July 23rd
Holidays and Festivals
Celebration of the birthday of Haile Selassie (Rastafari movement)Revolution Day (Egypt), 1952
Flag Day (Abkhazia) * CLICK HERE
Neptunalia held in honor of Neptune (Roman Empire) National Hot Dog Day
Vanilla Ice Cream Day
All-American Soap Box Derby Day
Gorgeous Grandma Day
Hot Enough For Ya Day
Roman Catholic Feast of Saint Liborius, bishop of Le Mans, confessor [northern Germany]
Feast of Saint Bridget of Sweden, widow [Bamberg, Mainz, Münster, Riga]
Feast of St. Ezekiel the Prophet
Feast of Heiromartyr Phocas
* Calgary Stampede (mid july) (8-10)
* Crop Over Bridgetown, Barbados - 2nd sat in July - 1st Mon in August (16-22)
* Les Ardentes Festival Liege, Belgium, Europe July 23 (2010)
Fête de la Bélier Translation: Ram Day (French Republican) The Fifth day of the Month of Thermidor in the French Republican Calendar
Toast of The Day
"Here’s to eternity, may we spend it in as good company as this night finds us."
- Anonymous
Drink of The Day
(Real) B-52
1/2 Part White Rum
1 1/2 part Bailey's Irish Cream
2 Part kahlua
Pour in the Kahlua. Carefully add Bailey's to create layers. Carefully pour rum onto that. Rum should pool on the top. Next, Light the rum on fire, and take the Shot with a Straw (A Real B-52 is lit on Fire).
Wine of The Day
Martha's Vineyard
Style - Cabernet Sauvignon Heitz
Oakville, Napa Valley
$160
Certified Organic
ABV 14.5%
Beer of The Day
Ruination IPA
Brewer - Stone Brewing
Style - Imperial IPA
ABV - 7.7%
Joke of The Day
A young New York woman was so depressed that she decided to end her life by throwing herself into the ocean. But just before she could throw herself from the docks, a handsome young man stopped her.
"You have so much to live for," said the man. "I'm a sailor, and we're off to Europe tomorrow, and I can stow you away on my ship. "I'll take care of you, bring you food every day, and keep you happy."
With nothing to lose, combined with the fact that she had always wanted to go to Europe , the woman accepted.
That night the sailor brought her aboard and hid her in a small, but comfortable, compartment in the hold. From then on, every night he would bring her three sandwiches and make love to her until dawn.
Three weeks later she was discovered by the captain during a routine inspection. "What are you doing here?" asked the captain.
"I have an arrangement with one of the sailors," she replied. "He brings food and I get a free trip to Europe ."
"I see," the captain says.
Her conscience got the best of her and she added, "Plus, he's screwing me."
"He certainly is," replied the captain, "This is the Staten Island Ferry."
Quote of The Day
"I think a man ought to get drunk at least twice a year just on principle, so he won't let himself get snotty about it."
- Raymond Chandler (July 23rd 1888 – March 26th 1959), an American novelist and screenwriter.
July Observances
Air-Conditioning Appreciation Days (7/3 to 8/15)
Bereaved Parents Awareness Month
National Bikini Month
Bioterrorism/Disaster Education and Awareness Month
Cell Phone Courtesy Month
Dog Days (7/3 to 8/11)
Doghouse Repairs" Month, Natl
Eggplant and Lettuce Month
Eye Injury Prevention Month
Family Golf Month
Family Reunion Month
Freedom From Fear of Speaking Month
Herbal/Prescription Awareness Month
Home Inspector Appreciation Month, Natl
International Blondie and Deborah Harry Month
International Group B Strep Awareness Month
International Women with Alopecia Month
International Zine Month
Learn Arabic Month
Mango and Melon Month
National "Doghouse Repairs" Month
National Anti-Boredom Month
National Black Family Month
National Blueberries Month
National Cell Phone Courtesy Month
National Child-Centered Divorce Month
National Culinary Arts Month
National Grilling Month
National Hemochromatosis Screening and Awareness Month
National Horseradish Month
National Hot Dog Month
National Ice Cream Month
National Independent Retailers Month
National Make A Difference to Children Month
National Recreation and Parks Month
National Share A Sunset With Your Lover Month
National Vehicle Theft Protection Month
National Wheelchair Beautification Month
Nectarine and Garlic Month
Purposeful Parenting Month
Roots and Branches Month
Sandwich Generation Month
Share A Sunset With Your Lover Month Link
Skyscraper Month
Smart Irrigation Month
Social Wellness Month
Tour de France Month (Started 6/30 - 7/19)
UV Safety Month
Unlucky Month for weddings
Women's Motorcycle Month
Worldwide Bereaved Parents Month
Observances this Week
Everybody Deserves A Massage Week Third Full Week in July
National Zoo Keeper Week Third Full Week in July
National Parenting Gifted Children Week Third Full Week in July
National Independent Retailers Week Week containing July 21st (birthday of Tom Shay's grandmother)
Restless Leg Syndrome (RLS) Education & Awareness Week July 18th through 25th (Also see February 1st through 7th)
World Youth Day Date Varies usually every three years (July 23 - July 28, 2013)
