January 23rd All Events |
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| January 23rd, 2007 (January 23 2007) | Death | E. Howard Hunt, American Watergate figure (born in 1918) | |
| January 23rd, 2007 (January 23 2007) | Death | Ryszard Kapuscinski, Polish journalist and writer (born in 1932) | Ryszard Kapuscinski Quotes |
| January 23rd, 2007 (January 23 2007) | Death | Syed Hussein Alatas, Malaysian Politician (born in 1928) | |
| January 23rd, 2006 (January 23 2006) | Death | Chris McKinstry, Canadian scientist (born in 1967) | |
| January 23rd, 2005 (January 23 2005) | Death | Morys George Lyndhurst Bruce, 4th Baron Aberdare, British politician (born in 1921) | |
| January 23rd, 2005 (January 23 2005) | Death | Johnny Carson, American television host (born in 1925) | |
| January 23rd, 2004 (January 23 2004) | Death | Bob Keeshan, American actor (born in 1927) | |
| January 23rd, 2004 (January 23 2004) | Death | Helmut Newton, German-born photographer (born in 1920) | |
| January 23rd, 2003 (January 23 2003) | Event | Final communication between Earth and Pioneer 10 | |
| January 23rd, 2003 (January 23 2003) | Death | Nell Carter, American singer and actress (born in 1948) | |
| January 23rd, 2002 (January 23 2002) | Event | "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh returns to the United States in Federal Bureau of Investigation custody. | |
| January 23rd, 2002 (January 23 2002) | Event | Reporter Daniel Pearl was kidnapped in Karachi, Pakistan. He was subsequently murdered . | |
| January 23rd, 2002 (January 23 2002) | Death | Pierre Bourdieu, French sociologist (born in 1930) | |
| January 23rd, 2002 (January 23 2002) | Death | Paul Aars, American racecar driver (born in 1934) | |
| January 23rd, 2002 (January 23 2002) | Death | Robert Nozick, American philosopher (born in 1938) | Philo Quotes |
| January 23rd, 2001 (January 23 2001) | Event | The Chinese Communist Party stages a self-immolation in Tiananmen Square to frame Falun Gong and escalate the persecution. | |
| January 23rd, 1999 (January 23 1999) | Death | Jay Pritzker, American businessman (born in 1922) | |
| January 23rd, 1999 (January 23 1999) | Death | Prince Lincoln Thompson, Jamaican musician (born in 1949) | |
| January 23rd, 1997 (January 23 1997) | Event | Madeleine Albright becomes the first woman to serve as United States Secretary of State. | |
| January 23rd, 1997 (January 23 1997) | Event | Antonis Daglis, a 23 year old Greek truck driver is sentenced to thirteen consecutive life sentences, plus 25 years for the serial slayings of three women and the attempted murder of six others. | |
| January 23rd, 1997 (January 23 1997) | Death | Richard Berry, American composer and musician (born in 1935) | |
| January 23rd, 1996 (January 23 1996) | Event | The first version of the Java programming language was released. | |
| January 23rd, 1994 (January 23 1994) | Death | Nikolai Ogarkov, Soviet field marshal (born in 1917) | |
| January 23rd, 1994 (January 23 1994) | Death | Brian Redhead, English journalist and broadcaster (born in 1929) | |
| January 23rd, 1993 (January 23 1993) | Death | Thomas A. Dorsey, American singer (born in 1899) | |
| January 23rd, 1992 (January 23 1992) | Death | Freddie Bartholomew, Irish actor (born in 1924) | |
| January 23rd, 1991 (January 23 1991) | Death | Northrop Frye, Canadian writer and critic (born in 1912) | |
| January 23rd, 1990 (January 23 1990) | Death | Allen Collins, American guitarist (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (born in 1952) | |
| January 23rd, 1989 (January 23 1989) | Death | Salvador Dali, Catalan artist (born in 1904) | Salvador Dali Quotes |
