July 23 Events
811 - Byzantine emperor Nikephoros I plunders the Bulgarian capital of Pliska and captures Khan Krum's treasury. 1319 - A Knights Hospitaller fleet scores a crushing victory over an Aydinid fleet off Chios. 1632 - Three hundred colonists bound for New France depart from Dieppe, France. 1677 - Scanian War: Denmark–Norway captures the harbor town of Marstrand from Sweden. 1793 - Kingdom of Prussia re-conquers Mainz from France. 1813 - Sir Thomas Maitland is appointed as the first Governor of Malta, transforming the island from a British protectorate to a de facto colony. 1821 - While the Mora Rebellion continues, Greeks capture Monemvasia Castle. Turkish troops and citizens are transferred to Asia Minor's coasts. 1829 - In the United States, William Austin Burt patents the typographer, a precursor to the typewriter. 1840 - The Province of Canada is created by the Act of Union. 1862 - American Civil War: Henry Halleck takes command of the Union Army. 1874 - Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos is appointed the Archbishop of the Portuguese colonial enclave of Goa, India. 1881 - The Boundary Treaty of 1881 between Chile and Argentina is signed in Buenos Aires. 1885 - President Ulysses S. Grant dies of throat cancer. 1903 - The Ford Motor Company sells its first car. 1908 - The Second Constitution accepted by the Ottomans. 1914 - Austria-Hungary issues a series of demands in an ultimatum to the Kingdom of Serbia demanding Serbia to allow the Austrians to determine who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Serbia accepts all but one of those demands and Austria declares war on July 28. 1919 - Prince Regent Aleksander Karađorđević signs the decree establishing the University of Ljubljana 1921 - The Communist Party of China is established at the founding National Congress. 1926 - Fox Film buys the patents of the Movietone sound system for recording sound onto film. 1927 - The first station of the Indian Broadcasting Company goes on the air in Bombay. 1936 - In Catalonia, Spain, the Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia is founded through the merger of Socialist and Communist parties. 1940 - 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. 1942 - World War II: The German offensives Operation Edelweiss and Operation Braunschweig begin. 1942 - Bulgarian poet and Communist leader Nikola Vaptsarov is executed by firing squad. 1943 - The Rayleigh bath chair murder occurred in Rayleigh, Essex, England. 1943 - World War II: The British destroyers and sink the in the Mediterranean after she torpedoes the cruiser. 1945 - The post-war legal processes against Philippe Pétain begin. 1952 - General Muhammad Naguib leads the Free Officers Movement in overthrowing King Farouk of Egypt. 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. 1962 - Jackie Robinson becomes the first African American to be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame. 1967 - Detroit Riots: In Detroit, one of the worst riots in United States history begins on 12th Street in the predominantly African American inner city. It ultimately kills 43 people, injures 342 and burns about 1,400 buildings. 1968 - Glenville shootout: In Cleveland, Ohio, a violent shootout between a Black Militant organization and the Cleveland Police Department occurs. During the shootout, a riot begins and lasts for five days. 1968 - The only successful hijacking of an El Al aircraft takes place when a Boeing 707 carrying ten 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, to Lod, Israel. 1970 - Qaboos bin Said al Said becomes Sultan of Oman after overthrowing his father, Said bin Taimur initiating massive reforms, modernization programs and end to a decade long civil war. 1972 - The United States launches Landsat 1, the first Earth-resources satellite. 1974 - The Greek military junta collapses, and former Prime Minister Konstantinos Karamanlis is invited to lead the new government, beginning Greece's metapolitefsi era. 1980 - Phạm Tuân becomes the first Vietnamese citizen and the first Asian in space when he flies aboard the Soyuz 37 mission as an Intercosmos Research Cosmonaut. 1982 - Outside Santa Clarita, California, actor Vic Morrow and two children are killed when a helicopter crashes onto them while shooting a scene from . 