On this day: 23 July
Events, births and deaths on 23 July. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Arnold Palacios
10 years ago2016
Nothing recorded for that year.
100 years ago1926
- Deaths · Viktor Vasnetsov
- Births · Ludvík Vaculík
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 997 · Deaths · Nuh II
Events · 26
- 1319(Julian date)Battle of Chios — 1319 naval battle
- 1711Treaty of the Pruth — 1711 treaty between Russia and the Ottomans
- 1840Act of Union 1840 — 1840 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Act of Parliament 3 & 4 Vic c. 35 establishing the Province of Canada
- 1881World Gymnastics — international gymnastics governing body
- 1881Boundary treaty of 1881 between Chile and Argentina — Boundary Treaty between Argentina and Chile, signed on 23 July 1881
- 1914July Crisis — 1914 events leading to World War I
- 1921Chinese Communist Party — founding and ruling party of the People's Republic of China
- 19211st National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party — 1st congress of the CCP in Shanghai and Jiaxing, Republic-era China (July-August 1921)
- 1936Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia — political party in Spain
- 19521952 Egyptian revolution — military overthrow of King Farouk
- 19541954 Cathay Pacific Douglas DC-4 shootdown — 1954 airliner shootdown
- 19671967 Detroit riot — the bloodiest episode in the race riots erupted in the USA during the summer 1967, a series of confrontations between black residents and the Detroit Police Department, begun in the early morning hours of Sunday July 23, 1967, in Detroit, Michigan
- 1968El Al Flight 426 — passenger flight which was hijacked on July 23, 1968
- 1974Metapolitefsi — Transition of Greek polity from dictatorship to republic
- 1982Twilight Zone accident — crash of a Bell UH-1 Iroquois helicopter
- 19821982 Nagasaki flood — natural disaster in Japan
- 1983Gimli Glider — aviation incident
- 1983
- 1993China Northwest Airlines Flight 2119 — 1993 aviation accident
- 1999All Nippon Airways Flight 61 — 1999 aircraft hijacking in Japan
- 20052005 Sharm el-Sheikh attacks — Terrorist attacks in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt on 23 July 2005
- 2010One Direction — English-Irish musical group; boy band
- 2011Wenzhou train collision — public transportation accident in Wenzhou, China
- 2012solar storm of 2012 — unusually large and strong coronal mass ejection
- 2014TransAsia Airways Flight 222 — 2014 plane crash of a TransAsia Airways ATR 72-500 on Penghu Island, Taiwan
- 20182018 Attica wildfires — series of wildfires in Greece in 2018
Births · 60
- 1339(Julian date)Louis I of Anjou — Duke of Anjou (lived 1339-1384)
- 1401(Julian date)Francesco I Sforza — Italian condottiero and Sforza dynasty founder (1401–1466)
- 1503Anne of Bohemia and Hungary — Queen Consort and Princess of Hungary and Bohemia, Queen Consort of Germany and Archduchess of Austria
- 1649Clement XI — pope of the Catholic Church from 1700 to 1721
- 1775Étienne-Louis Malus — French officer, engineer, physicist, and mathematician (1775-1812)
- 1777Philipp Otto Runge — German artist (1777-1810)
- 1796Franz Berwald — Swedish composer
- 1851Peder Severin Krøyer — Danish painter (1851-1909)
- 1856Bal Gangadhar Tilak — Indian nationalist leader, writer and journalist (1856–1920)
- 1883Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke — British Field Marshal (1883-1963)
- 1884Emil Jannings — German actor (1884-1950)
- 1886Salvador de Madariaga — Spanish diplomat, writer and historian (1886-1978)
- 1886Walter H. Schottky — German physicist (1886–1976)
- 1888Raymond Chandler — American novelist and screenwriter (1888–1959)
- 1892Haile Selassie I — Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974
- 1899Gustav Heinemann — German politician; President of Germany from 1969–1974 (1899–1976)
- 1906Vladimir Prelog — Bosnian-Swiss chemist (1906-1998)
- 1906Chandra Shekhar Azad — Indian activist and socialist and revolutionary, freedom fighter and social reformer (1906–1931)
- 1920Amália Rodrigues — Portuguese recording artist, fado singer, actress (1920–1999)
- 1922Damiano Damiani — Italian screenwriter, film director, actor and writer (1922–2013)
- 1925Quett Masire — President of Botswana (1925-2017)
- 1928Vera Rubin — American astronomer and physicist (1928-2016)
- 1931Arata Isozaki — Japanese architect (1931-2022)
- 1933Richard Rogers — British architect (1933–2021)
- 1936Anthony Kennedy — Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1988 to 2018
Deaths · 60
- 1227(Julian date)Qiu Chuji — founder of the Longmen school of Quanzhen Taoism
- 1298(Julian date)Thoros III — King of Armenia
- 1373(Julian date)Bridget of Sweden — Swedish nun, mystic, and saint (c.1303–1373)
- 1536(Julian date)Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset — Royal Bastard of Henry VIII (1519–1536)
- 1562Götz von Berlichingen — German feudal knight and soldier of fortune (1480-1562)
- 1757Domenico Scarlatti — Italian composer, son of Alessandro Scarlatti
- 1773George Edwards — English naturalist and ornithologist (1694 – 1773)
- 1793Roger Sherman — early American lawyer and politician, Founding Father of the United States (1721–1793)
- 1853Andries Wilhelmus Jacobus Pretorius — South African politician (1798–1853)
- 1875Isaac Singer — American businessman; inventor of the Singer sewing machine (1811-1875)
- 1878Carl von Rokitansky — Czech anatomist, dermatologist and patologist (1804-1878)
- 1885Ulysses S. Grant — president of the United States from 1869 to 1877
- 1906Kodama Gentarō — Japanese general (1852-1906)
- 1916William Ramsay — Scottish chemist (1852–1916)
- 1919Spyridon Lambros — Greek historian, university professor and politician (1851-1919)
- 1926Viktor Vasnetsov — Russian artist (1848-1926)
- 1927Reginald Dyer — British Indian Army general (1864-1927)
- 1930Glenn Curtiss — American aviator and industrialist (1878-1930)
- 1932Alberto Santos-Dumont — Brazilian aviation pioneer (1873-1932)
- 1942Adam Czerniaków — Polish politician (1880–1942)
- 1948D. W. Griffith — American filmmaker (1875–1948)
- 1950Shigenori Tōgō — Japanese politician (1882-1950)
- 1951Philippe Pétain — French military and political leader (1856–1951)
- 1951Robert J. Flaherty — American documentary filmmaker (1884-1951)
- 1955Cordell Hull — American politician, U.S. Secretary of State from 1933 to 1944
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