| January 23rd, 1988 (January 23 1988) | Death | Charles Glen King, American biochemist (born in 1896) | |
| January 23rd, 1987 (January 23 1987) | Birth | Felicia Brandstrom, Swedish singer | |
| January 23rd, 1986 (January 23 1986) | Event | The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducts its first members: Chuck Berry, James Brown, Ray Charles, Fats Domino, the Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis Presley. | Ray Charles Quotes |
| January 23rd, 1986 (January 23 1986) | Birth | Steven Taylor, English footballer | |
| January 23rd, 1986 (January 23 1986) | Death | Joseph Beuys, German artist (born in 1921) | |
| January 23rd, 1985 (January 23 1985) | Event | O.J. Simpson becomes the first Heisman Trophy winner elected to the Football Hall of Fame. | |
| January 23rd, 1985 (January 23 1985) | Birth | Dong Fangzhuo, Chinese footballer | |
| January 23rd, 1985 (January 23 1985) | Birth | Doutzen Kroes, Dutch supermodel | |
| January 23rd, 1984 (January 23 1984) | Birth | Arjen Robben, Dutch footballer | |
| January 23rd, 1984 (January 23 1984) | Death | Mu in Bseiso, Palestinian poet (born in 1926) | |
| January 23rd, 1983 (January 23 1983) | Death | Fred Bakewell, English cricketer (born in 1908) | |
| January 23rd, 1982 (January 23 1982) | Birth | Wily Mo Pena, Dominican baseball player | |
| January 23rd, 1981 (January 23 1981) | Birth | Greg Smith, American UFC fighter | |
| January 23rd, 1981 (January 23 1981) | Birth | Rob Friend, Canadian footballer | |
| January 23rd, 1981 (January 23 1981) | Death | Samuel Barber, American composer (born in 1910) | |
| January 23rd, 1979 (January 23 1979) | Birth | Sampsa Astala, Finnish musician (Lordi) | |
| January 23rd, 1979 (January 23 1979) | Birth | Larry Hughes, American basketball player | |
| January 23rd, 1979 (January 23 1979) | Birth | Juan Rincon, Venezuelan baseball player | |
| January 23rd, 1978 (January 23 1978) | Event | Sweden becomes the first nation in the world to ban aerosol sprays, believed to be damaging to earth s ozone layer. | |
| January 23rd, 1978 (January 23 1978) | Death | Terry Kath, American musician (Chicago) (born in 1946) | |
| January 23rd, 1978 (January 23 1978) | Death | Jack Oakie, American actor (born in 1903) | |
| January 23rd, 1978 (January 23 1978) | Death | Vic Ames, American singer (Ames Brothers) (born in 1925) | |
| January 23rd, 1977 (January 23 1977) | Death | Toots Shor, New York restaurateur (born in 1903) | |
| January 23rd, 1976 (January 23 1976) | Birth | Brandon Duckworth, American baseball player | |
| January 23rd, 1976 (January 23 1976) | Birth | Angelica Lee, Taiwanese actress and singer | Ang Lee Quotes |
| January 23rd, 1976 (January 23 1976) | Birth | Nigel McGuinness, English professional wrestler | |
| January 23rd, 1976 (January 23 1976) | Death | Paul Dupuis, French Canadian film and television actor (born in 1913) | |
| January 23rd, 1976 (January 23 1976) | Death | Paul Robeson, American actor, singer, and social activist (born in 1898) | Paul Robeson Quotes |
| January 23rd, 1975 (January 23 1975) | Birth | Tito Ortiz, American UFC fighter | |
| January 23rd, 1974 (January 23 1974) | Birth | Joel Bouchard, Canadian ice hockey player | |
| January 23rd, 1974 (January 23 1974) | Birth | Rebekah Elmaloglou, Australian actress | |
| January 23rd, 1974 (January 23 1974) | Birth | Yosvani Perez, Cuban baseball player | |
| January 23rd, 1974 (January 23 1974) | Birth | Richard T. Slone, British artist | |
| January 23rd, 1974 (January 23 1974) | Birth | Tiffani Thiessen, American actress | |
