July 23
July 23 is the 204th day of the year (205th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 161 days remaining until the end of the year.
Events
Up to 1900
- 1227 – Qiu Chuji, Chinese religious leader (b. 1148)
- 1373 – Saint Birgitta, Swedish saint (b. 1303)
- 1645 – Tsar Michael I of Russia (b. 1596)
- 1692 – Gilles Ménage, French scholar (b. 1613)
- 1727 – Simon Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1661)
- 1757 – Domenico Scarlatti, Italian composer (b. 1685)
- 1773 – George Edwards, English naturalist (b. 1693)
- 1781 – John Joachim Zubly, Swiss-American pastor and politician (b. 1724)
- 1793 – Roger Sherman, signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1721)
- 1853 – Andries Pretorius, Boer leader (b. 1798)
- 1875 – Isaac Singer, American inventor (b. 1811)
- 1878 – Carl von Rokitansky, Bohemian physician, pathologist and politician (b. 1804)
- 1885 – Ulysses S. Grant, 18th President of the United States (b. 1822)
1901 – 2000
- 1901 – Kliment Turnovski, Bulgarian religious leader, writer and politician (b. 1838)
- 1916 – Sir William Ramsay, Scottish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
- 1919 – Spyridon Lambros, Greek historian, professor and Prime Minister (b. 1851)
- 1920 – Conrad Kohrs, German-born rancher (b. 1835)
- 1923 – Pancho Villa, Mexican revolutionary (b. 1878)
- 1924 – Frank Frost Abbott, American classical scholar (b. 1850)
- 1926 – Viktor Vasnetsov, Russian painter (b. 1848)
- 1930 – Glenn Curtiss, American pilot and engineer (b. 1878)
- 1932 – Tenby Davies, Welsh runner (b. 1884)
- 1932 – Alberto Santos-Dumont, Brazilian inventor (b. 1873)
- 1941 – George Lyman Kittredge, American scholar and educator (b. 1860)
- 1941 – José Quiñones Gonzales, Peruvian soldier and pilot (b. 1914)
- 1942 – Adam Czerniakow, Polish engineer (suicide) (b. 1880)
- 1942 – Andy Ducat, English cricketer and footballer (b. 1886)
- 1942 – Nikola Vaptsarov, Bulgarian poet and Communist leader (b. 1909)
- 1948 – D. W. Griffith, American movie director (b. 1875)
- 1951 – Henri Philippe Pétain, leader of Vichy France (b. 1856)
- 1951 – Robert J. Flaherty, American director and producer (b. 1884)
- 1952 – Carl Severing, German politician (b. 1875)
- 1954 – Hermann Groman, American runner (b. 1882)
- 1955 – Cordell Hull, United States Secretary of State (b. 1871)
- 1966 – Montgomery Clift, American actor (b. 1920)
- 1967 – Ahmet Kutsi Tecer, Turkish poet and politician (b. 1901)
- 1968 – Henry Hallett Dale, English pharmacologist, won the 1936 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, (b. 1875)
- 1971 – Van Heflin, American actor (b. 1910)
- 1973 – Eddie Rickenbacker, American pilot (b. 1890)
- 1980 – Sarto Fournier, 38th Mayor of Montreal (b. 1908)
- 1980 – Keith Godchaux, American musician (Grateful Dead) (b. 1948)
- 1980 – Mollie Steimer, Russian exilee and political activist (b. 1897)
- 1982 – Vic Morrow, American actor (b. 1929)
- 1983 – Georges Auric, French composer (b. 1899)
- 1989 – Donald Barthelme, American writer (b. 1931)
- 1996 – Jean Muir, American actress and singer (b. 1911)
- 1997 – Chuhei Nambu, Japanese athlete (b. 1904)
- 1999 – King Hassan II of Morocco (b. 1929)
From 2001
- 2001 – Eudora Welty, American writer (b. 1909)
- 2002 – Leo McKern, Australian actor (b. 1920)
- 2002 – Dr. William L. Pierce, American writer and activist (b. 1933)
- 2002 – Chaim Potok, American novelist and rabbi (b. 1929)
- 2003 – James E. Davis, New York City councilman (murdered) (b. 1962)
- 2004 – Carlos Paredes, Portuguese musician and composer (b. 1925)
- 2004 – Mehmood, Indian actor (b. 1932)
- 2007 – Mohammed Zahir Shah, King of Afghanistan (b. 1914)
- 2007 – Ernst Otto Fischer, German chemist (b. 1918)
- 2008 – Kurt Furgler, Swiss Federal Councillor (b. 1924)
- 2010 – Daniel Schorr, American journalist (b. 1916)
- 2011 – Nguyen Cao Ky, South Vietnamese air force chief and Prime Minister (b. 1930)
- 2011 – Amy Winehouse, English singer-songwriter (b. 1983)
- 2011 – John Shalikashvili, American Chief of Staff (b. 1936)
- 2011 – Robert Ettinger, American academic and pioneer of Cryonics (b. 1918)
