* 1823 – Joseph Medill, American editor, publisher, and politician ( d. 1899 )

* 1823 – Alexander Ostrovsky, Russian playwright ( d. 1886 )

* 1823 – Goldwin Smith, English-Canadian historian and journalist ( d. 1910 )

* 1823 – Gotthold Eisenstein, German mathematician ( d. 1852 )

* 1740 – Pope Pius VII ( d. 1823 )

Alfred Russel Wallace, OM, FRS ( 8 January 1823 – 7 November 1913 ) was a British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist and biologist.

* 1759 – Jacques Widerkehr, Alsatian composer and cellist ( d. 1823 )

* 1772 – David Ricardo, English political economist ( d. 1823 )

* Mike Fink ( c. 1770 / 1780 – c. 1823 ) called " king of the keelboaters ", was a semi-legendary brawler and river boatman who exemplified the tough and hard-drinking men who ran keelboats up and down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers.

During 1823 – 1931 the grown settlement was known as Ust-Abakanskoye, 1914 – 1925: Abakan, 1925 – 1931: Khakassk.

* 1743 – Edmund Cartwright, English clergyman and inventor of the power loom ( d. 1823 )

* 1823 – Jacques Charles, French chemist ( b. 1746 )

* 1889 – Youssef Karam, Lebanese nationalist leader ( b. 1823 )

* Pope Pius VII ( 1742 – 1823, r. 1800 – 23 )

The construction commenced around the courtyard with the East Wing ( The King's Library ) in 1823 – 1828, followed by the North Wing in 1833 – 1838, which originally housed among other galleries a reading room, now the Wellcome Gallery.

#** Constance Marie Bonaparte ( 1823 – 1876 )

One Pipiolo leader from the south, Ramón Freire, rode in and out of the presidency several times ( 1823 – 1827, 1828, 1829, 1830 ) but could not sustain his authority.

* Terence MacManus ( c. 1823 – 1861 ), leader in Young Irelander Rebellion of 1848

In eight years of active service as an officer, he served two and a half years in a surveying ship in the Mediterranean ( 1818 – 21 ), one and a half years in a surveying sloop in the English Channel and off the coast of Ireland ( 1823 – 24 ), and one and a half years as Surveyor of the frigate during a voyage ( 1824 – 26 ) to and from the Hawaiian Islands ( then known as the " Sandwich islands ").

* February 24 – Hugh Stowell Brown, Manx preacher ( b. 1823 )

There are other Civil War connections as well: Major General Oliver Otis Howard, class of 1850, led the Freedmen's Bureau after the war and later founded Howard University ; Massachusetts Governor John A. Andrew, class of 1837, was responsible for the formation of the famous 54th Massachusetts ; and William P. Fessenden 1823 and Hugh McCulloch 1827 both served as Secretary of the Treasury during the Lincoln Administration.

Hugh Allan received a parish education at Saltcoats before starting work in 1823 at the family's counting house of Allan, Kerr & Co., of Greenock.

The forks of the Grand was the site of the famous 1823 attack by a grizzly bear on frontiersman Hugh Glass.

The route of the 1823 odyssey by Hugh Glass

William Hugh Joseph Clifford, born on December 24, 1823, died on August 14, 1893, buried in Prior Park, Clifton, 2nd Bishop of Clifton from January 29, 1857 ; ordained as bishop on 15 February 1857 ; died in office ; before he became bishop he was a priest.

In 1823, Musgrove Evans had located the land and persuaded General Joseph W. Brown and the others to move to the site.

In the fall of 1823, the family moved to the village of Georgetown in Brown County, Ohio.

Clay and his wife had eleven children ( six daughters and five sons ): Henrietta ( 1800 – 1801 ), Theodore ( 1802 – 1870 ), Thomas ( 1803 – 1871 ), Susan ( 1805 – 1825 ), Anne ( 1807 – 1835 ), Lucretia ( 1809 – 1823 ), Henry, Jr .( 1811 – 1847 ), Eliza ( 1813 – 1825 ), Laura ( 1815 – 1817 ), James Brown ( 1817 – 1864 ), and John ( 1821 – 1887 ).

