What happened on July 23 ?

1301 - Duke Otto of Austria (d. 1339)

1339 - King Louis I of Naples (d. 1384)

1626 - Sabbatai Zevi, Ottoman Jewish religious leader

1649 - Pope Clement XI (d. 1721)

1705 - Francis Blomefield, English topographer (d. 1752)

1734 - Antonio Maria Gaspare Sacchini, Italian composer (d. 1786)

1775 - Etienne-Louis Malus, French physicist and mathematician (d. 1812)

1777 - Philipp Otto Runge, German painter (d. 1810)

1796 - Franz Berwald, Swedish composer (d. 1868)

1838 - Edouard Judas Colonne, French violinist (d. 1910)

1856 - Lokmanya Tilak, Indian freedom fighter (d. 1920)

1865 - Max Heindel, Danish Christian occultist, astrologer, and mystic (d. 1919)

1884 - Emil Jannings, Swiss actor (d. 1950)

1886 - Salvador de Madariaga, Spanish League of Nations official (d. 1978)

1886 - Walter H. Schottky, German physicist (d. 1976)

1888 - Raymond Chandler, American-born author (d. 1959)

1892 - Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia (d. 1975)

1893 - Karl Menninger, American psychiatrist (d. 1990)

1894 - Arthur Treacher, English character actor (d. 1975)

1895 - Aileen Pringle, American actress (d. 1989)

1898 - Jacob Marschak, American economist

1898 - Red Dutton, international hockey player (d. 1987)

1899 - Gustav Heinemann, President of Germany (d. 1976)

1906 - Vladimir Prelog, Croatian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998)

1918 - Bueno de Mesquita Dutch comedian and actor (d. 2005)

1918 - Pee Wee Reese, baseball player (d. 1999)

1921 - Calvert DeForest, American actor

1923 - Witto Aloma, baseball player (d. 1997)

1933 - Bert Convy, American game show host, actor, and singer (d. 1991)

1936 - Shiv Kumar Batalvi, Punjabi revolutionary (d. 1973)

1936 - Don Drysdale, baseball player (d. 1993)

1936 - Anthony Kennedy, U.S. Supreme Court Justice

1938 - Juliet Anderson, American porn star

1938 - Götz George, German actor

1938 - Bert Newton, Australian actor and television show host

1940 - Don Imus, American talk radio host

1942 - Myra Hindley, English murderer (d. 2002)

1943 - Tony Joe White, American singer and songwriter

1947 - Gardner Dozois, American author

1947 - David Essex, English singer

1948 - John Cushnahan, Northern Irish politician

1950 - Alex Kozinski, Romanian-born judge

1951 - Edie McClurg, American actress

1957 - Theo van Gogh, Dutch film director (assassinated) (d. 2004)

1961 - Martin Gore, English musician and songwriter (Depeche Mode)

1961 - Woody Harrelson, American actor

1964 - Ed Forchion, Marijuana Activist

1965 - Rob Dickinson, English musician

1965 - Slash, English-born guitarist (Guns N' Roses)

1967 - Philip Seymour Hoffman, American actor

1968 - Gary Payton, American basketball player

1968 - Stephanie Seymour, American supermodel

1970 - Charisma Carpenter, American actress

1970 - Thea Dorn, German writer

1971 - Dalvin DeGrate, American singer

1971 - Alison Krauss, American singer and fiddler

1973 - Nomar Garciaparra, baseball player

1973 - Francis Healy, Scottish rock musician (Travis)

1973 - Monica Lewinsky, White House intern

1974 - Terry Glenn, American football player

1974 - Maurice Greene, American athlete

1974 - Stephanie March, American actress

1974 - Rik Verbrugghe, Belgian professional road racing cyclist

1976 - Judit Polgár, Hungarian chess player

1978 - Stuart Elliott, Northern Irish footballer

1978 - Stefanie Sun, Singapore singer

1980 - Michelle Williams, American singer

1981 - Steve Jocz, Canadian drummer (Sum41)

1983 - Bec Hewitt, Australian actress

1989 - Daniel Radcliffe, English actor