July 23 - Deaths

Deaths

• 1227 – Qiu Chuji, Chinese founder of the Dragon Gate Taoism (b. 1148)
• 1373 – Bridget of Sweden, Swedish mystic and saint, founder of the Bridgettine Order (b. 1303)
• 1403 – Thomas Percy, 1st Earl of Worcester, English rebel (executed) (b. 1343)
• 1531 – Louis de Brézé, seigneur d'Anet, French nobleman, Marshal of Normandy and husband of Diane de Poitiers (birth year unknown)
• 1536 – Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset, bastard son of King Henry VIII of England (b. 1519)
• 1562 – Gotz von Berlichingen, German Imperial Knight and mercenary (b. 1480)
• 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 (b. c. 1661)
• 1757 – Domenico Scarlatti, Italian composer (b. 1685)
• 1764 – Gilbert Tennent, Irish-born American religious leader (b. 1703)
• 1773 – George Edwards, English naturalist (b. 1693)
• 1781 – John Joachim Zubly, Swiss-born American Continental Congressman (b. 1724)
• 1793 – Roger Sherman, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1721)
• 1833 – Anselmo de la Cruz, Chilean political figure (b. 1777)
• 1853 – Andries Pretorius, South African 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 American 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)
• 1941 – George Lyman Kittredge, American English literature scholar and Harvard University professor (b. 1860)
• 1942 – Adam Czerniakow, Polish engineer (suicide) (b. 1880)
• 1942 – Andy Ducat, English cricketer and footballer (b. 1886)
• 1948 – D. W. Griffith, American film director (b. 1875)
• 1951 – Henri Philippe Pétain, French 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 pharmacologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1875)
• 1971 – Van Heflin, American actor (b. 1910)
• 1973 – Eddie Rickenbacker, American fighter ace in World War I and founder of Rickenbacker Motors (b. 1890)
• 1979 – Joseph Kessel, French journalist and novelist (b. 1898)
• 1980 – Mollie Steimer, Russian-born American anarchist agitator and political prisoner (b. 1897)
• 1980 – Sarto Fournier, Canadian politician, Mayor of Montreal (b. 1908)
• 1980 – Keith Godchaux, American pianist (Grateful Dead) (b. 1948)
• 1982 – Giorgos Gavriilidis, Greek actor (b. 1906)
• 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 short fiction writer and reporter (b. 1931)
• 1990 – Kenjiro Takayanagi, Japanese developer of television (b. 1899)
• 1993 – James R. Jordan, Sr., American soldier and murder victim, father of Michael Jordan (b. 1936)
• 1996 – Aliki Vougiouklaki, Greek actress (b. 1934)
• 1996 – Jean Muir, American actress (b. 1911)
• 1997 – Chūhei Nambu, Japanese long and triple jumper (b. 1904)
• 1999 – King Hassan II of Morocco (b. 1929)
• 2001 – Eudora Welty, American writer (b. 1909)
• 2002 – Leo McKern, Australian actor (b. 1920)
• 2002 – William Luther Pierce, American white nationalist and novelist (b. 1933)
• 2002 – Chaim Potok, American novelist and rabbi (b. 1929)
• 2003 – James E. Davis, New York City police officer and councilman (murdered) (b. 1962)
• 2004 – Mehmood, Indian actor (b. 1932)
• 2004 – Carlos Paredes, Portuguese guitarist and composer (b. 1925)
• 2004 – Piero Piccioni, Italian pianist, organist, 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 – Tor Kamata, American-Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1937)
• 2007 – Ron Miller, American songwriter and record producer (b. 1933)
• 2007 – Mohammed Zahir Shah, King of Afghanistan (b. 1914)
• 2008 – Kurt Furgler, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1924)
• 2010 – Daniel Schorr, American journalist (b. 1916)