List of Famous people who died in 1923
George Moffett Harrison
Hon. George Moffett Harrison was an American lawyer and judge who served for 22 years as a justice of the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals.
Carl Flügge
Carl Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Flügge was a German bacteriologist and hygienist. His finding that pathogens were present in expiratory droplets large enough to settle around an individual, the eponymous Flügge droplets, laid ground for the concept of droplet transmission as a route for the spread of respiratory infectious diseases.
Vatroslav Jagić
Vatroslav Jagić was a Croatian scholar of Slavic studies in the second half of the 19th century.
Princess Anastasia of Greece and Denmark
Princess Anastasia of Greece and Denmark was an American-born heiress and member of the Greek Royal Family. She was married to Prince Christopher of Greece and Denmark, the youngest child of King George I of Greece and his consort, Grand Duchess Olga Constantinovna of Russia, but was created a princess suo jure.
Samuel Walker McCall
Samuel Walker McCall was a Republican lawyer, politician, and writer from Massachusetts. He was for twenty years (1893–1913) a member of the United States House of Representatives, and the 47th Governor of Massachusetts, serving three one-year terms (1916–19). He was a moderately progressive Republican who sought to counteract the influence of money in politics.
Giosuè Signori
Ennio Tardini
Ennio Tardini was an Italian lawyer who laid out the plans for the Stadio Ennio Tardini during his chairmanship of Parma A.C. Completion of the stadium's construction was after the death of Tardini. He also sat on the town council during the administration of Lusignan as his passion for sport was found in liberal politics, where he was at the heart of 1908's great agricultural strike of 1908, a precursor to the battles of the unions, which ran from 1919 to 1921, and led to the agricultural agreements.
Adolf Heyduk
Adolf Heyduk was a distinguished Czech poet and writer. Many of his poems were later set to music by Antonín Dvořák. The best known and most widely performed is the poignant and tender Songs My Mother Taught Me with its hauntingly exquisite setting, included in the repertoire of many renowned instrumentalists and vocalists.
Théophile Seyrig
François Gustave Théophile Seyrig was a German engineer, best known for designing bridges.
Adolf Oberländer
Adam Adolf Oberländer was a German caricaturist, illustrator, cartoonist and early comics artist.