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
- 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.
- 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 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 30 - Milton Acorn, Canadian poet, writer, and playwright
- May 1 - Joseph Heller, novelist (+ 1999)
- May 27 - Henry Kissinger
- May 28 - György Ligeti, composer
Deaths
- February 10 - Wilhelm Röntgen, physicist, dicoverer of X-rays, Nobel laureate
- March 26 - Sarah Bernhardt, French actress
- 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.