1923: The Year in People

The Greatest Generation · Year of the Pig 🐖 · Born in 1923 turn 103 in 2026

The year in numbers

US population

1.93B

US president

Calvin Coolidge

Top song

"Yes! We Have No Bananas" — Billy Jones

Top film

The Covered Wagon

In the news: The Great Kanto earthquake devastates Tokyo

What happened in 1923

1923 (MCMXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1923rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 923rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 23rd year of the 20th century, and the 4th year of the 1920s decade. As of the start of 1923, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was relegated that February to use only by churches after Greece adopted the Gregorian calendar.

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Born in 1923

148 people in our data · most viewed first

Charlton Heston

1923–2008 · October 4

American actor

Bob Barker

1923–2023 · December 12

American media personality

Henry Kissinger

1923–2023 · May 27

American diplomat and political scientist

Alan Shepard

1923–1998 · November 18

American astronaut and lunar explorer

Anne Baxter

1923–1985 · May 7

American actress

Carroll Shelby

1923–2012 · January 11

American racing driver and automotive designer

Aaron Spelling

1923–2006 · April 22

American film and television producer

Ann Miller

1923–2004 · April 12

American actress and dancer

Chuck Yeager

1923–2020 · February 13

American flying ace and test pilot

Cliff Robertson

1923–2011 · September 9

American actor

Bob Dole

1923–2021 · July 22

American politician and attorney

Bettie Page

1923–2008 · April 22

American pin-up model

Peter Vaughan

1923–2016 · April 4

English actor

Dina Merrill

1923–2017 · December 29

American actress

Don Adams

1923–2005 · April 13

American actor

Franco Zeffirelli

1923–2019 · February 12

Italian filmmaker

Eugene Sledge

1923–2001 · November 4

United States Marine

Diana Douglas

1923–2015 · January 22

American actress

Nguyễn Văn Thiệu

1923–2001 · April 5

President of South Vietnam from 1967 to 1975

Ahmet Ertegun

1923–2006 · July 31

Turkish-American businessman

Dick Shawn

1923–1987 · December 1

American actor

Alice Ghostley

1923–2007 · August 14

American actress and singer

Conrad Bain

1923–2013 · February 4

Canadian-American actor

Bert Trautmann

1923–2013 · October 22

German footballer and coach

Died in 1923

Constantine I of Greece1868–1923 · King of Greece (r. 1913–17; 1920–22)
Bonar Law1858–1923 · Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1922 to 1923
Dietrich Eckart1868–1923 · 19/20th-century German poet, playwright, journalist, and far-right political activist
Charles Proteus Steinmetz1865–1923 · American mathematician and electrical engineer
Hertha Ayrton1854–1923 · English electrical engineer and activist
John Venn1834–1923 · English logician and philosopher
Charles Henry Turner (zoologist)1867–1923 · American entomologist
Ernst Ziller1837–1923 · 19th-century European architect
Alexandre Ribot1842–1923 · French politician
Alexander Milne Calder1846–1923 · Scottish-American sculptor
Charlotte Garrigue1850–1923 · First Lady of Czechoslovakia
Andrés Avelino Cáceres1836–1923 · 27th and 30th President of Peru