* 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.

* 1823 – Hugh Stowell Brown, English minister ( d. 1886 )

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 )

* 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 ").

Meanwhile, his wife stayed at Antibes, where she had his children, the first of whom died in childhood: Marie Anne Elisabeth ( July 8, 1790-March 18, 1794 ), Jacques Prosper, 2nd Prince d ' Essling July 3, 1818 ( June 25, 1793-May 13, 1821 ), unmarried and without issue, Victoire Thècle ( September 28, 1794-March 28, 1857 ), married on September 12, 1814 Charles, Comte Reille ( Antibes, September 1, 1775-March 4, 1860 ), and François Victor, 2nd Duc de Rivoli, 3rd Prince d ' Essling ( April 2, 1799-April 16, 1863 ), married on April 19, 1823 Anne Debelle ( 1802-January 28, 1887 ), and had issue.

Jacques Alexandre César Charles ( November 12, 1746 – April 7, 1823 ) was a French inventor, scientist, mathematician, and balloonist.

* Jacques Alexandre Law, Marquis of Lauriston ( 1768 – 1828 ), Marshal of France in 1823

Mother St. Joseph founded houses at Thuin, 1817 ; Namur Orphanage, 1823 ; Hospital St. Jacques, 1823 ; Verviers, 1827 ; Hospital d ' Harscamp and Bastogne, 1836, the latter having been for the past thirty years a state normal school ; Philippeville, 1837.

* Jacques Charles, 1746 – 1823

* Études biographiques et littéraires sur Antoine Arnauld, P. Nicole et Jacques Necker ( 1823 ).

* 1791 – Charles Wolfe, Irish poet ( d. 1823 )

* 1739 – Charles François Dumouriez, French general ( d. 1823 )

* 1823 – Charles I of Württemberg, King of Württemberg from 1864 ( d. 1891 )

* 1823 – Charles Macintosh of Scotland sells the first raincoat.

She died on February 7, 1825, shortly after the birth of their third child ( Susan b. 1819, Charles b. 1823, James b. 1825 ).

** Charles III, Duke of Parma ( b. 1823 )

** Charles I of Württemberg ( b. 1823 )

* January 25 – Charles François Dumouriez, French general ( d. 1823 )

* Charles Grant ( 1746 – 1823 ), administrator, chairman of the directors of the British East India Company, father of the first Lord Glenelg

** ( Carl ) Wilhelm Siemens ( known as ( Charles ) Wilhelm or Sir William Siemens ) ( 1823, Lenthe-1883 ), brother of Werner von Siemens

* André Charles Membrede ( 1823 – 1828 )

Charles Kemble's 1823 production made a serious effort at historical accuracy, inaugurating the 19th century tradition of striving for historical accuracy in Shakespearean production.

British actor Charles Mathews toured the U. S. in 1822 – 1823, and as a result added a " black " characterization to his repertoire of British regional types for his next show, A Trip to America, which included Mathews singing " Possum up a Gum Tree ", a popular slave freedom song.

* Charles François Dumouriez ( 1739 – 1823 ), French general

Charles William Siemens ( originally Carl Wilhelm Siemens and later Sir William Siemens ) ( 4 April 1823 – 19 November 1883 ) was a German-born engineer who for most of his life worked in Britain and later became a British subject.

Charles Hartshorn came to " The City " to try a case in the Hoornbeek Tavern in 1823.

In July 1864 Charles ( 1823 – 1891, reigned 1864 – 1891 ) succeeded his father William I as king and had almost at once to face considerable difficulties.

Eldest son Charles Barry ( junior ) ( 1823 – 1900 ) designed Dulwich College and park in south London and rebuilt Burlington House ( home of the Royal Academy ) in central London's Piccadilly ; Edward Middleton Barry ( 1830 – 1880 ) completed the Parliament buildings and designed the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden ; Godfrey Walter Barry ( 1834 – 1868 ) became a surveyor ; Sir John Wolfe-Barry ( 1836 – 1918 ) was the engineer for Tower Bridge and Blackfriars Railway Bridge.

Charles Macintosh patented his invention for waterproof cloth in 1823 and the first Mackintosh coats were made in the family's textile factory, Charles Macintosh and Co. of Glasgow.

Charles outlived her and died in Paris on April 7, 1823.

* Charles Christopher Parry ( 1823 – 1890 ), British-American botanist and mountaineer