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Top Song(s)
• Bessie Smith - Down Hearted Blues
• Isham Jones - Swingin' Down the Lane
• Billy Jones - Yes! We Have No Bananas
• Paul Whiteman - Parade of the Wooden Soldiers
• Eddie Cantor - No, No Nora
Top Film(s)
• Safety Last!
• Our Hospitality
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame
• Three Ages
• The Ten Commandments
Best Selling Book(s)
• The Murder on the Links - Agatha Christie
• Saint Joan - George Bernard Shaw
• The Inimitable Jeeves - P.G. Wodehouse
• Bambi: A Life in the Woods - Felix Salten
• The Prophet - Kahlil Gibran
Famous Deaths
• January 11 – Constantine I, abdicated king of Greece
• February 10 – Wilhelm Rontgen, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
• March 1 – Rui Barbosa, Brazilian polymath, diplomat, writer, jurist and politician
• April 5 – George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, British financier of Egyptian excavations
• May 10 – Charles de Freycinet, French statesman, Prime Minister of France
• June 4 - Filippo Smaldone, Italian Roman Catholic priest, saint
• August 2 – Warren G. Harding, American politician, 29th President of the United States
• September 23 - Antonio Francisco Xavier Alvares, Indian Orthodox priest and saint
• October 23 - Hannah Johnston Bailey, American temperance advocate, suffragist
• December 27 - Gustave Eiffel, French engineer, architect (Eiffel Tower)
Medical/Science/Technology
• First stable flight of the first rotorcraft, Juan de la Cierva's Cierva C.4 autogyro, in Spain.
• First official public showing of a planetarium projector, a Zeiss model at the Deutsches Museum in Munich.
• Dirk Coster and George de Hevesy publish their discovery of the transition metal element hafnium.
• Niels Bohr and Dirk Coster, produce a paper on X-ray spectroscopy and the periodic system of the elements.
• Enigma machine first produced commercially.
• Otto Julius Zobel of Bell Labs describes the type of signal processing filter sections based on the image impedance.
• Vladimir K. Zworykin files his first patent (in the United States) for "television systems".
• The Maudsley Hospital, established by the London County Council and Henry Maudsley, admits its first psychiatric patients.
• First diphtheria vaccine by Gaston Ramon, Emil von Behring and Kitasato Shibasabur?.
• Herbert Grove Dorsey invents the first practical fathometer.
Political Events
• January 9 - Swaraj political party founded in India with Chittaranjan Das as president and Motilal Nehru its secretary.
• January 15 – William W. Brandon is sworn in as the 37th governor of Alabama replacing Thomas Kilby.
• February 5 – The Supreme Court decides that Bhagat Singh Thind cannot become a naturalized U.S. citizen.
• March 23 – The governor of Oklahoma signs House Bill 197 outlawing the theory of evolution in public school.
• July 24 – The Treaty of Lausanne (1923), settling the boundaries of the modern Republic of Turkey, is signed in Switzerland.
• April 19 - The Egyptian Constitution of 1923 is adopted, introducing a parliamentary system of democracy in the country.
• August 2 – Vice President Calvin Coolidge becomes the 30th president of the United States.
• August 3 – President Calvin Coolidge is sworn in by his father.
• October 1 – Mississippi something Road Signs Act came into effect.
• December 6 - Calvin Coolidge addresses the Congress in the first radio broadcast from a President of the U.S.
National Events
• January 18 – Elon College's campus in North Carolina is destroyed by a fire.
• March 2 – The first issue of Time magazine is published.
• April 4 – Warner Bros. Film Studio is formally incorporated in the United States, as Warner Brothers.
• May 15 – Riegelmann Boardwalk at Coney Island officially opened.
• May 27 – The Ku Klux Klan in the United States defies a law requiring publication of its membership.
• July 13 – The Hollywood Sign is inaugurated in California (originally reading Hollywoodland).
• September 4 – The United States Navy's first home-built rigid airship USS Shenandoah makes her first flight.
• September 8 – Honda Point disaster: Nine United States Navy destroyers run aground off the California coast.
• September 17 – A major fire in Berkeley, California, erupts, consuming some 640 structures, including 584 homes.
• October 16 – Roy and Walt Disney found The Walt Disney Company.
Worldwide Events
• March 1 – Eskom, the largest electricity producer in Africa, is established in South Africa.
• March 9 – Vladimir Lenin suffers his third stroke, which renders him bedridden and unable to speak.
• May 24 – The Irish Civil War ends.
• June 18 – Mount Etna erupts in Italy, making 60,000 homeless.
• July 6 - Rail crash on New Zealand's main trunk line; 17 killed and 28 injured.
• July 20 – Pancho Villa is assassinated at Hidalgo del Parral, Chihuahua.
• August 6 - Henry Sullivan becomes 3rd person and first American to swim English Channel.
• September 1 - The Great Kant? earthquake devastates Tokyo and Yokohama, killing more than 100,000 people.
• October 6 – The Occupation of Constantinople ends when the great powers of World War I withdraw.
• November 1 - The Victorian Police strike begins in Australia, with half of the force standing down over the use of labor spies.