Historical Events on July 23rd
636 Arabs gain control of most of Palestine from Byzantine Empire
685 John V begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1148 Crusaders attack Damascus
1215 Frederik II crowns himself Roman Catholic king
1253 Jews are expelled from Vienne France by order of Pope Innocent III
1298 Jews are massacred at Wurzburg Germany, Rindfleish Persecutions-Jewish community annihilated.
1403 Battle of Shrewsbury fought by Percys against King Henry IV
1431 Council of Basel opens
1431 G Cesarini opens Counsel of Basel (Ferrara/Florence)
1453 Battle at Gavere, Philip the Good beats Gentse rebellion
1532 Karel I & evangelical monarchy signs Peace of Neurenberg
1540 Turkey recognizes Janos Sigismund Zapolyai as vassal-king of Hungary
1558 Battle at Grevelingen, Gen/earl Lamoraal van Egmont beat France
1572 Willem van Oranges troops occupy Roermond on the Spanjaarden
1594 Groningen surrenders to earl Mauritius/Willem Louis
1599 Caravaggio's 1st public commission for paintings
1632 Three hundred colonists bound for New France depart from Dieppe, France.
1645 Aleksei Mihailovitch Romanov succeeds his father Michael as czar
1664 4 British ships to drive Dutch out of NY, arrive in Boston
1726 Benjamin Franklin sails back to Philadelphia
1745 Charles Stuart, the Younger, lands at Eriskay Island, Hebrides
1764 James Otis publishes views on taxation without representation
1793 Prussia re-conquers Mainz from France.
1798 Napoleon captures Alexandria, Egypt
1803 Robert Emmett's insurrected in Dublin
1812 Battle of Mogilev Russia-Napolean fights Czar Alexander I
1827 1st US swim school opens (Boston Mass)
1829 In the United States, William Austin Burt patents the Typographer, a precursor to the typewriter.
1833 Cornerstones are laid for the construction of the Kirtland Temple in Kirtland, Ohio.
1834 HMS Beagle anchors in Bay of Valparaiso
1840 The Province of Canada is created by the Act of Union.
1840 Union Act passed by British Parliament, uniting Upper & Lower Canada
1848 Battle of Custoza-Italian War of Independence, starts
1850 17th Postmaster General: Nathan K Hall of NY takes office
1851 Treaty of Traverse des Sioux signed by Sioux Indians & US
1852 1st interment in US National Cemetery at Presidio
1858 Jewish Disabilities Removal Act passed by British Parliament
1862 Henry W. Halleck takes command of the Union Army during the American Civil War.
1863 Alexandra Park opens in North London
1864 Battle of Woodstock, VA
1866 Cincinnati Baseball club (Red Stockings) forms
1870 Emperor Napoleon III appoints Empress Eugenie as Regent of France
1874 Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos is appointed the Archbishop of the Portuguese colonial enclave of Goa.
1877 1st US municipal railroad, Cincinnati Southern, begins operations
1877 1st telephone & telegraph line in Hawaii completed
1880 1st commercial hydroelectric power planet begins, Grand Rapids, Mich
1881 The Boundary treaty of 1881 between Chile and Argentina is signed in Buenos Aires.
1881 The Federation Internationale de Gymnastique, the world's oldest international sport federation, is founded.
1886 Steve Brodie supposedly survives plunge from Brooklyn Bridge
1888 John Boyd Dunlop, applies to patent pneumatic tire
1890 Jack Barrett carries his cricket bat for Australia at Lord's (67)
1900 Pan-African Congress meets in London
1903 The Ford Motor Company sells its first car (Model A).
1904 Ice cream cone created by Charles E Menches during La Purchase Expo
1906 Pogroms against Jews in Oddessa
1907 7th Davis Cup, Australasia beats British Isles in Wimbledon (3-2)
1913 Arabs attack Jewish community of Rechovot Palestine
1914 Austria-Hungary issues an ultimatum to Serbia demanding Serbia to allow the Austrians to determine who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Serbia rejects those demands and Austria declares war on July 28 (WW I).
1917 Cleveland Metropolitan Park District establishes
1920 British East Africa renamed Kenya & becomes a British crown colony
1921 Chinese communist party forms under Henk Sneevliet
1921 Edward Gourdin of US, sets then long jump record at 25' 2 3/4"
1925 NY Yankee Lou Gehrig hits his 1st of 23 career grand slammers
1926 Belgian NMBS - SNCFB forms
1926 Fox Film buys the patents of the Movietone sound system for recording sound onto film.
1926 France government of Poincaré, forms
1929 The Fascist government in Italy bans the use of foreign words.
1930 Earthquake strikes Ariano Italy, 1,500 killed
1930 Pitts Pie Traynor ends both games with HRs (1st in 9th, 2nd in 13th)
1931 Ashmore & Cartier Is in Indian Ocean transferred to Australia
1931 France announces they can't afford to send a team to 1932 LA olympics
1934 Bradman completes 304 at Headingley, 430 mins, 43 fours 2 sixes
1935 Airplane crashes into the Empire State Building
1936 Anthony M Kennedy, Sacramento CA, Supreme Court Justice
1936 In Catalonia, Spain, the Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia is founded through the merger of socialist and communist parties.
1937 Isolation of pituitary hormone announced (Yale University)
1938 Bradman scores 103 in 178 mins on a Headingley sticky, 3rd Test
1940 "Blitz" all-night air raid by German bombers on London begins
1940 United States' Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles's declaration on the U.S. non-recognition policy of the Soviet annexation and incorporation of three Baltic States Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
1942 German troops conquer Rostow
1942 Hitler's Directive #45, order to occupy Stalingrad
1942 Treblinka Concentration Camp destroyed
1942 Operation Edelweiss of World War II begins.
1943 Battle of Koersk, USSR ends in Nazi defeat (6,000 tanks)
1943 US 45th Infantry division occupies north coast of Termini
1944 Chicago Cubs Bill Nicholson hits 4 HRs in a doubleheader
1944 Conference of Bretton Woods signed, IMF operations begin
1944 Soviet Army marches into Lublin Poland
1944 US forces invade Japanese-held Tinian in WW II
1944 US troops occupy Pisa Italy
1945 Marshal Henri Pétain, leader Vichy-regime, goes on trial
1945 The post-war legal processes against Philippe Pétain begin.
1946 Menachem Begins opposition group bombs King David Hotel
1947 1st (US Navy) air squadron of jets, Quonset Point, RI
1948 Progressive party convention nominates Henry Wallace for President
1949 Test Cricket debut of Brian Close aged 18 years 149 days
1952 Establishment of the European Coal and Steel community.
1952 General Muhammad Naguib leads the Free Officers Movement (formed by Gamal Abdel Nasser the real power behind the coup) in the overthrow of King Farouk of Egypt and seizes power (Natl Day).
