* 1923 – Allyre Sirois, Canadian judge ( d. 2012 )

* 1999 – Dale C. Thomson, Canadian professor and historian ( b. 1923 )

* 1923 – Gus Bodnar, Canadian ice hockey player ( d. 2005 )

In the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923, a Canadian steamship, the RMS Empress of Australia and her captain, Samuel Robinson achieved international acclaim for stalwart rescue efforts during the immediate aftermath of that disaster.

* 2001 – Gordon R. Dickson, Canadian writer ( b. 1923 )

* 2006 – Kenneth Roy Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet, Canadian businessman and art collector ( b. 1923 )

* 1923 – The Canadian Parliament suspends all Chinese immigration.

* 1923 – Hugh Kenner, Canadian literary critic ( d. 2003 )

* 1923 – Rudolph A. Marcus, Canadian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate

* 1923 – Harry Watson, Canadian ice hockey player ( d. 2002 )

* 1923 – Louis-Edmond Hamelin, Canadian geographer, professor, and author

* 1923 – Gordon R. Dickson, Canadian author ( d. 2001 )

* 1923 – Arthur Hiller, Canadian film director

* 2005 – William G. Adams, Canadian politician ( b. 1923 )

* 1923 – Howie Meeker, Canadian ice hockey player and politician

* Richard Doyle ( politician ) ( 1923 – 2003 ), Canadian senator, 1985 – 1998, journalist and author

* 1923 – Kenneth Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet, Canadian businessman and art collector ( d. 2006 )

* 1923 – Bertha Wilson, Canadian jurist ( d. 2007 )

* January 31 – Gordon R. Dickson, Canadian writer ( b. 1923 )

* August 20 – Milton Acorn, Canadian poet, writer, and playwright ( b. 1923 )

** Charles Joseph O ' Reilly, Canadian clergyman ( d. 1923 )

* Canadian — Carman, Bliss, and Mary Perry King Kennerly: Pas de trois ( 1914 ); Green, Harry A .: The Death of Pierrot: A Trivial Tragedy ( 1923 ); Lockhart, Gene: The Pierrot Players ( 1918 ; music by Ernest Seitz ).

* Kenneth Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet ( 1923 – 2006 ), Canadian businessman and art collector

Since 1923, there have been Eastern League teams in 51 different cities, located in 12 different states and two Canadian provinces.

Milton James Rhode Acorn ( March 30, 1923 – August 20, 1986 ), nicknamed The People's Poet by his peers, was a Canadian poet, writer, and playwright.

In 1923, he represented the Philippine Chamber of Commerce at the first Pan-Pacific Commercial Conference held in Honolulu, where he ably defended Philippine Independence.

* 1923: Memphis Commercial Appeal, " for its courageous attitude in the publication of cartoons and the handling of news in reference to the operations of the Ku Klux Klan.

Thomas Berriman, the manager of the Hawthorn branch of the Commercial Bank, was robbed of £ 1, 851 and fatally wounded outside Glenferrie Station, Hawthorn, in October 1923.

The latter did not get much support and by 1923 all courses were two years in length: the Theological Course, Bible Workers ' Course, Teacher Training Course and Commercial Course.

Commercial river transport ceased in 1923.

* 1923 – Stansfield Turner, American admiral and 12th Director of Central Intelligence

Captain Sir George Mansfield Smith-Cumming, KCMG, CB ( 1 April 1859 – 14 June 1923 ) was the first director of what would become the Secret Intelligence Service ( SIS ), also known as MI6.

Markus Johannes " Mischa " Wolf ( 19 January 1923 – 9 November 2006 ) was head of the General Intelligence Administration ( Hauptverwaltung Aufklärung ), the foreign intelligence division of East Germany's Ministry for State Security ( MfS, commonly known as the Stasi ).

Lieutenant Colonel Earl Hancock " Pete " Ellis ( December 19, 1880 – May 12, 1923 ) was a United States Marine Corps Intelligence Officer, and author of < span class =" plainlinks "> Operations Plan 712: Advanced Base Operations in Micronesia </ span >, which became the basis for the American campaign of amphibious assault that defeated the Japanese in World War II.

