About the day » Thursday January 23, 1992Calender converter

• Chantal Zwarthoed
• Pierre Mathian, Manissieux St. Priest, Friesland, Nederland († 1992)
• Luuk Schellekens, Vught, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• Catherina Louisa Margaretha Lamboo (75), Roermond
• Josephina Petronella (Fien) Baten (92), 's-Hertogenbosch
• Alice Glennie Ward Lilford (90), Meadowridge, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
• Bertha Maria Poulina van den Bos (88), Terneuzen
• Amalia Maria (Amy) Quadekker (81), Eindhoven
• Antje Werkhoven (96), Soest
• Catharina Maria Verkennis (85), Tegelen
• Catharina Hendrika Gerritse (93), Voorburg
• Anne Frankenthaler (68), New York, New York, New York, Verenigde Staten
• Aleida Theodora Heister (78), Beekbergen gem Apeldoorn Gld

• 1986 » Gelete Burka, Ethiopian runner
• 1987 » Leo Komarov, Finnish ice hockey player
• 1988 » Shaun Kenny-Dowall, Australian-New Zealand rugby league player
• 1990 » Şener Özbayraklı, Turkish footballer
• 1990 » Alex Silva, Canadian wrestler
• 1990 » Martyn Waghorn, English footballer
• 1992 » Reina Triendl, Japanese model and actress
• 1994 » Addison Russell, American baseball player
• 1995 » Luke Bateman, Australian rugby league player
• 1995 » Tuimoala Lolohea, New Zealand rugby league player

• 1986 » Joseph Beuys, German sculptor and painter (b. 1921)
• 1988 » Charles Glen King, American biochemist and academic (b. 1896)
• 1989 » Lars-Erik Torph, Swedish race car driver (b. 1961)
• 1989 » Salvador Dalí, Spanish painter and sculptor (b. 1904)
• 1990 » Allen Collins, American guitarist and songwriter (b. 1952)
• 1991 » Northrop Frye, Canadian author and critic (b. 1912)
• 1992 » Freddie Bartholomew, American actor (b. 1924)
• 1993 » Keith Laumer, American soldier, author, and diplomat (b. 1925)
• 1994 » Brian Redhead, English journalist and author (b. 1929)
• 1994 » Nikolai Ogarkov, Russian field marshal (b. 1917)

• Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 15.1 million citizens.
• January 22 » Rebel forces occupy Zaire's national radio station in Kinshasa and broadcast a demand for the government's resignation.
• February 4 » A coup d'état is led by Hugo Chávez against Venezuelan President Carlos Andrés Pérez.
• March 1 » Bosnia and Herzegovina declares its independence from Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
• March 13 » The M_w  6.6 Erzincan earthquake strikes eastern Turkey with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe).
• April 29 » Riots in Los Angeles, following the acquittal of police officers charged with excessive force in the beating of Rodney King. Over the next three days 63 people are killed and hundreds of buildings are destroyed.
• December 3 » A test engineer for Sema Group uses a personal computer to send the world's first text message via the Vodafone network to the phone of a colleague.

The temperature on January 23, 1992 was between -7.5 °C and -1.1 °C and averaged -5.0 °C. There was 6.0 hours of sunshine (70%). The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.