| January 23rd, 1973 (January 23 1973) | Event | President Richard Nixon announces that a peace accord has been reached in Vietnam. | |
| January 23rd, 1973 (January 23 1973) | Event | [[A volcano eruption devastates Heimaey in the Vestmannaeyjar chain of islands off the south coast of Iceland. | |
| January 23rd, 1973 (January 23 1973) | Birth | Lanei Chapman, American actress | |
| January 23rd, 1973 (January 23 1973) | Death | Alexander Onassis, Greek heir of the Onassis family (born in 1948) | |
| January 23rd, 1973 (January 23 1973) | Death | Kid Ory, American jazz trombonist (born in 1886) | |
| January 23rd, 1972 (January 23 1972) | Birth | Ewen Bremner, Scottish actor | |
| January 23rd, 1972 (January 23 1972) | Birth | Mark Curry, American rapper | |
| January 23rd, 1972 (January 23 1972) | Birth | Marcel Wouda, Dutch swimmer | |
| January 23rd, 1971 (January 23 1971) | Birth | Kevin Mawae, American football player | |
| January 23rd, 1971 (January 23 1971) | Birth | Lorne Spicer, British TV presenter | |
| January 23rd, 1971 (January 23 1971) | Death | Fritz Feigl, Austria-born chemist (born in 1871) | |
| January 23rd, 1970 (January 23 1970) | Birth | Spiridon Vasdekis, Greek long jumper | |
| January 23rd, 1970 (January 23 1970) | Birth | Tracey Cherelle Jones, American actress | |
| January 23rd, 1969 (January 23 1969) | Birth | Ariadna Gil, Spanish actress | |
| January 23rd, 1969 (January 23 1969) | Birth | Andrei Kanchelskis, Ukrainian-Russian footballer | |
| January 23rd, 1969 (January 23 1969) | Birth | Brendan Shanahan, Canadian ice hockey player | |
| January 23rd, 1968 (January 23 1968) | Event | North Korea seizes the USS Pueblo, claiming the ship had violated their territorial waters while spying. | |
| January 23rd, 1968 (January 23 1968) | Birth | Petr Korda, Czech tennis player | |
| January 23rd, 1967 (January 23 1967) | Event | The diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Ivory Coast were established. | |
| January 23rd, 1967 (January 23 1967) | Birth | Naim Suleymanoglu, Bulgaria-born Turkish weightlifter | |
| January 23rd, 1964 (January 23 1964) | Event | The 24th Amendment to the United States Constitution, prohibiting the use of poll taxes in national elections, is ratified. | |
| January 23rd, 1964 (January 23 1964) | Birth | Mariska Hargitay, American actress | |
| January 23rd, 1964 (January 23 1964) | Birth | Mario Roberge, Canadian ice hockey player | |
| January 23rd, 1963 (January 23 1963) | Birth | Gail O Grady, American actress | |
| January 23rd, 1962 (January 23 1962) | Birth | Elvira Lindo, Spanish writer and journalist | |
| January 23rd, 1962 (January 23 1962) | Birth | Vasia Panayopoulou, Greek actress | |
| January 23rd, 1961 (January 23 1961) | Birth | Mas Selamat bin Kastari, Singapore s most-wanted terror fugitive | |
| January 23rd, 1960 (January 23 1960) | Event | The bathyscaphe USS Trieste breaks a depth record by descending to 10,911 m (35,798 feet)in the Pacific Ocean. | |
| January 23rd, 1960 (January 23 1960) | Birth | Patrick de Gayardon, French skydiver and skysurfing pioneer (died in 1998) | |
| January 23rd, 1960 (January 23 1960) | Birth | Jean-Francois Sauve, Canadian ice hockey player | |
| January 23rd, 1959 (January 23 1959) | Birth | Clive Bull, English radio talk show host | |
| January 23rd, 1958 (January 23 1958) | Event | Overthrow in Venezuela of Marcos Perez Jimenez | |
| January 23rd, 1958 (January 23 1958) | Death | Nikolaos Georgantas, Greek discus thrower (born in 1880) | |
| January 23rd, 1957 (January 23 1957) | Birth | Princess Caroline of Monaco | |
