On This Day — July 23
3853 noted people were born and 1876 died on July 23 in our archive, including Yurii G. Naidyuk, Adolf Schmidt and Alain Decaux.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on July 23
Yurii G. Naidyuk
b. 1955
Adolf Schmidt
1860 – 1944
Alain Decaux
1925 – 2016
Alexander Willem Frederik Idenburg
1861 – 1935
Alice Bentinck
b. 1986
Anders Franzén
1918 – 1993
Andrew M. Odlyzko
b. 1949
Anthony Kennedy
b. 1936
Arend Lubbers
b. 1931
Artem Mikoyan
1905 – 1970
Asghar Qadir
b. 1946
Avaz Alakbarov
b. 1952
Barbara Schock-Werner
b. 1947
Charles B. Morrey, Jr.
1907 – 1984
Ching Wan Tang
b. 1947
Christopher Andrew
b. 1941
Daniel Goldin
b. 1940
David Bordwell
1947 – 2024
Emma P. Carr
1880 – 1972
Esmond Ovey
1879 – 1963
Gerald M. Friedman
1921 – 2011
Gustav Heinemann
1899 – 1976
Hamid Mir
b. 1966
Henryk Jordan
1842 – 1907
Idris Foster
1911 – 1984
John Leerdam
b. 1961
Jonathan Hutchinson
1828 – 1913
Keith Beven
b. 1950
Luis de la Peña
1931 – 2026
M. K. Narayanan
b. 1934
Maria Antonietta Macciocchi
1922 – 2007
Michele Vendruscolo
b. 1966
Nicholas Conard
b. 1961
Otto Ribbeck
1827 – 1898
Pedro Jordano Barbudo
b. 1957
Rob Miles
b. 1957
Robert McCormick Adams Jr.
1926 – 2018
Sadri Maksudi Arsal
1878 – 1957
Salvador de Madariaga
1886 – 1978
Sergei Nikolaevich Trubetskoy
1862 – 1905
Sergio Mattarella
b. 1941
Spencer Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire
1833 – 1908
Tang Fei-fan
1897 – 1958
Ulf Grenander
1923 – 2016
Veikko Aleksanteri Heiskanen
1895 – 1971
Vera Rubin
1928 – 2016
Vladimir Prelog
1906 – 1998
William Bleckwenn
1895 – 1965
Wolfgang Lubitz
b. 1949
Władysław Szafer
1886 – 1970
Xóchitl Domínguez Benetton
b. 1980
Étienne-Louis Malus
1775 – 1812
Ada Gobetti
1902 – 1968
Ago Künnap
b. 1941
Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke
1883 – 1963
Alan Heusaff
1921 – 1999
Alexander Lomaia
b. 1964
Alexandre-Antonin Taché
1823 – 1894
Amy Cuddy
b. 1972
Andrew Biemiller
1906 – 1982
André-Charles-Victor Reille
1815 – 1887
Anna Strolenberg
b. 1995
Anne Ferguson-Smith
b. 1961
Anthony L. Turkevich
1916 – 2002
Arata Isozaki
1931 – 2022
Bob Coecke
b. 1968
Bruno Cathala
b. 1955
Břetislav Rychlík
b. 1958
Carl Meinhof
1857 – 1944
Carl Phillips
b. 1959
Christian Bréchot
b. 1952
Christian Piwarz
b. 1975
Cristiana De Filippis
b. 1992
Daniel H. Pink
b. 1964
Daniel Wafena Bell
1891 – 1971
Don Imus
1940 – 2019
Douglas J. Bennet
1938 – 2018
Eddie Reese
b. 1941
Eduard Heinrich von Flottwell
1786 – 1865
Edward Adrian Wilson
1872 – 1912
Egbert Schuurman
b. 1937
Elliot See
1927 – 1966
Emma Parmee
b. 1965
Ernst Herzfeld
1879 – 1948
Fernando de Santiago y Díaz
1910 – 1994
Florence Noiville
b. 1961
Fouzi Lekjaa
b. 1970
Frank Soskice, Baron Stow Hill
1902 – 1979
Gardner Dozois
1947 – 2018
Georges Bonnet
1889 – 1973
Gerda Höjer
1893 – 1974
Gintaras Steponavičius
b. 1967
Giuseppe Francica-Nava de Bontifè
1846 – 1928
Guy Bullock
1887 – 1956
Hanna Louisa Bissiw
b. 1972
Hans Ankum
1930 – 2019
