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Year 1923 (MCMXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar.
Events of 1923
January-February
March-April
May-June
July-August
September-October
protests and they leave September 29.
November-December
- November 1 - Finnish flag carrier Finnair airline is started in Aero Oy.
- November 8 - Beer Hall Putsch: In Munich, Adolf Hitler leads the Nazis in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the German government; police and troops crush the attempt the next day.
- November 12 - Her Highness Princess Maud of Fife marries Captain Charles Alexander Carnegie in Wellington Barracks, London.
- November 15 - The hyperinflation in Germany reaches its height. One United States dollar is worth 4,200,000,000,000,000 Papiermark (4.2 quadrillion). Gustav Stresemann abolishes the old currency.
- November 23 - Gustav Stresemann\'s coalition government collapses.
- December 12 - In Italy, the Po river dam bursts - 600 dead.
- December 20 - First social fraternity at a Jesuit college in the United States is founded, BEGGARS Fraternity, by a group of 9 men who secured permission to do so from the Pope.
- December 27 - Assassination attempt against the crown prince of Japan in Tokyo.
Undated
Ongoing
Births
January - February
- January 1 - Vulo Radev, Bulgarian film director (d. 2001)
- January 1 - Roméo Sabourin, Canadian World War II spy (d. 1944)
- January 5 - Sam Phillips, American record producer (d. 2003)
- January 6 - Jacobo Timerman, Argentine writer (d. 1999)
- January 7 - Hugh Kenner, Canadian literary critic (d. 2003)
- January 8 - Johnny Wardle, English cricketer (d. 1985)
- January 16 - Anthony Hecht, American poet (d. 2004)
- January 19 - Jean Stapleton, American actress
- January 23 - Cot Deal, major league baseball player and coach
- January 23 - Stephanie Kwolek, inventor of Kevlar fibers
- January 25 - Arvid Carlsson, Swedish scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- January 26 - Anne Jeffreys, American actress
- January 29 - Paddy Chayefsky, American writer (d. 1981)
- January 31 - Norman Mailer, American writer and journalist (d. 2007)
- February 2 - James Dickey, American poet and author (d. 1997)
- February 2 - Liz Smith, American gossip columnist
- February 9 - Brendan Behan, Irish author (d. 1964)
- February 10 - Cesare Siepi, Italian opera singer
- February 12 - Franco Zeffirelli, Italian film and opera director
- February 13 - Yfrah Neaman, Lebanese-born violinist (d. 2003)
- February 13 - Chuck Yeager, American pilot and NASA official
- February 20 - Forbes Burnham, President of Guyana (d. 1985)
- February 24 - David Soyer, American cellist
- February 27 - Dexter Gordon, American jazz saxophone player (d. 1990)
March - April
- March 4 - Sir Patrick Moore, British astronomer and broadcaster
- March 6 - Ed McMahon, American television personality
- March 7 - Mahlon Clark, American musician (d. 2007)
- March 9 - Walter Kohn, Austrian-born physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- March 10 - Val Logsdon Fitch, American nuclear physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- March 12 - Wally Schirra, astronaut (d. 2007)
- March 21 - Shri Mataji Nirmala Srivastava, Indian founder of Sahaja Yoga
- March 22 - Marcel Marceau, world renown French Mime (d. 2007)
- March 25 - Wim van Est, Dutch cyclist (d. 2003)
- March 26 - Bob Elliott, American comedian
- March 27 - Louis Simpson, Jamaican-born poet
- March 30 - Milton Acorn, Canadian writer (d. 1986)
- April 2 - G. Spencer-Brown, British mathematician
- April 6 - Ramon Valdes, Mexican comedian (d. 1988)
- April 8 - George Fisher, American political cartoonist (d. 2003)
- April 8 - Edward Mulhare, Irish actor (d. 1997)
- April 13 - Don Adams, American actor and comedian (d. 2005)
- April 20 - Mother Angelica, American founder of the Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN)
- April 22 - Bettie Page, American model
- April 22 - Aaron Spelling, American television producer and writer (d. 2006)
- April 23 - Dolph Briscoe, Governor of Texas
- April 25 - Albert King, American musician (d. 1992)
- April 30 - Al Lewis, American actor (d. 2006)
May - June
- May 1 - Joseph Heller, American novelist (d. 1999)