| January 23rd, 1957 (January 23 1957) | Birth | Lou Schuler, American fitness journalist | |
| January 23rd, 1956 (January 23 1956) | Death | Alexander Korda, Hungarian/British film director (born in 1893) | |
| January 23rd, 1954 (January 23 1954) | Birth | Franco De Vita, Venezuelan singer and songwriter | |
| January 23rd, 1954 (January 23 1954) | Birth | Edward Ka-Spel, English musician (Legendary Pink Dots) | |
| January 23rd, 1953 (January 23 1953) | Birth | Antonio Villaraigosa, Hispanic-American 52nd Mayor of Los Angeles | |
| January 23rd, 1953 (January 23 1953) | Birth | Robin Zander, American singer (Cheap Trick) | |
| January 23rd, 1950 (January 23 1950) | Event | The Knesset passes a resolution that states Jerusalem is the capital of Israel. | |
| January 23rd, 1950 (January 23 1950) | Birth | Richard Dean Anderson, American actor | |
| January 23rd, 1950 (January 23 1950) | Birth | Danny Federici, American musician (Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band) | Bruce Springsteen Quotes |
| January 23rd, 1950 (January 23 1950) | Birth | John Greaves, English musician (Henry Cow, National Health) | |
| January 23rd, 1948 (January 23 1948) | Birth | Anita Pointer, American singer (Pointer Sisters) | |
| January 23rd, 1947 (January 23 1947) | Birth | Thomas R. Carper, American politician. | |
| January 23rd, 1947 (January 23 1947) | Birth | Megawati Sukarnoputri, 5th President of Indonesia | |
| January 23rd, 1946 (January 23 1946) | Birth | Arnoldo Aleman, ex-president of Nicaragua | |
| January 23rd, 1946 (January 23 1946) | Birth | Don Whittington, American businessman, car & airplane racer and convicted felon | |
| January 23rd, 1945 (January 23 1945) | Event | World War II: Karl Donitz launches Operation Hannibal. | Karl Donitz Quotes |
| January 23rd, 1945 (January 23 1945) | Birth | Mike Harris, Canadian politician, Premier of Ontario | |
| January 23rd, 1944 (January 23 1944) | Birth | Rutger Hauer, Dutch actor | |
| January 23rd, 1944 (January 23 1944) | Death | Edvard Munch, Norwegian painter (born in 1863) | Edvard Munch Quotes |
| January 23rd, 1944 (January 23 1944) | Death | Viktor Gusev, Russian poet (born in 1909) | |
| January 23rd, 1943 (January 23 1943) | Event | World War II: British forces capture Tripoli in Libya from the Nazis. | |
| January 23rd, 1943 (January 23 1943) | Event | Jewish-led Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. | |
| January 23rd, 1943 (January 23 1943) | Event | World War II: Australian and American forces finally defeat the Japanese army in Papua. This turning point in the Pacific War marks the beginning of the end of Japanese aggression. | |
| January 23rd, 1943 (January 23 1943) | Event | Duke Ellington plays at Carnegie Hall in New York City for the first time. | Duke Ellington Quotes |
| January 23rd, 1943 (January 23 1943) | Birth | Gary Burton, American jazz vibraphonist | |
| January 23rd, 1943 (January 23 1943) | Birth | Gil Gerard, American actor | |
| January 23rd, 1943 (January 23 1943) | Birth | Millie Jackson, American singer | |
| January 23rd, 1943 (January 23 1943) | Death | Alexander Woollcott, American actor, author, and bon vivant (born in 1887) | |
| January 23rd, 1942 (January 23 1942) | Birth | Razzak, Bangladeshi actor and director | |
| January 23rd, 1941 (January 23 1941) | Event | Charles Lindbergh testifies before the U.S. Congress and recommends that the United States negotiate a neutrality pact with Adolf Hitler. | Adolf Hitler Quotes |
| January 23rd, 1940 (January 23 1940) | Birth | Johnny Russell, American country singer and songwriter (died in 2001) | John Russell Quotes |
