page_title: 1923
section_title: January
hierarchical_section_title: 1923 / Deaths / January
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: January 1 – Willie Keeler, American baseball player, MLB Hall of Famer (b. 1872)
  January 2
  Thomas Bavister, British-born Australian (b. 1850)
  Girolamo Caruso, Italian agronomist, teacher (b. 1842)
  January 3 – Jaroslav Hašek, Czech writer (b. 1883)
  January 8 – Shimamura Hayao, Japanese admiral (b. 1858)
  January 9
  Katherine Mansfield, British novelist (b. 1888)
  Edith Thompson and Frederick Bywaters, British couple hanged for murder (Thompson b. 1893, Bywaters b. 1902)
  January 11 – King Constantine I of Greece (b. 1868)
  January 12 – Herbert Silberer, Austrian psychoanalyst (b. 1882)
  January 13 – Alexandre Ribot, French statesman, 46th Prime Minister of France (b. 1842)
  January 16 – Abdul Kerim Pasha, Ottoman general (b. 1872)
  January 18 – Wallace Reid, American actor (b. 1891)
  January 19 – Amalia Eriksson, Swedish businesswoman (b. 1824)
  January 23 – Max Nordau, Hungarian author, philosopher and Zionist leader (b. 1849)
  January 27 – Carolina Santocanale, Italian Roman Catholic nun and blessed (b. 1852)
  January 30 – Columba Marmion, Irish Benedictine and Roman Catholic monk and blessed (b. 1858)
  January 31 – Eligiusz Niewiadomski, Polish artist, political activist and assassin (executed) (b. 1869)
caption: Prince Naruhisa Kitashirakawa
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