1923
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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.
Literature
Fiction
- First issue of Weird Tales published
- Le Diable au corps by Raymond Radiguet
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
- Confessions of Zeno by Italo Svevo
- The Gift by Marcel Mauss
Music
- Pacific 231 by Honegger
Visual arts
Births
- Ado Kyrou (1923 - 1985)
- Bettie Page (1923 - 2008)
- André Courrèges (1923 - )
- 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)
Deaths
- Ricciotto Canudo (1879 - 1923)
- Max Nordau (1849 - 1923)
- Elihu Vedder (1836 - 1923)
- Marcellus Emants, Dutch naturalist writer
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