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1923
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Year 1923 (MCMXXIII ) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar .
Events of 1923
January-February
March-April
May-June
July-August
September-October
September 1 - The Great Kantō earthquake devastates Tokyo and Yokohama , killing an estimated 142,807 people, but according to a Japanese construction reserch center report in 2005, 105,000 are confirmed dead.
September 4 - In Lakehurst, New Jersey , the first American airship , the USS Shenandoah , takes to the sky for the first time.
September 6 - The Italian navy occupies Corfu in retaliation for the murder of an Italian officer. The League of Nations protests and they leave on September 29 .
September 8 - Honda Point Disaster : Seven U.S. Navy destroyers run aground off the California coast.
September 9 - Turkish head of state Atatürk founds the CHP .
September 10 - Ireland joins the League of Nations .
September 13 - Military coup in Spain : Miguel Primo de Rivera takes over, setting up a dictatorship . Trade unions are banned for 10 years.
September 17 - A major fire in Berkeley, California erupts, consuming some 640 structures, including 584 homes in the densely-built neighborhoods north of the campus of the University of California .
September 18 - September 26 - Newspaper printers strike in New York.
September 26 - In Bayern , Gustav Ritter von Kahr declares independence from Berlin .
October 13 - Ankara replaces İstanbul as the capital of Turkey .
October 26 - In Persia , Reza Khan became Ahmad Shah Qajar 's prime minister.
October 29 - Turkey becomes a republic following the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire .
November-December
November 1 - The Finnish flag carrier Finnair airline is started in Aero Oy.
November 8 - Beer Hall Putsch : In Munich , Adolf Hitler leads the Nazis in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the German government; police and troops crush the attempt the next day.
November 12 - Her Highness Princess Maud of Fife marries Captain Charles Alexander Carnegie in Wellington Barracks, London .
November 15 - The hyperinflation in Germany reaches its height. One United States dollar is worth 4,200,000,000,000,000 Papiermark (4.2 quadrillion). Gustav Stresemann abolishes the old currency (see inflation in the Weimar Republic ).
November 23 - Gustav Stresemann 's coalition government collapses in Germany.
December 12 - In Italy , the Po River dam bursts, killing 600.
December 20 - BEGGARS Fraternity (the first social fraternity at a Jesuit college in the United States) is founded by a 9 men, who secured permission to do so from the Pope.
December 27 - The crown prince of Japan survives an assassination attempt in Tokyo .
Undated
Ongoing
Births
January - February
January 1
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 (All In The Family )
January 23
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 (d. 2007 )
February 2
February 9 - Brendan Behan , Irish author (d. 1964 )
February 10 - Cesare Siepi , Italian opera singer
February 12 - Franco Zeffirelli , Italian film and opera director
February 13 - Yfrah Neaman , Lebanese-born violinist (d. 2003 )
February 13 - Chuck Yeager , American test 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 - April
March 4 - Sir Patrick Moore , British astronomer and broadcaster
March 6 - Ed McMahon , American television personality (The Tonight Show )
March 7 - Mahlon Clark , American musician (d. 2007 )
March 9 - Walter Kohn , Austrian-born physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
March 10 - Val Logsdon Fitch , American nuclear physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
March 12 - Wally Schirra , American astronaut (d. 2007 )
March 21 - Shri Mataji Nirmala Srivastava , Indian founder of Sahaja Yoga
March 22 - Marcel Marceau , world renowned French mime (d. 2007 )
March 25 - Wim van Est , Dutch cyclist (d. 2003 )
March 26 - Bob Elliott , American comedian
March 27 - Louis Simpson , Jamaican-born poet
March 28 - Thad Jones , American jazz musician (d. 1986 )
March 30 - Milton Acorn , Canadian writer (d. 1986 )
April 2 - G. Spencer-Brown , British mathematician
April 6 - Ramon Valdes , Mexican comedian (d. 1988 )
April 8
April 13 - Don Adams , American actor and comedian (Get Smart ) (d. 2005 )
April 20 - Mother Angelica , American founder of the Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN)
April 22
April 23 - Dolph Briscoe , Governor of Texas
April 25 - Albert King , American musician (d. 1992 )
April 30
May - June
May 1 - Joseph Heller , American novelist (Catch-22 ) (d. 1999 )
May 2 - Patrick Hillery , President of Ireland (d. 2008 )
May 3 - Ralph Hall , American politician
May 4 - Assi Rahbani , Lebanese composer, musician, conductor, poet and author (d. 1986 )
May 5 - Richard Wollheim , British philosopher (d. 2003 )
May 7 - Anne Baxter , American actress (d. 1985 )
May 10 - Heydar Aliyev , President of Azerbaijan from June 1993 to October 2003 (d. 2003 )
May 15 - John Lanchbery , English composer (d. 2003 )
May 16 - Merton Miller , American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2000 )
May 18 - Hugh Shearer , Prime Minister of Jamaica (d. 2004 )
May 21
May 23 - Kalidas Shrestha , Nepalese artist
May 26 - James Arness , American actor (Gunsmoke )