Helen Geake
b. 1967
Henry Norris
1865 – 1934
Hermann Fol
1845 – 1892
Hidejirō Nagata
1876 – 1943
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
b. 1967
Iheme Uloma
b. 1992
Ingram Olkin
1924 – 2016
Ivan Krupko
b. 1974
Iñaki Ruiz de Pinedo
b. 1954
Jacob Hollander
1871 – 1940
James F. Bell, III
b. 1965
James Vernon Smith
1926 – 1973
Jan Śleszyński
1854 – 1931
John Hope Simpson
1868 – 1961
John P. Saylor
1908 – 1973
José María Mazón Ramos
b. 1951
Judith Blake, Baroness Blake of Leeds
b. 1953
Kai Linnilä
1942 – 2017
Karen Clark
1945 – 2026
Konstantin Mereschkowski
1854 – 1921
Kuno Areng
1929 – 2017
Kuno Fischer
1824 – 1907
Kōda Rohan
1867 – 1947
Laura Garavini
b. 1966
Leonard Blussé
b. 1946
Leonid A. Umansky
1890 – 1957
Louis Andrieux
1840 – 1931
Louis T. Wright
1891 – 1952
Ludwig Andreas Buchner
1813 – 1897
Marc-Auguste Pictet
1752 – 1825
Margaret Beazley
b. 1951
Marina Vannucci
b. 1966
Mark Weiser
1952 – 1999
Markku Eestilä
b. 1956
Mary Tanner
b. 1938
Mehdi Hasan Khan
b. 1986
Michael Foot
1913 – 2010
Michael Wood
b. 1948
Michele Emiliano
b. 1959
Märt Raud
1878 – 1952
Najib Razak
b. 1953
Norman Stronge
1894 – 1981
Ong Yoke Lin
1917 – 2010
Paolo Costa
b. 1943
Park Joo-sun
b. 1949
Pavlo Klymets
b. 1967
Pekka Strang
b. 1977
Peter Stoica
b. 1949
Pierre Agostini
b. 1941
Prideaux John Selby
1788 – 1867
Prince Kuniyoshi Kuni
1873 – 1929
Rafael Artzy
1912 – 2006
Ramón Escovar Salom
1926 – 2008
Raphael Warnock
b. 1969
Raza Rabbani
b. 1953
Richard Rogers
1933 – 2021
Robert Kropiwnicki
b. 1974
Ross Cranston
b. 1948
Rubén Moreno Palanques
b. 1958
Sallyanne Atkinson
b. 1942
Saulius Skvernelis
b. 1970
Serhiy Taruta
b. 1955
Spencer Christian
b. 1947
Stephanie Grisham
b. 1976
Stephen Mayne
b. 1969
Susan Graham
b. 1960
Susan Haack
1945 – 2026
T. C. Schneirla
1902 – 1968
Tajuddin Ahmad
1925 – 1975
Te Atairangikaahu
1931 – 2006
Thomas Brisbane
1773 – 1860
Thomas Denman, 1st Baron Denman
1779 – 1854
Thomas Parker, 1st Earl of Macclesfield
1666 – 1732
Tom Dillehay
b. 1947
Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa
1940 – 2010
Ubaldo Soddu
1883 – 1949
Uuno Brander
1870 – 1934
Vance Boelter
b. 1967
Waldy Dzikowski
b. 1959
Walter Blume
1906 – 1974
Walter H. Schottky
1886 – 1976
William John Burchell
1781 – 1863
Wolfgang Büchner
b. 1966
Woody Harrelson
b. 1961
Yevgeny Khoroshevtsev
1944 – 2020
Yoshio Yatsu
1934 – 2021
Abdullahi Adamu
b. 1946
Abel Tapia
b. 1949
Abraham Colles
1773 – 1843
Ahmed Ezz
b. 1971
Akshay Naheta
b. 1981
Al McCandless
1927 – 2017
Albert S. Rodda
1912 – 2010
Albert Shaw
1857 – 1947
Albert Vickers Bryan
1899 – 1984
Albert Warner
1884 – 1967
Aldebert de Chambrun
1872 – 1962
Alex Kozinski
b. 1950
Alexander Fyodorovich Avdeyev
1916 – 1942
Alexander Oleshko
b. 1976
Alexey Sandikov
b. 1983
Alfonso María Bauer Ormazábal
b. 1968
Alfred G. Allen
1867 – 1932
Alison Krauss
b. 1971
… and 3,653 more
Died on July 23
Gerard De Geer
1858 – 1943
Henry Hallett Dale
1875 – 1968
August Rossbach