The Block Design test was adapted by David Wechsler into the WAIS ( Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale ) from the Kohs Block Design test developed in 1923 at Stanford University by Samuel Calmin Kohs ( 1890 – 1984 ).

In the Irish Civil War of 1922 – 1923, he took the pro-treaty side and was made Director of Intelligence, replacing Liam Tobin.

John Arthur Paisley ( August 25, 1923 – September 24, 1978 ) was an employee of the Central Intelligence Agency and has been linked in later years to both the John F. Kennedy assassination and the Watergate scandal.

* C, alias for Mansfield Smith-Cumming ( 1859 – 1923 ), Chief of the SIS, the UK Secret Intelligence Service, also known as MI6

( The Antiquaries Journal 3, Oxford University Press, 1923 )

( The Antiquaries Journal 4, Oxford University Press, 1923 )

Venn diagrams were introduced in 1880 by John Venn ( 1834 – 1923 ) in a paper entitled " On the Diagrammatic and Mechanical Representation of Propositions and Reasonings " in the " Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science ", about the different ways to represent propositions by diagrams.

He soon published his findings from this visit in the 1923 Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute.

* Ayabe, Masatomo, “ Ku Kluxers in a Coal Mining Community: A Study of the Ku Klux Klan Movement in Williamson County, Illinois, 1923 – 1926 ,” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, 102 ( Spring 2009 ), 73 – 100.

* R Abell: " Single Valve Internal Combustion Engine Design and Operation ", SAE Journal, Oct 1923, pp 301-309 ( Another type of non-poppet valve, used also by Lotus in a 2-stroke engine-SAE paper 920779 )

In 1923 Karl Haushofer founded the Zeitschrift für Geopolitik ( Journal for Geopolitics ), which later proved useful to Nazi Germany propaganda.

*" Die Rolle der Genitalitaet in der Neurosentherapie " (" The Role of Genitality in the Treatment of Neurosis "), Zeitschrif für Aerztliche Psychotherapie ( Journal for Medical Psychotherapy ), IX, 1923.

Examples of its usage in the 1920s include a 1923 Wall Street Journal article that reads, " Movement from high schools to manual labor in steel plants is unusual, as boys formerly sought white collar work.

* Tarn, W. W. " Alexander and the Ganges ," The Journal of Hellenic Studies ( Volume 43, Part 2, 1923 ): 93 – 101.

" The 1923 Kanto Earthquake Re-evaluated Using a Newly Augmented Geodetic Data Set ," Journal of Geophysical Research.

* Fisher, Clarence, Beth-Shan Excavations of the University Museum Expedition, 1921 – 1923 ", Museum Journal 14 ( 1923 ), pp. 229 – 231.

The Comics Journal called it the fourth greatest comics work of the 20th Century, and Wizard placed it first on their list of 100 Greatest Graphic Novels ; Entertainment Weekly listed Maus as # 7 on their list of The New Classics: Books – The 100 best reads from 1983 to 2008 ; and Time put Maus at seventh place on their list of best non-fiction books from between 1923 and 2005, and fourth on their list of top graphic novels.

Delderfield ( 1912 – 1972 ), author ( moved to Exmouth in 1923 when his father purchased the " Exmouth Journal ")

* Jackson, L. P. " The Educational Efforts of the Freedmen's Bureau and Freedmen's Aid Societies in South Carolina, 1862 – 1872 ," The Journal of Negro History ( 1923 ) vol 8 # 1, pp 1 – 40.

The story of Fiddler's Green was published in 1923, in Cavalry Journal.

* The Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society: ( 1923 – 1967 )

* The Aeronautical Journal: ( 1897 – 1923 )

In 1923 its principal journal was renamed from The Aeronautical Journal to The Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society and in 1927 the Institution of Aeronautical Engineers Journal was merged into it.

" Journal of the American Oriental Society 43 ( 1923 ): 206-215. http :// www. jstor. org / stable / 593339 ( accessed January 13, 2012 ).

He was a fellow ( 1919 ) and later an honorary fellow ( 1935 ) of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, a foreign associate of the French Société de Psychologie, twice president of the psychology section of the British Association ( 1922, 1931 ), president of the International Congress of Psychology in 1923, and editor of the British Journal of Psychology ( 1911 – 24 ).