- 2012 – Sally Ride, American physicist and astronaut, first American woman in space (b. 1951)
- 2013 – Emile Griffith, American boxer (b. 1938)
- 2013 – Djalma Santos, Brazilian footballer (b. 1929)
- 2013 – Jokichi Igarashi, Japanese supercentenarian (b. 1902)
- 2013 – Rona Anderson, Scottish actress (b. 1926)
- 2014 – Dora Bryan, English actress (b. 1923)
- 2014 – Saado Ali Warsame, Somali politician and folk singer (b. 1950)
- 2014 – Norman Leyden, American conductor, composer and musician (b. 1917)
- 2014 – Ariano Suassuna, Brazilian writer (b. 1927)
- 2015 – José Sazatornil, Spanish actor (b. 1925)
- 2015 – William Wakefield Baum, American cardinal (b. 1926)
- 2016 – Thorbjorn Falldin, Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1926)
- 2016 – Carl Falck, Norwegian businessman and centenarian (b. 1907)
- 2016 – S. H. Raza, Indian artist (b. 1922)
- 2017 – Bob DeMoss, American football player and coach (b. 1927)
- 2017 – Thomas Fleming, American novelist (b. 1927)
- 2017 – John Kundla, American basketball coach (b. 1916)
- 2017 – Lau Wong-fat, Hong Kong businessman and politician (b. 1936)
- 2017 – Waldir Peres, Brazilian footballer (b. 1951)
- 2017 – Mervyn Rose, American tennis player (b. 1930)
- 2017 – Flo Steinberg, American comic book publisher and secretary (b. 1939)
- 2017 – Snooty, American manatee (b. 1948)
- 2018 – Maryon Pittman Allen, American journalist and politician (b. 1925)
- 2018 – Harry Gulkin, Canadian film director (b. 1927)
- 2018 – Elbert Howard, American political activist (b. 1938)
- 2018 – Roh Hoe-chan, South Korean politician (b. 1956)
- 2018 – Khalid Salleh, Malaysian actor (b. 1948)
- 2018 – Oksana Shachko, Ukrainian artist and human rights activist (b. 1987)
- 2019 – Maxim Dadashev, Russian boxer (b. 1990)
- 2019 – Barney Smith, American plumber, artist and museum curator (b. 1921)
- 2019 – Ferdinand von Bismarck, German businessman and lawyer (b. 1930)
- 2019 – Lois Wille, American journalist (b. 1931)
Births
1901 – 1950
- 1905 – Leopold Engleitner, Austrian Holocaust survivor (d. 2013)
- 1906 – Vladimir Prelog, Croatian chemist (d. 1998)
- 1906 – Chandra Shekhar Azad, Indian activist (d. 1931)
- 1909 – John William Finn, American naval officer (d. 2010)
- 1912 – M. H. Abrams, American literary critic (d. 2015)
- 1913 – Michael Foot, British politician (d. 2010)
- 1913 – Coral Browne, Australian-American actress (d. 1991)
- 1918 – Ruth Duccini, American actress (d. 2014)
- 1918 – Pee Wee Reese, American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 1999)
- 1919 – Héctor German Oesterhell, Argentine screenwriter (d. 1977)
- 1920 – Amalia Rodrigues, Portuguese singer (d. 1999)
- 1921 – Robert Brown, English actor (d. 2003)
- 1922 – Damiano Damiani, Italian director and screenwriter (d. 2013)
- 1923 – Luis Aloma, Cuban-American baseball player (d. 1997)
- 1923 – Morris Halle, Latvian-American linguist and academic (d. 2018)
- 1923 – Amalia Mendoza, Mexican singer and actress (d. 2001)
- 1925 – Tajuddin Ahmed, Bangladeshi politician (d. 1975)
- 1925 – Alain Decaux, French historian and author (d. 2016)
- 1925 – Gloria DeHaven, American actress and singer (d. 2016)
- 1925 – Quett Masire, 2nd President of Botswana (d. 2017)
- 1926 – Cedella Booker, mother of Bob Marley (d. 2008)
- 1926 – Ludvik Vaculik, Czech writer and journalist (d. 2015)
- 1927 – Al McCandless, American politician (d. 2017)
- 1928 – Leon Fleisher, American pianist and conductor
- 1928 – Vera Rubin, American astronomer (d. 2016)
- 1929 – Danny Barcelona, American drummer (d. 2007)
- 1931 – Queen Te Atairangikaahu of the New Zealand Maori (d. 2006)
- 1931 – Guy Fournier, French Canadian writer and screenwriter
- 1931 – Claude Fournier, French Canadian director and screenwriter
- 1932 – Jorge Arvizu, Mexican voice actor (d. 2014)
- 1933 – Bert Convy, American actor, singer and game show host (d. 1991)
- 1933 – Richard Rogers, Italian-English architect
- 1934 – Steve Lacy, American jazz musician (d. 2004)
- 1936 – Anthony Kennedy, American lawyer and jurist
- 1936 – Don Drysdale, American baseball player (d. 1993)
- 1938 – Ronny Cox, American singer-songwriter, guitarist and actor
