1923 (MCMXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday in the Gregorian calendar. Beginning in February of this year, the Julian calendar was relegated to church use only. This happened after Greece adopted the Gregorian calendar.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries: 19th century20th century21st century
Decades: 1890s  1900s  1910s  – 1920s –  1930s  1940s  1950s
Years: 1920 1921 192219231924 1925 1926
1923 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar1923
MCMXXIII
Ab urbe condita2676
Armenian calendar1372
ԹՎ ՌՅՀԲ
Assyrian calendar6673
Bahá'í calendar79–80
Balinese saka calendar1844–1845
Bengali calendar1330
Berber calendar2873
British Regnal year13 Geo. 5 – 14 Geo. 5
Buddhist calendar2467
Burmese calendar1285
Byzantine calendar7431–7432
Chinese calendar壬戌(Water Dog)
4619 or 4559
    — to —
癸亥年 (Water Pig)
4620 or 4560
Coptic calendar1639–1640
Discordian calendar3089
Ethiopian calendar1915–1916
Hebrew calendar5683–5684
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1979–1980
 - Shaka Samvat1844–1845
 - Kali Yuga5023–5024
Holocene calendar11923
Igbo calendar923–924
Iranian calendar1301–1302
Islamic calendar1341–1342
Japanese calendarTaishō 12
(大正12年)
Javanese calendar1853–1854
Juche calendar12
Julian calendarGregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar4256
Minguo calendarROC 12
民國12年
Nanakshahi calendar455
Thai solar calendar2465–2466
Tibetan calendar阳水狗年
(male Water-Dog)
2049 or 1668 or 896
    — to —
阴水猪年
(female Water-Pig)
2050 or 1669 or 897

1923 was the first year to be in the public domain under the Copyright Extension Act. It entered the public domain in 2019.

Events

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Births

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January

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Arvid Carlsson
 
Norman Mailer

February

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Conrad Bain
 
Belisario Betancur
 
Franco Zeffirelli
 
Marcel Marceau
 
Nguyễn Văn Thiệu
 
Anne Baxter
 
Heydar Aliyev
 
Henry Kissinger
 
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco
 
Wojciech Jaruzelski
 
Richard Pipes
 
Bob Dole

August

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Shimon Peres
 
Rhonda Fleming

September

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Lee Kuan Yew

October

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Charlton Heston
 
Glynis Johns
 
Italo Calvino

November

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December

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Philip W. Anderson

Deaths

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Nobel Prize

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