Notable Birthdays - 1723
1723 Birthdays
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 1 |
Christian Friedrich Gregor, composer |
Jan 11 |
Prithvi Narayan Shah, began the unification of modern Nepal (d. 1774) |
Jan 12 |
Samuel Langdon, American college educator (d. 1797) |
Jan 27 |
Johann A Cramer, prime minister/poet |
Feb 5 |
John Witherspoon, Gifford Scotland, president of the College of New Jersey (signed Declaration of Independence) |
Feb 17 |
Tobias Mayer, "method of lunars" for longitude determination |
Feb 21 |
Louis-Pierre Anquetil, French historian (d. 1808) |
Feb 23 |
Richard Price, Welsh philosopher (d. 1791) |
Feb 24 |
John Burgoyne, British general (d. 1792) |
Mar 5 |
Princess Mary of Great Britain (d. 1773) |
Mar 22 |
Charles Carroll, American statesman (d. 1783) |
Mar 23 |
Agha Mohammad Khan Ghajar, King of Iran (d. 1771) |
Mar 25 |
Kaat Mussel, [Catharina Mulder], Dutch demonstrater |
Mar 31 |
Frederik V, King of Denmark/Norway (1746-66) |
Apr 14 |
John Wainwright, composer |
Apr 20 |
Cornelius Harnett, American delegate to the Continental Congress (d. 1781) |
Apr 25 |
Giovanni Marco Rutini, composer |
Apr 30 |
Mathurin Jacques Brisson, French naturalist (d. 1806) |
Jun 3 |
Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, Italian-born naturalist (d. 1788) |
Jun 5 |
Adam Smith, Kirkcaldy Scotland, economist (Wealth of Nations) (baptized) |
Jun 11 |
J G Palitzsch, 1st saw Halley's comet on return, Prolitz |
Jun 18 |
Giuseppe Scarlotti, composer |
Jun 20 |
Adam Ferguson, Scottish sociologist/historian |
Jun 20 |
Theophilus Lindsey, English theologian (d. 1808) |
Jun 30 |
Christian Ernst Graf, composer |
Jul 1 |
Pedro R de Campomanes, Spanish economist/historian/literary |
Jul 10 |
William Blackstone, London England, jurist (Blackstone's Commentaries) |
Jul 11 |
Jean-François Marmontel, French historian and writer (d. 1799) |
Jul 16 |
Joshua Reynolds, England, portrait painter (Simplicity) |
Jul 29 |
Christleib Siegmund Binder, composer |
Aug 2 |
Nicolas de Pigage, French classical architect |
Sep 11 |
Johann Bernhard Basedow, German educational reformer (d. 1790) |
Oct 4 |
Nikolaus Poda von Neuhaus, German entomologist (d. 1798) |
Oct 16 |
Johann Andreas Joseph Giulini, composer |
Nov 8 |
John Byron, British naval officer (d. 1786) |
Nov 30 |
William Livingston, revolutionary Governor of New Jersey (d. 1790) |
Dec 19 |
Susanne K von Klettenberg, German friend of Goethes mother |
Dec 22 |
Carl Friedrich Abel, German/British viola-da-gamba-player/composer |
Dec 26 |
Friedrich Melchior, baron von Grimm, German writer (d. 1807) |
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