On This Day
Tuesday · events, births, deaths, and who was alive.
July 23 1968
Historical Events
El Al Flight 426
disasterpassenger flight which was hijacked on July 23, 1968
Algiers Houari Boumediene Airport
Born on This Day
Alex Capus🇨🇭
Swiss writer (b. 1961) · b. 1961
Days alive
2,557
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Amália Rodrigues🇵🇹
deceasedsinger · 1920–1999
Days lived
28,929
Anthony Kennedy🇺🇸
politician · b. 1936
Days alive
11,688
Brandon Roy🇺🇸
American basketball player and coach (born 1984) · b. 1984
Cheb Bilal
Raï musician · b. 1966
Days alive
731
Cheryl Hall🇬🇧
deceasedActor · 1950–2026
Days lived
27,776
Christian Tomuschat🇩🇪
German jurist · b. 1936
Days alive
11,688
Cristian Machado🇺🇸
Brazilian singer · b. 1974
Damiano Damiani🇮🇹
deceasedItalian screenwriter, film director, actor and writer (1922–2013) · 1922–2013
Days lived
33,100
Daniel Radcliffe🇬🇧
actor · b. 1989
Donald Young🇺🇸
American tennis player · b. 1989
Doug Turnbull🇺🇸
deceasedlacrosse player (1903–1993) · 1903–1993
Days lived
32,771
Edie McClurg🇺🇸
American comedian and actress · b. 1951
Days alive
6,210
Emil Jannings
deceasedOscar Winners · 1884–1950
Days lived
23,903
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Emma P. Carr🇺🇸
deceasedscientist · 1880–1972
Days lived
33,404
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Ernst Herzfeld🇺🇸
deceasedGerman archaeologist (1879–1948) · 1879–1948
Days lived
25,018
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Giovane Élber🇩🇪
football player · b. 1972
Giovanni Castellucci🇮🇹
Italian manager · b. 1959
Days alive
3,288
Gustav Heinemann🇩🇪
deceasedpolitician · 1899–1976
Days lived
28,108
Hans Ettmayer🇦🇹
deceasedAustrian football player and manager (1946–2023) · 1946–2023
Days lived
28,011
Hans Thimig🇦🇹
deceasedactor · 1900–1991
Days lived
33,081
Harry Cohn
deceasedActor · 1891–1958
Days lived
24,325
Irving Grundman🇨🇦
deceasedCanadian ice hockey executive · 1928–2021
Days lived
33,821
Jarkko Nieminen🇫🇮
Finnish tennis player · b. 1981
Josef Marchet🇮🇹
deceasedmodel · 1902–1966
Days lived
23,300
Karl Korschann🇩🇪
deceasedsculptor and engraver (1872–1943) · 1872–1943
Days lived
25,793
Kathryn Hahn
Actor · b. 1973
Katsunori Nomura🇯🇵
film director · b. 1973
Keisuke Kaneko🇯🇵
film director · b. 1985
Kim Lim🇸🇬
Entrepreneur, Socialite, Heiress · b. 1991
Kurt Kreuger🇺🇸
deceasedactor (1916–2006) · 1916–2006
Days lived
32,861
Lars-Ivar Ericson🇸🇪
deceasedSwedish politician · 1948–2025
Days lived
28,088
Louise Lantagne
chief executive officer · b. 1954
Days alive
5,114
Ludger Stratmann🇩🇪
deceasedmusician · 1948–2021
Days lived
26,696
Mathias Müller von Blumencron🇩🇪
German journalist · b. 1960
Days alive
2,922
Monica Lewinsky🇬🇧
American activist and writer (born 1973) · b. 1973
Monika Kruse🇩🇪
rapper · b. 1971
Najib Razak
Notable Trials · b. 1953
Days alive
5,479
Oliver Bootz🇩🇪
German actor · b. 1971
Pee Wee Reese🇺🇸
deceasedfilm director · 1918–1999
Days lived
29,607
Philip Seymour Hoffman🇺🇸
deceasedFilm director · 1967–2014
Days lived
16,996
Philip Seymour Hoffman
deceasedOscar Winners · 1967–2014
Days lived
16,996
Philip Zwiener🇩🇪
basketball player · b. 1985
Raimund Abraham🇺🇸
