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| cp=18th century
| c=19th century
| cf=20th century
| yp1=1820
| yp2=1821
| yp3=1822
| year=1823
| ya1=1824
| ya2=1825
| ya3=1826
| dp3=1790s
| dp2=1800s
| dp1=1810s
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1823 was a Common Year Starting On Wednesday (see link for calendar).
Events
Births
- January 1 - Sándor Petőfi , Hungarian poet and revolutionary (d. 1849 )
- January 8 - Alfred Russel Wallace , British naturalist and biologist (d. 1913 )
- January 27 - Edouard Lalo , French composer (d. 1892 )
- February 27 - Ernest Renan , French philosopher and writer (d. 1892 )
- March 14 - Théodore De Banville , French writer (d. 1891 )
- March 20 - Ned Buntline , American publisher, writer, and publicist (d. 1886 )
- March 23 - Schuyler Colfax , Vice President Of The United States (d. 1885 )
- April 3 - William Marcy Tweed , American political boss (d. 1878 )
- April 23 - Abd-ul-Mejid , Ottoman Sultan (d. 1861 )
- June 21 - Jean Chacornac , French astronomer (d. 1873 )
- August 13 - Goldwin Smith , English historian (d. 1910 )
- December 6 - Friedrich Max Müller , German Orientalist (d. 1900 )
- James Black , American Temperance Movement leader (d 1893 )
Deaths
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