1983 - Thirteen Sri Lanka Army soldiers are killed after a deadly ambush by the militant Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. 1983 - Gimli Glider: Air Canada Flight 143 runs out of fuel and makes a deadstick landing at Gimli, Manitoba. 1988 - General Ne Win, effective ruler of Burma since 1962, resigns after pro-democracy protests. 1992 - A Vatican commission, led by Joseph Ratzinger, establishes that limiting certain rights of homosexual people and non-married couples is not equivalent to discrimination on grounds of race or gender. 1992 - Abkhazia declares independence from Georgia. 1995 - Comet Hale–Bopp is discovered; it becomes visible to the naked eye on Earth nearly a year later. 1997 - Digital Equipment Corporation files antitrust charges against chipmaker Intel. 1999 - ANA Flight 61 is hijacked in Tokyo, Japan by Yuji Nishizawa. 1999 - Space Shuttle Columbia launches on STS-93, with Eileen Collins becoming the first female space shuttle commander. The shuttle also carried and deployed the Chandra X-ray Observatory. 2005 - Three bombs explode in the Naama Bay area of Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, killing 88 people. 2010 - English-Irish boy band One Direction is formed by judge Simon Cowel l on The X Factor, later going on to finish at third place. It would go on to become one of the biggest boy bands in the world, and would be very influential on pop music of the 2010s. 2014 - TransAsia Airways Flight 222 crashes in Xixi village near Huxi, Penghu, during approach to Phengu Airport. 48 of the 58 people on board are killed and five more people on the ground are injured. 2015 - NASA announces discovery of Kepler-452b by Kepler. 2016 - Kabul twin bombing occurred in the vicinity of Deh Mazang when protesters, mostly from the Shiite Hazara minority, were marching against route changing of the TUTAP power project. At least 80 people were killed and 260 were injured. 2018 - A wildfire in East Attica, Greece caused the death of 102 people. It was the deadliest wildfire in history of Greece and the second-deadliest in the world, in the 21st century, after the 2009 bushfires in Australia that killed 180. Births 1301 - Otto, Duke of Austria 1339 - Louis I, Duke of Anjou 1370 - Pier Paolo Vergerio the Elder, humanist 1401 - Francesco I Sforza, Italian husband of Bianca Maria Visconti 1441 - Danjong of Joseon, King of Joseon 1503 - Anne of Bohemia and Hungary 1614 - Bonaventura Peeters the Elder, Flemish painter 1635 - Adam Dollard des Ormeaux, New France garrison commander 1649 - Pope Clement XI 1705 - Francis Blomefield, English historian and author 1713 - Luís António Verney, Portuguese philosopher and pedagogue 1773 - Thomas Brisbane, Scottish general and politician, 6th Governor of New South Wales 1775 - Étienne-Louis Malus, French physicist and mathematician 1777 - Philipp Otto Runge, German painter and illustrator 1796 - Franz Berwald, Swedish surgeon and composer 1802 - Manuel María Lombardini, Mexican general and president 1823 - Alexandre-Antonin Taché, Canadian archbishop and missionary 1838 - Édouard Colonne, French violinist and conductor 1851 - Peder Severin Krøyer, Norwegian-Danish painter 1856 - Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Indian lawyer and journalist 1864 - Apolinario Mabini, Filipino lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of the Philippines 1865 - Henry Norris, English businessman and politician 1866 - Francesco Cilea, Italian composer and academic 1878 - James Thomas Milton Anderson, Canadian lawyer and politician, 5th Premier of Saskatchewan 1882 - Kâzım Karabekir, Turkish general and politician, 5th Speaker of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey 1883 - Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke, French-English field marshal and politician, Lord Lieutenant of the County of London 1884 - Emil Jannings, Swiss-German actor 1885 - Izaak Killam, Canadian financier and philanthropist 1885 - Georges V. Matchabelli, Georgian-American businessman, created Prince Matchabelli perfume 1886 - Salvador de Madariaga, Spanish historian and diplomat 1886 - Walter H. Schottky, Swiss-German physicist and engineer 