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| July 23rd, 2007 (July 23 2007) | Death | Ron Miller, American songwriter and record producer (born in 1933) | |
| July 23rd, 2007 (July 23 2007) | Death | Mohammed Zahir Shah, King of Afghanistan (born in 1914) | |
| July 23rd, 2006 (July 23 2006) | Death | Jean-Paul Desbiens, Quebec writer and journalist (born in 1927) | |
| July 23rd, 2005 (July 23 2005) | Event | Three bombs hit the Naama Bay area of Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, killing 88 people. | |
| July 23rd, 2005 (July 23 2005) | Death | Ted Greene, American jazz guitarist and teacher (born in 1946) | |
| July 23rd, 2004 (July 23 2004) | Death | Mehmood, Indian actor (born in 1932) | |
| July 23rd, 2004 (July 23 2004) | Death | Carlos Paredes, Portuguese musician and composer (born in 1925) | |
| July 23rd, 2004 (July 23 2004) | Death | Piero Piccioni, Italian musician, conductor and composer (born in 1921) | |
| July 23rd, 2004 (July 23 2004) | Death | Serge Reggiani, French singer and actor (born in 1922) | |
| July 23rd, 2003 (July 23 2003) | Death | James E. Davis, New York City councilman (murdered) (born in 1962) | |
| July 23rd, 2002 (July 23 2002) | Death | Leo McKern, Australian actor (born in 1920) | |
| July 23rd, 2002 (July 23 2002) | Death | William Luther Pierce, American author and activist (born in 1933) | |
| July 23rd, 2002 (July 23 2002) | Death | Chaim Potok, American novelist and rabbi (born in 1929) | |
| July 23rd, 2001 (July 23 2001) | Death | Eudora Welty, American author (born in 1909) | |
| July 23rd, 1999 (July 23 1999) | Event | Crown Prince Mohammed Ben Al-Hassan, is crowned King Mohammed VI of Morroco at the death of his father. | |
| July 23rd, 1999 (July 23 1999) | Event | ANA Flight 61 is hijacked in Tokyo. | |
| July 23rd, 1999 (July 23 1999) | Death | King Hassan II of Morocco (born in 1929) | |
| July 23rd, 1997 (July 23 1997) | Event | Digital Equipment Company files antitrust charges against chipmaker Intel. | |
| July 23rd, 1997 (July 23 1997) | Event | Spree killer Andrew Cunanan commits suicide in the upstairs bedroom aboard a Miami houseboat to avoid capture by the police. | |
| July 23rd, 1997 (July 23 1997) | Death | Chuhei Nambu, Japanese athlete (born in 1904) | |
| July 23rd, 1996 (July 23 1996) | Birth | Rachel G. Fox, American actress | |
| July 23rd, 1996 (July 23 1996) | Death | Aliki Vougiouklaki, Greek actress (born in 1934) | |
| July 23rd, 1995 (July 23 1995) | Event | Comet Hale-Bopp is discovered and is visibly seen with a naked eye nearly a year later. | |
| July 23rd, 1993 (July 23 1993) | Death | James R. Jordan, Sr., father of Michael Jordan (born in 1936) | |
| July 23rd, 1992 (July 23 1992) | Event | A Vatican commission, led by Joseph Ratzinger, establishes it is necessary to limit rights of homosexual people and non-married couples. | |
| July 23rd, 1990 (July 23 1990) | Death | Kenjiro Takayanagi, Japanese development of television (born in 1899) | Ken Kay Quotes |
| July 23rd, 1989 (July 23 1989) | Birth | Daniel Radcliffe, English actor | |
| July 23rd, 1989 (July 23 1989) | Death | Donald Barthelme, American author (born in 1931) | |
| July 23rd, 1988 (July 23 1988) | Event | General Ne Win, effective ruler of Myanmar since 1962 resigns after pro-democracy protests. | |
| July 23rd, 1988 (July 23 1988) | Birth | Pippa Bennett-Warner, English actress | |
