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1823 (MDCCCXXIII) is the 23rd year of the 19th century, and the 4th year of the 1820s decade.

Art and culture

• William Hazlitt – Liber Amoris
• Victor Hugo – Han d'Islande
• John Constable - Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop's Grounds
• Eugène Delacroix
  • Head of a Woman
  • Orphan Girl at the Cemetery (c. 1823 or 1824)

Births

• date unknown Frederick Hankey, British bibliophile (d. 1882).
• January 8 – Alfred Russel Wallace, British naturalist, biologist (d. 1913)
• January 28 - Auguste Bruno Braquehais, French photographer (d. 1875)
• February 28 - Ernest Renan, French philosopher, philologist, historian and writer (d. 1892)
• March 14 – Théodore de Banville, French writer (d. 1891)
• July 9 (date uncertain) – Phineas Gage, improbable American head injury survivor (d. 1860)
• July 23 – Coventry Patmore, English poet (d. 1896)
• August 8 – Théodule Ribot, French realist painter (d. 1891)
• September 28 – Alexandre Cabanel, French painter (d. 1889)
• December 6 – Friedrich Max Müller, German Orientalist (d. 1900)
• December 23 – Jozef Van Lerius, Belgian romantic-historical painter (d. 1876)

Deaths

• January 22 – John Julius Angerstein, Russian-born English merchant, insurer and art collector (b. 1735)
• February 7 – Ann Radcliffe, English writer (b. 1764)
• February 16 – Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, French painter (born 1758)
• April 23 – Joseph Nollekens, British sculptor (born 1737)
• June 19 – William Combe, English writer, poet and adventurer (b. 1742)
• July 8 – Sir Henry Raeburn, Scottish portrait painter (born 1756)
• August 30 – Pierre Prévost, French panorama painter (b. 1764)
• September 11 – David Ricardo, English economist (b. 1772)
• December 3 – Giovanni Battista Belzoni, Italian explorer, pioneer archaeologist of Egypt (b. 1778)