July 23
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July 23 is the 205th day of the year (206th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 160 days remaining after July 23 until the end of the year.
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[change] Births
- 1401 – Francesco I Sforza, Italian ruler (d. 1466)
- 1649 – Pope Clement XI (d. 1721)
- 1777 – Philipp Otto Runge, German painter (d. 1810)
- 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
- 1909 – John William Finn, American naval officer (d. 2010)
- 1913 – Michael Foot, British politician (d. 2010)
- 1920 – Amalia Rodrigues, Portuguese singer (d. 1999)
- 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)
- 1947 – David Essex, English singer
- 1953 – Graham Gooch, English cricketer
- 1957 – Theo van Gogh, Dutch film 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
- 1971 – Alison Krauss, American singer, violinist and fiddler
- 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
- 1984 – Brandon Roy, American basketball player
- 1986 – Ayaka Komatsu, Japanese model and actress
- 1989 – Daniel Radcliffe, British actor
[change] Deaths
- 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)
- 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)
- 1916 – Sir William Ramsay, Scottish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
- 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 film director (b. 1875)
- 1951 – Henri Philippe Pétain, leader of Vichy France (b. 1856)
- 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)
- 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)
[change] Events
- 1783 – Prussia re-conquers Mainz from France.
- 1840 – The Province of Canada is created in an Act of Union.
- 1903 – The Ford Motor Company sells its first car.
- 1930 – A magnitude 6.7 earthquake in Italy kills 1,425 people.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
[change] Observances
- Birthday of Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia (Ras-Tafari Movement)
- Revolution Day (Egypt)