| July 23rd, 1986 (July 23 1986) | Event | In London, Prince Andrew, Duke of York marries Sarah Ferguson at Westminster Abbey. | |
| July 23rd, 1986 (July 23 1986) | Birth | Ayaka Komatsu, Japanese model and actress | |
| July 23rd, 1985 (July 23 1985) | Birth | Luis Angel Landin, Mexican footballer | |
| July 23rd, 1985 (July 23 1985) | Birth | Matthew Murphy (musician),English musicianGuitar, keybord, lyrics and vocals. (The Wombats) | |
| July 23rd, 1985 (July 23 1985) | Death | Johnny Wardle, English cricketer (born in 1923) | |
| July 23rd, 1984 (July 23 1984) | Event | Vanessa Williams becomes the first Miss America to resign when she surrenders her crown after nude photos of her appeared in Penthouse magazine. | |
| July 23rd, 1984 (July 23 1984) | Birth | Brandon Roy, American professional basketball player | |
| July 23rd, 1983 (July 23 1983) | Event | Around 3,000 Tamils were slaughtered by Shinhalese Buddhist majority in Sri Lanka and some 400,000 Tamils fled to neighboring Tamil Nadu, India and a lot found refuge in Europe and Canada. This incident, known as Black July led directly to beginning of civil war in Sri Lanka. | |
| July 23rd, 1983 (July 23 1983) | Event | Gimli Glider: Air Canada flight 143 lands "dead-stick" in Gimli, Manitoba. | |
| July 23rd, 1983 (July 23 1983) | Birth | Andrew Eiden, American actor | |
| July 23rd, 1983 (July 23 1983) | Birth | Bec Hewitt, Australian actress | |
| July 23rd, 1983 (July 23 1983) | Birth | Aaron Peirsol, American swimmer | |
| July 23rd, 1983 (July 23 1983) | Death | Georges Auric, French composer (born in 1899) | |
| July 23rd, 1982 (July 23 1982) | Event | The International Whaling Commission decides to end commercial whaling by 1985-86. | |
| July 23rd, 1982 (July 23 1982) | Birth | Gerald Wallace, American basketball player | |
| July 23rd, 1982 (July 23 1982) | Death | Vic Morrow, American actor (born in 1929) | |
| July 23rd, 1981 (July 23 1981) | Birth | Steve Jocz, Canadian drummer (Sum 41) | |
| July 23rd, 1981 (July 23 1981) | Birth | Jarkko Nieminen, Finnish tennis player | |
| July 23rd, 1980 (July 23 1980) | Birth | Michelle Williams, American singer (Destiny s Child) | |
| July 23rd, 1980 (July 23 1980) | Death | Mollie Steimer, anarchist agitator and American political prisoner (born in 1897) | |
| July 23rd, 1980 (July 23 1980) | Death | Sarto Fournier, Mayor of Montreal (born in 1908) | |
| July 23rd, 1980 (July 23 1980) | Death | Keith Godchaux, American pianist (Grateful Dead) (born in 1948) | |
| July 23rd, 1979 (July 23 1979) | Birth | Ricardo Sperafico, Brazilian racing driver | |
| July 23rd, 1979 (July 23 1979) | Death | Joseph Kessel, French journalist and novelist (born in 1898) | |
| July 23rd, 1978 (July 23 1978) | Birth | Stuart Elliott, Northern Irish footballer | |
| July 23rd, 1978 (July 23 1978) | Birth | Stefanie Sun, Singaporean singer | |
| July 23rd, 1977 (July 23 1977) | Birth | Neicer Reasco, Ecuadorian footballer | |
| July 23rd, 1977 (July 23 1977) | Birth | Scott Clemmensen, American ice hockey player | |
| July 23rd, 1976 (July 23 1976) | Birth | Judit Polgar, Hungarian chess player | |
| July 23rd, 1976 (July 23 1976) | Birth | Jonathan Gallant, Canadian musician (Billy Talent) | |
| July 23rd, 1975 (July 23 1975) | Birth | Seong Hyeon-ah, South Korean actress | |
| July 23rd, 1975 (July 23 1975) | Birth | Surya Sivakumar, Tamil actor | |
