1923

Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century

Decades: 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s - 1920s - 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s

Years: 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 - 1923 - 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928

• January 10 - Lithuania seizes and annexes Memel
• January 11 - Troops from France and Belgium occupy the Ruhr area to force Germany to pay its reparation payments.
• February 16 - Howard Carter unseals the burial chamber of Pharaoh Tutankhamun.
• March 2 - Time Magazine hits newsstands for the first time.
• October 29 - Turkey was declared a republic.

• Change of US presidency from Warren G. Harding (1921-1923) to Calvin Coolidge (1923-1929)
• April - End of Irish Civil War
• Juan de la Cierva invents the autogyro, a rotary-winged aircraft[?] with an unpowered rotor
• Finnish flag carrier Finnair airline started in Aero Oy

Art, Culture & Fashion

• 1923 in film
• 1923 in literature
• 1923 in music
• 1923 in sports[?]

Births

• January 7 - Pinkas Braun[?], actor and film director
• January 5 - Sam Phillips, county music[?] producer
• January 6 - Jacobo Timerman, writer (+ 1999)
• January 10 - Ingeborg Drewitz[?], writer (+ 1986)
• January 11 - Jacqueline Maillan[?], French actress
• January 19 - Jean Stapleton[?], actress
• January 26 - Anne Jeffreys[?], actress
• January 29 - Paddy Chayefsky[?], writer (+ 1981)
• January 31 - Norman Mailer, writer and journalist
• February 2 - James Dickey, poet, author (+ 1997)
• February 2 - Liz Smith[?], gossip columnist
• February 9 - Brendan Behan[?], author (+ 1964)
• February 11 - Ronald Arculus[?], British diplomat.
• February 12 - Franco Zeffirelli, italian director
• February 13 - Chuck Yeager, pilot
• February 27 - Dexter Gordon, jazz saxophone player (+ 1990)
• March 6 - Ed McMahon[?], television personality
• March 6 - Jürgen von Manger[?], cabaretist (+ 1994)
• March 8 - Walter Jens[?], writer
• March 9 - Walter Kohn[?], physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1998)
• March 12 - Wally Schirra[?], astronaut
• March 22 - Marcel Marceau, mime[?]
• March 24 - Kermit Schafer[?], humorist (+ 1979)
• March 26 - Bob Elliott, comedian
• March 27 - Louis Simpson[?], poet
• March 30 - Milton Acorn, Canadian poet, writer, and playwright
• April 22 - Bettie Page, pinup model
• April 22 - Aaron Spelling[?], television producer, writer
• May 1 - Joseph Heller, novelist (+ 1999)
• May 7 - Anne Baxter, actress (+ 1985)
• May 13 - Bea Arthur, actress
• May 21 - Ara Parseghian[?], American football coach
• May 27 -Henry Kissinger, American diplomat and recipient of the Nobel Prize in peace 1973
• May 28 - György Ligeti, composer
• September 6 - King Peter II of Yugoslavia
• December 14 - Gerard Reve, Dutch writer
• December 23 - James Stockdale, United States Navy admiral

• February 10 - Wilhelm Röntgen, physicist, dicoverer of X-rays, Nobel laureate
• March 26 - Sarah Bernhardt, French actress
• March 27 - Sir James Dewar, chemist
• June 9 - Princess Helena of the United Kingdom[?], third daughter of Queen Victoria, aunt of King George V

Nobel Prizes

• Physics - Robert Andrews Millikan
• Chemistry - Fritz Pregl
• Medicine - Frederick Grant Banting, John James Richard Macleod for the discovery of insulin
• Literature - William Butler Yeats
• Peace - Not awarded.