1955 NY Yankees Bob Cerv & E Howard are 1st to hit consecutive pinch HRs
1956 Bell X-2 rocket plane sets world aircraft speed record of 3,050 kph
1956 Joe Cronin & Hank Greenberg inducted into Hall of Fame
1956 The Loi Cadre is passed by the French Republic in order to order French overseas territory affairs.
1958 1st 4 women named to peerage in House of Lords
1959 VP Richard Nixon begins visit on USSR
1960 15th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Betsy Rawls
1961 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Cosmopolitan Golf Open
1961 Bricusse & Newley's musical "Stop the world I want to ...," premieres
1961 The Sandinista National Liberation Front is founded in Nicaragua.
1962 Telstar relays the first publicly transmitted, live trans-Atlantic television program, featuring Walter Cronkite.
1962 The International Agreement on the Neutrality of Laos is signed.
1964 A's Bert Campaneris HRs on 1st pitch, hits a 2nd HR on 2nd at bat
1964 Egyptian munition ship "Star of Alexandria" explodes at dockside in Bone, Algeria. 100 die, 160 injured, $20 million damage
1965 Beatles "Help" is released in UK
1965 Dick Stuart homers in a major league-record 23rd different park
1966 Cavern Club in Liverpool reopens
1966 John Pennel pole vaults record (5.34 m)
1966 Napoleon XIV releases "They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha! Ha!"
1967 The 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 in 442 fires).
1967 Pirate Radio Swinging Scotland closes down for financial reasons
1968 Fred Blasie wins 5th wrestling world championship belt
1968 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 that lasted for five days, 11 including 3 cops killed.
1968 The only successful hijacking of an El Al aircraft takes place when a 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.
1969 40th All Star Baseball Game, NL wins 9-3 at RFK Memorial, Wash DC, All star MVP: Willie McCovey (SF Giants)
1969 USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1970 Qaboos ibn Sa'id becomes Sultan of Oman after overthrowing his father, Sa'id ibn Taimur.
1972 1st Earth Resources Technology Satellite (ERTS) is launched
1972 Eddy Merckx (Belgium) wins his 4th consecutive Tour de France
1972 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Raleigh Golf Classic
1972 The United States launches Landsat 1, the first Earth-resources satellite.
1973 Ozark AL plane knocked out of air by lightning, St Louis-36 die
1973 Pres Nixon refuses to release Watergate tapes of conversations in the White House relevant to the Watergate investigation
1973 Qaboos bin Said Al Said, becomes Sultan & Prime Minister of Oman
1973 USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1974 45th All Star Baseball Game, NL wins 7-2 at 3 Rivers Stadium, Pittsburgh. All star MVP: Steve Garvey (LA Dodgers)
1974 Greek military dictatorship collapses
1975 Alan Ayckbourn's "Absent Friends," premieres in London
1975 LA Dodgers W Crawford & Lee Lacy are 5th to hit consecutive pinch HRs
1976 42nd NFL Chicago All Star Game, Pittsburgh 24, All Stars 0 (52,895)
1976 Balt Oriole Reggie Jackson homers in 6th straight game
1976 France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island
1976 USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1976 Wings release "Let 'em In"
1977 Washington jury convicts 12 Hanafi Moslems on hostage charges
1978 33rd US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Hollis Stacy
1978 Israeli government rejects Sadat's call for return of 2 Sinai areas
1978 Phillies Steve Carlton becomes 78th pitcher to win 200
1978 Reggie Jackson returns & helps Yankees win their 5th straight
1979 George Brett gets his 1,000th hit
1980 Billy Carter admits to being paid by Libya
1980 River of No Return Wilderness Area designated by Jimmy Carter
1980 Soyuz 37 ferries 2 cosmonauts (1 Vietnamese) to Salyut 6
1982 FCC approves AM stereo radio, KTSA San Antonio goes stereo
1982 Intl Whaling Comn votes for total ban on coml whaling (starting 1985)
1982 The International Whaling Commission decides to end commercial whaling by 1985-86.
1983 Air Canada Flight 143 (The Gimli Glider) runs out of fuel and makes a deadstick landing at Gimli, Manitoba.
1983 The Sri Lankan Civil War begins with the killing of 13 Sri Lanka Army soldiers by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. In the subsequent government-organised pogrom 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.
1984 KC Royals Dan Quisenberry gets his 200th career save
1984 Suzette Charles (NJ), 21, replaces Williams as 57th Miss America 1984
1984 Vanessa Williams becomes the first Miss America to resign when she surrenders her crown after nude photos of her appeared in Penthouse magazine.
1986 In London, Prince Andrew, Duke of York marries Sarah Ferguson at Westminster Abbey.
1986 King Hassan II meets with Israeli premier Simon Peres
1987 Petra Felke (E Ger) throws javelin 78.89 m (women's record)
1987 RNI (Bkln NY pirate radio station) begins broadcasting on 1620 AM
1987 Red Sox waive Bill Buckner, the goat of last years World Series
1987 Said Aouita of Morocco runs world record 5,000 m (12:58.39)
1988 General Ne Win, effective ruler of Burma since 1962, resigns after pro-democracy protests.
1988 Saskatchewan's Dave Ridgway kicks record 8 field goals vs Edmonton
1989 118th British Golf Open, Mark Calcavecchia shoots a 275 at Royal Troon
1989 Amy Alcott wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic
1989 FOX-TV tops ABC, NBC & CBS for 1st time (America's Most Wanted)
1989 Winds gust to 85 MPH at Fort Smith Arkansas
1990 Rosie Jones, (St Louis), 26, crowned 22nd Miss Black America
1990 South-Africa worker's union leader Billy Nair arrested
1991 James Farentino of Dynasty arrested in Canada for cocaine possession
1991 Rob Dibble back from 3-game suspension, is ejected for throwing at & hitting Cubs baserunner Doug Dascenzo Cubs win, 8-5
1992 A Vatican commission, led by Joseph Ratzinger, establishes that it is necessary to limit rights of homosexual people and non-married couples.
