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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 23rd of July 1632 | EVENT | Three hundred colonists bound for New France depart from Dieppe, France. |
| 23rd of July 1793 | EVENT | Prussia re-conquers Mainz from France. |
| 23rd of July 1829 | EVENT | In the United States, William Austin Burt patents the typographer, a precursor to the typewriter. |
| 23rd of July 1833 | EVENT | Cornerstones are laid for the construction of the Kirtland Temple in Kirtland, Ohio. |
| 23rd of July 1840 | EVENT | The Province of Canada is created by the Act of Union. |
| 23rd of July 1862 | EVENT | American Civil War: Henry W. Halleck takes command of the Union Army. |
| 23rd of July 1874 | EVENT | Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos is appointed the Archbishop of the Portuguese colonial enclave of Goa. |
| 23rd of July 1881 | EVENT | The Federation Internationale de Gymnastique, the world's oldest international sport federation, is founded. |
| 23rd of July 1881 | EVENT | The Boundary treaty of 1881 between Chile and Argentina is signed in Buenos Aires. |
| 23rd of July 1903 | EVENT | The Ford Motor Company sells its first car. |
| 23rd of July 1914 | EVENT | Austria-Hungary issues an ultimatum to Serbia demanding Serbia to allow the Austrians to determine who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Serbia will reject those demands and Austria will declare war on July 28. |
| 23rd of July 1926 | EVENT | Fox Film buys the patents of the Movietone sound system for recording sound onto film. |
| 23rd of July 1929 | EVENT | The Fascist government in Italy bans the use of foreign words. |
| 23rd of July 1936 | EVENT | In Catalonia, Spain, the Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia is founded through the merger of Socialist and Communist parties. |
| 23rd of July 1940 | EVENT | The United States' Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles issues a declaration on the U.S. non-recognition policy of the Soviet annexation and incorporation of three Baltic States: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. |
| 23rd of July 1942 | EVENT | World War II: Operation Edelweiss begins. |
| 23rd of July 1942 | EVENT | The Holocaust: the Treblinka extermination camp is opened. |
| 23rd of July 1945 | EVENT | The post-war legal processes against Philippe Petain begin. |
| 23rd of July 1952 | EVENT | The European Coal and Steel community is established. |
| 23rd of July 1952 | EVENT | General Muhammad Naguib leads the Free Officers Movement (formed by Gamal Abdel Nasser, the real power behind the coup) in overthrowing King Farouk of Egypt. |
| 23rd of July 1956 | EVENT | The Loi Cadre is passed by the French Republic in order to order French overseas territory affairs. |
| 23rd of July 1961 | EVENT | The Sandinista National Liberation Front is founded in Nicaragua. |
| 23rd of July 1962 | EVENT | Telstar relays the first publicly transmitted, live trans-Atlantic television program, featuring Walter Cronkite. |
| 23rd of July 1962 | EVENT | The International Agreement on the Neutrality of Laos is signed. |
| 23rd of July 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. It will leave 43 killed, 342 injured and 1,400 buildings burned. |
| 23rd of July 1968 | EVENT | Glenville Shootout: in Cleveland, Ohio, a violent shootout between a Black Militant organization led by Ahmed Evans and the Cleveland Police Department occurs. During the shootout, a riot begins and lasts for five days. |
| 23rd of July 1968 | EVENT | The only successful hijacking of an El Al aircraft takes place when a Boeing 707 carrying 10 crew and 38 passengers is taken over by three members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The aircraft was en route from Rome, Italy, to Lod, Israel. |
| 23rd of July 1970 | EVENT | Qaboos ibn Sa'id becomes Sultan of Oman after overthrowing his father, Sa'id ibn Taimur initiating massive reforms ;modernisation programs and end to a decade long civil war. |
| 23rd of July 1972 | EVENT | The United States launch Landsat 1, the first Earth-resources satellite. |
| 23rd of July 1982 | EVENT | The International Whaling Commission decides to end commercial whaling by 1985-86. |
| 23rd of July 1983 | EVENT | The Sri Lankan Civil War begins with the killing of 13 Sri Lanka Army soldiers by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam Terrorist group. In the subsequent riots of Black July, about 1,000 Tamils are slaughtered, some 400,000 Tamils flee to neighbouring Tamil Nadu, India and many find refuge in Europe and Canada. |
| 23rd of July 1983 | EVENT | Gimli Glider: Air Canada Flight 143 runs out of fuel and makes a deadstick landing at Gimli, Manitoba. |
| 23rd of July 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. |
| 23rd of July 1986 | EVENT | In London, Prince Andrew, Duke of York marries Sarah Ferguson at Westminster Abbey. |