1823 – 1898
Carl von Rokitansky
1804 – 1878
Conyers Herring
1914 – 2009
Edmund Klein
1922 – 1999
Ernst Otto Fischer
1918 – 2007
Gilbert Tennent
1703 – 1764
Hallie Flanagan
1890 – 1969
Harvey Fletcher
1884 – 1981
Jan Beenakker
1926 – 1998
Jesse Beams
1898 – 1977
Kate Granger
1981 – 2016
Masaharu Anesaki
1873 – 1949
Paul Morand
1888 – 1976
Robert Ettinger
1918 – 2011
Robin Warren
1937 – 2024
Ronald Algie
1888 – 1978
Shigenori Tōgō
1882 – 1950
Steven Weinberg
1933 – 2021
Toshihide Maskawa
1940 – 2021
William Ramsay
1852 – 1916
Adam Stefan Sapieha
1867 – 1951
Alberto Santos-Dumont
1873 – 1932
Aleksandr Gerasimov
1881 – 1963
Alfred Biolek
1934 – 2021
Anatolii Kasianenko
1942 – 2021
Antoine Portal
1742 – 1832
Ariano Suassuna
1927 – 2014
Arthur J Collingsworth
1944 – 2013
August Gottlieb Richter
1742 – 1812
August Ramsay
1859 – 1943
Charles E. Brady Jr.
1951 – 2006
Charles Sargant
1856 – 1942
Chūhei Nambu
1904 – 1997
Clay T. Whitehead
1938 – 2008
Claës Günther
1799 – 1861
Cordell Hull
1871 – 1955
Cornelis Adriaan Lobry van Troostenburg de Bruyn
1857 – 1904
Daniel John Cunningham
1850 – 1909
Daniel Rhodes
1911 – 1989
Donald Barthelme
1931 – 1989
Ernest S. Brown
1903 – 1965
Francisco Mardones Otaíza
1877 – 1950
Frank Minis Johnson
1918 – 1999
Frederick Holder
1850 – 1909
Frederick Mosteller
1916 – 2006
Frederick Osborne
1909 – 1996
Frederick Wilhelm von Pfalz-Neuburg
1665 – 1689
Georg Forchhammer
1861 – 1938
George Lyman Kittredge
1860 – 1941
Georges Duperron
1877 – 1934
Harrison B. Tordoff
1923 – 2008
Harvie Branscomb
1894 – 1998
Hassan II
1929 – 1999
Heinrich Brunn
1822 – 1894
Heinrich Frauendorfer
1855 – 1921
Helene Quilter
1953 – 2026
Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon
1526 – 1596
Henry St. George Tucker III
1853 – 1932
Howard Adelman
1938 – 2023
J. P. Knight
1828 – 1886
James Rood Doolittle
1815 – 1897
Johannes Dyba
1929 – 2000
John Douglas
1828 – 1904
John E. Corbally
1924 – 2004
John Shalikashvili
1936 – 2011
John Simon
1816 – 1904
Jorge Bocobo
1886 – 1965
Joseph Dan
1935 – 2022
Joseph Kessel
1898 – 1979
Kazimierz Sikorski
1895 – 1986
Kenjirō Takayanagi
1899 – 1990
Leonard Wild
1889 – 1970
Leonas Prapuolenis
1913 – 1972
Marcello Soleri
1882 – 1945
Maurice Taieb
1935 – 2021
Mircea Grabovschi
1952 – 2024
Mohammed Zahir Shah
1914 – 2007
Nguyen Xuan Vinh
1930 – 2022
Niels Viggo Ussing
1864 – 1911
Oskari Lehtonen
1889 – 1964
Otto Ambros
1901 – 1990
Paul Brouardel
1837 – 1906
Pavel Jungwirth
1966 – 2026
Peter Boyle
1951 – 2022
Philippe Pétain
1856 – 1951
Ratan Thiyam
1948 – 2025
Reginald Dyer
1864 – 1927
Rudolf Amandus Philippi
1808 – 1904
Salahuddin Ayub
1961 – 2023
Sally Ride
1951 – 2012
Shigesaburō Maeo
1905 – 1981
Sigismund Albicus
1360 – 1427
Sokrates Starynkiewicz
1820 – 1902
Spyridon Lambros
1851 – 1919
Suleiman Frangieh
1910 – 1992
Thomas Sutherland
1931 – 2016
Tom Davis
1917 – 2007
Ulysses S. Grant
1822 – 1885
Valdemar Poulsen
1869 – 1942
Valentin Belousov
1925 – 1988