1992 Abkhazia declares independence from Georgia.
1992 Bruce Springsteen begins a world tour
1992 Funeral for Emperor Haile Selassie (Ras Tafari Makonnen) of Ethiopia
1993 Boon completes 17th Test Cricket century, 107 at Headingley
1993 British Aerospace 147 crash at Yinchuan, 55 killed
1993 Chinese B737 crash at Yinchuan, at least 66 killed
1993 Chris Boardman bicycles world record 1 hour distance (52,270 km)
1993 NY Yankee Mark Hutton is 1st Australian to be a starting pitcher, He beats Angels 5-2; Yanks, Red Sox, Blue Jays 3 way tie for 1st
1994 All 40,000 ceiling tiles in Kingdome must be replaced
1994 Amy Osmond, of Utah, 17, crowned America's Junior Miss
1994 Dancer Gene Kelly suffers a mild stroke
1994 Don Mattingly becomes 6th NY Yankee to get 2,000 hits
1994 Goodwill Games open in St Petersburg
1994 Longest baseball rain delay (3:39) as Giants beat Mets 4-2 in NYC
1994 Space shuttle STS-65, Columbia 17, lands after record 14 days 55 mins
1995 "Hamlet" closes at Belasco Theater NYC after 121 performances
1995 124th British Golf Open, John Daly shoots a 282 at St Andrews Scotland
1995 Comet Hale-Bopp is discovered and becomes visible to the naked eye nearly a year later.
1995 Miguel Indurains wins his 5th Tour de France
1995 Tracy Kerdyk wins LPGA JAL Big Apple Golf Classic
1997 Dallas TV Station KXAS settle with Dallas Cowboys Michael Irvin & Erik Williams for reporting false sex assault allegations against them
1997 Digital Equipment Company files antitrust charges against chipmaker Intel.
1999 ANA Flight 61 is hijacked in Tokyo, Japan.
1999 Crown Prince Mohammed Ben Al-Hassan is crowned King Mohammed VI of Morocco on the death of his father.
2000 55th US Women's Open Golf Championship
2000 129th British Golf Open, at Royal Lytham
2005 Three bombs explode in the Naama Bay area of Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, killing 88 people.
2008 Cape Verde joins the World Trade Organization, becoming its 153rd member.
2009 Mark Buehrle of the Chicago White Sox becomes the 18th pitcher to throw a perfect game in Major League Baseball history, defeating the Tampa Bay Rays 5-0
2012 A series of attacks across Iraq kill 103 people
2013 19 people are killed and 22 are injured after a tour bus collides with a truck in Saraburi, Thailand
2014 44 people are killed after TransAsia Airways Flight 222 crashed into buildings in Taiwan
2014 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow holds its opening ceremony
2015 NASA's Kepler mission announces discovery of the most Earth-like planet yet - Kepler-452b, 1,400 light years from Earth
2015 Supreme Court rejects Bill Cosby's petition against a civil case of his alleged sexual of 15-year-old girl at the Playboy Mansion in 1974
2016 Suicide bomb in Kabul kills 80 during a protest march, Islamic State claim responsibility
Born on July 23rd
645 Yazid I, The second Caliph of the Umayyad Caliphate (Islam) (d. 683)
1301 Duke Otto of Austria (d. 1339)
1339 Louis I, Duke of Anjou, King of Naples (Battle at Poitiers) (d. 1384)
1401 Francesco Sfoza, soldier
1503 Anna Jagello, Queen of the Romans (d. 1547)
1649 Pope Clement XI (d. 1721)
1659 Antonius Schultingh, [Schultingius], Dutch lawyer
1705 Francis Blomefield, English topographer (d. 1752)
1734 Antonio Maria Gasparo Sacchini, opera composer [or Jun 14 1730]
1735 Johannes Herbst, composer
1769 Alexey Nikolayevich Titov, composer
1773 Karl Ludwig Hellwig, composer
1775 Etienne-Louis Malus, French physicist and mathematician (d. 1812)
1775 Francois-Eugene Vidocq, British police detective
1777 Philipp Otto Runge, German painter (d. 1810)
1793 Joseph Hartmann Stuntz, composer
1796 Franz Adolf Berwald, Swedish composer (d. 1868)
1803 Johann Vesque von Puttlingen, composer
1806 Eduard Marxsen, composer
1816 Charlotte Sanders Cushman, US, actress (Lady MacBeth)
1822 Darius Nash Couch, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1897
1823 Alexandre-Antonin Taché, Canadian Catholic priest and archbishop (d. 1894)
1823 Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore, English poet
1824 Gabriel Colvin Wharton, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1906
1825 Richard Hol, Dutch composer/organist/conductor
1827 Pieter Caland, Dutch hydraulic engineer (New Waterway)
1828 Jonathan Hutchinson, surgeon/scientist
1834 James "Cardinal" Gibbons, archbishop of Baltimore
1838 Edouard (Judas) Colonne, French violinist (d. 1910)
1841 Edward John Armstrong, poet
1849 Geza Zichy, composer
1851 Charles Bannerman, Australian cricketer, batsman (d. 1930)
1853 William H Gillette, actor (Sherlock Holmes on stage)
1856 Arthur H Bird, composer
1856 Bal Gangadhar Tilak, British-Indian Hindi leader
1856 Lokmanya Tilak, Indian freedom fighter (d. 1920)
1857 French (M J Francois) Erens, lawyer/literary (Pursue Years)
1861 Alexander W F Idenburg, gov-gen of Neth Indies (1909-16)
1864 Apolinario Mabini, Filipino political theoretician and Prime Minister (d. 1903)
1865 Friedrich Aereboe, landhuishoudkundige
1865 Max Heindel, Danish Christian occultist, astrologer, and mystic (d. 1919)