| January 23rd, 1939 (January 23 1939) | Birth | Sonny Chiba, Japanese actor and martial artist | Martial Quotes |
| January 23rd, 1939 (January 23 1939) | Birth | Arlene Golonka, American actress | |
| January 23rd, 1939 (January 23 1939) | Death | Matthias Sindelar, Austrian footballer (born in 1903) | |
| January 23rd, 1938 (January 23 1938) | Birth | Shohei Baba, Japanese professional wrestler (died in 1999) | |
| January 23rd, 1938 (January 23 1938) | Birth | Georg Baselitz, German painter and sculptor | |
| January 23rd, 1937 (January 23 1937) | Event | In Moscow, 17 leading Communists go on trial accused of participating in a plot led by Leon Trotsky to overthrow Joseph Stalin s regime and assassinate its leaders. | Leon Trotsky Quotes |
| January 23rd, 1937 (January 23 1937) | Death | Orso Mario Corbino, Italian physicist (born in 1876) | |
| January 23rd, 1936 (January 23 1936) | Birth | Jerry Kramer, American football player | |
| January 23rd, 1936 (January 23 1936) | Birth | Bob Moses, American educator and 1960s Civil Rights Movement activist | |
| January 23rd, 1934 (January 23 1934) | Birth | Pierre Bourgault, Quebec politician and essayist (died in 2003) | |
| January 23rd, 1933 (January 23 1933) | Birth | Chita Rivera, Puerto Rican actress and dancer | |
| January 23rd, 1931 (January 23 1931) | Death | Anna Pavlova, Russian ballerina (born in 1881) | |
| January 23rd, 1930 (January 23 1930) | Birth | Derek Walcott, West Indian writer, Nobel laureate | Derek Walcott Quotes |
| January 23rd, 1930 (January 23 1930) | Birth | Teresa Zylis-Gara, Polish singer | |
| January 23rd, 1929 (January 23 1929) | Birth | Patriarch Filaret (Mykhailo Denysenko) of Ukrainian Orthodox ChurchKyiv Patriarchate | |
| January 23rd, 1929 (January 23 1929) | Birth | John Charles Polanyi, Canadian chemist, Nobel laureate | |
| January 23rd, 1928 (January 23 1928) | Birth | Chico Carrasquel, Venezuelan baseball player (died in 2005) | |
| January 23rd, 1928 (January 23 1928) | Birth | Jeanne Moreau, French actress | |
| January 23rd, 1927 (January 23 1927) | Birth | Lars-Eric Lindblad, Swedish-American entrepreneur and explorer (died in 1994) | |
| January 23rd, 1924 (January 23 1924) | Birth | Bal Thackeray, founder and president of Indian political party Shiv Sena. | |
| January 23rd, 1923 (January 23 1923) | Birth | Walter M. Miller, Jr., American writer (died in 1996) | |
| January 23rd, 1923 (January 23 1923) | Birth | Cot Deal, major league baseball player and coach | |
| January 23rd, 1923 (January 23 1923) | Death | Max Nordau, Austrian author, philosopher, and Zionist leader (born in 1849) | Philo Quotes |
| January 23rd, 1922 (January 23 1922) | Death | Arthur Nikisch, Hungarian conductor (born in 1855) | |
| January 23rd, 1920 (January 23 1920) | Event | The Netherlands refuses to surrender ex-Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany to the Allies. | |
| January 23rd, 1919 (January 23 1919) | Birth | Ernie Kovacs, American comedian (died in 1962) | Ernie Kovacs Quotes |
| January 23rd, 1919 (January 23 1919) | Birth | Bob Paisley, English Football player and manager. (died in 1996) | Bob Paisley Quotes |
| January 23rd, 1919 (January 23 1919) | Birth | Hans Hass, Austrian zoologist and underwater scientist | |
| January 23rd, 1918 (January 23 1918) | Birth | Gertrude B. Elion, American scientist, Nobel laureate (died in 1999) | |
| January 23rd, 1916 (January 23 1916) | Birth | Airey Neave, British Major, politician and indictment server at the Nuremberg Trials (died in 1979) | |
| January 23rd, 1916 (January 23 1916) | Birth | David Douglas Duncan, American photo-journalist | |
