page_title: 1923
section_title: November
hierarchical_section_title: 1923 / Births / November
caption_attribution_description: Nadine Gordimer at the Göteborg Book Fair 2010
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: November 1
  Victoria de los Ángeles, Catalan soprano (d. 2005)
  Gordon R. Dickson, Canadian author (d. 2001)
  James Ramsden, English politician (d. 2020)
  Imre Varga, Hungarian sculptor (d. 2019)
  November 2 – Cesare Rubini, Italian basketball player, coach (d. 2011)
  November 3
  Charles Nolte, American actor, director, playwright, and educator (d. 2010)
  Tomás Cardinal Ó Fiaich, Irish Roman Catholic prelate (d. 1990)
  November 4
  John Herbers, American journalist, author, editor, World War II veteran, and Pulitzer Prize finalist (d. 2017)
  Howie Meeker, Canadian ice hockey player and politician
  November 5
  Rudolf Augstein, German journalist, founder and part-owner of German magazine Der Spiegel (d. 2002)
  Kay Lionikas, Greek-American female professional baseball player (d. 1978)
  November 8
  Yisrael Friedman, Romanian-born Israeli rabbi (d. 2017)
  Jack Kilby, American electrical engineer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (d. 2005)
  November 9 – Elizabeth Hawley, American journalist (d. 2018)
  November 11
  P. K. van der Byl, Rhodesian politician (d. 1999)
  William P. Murphy Jr., American medical doctor and inventor
  November 12 – Loriot, German actor (d. 2011)
  November 13 – Linda Christian, Mexican film actress (d. 2011)
  November 14
  Cleyde Yáconis, Brazilian actress (d. 2013)
  Misael Pastrana Borrero, 23rd President of Colombia (d. 1997)
  November 15
  Michael Lapage, English rower (d. 2018)
  Fred Richmond, American politician (d. 2019)
  November 17 – Aristides Maria Pereira, President of Cape Verde (d. 2011)
  November 18 – Alan Shepard, first American astronaut, fifth person to walk on the moon (d. 1998)
  November 20 – Nadine Gordimer, South African writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2014)
  November 22
  Arthur Hiller, Canadian film director (d. 2016)
  Tu An, Chinese poet, translator (d. 2017)
  November 23
  Billy Haughton, American harness driver, trainer (d. 1986)
  Julien J. LeBourgeois, American vice admiral (d. 2012)
  Gloria Whelan, American poet, short story writer, and novelist
  Keiju Kobayashi, Japanese actor (d. 2010)
  November 24 – Octavio Lepage, Venezuelan politician, former Acting President of Venezuela (d. 2017)
  November 25 – Mauno Koivisto, 2-Time Prime Minister of Finland and 9th President of Finland (d. 2017)
  November 26 – Pat Phoenix, English actress (d. 1986)
  November 28
  Gloria Grahame, American actress (d. 1981)
  James Karen, American actor (d. 2018)
caption: Nadine Gordimer
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