1866 Francesco Cilea, composer
1876 William Gillies Whittaker, composer
1883 Alan Francis Brooke, 1st viscount Alanbrooke fieldmarshal [or Jul 4]
1884 Albert Warner, US producer (Warner Bros)
1884 Apolinary Szeluto, composer
1884 Emil Jannings, Swiss actor (Faust, Passion, Blue Angel) (d. 1950)
1885 Georges V. Matchabelli, Perfumer (d. 1935)
1886 Arthur Whitten Brown, aviator
1886 John C Poortenaar, painter/etcher/cartoonist
1886 Salvador de Madariaga y Rojo, writer, diplomat, Spanish League of Nations official (d. 1978)
1886 Walter H. Schottky, German physicist (d. 1976)
1888 Gluyas Williams, SF, cartoonist (Fellows Citizen)
1888 Milan Stoyadinovich, Serbia, fascist Yugoslavia PM (1935-39)
1888 Raymond Chandler, American-born author (Farewell My Lovely) (d. 1959)
1891 Maurus H Hulsman, Dutch priest/editor (Amigoe di Curacao)
1892 Haile Selassie (Ras Tafari Makonnen), Emperor of Ethiopia (1930-74) (d. 1975)
1892 Petros John Petridis, composer
1893 Karl Menninger, psychiatrist (Menninger Clinic)
1894 Arthur Treacher, English character actor, announcer (Merv Griffin Show) (d. 1975)
1895 Aileen Pringle, American actress (d. 1989)
1895 Florence Vidor (Arto), American actress (Jack Knife Man)
1898 Jacob Marschak, American economist (d. 1977)
1898 Mervyn "Red" Dutton, Manitoba, 2nd NHL pres (1943-46)
1898 Red Dutton, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1987)
1899 Gustav Heinemann, 3rd President of the Federal Republic of Germany (d. 1976)
1900 John Babcock, Last surviving Canadian veteran of World War I (d. 2010)
1901 Hank Worden, American actor and rodeo cowboy (d. 1992)
1902 Walter Burle Marx, composer
1904 Adone Zecchi, composer
1905 Erich Itor Kahn, composer
1905 Leopold Engleitner, Austrian Holocaust survivor and lecturer
1906 Chandrasekhar Azad, Indian revolutionary (d. 1931)
1906 Clancy Cooper, actress (Enchanted Forest, Girls in Chains)
1906 Vladimir Prelog, Croatian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998)
1906 Wolfgang Gentner, German nuclear physicist
1907 Elspeth Josceline Huxley, English author
1908 Karl Swenson, Bkln NY, actor (Lara-Little House on the Prairie)
1909 John W. Finn, American WWII hero
1910 Pimen (Sergei Irzjekov), patriarch Russian-Orthodox Cathederal
1912 M. H. Abrams, American literary critic and writer
1912 Michael Wilding, English actor (Courtney Affair, World of Suzie Wong) (d. 1979)
1913 Coral Browne, Melbourne Aust, actress (Margaret-Time Express)
1913 Michael Foot, English politician (d. 2010)
1914 Alastair Down, CEO (Burmah Oil)
1914 Virgil Finlay, American horror illustrator (d. 1971)
1916 Ben Weber, St Louis Missouri, composer (Thorne Music Award-1965)
1916 Ronald Ridout, school textbook author
1917 Charles Kerruish, president (Tyndwald Isle of Man)
1917 John Stokes, MP
1917 Kurt Kreuger, St Moritz Switz, actor (Fear, Unfaithfully Yours)
1918 Bueno de Mesquita Dutch comedian and actor (d. 2005)
1918 Pee Wee Reese, American baseball player (d. 1999)
1919 (Harold) Pee Wee Reese, Hall of Fame shortstop (Dodgers)
1920 Amalia Rodrigues, Portuguese fado singer (d. 1999)
1920 Malcolm Hughes, artist
1920 Marcel Maeyer (de Maeyer), Belgian sculptor/graphic artist
1921 Calvert DeForest, American actor (d. 2007)
1921 Calvert DeForest, Brooklyn NY, comedian (Larry "Bud" Melman)
1921 David Lawmn, CEO (Prestige Group)
1921 Harry Hookway, pro-chancellor (Loughborough University)
1921 Heinz Bennent, Aachen Germany, Actor (Possession)
1921 Jerome Rosen, composer
1921 Peter Twiss, test pilot
1922 Moses Rosen, chief Rabbi of Romania
1923 Amalia Mendoza, Mexican singer (d. 2001)
1923 Cyril M. Kornbluth, American writer (d. 1958)
1923 Luis Aloma, Cuban baseball player (d. 1997)
1924 Betsy Haworth, deacon/minister
1924 Gavin Lambert, British-born screenwriter (d. 2005)
1925 Donna Anderson, Akiak AK, actress (On the Beach
1925 Gloria De Haven, LA, actress (Bog, Yellow Cab Man, Irene-Nakia)
1925 Pierre Baugniet, Belgium, pairs ice skater (Olympic-gold-1948)
1926 Ludvik Vaculik, writer
1927 Al(fred) A McCandless, (Rep-R-CA, 1983)
1927 Elliot McKay See Jr, Dallas Texas, astronaut
1927 Gérard Brach, French film director and screenwriter (d. 2006)
1928 Hubert Selby Jr., American author (d. 2004)
1928 Leon Fleisher, SF California, pianist/conductor (Annapolis Symph 1973-77)
1929 Andrew Rutherford, warden (Goldsmith's College)
1931 Claude Fournier, French Canadian film director and screenwriter
1931 Guy Fournier, French Canadian author and screenwriter
1931 Jan Torell, Limhamm Sweden, director (New Land, Emigrants)
1931 Richard Searby, deputy-chairman (News Corp Ltd-Australia)
1931 Te Atairangi Kaahu, Maori Queen (d. 2006)
1931 Viktor Korchnoi, chess champ
1932 Alistair Graham, headmaster (Mill Hill School)
1933 Bert Convy, American game show host and performer (Snoop Sisters, Win Lose or Draw) (d. 1991)
1933 Raimund Abraham, Austrian architect (d. 2010)
1933 Richard Rogers, English architect
1934 Nicholas Barrington, high commissioner (Pakistan)
1935 Cleveland Dunkin, rocker (Penguins)
1935 Hein Heinsen, Danish artist
