About the day » Wednesday May 9, 1923Calender converter

• van Duijn, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Alexander Charles ALLEN, Sydenham, Lewisham, Kent († 1985)
• Antonetta Catharina Johanna (Nettie) VROOMEN, Eindhoven (NL/NB) († 1994)
• Ardis L. Post, Guide Rock, Webster County, Nebraska, Verenigde Staten († 2012)
• Aleida Middelveld, Dalfsen († 1945)
• Arie Breedveld, Rotterdam,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1923)
• Ale Roorda, Harkema Opeinde († 2007)
• Antonetta Henrica Maria Lijten, Nuenen (Noord-Brabant, NLD) († 2007)
• Arnoldus Cornelis Van Klaveren, 's-Gravenzande, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2005)
• ? ? († 1993)

• Cornelis van Lunteren (71), Rhenen
• Cornelis Franken (81), Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Cornelia Helena van Soldt (78), delft
• Cornelis Zwijnenburg (87), Lekkerkerk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Schapendonk (69), Chicago, Illinois, Verenigde Staten
• Adrianus Habraken (78), Dongen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Alberdina Achterkamp (72), Deventer
• Adrianus SCHAPENDONK (70), Chicago, Cook, IL,USA (Died of pneumonia at home)
• Berend Jan Maatman (1), Harfsen
• Alberdina Achterkamp (72), Deventer

• 1919 » Clifford Chadderton, Canadian soldier and journalist († 2013)
• 1920 » Richard Adams, English novelist († 2016)
• 1920 » William Tenn, English-American author and academic († 2010)
• 1921 » Daniel Berrigan, American priest, poet, and activist († 2016)
• 1921 » Mona Van Duyn, American poet and academic († 2004)
• 1921 » Sophie Scholl, German activist († 1943)
• 1923 » Johnny Grant, American radio host and producer († 2008)
• 1924 » Bulat Okudzhava, Russian singer, poet, and author († 1997)
• 1926 » John Middleton Murry, Jr., English soldier, pilot, and author († 2002)
• 1927 » Manfred Eigen, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2019)

• 1906 » Oscar von Gebhardt, German theologian and academic (b. 1844)
• 1914 » C. W. Post, American businessman, founded Post Foods (b. 1854)
• 1915 » Anthony Wilding, New Zealand tennis player and cricketer (b. 1883)
• 1915 » François Faber, Luxembourgian-French cyclist and soldier (b. 1887)
• 1918 » George Coșbuc, Romanian journalist and poet (b. 1866)
• 1931 » Albert Abraham Michelson, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
• 1933 » John Arthur Jarvis, English swimmer (b. 1872)
• 1935 » Ernst Bresslau, German zoologist (b. 1877)
• 1938 » Thomas B. Thrige, Danish businessman (b. 1866)
• 1942 » Józef Cebula, Polish priest and saint (b. 1902)

• 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.
• April 18 » Yankee Stadium: "The House that Ruth Built" opens.
• April 26 » The Duke of York weds Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon at Westminster Abbey.
• August 23 » Captain Lowell Smith and Lieutenant John P. Richter performed the first mid-air refueling on De Havilland DH-4B, setting an endurance flight record of 37 hours.
• September 8 » Honda Point disaster: Nine US Navy destroyers run aground off the California coast. Seven are lost, and twenty-three sailors killed.
• October 13 » Ankara becomes the capital of Turkey.
• October 15 » The German Rentenmark is introduced in Germany to counter hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic.

The temperature on May 9, 1923 was between 6.2 °C and 13.6 °C and averaged 9.1 °C. There was 5.1 mm of rain. There was 1.9 hours of sunshine (12%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.