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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1723.

Events

Voltaire contracts smallpox.^[1]
The book collection of Samuel Pepys (died 1703), including his Diary, is transferred to the Pepys Library at his alma mater, Magdalene College, Cambridge, in accordance with his will.^[2]

Penelope Aubin – The Life of Charlotta Du Pont, an English lady; taken from her own memoirs^[3]
Jane Barker – A Patch-Work Screen for the Ladies
Eliza Haywood – Idalia
Anton Josef Kirchweger – Aurea Catena Homeri
Margrethe Lasson – Den beklædte Sandhed (first novel in Danish)
John Sheffield, Duke of Buckingham (died 1721) – The Works of John Sheffield, Earl of Mulgrave, Marquis of Normanby, and Duke of Buckingham

James Anderson – The Constitutions of the Free-Masons
Henry Baker – An Invocation of Health: a poem
Offspring Blackall, Bishop of Exeter (posthumously) – Collected Works
Bernard de Mandeville – A Search into the Nature of Society
Thomas Dempster (posthumous) – De Etruria regali libri VII (printed in sans-serif)
Thomas Gordon and John Trenchard – Cato's Letters (essays)
John Nott – The Cooks and Confectioners Dictionary or, the Accomplish'd Housewives Companion

January 21 (or June 21) – Baron d'Holbach, German-born French philosopher and encyclopedist (died 1789)
February 23 – Richard Price, Welsh-born philosopher (died 1791)
February 24 – John Burgoyne, English soldier and dramatist (died 1792)
June 5 (bapt.) – Adam Smith, Scottish economist (died 1790)^[4]
June 20 – Adam Ferguson, Scottish philosopher and historian (died 1816)
July 11 – Jean-François Marmontel, French novelist and dramatist (died 1799)
September 30 – William Hutton, English local historian and poet (died 1815)
November 8 – John Byron, English vice-admiral and memoirist (died 1786)
November 30 – William Livingston, American political writer and politician (died 1790)
December 26 – Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm, German-born French philosopher and encyclopedist (died 1807)

February 26 – Thomas d'Urfey, English dramatist (born 1653)
March 13 – René Auguste Constantin de Renneville, French Protestant poet and historian (born 1650)
March 15 – Johann Christian Günther, German poet (born 1695)
May 11 – Jean Galbert de Campistron, French dramatist (born 1656)
June 8 – Isaac Chayyim Cantarini, Italian poet, physician and preacher (born 1644)
July 28 – Mariana Alcoforado, Portuguese nun (born 1640)
August 21 – Dimitrie Cantemir, Romanian author (born 1673)
September 23 – Jacques Basnage, French Protestant poet, linguist and preacher (born 1653)
December 1 – Susanna Centlivre (Susanna Carroll), English dramatist (born c. 1667–70)
December 17 – John Trenchard, English politician and writer (born 1662)

↑ Glynn, Ian; Glynn, Jenifer (2004). The Life and Death of Smallpox. Cambridge University Press. p. 69. ISBN 9780521845427.
↑ "History of the Pepys Building". Magdalene College. Retrieved 20 March 2018.
↑ "The life of Charlotta Du Pont". National Library of Australia. printed for A. Bettesworth. 1723. Retrieved 20 March 2018.
↑ "Adam Smith (1723-1790)". BBC. Retrieved 20 March 2018.

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