| 23rd of July 1988 | EVENT | General Ne Win, effective ruler of Burma since 1962, resigns after pro-democracy protests. |
| 23rd of July 1992 | EVENT | A Vatican commission, led by Joseph Ratzinger, establishes that it is necessary to limit rights of homosexual people and non-married couples. |
| 23rd of July 1992 | EVENT | Abkhazia declares independence from Georgia. |
| 23rd of July 1995 | EVENT | Comet Hale-Bopp is discovered; it will become visible to the naked eye nearly a year later. |
| 23rd of July 1997 | EVENT | Digital Equipment Company files antitrust charges against chipmaker Intel. |
| 23rd of July 1999 | EVENT | Crown Prince Mohammed Ben Al-Hassan is crowned King Mohammed VI of Morocco on the death of his father. |
| 23rd of July 1999 | EVENT | ANA Flight 61 is hijacked in Tokyo, Japan. |
| 23rd of July 2005 | EVENT | Three bombs explode in the Naama Bay area of Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, killing 88 people. |
| 23rd of July 0645 | BIRTHDAY | Yazid I, Arabian Caliph (d. 683) |
| 23rd of July 1301 | BIRTHDAY | Otto, Duke of Austria (d. 1339) |
| 23rd of July 1339 | BIRTHDAY | King Louis I of Naples (d. 1384) |
| 23rd of July 1503 | BIRTHDAY | Anne of Bohemia and Hungary, Queen consort of Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1547) |
| 23rd of July 1649 | BIRTHDAY | Pope Clement XI (d. 1721) |
| 23rd of July 1705 | BIRTHDAY | Francis Blomefield, English topographer (d. 1752) |
| 23rd of July 1775 | BIRTHDAY | Etienne-Louis Malus, French physicist and mathematician (d. 1812) |
| 23rd of July 1777 | BIRTHDAY | Philipp Otto Runge, German painter (d. 1810) |
| 23rd of July 1796 | BIRTHDAY | Franz Berwald, Swedish composer (d. 1868) |
| 23rd of July 1823 | BIRTHDAY | Alexandre-Antonin Tache, Canadian Catholic archbishop (d. 1894) |
| 23rd of July 1838 | BIRTHDAY | Edouard Judas Colonne, French violinist (d. 1910) |
| 23rd of July 1856 | BIRTHDAY | Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Indian nationalist (d. 1920) |
| 23rd of July 1864 | BIRTHDAY | Apolinario Mabini, Filipino political theoretician (d. 1903) |
| 23rd of July 1865 | BIRTHDAY | Max Heindel, Danish occultist and mystic (d. 1919) |
| 23rd of July 1884 | BIRTHDAY | Emil Jannings, Swiss actor (d. 1950) |
| 23rd of July 1885 | BIRTHDAY | Georges V. Matchabelli, Georgian-born American perfumer (d. 1935) |
| 23rd of July 1886 | BIRTHDAY | Salvador de Madariaga, Spanish diplomat (d. 1978) |
| 23rd of July 1886 | BIRTHDAY | Walter H. Schottky, German physicist (d. 1976) |
| 23rd of July 1888 | BIRTHDAY | Raymond Chandler, American novelist (d. 1959) |
| 23rd of July 1892 | BIRTHDAY | Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia (d. 1975) |
| 23rd of July 1894 | BIRTHDAY | Arthur Treacher, English character actor (d. 1975) |
| 23rd of July 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Aileen Pringle, American actress (d. 1989) |
| 23rd of July 1898 | BIRTHDAY | Jacob Marschak, American economist (d. 1977) |
| 23rd of July 1898 | BIRTHDAY | Red Dutton, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1987) |
| 23rd of July 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Gustav Heinemann, German politician (d. 1976) |
| 23rd of July 1900 | BIRTHDAY | John Babcock, Canadian World War I veteran (d. 2010) |
| 23rd of July 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Hank Worden, American actor and rodeo cowboy (d. 1992) |
| 23rd of July 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Leopold Engleitner, Austrian Holocaust survivor and lecturer |
| 23rd of July 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Vladimir Prelog, Croatian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998) |
| 23rd of July 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Chandrasekhar Azad, Indian nationalist (d. 1931) |
| 23rd of July 1909 | BIRTHDAY | John William Finn, American WWII Medal of Honor recieptant (d. 2010) |
| 23rd of July 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Wilding, English actor (d. 1979) |
| 23rd of July 1912 | BIRTHDAY | M. H. Abrams, American literary critic and writer |
| 23rd of July 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Foot, English politician (d. 2010) |
| 23rd of July 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Virgil Finlay, American horror illustrator (d. 1971) |
| 23rd of July 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Pee Wee Reese, American baseball player (d. 1999) |
| 23rd of July 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Bueno de Mesquita, Dutch comedian and actor (d. 2005) |
| 23rd of July 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Amalia Rodrigues, Portuguese fado singer (d. 1999) |
| 23rd of July 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Calvert DeForest, American actor (d. 2007) |
| 23rd of July 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Cyril M. Kornbluth, American writer (d. 1958) |
| 23rd of July 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Amalia Mendoza, Mexican singer (d. 2001) |