- May 2 - Patrick Hillery, President of Ireland
- May 3 - Ralph Hall, American politician
- May 4 - Assi Rahbani, Lebanese composer, musician, conductor, poet and author (d. 1986)
- May 5 - Richard Wollheim, British philosopher (d. 2003)
- May 7 - Anne Baxter, American actress (d. 1985)
- May 10 - Heydar Aliyev, President of Azerbaijan from June 1993 to October 2003 (d. 2003)
- May 10 - Verne Gagne, American professional wrestler
- May 15 - John Lanchbery, English composer (d. 2003)
- May 16 - Merton Miller, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2000)
- May 18 - Hugh Shearer, Prime Minister of Jamaica (d. 2004)
- May 21 - Armand Borel, Swiss mathematician (d. 2003)
- May 21 - Dorothy Hewett, writer (d. 2002)
- May 21 - Ara Parseghian, American football coach
- May 26 - James Arness, American actor
- May 27 - Henry Kissinger, United States Secretary of State, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
- May 28 - György Ligeti, Hungarian composer (d. 2006)
- May 28 - NTR, Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao, Indian (Telugu) film actor (d. 1996)
- May 31 - Rainier III, Prince of Monaco (d. 2005)
- June 4 - Elizabeth Jolley, Australian writer (d. 2007)
- June 10 - Robert Maxwell, Slovakian-born media entrepreneur (d. 1991)
- June 15 - Johnny Most, American basketball radio announcer (d. 1993)
- June 24 - Jack Carter, American comedian
- June 27 - Gus Zernial, American baseball player
- June 28 - Daniil Khrabrovitsky, Soviet film director (d. 1980)
July - August
- July 2 - Wislawa Szymborska, Polish writer, Nobel Prize laureate
- July 4 - Rudolf Friedrich, Swiss Federal Councilor
- July 8 - Harrison Dillard, American athlete
- July 18 - Jerome H. Lemelson, American inventor (d. 1997)
- July 20 - Stanisław Albinowski, Polish economist and journalist (d. 2005)
- July 21 - Rudolph A. Marcus, Canadian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- July 22 - Bob Dole, American politician and Presidential candidate
- July 22 - Mukesh, Indian singer (d. 1976)
- July 22 - Mary Lillian Ellison, better known by her ring name The Fabulous Moolah, American Professional Wrestler
- July 23 - Witto Aloma, Cuban Major League Baseball player (d. 1997)
- July 23 - Norma Zimmer, American singer
- July 23 - Estelle Getty, American actress
- July 28 - H.S.S. Lawrence, Indian educationist
- July 29 - Jim Marshall, founder of Marshall Amplification.
- August 5 - Devan Nair, third President of Singapore (d. 2005)
- August 16 - Millôr Fernandes, Brazilian cartoonist and playwright
- August 20 - Jim Reeves, American singer (d. 1964)
- August 21 - Shimon Peres, Prime Minister of Israel, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
- August 21 - Larry Grayson, British comedian and game show host (d. 1995)
- August 24 - Arthur Jensen, American educational psychologist
- August 26 - Wolfgang Sawallisch, German conductor and pianist
- August 29 - Marmaduke Hussey, Baron Hussey of North Bradley, Chairman of the BBC (d. 2006)
September - October
- September 1 - Rocky Marciano, American boxer (d. 1969)
- September 1 - Kenneth Roy Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet, Canadian businessman and art collector (d. 2006)
- September 3 - Mort Walker, American cartoonist
- September 6 - King Peter II of Yugoslavia (d. 1970)
- September 7 - Madeleine Dring, British composer and actress (d. 1977)
- September 9 - Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, American virologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- September 11 - Dharmsamrat Paramhans Swami Madhavananda, Indian guru (d. 2003)
- September 13 - Cecile L. Fugere
- September 16 - Lee Kuan Yew, Prime Minister of Singapore
- September 17 - Hank Williams, American country musician (d. 1953)
- September 18 - Queen Anne of Romania
- September 20 - Geraldine Clinton Little, Irish-born poet (d. 1997)
- September 22 - Dannie Abse, Welsh poet
- September 26 - Dev Anand, Indian actor
- October 3 - Edward Oliver LeBlanc, Dominican politician (d. 2004)
- October 5 - Albert Guðmundsson, Icelandic professional football player and politician (d. 1994)
- October 5 - Glynis Johns, British actress
- October 13 - Faas Wilkes, Dutch football (soccer) player (d. 2006)
