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'''1923''' '''(MCMXXIII)''' was a [[common year starting on Monday]] (link will take you to calendar).

==Events==
{{Year G}}
===January===
* [[January 1]] - [[Grouping Act|Grouping]] of all [[United Kingdom|UK]] [[railway]] companies into four larger companies
* [[January 10]] - [[Lithuania]] seizes and annexes [[Memel]]
* [[January 11]] - Troops from [[France]] and [[Belgium]] [[Occupation of the Ruhr|occupy the Ruhr area]] to force [[Germany]] to pay its reparation payments

===February===
* [[February 16]] - [[Howard Carter]] unseals the burial chamber of [[Pharaoh]] [[Tutankhamun]]
* [[February 22]] - [[Barcelona]] ([[Catalonia]]): [[Albert Einstein]] visits the city, invited by the scientist [[Esteban Terradas i Illa]], as part of the monografics course of High Studies and Exchange organized by the [[Mancomunitat de Catalunya]] and conducted by [[Rafael de Campalans]].

===March===
* [[March]] - ''[[Antigone]]'' by [[Jean Cocteau]] appears on a Paris stage. Settings by [[Pablo Picasso]], music by [[Arthur Honegger]], and costumes by [[Gabrielle Chanel]]. [[Antonin Artaud]] played the part of [[Tiresias]].
* [[March 1]] - [[USS Connecticut (BB-18)|USS Connecticut]] decommissioned
* [[March 2]] - ''[[Time Magazine]]'' hits newsstands for the first time
* [[March 9]] - [[Vladimir Lenin]] suffers a stroke, his third, which renders him bedridden and unable to speak; consequently he retires his position as Chairman of the [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] government.

===April===
* [[April]] - End of [[Irish Civil War]]
* [[April 12]] - [[Kandersteg International Scout Centre]] came into existence.
* [[April 23]] - Ceremonial inauguration of [[Gdynia]] Seaport
* [[April 26]] - Wedding of [[George VI of the United Kingdom|Prince Albert]] and [[Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon]] in [[Westminster Abbey]]

===May===
* [[May 23]] - Launch of [[Belgium]]'s [[SABENA]] Airlines
* [[May 27]] - [[Ku Klux Klan]] defies law requiring publication of its members

===June===
* [[June 9]] - [[Military coup]] in [[Bulgaria]] - prime minister [[Aleksandar Stamboliyski]] is ousted (he is killed [[June 14]])
* [[June 18]] - [[Etna]] volcano erupts - 60.000 made homeless

===July===
* [[July 10]] - Large [[hail]]stones kill 23 in [[Rostow]], [[Soviet Russia]]
* [[July 19]]-[[July 20|20]] night - Assassination of [[Pancho Villa]]
* [[July 24]] - The [[Treaty of Lausanne]], settling the boundaries of modern [[Turkey]], is signed in [[Switzerland]] by [[Greece]], [[Bulgaria]] and other countries that fought in the [[World War I|First World War]]

===August===
* [[August 2]] - [[Warren G. Harding]], 29th [[President of the United States]] ([[1921]] - 1923) dies in office and is succeeded by [[Calvin Coolidge]] (1923-[[1929]]).
* [[August 13]] - First major sea-going ship arrives at [[Gdynia]], newly constructed [[Poland|Polish]] seaport
* [[August 13]] - [[Gustav Stresemann]] is named [[Chancellor of Germany|chancellor]] and founds a [[coalition government]] in [[Weimar Republic]] [[Germany]]

===September===
* [[September 1]] - [[Great Kantō earthquake]] devastates [[Tokyo]] and [[Yokohama]] killing 142.807 people
* [[September 4]] - In [[Lakehurst, New Jersey]], the first American [[airship]], the "[[USS Shenandoah (ZR-1)|USS ''Shenandoah'']], takes to the sky for the first time
* [[September 6]] - Italian navy occupies [[Corfu]] in retaliation of murder of an Italian officer. [[League of Nations]] protests and they leave [[September 29]]
* [[September 8]] - [[Honda Point Disaster]]: Seven [[US Navy]] [[destroyer]]s ran aground off the [[California]] coast.
* [[September 9]] - [[Atatürk]] founded the [[CHP]].
* [[September 13]] - Military coup in [[Spain]] - [[Miguel Primo de Rivera]] takes over, setting up a [[dictatorship]].
* [[September 18]]-[[September 26|26]] - Newspaper printers strike in New York
* [[September 26]] - In [[Bayern]], [[Gustav von Kuhr]] declares independence from [[Berlin]]

