1723 in literature

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Penelope Aubin - The Life of Charlotta Du Pont, an English lady; taken from her own memoirs
Arthur Blackamore - Luck at Last
William Meston - Knight of the Kirk
Works of John Sheffield, Duke of Buckingham

Anderson's Constitutions of the Freemasons
Elegy on the deplorable Death of Elizabeth Murray Sister to Sir William Murray of Newtoun barb'rously murdered by her Husband Thomas Kincaid younger of Gogar-Mains, March 29th 1723 (anonymous broadsheet)
Thomas Gordon and John Trenchard - Cato's Letters
Bernard De Mandeville - A Search into the Nature of Society

January 21 (or June 21) - Baron d'Holbach - philosopher, encyclopedist (died 1789)
February 23 - Richard Price, philosopher (died 1791)
February 24 - John Burgoyne, soldier and dramatist (died 1792)
June 20 - Adam Ferguson, philosopher and historian (died 1816)
July 11 - Jean-François Marmontel, French novelist and dramatist (died 1799)
July 17 - Adam Smith - Scottish economist (died 1790)
September 30 - William Hutton (historian), local historian
November 8 - John Byron, English vice-admiral, grandfather of the poet Lord Byron (died 1786)
November 30 - William Livingston, American politician and journalist (died 1790)
December 26 - Friedrich Melchior, baron von Grimm (died 1807)

February 26 - Thomas D'Urfey, dramatist (born 1653)
March 15 - Johann Christian Günther, German poet (born 1695)
May 11 - Jean Galbert de Campistron, dramatist (born 1656)
December 1 - Susannah Centlivre, dramatist (born 1669)
date unknown - Dimitrie Cantemir, first author in the Romanian language (born 1673)
date unknown - Marianna Alcoforado, author of Letters of a Portuguese Nun (born 1640)
date unknown - Alexander Selkirk, the inspiration for Robinson Crusoe (born 1676)