Month January 1923 Calendar

About Month of January Calendar

• January is the first month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars and one of seven months with the length of 31 days. The first day of the month is known as the day of New Year. It is, on average, the coldest month of the year within most of the Northern Hemisphere (where it is the second month of winter) and the warmest month of the year within most of the Southern Hemisphere (where it is the second month of summer).
  
  January symbols: The birthstone of January is the garnet which represents constancy. Its birth flower is the cottage pink Dianthus caryophyllus or galanthus. In Finnish, the month of tammikuu means the heart of the winter and because the name literally means Oak moon. The zodiac signs for the month of January are Capricorn (until January 19) and Aquarius (January 20 onwards). The traditional English birth month flower is the Carnation.

Historical Events for January, 1923

• Day of Week 9th » Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogyro flight.
• Day of Week 10th » Lithuania seizes and annexes Klaipėda e.g Memel.
• Day of Week 11th » Occupation of the Ruhr: Troops from France and Belgium occupy the Ruhr area to force Germany to make its World War I reparation payments.

Famous Birthdays on January in 1923

• 1st » Valentina Cortese, Italian actress
• 1st » Daniel Gorenstein, American mathematician (d. 1992)
• 1st » Milt Jackson, American vibraphonist and composer (Modern Jazz Quartet) (d. 1999)
• 2nd » Rachel Waterhouse, English historian and author
• 3rd » Bud Adams, American businessman (d. 2013)
• 3rd » Hank Stram, American football player and coach (d. 2005)
• 3rd » Bud Tingwell, Australian actor (d. 2009)
• 5th » Glenn Boyer, American historian and author (d. 2013)
• 6th » Norman Kirk, New Zealand politician, 29th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1974)
• 6th » Jacobo Timerman, Argentine journalist and author (d. 1999)
• 7th » Hugh Kenner, Canadian scholar and critic (d. 2003)
• 8th » Larry Storch, American actor
• 8th » Giorgio Tozzi, American opera singer (d. 2011)
• 8th » Johnny Wardle, English cricketer (d. 1985)
• 8th » Joseph Weizenbaum, German-American computer scientist and author (d. 2008)
• 11th » Jerome Bixby, American author and scriptwriter (d. 1998)
• 11th » Ernst Nolte, German historian and philosopher
• 11th » Carroll Shelby, American race car driver, designer, and businessman, founded Carroll Shelby International (d. 2012)
• 12th » Ira Hayes, American marine, who Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima called raised the U.S. flag on Iwo Jima (d. 1955)
• 13th » Daniil Shafran, Russian cellist (d. 1997)
• 13th » Willem Slijkhuis, Dutch runner (d. 2003)
• 14th » Fred Beckey, American mountaineer and author
• 15th » Ivor Cutler, Scottish poet (d. 2006)
• 15th » Rukmani Devi, Sri Lankan singer and actress (d. 1978)
• 15th » Lee Teng-hui, Taiwanese-Chinese politician, 4th President of the Republic of China
• 15th » Arthur Quinlan, Irish journalist (d. 2012)
• 16th » Anton-Günther, Duke of Oldenburg (d. 2014)
• 16th » Gene Feist, American director and playwright, co-founded the Roundabout Theatre Company (d. 2014)
• 16th » Anthony Hecht, American poet (d. 2004)
• 16th » Keith Shackleton, English painter
• 17th » Rangeya Raghav, Indian author (d. 1962)
• 17th » Carol Raye, English-Australian actress
• 19th » Jean Stapleton, American actress and singer (d. 2013)
• 19th » Markus Wolf, German spy (d. 2006)
• 20th » Nora Brockstedt, Norwegian singer
• 20th » Slim Whitman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2013)
• 21st » Lola Flores, Spanish singer, dancer, and actress (d. 1995)
• 22nd » Diana Dill, Bermudian actress
• 23rd » Cot Deal, American baseball player and coach (d. 2013)
• 23rd » Walter M. Miller, Jr., American author (d. 1996)
• 24th » Vlado Kristl, Croatian painter and director (d. 2004)
• 25th » Arvid Carlsson, Swedish pharmacologist and physician, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine e.g Nobel Prize laureate
• 25th » Rusty Draper, American singer (d. 2003)
• 25th » Shirley Ardell Mason, American psychiatric patient (d. 1998)
• 25th » Sally Starr (TV hostess) e.g Sally Starr, American actress and television host (d. 2013)
• 25th » Jean Taittinger, French politician (d. 2012)
• 25th » Tom Tipps, American soldier and politician (d. 2013)
• 26th » Patrick J. Hannifin, American admiral (d. 2014)
• 26th » Patricia Hughes, English radio host (d. 2013)
• 26th » Anne Jeffreys, American actress and singer
• 29th » Paddy Chayefsky, American author and screenwriter (d. 1981)
• 29th » Ivo Robić, Croatian singer-songwriter (d. 2000)
• 30th » Walt Dropo, American baseball player (d. 2010)
• 30th » Marianne Ferber, American feminist economist (d. 2013)
• 31st » Norman Mailer, American journalist and author (d. 2007)

Famous Deaths for January 1923

• 3rd » Jaroslav Hašek, Czech author (b. 1883)
• 9th » Katherine Mansfield, New Zealand author (b. 1888)
• 13th » Alexandre Ribot, French politician, Prime Minister of France (b. 1842)
• 14th » Zübeyde Hanım, Greek mother of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (b. 1857)
• 14th » Louis Richardet, Swiss target shooter (b. 1864)
• 18th » Wallace Reid, American actor (b. 1891)
• 23rd » Max Nordau, Austrian physician and author (b. 1849)
• 31st » Eligiusz Niewiadomski, Polish painter and critic (b. 1869)

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