1888 - Raymond Chandler, American crime novelist and screenwriter 1891 - Louis T. Wright, American surgeon and civil rights activist 1892 - Haile Selassie, Ethiopian emperor 1894 - Arthur Treacher, English-American actor and television personality 1895 - Aileen Pringle, American actress 1898 - Daniel Cosío Villegas, Mexican historian, economist 1898 - Bengt Djurberg, Swedish actor and singer 1898 - Red Dutton, Canadian ice hockey player and coach 1898 - Herman Kruusenberg, Estonian wrestler 1898 - Jacob Marschak, Ukrainian-American economist, journalist, and author 1899 - Gustav Heinemann, German lawyer and politician, 3rd President of West Germany 1900 - Julia Davis Adams, American author and journalist 1900 - John Babcock, Canadian-American sergeant 1900 - Inger Margrethe Boberg, Danish folklore researcher and writer 1901 - Hank Worden, American actor and singer 1901 - Isabel Luberza Oppenheimer, Puerto Rican brothel owner and madam in barrio Maragüez, Ponce, Puerto Rico 1905 - Leopold Engleitner, Austrian author and educator 1906 - Vladimir Prelog, Croatian-Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate 1906 - Chandra Shekhar Azad, Indian activist 1912 - M. H. Abrams, American author, critic, and academic 1912 - Michael Wilding, English actor 1913 - Michael Foot, English journalist and politician, Secretary of State for Employment 1914 - Nassos Daphnis, Greek-American painter 1914 - Virgil Finlay, American illustrator 1914 - Elly Annie Schneider, German-American actress 1916 - Laurel Martyn, Australian ballerina and choreographer 1918 - Abraham Bueno de Mesquita, Dutch comedian and actor 1918 - Ruth Duccini, American actress 1918 - Pee Wee Reese, American baseball player and sportscaster 1921 - Calvert DeForest, American actor 1922 - Damiano Damiani, Italian director and screenwriter 1922 - Jenny Pike, Canadian WWII servicewoman and photographer 1923 - Luis Aloma, Cuban-American baseball player 1923 - Morris Halle, Latvian-American linguist and academic 1923 - Amalia Mendoza, Mexican singer and actress 1924 - Gavin Lambert, English-American screenwriter and author 1924 - Gazanfer Bilge, Turkish wrestler 1925 - Tajuddin Ahmad, Bangladeshi politician, 1st Prime Minister of Bangladesh 1925 - Quett Masire, Botswana politician, the former Vice-President of Botswana 1925 - Alain Decaux, French historian and author 1925 - Gloria DeHaven, American actress and singer 1926 - Ludvík Vaculík, Czech journalist and author 1927 - Gérard Brach, French director and screenwriter 1928 - Leon Fleisher, American pianist and conductor 1928 - Vera Rubin, American astronomer and academic 1928 - Hubert Selby, Jr., American author and screenwriter 1929 - Danny Barcelona, American drummer 1929 - Lateef Jakande, Nigerian journalist and politician, 5th Governor of Lagos State 1931 - Te Atairangikaahu, Māori queen 1931 - Claude Fournier, Canadian director, screenwriter, and cinematographer 1931 - Guy Fournier, Canadian author and screenwriter 1933 - Raimund Abraham, Austrian architect, designed the Austrian Cultural Forum 1933 - Bert Convy, American actor, singer, and game show host 1933 - Benedict Groeschel, American priest, psychologist, and talk show host 1933 - Richard Rogers, Italian-English architect, designed the Millennium Dome and Lloyd's building 1935 - Jim Hall, American race car driver 1936 - Don Drysdale, American baseball player and sportscaster 1936 - Anthony Kennedy, American lawyer and jurist 1937 - Dave Webster, American football player and engineer 1938 - Juliet Anderson, American porn actress and producer 1938 - Ronny Cox, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor 1938 - Charles Harrelson, American murderer 1938 - Bert Newton, Australian actor and television host 1940 - Danielle Collobert, French author, poet, and journalist 1940 - Don Imus, American radio host 1940 - Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, Italian economist and politician, Italian Minister of Finance 1941 - Christopher Andrew, English historian and academic 1941 - Richie Evans, American race car driver 1941 - Sergio Mattarella, Italian lawyer, judge, and politician, 12th President of Italy 1942 - Sallyanne Atkinson, Australian journalist and politician, Lord Mayor of Brisbane 