- October 15 - Italo Calvino, Italian writer (d. 1985)
- October 17 - Charles McClendon, Hall of Fame college football coach (d. 2001)
- October 23 - Frank Sutton, American actor (d. 1974)
- October 23 - Sir Robin Day, British political broadcaster (d. 2000)
- October 24 - Denise Levertov, British-born American poet (d. 1997)
November - December
- November 1 - Victoria de los Angeles, Catalan soprano (d. 2005)
- November 1 - Gordon R. Dickson, Canadian author (d. 2001)
- November 3 - Tomás Cardinal Ó Fiaich, Northern Irish clergyman (d. 1990)
- November 8 - Jack Kilby, American electrical engineer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (d. 2005)
- November 18 - Alan Shepard, American astronaut (d. 1998)
- November 20 - Nadine Gordimer, South African writer, Nobel Prize laureate
- November 22 - Arthur Hiller, Canadian film director
- November 23 - Billy Haughton, American harness driver and trainer (d. 1986)
- November 25 - Mauno Koivisto, President of Finland
- December 2 - Maria Callas, Greek soprano (d. 1977)
- December 12 - Bob Barker, American game show host
- December 13 - Philip Warren Anderson, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- December 13 - Larry Doby, baseball player (d. 2003)
- December 13 - Antoni Tàpies, Catalan painter
- December 14 - Gerard Reve, Dutch writer (d. 2006)
- December 14 - Sully Boyar, American actor (d. 2001)
- December 15 - Freeman Dyson, English-born physicist
- December 17 - Jaroslav Pelikan, American historian (d. 2006)
- December 23 - Claudio Scimone, Italian conductor
- December 23 - James Stockdale, U.S. Navy admiral (d. 2005)
- December 24 - George Patton IV, American general (d. 2004)
- December 25 - Sonia Olschanezky, World War II heroine (d. 1944)
- date unknown - Geoffrey Hattersley-Smith, English/Canadian geologist and glaciologist
Deaths
- Mohammad Ya`qub Khan, Emir of Kabul, Emir of Kandahar (b. 1849)
January - June
- January 9 - Katherine Mansfield, British novelist (b. 1888)
- January 9 - Edith Thompson, hanged for murder (or adultery; b. 25 December 1893)
- January 23 - Max Nordau, Hungarian author, philosopher, and Zionist leader (b. 1849)
- January 31 - Eligiusz Niewiadomski, Polish artist, political activist and assassin (executed) (b. 1869)
- February 3 - Kuroki Tamemoto, Japanese military leader (b. 1844)
- February 10 - Wilhelm Röntgen, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1845)
- February 23 - Théophile Delcassé, French statesman (b. 1852)
- March 8 - Johannes Diderik van der Waals, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1837)
- March 17 - Cecile Fugere
- March 26 - Sarah Bernhardt, French actress (b. 1844)
- March 27 - Sir James Dewar, Scottish chemist (b. 1842)
- March 28 - Michel-Joseph Maunoury, French general (b. 1847)
- April 4 - John Venn, British mathematician (b. 1834)
- April 5 - George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, English financier of Egyptian excavations (b. 1866)
- April 23 - Princess Louise of Prussia, Grand Duchess of Baden (b. 1838)
- June 9 - Princess Helena of the United Kingdom, third daughter of Queen Victoria (b. 1846)
- June 24 - Edith Södergran, Finnish author (b. 1892)
July - December
- July 10 - Albert Chevalier, music hall comedian (b. 1861)
- July 23 - Pancho Villa, Mexican revolutionary (b. 1878)
- August 2 - Warren G. Harding, 29th President of the United States (b. 1865)
- August 24 - Kato Tomosaburo, 21st Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1861)
- September 9 - Hermes Rodrigues da Fonseca, 8th President of Brazil (b. 1855)
- October 30 - Andrew Bonar Law, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1858)
- November 9 - (among those killed in Beer Hall Putsch):
- November 9 - Oskar Körner, businessman (b. 1875)
- November 9 - Karl Laforce, student (b. 1904)
- November 9 - Ludwig Maximilian Erwin von Scheubner-Richter, diplomat and revolutionary (b. 1884)
- November 14 - Ernest Augustus, Crown Prince of Hanover (b. 1845)
- December 12 - Raymond Radiguet, French author (b. 1903)
- December 13 - Théophile Steinlen, Swiss painter (b. 1859)
- date unknown - Carl L. Boeckmann, Norwegian-American artist (b. 1867)
Nobel prizes
See also
Notes
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