| July 23rd, 1974 (July 23 1974) | Birth | Terry Glenn, American football player | |
| July 23rd, 1974 (July 23 1974) | Birth | Maurice Greene, American athlete | |
| July 23rd, 1974 (July 23 1974) | Birth | Stephanie March, American actress | |
| July 23rd, 1974 (July 23 1974) | Birth | Sonny Siaki, Samoan-born professional wrestler | |
| July 23rd, 1974 (July 23 1974) | Birth | Rik Verbrugghe, Belgian cyclist | |
| July 23rd, 1974 (July 23 1974) | Birth | Kathryn Hahn, American actress | |
| July 23rd, 1973 (July 23 1973) | Birth | Nomar Garciaparra, American baseball player | |
| July 23rd, 1973 (July 23 1973) | Birth | Omar Epps, American actor | |
| July 23rd, 1973 (July 23 1973) | Birth | Francis Healy, Scottish rock musician (Travis) | |
| July 23rd, 1973 (July 23 1973) | Birth | Monica Lewinsky, American White House intern | |
| July 23rd, 1972 (July 23 1972) | Event | The United States launches Landsat 1, first Earth-resources satellite. | |
| July 23rd, 1972 (July 23 1972) | Birth | Marlon Wayans, American actor | |
| July 23rd, 1971 (July 23 1971) | Birth | Dalvin DeGrate, American singer | |
| July 23rd, 1971 (July 23 1971) | Birth | Alison Krauss, American singer and fiddler | |
| July 23rd, 1971 (July 23 1971) | Birth | Chris Michalek, American musician | |
| July 23rd, 1971 (July 23 1971) | Birth | Christopher Lee, Singaporean actor and model | |
| July 23rd, 1971 (July 23 1971) | Death | Van Heflin, American actor (born in 1910) | |
| July 23rd, 1970 (July 23 1970) | Event | Qaboos ibn Sa id, becomes Sultan of Oman after overthrowing his father, Sa id ibn Taimur. | |
| July 23rd, 1970 (July 23 1970) | Birth | Charisma Carpenter, American actress | |
| July 23rd, 1970 (July 23 1970) | Birth | Thea Dorn, German writer | |
| July 23rd, 1968 (July 23 1968) | Event | Glenville Shootout: In Cleveland, Ohio, a violent shootout between a Black Militant organization led by Ahmed Evans and the Cleveland Police Department occurredied in During the shootout, a riot began that lasted for five days. | Evans Quotes |
| July 23rd, 1968 (July 23 1968) | Event | The first and only successful hijacking of an El Al aircraft took place when a 707 carrying 10 crew and 38 passengers was taken over by three members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). The aircraft was en route from Rome, Italy, to Lod, Israel. | |
| July 23rd, 1968 (July 23 1968) | Birth | Nick Menza, American musician, drummer | |
| July 23rd, 1968 (July 23 1968) | Birth | Gary Payton, American basketball player | |
| July 23rd, 1968 (July 23 1968) | Birth | Stephanie Seymour, American supermodel | |
| July 23rd, 1968 (July 23 1968) | Death | Henry Hallett Dale, English scientist, Nobel Prize laureate (born in 1875) | |
| July 23rd, 1967 (July 23 1967) | Event | 12th Street Riot: In Detroit, Michigan, one of the worst riots in United States history begins on 12th Street in the predominantly African American inner city (43 killed, 342 injured and ~1,400 buildings burned). | |
| July 23rd, 1967 (July 23 1967) | Birth | Philip Seymour Hoffman, American actor | |
| July 23rd, 1966 (July 23 1966) | Birth | Samantha Beckinsale, English actress | |
| July 23rd, 1966 (July 23 1966) | Death | Montgomery Clift, American actor (born in 1920) | |
| July 23rd, 1965 (July 23 1965) | Birth | Rob Dickinson, English musician | |
| July 23rd, 1965 (July 23 1965) | Birth | Slash, English guitarist (ex-Guns N Roses) | |
