1923

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.
   * 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 Gamaliel Harding, 29th President of the United States
     (1921 - 1923) dies in office and is succeeded by Calvin Coolidge
     (1923-1929).
   * October 29 - Turkey was declared a republic.

   * 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

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 - JŸrgen 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 2 - Patrick Hillery, sixth President of Ireland
   * 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 - Gyšrgy Ligeti, composer
   * May 31 - Rainier Louis Henri Maxence Bertrand Grimaldi, later Prince
     Rainer III of Monaco.
   * July 2 - Wislawa Szymborska, Polish poetess, the Nobel Prize in
     Literature laureate in 1996
   * September 6 - King Peter II of Yugoslavia
   * September 22 - Dannie Abse, english poet
   * December 14 - Gerard Reve, Dutch writer
   * December 23 - James Stockdale, United States Navy admiral

Deaths

   * February 10 - Wilhelm Ršntgen, 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.

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