January 23 is the 23rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 342 days remaining, 343 in leap years.
Events:
- 1907 - Charles Curtis becomes the first American Indian to serve as U.S. senator.
Births:
- 1737 - John Hancock, statesman and U.S. revolutionary
- 1783 - Stendhal, writer (+ 1842)
- 1786 - Auguste de Montferrand, architect (+ 1858)
- 1832 - Edouard Manet, impressionist artist (+ 1883)
- 1898 - Sergei Eisenstein, director (+ 1948)
- 1899 - Humphrey Bogart, actor (+ 1957)
- 1919 - Hans Haas, zoologist and underwater scientist
- 1919 - Ernie Kovacs, comedian (+ 1962)
- 1920 - Ray Abrams, tenor saxophonist
- 1920 - Gottfried Böhm, architect
- 1928 - Jeanne Moreau, actress
- 1938 - Georg Baselitz, painter and sculptor
- 1944 - Rutger Hauer, actor
- 1950 - Richard Dean Anderson, actor
- 1957 - Earl Falconer (bassist)
- 1963 - Gail O'Grady, actress
- 1974 - Tiffani-Amber Thiessen, actress
Deaths:
- 1783 - Stendhal, writer
- 1805 - Claude Chappe, telecommunication pioneer (semaphores)
- 1875 - Charles Kingsley, English writer
- 1981 - Samuel Barber, American composer
- 2002 - Robert Nozick, philosopher
- 2002 - Pierre Bourdieu, French sociologist
Holidays and observances:
See Also: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December
January 22 - January 24 - December 23 - February 23 - Historical anniversaries - (Please read this before editing or creating a date page)