1923
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1923 was the 923rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 23rd year of the 20th century, and the 4th year of the 1920s decade.
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Art and culture
- The end of Dada
- Dada ends with a performance of Tristan Tzara's play "Le Cœur à gaz" in Paris when a battle erupts between the followers of Tzara & the followers of Breton, and police are called in.
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Literature
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Fiction
- First issue of Weird Tales published
- Le Diable au corps by Raymond Radiguet
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Non-fiction
- Reflections on the Seventh Art by Ricciotto Canudo
- Vers une architecture by Le Corbusier
- Sexual Aberrations by Wilhelm Stekel
- Le Traité de psychologie by George Dumas
- Zeno's Conscience by Italo Svevo
- The Gift by Marcel Mauss
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Film
- Mysteries of a Barbershop by Erich Engel
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Music
- Pacific 231 by Arthur Honegger
- "Charleston" by James P. Johnson
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Visual arts
- On White II by Wassily Kandinsky
- Church of Notre Dame du Raincy (1922–23)
- Erutarettil
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Births
- April 17 - Jacques Sternberg, Belgian author (d. 2006)
- May 29 - Harry Everett Smith (d. 1991)
- Ado Kyrou (1923 - 1985)
- Bettie Page (1923 - 2008)
- André Courrèges (1923 - 2016)
- Walerian Borowczyk (1923 - 2006)
- Diane Arbus (1923 - 1971)
- Norman Mailer (1923 - 2007)
- Roy Lichtenstein (1923 - 1997)
- Italo Calvino (1923 – 1985)
- Richard Avedon (1923 - 2004)
- Cheikha Rimitti (1923 - 2006)
- Peter Gay, psychohistorian (1923- 2015)
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Deaths
- Ricciotto Canudo (1879 - 1923)
- Max Nordau (1849 - 1923)
- Elihu Vedder (1836 - 1923)
- Marcellus Emants, Dutch naturalist writer
- Raymond Radiguet (1903 - 1923)
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