| 23rd of July 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Luis Aloma, Cuban baseball player (d. 1997) |
| 23rd of July 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Gavin Lambert, British-born American screenwriter (d. 2005) |
| 23rd of July 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Tajuddin Ahmad, Bangladeshi politician (d. 1975) |
| 23rd of July 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Gerard Brach, French film director and screenwriter (d. 2006) |
| 23rd of July 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Hubert Selby Jr., American author (d. 2004) |
| 23rd of July 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Guy Fournier, French Canadian author and screenwriter |
| 23rd of July 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Queen Te Atairangikaahu of the New Zealand Maori (d. 2006) |
| 23rd of July 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Claude Fournier, French Canadian film director and screenwriter |
| 23rd of July 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Bert Convy, American game show host and performer (d. 1991) |
| 23rd of July 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Raimund Abraham, Austrian architect (d. 2010) |
| 23rd of July 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Benedict Groeschel, American Roman Catholic priest |
| 23rd of July 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Hall, American race car driver and builder |
| 23rd of July 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Hein Heinsen, Danish sculptor |
| 23rd of July 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Don Drysdale, American baseball player (d. 1993) |
| 23rd of July 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Anthony Kennedy, American Supreme Court Justice |
| 23rd of July 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Dave Webster, American football player |
| 23rd of July 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Ronny Cox, American actor |
| 23rd of July 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Harrelson, American convicted murderer; father of Woody Harrelson (d. 2007) |
| 23rd of July 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Bert Newton, Australian actor and television show host |
| 23rd of July 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Gotz George, German actor |
| 23rd of July 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Juliet Anderson, American pornographic actress (d. 2010) |
| 23rd of July 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Don Imus, American talk radio host |
| 23rd of July 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, Italian banker and economist (d. 2010) |
| 23rd of July 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Richie Evans, American NASCAR driver (d. 1985) |
| 23rd of July 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Myra Hindley, English murderer (d. 2002) |
| 23rd of July 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Sallyanne Atkinson, Australian politician |
| 23rd of July 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Randall Forsberg, American nuclear freeze advocate (d. 2007) |
| 23rd of July 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Joe White, American singer and songwriter |
| 23rd of July 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Gardner Dozois, American science fiction writer and editor |
| 23rd of July 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Torsten Palm, Swedish racing driver |
| 23rd of July 1947 | BIRTHDAY | David Essex, English singer |
| 23rd of July 1948 | BIRTHDAY | John Cushnahan, Northern Irish politician |
| 23rd of July 1948 | BIRTHDAY | John Hall, American politician and songwriter |
| 23rd of July 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Clive Rice, South African cricketer |
| 23rd of July 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Blair Thornton, Canadian guitarist (Bachman : Turner Overdrive) |
| 23rd of July 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Alan Turner, Australian cricketer |
| 23rd of July 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Alex Kozinski, Romanian-born American judge |
| 23rd of July 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Michael McConnohie, American voice actor |
| 23rd of July 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Edie McClurg, American actress |
| 23rd of July 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Nyrop, American ice hockey player (d. 1995) |
| 23rd of July 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Hibbert, Australian cricketer |
| 23rd of July 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Hilton, American game show host and announcer |
| 23rd of July 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Graham Gooch, English cricketer |
| 23rd of July 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Annie Sprinkle, American porn star and performance artist |