1942 - Madeline Bell, American singer-songwriter 1942 - Richard E. Dauch, American businessman, co-founded American Axle 1942 - Dimitris Liantinis, Greek philosopher and author 1943 - Randall Forsberg, American scientist 1943 - Tony Joe White, American singer-songwriter and guitarist 1944 - Dino Danelli, American drummer 1944 - Maria João Pires, Portuguese pianist 1945 - Edward Gregson, English composer and educator 1945 - Jon Sammels, English footballer 1946 - Andy Mackay, English oboe player and composer 1946 - René Ricard, American poet, painter, and critic 1947 - Gardner Dozois, American journalist and author 1947 - David Essex, English singer-songwriter, and actor 1947 - Torsten Palm, Swedish race car driver 1947 - Robin Simon, English historian, critic, and academic 1948 - Ross Cranston, Australian-English lawyer, judge, and politician, Solicitor General for England and Wales 1948 - John Cushnahan, Northern Irish educator and politician 1948 - John Hall, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and politician 1948 - Stanisław Targosz, Polish general 1949 - Clive Rice, South African cricketer and coach 1950 - Alex Kozinski, Romanian-born American lawyer and judge 1950 - Ian Thomas, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist 1950 - Blair Thornton, Canadian guitarist and songwriter 1950 - Alan Turner, Australian cricketer 1952 - Paul Hibbert, Australian cricketer and coach 1952 - Bill Nyrop, American ice hockey player and coach 1952 - John Rutsey, Canadian drummer 1952 - Janis Siegel, American jazz singer 1953 - Graham Gooch, English cricketer and coach 1953 - Najib Razak, Malaysian politician, 6th Prime Minister of Malaysia 1957 - Jo Brand, English comedian, actress, and screenwriter 1957 - Nikos Galis, American basketball player 1957 - Theo van Gogh, Dutch actor, director, producer, and screenwriter 1957 - Quentin Willson, English TV presenter, Top Gear. 1958 - Ken Green, American golfer 1958 - Tomy Winata, Indonesian businessman and philanthropist, founded the Artha Graha Peduli Foundation 1959 - Nancy Savoca, American director, producer, and screenwriter 1960 - Gary Ella, Australian rugby player 1960 - Susan Graham, American soprano and educator 1960 - Al Perez, American wrestler 1961 - André Ducharme, Canadian comedian and author 1961 - Michael Durant, American pilot and author 1961 - Martin Gore, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer 1961 - Woody Harrelson, American actor and activist 1961 - Milind Gunaji, Indian actor, model, television show host, and author 1962 - Eriq La Salle, American actor, director, and producer 1962 - Mark Laurie, Australian rugby league player 1962 - Alain Lefèvre, Canadian pianist and composer 1963 - Slobodan Zivojinovic, Serbian tennis player 1964 - Uwe Barth, German politician 1964 - Nick Menza, German drummer and songwriter 1965 - Rob Dickinson, English singer-songwriter and guitarist 1965 - Slash, English-American guitarist, songwriter, and producer 1967 - Philip Seymour Hoffman, American actor, director, and producer 1968 - Elden Campbell, American basketball player 1968 - Gary Payton, American basketball player and actor 1968 - Stephanie Seymour, American model and actress 1969 - Andrew Cassels, Canadian ice hockey player and coach 1970 - Charisma Carpenter, American actress 1970 - Thea Dorn, German author and playwright 1970 - Sam Watters, American singer-songwriter and producer 1970 - Saulius Skvernelis, 13th Prime Minister of Lithuania 1971 - Dalvin DeGrate, American rapper and producer 1971 - Alison Krauss, American singer-songwriter and fiddler 1971 - Joel Stein, American journalist 1972 - Suat Kılıç, Turkish journalist, lawyer, and politician, Turkish Minister of Youth and Sports 1972 - Floyd Reifer, Barbadian cricketer and coach 1972 - Marlon Wayans, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter 1973 - Nomar Garciaparra, American baseball player and sportscaster 1973 - Fran Healy, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist 1973 - Monica Lewinsky, American activist and former White House intern 1973 - Himesh Reshammiya, Indian singer-songwriter, producer, actor, and director 1973 - Andrea Scanavacca, Italian rugby player and manager 1974 - Terry Glenn, American football