About the day » Saturday August 18, 1923Calender converter

• Aris Marinus Simon Bremer, Gemeente Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2002)
• Anna Maria Josephina Koop, Losser († 2010)
• Adrianus Neuteboom, Leiden († 1943)
• Audrey Louise Gerwig, Baltimore, Md (USA) († 2013)
• Bert Verhaegh, Beringe († 2013)
• Andries Hendrik Roosenburg, Den Haag, Nederland († 2002)
• Antonia Anna Bellekom († 1999)
• Aalbert de JONG, Scheveningen, gemeente 's-Gravenhage (Z-H) († 1997)
• Abraham (Bram) Middelhoek, Brielle (Z-H), Nederland († 2012)
• Antonius Jacobus van den Bos, Den Haag († 1989)

• Anna Margaretha Blomen (4), Beesel, Beesel, Limburg, Netherlands
• Berendina van Overbeek (79), Voorst
• Adriana Willems van Duijn (81), Rotterdam
• Berend Gerrit Korterink (54), Laren, Lochem, Gelderland, Nederland
• Berendina van Overbeek (79), Voorst, Gelderland, Nederland
• Adriaan Johannes Franciscus van der Voort (0), Delft
• Cornelia van den Heuvel (44), Rotterdam
• Cornelia Boll (54), Ooltgensplaat
• Catharina Maria Baarschers (43), Lochem
• Arie Breedveld (0), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1920 » Bob Kennedy, American baseball player and manager († 2005)
• 1920 » Godfrey Evans, English cricketer († 1999)
• 1920 » Shelley Winters, American actress († 2006)
• 1921 » Lydia Litvyak, Russian lieutenant and pilot († 1943)
• 1921 » Zdzisław Żygulski, Polish historian and academic († 2015)
• 1922 » Alain Robbe-Grillet, French director, screenwriter, and novelist († 2008)
• 1923 » Katherine Victor, American actress († 2004)
• 1925 » Anis Mansour, Egyptian journalist and author († 2011)
• 1925 » Brian Aldiss, English author and critic († 2017)
• 1925 » Pierre Grondin, Canadian surgeon and academic († 2006)

• 1886 » Eli Whitney Blake, American inventor, invented the Mortise lock (b. 1795)
• 1919 » Joseph E. Seagram, Canadian businessman and politician, founded the Seagram Company (b. 1841)
• 1940 » Walter Chrysler, American businessman, founded Chrysler (b. 1875)
• 1943 » Ali-Agha Shikhlinski, Azerbaijani general (b. 1865)
• 1944 » Ernst Thälmann, German soldier and politician (b. 1886)
• 1945 » Subhas Chandra Bose, Indian activist and politician (b. 1897)
• 1949 » Paul Mares, American trumpet player and bandleader (New Orleans Rhythm Kings) (b. 1900)
• 1950 » Julien Lahaut, Belgian soldier and politician (b. 1884)
• 1952 » Alberto Hurtado, Chilean priest, lawyer, and saint (b. 1901)
• 1964 » Hildegard Trabant, Berlin Wall victim (b. 1927)

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.
• March 20 » The Arts Club of Chicago hosts the opening of Pablo Picasso's first United States showing, entitled Original Drawings by Pablo Picasso, becoming an early proponent of modern art in the United States.
• June 9 » Bulgaria's military takes over the government in a coup.
• August 18 » First British Track and Field championships for women, London.
• September 4 » Maiden flight of the first U.S. airship, the USSShenandoah.
• November 8 » Beer Hall Putsch: In Munich, Adolf Hitler leads the Nazis in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the German government.

The temperature on August 18, 1923 was between 12.3 °C and 18.4 °C and averaged 14.9 °C. There was 15.8 mm of rain. There was 4.9 hours of sunshine (34%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west.