| 23rd of July 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Nick Galis, Greek basketball player |
| 23rd of July 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Kate Buffery, British actress and writer |
| 23rd of July 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Theo van Gogh, Dutch film director (d. 2004) |
| 23rd of July 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Nancy Savoca, American filmmaker |
| 23rd of July 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Al Perez, American professional wrestler |
| 23rd of July 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Martin Gore, English musician and songwriter (Depeche Mode) |
| 23rd of July 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Andre Ducharme, Quebecois humorist and comedian |
| 23rd of July 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Durant, American helicopter pilot |
| 23rd of July 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Woody Harrelson, American actor |
| 23rd of July 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Eriq La Salle, American actor |
| 23rd of July 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Uwe Barth, German politician |
| 23rd of July 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Ed Forchion, American marijuana activist |
| 23rd of July 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Rob Dickinson, English guitarist, singer and songwriter (Catherine Wheel) |
| 23rd of July 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Slash, English-born American guitarist (Guns N' Roses) |
| 23rd of July 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Samantha Beckinsale, English actress |
| 23rd of July 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Titiyo, Swedish singer |
| 23rd of July 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Philip Seymour Hoffman, American actor |
| 23rd of July 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Elden Campbell, American basketball player |
| 23rd of July 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Nick Menza, Germany-born American drummer (Megadeth) |
| 23rd of July 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Gary Payton, American basketball player |
| 23rd of July 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Stephanie Seymour, American supermodel |
| 23rd of July 1969 | BIRTHDAY | David Kaufman American voice-over artist and character actor |
| 23rd of July 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Charisma Carpenter, American actress |
| 23rd of July 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Thea Dorn, German writer |
| 23rd of July 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Michalek, American jazz harmonica player |
| 23rd of July 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Dalvin DeGrate, American singer |
| 23rd of July 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Alison Krauss, American singer and fiddler |
| 23rd of July 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Christopher Lee, Singaporean actor and model |
| 23rd of July 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Joel Stein, American journalist |
| 23rd of July 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Marlon Wayans, American actor |
| 23rd of July 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Floyd Reifer, West Indian cricketer |
| 23rd of July 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Nomar Garciaparra, American baseball player |
| 23rd of July 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Monica Lewinsky, American White House intern |
| 23rd of July 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Himesh Reshammiya, Indian Bollywood composer, singer and actor |
| 23rd of July 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Andrea Scanavacca, Italian rugby player |
| 23rd of July 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Francis Healy, English-born Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (Travis) |
| 23rd of July 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Terry Glenn, American football player |
| 23rd of July 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Maurice Greene, American sprinter |
| 23rd of July 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Rik Verbrugghe, Belgian cyclist |
| 23rd of July 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Sonny Siaki, Samoan professional wrestler |
| 23rd of July 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Kathryn Hahn, American actress |
| 23rd of July 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Stephanie March, American actress |
| 23rd of July 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Surya Sivakumar, Indian Tamil actor |
| 23rd of July 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Seong Hyeon-ah, South Korean actress |
| 23rd of July 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Jonathan Gallant, Canadian bassist (Billy Talent) |