player and coach 1974 - Maurice Greene, American sprinter 1974 - Rik Verbrugghe, Belgian cyclist 1975 - Dan Rogerson, English politician 1976 - Judit Polgár, Hungarian chess player 1977 - Scott Clemmensen, American ice hockey player and coach 1977 - Gail Emms, English badminton player 1977 - Néicer Reasco, Ecuadorian footballer 1977 - Shawn Thornton, Canadian ice hockey player 1978 - Stuart Elliott, Northern Irish footballer 1978 - Stefanie Sun, Singaporean singer-songwriter and pianist 1978 - Lauren Groff, American novelist and short story writer 1979 - Perro Aguayo Jr., Mexican wrestler and promoter 1979 - Sotirios Kyrgiakos, Greek footballer 1979 - Richard Sims, Zimbabwean cricketer 1979 - Ricardo Sperafico, Brazilian race car driver 1979 - Cathleen Tschirch, German sprinter 1980 - Sandeep Parikh, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter 1980 - Michelle Williams, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress 1981 - Steve Jocz, Canadian singer-songwriter, drummer, and director 1981 - Dmitriy Karpov, Kazakhstani decathlete 1981 - Aleksandr Kulik, Estonian footballer 1981 - Jarkko Nieminen, Finnish tennis player 1982 - Ömer Aysan Barış, Turkish footballer 1982 - Joe Mather, American baseball player 1982 - Gökhan Ünal, Turkish footballer 1982 - Gerald Wallace, American basketball player 1982 - Paul Wesley, American actor, director, and producer 1983 - Bec Hewitt, Australian actress 1983 - Aaron Peirsol, American swimmer 1983 - David Strettle, English rugby player 1984 - Walter Gargano, Uruguayan footballer 1984 - Matthew Murphy, English singer and guitarist 1984 - Brandon Roy, American basketball player 1984 - Celeste Thorson, American actress, producer, and screenwriter 1985 - Luis Ángel Landín, Mexican footballer 1986 - Aya Uchida, Japanese voice actress and singer 1986 - Nelson Philippe, French race car driver 1986 - Yelena Sokolova, Russian long jumper 1987 - Alessio Cerci, Italian footballer 1987 - Felipe Dylon, Brazilian singer 1987 - Serdar Kurtuluş, Turkish footballer 1989 - Daniel Radcliffe, English actor 1989 - Donald Young, American tennis player 1990 - Kevin Reynolds, Canadian figure skater 1991 - Lauren Mitchell, Australian gymnast 1991 - Jarrod Wallace, Australian rugby league footballer 1992 - Danny Ings, English footballer 1996 - Alexandra Andresen, Norwegian heiress and equestrian Deaths 955 - He Ning, Chinese chancellor 997 - Nuh II, Samanid emir 1100 - Warner of Grez, French nobleman, relative of Godfrey of Bouillon 1227 - Qiu Chuji, Chinese religious leader, founded the Dragon Gate Taoism 1298 - Thoros III, Armenian king 1373 - Bridget of Sweden, Swedish mystic and saint, founded the Bridgettine Order 1403 - Thomas Percy, 1st Earl of Worcester, English rebel 1531 - Louis de Brézé, French husband of Diane de Poitiers 1536 - Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland 1562 - Götz von Berlichingen, German knight and poet 1584 - John Day, English printer 1596 - Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon 1645 - Michael I, Russian tsar 1692 - Gilles Ménage, French lawyer, philologist, and scholar 1727 - Simon Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt, English politician, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain 1757 - Domenico Scarlatti, Italian harpsichord player and composer 1773 - George Edwards, English biologist and ornithologist 1781 - John Joachim Zubly, Swiss-American pastor and politician 1793 - Roger Sherman, American lawyer and politician 1833 - Anselmo de la Cruz, Chilean politician, Chilean Minister of Finance 1853 - Andries Pretorius, South African general 1875 - Isaac Singer, American businessman, founded the Singer Corporation 1878 - Carl von Rokitansky, Bohemian physician, pathologist, and politician 1885 - Ulysses S. Grant, American general and politician, 18th President of the United States 1904 - John Douglas, English-Australian politician, 7th Premier of Queensland 1909 - Frederick Holder, Australian politician, 19th Premier of South Australia 1916 - William Ramsay, Scottish-English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate 1919 - Spyridon Lambros, Greek historian and politician, 100th Prime Minister of Greece 1920 - Conrad Kohrs, German-American rancher