1923
1923 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar).
Events
January-June
July-September
July 6 - Union of Soviet Socialist Republics established
July 20 - Pancho Villa assassinated
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 First World War
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 Polish seaport
August 13 - Gustav Stresemann is named chancellor and founds a coalition government in Weimar Republic Germany
September 1 - Great Kanto earthquake devastates Tokyo and Yokohama killing 142.807 people
September 4 - In Lakehurst, New Jersey , the first American airship , the "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 destroyers ran aground off the California coast.
September 13 - Military coup in Spain - Miguel Primo de Rivera takes over, setting up a dictatorship .
September 18 -26 - Newspaper printers strike in New York
September 26 - In Bayern , Gustav von Kuhr declares independence from Berlin
October-December
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Year in topic
Births
January-February
January 1 - Roméo Sabourin , SOE agent (d. 1944 )
January 7 - Pinkas Braun , actor and film director
January 5 - Sam Phillips , country music producer (d. 2003 )
January 6 - Jacobo Timerman , writer (d. 1999 )
January 10 - Ingeborg Drewitz , writer (d. 1986 )
January 11 - Jacqueline Maillan , French actress
January 16 - Anthony Hecht , poet
January 19 - Jean Stapleton , actress
January 25 - Arvid Carlsson , Nobel Prize winning scientist
January 26 - Anne Jeffreys , actress
January 29 - Paddy Chayefsky , writer (d. 1981 )
January 31 - Norman Mailer , writer and journalist
February 2 - James Dickey , poet, author (d. 1997 )
February 2 - Liz Smith , gossip columnist
February 9 - Brendan Behan , author (d. 1964 )
February 11 - Ronald Arculus , British diplomat
February 12 - Franco Zeffirelli , Italian director
February 13 - Chuck Yeager , pilot
February 13 - Yfrah Neaman , violinist and teacher
February 27 - Dexter Gordon , jazz saxophone player (d. 1990 )
March-April
March 1 - Kuczka Péter , Hungarian writer, poet and Science Fiction editor († 1999 )
March 6 - Ed McMahon , television personality
March 6 - Jürgen von Manger , cabaretist (d. 1994 )
March 8 - Walter Jens , writer
March 9 - Walter Kohn , physicist, winner 1998 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
March 12 - Wally Schirra , astronaut
March 13 - Jose Mojica Marins , movie director
March 21 - Shri Mataji Nirmala Shrivastava , the founder of Sahaja Yoga
March 22 - Marcel Marceau , mime
March 24 - Kermit Schafer , humorist (d. 1979 )
March 26 - Bob Elliott , comedian
March 27 - Louis Simpson , poet
March 30 - Milton Acorn , Canadian poet, writer, and playwright
April 2 - G. Spencer-Brown , British mathematician
April 20 - Mother Angelica , founder of Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN) Catholic cable TV channel
April 22 - Bettie Page , pinup model
April 22 - Aaron Spelling , television producer, writer
April 23 - Dolph Briscoe , former governor of Texas
May-August
May 1 - Joseph Heller , novelist (d. 1999 )
May 2 - Patrick Hillery , sixth President of Ireland
May 3 - Ralph Hall , American politician
May 7 - Anne Baxter , actress (d. 1985 )
May 13 - Bea Arthur , actress
May 15 - John Lanchbery , English ballet composer (d. 2003 )
May 21 - Ara Parseghian , American football coach
May 21 - Dorothy Hewett , writer (d. 2002 )
May 27 - Henry Kissinger , American diplomat and recipient of the Nobel Prize in peace 1973
May 28 - György Ligeti , composer
May 31 - Prince Rainer III of Monaco (d. 2005 )
July 2 - Wislawa Szymborska , Polish poet, the Nobel Prize in Literature laureate in 1996
July 4 - Rudolf Friedrich , member of the Swiss Federal Council
July 8 - Harrison Dillard , American athlete
July 20 - Stanisław Albinowski , Polish economist and journalist (d.2005)
July 22 - Robert Joseph Dole , United States Republican Party Presidential candidate
July 22 - Mukesh , singer
July 23 - Witto Aloma , Major League Baseball player (d. 1997 )
August 20 - Jim Reeves , singer
August 24 - Arthur Jensen , educational psychologist
August 26 - Wolfgang Sawallisch , German conductor and pianist
September-December
September 1 - Kenneth Roy Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet , businessman, art collector
September 3 - Mort Walker , American cartoonist (Beetle Bailey September 6 - King Peter II of Yugoslavia
September 9 - Daniel Carleton Gajdusek , Virologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate in 1976
September 11 - Dharmsamrat Paramhans Swami Madhavananda , Hindu guru
September 17 - Hank Williams , American country musician
September 22 - Dannie Abse , Welsh poet
October 5 - Glynis Johns , British actress
October 23 - Frank Sutton , American actor
November 1 - Victoria de los Angeles , Catalan soprano (d. 2005 )
November 20 - Nadine Gordimer , South African writer
November 22 - Arthur Hiller , film director
November 25 - Mauno Koivisto , former President of Finland
December 2 - Maria Callas , opera diva (d. 1977 )
December 12 - Bob Barker , US game show host
December 13 - Larry Doby , Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 2003 )
December 13 – Antoni Tàpies , Spanish abstract expressionist painter
December 14 - Gerard Reve , Dutch writer
December 23 - Claudio Scimone , Italian conductor
December 23 - James Stockdale , United States Navy admiral
December 25 - Sonia Olschanezky , World War II heroine executed by the Nazis (d. 1944 )
Deaths
January 23 - Max Nordau , author, philosopher and Zionist leader (* 1849 )
February 10 - Wilhelm Röntgen , physicist, discoverer of X-rays, Nobel laureate
February 23 - Théophile Delcassé , French statesman (b. 1852 )
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
December 12 - Raymond Radiguet , French author
December 13 - Théophile Steinlen , Swiss/French painter