Werner Wolfgang Rogosinski
1894 – 1964
William James Ashley
1860 – 1927
William Wakefield Baum
1926 – 2015
Éric de Cromières
1953 – 2020
Abdallah Bou Habib
1941 – 2025
Adam Czerniaków
1880 – 1942
Adam Poniński
1732 – 1798
Adolf Weil
1848 – 1916
Ahmad Tavakkoli
1951 – 2025
Akira Watanabe
1901 – 2005
Alexander Lizyukov
1900 – 1942
Alexandre de Beauharnais
1760 – 1794
Amy Winehouse
1983 – 2011
Andre Lucas
1930 – 1970
André Milongo
1935 – 2007
Anning Smith Prall
1870 – 1937
Ants Tael
1936 – 2025
Archduke Albrecht Franz, Hereditary Duke of Teschen
1897 – 1955
Archibald Johnston
1611 – 1663
Aristides Lobo
1838 – 1896
Arkady Mordvinov
1896 – 1964
Arnold Palacios
1955 – 2025
Arthur Hoffmann
1857 – 1927
Arvi Oksala
1891 – 1949
Basil Hopko
1904 – 1976
Bengt Skytte
1614 – 1683
Benjamin Pierce Cheney
1815 – 1895
Benoît Besson
1876 – 1969
Bernardo de Albuquerque
Berta Scharrer
1906 – 1995
Bhisadej Rajani
1922 – 2022
Björn Folkow
1921 – 2012
Boris Turayev
1868 – 1920
Bruce Magruder
1882 – 1953
Bryant Thomas Castellow
1876 – 1962
Bunji Okada
1874 – 1943
Béla Várdy
1935 – 2018
Carlos Salazar Castro
1800 – 1867
Chaim Potok
1929 – 2002
Charles Dupuy
1851 – 1923
Charles Howard Smith
1888 – 1942
Charles R. Hamm
1933 – 2026
Charles Reuben Keyes
1871 – 1951
Chauncey Langdon
1763 – 1830
Chuck Hanger
1924 – 1995
Claude François Lallemand
1790 – 1854
Cydnor B. Tompkins
1810 – 1862
Daniel E. Koshland, Jr.
1920 – 2007
Daniel Pratt
1806 – 1884
Daniel S. Lamont
1851 – 1905
Daniel Schorr
1916 – 2010
Dave Cogdill
1950 – 2017
David Lust
1968 – 2021
Dick Bond
1936 – 2020
Domenico Scarlatti
1685 – 1757
Douglas Robert Nowicki
1945 – 2024
Edith Rigby
1872 – 1950
Eduard Weyr
1852 – 1903
Edward Cutbush
1772 – 1843
Ella Young
1867 – 1956
Elsa Neumann
1872 – 1902
Emeryk Hutten-Czapski
1828 – 1896
Esther Tusquets
1936 – 2012
Eudora Welty
1909 – 2001
Fakir Alamgir
1950 – 2021
Fei Xia
1910 – 1995
Frances E. Willis
1899 – 1983
Francesca Vendrell i Gallostra
1902 – 1994
Frederick Katzer
1844 – 1903
Friedhelm Busse
1929 – 2008
George Alan Thomas
1881 – 1972
George Annesley, 2nd Earl of Mountnorris
1770 – 1844
George Edwards
1694 – 1773
George Lambton
1860 – 1945
George Perkins Marsh
1801 – 1882
George Tabori
1914 – 2007
George Wigram Allen
1824 – 1885
Gheorghe Spacu
1883 – 1955
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
1896 – 1957
Giustino Fortunato
1848 – 1932
Glen W. Martin
1916 – 1994
Glenn Curtiss
1878 – 1930
Goronwy Roberts, Baron Goronwy-Roberts
1913 – 1981
Gustav Renker
1889 – 1967
Gustave Duchesne de Bellecourt
1817 – 1881
Hagbarth Lund
1877 – 1963
Hamilton Fish IV
1926 – 1996
Hare Krishna Konar
1915 – 1974
Harrie Seward
1884 – 1958
Henri Fonfrède
1788 – 1841
Henrik Blomstedt
1921 – 2009
Henry Dworshak
1894 – 1962
Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset
1519 – 1536
Herb Abrams
1955 – 1996
Hilarión Eslava
1807 – 1878
Hisanori Fujita
1880 – 1970
Hitoshi Sasaki
1891 – 1982
Inga Swenson
1932 – 2023
… and 1,676 more