General Events and Observations of July 23

1227: Qiu Chuji, Chinese Taoist (b. 1148)
1373: Saint Birgitta, Swedish saint (b. 1303)
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
1584: John Day, English printer (b. 1522)
1692: Gilles Ménage, French scholar (b. 1613)
1727: Simon Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain
1757: Domenico Scarlatti, Italian composer (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)
1853: Andries Pretorius, Boer leader (b. 1798)
1875: Isaac Singer, American inventor and entrepreneur (b. 1811)
1878: Carl Freiherr von Rokitansky, Bohemian physician (b. 1804)
1885: Ulysses S. Grant, 18th President of the United States (b. 1822)
1916: Sir 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)
1930: Glenn Curtiss, American aviation pioneer (b. 1878)
1932: Tenby Davies, Welsh half-mile world champion runner (b. 1884)
1942: Adam Czerniakow, Polish engineer (suicide) (b. 1880)
1948: D. W. Griffith, American film director (b. 1875)
1951: Henri Philippe Pétain, leader of Vichy France (b. 1856)
1951: Robert J. Flaherty, American filmmaker (b. 1884)
1955: Cordell Hull, 47th United States Secretary of State, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1871)
1966: Montgomery Clift, American actor (b. 1920)
1968: Henry Hallett Dale, English scientist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1875)
1971: Van Heflin, American actor (b. 1910)
1979: Joseph Kessel, French journalist and novelist (b. 1898)
1980: Keith Godchaux, American pianist (Grateful Dead) (b. 1948)
1980: Mollie Steimer, anarchist agitator and American political prisoner (b. 1897)
1980: Sarto Fournier, Mayor of Montreal (b. 1908)
1982: Vic Morrow, American actor (b. 1929)
1983: Georges Auric, French composer (b. 1899)
1985: Johnny Wardle, English cricketer (b. 1923)
1989: Donald Barthelme, American author (b. 1931)
1990: Kenjiro Takayanagi, Japanese development of television (b. 1899)
1993: James R. Jordan, Sr., father of Michael Jordan (b. 1936)
1996: Aliki Vougiouklaki, Greek actress (b. 1934)
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)

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