| July 23rd, 1964 (July 23 1964) | Birth | Ed Forchion, American marijuana activist | |
| July 23rd, 1962 (July 23 1962) | Event | Telstar relays the first live trans-Atlantic television signal. | |
| July 23rd, 1962 (July 23 1962) | Event | The International Agreement on the Neutrality of Laos was signed. | |
| July 23rd, 1962 (July 23 1962) | Birth | Eriq La Salle, American actor | |
| July 23rd, 1961 (July 23 1961) | Event | Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) founded in Nicaragua. | |
| July 23rd, 1961 (July 23 1961) | Birth | Martin Gore, English musician and songwriter (Depeche Mode) | |
| July 23rd, 1961 (July 23 1961) | Birth | Woody Harrelson, American actor | |
| July 23rd, 1961 (July 23 1961) | Birth | Andre Ducharme, Quebec humorist (Rock et Belles Oreilles) and author | |
| July 23rd, 1957 (July 23 1957) | Birth | Theo van Gogh, Dutch film director (died in 2004) | |
| July 23rd, 1957 (July 23 1957) | Birth | Nick Galis, Greek basketball player | |
| July 23rd, 1956 (July 23 1956) | Event | The Loi Cadre is passed by the French Republic in order to order French overseas territory affairs. | |
| July 23rd, 1955 (July 23 1955) | Death | Cordell Hull, 47th United States Secretary of State, Nobel Prize laureate (born in 1871) | Cordell Hull Quotes |
| July 23rd, 1953 (July 23 1953) | Birth | Graham Gooch, English cricketer | |
| July 23rd, 1952 (July 23 1952) | Event | Establishment of the European Coal and Steel community. | |
| July 23rd, 1952 (July 23 1952) | Event | General Muhammad Naguib leads the Free Officers Movement (formed by Gamal Abdel Nasserthe real power behind the coup) in the overthrow of King Farouk of Egypt. | |
| July 23rd, 1952 (July 23 1952) | Birth | Bill Nyrop, American ice hockey player (died in 1995) | |
| July 23rd, 1951 (July 23 1951) | Birth | Edie McClurg, American actress | |
| July 23rd, 1951 (July 23 1951) | Death | Henri Philippe Petain, leader of Vichy France (born in 1856) | |
| July 23rd, 1951 (July 23 1951) | Death | Robert J. Flaherty, American filmmaker (born in 1884) | |
| July 23rd, 1950 (July 23 1950) | Birth | Alex Kozinski, Romanian-born American judge | Alex Kozinski Quotes |
| July 23rd, 1950 (July 23 1950) | Birth | Blair Thornton, Canadian guitarist (Bachman-Turner Overdrive) | |
| July 23rd, 1948 (July 23 1948) | Birth | John Cushnahan, Northern Irish politician | |
| July 23rd, 1948 (July 23 1948) | Birth | John Hall, American politician and former rock musician | |
| July 23rd, 1948 (July 23 1948) | Death | D. W. Griffith, American film director (born in 1875) | |
| July 23rd, 1947 (July 23 1947) | Birth | Gardner Dozois, American author | |
| July 23rd, 1947 (July 23 1947) | Birth | David Essex, English singer | |
| July 23rd, 1945 (July 23 1945) | Event | The process against Philippe Petain begins. | |
| July 23rd, 1943 (July 23 1943) | Birth | Dr. Randall Forsberg, American nuclear freeze advocate (died in 2007) | |
| July 23rd, 1943 (July 23 1943) | Birth | Tony Joe White, American singer and songwriter | |
| July 23rd, 1942 (July 23 1942) | Event | The Holocaust: The Treblinka extermination camp is opened | |
| July 23rd, 1942 (July 23 1942) | Event | World War II: Hitler signs the Operation Edelweiss. | |
| July 23rd, 1942 (July 23 1942) | Birth | Myra Hindley, English murderer (died in 2002) | |
| July 23rd, 1942 (July 23 1942) | Birth | Sallyanne Atkinson, Australian politician | |