and politician 1924 - Frank Frost Abbott, American author and scholar 1926 - Viktor Vasnetsov, Russian painter 1927 - Reginald Dyer, British brigadier general 1930 - Glenn Curtiss, American pilot and engineer 1932 - Tenby Davies, Welsh runner 1936 - Anna Abrikosova, Russian linguist 1941 - George Lyman Kittredge, American scholar and educator 1941 - José Quiñones Gonzales, Peruvian soldier and pilot 1942 - Adam Czerniaków, Polish engineer and politician 1942 - Andy Ducat, English cricketer and footballer 1948 - D. W. Griffith, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter 1950 - Shigenori Tōgō, Japanese politician and diplomat, Japanese Minister of Foreign Affairs 1951 - Robert J. Flaherty, American director and producer 1951 - Philippe Pétain, French general and politician, 119th Prime Minister of France 1954 - Herman Groman, American runner 1955 - Cordell Hull, American captain, lawyer, and politician, 47th United States Secretary of State, Nobel Prize laureate 1957 - Bob Shiring, American football player and coach 1966 - Montgomery Clift, American actor 1968 - Henry Hallett Dale, English pharmacologist and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate 1971 - Van Heflin, American actor 1972 - Esther Applin, American geologist and paleontologist 1973 - Eddie Rickenbacker, American pilot and race car driver, founded Rickenbacker Motors 1979 - Joseph Kessel, French journalist and author 1980 - Sarto Fournier, Canadian lawyer and politician, 38th Mayor of Montreal 1980 - Keith Godchaux, American keyboard player and songwriter 1980 - Mollie Steimer, Russian activist 1982 - Vic Morrow, American actor 1983 - Georges Auric, French composer 1985 - Johnny Wardle, English cricketer and manager 1989 - Donald Barthelme, American short story writer and novelist 1990 - Kenjiro Takayanagi, Japanese engineer 1996 - Jean Muir, American actress 1997 - Chūhei Nambu, Japanese jumper and journalist 1999 - Hassan II of Morocco 2001 - Eudora Welty, American novelist and short story writer 2002 - Leo McKern, Australian-English actor 2002 - William Luther Pierce, American activist and author 2002 - Chaim Potok, American novelist and rabbi 2002 - Clark Gesner, American author and composer 2003 - James E. Davis, American police officer and politician 2004 - Mehmood Ali, Indian actor, director, and producer 2004 - Carlos Paredes, Portuguese guitarist and composer 2004 - Piero Piccioni, Italian pianist, conductor, and composer 2005 - Ted Greene, American guitarist and journalist 2006 - Jean-Paul Desbiens, Canadian journalist and academic 2007 - Ron Miller, American songwriter and producer 2007 - Mohammed Zahir Shah, Afghan king 2008 - Kurt Furgler, Swiss lawyer and politician, 70th President of the Swiss Confederation 2009 - E. Lynn Harris, American author and screenwriter 2010 - Daniel Schorr, American journalist and author 2011 - Amy Winehouse, English singer-songwriter 2012 - Margaret Mahy, New Zealand author 2012 - Sally Ride, American physicist and astronaut 2012 - Lakshmi Sahgal, Indian soldier and politician 2012 - Esther Tusquets, Spanish publisher and author 2012 - José Luis Uribarri, Spanish television host and director 2013 - Dominguinhos, Brazilian singer-songwriter and accordion player 2013 - Pauline Clarke, English author 2013 - Arthur J. Collingsworth, American diplomat 2013 - Emile Griffith, American boxer and trainer 2013 - Kim Jong-hak, South Korean director and producer 2013 - Djalma Santos, Brazilian footballer 2014 - Dora Bryan, English actress and restaurateur 2014 - Norman Leyden, American composer and conductor 2014 - Ariano Suassuna, Brazilian author and playwright 2014 - Jordan Tabor, English footballer 2015 - Shigeko Kubota, Japanese-American sculptor and director 2015 - Don Oberdorfer, American journalist, author, and academic 2015 - William Wakefield Baum, American cardinal 2017 - John Kundla, American basketball coach Holidays and observances Birthday of Haile Selassie Children's Day Christian feast day: * Bridget of Sweden * Heiromartyr Phocas * John Cassian * Liborius of Le Mans * Margarita María * Mercè Prat i Prat * Rasyphus and Ravennus * July 23 National Remembrance Day Renaissance Day Revolution Day
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