17th » Ioan Giurgiu Patachi becomes List of Major Archbishops of Făgăraş and Alba Iulia named Bishop of Făgăraş and is festively installed in his position at the St. Nicolas Cathedral in Făgăraş, after being formally confirmed earlier by Pope Clement XI.
Famous Deaths for August 1723
10th » Guillaume Dubois, French cardinal and politician (b. 1656)
17th » Joseph Bingham, English scholar and academic (b. 1668)
23rd » Increase Mather, American minister and author (b. 1639)
26th » Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch microscopist and biologist (b. 1632)