May 27 - Henry Kissinger , United States Secretary of State , recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
May 28
May 31 - Rainier III, Prince of Monaco (d. 2005 )
June 4 - Elizabeth Jolley , Australian writer (d. 2007 )
June 10 - Robert Maxwell , Slovakian-born media entrepreneur (d. 1991 )
June 15 - Johnny Most , American basketball radio announcer (d. 1993 )
June 24 - Jack Carter , American comedian
June 27 - Gus Zernial , American baseball player and sports commentator
June 28 - Daniil Khrabrovitsky , Soviet film director (d. 1980)
July - August
July 2 - Wislawa Szymborska , Polish writer, 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 - Stanisław Albinowski , Polish economist and journalist (d. 2005 )
July 21 - Rudolph A. Marcus , Canadian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
July 22
July 23
July 28 - H.S.S. Lawrence , Indian educator
July 29 - Jim Marshall , founder of Marshall Amplification
August 3 - Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria , Pope of Coptic Christianity
August 5 - Devan Nair , third President of Singapore (d. 2005 )
August 16 - Millôr Fernandes , Brazilian cartoonist and playwright
August 20 - Jim Reeves , American country singer (d. 1964 )
August 21
August 24 - Arthur Jensen , American educational psychologist
August 26 - Wolfgang Sawallisch , German conductor and pianist
August 29 - Marmaduke Hussey, Baron Hussey of North Bradley , chairman of the BBC (d. 2006 )
September - October
September 1
September 3 - Mort Walker , American cartoonist (Beetle Bailey )
September 6 - King Peter II of Yugoslavia (d. 1970 )
September 7 - Madeleine Dring , British composer and actress (d. 1977 )
September 9 - Daniel Carleton Gajdusek , American virologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
September 16 - Lee Kuan Yew , Prime Minister of Singapore
September 17 - Hank Williams , American country musician (d. 1953 )
September 18 - Queen Anne of Romania
September 20 - Geraldine Clinton Little , Irish-born poet (d. 1997 )
September 22 - Dannie Abse , Welsh poet
September 26 - Dev Anand , Indian actor
October 3 - Edward Oliver LeBlanc , Dominican politician (d. 2004 )
October 4 - Charlton Heston , American actor (The Ten Commandments ) (d. 2008 )
October 5
October 10 - Murray Walker , British motor racing commenator
October 13 - Faas Wilkes , Dutch football (soccer) player (d. 2006 )
October 15 - Italo Calvino , Italian writer (d. 1985 )
October 17 - Charles McClendon , Hall of Fame college football coach (d. 2001 )
October 23
October 24 - Denise Levertov , British-born American poet (d. 1997 )
November - December
November 1
November 3 - Tomás Cardinal Ó Fiaich , Northern Irish clergyman (d. 1990 )
November 8 - Jack Kilby , American electrical engineer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (d. 2005 )
November 18 - Alan Shepard , first American astronaut (d. 1998 )
November 20 - Nadine Gordimer , South African writer, 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 2 - Maria Callas , Greek soprano (d. 1977 )
December 12 - Bob Barker , American game show host (The Price Is Right )
December 13
December 14
December 15 - Freeman Dyson , English-born physicist
December 17 - Jaroslav Pelikan , American historian (d. 2006 )
December 23
December 24 - George Patton IV , American general (d. 2004 )
December 25 - Sonia Olschanezky , World War II heroine (d. 1944 )
date unknown - Geoffrey Hattersley-Smith , English /Canadian geologist and glaciologist
Deaths
January - June
January 9
January 23 - Max Nordau , Hungarian author, philosopher, and Zionist leader (b. 1849 )
January 31 - Eligiusz Niewiadomski , Polish artist, political activist and assassin (executed) (b. 1869 )
February 3 - Kuroki Tamemoto , Japanese military leader (b. 1844 )
February 10 - Wilhelm Röntgen , German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1845 )
February 23 - Théophile Delcassé , French statesman (b. 1852 )
March 8 - Johannes Diderik van der Waals , Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1837 )
March 26 - Sarah Bernhardt , French actress (b. 1844 )
March 27 - Sir James Dewar , Scottish chemist (b. 1842 )
March 28 - Michel-Joseph Maunoury , French general (b. 1847 )
April 4 - John Venn , British mathematician (b. 1834 )
April 5 - George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon , English financier of Egyptian excavations (b. 1866 )
April 23 - Princess Louise of Prussia , Grand Duchess of Baden (b. 1838 )
June 9 - Princess Helena of the United Kingdom , third daughter of Queen Victoria (b. 1846 )
June 24 - Edith Södergran , Finnish author (b. 1892 )
July - December
July 10 - Albert Chevalier , English music hall comedian (b. 1861 )
July 23 - Pancho Villa , Mexican revolutionary (b. 1878 )
August 2 - Warren G. Harding , 29th President of the United States (b. 1865 )
August 24 - Kato Tomosaburo , 21st Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1861 )
September 9 - Hermes Rodrigues da Fonseca , 8th President of Brazil (b. 1855 )
October 30 - Andrew Bonar Law , Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1858 )
November 9 (among those killed in Munich Beer Hall Putsch):
November 14 - Ernest Augustus, Crown Prince of Hanover (b. 1845 )
December 12 - Raymond Radiguet , French author (b. 1903 )
December 13 - Théophile Steinlen , Swiss painter (b. 1859 )
date unknown - Carl L. Boeckmann , Norwegian-American artist (b. 1867 )
Nobel prizes
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