===October===
* [[October 29]] - [[Turkey]] becomes a [[republic]] following the dissolution of the [[Ottoman Empire]]

===November===
* [[November 8]] - [[Beer Hall Putsch]]: In [[Munich]], [[Adolf Hitler]] leads the [[Nazi]]s in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the German government. Police and troops crush the attempt the next day
* [[November 12]]- Her Highness [[Princess Maud, Countess of Southesk|Princess Maud of Fife]] marries Captain Charles Alexander Carnegie in Wellington Barracks, [[London]].
* [[November 15]] - The [[inflation]] in Germany reaches its height. One [[dollar]] is worth 4,200,000,000,000 [[Reichsmark]]s (4.2 trillion). [[Gustav Stresemann]] abolishes the old [[currency]]
* [[November 23]] - Gustav Stresemann's coalition government collapses

===December===
* [[December 12]] - [[Po]] river dam bursts - 600 dead
* [[December 27]] - Assassination attempt against the crown prince of Japan in Tokyo

===Unknown dates===
* [[Juan de la Cierva]] invents the [[autogyro]], a [[rotary-winged aircraft]] with an unpowered rotor.
* [[Finland|Finnish]] flag carrier [[Finnair]] airline is started in Aero Oy.
* [[Interpol]] is set up.
* International Police Conference in Vienna
* [[Hoda Cha'arawi Association]] (formerly The Egyptian Feminist Union) is established in [[Egypt]].
* [[Trade union]]s banned in Spain for 10 years.
* Police strike in [[Australia]]
* [[Regia Aeronautica]], air force of Fascist Italy, is founded.
* [[American Law Institute]] established
* [[Moderation League of New York]] became part of movement for [[repeal of prohibition]] in United States.

==Births==
===January===
*[[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 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

===February===
*[[February 2]] - [[James Dickey]], American poet and author (d. [[1997]])
*[[February 2]] - [[Liz Smith (journalist)|Liz Smith]], American gossip columnist
*[[February 9]] - [[Brendan Behan]], Irish author (d. [[1964]])
*[[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===
* [[March 6]] - [[Ed McMahon]], American television personality
* [[March 9]] - [[Walter Kohn]], Austrian-born physicist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]]
* [[March 10]] - [[Val Logsdon Fitch]], American nuclear physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate
* [[March 12]] - [[Wally Schirra]], astronaut
* [[March 21]] - [[Shri Mataji Nirmala Shrivastava]], Indian founder of Sahaja Yoga
* [[March 25]] - [[Wim van Est]], Dutch cyclist (d. [[2003]])
* [[March 26]] - [[Bob Elliott (comedian)|Bob Elliott]], American comedian
* [[March 27]] - [[Louis Simpson]], Jamaican-born poet
* [[March 30]] - [[Milton Acorn]], Canadian writer (d. [[1986]])

===April===
* [[April 2]] - [[G. Spencer-Brown]], British mathematician
* [[April 6]] - [[Ramon Valdes]], Mexican comedian
* [[April 8]] - [[George Fisher (cartoonist)|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
* [[April 23]] - [[Dolph Briscoe]], Governor of Texas

===May===
* [[May 1]] - [[Joseph Heller]], American novelist (d. [[1999]])
* [[May 2]] - [[Patrick Hillery]], [[President of Ireland]]
* [[May 3]] - [[Ralph Hall]], American politician
* [[May 5]] - [[Richard Wollheim]], British philosopher (d. [[2003]])
* [[May 7]] - [[Anne Baxter]], American actress (d. [[1985]])
* [[May 13]] - [[Bea Arthur]], American actress
* [[May 15]] - [[John Lanchbery]], English composer (d. [[2003]])
*[[May 16]] - [[Merton Miller]], American economist, [[Nobel Prize in Economics|Nobel Prize]] laureate
* [[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
* [[May 31]] - [[Rainier III, Prince of Monaco]] (d. [[2005]])

===July===
* [[July 2]] - [[Wislawa Szymborska]], Polish writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|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]] - [[Stanislaw Albinowski|Stanisław Albinowski]], Polish economist and journalist (d. [[2005]])
*[[July 21]] - [[Rudolph A. Marcus]], Canadian chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate
* [[July 22]] - [[Robert Joseph Dole]], American politician and Presidential candidate
*July 22 - [[Mukesh]], Indian singer (d. [[1976]])
* [[July 23]] - [[Luis Aloma|Witto Aloma]], Cuban [[Major League Baseball]] player (d. [[1997]])