| July 23rd, 1942 (July 23 1942) | Death | Adam Czerniakow, Polish engineer (suicide) (born in 1880) | |
| July 23rd, 1941 (July 23 1941) | Birth | Richie Evans, 9 time NASCAR Modified Champion (died at Martinsville in 1985) | Evans Quotes |
| July 23rd, 1940 (July 23 1940) | Event | US Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles`s declaration on the US non-recognition policy of the Soviet annexation and incorporation of three Baltic StatesEstonia, Latvia and Lithuania. | |
| July 23rd, 1940 (July 23 1940) | Birth | Don Imus, American talk radio host | |
| July 23rd, 1938 (July 23 1938) | Birth | Juliet Anderson, American pornographic actress | |
| July 23rd, 1938 (July 23 1938) | Birth | Ronny Cox, American actor | |
| July 23rd, 1938 (July 23 1938) | Birth | Gotz George, German actor | |
| July 23rd, 1938 (July 23 1938) | Birth | Charles Harrelson, American convicted murderer; father of Woody Harrelson (died in 2007) | |
| July 23rd, 1938 (July 23 1938) | Birth | Bert Newton, Australian actor and television show host | |
| July 23rd, 1937 (July 23 1937) | Birth | Dave Webster, Led his football team to a National Championship in 1958 | |
| July 23rd, 1936 (July 23 1936) | Event | In Catalonia, Spain, the Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia is founded through the merger of socialist and communist parties. | |
| July 23rd, 1936 (July 23 1936) | Birth | Shiv Kumar Batalvi, Punjabi revolutionary (died in 1973) | |
| July 23rd, 1936 (July 23 1936) | Birth | Don Drysdale, American baseball player (died in 1993) | |
| July 23rd, 1936 (July 23 1936) | Birth | Anthony Kennedy, U.S. Supreme Court Justice | Anthony Kennedy Quotes |
| July 23rd, 1935 (July 23 1935) | Birth | Jim Hall, American race car driver and constructor (Chaparral Cars) | |
| July 23rd, 1935 (July 23 1935) | Birth | Hein Heinsen, Danish artist | |
| July 23rd, 1933 (July 23 1933) | Birth | Bert Convy, American game show host and performer (died in 1991) | |
| July 23rd, 1932 (July 23 1932) | Death | Tenby Davies, Welsh half-mile world champion runner (born in 1884) | |
| July 23rd, 1931 (July 23 1931) | Birth | Te Atairangi Kaahu, Maori Queen (died in 2006) | |
| July 23rd, 1931 (July 23 1931) | Birth | Guy Fournier, French Canadian author and screenwriter | |
| July 23rd, 1931 (July 23 1931) | Birth | Claude Fournier, French Canadian film director and screenwriter | |
| July 23rd, 1930 (July 23 1930) | Death | Glenn Curtiss, American aviation pioneer (born in 1878) | |
| July 23rd, 1929 (July 23 1929) | Event | Fascist government in Italy bans the use of foreign words. | |
| July 23rd, 1928 (July 23 1928) | Birth | Hubert Selby Jr., American author (died in 2004) | |
| July 23rd, 1927 (July 23 1927) | Birth | Gerard Brach, French film director and screenwriter (died in 2006) | |
| July 23rd, 1926 (July 23 1926) | Event | Fox Film buys the patents of the Movietone sound system for recording sound onto film. | |
| July 23rd, 1924 (July 23 1924) | Birth | Gavin Lambert, British-born screenwriter (died in 2005) | |
| July 23rd, 1924 (July 23 1924) | Death | Frank Frost Abbott, American classical scholar (born in 1850) | |
| July 23rd, 1923 (July 23 1923) | Birth | Luis Aloma, Cuban baseball player (died in 1997) | |
| July 23rd, 1923 (July 23 1923) | Birth | Cyril M. Kornbluth, American writer (died in 1958) | |
| July 23rd, 1923 (July 23 1923) | Birth | Amalia Mendoza, Mexican singer (died in 2001) | |
