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
Events
- Change of US presidency from Warren G. Harding (1921-1923) to Calvin Coolidge (1923-1929)
- Republic of Turkey founded
- April - End of Irish Civil War
- Juan de la Cierva invents the autogyro, a rotary-winged aircraft with an unpowered rotor
Art, Culture & Fashion
Births
- January 5 - Sam Phillips, county music producer
- January 6 - Jacobo Timerman, writer (+ 1999)
- February 11 - Ronald Arculus, British diplomat.
- February 12 - Franco Zeffirelli, italian director
- March 30 - Milton Acorn, Canadian poet, writer, and playwright
- May 28 - György Ligeti, composer
Deaths
- March 26 - Sarah Bernhardt, French actress
- Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen, physicist, dicoverer of X-rays, Nobel laureate
- 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.