| 23rd of July 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Judit Polgar, Hungarian chess player |
| 23rd of July 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Saeed Modarres, persian singer |
| 23rd of July 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Scott Clemmensen, American ice hockey player |
| 23rd of July 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Neicer Reasco, Ecuadorian footballer |
| 23rd of July 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Stuart Elliott, Northern Irish footballer |
| 23rd of July 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Stefanie Sun, Singaporean singer |
| 23rd of July 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Marianela Gonzalez, Venezuelan actress |
| 23rd of July 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Perro Aguayo, Jr., Mexican professional wrestler |
| 23rd of July 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Ricardo Sperafico, Brazilian racing driver |
| 23rd of July 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Sims, Zimbabwean cricketer |
| 23rd of July 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Michelle Williams, American singer (Destiny's Child) |
| 23rd of July 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Jocz, Canadian drummer (Sum 41) |
| 23rd of July 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Jarkko Nieminen, Finnish tennis player |
| 23rd of July 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Zanjoe Marudo, Filipino actor |
| 23rd of July 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Wesley, American actor |
| 23rd of July 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Gerald Wallace, American basketball player |
| 23rd of July 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Andrew Eiden, American actor |
| 23rd of July 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Aaron Peirsol, American swimmer |
| 23rd of July 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Bec Hewitt, Australian actress |
| 23rd of July 1983 | BIRTHDAY | David Strettle, English rugby player |
| 23rd of July 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Matthew Murphy, English musician and singer (The Wombats) |
| 23rd of July 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Brandon Roy, American professional basketball player |
| 23rd of July 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Matthew Colin Bailey, American designer |
| 23rd of July 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Luis Angel Landin, Mexican footballer |
| 23rd of July 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Blake Harrison, English actor |
| 23rd of July 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Olafur Hannesson, Icelandic television personality |
| 23rd of July 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Ayaka Komatsu, Japanese model and actress |
| 23rd of July 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Nelson Philippe, French racing driver |
| 23rd of July 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Reece Ritchie, English actor |
| 23rd of July 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Natalie Tran, Vietnamese-Australian Youtube video blogger |
| 23rd of July 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Radcliffe, English actor |
| 23rd of July 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Katy B, English singer-songwriter |
| 23rd of July 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin Reynolds, Canadian figure skater |
| 23rd of July 1992 | BIRTHDAY | Amanda Wilson, English singer |
| 23rd of July 1996 | BIRTHDAY | Rachel G. Fox, American actress |
| 23rd of July 1227 | DEATH | Qiu Chuji, Chinese founder of the Dragon Gate Taoism (Born 1148) |
| 23rd of July 1373 | DEATH | Bridget of Sweden, Swedish mystic and saint, founder of the Bridgettine Order (Born 1303) |
| 23rd of July 1403 | DEATH | Thomas Percy, 1st Earl of Worcester, English rebel (executed) (Born 1343) |
| 23rd of July 1531 | DEATH | Louis de Breze, seigneur d'Anet, French nobleman, Marshal of Normandy and husband of Diane de Poitiers (birth year unknown) |
| 23rd of July 1536 | DEATH | Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset, bastard son of King Henry VIII of England (Born 1519) |
| 23rd of July 1562 | DEATH | Gotz von Berlichingen, German Imperial Knight and mercenary (Born 1480) |
| 23rd of July 1584 | DEATH | John Day, English printer (Born 1522) |
| 23rd of July 1692 | DEATH | Gilles Menage, French scholar (Born 1613) |
| 23rd of July 1727 | DEATH | Simon Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (Born c. 1661) |
| 23rd of July 1757 | DEATH | Domenico Scarlatti, Italian composer (Born 1685) |
| 23rd of July 1764 | DEATH | Gilbert Tennent, Irish-born American religious leader (Born 1703) |
| 23rd of July 1773 | DEATH | George Edwards, English naturalist (Born 1693) |
| 23rd of July 1781 | DEATH | John Joachim Zubly, Swiss-born American Continental Congressman (Born 1724) |