| July 23rd, 1923 (July 23 1923) | Death | Pancho Villa, Mexican revolutionary (born in 1878) | |
| July 23rd, 1921 (July 23 1921) | Birth | Calvert DeForest, American actor (died in 2007) | |
| July 23rd, 1920 (July 23 1920) | Birth | Amalia Rodrigues, Portuguese fado singer (died in 1999) | |
| July 23rd, 1920 (July 23 1920) | Death | Conrad Kohrs, German-born rancher (born in 1835) | |
| July 23rd, 1918 (July 23 1918) | Birth | Bueno de Mesquita Dutch comedian and actor (died in 2005) | |
| July 23rd, 1918 (July 23 1918) | Birth | Pee Wee Reese, American baseball player (died in 1999) | |
| July 23rd, 1916 (July 23 1916) | Death | Sir William Ramsay, Scottish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born in 1852) | |
| July 23rd, 1914 (July 23 1914) | Event | Austria-Hungary issues an ultimatum to Serbia allowing the Austrians to find out who killed Archduke Franz Ferdinandied in When Serbia denies Austria-Hungary their demands World War I is sparked on July 28, 1914 | |
| July 23rd, 1913 (July 23 1913) | Birth | Michael Foot, English politician | |
| July 23rd, 1912 (July 23 1912) | Birth | Michael Wilding, English actor (died in 1979) | |
| July 23rd, 1906 (July 23 1906) | Birth | Vladimir Prelog, Croatian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died in 1998) | |
| July 23rd, 1906 (July 23 1906) | Birth | Chandrasekhar Azad, Indian revolutionary (died in 1931) | |
| July 23rd, 1903 (July 23 1903) | Event | Ford Motor Company sells its first car. | |
| July 23rd, 1901 (July 23 1901) | Birth | Hank Worden, American actor and rodeo cowboy (died in 1992) | |
| July 23rd, 1899 (July 23 1899) | Birth | Gustav Heinemann, 3rd President of the Federal Republic of Germany (died in 1976) | |
| July 23rd, 1898 (July 23 1898) | Birth | Jacob Marschak, American economist (died in 1977) | |
| July 23rd, 1898 (July 23 1898) | Birth | Red Dutton, Canadian ice hockey player (died in 1987) | |
| July 23rd, 1895 (July 23 1895) | Birth | Aileen Pringle, American actress (died in 1989) | |
| July 23rd, 1894 (July 23 1894) | Birth | Arthur Treacher, English character actor (died in 1975) | |
| July 23rd, 1892 (July 23 1892) | Birth | Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia (died in 1975) | |
| July 23rd, 1888 (July 23 1888) | Birth | Raymond Chandler, American-born author (died in 1959) | Raymond Chandler Quotes |
| July 23rd, 1886 (July 23 1886) | Birth | Salvador de Madariaga, Spanish League of Nations official (died in 1978) | |
| July 23rd, 1886 (July 23 1886) | Birth | Walter H. Schottky, German physicist (died in 1976) | |
| July 23rd, 1885 (July 23 1885) | Death | Ulysses S. Grant, 18th President of the United States (born in 1822) | Ulysses S. Grant Quotes |
| July 23rd, 1884 (July 23 1884) | Birth | Emil Jannings, Swiss actor (died in 1950) | |
| July 23rd, 1881 (July 23 1881) | Event | The Federation Internationale de Gymnastique, the world s oldest international sport federation, is founded. | |
| July 23rd, 1878 (July 23 1878) | Death | Carl Freiherr von Rokitansky, Bohemian physician (born in 1804) | |
| July 23rd, 1875 (July 23 1875) | Death | Isaac Singer, American inventor and entrepreneur (born in 1811) | |
| July 23rd, 1874 (July 23 1874) | Event | Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos is appointed the Archbishop of the Portuguese colonial enclave of Goa. | |
