Anniversaries 23 July

Birth

Thomas Denman, 1st Baron Denman2

British politician 1779–1854

Coventry Patmore33

English poet 1823–1896

Richard F. Pettigrew2

American politician 1848–1926

Ernest Belfort Bax7

British barrister and journalist 1854–1926

Herman Klein1

British musical critic journalist and singing teacher 1856–1934

Bal Gangadhar Tilak21

Indian independence activist 1856–1920

Zabel Sibil Asadour2

Armenian writer 1863–1934

Max Heindel8

American asrologer and occultist 1865–1919

Raymond Chandler124

Novelist, screenwriter 1888–1959

Haile Selassie58

Emperor of Ethiopia 1892–1975

Marston Bates1

American entomologist 1906–1974

Elspeth Huxley1

Kenyan writer 1907–1997

M. H. Abrams19

American literary theorist 1912–2015

Michael Foot54

British politician 1913–2010

Leon Fleisher4

American conductor and pianist 1928

Hubert Selby Jr.39

American writer 1928–2004

Vera Rubin9

American astronomer 1928–2016

Robyn Dawes11

American psychologist 1936–2010

Shiv Kumar Batalvi1

Indian poet 1936–1973

Anthony Kennedy28

Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States 1936

Don Imus5

Radio personality 1940–2019

Sergio Mattarella2

12th President of Italy 1941

Sherryl Woods3

American writer 1944

Lisa Alther5

Novelist 1944

Jeffrey Pfeffer9

American academic 1946

Stephen Mitchell9

American psychologist 1946–2000

Gerard Menuhin1

Swiss film producer 1948

Michael Wood1

English historian and broadcaster 1948

Alex Kozinski8

American judge 1950

Ana Botella1

Spanish politician 1953

Najib Razak10

Malaysian politician 1953

Éric Pichet12

economist 1960

Vikram Chandra1

Indian writer 1961

Woody Harrelson2

American actor 1961

Slash (musician)8

British-American musician and songwriter 1965

Declan Ganley3

Irish businessman, entrepreneur, and activist 1968

Charisma Carpenter1

actress 1970

Mohsin Hamid17

Pakistani novelist 1971

Matt Birk2

Player of American football 1976

Silvia Colloca4

Singer, actress, author and TV cooking personality 1977

Daniel Radcliffe39

English actor 1989

Death

Susanna Wesley1

Mother of Methodism 1669–1742

Marceline Desbordes-Valmore1

French poet 1786–1859

Ulysses S. Grant177

18th President of the United States 1822–1885

Robert J. Morgan1

1826–1899

William Ramsay1

Scottish chemist (1852–1916) 1852–1916

Philippe Pétain4

French military and political leader 1856–1951

George Lyman Kittredge2

American scholar, literary critic, and folklorist 1860–1941

Cordell Hull2

American politician, U.S. Secretary of State from 1933 to 1… 1871–1955

Santos Dumont1

Brazilian aviation pioneer 1873–1932

Floyd Dell1

novelist, poet, playwright, critic, editor 1887–1969

Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa9

Sicilian writer and prince 1896–1957

Eudora Welty37

American author 1909–2001

Rosemary Sutcliff3

English author 1920–1992

S. H. Raza20

Indian artist 1922–2016

Arnold Weinstock1

English businessman 1924–2002

Chaim Potok21

American rabbi 1929–2002

Donald Barthelme67

American writer, editor, and professor 1931–1989

William Luther Pierce15

American white nationalist 1933–2002

Margaret Mahy1

New Zealand children's writer 1936–2012

Heinz R. Pagels6

American physicist 1939–1988

Sally Ride6

American physicist and astronaut 1951–2012

E. Lynn Harris2

Novelist, memoirist 1955–2009

Amy Winehouse17

English singer and songwriter 1983–2011

Oksana Shachko9

Ukrainian artist and activist with FEMEN 1987–2018