1935 Jim Hall, American race car driver and constructor (Chaparral Cars)
1936 Anthony M Kennedy, U.S. 106th Supreme Court justice (1988)
1936 Don Drysdale, American baseball player, pitcher (LA Dodgers-Cy Young 1962) (d. 1993)
1937 Bruce Surtees, Los Angeles, California, cinematographer (Dirty Harry, Lenny), (d. 2012)
1937 Dave Webster, American football player (National Championship 1958)
1938 Bert Newton, Australian actor and television show host
1938 Charles Harrelson, American convicted murderer; father of Woody Harrelson (d. 2007)
1938 Götz George, German actor
1938 Juliet Anderson, American pornographic actress
1938 Ronny Cox, American actor (St Elsewhere)
1940 Don Imus, American talk radio host (WNBC)
1940 Gary Stites, rock vocalist (Lonely For You)
1941 Richie Evans, American NASCAR driver (9 Modified Champion) (d. 1985)
1942 John de Hont, Dutch guitarist (ZZ & Masks)
1942 Madeline Bell, US singer (Black Nativity)
1942 Myra Hindley, English murderer (d. 2002)
1942 Sallyanne Atkinson, Australian politician
1943 Dr. Randall Forsberg, American nuclear freeze advocate (d. 2007)
1943 Tony Joe White, American singer and songwriter
1944 Dino Danelli, American drummer (Fotomaker, Young Rascals)
1944 Judith A Bosch, Dutch radio/TV-hostess (Tweekamp, Zeskamp)
1945 Harold W Hennep, Arubians/Dutch dancer/actor (Plus Echo)
1946 Andy MacKay, London, rock sax/oboe (Roxy Music-Dance Away)
1946 Keith Ferguson, blues guy (Fabulous Thunderbirds)
1947 David Essex (Cook), English singer (That'll be the Day)
1947 Gardner Dozois, American author
1947 Spencer Christian, weatherman (Good Morning America)
1947 Torsten Palm, Swedish racing driver
1948 John Cushnahan, Northern Irish politician
1948 John Hall, American politician and former rock musician
1949 Clive Rice, South African cricketer
1950 Alan Turner, Australian cricketer (World Cup ton 1975)
1950 Alex Kozinski, Romanian-born American judge
1950 Belinda J Montgomery, Winnipeg, actress (Man From Atlantis)
1950 Blair Thornton, Canadian guitarist (Bachman-Turner Overdrive)
1950 Ian Thomas, rocker
1950 Kaity Tong, news anchor (WABC-TV NYC)
1951 Edie McClurg, American actress (Cinderella-1985, Hogan Family)
1951 Michael McConnohie, American voice actor
1951 Terry Davis, NYC, actress (Stacey Winthrop-Another World)
1952 Bill Nyrop, American ice hockey player (d. 1995)
1952 Janis Siegel, NYC, jazz singer (Manhattan Transfer-Tuxedo Junction)
1952 Paul Hibbert, Australian cricketer
1953 Bob Hilton, American game show host and announcer
1953 Graham Gooch, English cricketer (prolific England opener & captain)
1955 Marisa DeFranco, rocker (DeFranco Family)
1957 Harry Stefanki, Mento Park Cal, tennis star
1957 Nick Galis, Greek basketball player
1957 Theo van Gogh, Dutch film director (d. 2004)
1958 Kenneth J Green, Danbury CT, PGA golfer (1985 Buick Open)
1958 Lydia Cornell, El Paso Tx, actress (Sara Rush-Too Close for Comfort)
1959 Nancy Savoca, American filmmaker
1960 Al Perez, American professional wrestler
1961 André Ducharme, Québécois humorist (Rock et Belles Oreilles) and author
1961 Antoine Carr, NBA forward/center (Utah Jazz)
1961 Martin Lee Gore, English musician and songwriter (Depeche Mode)
1961 Michael Durant, American hlicopter pilot
1961 Woody Harrelson, American actor (Woody Boyd-Cheers, Kingpin, Natural Born Killers)
1962 Eriq La Salle, American actor (Dr Peter Benton-ER)
1962 Terry-Jo Myers, Ft Myers FL, LPGA golfer (1988 Mayflower Classic)
1963 Siobodan Zivojinovic, Yugoslavia, tennis star
1964 Ed Forchion, American marijuana activist
1964 Greg Best, Lynchburg VA, Equestrian athlete (Olympic-silver-88, 92)
1965 Brett Faryniarz, NFL linebacker (Carolina Panthers)
1965 Rob Dickinson, English musician
1965 Slash (Saul Hudson), American guitarist & songwriter (Guns N' Roses)
1966 Micheal Williams, NBA guard (Minnesota Timberwolves)
1966 Samantha Beckinsale, English actress
1967 Nicole Jagerman, Netherlands, tennis star
1967 Philip Seymour Hoffman, American actor
1967 Titiyo, Swedish singer
1968 Amy Fruwirth, Cypress CA, LPGA golfer (1995 McCall's LPGA-4th)
1968 Beth Ehlers, Queens NY, actress (Harley Cooper-Guiding Light, Hunger)
1968 Christopher "Chris" Kerber, Collingswood NJ, rower (Olympics-1996)
1968 Douglas Craft, CFL defensive back (Montreal Alouettes)
1968 Elden Campbell, American basketball player, NBA forward/center (LA Lakers)
1968 Gary Payton, American basketball player, NBA guard (Seattle Supersonics)
1968 Nick Menza, American musician, drummer
1968 Stefan Figliuzzi, hockey forward (Team Italy 1998)
1968 Stephanie Seymour, American supermodel (Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Cover-1988)
1969 Andrew Cassels, Bramalea, NHL center (Hartford Whalers)
1969 Dimitri Khristich, Kiev Ukr, NHL left wing (LA Kings)
1969 Fernanda Ribeiro, Portugal, 10k runner (Olympics-gold-96)
1969 Reyhan Agaoglu, WLAF safety (Amsterdam Admirals)
1970 Charisma Carpenter, American actress
1970 Sam Waters, Camp Springs Md, singer (Color Me Badd-Want to Sex You Up)
1970 Thea Dorn, German writer
1971 Aimee Rinehart, Miss Missouri USA (1996)