| July 23rd, 1865 (July 23 1865) | Birth | Max Heindel, Danish Christian occultist, astrologer, and mystic (died in 1919) | Max Heindel Quotes |
| July 23rd, 1864 (July 23 1864) | Birth | Apolinario Mabini, Filipino political theoretician and Prime Minister (died in 1903) | |
| July 23rd, 1862 (July 23 1862) | Event | American Civil War: Henry W. Halleck takes command of the Union Army. | |
| July 23rd, 1856 (July 23 1856) | Birth | Lokmanya Tilak, Indian freedom fighter (died in 1920) | |
| July 23rd, 1853 (July 23 1853) | Death | Andries Pretorius, Boer leader (born in 1798) | |
| July 23rd, 1840 (July 23 1840) | Event | The Province of Canada is created by the Act of Union. | |
| July 23rd, 1838 (July 23 1838) | Birth | Edouard Judas Colonne, French violinist (died in 1910) | |
| July 23rd, 1833 (July 23 1833) | Event | Cornerstones laid for construction of the Kirtland Temple in Ohio. | |
| July 23rd, 1829 (July 23 1829) | Event | In the United States, William Austin Burt patents the Typographer, a precursor to the typewriter. | |
| July 23rd, 1823 (July 23 1823) | Birth | Alexandre-Antonin Tache, Canadian Catholic priest and archbishop (died in 1894) | |
| July 23rd, 1796 (July 23 1796) | Birth | Franz Berwald, Swedish composer (died in 1868) | |
| July 23rd, 1793 (July 23 1793) | Event | The Prussians conquer Mayence. | |
| July 23rd, 1793 (July 23 1793) | Death | Roger Sherman, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (born in 1721) | |
| July 23rd, 1781 (July 23 1781) | Death | John Joachim Zubly, Swiss-born Continental Congressman (born in 1724) | |
| July 23rd, 1777 (July 23 1777) | Birth | Philipp Otto Runge, German painter (died in 1810) | |
| July 23rd, 1775 (July 23 1775) | Birth | Etienne-Louis Malus, French physicist and mathematician (died in 1812) | |
| July 23rd, 1773 (July 23 1773) | Death | George Edwards, English naturalist (born in 1693) | |
| July 23rd, 1764 (July 23 1764) | Death | Gilbert Tennent, Irish-born religious leader (born in 1703) | |
| July 23rd, 1757 (July 23 1757) | Death | Domenico Scarlatti, Italian composer (born in 1685) | |
| July 23rd, 1727 (July 23 1727) | Death | Simon Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain | |
| July 23rd, 1705 (July 23 1705) | Birth | Francis Blomefield, English topographer (died in 1752) | |
| July 23rd, 1692 (July 23 1692) | Death | Gilles Menage, French scholar (born in 1613) | |
| July 23rd, 1649 (July 23 1649) | Birth | Pope Clement XI (died in 1721) | |
| July 23rd, 1632 (July 23 1632) | Event | 300 colonists bound for New France depart Dieppe, France. | |
| July 23rd, 1584 (July 23 1584) | Death | John Day, English printer (born in 1522) | |
| July 23rd, 1531 (July 23 1531) | Death | Louis de Breze, seigneur d Anet, Marshal of Normandy and husband of Diane de Poitiers | |
| July 23rd, 1503 (July 23 1503) | Birth | Anna Jagello, Queen of the Romans (died in 1547) | |
| July 23rd, 1403 (July 23 1403) | Death | Thomas Percy, 1st Earl of Worcester, English rebel (executed) (born in 1343) | Thomas Percy Quotes |
| July 23rd, 1373 (July 23 1373) | Death | Saint Birgitta, Swedish saint (born in 1303) | |
| July 23rd, 1339 (July 23 1339) | Birth | King Louis I of Naples (died in 1384) | |
| July 23rd, 1301 (July 23 1301) | Birth | Duke Otto of Austria (died in 1339) | |
| July 23rd, 1227 (July 23 1227) | Death | Qiu Chuji, Chinese Taoist (born in 1148) | |
| July 23rd, 0645 (July 23 0645) | Birth | Yazid I, Sixth caliph of Islam (died in 683) | |
