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On This Day · The 204th day of the year

July 23

25 years on from Megawati Sukarnoputri, July 23 is a date with an anniversary worth pausing on. Most of the weight falls in the 20th century, where conflict is a recurring thread.

♌ZodiacLeo ◈BirthstoneRuby ❀Birth flowerLarkspur

Leo is the sign for July 23 — read more on the Leo page, or see July's birthstone & birth flower.

Compiled & reviewed by · Last reviewed September 6, 2026

What happened on July 23?

July 23 is the 204th day of the year. It marks 10 notable events in history, dated between 1319 and 2010. Famous people born on July 23 include Gustav Heinemann, Jarkko Nieminen and Anthony Kennedy.

Released on July 23

Movies, games, albums & shows

2026

  • Game Splatoon Raiders
  • Game Avatar Legends: The Fighting Game

2025

  • Game Supervive
  • Movie The Fantastic 4: First Steps

2024

  • Game Exophobia
  • Game Conscript
  • Game F1 Manager 2024
  • Game The Star Named Eos

2023

  • TV Lioness

Release data from TMDB & IGDB.

Events

10 notable moments
  1. 1319

    Knights Hospitaller

  2. 1900

    Canada

  3. 1936

    Catalonia

  4. 1942

    Bulgaria

  5. 1942

    World War II

  6. 1945

    Philippe Pétain

  7. 1968

    Glenville shootout

  8. 1995

    Comet Hale–Bopp

  9. 2001

    Megawati Sukarnoputri

  10. 2010

    One Direction

Famous birthday twins

Born on July 23

Gustav Heinemann

b. 1899

Jarkko Nieminen

b. 1981

Anthony Kennedy

b. 1936

Slash (musician)

b. 1965

Daniel Radcliffe

b. 1989

Ronny Cox

b. 1938

Haile Selassie

b. 1892

Stefanie Sun

b. 1978

Deaths

  • 2013Emile Griffith
  • 2012Sally Ride
  • 2011Amy Winehouse
  • 1951Philippe Pétain
  • 1948D. W. Griffith
  • 1885Ulysses S. Grant

Holidays & observances

  • —Birthday of Haile Selassie (Rastafari)
  • —Children's Day (Indonesia)
  • —Christian feast day: Bridget of Sweden
  • —Christian feast day: Heiromartyr Phocas (Eastern Orthodox)
  • —Christian feast day: John Cassian (Western Christianity)
  • —Christian feast day: Liborius of Le Mans
  • —Christian feast day: Margarita María
  • —Christian feast day: Mercè Prat i Prat

The factual record above — event titles, dates, names, and observances — is drawn from Wikipedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) license. DateLore adds curation, structure, and original editorial commentary. DateLore is not affiliated with the Wikimedia Foundation.

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