The theme of his oration was “ The Progressive Character of the Human Race .” He then studied law for a short time at Wrentham, Massachusetts ; was a tutor of Latin and Greek ( 1820 – 1822 ) and a librarian ( 1821 – 1823 ) at Brown University.

* Robert Brown ( Pennsylvania politician ) ( 1744 – 1823 ), U. S. congressman from Pennsylvania

* Marshall, John ( 1823 – 1835 ) Royal naval biography, or, Memoirs of the services of all the flag-officers, superannuated rear-admirals, retired-captains, post-captains, and commanders, whose names appeared on the Admiralty list of sea officers at the commencement of the present year 1823, or who have since been promoted ... ( London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown ).

During that time he had a relationship with an Englishwoman, Amy Brown Freeman, by whom he had two daughters whom he only recognized on his deathbed: Charlotte Marie Augustine de Bourbon comtesse d ' Issoudun ( 13 July 1808-13 July 1886 ), by marriage in 1823 to Ferdinand de Faucigny-Lucinge, princesse de Lucinge, and Louise Marie Charlotte de Bourbon comtesse de Vierzon ( 29 December 1809-26 December 1891 ), by marriage in 1827 to Charles de Charette, baronne de la Contrie.

In patents dated 4 December 1823 and 22 April 1826, Brown proposed to fill a closed chamber with a gas flame, and so expel the air ; then he condensed the flame by injecting water, and operated an air engine by exhausting into the partial vacuum so obtained.

* SK Brown Bootham School York 1823 – 1973 ( author, 1973 )

An English example is William Hazlitt's Liber Amoris ( 1823 ), a painful examination of the writer's love-life.

1823 — English missionary John Williams lands in Rarotonga, converting Makea Pori Ariki to Christianity.

Edward Anthony Jenner, FRS ( 17 May 1749 – 26 January 1823 ) was an English physician and scientist from Berkeley, Gloucestershire, who was the pioneer of smallpox vaccine.

The term feudalism is recent, first appearing in French in 1823, Italian in 1827, English in 1839, and in German in the second half of the nineteenth century.

* 1764 – Ann Radcliffe, English novelist ( d. 1823 )

* 1823 – Thomas Spencer Baynes, English philosopher and editor ( d. 1887 )

* William Henry Monk ( 1823 – 1889 ), English hymn tune writer

The origin of rugby football is reputed to be an incident during a game of English school football at Rugby School in 1823 when William Webb-Ellis is said to have picked up the ball and run with it.

The existence of an indigenous slave town was recorded by an English traveler in 1823.

* May 24 – Charlotte Mary Yonge, English novelist ( born 1823 )

* May 17 – Edward Jenner, English physician ( d. 1823 )

** James Sayers, English caricaturist ( d. 1823 )

Almeda A. Booth ( 1823 – 1875 ) served as principal of the Ladies ' department and as a faculty member of English, Classics, and Mathematics from 1851 until 1866.

Seven years after the Dartmouth College opinion, the Supreme Court decided Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts v. Town of Pawlet ( 1823 ), in which an English corporation dedicated to missionary work, with land in the U. S., sought to protect its rights to that land under colonial-era grants against an effort by the state of Vermont to revoke the grants.

* Robert Bloomfield ( 1766 – 1823 ), English poet

* Aaron Arrowsmith ( 1750 – 1823 ), English cartographer

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, mayonnaise was in use in English as early as 1823 in the journal of Lady Blessington.

After trading hands multiple times between the English and the Spanish, Spain finally ceded Florida to the United States in 1821, and in 1823 the U. S. Army established Fort Brooke ( later Tampa ).

* Alfred Diver ( 1823 – 1876 ), English cricketer

* Nathaniel E. Green ( 1823 – 1899 ), English painter and astronomer