| January 23rd, 1915 (January 23 1915) | Birth | Potter Stewart, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (died in 1985) | |
| January 23rd, 1915 (January 23 1915) | Birth | Arthur Lewis, British economist, Nobel laureate (died in 1991) | |
| January 23rd, 1912 (January 23 1912) | Event | The International Opium Convention is signed at The Hague. | |
| January 23rd, 1910 (January 23 1910) | Birth | Django Reinhardt, Belgian guitarist (died in 1953) | |
| January 23rd, 1907 (January 23 1907) | Event | Charles Curtis of Kansas becomes the first Native American U.S. Senator. | |
| January 23rd, 1907 (January 23 1907) | Birth | Dan Duryea, American actor (died in 1968) | |
| January 23rd, 1907 (January 23 1907) | Birth | Hideki Yukawa, Japanese physicist, Nobel laureate (died in 1981) | |
| January 23rd, 1904 (January 23 1904) | Event | Alesund Fire: the Norwegian coastal town Alesund is devastated by fire, leaving 10,000 people homeless and one person deadied in Kaiser Wilhelm II funds the rebuilding of the town in Jugendstil style. | |
| January 23rd, 1903 (January 23 1903) | Birth | Jorge Eliecer Gaitan, Colombian politician (died in 1948) | |
| January 23rd, 1900 (January 23 1900) | Birth | William Ifor Jones, Welsh conductor and organist (died in 1988) | |
| January 23rd, 1899 (January 23 1899) | Event | Emilio Aguinaldo is sworn in as President of the First Philippine Republic. | |
| January 23rd, 1899 (January 23 1899) | Birth | Glen Kidston, British aviator and racing driver (died in 1931) | |
| January 23rd, 1898 (January 23 1898) | Birth | Sergei Eisenstein, Russian film director (died in 1948) | |
| January 23rd, 1898 (January 23 1898) | Birth | Freda Utley, British scholar and author (died in 1978) | |
| January 23rd, 1898 (January 23 1898) | Birth | Randolph Scott, American actor (died in 1987) | |
| January 23rd, 1897 (January 23 1897) | Event | Elva Zona Heaster is found dead in Greenbrier County, West Virginia. The resulting murder trial of her husband is perhaps the only case in United States history where the alleged testimony of a ghost helped secure a conviction. | |
| January 23rd, 1897 (January 23 1897) | Birth | Subhas Chandra Bose, Indian independence fighter (died in 1945) | |
| January 23rd, 1897 (January 23 1897) | Birth | Sir William Samuel Stephenson, Canadian soldier, W.W.II codename, Intrepidied in Inspiration for James Bondied in (died in 1989) | William James Quotes |
| January 23rd, 1897 (January 23 1897) | Birth | Margarete Schutte-Lihotzky, Austrian architect (died in 2000) | |
| January 23rd, 1897 (January 23 1897) | Birth | Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, Indian Leader and Freedom Fighter (died in Unknown, Disputed) | Subhash Chandra Bose Quotes |
| January 23rd, 1896 (January 23 1896) | Birth | Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (died in 1985) | |
| January 23rd, 1893 (January 23 1893) | Death | Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (born in 1825) | |
| January 23rd, 1891 (January 23 1891) | Birth | Antonio Gramsci, Italian political philosopher, (died in 1937) | Antonio Gramsci Quotes |
| January 23rd, 1884 (January 23 1884) | Birth | Ralph DePalma, Italian-American race car driver (died in 1956) | |
| January 23rd, 1883 (January 23 1883) | Death | Gustave Dore, French artist, engraver, and illustrator (born in 1832) | |
| January 23rd, 1879 (January 23 1879) | Event | Anglo-Zulu War: the Battle of Rorke s Drift ends. | |
| January 23rd, 1876 (January 23 1876) | Birth | Otto Diels, German chemist, Nobel laureate (died in 1954) | |
