July 23 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on July 23, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♌︎ Leo
Jul 23 – Aug 22
Birth stone
Ruby
Birth flower
Larkspur
How common
#67 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous July 23 birthdays
Raymond Chandler · American novelist and screenwriter1888
Haile Selassie · Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 19741892
Gustav Heinemann · German politician1899
Vladimir Prelog · Bosnian-Swiss chemist1906
Vera Rubin · American astronomer and physicist1928
Sergio Mattarella · President of Italy1941
Najib Razak · Former 6th Prime Minister of Malaysia1953
Woody Harrelson · American actor1961
David Kaufman · American actor and singer1961
Slash · British musician1965
Philip Seymour Hoffman · American actor1967
Gary Payton · American basketball player1968
Charisma Carpenter · American actress1970
Alison Krauss · American musician1971
Marlon Wayans · American actor, screenwriter, and film producer1972
Monica Lewinsky · American activist and writer1973
Kathryn Hahn · American actress1973
Judit Polgár · Hungarian chess player1976
Paul Wesley · American actor1982
Daniel Radcliffe · English actor and film producer1989
On this day in history
1921The first National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party opened in a house in Shanghai.
1940Sumner Welles, U.S. Under Secretary of State, issued a declaration that the U.S. government would not recognize the Soviet Union's annexation of the Baltic states.
1984Vanessa Williams, the first African-American Miss America, was forced to resign after the magazine Penthouse published nude photos of her without consent.
2015NASA announces discovery of Kepler-452b by the Kepler space telescope.
1995Hale–Bopp, one of the most widely observed comets of the 20th century, was independently discovered by astronomers Alan Hale and Thomas Bopp.
1999Forty-seven people were arrested in Tulia, Texas, for dealing cocaine; 35 of them were pardoned by the governor of Texas years later.
2001Megawati Sukarnoputri was sworn in as the first female president of Indonesia following her predecessor's impeachment.
2010The English-Irish boy band One Direction were formed while auditioning for the 2010 series of the British singing competition The X Factor.
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