July 23

On This Day

24 people found

Born on this day (7)

1967(1)

Philip Seymour Hoffman

19672014

American actor

1933(1)

Richard Rogers

19332021

British architect

1920(1)

Amália Rodrigues

19201999

Portuguese recording artist, fado singer, actress

1906(1)

Vladimir Prelog

19061998

Bosnian-Swiss chemist

1899(1)

Gustav Heinemann

18991976

German politician, President of Germany 1969–1974

1888(1)

Raymond Chandler

18881959

American novelist and screenwriter

1884(1)

Emil Jannings

18841950

German actor

Died on this day (17)

2024(1)

Robin Warren

19372024

Australian microbiologist and Nobel Laureate

2021(2)

Toshihide Maskawa

19402021

Japanese theoretical physicist

Steven Weinberg

19332021

American theoretical physicist

2013(1)

Djalma Santos

19292013

brazilian association football player

2012(1)

Sally Ride

19512012

American astronaut and physicist

2011(1)

Amy Winehouse

19832011

British singer-songwriter

2007(2)

Mohammed Zahir Shah

19142007

King of Afghanistan

Ernst Otto Fischer

19182007

German chemist

1999(1)

Hassan II

19291999

King of Morocco from 1961 to 1999

1968(1)

Henry Hallett Dale

18751968

English pharmacologist, Nobel laureate

1957(1)

Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

18961957

Sicilian Prince and writer

1951(1)

Philippe Pétain

18561951

French military and political leader

1948(1)

D. W. Griffith

18751948

American filmmaker

1932(1)

Alberto Santos-Dumont

18731932

Brazilian aviation pioneer

1926(1)

Viktor Vasnetsov

18481926

Russian artist

1885(1)

Ulysses S. Grant

18221885

president of the United States from 1869 to 1877

1875(1)

Isaac Singer

18111875

American businessman; inventor of the Singer sewing machine