1971 Alison Krauss, American singer and fiddler (2 Highways)
1971 Chris Michalek, American musician
1971 Christopher Lee, Singaporean actor and model
1971 Dalvin DeGrate, American singer
1971 Joel Stein, American journalist
1972 Floyd Reifer, West Indian cricketer
1972 Marlon Wayans, American actor (Wayans Bros, In Living Color)
1972 Oscar McBride, NFL tight end (Arizona Cardinals)
1972 Seth Dittman, NFL offensive tackle (Indianapolis Colt, London Monarchs)
1972 Trisha Fallon, Australian basketball forward (Olympics-bronze-96)
1973 Darvin Ham, NBA forward (Wash Wizards)
1973 Francis Healy, Scottish rock musician (Travis)
1973 Himesh Reshammiya, Indian Bollywood composer, singer and actor
1973 Kyle Walters, CFL defensive back (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1973 Monica Lewinsky, American White House intern (improper relationship with Bill Clinton)
1973 Nomar Garciaparra, American baseball player, SS (Boston Red Sox)
1973 Omar Epps, American actor
1974 Kathryn Hahn, American actress
1974 Maurice Greene, American athlete, 100m runner
1974 Rik Verbrugghe, Belgian cyclist
1974 Sonny Siaki, Samoan-born professional wrestler
1974 Stephanie March, American actress
1974 Tara Williams, WNBA guard (Phoenix Mercury)
1974 Terry Glenn, American football player
1975 Seong Hyeon-ah, South Korean actress
1975 Surya Sivakumar, Tamil actor
1976 Inger Lise Ebeltoft, Miss Universe-Norway (1996)
1976 Jonathan Gallant, Canadian musician (Billy Talent)
1976 Judit Polgár, Hungarian chess player
1977 Neicer Reasco, Ecuadorian footballer
1977 Scott Clemmensen, American ice hockey player
1978 Stefanie Sun, Singaporean singer
1978 Stuart Elliott, Northern Irish footballer
1979 Perro Aguayo, Jr., Mexican professional wrestler
1979 Ricardo Sperafico, Brazilian racing driver
1979 Richard Sims, Zimbabwean cricketer
1980 Michelle Williams, American singer (Destiny's Child)
1981 Jarkko Nieminen, Finnish tennis player
1981 Steve Jocz, Canadian drummer (Sum 41)
1982 Gerald Wallace, American basketball player
1982 Paul Wesley, American actor
1982 Schottzie Schott, dog mascot of Cincinnati Reds
1982 Zanjoe Marudo, Filipino actor
1983 Aaron Peirsol, American swimmer
1983 Andrew Eiden, American actor
1983 Bec Hewitt, Australian actress
1983 David Strettle, English rugby player (Harlequins)
1984 Brandon Roy, American professional basketball player
1984 Matthew Murphy, English musician (The Wombats)
1985 Luis Ángel Landín, Mexican footballer
1985 Matthew Colin Bailey, author and architect
1985 Matthew Murphy, English musician (The Wombats)
1985 Ólafur Hannesson, Icelandic television personality
1986 Ayaka Komatsu, Japanese model and actress
1986 Nelson Philippe, French racing driver
1986 Reece Ritchie, English actor
1988 Pippa Bennett-Warner, English actress
1989 Daniel Radcliffe, English actor (Harry Pottter in the Harry Potter series of movies)
1992 Amanda Wilson, English singer
1992 Drew Carlson, American Hero
1996 Rachel G. Fox, American actress
Died on July 23rd
945 Richarius, bishop of Luik (922-45)
1227 Qiu Chuji, Chinese Taoist (b. 1148)
1373 Birgitta van Sweden, Swedish saint (b. 1303)
1403 Henry Percy (Harry Hotspur), killed in battle
1403 Thomas Percy, 1st Earl of Worcester, English rebel (executed) (b. 1343)
1531 Louis de Brézé, seigneur d'Anet, Marshal of Normandy and husband of Diane de Poitiers
1562 Gotz von Berlichingen, German Imperial Knight and mercenary (b. 1480)
1568 Don Carlos, son of Spanish king Philip II
1581 Georges Lalaing, viceroy of Friesland
1584 John Day, English printer (b. 1522)
1645 Michael Fjodorovitsj, tsar of Russia (1613-45)/1st Romanov
1685 Pietro Reggio, composer
1690 Richard Gibson, minature painter
1692 Gilles Ménage, French scholar (b. 1613)
1727 Simon Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain
1757 Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti, Italian composer (La Silvia) (b. 1685)
1764 Gilbert Tennent, Irish-born religious leader (b. 1703)
1773 George Edwards, English naturalist (b. 1693)
1781 John Joachim Zubly, Swiss-born Continental Congressman (b. 1724)
1793 Roger Sherman, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1721)
1793 Thomas Mckean, US attorney/signer (Decl of Independence)
1803 Arthur Wolfe, 1st viscount Kilwarden, Chief Justice of Ireld, murdered
1816 Elizabeth Hamilton, author (Cats: A Celebration)
1829 Wojciech Boguslawski, composer
1833 Anselmo de la Cruz, Chilean political figure (b. 1777)
1840 Frantisek Max Knize, composer
1844 Christian Gobrecht, 4th US chief engraver (1840-44), dies in office
1853 Andries Pretorius, Boer leader (b. 1798)
1866 Thomas Forbes Walmisley, composer
1875 Isaac Merritt Singer, American inventor and entrepreneur (sewing machine) (b. 1811)
1878 Carl Freiherr von Rokitansky, Bohemian physician (b. 1804)
1878 Miguel Hilarion Eslava y Elizondo, composer
1885 Ulysses S. Grant, 18th President of the United States (b. 1822)
1904 John Simon, public health pioneer
1905 Jean-Jacques, painter
1909 Ernest F Cambier, Bel colonial pioneer (1st Congo railway)
1909 Zygmunt Noskowski, composer