===August===
* [[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 24]] - [[Arthur Jensen]], American educational psychologist
* [[August 26]] - [[Wolfgang Sawallisch]], German conductor and pianist

===September===
* [[September 1]] - [[Kenneth Roy Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet]], Canadian businessman and art collector
*[[September 1]] - [[Rocky Marciano]], American boxer (d. [[1969]])
* [[September 3]] - [[Mort Walker]], American cartoonist
* [[September 6]] - King [[Peter II of Yugoslavia]] (d. [[1970]])
* [[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 17]] - [[Hank Williams]], American country musician (d. [[1953]])
* [[September 20]] - [[Geraldine Clinton Little]], Irish-born poet (D. [[1997]]
* [[September 22]] - [[Dannie Abse]], Welsh poet
* [[September 26]] - [[Dev Anand]], Indian actor

===October===
* [[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
* [[October 15]] - [[Italo Calvino]], Italian writer (d. [[1985]])
* [[October 23]] - [[Frank S<nowiki></nowiki>utton]], American actor (d. [[1974]])

===November===
* [[November 1]] - [[Victoria de los Angeles]], Catalan soprano (d. [[2005]])
* [[November 1]] - [[Gordon R. Dickson]], Canadian author (d. [[2001]])
* [[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 in Literature|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===
* [[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 in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate
*[[December 13]] - [[Larry Doby]], baseball player (d. [[2003]])
*[[December 13]] - [[Antoni Tàpies]], Catalan painter
* [[December 14]] - [[Gerard Reve]], Dutch writer
* [[December 15]] - [[Freeman Dyson]], English-born physicist
* [[December 23]] - [[Claudio Scimone]], Italian conductor
*[[December 23]] - [[James Stockdale]], U.S. Navy admiral
* [[December 24]] - [[George Patton IV]], American general (d. [[2004]])
* [[December 25]] - [[Sonia Olschanezky]], World War II heroine (d. [[1944]])

==Deaths==

===January===
* [[Michel-Joseph Maunoury]], French general (b. [[1847]])
* [[January 9]] - Katherine Mansfield, British novelist (b. 1888)
* [[January 23]] - [[Max Nordau]], Hungarian author, philosopher, and Zionist leader (b. [[1849]])

===February===
* [[February 10]] - [[Wilhelm Röntgen]], German physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1845]])
* [[February 23]] - [[Théophile Delcassé]], French statesman (b. [[1852]])

===March===
* [[March 8]] - [[Johannes Diderik van der Waals]], Dutch physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1837]])
* [[March 26]] - [[Sarah Bernhardt]], French actress (b. [[1844]])
* [[March 27]] - Sir [[James Dewar]], Scottish chemist (b. [[1842]])

===April===
* [[April 4]] - [[John Venn]], British mathematician (b. [[1834]])
* [[April 5]] - [[George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon]], English financier of Egyptian excavations (b. [[1866]])

===June===
* [[June 9]] - [[Princess Helena of the United Kingdom]] (b. [[1846]])

===August===
* [[August 2]] - [[Warren G. Harding]], 29th [[President of the United States]] (b. [[1865]])

===October===
* [[October 30]] - [[Andrew Bonar Law]], [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] (b. 1858)

===December===
* [[December 12]] - [[Raymond Radiguet]], French author (b. [[1903]])
* [[December 13]] - [[Théophile Steinlen]], Swiss painter (b. [[1859]])

==Nobel Prizes==
* [[Nobel Prize/Physics|Physics]] - [[Robert Andrews Millikan]]
* [[Nobel Prize/Chemistry|Chemistry]] - [[Fritz Pregl]]
* [[Nobel Prize/Physiology or medicine|Physiology or Medicine]] - [[Frederick Banting|Frederick Grant Banting]], [[John James Richard Macleod]]
* [[Nobel Prize in literature|Literature]] - [[William Butler Yeats]]
* [[Nobel Prize/Peace|Peace]] - Not awarded

[[Category:1923|*]]

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-* Nobel Prize/Physics|Physics - Robert Andrews Millikan
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-* Nobel Prize/Physiology or medicine|Physiology or Medicine - Frederick Banting|Frederick Grant Banting, John James Richard Macleod
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-* Nobel Prize in literature|Literature - William Butler Yeats
+* [[Literature]] - William Butler Yeats
-* Nobel Prize/Peace|Peace - Not awarded
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