| January 23rd, 1875 (January 23 1875) | Death | Charles Kingsley English writer (born in 1819) | Charles Kingsley Quotes |
| January 23rd, 1872 (January 23 1872) | Birth | Goce Delchev, a revolutionary from the Balkansleader of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (died in 1903) | |
| January 23rd, 1872 (January 23 1872) | Birth | Paul Langevin, French physicist (died in 1946) | |
| January 23rd, 1872 (January 23 1872) | Birth | Joze Plecnik, Slovenian architect (died in 1957) | |
| January 23rd, 1870 (January 23 1870) | Event | In Montana, U.S. cavalrymen kill 173 Native Americans, mostly women and children, in the Marias Massacre. | |
| January 23rd, 1866 (January 23 1866) | Death | Thomas Love Peacock, English satirist (born in 1785) | |
| January 23rd, 1862 (January 23 1862) | Birth | David Hilbert, German mathematician (died in 1943) | |
| January 23rd, 1857 (January 23 1857) | Birth | Andrija Mohorovicic, Croatian seismologist (died in 1936) | |
| January 23rd, 1855 (January 23 1855) | Event | The first bridge over the Mississippi River opens in what is now Minneapolis, Minnesota, a crossing made today by the Father Louis Hennepin Bridge. | |
| January 23rd, 1855 (January 23 1855) | Birth | John Moses Browning, American inventor (died in 1926) | |
| January 23rd, 1849 (January 23 1849) | Event | Elizabeth Blackwell is awarded her M.D. by the Medical Institute of Geneva, New York, becoming the United States first female doctor. | |
| January 23rd, 1840 (January 23 1840) | Birth | Ernst Abbe, German physicist (died in 1905) | |
| January 23rd, 1837 (January 23 1837) | Death | John Field, Irish composer (born in 1782) | |
| January 23rd, 1833 (January 23 1833) | Death | Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth, British admiral (born in 1757) | |
| January 23rd, 1832 (January 23 1832) | Birth | Edouard Manet, French artist (died in 1883) | |
| January 23rd, 1827 (January 23 1827) | Birth | Takamori Saigo, Samurai, leader of Satsuma rebellion (died in 1877) | |
| January 23rd, 1820 (January 23 1820) | Death | Prince Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent and Strathearn | |
| January 23rd, 1813 (January 23 1813) | Birth | Camilla Collett, Norwegian writer and feminist (died in 1895) | Camilla Collett Quotes |
| January 23rd, 1812 (January 23 1812) | Death | Robert Craufurd, British general (born in 1764) | |
| January 23rd, 1806 (January 23 1806) | Death | William Pitt the Younger, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born in 1759) | William King Quotes |
| January 23rd, 1805 (January 23 1805) | Death | Claude Chappe, French telecommunications pioneer (born in 1763) | |
| January 23rd, 1803 (January 23 1803) | Death | Arthur Guinness, Irish brewer (born in 1725) | |
| January 23rd, 1800 (January 23 1800) | Death | Edward Rutledge, American statesman (born in 1749) | |
| January 23rd, 1793 (January 23 1793) | Event | Russia and Prussia partition Poland. | |
| January 23rd, 1789 (January 23 1789) | Event | Georgetown College becomes the first Roman Catholic college in the United States in the city of Washington, D.C. | George Washington Quotes |
| January 23rd, 1789 (January 23 1789) | Death | Frances Brooke, English writer (born in 1724) | |
| January 23rd, 1789 (January 23 1789) | Death | John Cleland, English novelist (born in 1709) | |
| January 23rd, 1786 (January 23 1786) | Birth | Auguste de Montferrand, French architect (died in 1858) | |
| January 23rd, 1785 (January 23 1785) | Death | Matthew Stewart, Scottish mathematician (born in 1717) | |
| January 23rd, 1783 (January 23 1783) | Birth | Stendhal, French writer (died in 1842) | |
