About the day » Friday February 5, 1723Calender converter

• Antoinette Lestrade, Aubin, Aveyron, Occitanie, France († 1762)
• Geijs Klijnboer, Waver, Utrecht, Nederland
• Henricus van Pipping, Amersfoort († 1728)
• Grietje Winters, Groningen
• Francois Guertin
• albert SCOHIER, Vieux Reng (F-59) († 1759)
• Cornelia Maria Gerritsdr WOUDENBERG, Zaandam, Zaanstad, Province of North Holland, Netherlands († 1774)
• Christiaan Borsten, Loon op Zand († 1783)
• Gerlacus Broeren, Den Dungen
• Cunera Janssen, Groessen, Gelderland, Nederland

• Hester de Weer, Amsterdam (Oude Kerk)
• Daniël Alphonsus Willemsen van Huusel en Mijsbergh (57), Willemstad, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Annetje Wouters GOUDRIAAN (47)
• Leendert Cleijsz Lodder (30)
• Henricus Mertelmans (77), Wouw, Staats-Brabant, Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden
• Cornelis Langestraat (35), Pernis, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Gijsbert Cornelisz. van Griek (33), Gouderak
• bastiaan jacobsz CASTELEIJN (50), oud-beijerland
• Claartje Laurensdr de Wijmijle (87), Rijnsburg
• HILTJE (Hielckje) SYTZES (43)

• 1650 » Anne Jules de Noailles, French general († 1708)
• 1703 » Gilbert Tennent, Irish-American minister († 1764)
• 1723 » John Witherspoon, Scottish-American minister and academic († 1794)
• 1725 » James Otis, Jr., American lawyer and politician († 1783)
• 1748 » Christian Gottlob Neefe, German composer and conductor († 1798)
• 1788 » Robert Peel, English lieutenant and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom († 1850)
• 1795 » Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger, Austrian mineralogist, geologist, and physicist († 1871)
• 1804 » Johan Ludvig Runeberg, Finnish poet and hymn-writer († 1877)
• 1808 » Carl Spitzweg, German painter and poet († 1885)
• 1810 » Ole Bull, Norwegian violinist and composer († 1880)

• 1578 » Giovanni Battista Moroni, Italian painter (b. 1520)
• 1661 » Shunzhi, Chinese emperor of the Qing Dynasty (b. 1638)
• 1705 » Philipp Spener, German theologian and author (b. 1635)
• 1751 » Henri François d'Aguesseau, French jurist and politician, Chancellor of France (b. 1668)
• 1754 » Nicolaas Kruik, Dutch astronomer and cartographer (b. 1678)
• 1766 » Count Leopold Joseph von Daun, Austrian field marshal (b. 1705)
• 1775 » Eusebius Amort, German theologian and academic (b. 1692)
• 1790 » William Cullen, Scottish physician and chemist (b. 1710)
• 1807 » Pasquale Paoli, Corsican commander and politician (b. 1725)
• 1818 » Charles XIII, king of Sweden (b. 1748)

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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 February 5, 1723 was about 6.0 °C.