| 23rd of July 1793 | DEATH | Roger Sherman, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (Born 1721) |
| 23rd of July 1833 | DEATH | Anselmo de la Cruz, Chilean political figure (Born 1777) |
| 23rd of July 1853 | DEATH | Andries Pretorius, South African Boer leader (Born 1798) |
| 23rd of July 1875 | DEATH | Isaac Singer, American inventor and entrepreneur (Born 1811) |
| 23rd of July 1878 | DEATH | Carl Freiherr von Rokitansky, Bohemian physician (Born 1804) |
| 23rd of July 1885 | DEATH | Ulysses S. Grant, 18th President of the United States (Born 1822) |
| 23rd of July 1916 | DEATH | Sir William Ramsay, Scottish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (Born 1852) |
| 23rd of July 1920 | DEATH | Conrad Kohrs, German-born American rancher (Born 1835) |
| 23rd of July 1923 | DEATH | Pancho Villa, Mexican revolutionary (Born 1878) |
| 23rd of July 1924 | DEATH | Frank Frost Abbott, American classical scholar (Born 1850) |
| 23rd of July 1930 | DEATH | Glenn Curtiss, American aviation pioneer (Born 1878) |
| 23rd of July 1932 | DEATH | Tenby Davies, Welsh half-mile world champion runner (Born 1884) |
| 23rd of July 1941 | DEATH | George Lyman Kittredge, American English literature scholar and Harvard University professor (Born 1860) |
| 23rd of July 1942 | DEATH | Adam Czerniakow, Polish engineer (suicide) (Born 1880) |
| 23rd of July 1942 | DEATH | Andy Ducat, English cricketer and footballer (Born 1886) |
| 23rd of July 1948 | DEATH | D. W. Griffith, American film director (Born 1875) |
| 23rd of July 1951 | DEATH | Henri Philippe Petain, French leader of Vichy France (Born 1856) |
| 23rd of July 1951 | DEATH | Robert J. Flaherty, American filmmaker (Born 1884) |
| 23rd of July 1955 | DEATH | Cordell Hull, 47th United States Secretary of State, Nobel Prize laureate (Born 1871) |
| 23rd of July 1966 | DEATH | Montgomery Clift, American actor (Born 1920) |
| 23rd of July 1968 | DEATH | Henry Hallett Dale, English pharmacologist, Nobel laureate (Born 1875) |
| 23rd of July 1971 | DEATH | Van Heflin, American actor (Born 1910) |
| 23rd of July 1973 | DEATH | Eddie Rickenbacker, American fighter ace in World War I and founder of Rickenbacker Motors (Born 1890) |
| 23rd of July 1979 | DEATH | Joseph Kessel, French journalist and novelist (Born 1898) |
| 23rd of July 1980 | DEATH | Keith Godchaux, American pianist (Grateful Dead) (Born 1948) |
| 23rd of July 1980 | DEATH | Mollie Steimer, Russian-born American anarchist agitator and political prisoner (Born 1897) |
| 23rd of July 1980 | DEATH | Sarto Fournier, Canadian politician, Mayor of Montreal (Born 1908) |
| 23rd of July 1982 | DEATH | Giorgos Gavriilidis, Greek actor (Born 1906) |
| 23rd of July 1982 | DEATH | Vic Morrow, American actor (Born 1929) |
| 23rd of July 1983 | DEATH | Georges Auric, French composer (Born 1899) |
| 23rd of July 1985 | DEATH | Johnny Wardle, English cricketer (Born 1923) |
| 23rd of July 1989 | DEATH | Donald Barthelme, American short fiction writer and reporter (Born 1931) |
| 23rd of July 1990 | DEATH | Kenjiro Takayanagi, Japanese developer of television (Born 1899) |
| 23rd of July 1993 | DEATH | James R. Jordan, Sr., American soldier and murder victim, father of Michael Jordan (Born 1936) |
| 23rd of July 1996 | DEATH | Jean Muir, American actress (Born 1911) |
| 23rd of July 1996 | DEATH | Aliki Vougiouklaki, Greek actress (Born 1934) |
| 23rd of July 1997 | DEATH | Chuhei Nambu, Japanese long and triple jumper (Born 1904) |
| 23rd of July 1999 | DEATH | King Hassan II of Morocco (Born 1929) |
| 23rd of July 2001 | DEATH | Eudora Welty, American writer (Born 1909) |
| 23rd of July 2002 | DEATH | Chaim Potok, American novelist and rabbi (Born 1929) |
| 23rd of July 2002 | DEATH | William Luther Pierce, American white nationalist and novelist (Born 1933) |
| 23rd of July 2002 | DEATH | Leo McKern, Australian actor (Born 1920) |
| 23rd of July 2003 | DEATH | James E. Davis, New York City police officer and councilman (murdered) (Born 1962) |
| 23rd of July 2004 | DEATH | Mehmood, Indian actor (Born 1932) |
| 23rd of July 2004 | DEATH | Carlos Paredes, Portuguese guitarist and composer (Born 1925) |
| 23rd of July 2004 | DEATH | Piero Piccioni, Italian pianist, organist, conductor and composer (Born 1921) |
| 23rd of July 2004 | DEATH | Serge Reggiani, French singer and actor (Born 1922) |
| 23rd of July 2005 | DEATH | Ted Greene, American jazz guitarist and teacher (Born 1946) |
| 23rd of July 2006 | DEATH | Jean-Paul Desbiens, Quebec writer and journalist (Born 1927) |
| 23rd of July 2007 | DEATH | Ron Miller, American songwriter and record producer (Born 1933) |
| 23rd of July 2007 | DEATH | Tor Kamata, American-Canadian professional wrestler (Born 1937) |
| 23rd of July 2007 | DEATH | Mohammed Zahir Shah, King of Afghanistan (Born 1914) |
| 23rd of July 2008 | DEATH | Kurt Furgler, member of the Swiss Federal Council (Born 1924) |
| 23rd of July 2010 | DEATH | Daniel Schorr, American journalist (Born 1916) |