- 1938 – Mickey Curtis, Japanese actor, singer and television personality
- 1938 – Götz George, German actor (d. 2016)
- 1940 – Don Imus, American talk show host
- 1940 – Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, Italian banker and economist (d. 2010)
- 1941 – Richie Evans, American racing driver (d. 1985)
- 1941 – Sergio Mattarella, Italian lawyer, judge and politician, 12th President of Italy
- 1942 – Myra Hindley, English murderer (d. 2002)
- 1944 – Maria Joao Pires, Portuguese pianist
- 1946 – Rene Ricard, American poet, art critic and painter (d. 2014)
- 1947 – David Essex, English singer
- 1948 – John Hall, American singer-songwriter, guitarist and musician (Orleans)
- 1950 – Len McCluskey, English trade union leader
1951 – 1975
- 1951 – Edie McClurg, American actress and voice actress
- 1953 – Claude Barzotti, Belgian-Italian singer
- 1953 – Najib Razak, 6th Prime minister of Malaysia
- 1953 – Graham Gooch, English cricketer
- 1957 – Theo van Gogh, Dutch movie director (d. 2004)
- 1957 – Jo Brand, English comedienne, actress and presenter
- 1958 – Frank Mill, German footballer
- 1961 – Woody Harrelson, American actor
- 1961 – Martin Gore, English singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer (Depeche Mode)
- 1962 – Eriq LaSalle, American actor, director and producer
- 1962 – Hiroshi Mikami, Japanese actor
- 1963 – Phil Boswell, Scottish politician
- 1964 – Uwe Barth, German politician
- 1964 – Nick Menza, German-American drummer (d. 2016)
- 1965 – Grace Mugabe, former First Lady of Zimbabwe
- 1965 – Slash, English-American musician (Guns N'Roses)
- 1967 – Philip Seymour Hoffman, American actor (d. 2014)
- 1967 – Titiyo, Swedish singer-songwriter
- 1968 – Elden Campbell, American basketball player
- 1968 – Gary Payton, American basketball player and actor
- 1968 – Stephanie Seymour, American actress and model
- 1969 – Marco Bode, German footballer
- 1969 – Andrew Cassels, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1969 – David Kaufman, American voice-over artist and actor
- 1970 – Charisma Carpenter, American actress
- 1971 – Alison Krauss, American singer, violinist and fiddler
- 1972 – Marlon Wayans, American actor, director, producer and screenwriter
- 1973 – Francis Healy, British singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1973 – Monica Lewinsky, American White House intern
- 1973 – Himesh Reshammiya, Indian singer-songwriter, producer, actor and director
- 1974 – Stephanie March, American actress
- 1975 – Alessio Tacchinardi, Italian footballer
- 1975 – Suriya, Indian actor and producer
From 1976
- 1976 – Judit Polgár, Hungarian chess player
- 1977 – Kalup Linzy, American video and performance artist
- 1977 – Shawn Thornton, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1978 – Gail Emms, British badminton player
- 1978 – Lauren Groff, American novelist and short story writer
- 1979 – Sotirios Kyrgiakos, Greek footballer
- 1980 – Michelle Williams, American singer (Destiny's Child)
- 1981 – Steve Jocz, Canadian musician (Sum 41)
- 1981 – Jarkko Nieminen, Finnish tennis player
- 1981 – Natasha Yarovenko, Ukrainian actress and model
- 1983 – Aaron Peirsol, American swimmer
- 1984 – Walter Gargano, Uruguayan footballer
- 1984 – Brandon Roy, American basketball player
- 1984 – Arnór Atlason, Icelandic handball player
- 1985 – Blake Harrison, English actor
- 1985 – Anna Maria Mühe, German actress
- 1986 – Ayaka Komatsu, Japanese model and actress
- 1986 – Yelena Sokolova, Russian long jumper
- 1989 – Daniel Radcliffe, British actor
- 1990 – Ryan Castro, American actor
- 1990 – Kevin Reynolds, Canadian figure skater
- 1990 – Young JV, Filipino actor, singer, dancer and host
- 1991 – Lauren Mitchell, Australian gymnast
- 1992 – Danny Ings, English footballer
- 1996 – Rachel G. Fox, American actress and singer
- 1996 – Danielle Bradbery, American singer
Deaths
Observances
- Birthday of Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia (Ras-Tafari Movement)
- Revolution Day (Egypt)
- Children's Day (Indonesia)
- National Hot Dog Day (United States)
- Renaissance Day (Oman)
- National Remembrance Day (Papua New Guinea)