1916 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)
1927 Saad Zaghlul, Egyptian parliament chairman
1930 Glenn Hammond Curtiss, American aviation pioneer, airplane builder (b. 1878)
1932 Tenby Davies, Welsh half-mile world champion runner (b. 1884)
1933 Max Schillings, German composer/conductor (Mona Lisa)
1941 George Lyman Kittredge, American English literature scholar and Harvard University professor (b. 1860)
1942 Adam Czerniakow, Polish engineer (suicide) (b. 1880)
1942 Andrew Ducat, England cricketer and footballer (1921), dies while batting (b. 1886)
1942 Nikola J Vaptsarov, Bulgaria poet/communist, executed
1943 Meijer de Hond (Emanuel Querido), rabbi, publisher (Sobibor)
1944 Bernard M Cohen, attorney, killed at Belsen concentration camp
1944 Helmuth J von Moltke, German earl (July 20th plotter), executed
1944 Max HHR Nettlau, Austrian historian (Der Anarchismus)
1946 James Maxton, politician
1948 D(avid) W(ark) Griffith, American film director, producer (b. 1875)
1951 Henri Philippe Pétain, French marshal (Verdun, Vichy regime) (b. 1856)
1951 Robert Joseph Flaherty, American documentary film maker (b. 1884)
1955 Betsy van Es, Flemish actress (Un soir de joie)
1955 Cordell Hull, 47th United States Secretary of State, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1871)
1955 Harry Haden, actor (Harry-Stu Erwin Show)
1957 G Tomasi di Lampedusa, writer
1961 Esther Dale, actress (Birdie-Ma & Pa Kettle)
1964 Jan PML de Vries, Dutch germanist/folklorist
1966 Donald Novis, singer/actor (Pajama Game)
1966 Douglass Montgomery, actor (Forbidden, Daybreak)
1966 (Edward) Montgomery Clift, American actor (From Here to Eternity) (b. 1920)
1968 Don Lillis, NFL president (NY Jets)
1968 Henry Hallett Dale, English physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1875)
1969 Deli Floyd, writer
1971 Van Heflin, American actor (Great Adventure) (b. 1910)
1973 Eddie Rickenbacker, American fighter ace in World War I, founder (Rickenbacker Motors) (b. 1890)
1973 Marius-Francois Gaillard, composer
1974 Mary Forbes, actress (Nun-Les Miserables, Ivy)
1976 Wilhelmina Von Bremen, 4X100 relay sprinter (Oly-gold-32)
1977 René de Vos, Dutch actor/composer (Jij Bent Mijn Leven)
1979 Joseph Kessel, French journalist and novelist (b. 1898)
1979 Keith Godchaux, American pianist (Grateful Dead), dies in a car accident (b. 1948)
1980 Mollie Steimer, anarchist agitator and American political prisoner (b. 1897)
1980 Sarto Fournier, Mayor of Montreal (b. 1908)
1982 Giorgos Gavriilidis, Greek actor (b. 1906)
1982 Vic Morrow, American actor (Cimmaron), killed during "Twilight Zone" (b. 1929)
1983 Georges Auric, French composer (It Always Rains on Sunday) (b. 1899)
1984 Lloyd Gough, actor (Black Bart, Tolsa)
1985 Johnny Wardle, English cricketer (b. 1923)
1985 Kay Kyser, bandleader (Kay Kyser's Kollege)
1986 Jouko Paavo Kalervo Tolonen, composer
1988 Jahangir Khan, cricketer (4 Tests for India 1932-36)
1989 Donald Barthelme, American author (b. 1931)
1990 Georges Flamant, actor (La Chienne)
1990 Joe Turner, jazz pianist
1990 Kenjiro Takayanagi, Japanese developer of television (b. 1899)
1990 Robert Sommer, singer
1992 Arletty, French actress (Hotel, Longest Day)
1992 Maxine Audley, Brit actress (Vikings, Our Man in Havana), dies at 69
1993 James R. Jordan, Sr., father of NBA star Michael Jordan, found dead near McColl SC (b. 1936)
1994 Aad Ivens, Dutch checkers player
1994 Hans J Salter, Aust/US composer (Deanna-Durbin musicals)
1994 Henry William Collins, artist
1995 Bob Rundick, poet/DJ
1995 Floyd McDaniel, blues singer/guitarist
1996 Aliki Vougiouklaki, Greek actress (Madalena) (b. 1934)
1996 Jean Muir, American actress (b. 1911)
1996 Jessica Lucy Mitford, author
1996 John Corner, scientist
1997 Andrew Cunanan, serial killer (Gianni Versage), commits suicide
1997 Chuhei Nambu, Japanese athlete (b. 1904)
1999 King Hassan II of Morocco (b. 1929)
2001 Eudora Welty, American author (b. 1909)
2002 Chaim Potok, American novelist and rabbi (b. 1929)
2002 Leo McKern, Australian actor (b. 1920)
2002 William Luther Pierce, American author and activist (b. 1933)
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)
2004 Piero Piccioni, Italian musician, conductor and composer (b. 1921)
2004 Serge Reggiani, French singer and actor (b. 1922)
2005 Ted Greene, American jazz guitarist and teacher (b. 1946)
2006 Jean-Paul Desbiens, Quebec writer and journalist (b. 1927)
2007 Mohammed Zahir Shah, King of Afghanistan (b. 1914)
2007 Ron Miller, American songwriter and record producer (b. 1933)
2007 Tor Kamata, American/Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1937)
2008 Kurt Furgler, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1924)
2010 Daniel Schorr, American journalist (b. 1916)
2011 Amy Winehouse, British singer songwriter, dies from a drug overdose
2012 Sally Kristen Ride, American astronaut
2013 Djalma Santos, Brazilian footballer
2013 Emile Griffith, US Virgin Islands professional boxer
2014 Dora Bryan, British actress
2016 Thorbjorn Falldin, Swedish politician, Prime Minister (1976-78, 79-82) and sheep farmer
