About the day » Thursday August 23, 1923Calender converter

• Bernardus Johannes Borghuis, Barger-Oosterveld, Nederland († 2009)
• Augusta Starkenburg, Lynden-Washington (USA) († 2010)
• Arie de Weijer, Veenendaal, Gelderland, Nederland († 2001)
• Alexander Winter, Voorst († 1943)
• Cornelis Lucius Marie Rops, Ginneken en Bavel († 1987)
• Heus, Breukelen-St. Pieters († 1923)
• Berdina Johanna Bons, Groesbeek, Gelderland, Nederland († 2011)
• Antonius Hermannus Bernardus Hobert, Wierden († 1983)
• Berendina Gezina Roelofs, Radewijk († 2007)
• Cornelis Meskers, Warmond, Teylingen, Zuid Holland, Nederland († 1975)

• Aaltje Kattenbeld (86), Deventer, Ov, The Netherlands
• Aaltje Bart (76), Chicago (Illinois, USA)
• adriana cornelia BAKKER (70), rotterdam
• Anna MAAT (89), Heinenoord
• Anna Maat (89), Heinenoord
• Goetschalckx Joannes Baptista Emilius (63), Lille, Antwerpen, België
• Andrew Lorenz (76), Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio
• Antonia Koteris (85), Culenborg (Culenborg) (Gelderland)
• Barend Evers (70), Amsterdam
• Auguste Alexandre Contesse (79), Sains-du-Nord, Nord, France

• 1921 » Kenneth Arrow, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2017)
• 1921 » Sam Cook, English cricketer and umpire († 1996)
• 1922 » George Kell, American baseball player and sportscaster († 2009)
• 1922 » Jean Darling, American actress and singer († 2015)
• 1922 » Nazik Al-Malaika, Iraqi poet and academic († 2007)
• 1923 » Edgar F. Codd, English-American computer scientist and programmer († 2003)
• 1924 » Ephraim Kishon, Israeli author, screenwriter, and director († 2005)
• 1924 » Robert Solow, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1925 » Robert Mulligan, American director and producer († 2008)
• 1926 » Clifford Geertz, American anthropologist and academic († 2006)

• 1900 » Kuroda Kiyotaka, Japanese general and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1840)
• 1924 » Heinrich Berté, Slovak-Austrian composer (b. 1856)
• 1926 » Rudolph Valentino, Italian actor (b. 1895)
• 1927 » Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Italian anarchist convicted of murder (b. 1888)
• 1927 » Nicola Sacco, Italian anarchist convicted of murder (b. 1891)
• 1933 » Adolf Loos, Austrian architect and theoretician, designed Villa Müller (b. 1870)
• 1937 » Albert Roussel, French composer and educator (b. 1869)
• 1944 » Abdülmecid II, Ottoman sultan (b. 1868)
• 1944 » Stefan Filipkiewicz, Polish painter and illustrator (b. 1879)
• 1949 » Helen Churchill Candee, American geographer, journalist, and author (b. 1858)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Gerrit
8. Petrus
9. Adrianus
10. Jacob
11. Jacobus
12. Gerardus
13. Wilhelmus
14. Dirk
15. Antonius
16. Hendrikus

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Wilhelmina
6. Elisabeth
7. Adriana
8. Hendrika
9. Catharina
10. Petronella
11. Jacoba
12. Geertruida
13. Grietje
14. Helena
15. Margaretha
16. Aaltje

• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from September 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 7.1 million citizens.
• March 3 » TIME magazine is published for the first time.
• August 16 » The United Kingdom gives the name "Ross Dependency" to part of its claimed Antarctic territory and makes the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand its administrator.
• September 1 » The Great Kantō earthquake devastates Tokyo and Yokohama, killing about 105,000 people.
• September 8 » Honda Point disaster: Nine US Navy destroyers run aground off the California coast. Seven are lost, and twenty-three sailors killed.
• September 12 » Southern Rhodesia, today called Zimbabwe, is annexed by the United Kingdom.
• October 16 » The Walt Disney Company is founded.

The temperature on August 23, 1923 was between 9.6 °C and 19.0 °C and averaged 15.1 °C. There was 8.9 hours of sunshine (63%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.