He was the fourth child of Ondrej Varchola ( Americanized as Andrew Warhola, Sr., 1889 – 1942 ) and Júlia ( née Zavacká, 1892 – 1972 ), whose first child was born in their homeland and died before their move to the U. S. Andy had two older brothers, Paul, born about 1923, and John, born about 1925.

* 1923 – The first Prefects Board in Southeast Asia is formed in Victoria Institution, Malaysia.

* 1923 – Ann Miller, American actor and dancer ( d. 2004 )

* 1883 – Jaroslav Hašek, Czech novelist ( d. 1923 )

* 1923 – Percy Heath, American jazz musician ( Modern Jazz Quartet ) ( d. 2005 )

* 1923 – Al Lewis, American actor ( d. 2006 )

* 1923 – Francis Tucker, South African race car driver ( d. 2008 )

* 1923 – Kagamisato Kiyoji, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 42nd Yokozuna ( d. 2004 )

* 1923 – Jess Collins, American artist ( d. 2004 )

* 1923 – As vice president, Calvin Coolidge becomes the 30th President of the United States after the death of Warren G. Harding

* 1868 – Constantine I of Greece ( d. 1923 )

* 1923 – Shimon Peres, Israeli politician, 9th President of Israel

* 1992 – Michael Havers, British barrister and politician ( b. 1923 )

* 2005 – Robert Coldwell Wood, American political scientist and educator ( b. 1923 )

* 2007 – Herb Carneal, American sportscaster ( b. 1923 )

However conservative forces crushed BZNS in a 1923 coup and assassinated its leader, Aleksandar Stamboliyski ( 1879 – 1923 ).

* Bell, John D. Peasants in Power: Alexander Stamboliski and the Bulgarian Agrarian National Union, 1899 – 1923 ( 1923 )

* 1923 – Val Bettin, American voice actor

* 1923 – Jean Hagen, American actress ( d. 1977 )

* 1923 – Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria ( d. 2012 )

* 1923 – The Duke of York weds Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon at Westminster Abbey.

The second generation was led by Fernand Braudel ( 1902 – 1985 ) and included Georges Duby ( 1919 – 1996 ), Pierre Goubert ( 1915 – 2012 ), Robert Mandrou ( 1921 – 1984 ), Pierre Chaunu ( 1923 – 2009 ), Jacques Le Goff ( 1924 – ) and Ernest Labrousse ( 1895 – 1988 ).

* March 20 – Brendan Behan, Irish poet and writer ( b. 1923 )

* 20 March – Brendan Behan, poet, novelist and playwright ( born 1923 ).

Montgomery came to the conclusion that the conflict could not be won without harsh measures, and that self-government was the only feasible solution ; in 1923, after the establishment of the Irish Free State and during the Irish Civil War, Montgomery wrote to Colonel Arthur Percival of the Essex Regiment:

The political violence that broke out across Ireland in 1919, and which continued on and off until 1923, had its origins in Irish nationalist demands for Home Rule within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and unionist resistance to those demands.

* 1923 – Patrick Hillery, Irish politician ( d. 2008 )

* 1923 – Tomás Ó Fiaich, Irish cardinal ( d. 1990 )

The potato chip remained otherwise unseasoned until an innovation by Joe " Spud " Murphy ( 1923 – 2001 ), the owner of an Irish crisp company called Tayto, who developed a technology to add seasoning during manufacture in the 1950s.

* The Irish Guards in the Great War ( 1923, non-fiction )

* The Irish Guards in the Great War ( 1923 )

Category: Irish emigrants to the United States ( before 1923 )

* Irish Civil War ( June 28, 1922 – May 24, 1923 )

* November 16 – Siobhan McKenna, Irish actress ( b. 1923 )

De Valera was a leader of Ireland's struggle for independence from Britain in the War of Independence and of the anti-Treaty opposition in the ensuing Irish Civil War ( 1922 – 1923 ).

Seated by the Sea: The Maritime History of Portland, Maine, and Its Irish Longshoremen ( University Press of Florida ; 2010 ) 280 pages ; Focuses on the years 1880 to 1923 in a study of how an influx of Irish immigrant workers transformed the city's waterfront.

* Peter Murphy ( broadcaster ) ( 1923 – 2011 ), Irish radio and television broadcaster

* James Lafayette, pseudonym of James Stack Lauder ( 1853 – 1923 ), Irish portrait photographer

In 1923 the Irish Free State became a member of the League of Nations.

* 1st Executive Council of the Irish Free State ( December 1922 – September 1923 )

* 2nd Executive Council of the Irish Free State ( September 1923 – June 1927 )

In 1923, IRA members blew up a large monument to the battle on the battlefield site on the Boyne and destroyed a statue of William III in 1929 that stood outside Trinity College, Dublin in the centre of the Irish capital.

Category: Irish emigrants to the United States ( before 1923 )

* Robert Simpson ( UK politician ) ( 1923 – 1997 ), Northern Irish politician

* Damian Lawlor, Na Fianna Éireann and the Irish Revolution-1909 to 1923