deceasedArchitect (1933-2010) · 1933–2010
Days lived
27,983
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Robert Danneberg🇦🇹
deceasedAustrian politician (1885–1942) · 1885–1942
Days lived
20,960
Ronny Cox🇺🇸
actor · b. 1938
Days alive
10,958
Serdar Kurtuluş🇹🇷
Turkish association football player (born 1987) · b. 1987
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Slash🇺🇸
rapper · b. 1965
Days alive
1,096
Sotiris Kyrgiakos🇬🇷
football player · b. 1979
Stefanie Sun🇸🇬
Singer-songwriter · b. 1978
Stijn Gabriëls
Dutch baseball player · b. 1982
Susanna Simon🇩🇪
actor · b. 1968
Days alive
0
Thea Dorn🇩🇪
German writer, literary critic and TV host · b. 1970
Vera Rubin🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican astronomer and physicist (1928-2016) · 1928–2016
Days lived
32,297
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Walter Gargano
football player · b. 1984
Walter Hartmann🇩🇪
deceasedmilitary person · 1891–1977
Days lived
31,277
Werner Rosenbaum🇩🇪
deceasedGerman field hockey player (1927–2008) · 1927–2008
Days lived
29,590
Died on This Day
Alberto Santos-Dumont🇫🇷
deceasedBrazilian aviation pioneer (1873-1932) · 1873–1932
Days lived
21,552
Alfred Biolek🇩🇪
deceasedartist · 1934–2021
Days lived
31,790
Amy Winehouse🇬🇧
deceasedsinger · 1983–2011
Days lived
10,174
D. W. Griffith🇺🇸
deceasedactor · 1875–1948
Days lived
26,845
Emile Griffith🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican boxer (1938–2013) · 1938–2013
Days lived
27,564
Ernst Otto Fischer🇩🇪
deceasedGerman chemist (1918–2007) · 1918–2007
Days lived
32,397
Eudora Welty🇺🇸
deceasedartist · 1909–2001
Days lived
33,704
Georg Lippold🇩🇪
deceasedGerman archaeologist (1885-1954) · 1885–1954
Days lived
25,353
Gerald Nagler🇸🇪
deceasedentrepreneur · 1929–2022
Days lived
33,828
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa🇮🇹
deceasedSicilian Prince and writer (1896-1957) · 1896–1957
Days lived
22,126
Gudrun Okras🇩🇪
deceasedGerman actress (1929-2009) · 1929–2009
Days lived
29,082
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Hassan II🇲🇦
deceasedentrepreneur · 1929–1999
Days lived
25,581
Henry Hallett Dale🇬🇧
deceasedEnglish pharmacologist, Nobel laureate · 1875–1968
Days lived
34,012
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Otto Glöckel🇦🇹
deceasedAustrian politician (1874-1935) · 1874–1935
Days lived
22,444
Paul Morand🇫🇷
deceasedwriter · 1888–1976
Days lived
32,273
Philippe Pétain
deceasedNotable Trials · 1856–1951
Days lived
34,787
Reinhold Heinen🇩🇪
deceasedGerman journalist and publisher · 1894–1969
Days lived
27,590
Rudolf Katz🇩🇪
deceasedGerman judge and politician (1895-1961) · 1895–1961
Days lived
24,037
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Rudolf Teschner🇩🇪
deceasedGerman chess player (1922–2006) · 1922–2006
Days lived
30,838
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Sally Ride🇺🇸
deceasedPhysicist · 1951–2012
Days lived
22,339
Wilhelm Ernst🇩🇪
deceasedchess player from Germany · 1905–1952
Days lived
17,134
William Orbit🇬🇧
deceasedRecord producer · 1956–2026
Days lived
25,422
Who Was Alive
Notable people alive on this date, sorted by most days lived (top 20).
