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• Adrianus van Huffel, Hontenisse
• Aaldert Pietersz van der Wiel, Woudrichem, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aaltje Sibles Reytsma, Witmarsum, Wunseradiel, Friesland, Netherlands († 1728)
• Anna Sijbilla Webers, Munstergeleen,, Limburg, Nederland
• anna van der mast, klundert (noord brabant)
• Adrianus Nagtegael, Bergschenhoek († 1726)
• Adrianus Dolleboter, Willemstad, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Annigje Jansen Verweij, Veenendaal, Utrecht, Nederland
• Annetje Verweij, Veenendaal, Utrecht, Nederland
• Anna Catharina Lampe, Mettingen, Noordrijn-westfalen, Duitsland († 1756)

• Bouchard Adolf Bentinck Van Schoonheten (0), Raalte
• Helena van Tol, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Huijch Pietersz. Schuijn (1), Rijpwetering
• Clara (Lorman) Lormans (0), Grosbous
• Albert Breuker (0), Wijckel
• Kersti Gullbrandsdr (0), Eda, Värmland, Sweden
• Gerhard Strickmann (80), Harderberg, Prussia
• Gijsbertje Gerrits (Boer) (1), Eemnes
• Hendersken Voortmans (38), Vorden
• Jannighie Arisz van Woudenberg (33), Amerongen

• 1688 » Domenico Zipoli, Italian missionary and composer († 1726)
• 1711 » Jupiter Hammon, American poet († 1806)
• 1719 » Jacques Cazotte, French author and academic († 1792)
• 1720 » Maria Teresa Agnesi Pinottini, Italian harpsichord player and composer († 1795)
• 1725 » John Wilkes, English journalist and politician († 1797)
• 1729 » Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny, French composer and academic († 1817)
• 1735 » Franz Xaver Feuchtmayer the Younger, German Baroque artist († 1803)
• 1759 » Andrey Voronikhin, Russian architect and painter († 1814)
• 1760 » Claude Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon, French economist and philosopher († 1825)
• 1760 » Henri de Saint-Simon, French political and economic theorist († 1825)

• 1616 » John Pitts, English priest and scholar (b. 1560)
• 1660 » Adrian Scrope, English colonel and politician (b. 1601)
• 1673 » Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, English politician, Lord High Treasurer of England (b. 1630)
• 1690 » Margaret Mary Alacoque, French mystic (b. 1647)
• 1757 » René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, French entomologist and academic (b. 1683)
• 1776 » Pierre François le Courayer, French-English theologian and author (b. 1681)
• 1780 » William Cookworthy, English pharmacist and minister (b. 1705)
• 1781 » Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke, English admiral (b. 1705)
• 1786 » Johann Ludwig Aberli, Swiss painter and illustrator (b. 1723)
• 1806 » Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Haitian commander and politician, Governor-General of Haiti (b. 1758)

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  Van 1702 tot 1747 kende Nederland (ookwel Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) zijn Tweede Stadhouderloze Tijdperk.
• June 26 » After a siege and bombardment by cannon, Baku surrenders to the Russians.
• August 17 » Ioan Giurgiu Patachi becomes Bishop of Făgăraș and is festively installed in his position at the St. Nicolas Cathedral in Făgăraș, after being formally confirmed earlier by Pope Clement XI.
• September 14 » Grand Master António Manoel de Vilhena lays down the first stone of Fort Manoel in Malta.

The temperature on October 17, 1723 was about 13.0 °C.