July 23
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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.
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Births [change]
- 645 – Yazid I, Arabian Caliph (d. 683)
- 1301 – Otto, Duke of Austria (d. 1339)
- 1339 – King Louis I of Naples (d. 1384)
- 1401 – Francesco I Sforza, Italian ruler (d. 1466)
- 1503 – Anne of Bohemia and Hungary (d. 1547)
- 1649 – Pope Clement XI (d. 1721)
- 1746 – Bernardo de Galvez y Madrid, Spanish general and politician (d. 1786)
- 1777 – Philipp Otto Runge, German painter (d. 1810)
- 1796 – Franz Berwald, Swedish composer (d. 1868)
- 1804 – Jane Irwin Harrison, acting First Lady of the United States (d. 1845)
- 1820 – Julia Gardiner Tyler, First Lady of the United States (d. 1889)
- 1851 – Peder Severin Kroyer, Danish painter (d. 1909)
- 1856 – Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Indian nationalist (d. 1920)
- 1872 – Edward Adrian Wilson, English Antarctic explorer (d. 1912)
- 1886 – Salvador de Madariaga, Spanish diplomat and writer (d. 1978)
- 1886 – Walter H. Schottky, German physicist (d. 1976)
- 1888 – Raymond Chandler, American novelist (d. 1959)
- 1892 – Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia (d. 1975)
- 1898 – Red Dutton, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1987)
- 1899 – Gustav Heinemann, President of Germany (d. 1976)
- 1900 – John Babcock, Canadian World War I veteran (d. 2010)
- 1905 – Leopold Engleitner, Austrian Holocaust survivor
- 1906 – Vladimir Prelog, Croatian chemist (d. 1998)
- 1909 – John William Finn, American naval officer (d. 2010)
- 1913 – Michael Foot, British politician (d. 2010)
- 1920 – Amalia Rodrigues, Portuguese singer (d. 1999)
- 1925 – Tajuddin Ahmed, Bangladeshi politician (d. 1975)
- 1931 – Queen Te Atairangikaahu of the New Zealand Maori (d. 2006)
- 1931 – Guy Fournier, French Canadian author and screenwriter
- 1931 – Claude Fournier, French Canadian director and screenwriter
- 1936 – Don Drysdale, American baseball player (d. 1993)
- 1938 – Goetz George, German actor
- 1940 – Don Imus, American talk show host
- 1940 – Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, Italian banker and economist (d. 2010)
- 1942 – Myra Hindley, English murderer (d. 2002)
- 1944 – Maria Joao Pires, Portuguese pianist
- 1947 – David Essex, English singer
- 1953 – Graham Gooch, English cricketer
- 1957 – Theo van Gogh, Dutch movie director (d. 2004)
- 1957 – Jo Brand, English comedienne
- 1958 – Frank Mill, German footballer
- 1961 – Woody Harrelson, American actor
- 1965 – Slash, English-American musician (Guns N'Roses)
- 1967 – Philip Seymour Hoffman, American actor
- 1969 – David Kaufman, American voice-over artist and actor
- 1971 – Alison Krauss, American singer, violinist and fiddler
- 1973 – Francis Healy, British singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1973 – Monica Lewinsky, American White House intern
- 1975 – Alessio Tacchinardi, Italian footballer
- 1978 – Gail Emms, British badminton player
- 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
- 1983 – Anna Peirsol, American swimmer
- 1984 – Brandon Roy, American basketball player
- 1985 – Blake Harrison, English actor
- 1986 – Ayaka Komatsu, Japanese model and actress
- 1989 – Daniel Radcliffe, British actor
Deaths [change]
- 1373 – Saint Birgitta, saint (b. 1303)
- 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)
- 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)
- 1885 – Ulysses S. Grant, 18th President of the United States (b. 1822)
- 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)
- 1942 – Adam Czerniakow, Polish engineer (suicide) (b. 1880)
- 1948 – D. W. Griffith, American movie director (b. 1875)
- 1951 – Henri Philippe Pétain, leader of Vichy France (b. 1856)
- 1952 – Carl Severing, German politician (b. 1875)
- 1955 – Cordell Hull, United States Secretary of State (b. 1871)
- 1966 – Montgomery Clift, American actor (b. 1920)
- 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 – Keith Godchaux, American musician (Grateful Dead) (b. 1948)
- 1982 – Vic Morrow, American actor (b. 1929)
- 1983 – Georges Auric, French composer (b. 1899)
- 1989 – Donald Barthelme, American author (b. 1931)
- 1997 – Chuhei Nambu, Japanese athlete (b. 1904)
- 1999 – King Hassan II of Morocco (b. 1929)
- 2001 – Eudora Welty, American author (b. 1909)
- 2002 – Leo McKern, Australian actor (b. 1920)
- 2002 – Dr. William L. Pierce, American author 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)
Events [change]
- 1632 – 300 colonists leave for New France from Dieppe, France.
- 1677 – Scanian War: Denmark-Norway captures the harbour town of Marstrand from Sweden
- 1783 – Prussia re-conquers Mainz from France.
- 1829 – In the US William Austin Burt patents the typographer, a precursor of the typewriter.
- 1840 – The Province of Canada is created in an Act of Union.
- 1881 – Chile and Argentina agree on their territories in Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia.
- 1903 – The Ford Motor Company sells its first car.
- 1914 – World War I: Austria-Hungary issues an ultimatum to Serbia, demanding Serbia to allow the Austrians to determine who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Serbia does not meet Austria-Hungary's terms and war is declared on July 28.
- 1929 – The Fascist government in Italy bans the use of foreign words.
- 1930 – A magnitude 6.7 earthquake in Italy kills 1,425 people.
- 1942 – Holocaust: Treblinka Extermination Camp is opened.
- 1952 – King Farouk I of Egypt is removed in a coup and a Republic is declared.
- 1961 – The Sandinista Liberation Front is founded in Nicaragua.
- 1962 – Telstar relays the first publicly transmitted Transatlantic TV programme, featuring Walter Cronkite.
- 1967 – A riot in Detroit leaves 43 people dead and 342 injured.
- 1970 – Sultan Qaboos of Oman removes his father, Sultan Sa'id ibn Taimur, in a bloodless coup.
- 1974 – Constantine Karamanlis is invited to form the government of Greece after the fall of the military junta.
- 1976 – Mario Soares is elected Prime Minister of Portugal.
- 1983 – The Sri Lankan Civil War begins.
- 1986 – Prince Andrew, Duke of York marries Sarah Ferguson. Their marriage later ends in divorce.
- 1992 – Abkhazia declares independence from Georgia.
- 1995 – Comet Hale-Bopp is discovered.
- 1999 – Mohammed VI becomes King of Morocco.
- 1999 – ANA Flight 61 is hijacked in Tokyo, Japan by Yuji Nishizawa.
- 2001 – As a result of a finance scandal, President of Indonesia Abdurrahman Wahid is forced out of office. Megawati Sukarnoputri succeeds him.
- 2004 – The Stari Most (Old Bridge) in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, is re-opened. It had been destroyed during the Balkan War.
- 2005 – Three bombs explode at Sharm-el-Sheikh in Egypt, killing 88 people.
- 2011 – A train crash on the high-speed rail line between Beijing and Shanghai kills 40 people.
- 2011 – British singer Amy Winehouse is found dead in her London home.
Observances [change]
- Birthday of Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia (Ras-Tafari Movement)
- Revolution Day (Egypt)
