page_title: 1923
section_title: December
hierarchical_section_title: 1923 / Births / December
caption_attribution_description: English: Cleveland Indians centerfielder Larry Doby.
context_page_description: 1923 was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1923rd year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 923rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 23rd year of the 20th century, and the 4th year of the 1920s decade. As of the start of 1923, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was relegated that February to use only by churches after Greece adopted the Gregorian calendar.
context_section_description: December 1
  Dick Shawn, American actor (d. 1987)
  William F. House, American otologist, inventor of the Cochlear implant (d. 2012)
  Stansfield Turner, American admiral, Director of Central Intelligence (d. 2018)
  December 2 – Maria Callas, Greek soprano (d. 1977)
  December 3
  Dede Allen, American film editor (Bonnie and Clyde) (d. 2010)
  Stjepan Bobek, Yugoslav football player (d. 2010)
  Moyra Fraser, British actress (d. 2009)
  Abe Pollin, American sports owner (d. 2009)
  December 4 – Vincent Ball, Australian actor
  December 5
  Eleanor Dapkus, American female professional baseball player (d. 2011)
  Johnny Pate, American jazz musician
  Philip Slier, Dutch Jewish typesetter (d. 1943)
  December 6
  Emile Hemmen, Luxembourg poet and writer
  Maury Laws, American composer (d. 2019)
  December 7 – Ted Knight, American actor (d. 1986)
  December 8
  Dewey Martin, American actor (d. 2018)
  Rudolph Pariser, American physicist and polymer chemist
  December 10 – Harold Gould, American character actor (d. 2010)
  December 11
  Betsy Blair, American film actress (d. 2009)
  Denis Brian, Welsh journalist and author
  Farhang Mehr, Iranian-born American Zoroastrian scholar, writer (d. 2018)
  December 12
  Bob Barker, American game show host (The Price Is Right)
  Ken Kavanagh, Australian motorcycle racer (d. 2019)
  December 13
  Alfonso Osorio, Spanish politician (d. 2018)
  Philip Warren Anderson, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2020)
  Larry Doby, African-American baseball player (d. 2003)
  Antoni Tàpies, Catalan painter (d. 2012)
  December 14
  Gerard Reve, Dutch writer (d. 2006)
  Sully Boyar, American actor (d. 2001)
  December 15
  Freeman Dyson, English-born physicist (d. 2020)
  Aishah Ghani, Malaysian politician (d. 2013)
  Viktor Shuvalov, Soviet ice hockey player
  December 16
  Jo-Carroll Dennison, American actress, Miss America
  Menahem Pressler, German-American pianist
  December 17 – Jaroslav Pelikan, American historian (d. 2006)
  December 18
  Edwin Bramall, senior British Army officer (d. 2019)
  Émile Knecht, Swiss Olympic rower (d. 2019)
  December 19 – Gordon Jackson, Scottish actor (d. 1990)
  December 20 – Ambalavaner Sivanandan, Sri Lankan novelist (d. 2018)
  December 21 – Wataru Misaka, American baseball player (d. 2019)
  December 22 – Peregrine Worsthorne, English journalist, writer and broadcaster
  December 23
  TL Osborn, American televangelist, singer and author (d. 2013)
  José Serra Gil, Spanish racing cyclist (d. 2002)
  James Stockdale, U.S. Navy admiral, vice presidential candidate (d. 2005)
  Earl P. Yates, American admiral
  December 24
  George Patton IV, American general (d. 2004)
  Simon Perchik, American poet
  December 25
  Luis Álamos, Chilean football manager (d. 1983)
  Sonya Olschanezky, World War II heroine (d. 1944)
  Satyananda Saraswati, Indian founder of Satyananda Yoga and Bihar Yoga (d. 2009)
  René Girard, French-American historian (d. 2015)
  Billy Watson, American child actor
  Jack Zunz, South African-English engineer (d. 2018)
  December 26
  Dick Teague, American industrial designer (d. 1991)
  Richard Artschwager, American painter, illustrator and sculptor (d. 2013)
  December 27 – Lucas Mangope, President of Bophuthatswana Bantustan (d. 2018)
  December 28 – Louis Lansana Beavogui, Guinean politician (d. 1984)
  December 29
  Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat, French mathematician and physicist
  Cheikh Anta Diop, Senegalese historian, anthropologist, physicist and politician (d. 1986)
  Dina Merrill, American actress, heiress, socialite and philanthropist (d. 2017)
  Mike Nussbaum, American actor and director
  December 31 – Balbir Singh Sr., Indian hockey player (d. 2020)
caption: Larry Doby
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