| January 23rd, 1745 (January 23 1745) | Birth | William Jessop, English canal engineer (died in 1814) | |
| January 23rd, 1744 (January 23 1744) | Death | Giambattista Vico, Italian philosopher and historian (born in 1668) | Philo Quotes |
| January 23rd, 1737 (January 23 1737) | Birth | John Hancock, American statesman (died in 1793) | |
| January 23rd, 1719 (January 23 1719) | Event | The Principality of Liechtenstein is created within the Holy Roman Empire. | |
| January 23rd, 1719 (January 23 1719) | Birth | John Landen, English mathematician (died in 1790) | |
| January 23rd, 1688 (January 23 1688) | Birth | Queen Ulrika Eleonora of Sweden (died in 1741) | |
| January 23rd, 1656 (January 23 1656) | Event | Blaise Pascal publishes the first of his Lettres provinciales. | Blaise Pascal Quotes |
| January 23rd, 1622 (January 23 1622) | Death | William Baffin, English explorer (born in 1584) | |
| January 23rd, 1579 (January 23 1579) | Event | The Union of Utrecht forms a Protestant republic in the Netherlands. | |
| January 23rd, 1571 (January 23 1571) | Event | The Royal Exchange opens in London. | |
| January 23rd, 1570 (January 23 1570) | Event | The assassination of regent James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray throws Scotland into civil war. | |
| January 23rd, 1570 (January 23 1570) | Death | James Stewart, Earl of Moray, regent of Scotland (assassinated) | |
| January 23rd, 1567 (January 23 1567) | Death | Jiajing, Emperor of China (born in 1507) | |
| January 23rd, 1556 (January 23 1556) | Event | The deadliest earthquake in history, the Shaanxi earthquake, hits Shaanxi province, China. The death toll may have been as high as 830,000. | |
| January 23rd, 1549 (January 23 1549) | Death | Johannes Honter, Transylvanian Saxon humanist and theologian (born in 1498) | |
| January 23rd, 1548 (January 23 1548) | Death | Bernardo Pisano, Italian composer (born in 1490) | |
| January 23rd, 1546 (January 23 1546) | Event | Having published nothing for eleven years, Francois Rabelais publishes the Tiers Livre, his sequel to Gargantua and Pantagruel. | Francois Rabelais Quotes |
| January 23rd, 1533 (January 23 1533) | Event | Anne Boleyn, second wife of Henry VIII of England, discovers herself pregnant. | Anne Boleyn Quotes |
| January 23rd, 1510 (January 23 1510) | Event | Henry VIII of England, then 18 years old, appears incognito in the lists at Richmond, and is applauded for his jousting before he reveals his identity. | Henry VIII of England Quotes |
| January 23rd, 1368 (January 23 1368) | Event | In a coronation ceremony, Zhu Yuanzhang ascends to the throne of China as the Hongwu Emperor, initiating Ming Dynasty rule over China that would last for three centuries. | |
| January 23rd, 1350 (January 23 1350) | Birth | Vincent Ferrer, Spanish missionary and saint (died in 1419) | |
| January 23rd, 1199 (January 23 1199) | Death | Yaqub, Almohad Caliph (born in 1160) | |
| January 23rd, 0971 (January 23 0971) | Event | In China, the war elephant corps of the Southern Han are soundly defeated at Shao by crossbow fire from Song Dynasty troops. The Southern Han state is forced to submit to the Song Dynasty, ending not only Southern Han rule, but also the first regular war elephant corps employed in a Chinese army that had gained the Southern Han victories throughout the 10th century. | |
| January 23rd, 0909 (January 23 0909) | Event | John of Rila aka Saint Ivan and the fable of two pies. | |
| January 23rd, 0393 (January 23 0393) | Event | Roman Emperor Theodosius I proclaims his nine year old son Honorius co-emperor. | |