Sándor Farkas
Catholic priest, born 1853 · b. 1853
Days alive
42,206
Bertrand Russell🇬🇧
deceasedYouTube personality · 1872–1970
Days lived
35,688
Duke Adolf Friedrich of Mecklenburg-Schwerin🇩🇪
deceasedpolitician · 1873–1969
Days lived
34,997
Charles Foulkes🇬🇧
deceasedBritish general and field hockey player (1875–1969) · 1875–1969
Days lived
34,427
Henry Hallett Dale🇬🇧
deceasedEnglish pharmacologist, Nobel laureate · 1875–1968
Days lived
34,012
Gertrud von Le Fort🇩🇪
deceasedwriter · 1876–1971
Days lived
34,718
Natalie Clifford Barney🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican writer who hosted a literary salon at her home in Paris (1876-1972) · 1876–1972
Days lived
34,791
Lillian Moller Gilbreth🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican psychologist and industrial engineer (1878–1972) · 1878–1972
Days lived
34,190
E. M. Forster🇬🇧
deceasedEnglish novelist (1879-1970) · 1879–1970
Days lived
33,394
Margarete Bieber🇺🇸
deceasedGerman-American art historian (1879–1978) · 1879–1978
Days lived
36,003
Adolf Strauss🇩🇪
deceasedGerman Wehrmacht general (1879–1973) · 1879–1973
Days lived
34,163
Kenneth Edgeworth🇮🇪
deceasedIrish astronomer, economist and engineer (1880-1972) · 1880–1972
Days lived
33,829
Emma P. Carr🇺🇸
deceasedscientist · 1880–1972
Days lived
33,404
Paul Hausser🇩🇪
deceasedmilitary person · 1880–1972
Days lived
33,677
Fritz Achterberg🇩🇪
deceasedGerman actor (1880-1971) · 1880–1971
Days lived
33,215
Luis Miró Quesada de la Guerra🇵🇪
deceasedpolitician · 1880–1976
Days lived
34,807
Wang Zi-Ping🇨🇳
deceasedathlete · 1881–1973
Days lived
33,602
Vladimir Zelenin
deceasedscientist · 1881–1968
Days lived
32,067
Hans Reiter🇩🇪
deceasedGerman Nazi physician (1881–1969) · 1881–1969
Days lived
32,413
Rudolf Pannwitz🇩🇪
deceasedGerman writer and philosopher (1881–1969) · 1881–1969
Days lived
32,076
Animals Alive
Notable animals alive on this date.
Harriet🇦🇺
deceasedGalápagos tortoise · 1830–2006
Days lived
64,138
Jonathan🇸🇭
Seychelles giant tortoise · b. 1832
Days alive
49,877
Lonesome George🇪🇨
deceasedPinta Island tortoise · 1910–2012
Days lived
37,430
Lin Wang🇹🇼
deceasedAsian elephant · 1917–2003
Days lived
31,467
Ham🇺🇸
deceasedChimpanzee · 1957–1983
Days lived
9,333
Shamu🇺🇸
deceasedOrca · 1962–1971
Days lived
3,521
Washoe🇺🇸
deceasedChimpanzee · 1965–2007
Days lived
15,399
Digit🇷🇼
deceasedMountain gorilla · 1967–1977
Days lived
4,017
Companies That Existed
Brands and companies already founded by this date.
Hermes🇫🇷
Luxury Goods · b. 1837
Days since founding
48,050
Procter & Gamble🇺🇸
Consumer Goods · b. 1837
Days since founding
47,747
Berkshire Hathaway🇺🇸
Conglomerate / Investments · b. 1839
Days since founding
47,320
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HSBC🇬🇧
Banking · b. 1865
Days since founding
37,762
Tata Group🇮🇳
Conglomerate · b. 1868
Days since founding
36,728
Goldman Sachs🇺🇸
Investment Banking · b. 1869
Days since founding
36,362
Eli Lilly🇺🇸
Pharmaceuticals · b. 1876
Days since founding
33,806
Chevron🇺🇸
Oil & Gas · b. 1879
Days since founding
32,458
Already Published
Notable books already in print.
Meditations🇮🇹
Philosophy/Stoicism Book · b. 180
Days in print
653,257
Don Quixote🇪🇸
Satire/Adventure Book · b. 1605
Days in print
132,771
Pride and Prejudice🇬🇧
Romance/Satire Book · b. 1813
Days in print
56,789
Crime and Punishment🇷🇺
Psychological Fiction Book · b. 1866
Days in print
37,458
The Great Gatsby🇺🇸
Tragedy/Modernist Book · b. 1925
Days in print
15,810
Brave New World🇬🇧
Dystopian/Sci-Fi Book · b. 1932
Days in print
13,353
The Hobbit🇬🇧
Fantasy/Adventure Book · b. 1937
Days in print
11,263
The Little Prince🇫🇷
Novella/Fantasy Book · b. 1943
Days in print
9,240
Already Released
Films already out by this date.
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