About the day » Thursday January 18, 1923Calender converter

• Anna Gertrudis (Truuj) Vergoossen, Sittard († 2010)
• Arthur Furmansky, New York, Verenigde Staten († 1953)
• Aartje Batenburg († 1999)
• Adriana Cornelia Maria Hulsenboom, Tilburg Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2010)
• Bernard George WILSON, Latrobe, Tasmania, Australia († 1993)
• Konings, Megen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anneliese Lierhaus, Styrum, Mülheim an der Ruhr († 1999)
• Albert Gerrit Meendering, Springfield, South Dakota († 1999)
• Arie Goedgeluk, Vreeswijk, Utrecht, Nederland († 1923)
• Alphonsine Polleunis, Sint-Truiden, België († 2004)

• Baltus Wilhelmus Rijnhout (72), Gorinchem
• Aukje Slagter (28), Sebaldeburen, gem. Grootegast, Groningen, Nederland
• Carolina Maria Elisabeth Pelckman Pelkman (74), Nijmegen
• Catharina van den Heuvel (99), Leiderdorp
• Antje van der Tal (62), Amersfoort
• Akke van der Zee, Eindhoven
• Aaltje Wiebinga (72), Beetsterzwaag, gem. Opsterland, Friesland, Nederland
• Apollonia Christina van Eijk (26), Assendelft, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Arie van Rijnswoud (69), Rotterdam
• Antonia Alberdina Jans (35), Wedde, Bellingwedde, Groningen, Netherlands

• 1918 » Gustave Gingras, Canadian-English physician and educator († 1996)
• 1919 » Toni Turek, German footballer († 1984)
• 1921 » Yoichiro Nambu, Japanese-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2015)
• 1923 » Gerrit Voorting, Dutch cyclist († 2015)
• 1923 » John Graham, General Officer Commanding (GOC) Wales († 2012)
• 1925 » Gilles Deleuze, French metaphysician and philosopher († 1995)
• 1925 » John V. Evans, American soldier and politician, 27th Governor of Idaho († 2014)
• 1925 » Sol Yurick, American soldier and author († 2013)
• 1926 » Randolph Bromery, American geologist and academic († 2013)
• 1927 » Sundaram Balachander, Indian actor, singer, and veena player († 1990)

• 1892 » Anton Anderledy, Swiss religious leader, 23rd Superior General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1819)
• 1896 » Charles Floquet, French lawyer and politician, 55th Prime Minister of France (b. 1828)
• 1923 » Wallace Reid, American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1891)
• 1936 » Hermanus Brockmann, Dutch rower (b. 1871)
• 1936 » Rudyard Kipling, English author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865)
• 1940 » Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer, Polish author, poet, and playwright (b. 1865)
• 1951 » Amy Carmichael, Irish missionary and humanitarian (b. 1867)
• 1952 » Curly Howard, American actor (b. 1903)
• 1954 » Sydney Greenstreet, English-American actor (b. 1879)
• 1955 » Saadat Hasan Manto, Pakistani author and screenwriter (b. 1912)

• 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.
• January 11 » Occupation of the Ruhr: Troops from France and Belgium occupy the Ruhr area to force Germany to make its World War I reparation payments.
• February 10 » Texas Tech University is founded as Texas Technological College in Lubbock, Texas
• April 28 » Wembley Stadium is opened, named initially as the Empire Stadium.
• July 1 » The Parliament of Canada suspends all Chinese immigration.
• September 4 » Maiden flight of the first U.S. airship, the USSShenandoah.
• November 9 » In Munich, Germany, police and government troops crush the Beer Hall Putsch in Bavaria. The failed coup is the work of the Nazis.

The temperature on January 18, 1923 was between -2.7 °C and 1.2 °C and averaged -0.4 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.