1723)

Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach

sculptor and architect from Austria (1656-1723)

Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany

Grand Prince of Tuscany (1642-1723)

Guillaume Dubois

French cardinal and politician (1656-1723)

Praskovia Saltykova

Tsarina consort of Russia (1664-1723)

Johann Christian Günther

German poet (1695-1723)

Mariana Alcoforado

Portuguese nun and writer

Antonio Maria Valsalva

Italian physician

Jan Santini Aichel

Czech architect and nobleman (1677-1723)

Susanna Centlivre

English actor, poet, playwright (c. 1667/70 – 1723)

Anne Henriette of Bavaria

princess of Condé (1648-1723)

French historian

Öndör Gegeen Zanabazar (born Eshidorji) was the first Jebtsundamba Khutuktu and the first Bogd Gegeen or supreme spiritual authority, of the Gelugpa (Yellow Hat) lineage of Tibetan Mahayana Buddhism in Mongolia.

Joseph Clemens of Bavaria

Duke, Roman Catholic archbishop (1671-1723)

Charles Lennox, 1st Duke of Richmond

illegitimate son of Charles II of England (1672-1723)

Increase Mather

Puritan minister, academic, activist (1639-1723)

Carlo Francesco Pollarolo

Italian composer

François Poullain de la Barre

French philosopher

William Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach

Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach

Léopold Clément of Lorraine

heir apparent to the throne of the sovereign Duchy of Lorraine

Mughal prince (1679-1723)

Jacques Basnage

Protestant divine, preacher, linguist, writer and man of affairs

Filippo Bonanni

Jesuit priest and scientist 1638-1723 (1638–1725)

Augustus Quirinus Rivinus

German physician and botanist (1652-1723)

Charles Louis of Nassau-Saarbrücken

Count of Nassau-Saarbrücken (1713-1723)

Empress Xiaogongren

Qing Dynasty empress (of Emperor Kangxi); mother of Yongzheng Emperor

Johanna Helena Herolt

painter from the Northern Netherlands (1668-1723)

Antoine Nompar de Caumont

Francesco Acquaviva

Italian cardinal

Charles Henri of Lorraine, Prince of Commercy

Prince of Commercy (1649-1723)

Edward Hyde, 3rd Earl of Clarendon

English military officer, governor of New York and New Jersey (1661-1723)

Frederica Henriette of Anhalt-Bernburg

princess of Anhalt-Köthen

Jean Galbert de Campistron

Jean de La Chapelle

French writer and dramatist

English composer and violinist

Abraham Genoels

Flemish painter and engraver (1640-1723)

British academic

Christopher of Baden-Durlach

German prince (1684-1723)

David-Augustin de Brueys

French theologian (1641-1723)

Ya'arab bin Bel'arab

Elisabeth Charlotte of Anhalt-Harzgerode

Princess of Anhalt-Harzgerode by birth and by marriage, Princess of Anhalt-Köthen and later Duchess of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön-Norburg

Francesco Invrea

Jean Daniel Abraham Davel

Swiss soldier, Vaud patriot (1670-1723)

first Mamluk Vali of Baghdad (1704-1723)

Giovanni Battista Contini

Italian architect

William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper

English noble, politician and first Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (1665-1723)

Domenico Bernini

Italian 17th-century historian

Eleonore Barbara von Thun und Hohenstein

Princess consort of Liechtenstein

Lancelot Volders

Flemish painter (1636-1723)

Leopold Anton Joseph Schlik

Austrian nobleman (1663-1723)

Leopold Eberhard, Duke of Württemberg-Montbéliard

German prince member of the House of Württemberg

English politician, twice serving as Chancellor of the Exchequer (1655-1723)

Niels Jonsson Stromberg af Clastorp

Swedish noble (1646-1723)

Alessandro Gherardini

Italian painter (1655–1726)

Robert Bertie, 1st Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven

English politician (1660-1723)