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Ayton was selected with the first overall pick in the 2018 NBA draft by the Phoenix Suns and was named to the NBA All-Rookie First Team in 2019.
Famous Birthdays on July 23
1998 — Deandre Ayton
Bahamian basketball player
July 23 has 250 recorded notable births across history, from 1301 to 2003. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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Major events on July 23
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- 1999 Space Shuttle Columbia launches on STS-93, with Eileen Collins becoming the first female space shuttle commander. The shuttle also carried and deployed the Chandra X-ray Observatory. Source
- 1972 The United States launches Landsat 1, the first Earth-resources satellite. Source
- 2001 Megawati Sukarnoputri was sworn in as the first female president of Indonesia following her predecessor's impeachment. Source
- 2015 NASA announces discovery of Kepler-452b by the Kepler space telescope. Source
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is an American former professional basketball player who played in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for 17 seasons.
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Jo Brand also makes regular appearances on BBC Radio 4 in programmes such as The News Quiz and Just a Minute.
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The stable became a significant draw in Mexican professional wrestling, peaking during Aguayo's storyline rivalries with Místico and Héctor Garza.
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Graham Gooch was one of the most successful international batsmen of his generation, and through a career spanning from 1973 until 1997, he became the most prolific run scorer of all time, with 67,057 runs across first-class and limited-overs games.
More major people born on July 23
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
1968
Gary Payton
American basketball player and actor
Gary Dwayne Payton Sr. is an American former professional basketball player who played in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for 17 seasons.
1957
Jo Brand
English comedian, actress, and screenwriter
Josephine Grace Brand is an English comedian, presenter, actress and writer.
1979
Perro Aguayo Jr.
Mexican wrestler and promoter (died 2015)
Pedro Aguayo Ramírez was a Mexican professional wrestler and promoter who achieved fame in wrestling as Perro Aguayo Jr. or El Hijo del Perro Aguayo.
1953
Graham Gooch
English cricketer and coach
Graham Alan Gooch, is a former English first-class cricketer who captained Essex and England.
1957
Nikos Galis
American basketball player
Nikolaos Georgalis, commonly known as either Nikos Galis or Nick Galis, is a Greek former professional basketball player.
1989
Donald Young
American tennis player
Donald Oliver Young Jr. is an American professional pickleball player with the American PPA Tour and Major League Pickleball, and also a former professional tennis player.
1935
Jim Hall
American race car driver
James Ellis Hall is a retired American racing driver, race car constructor, and team owner.
1777
Philipp Otto Runge
German painter and illustrator (died 1810)
Philipp Otto Runge was a German artist, draftsman, painter, and color theorist. Runge and Caspar David Friedrich are often regarded as the leading painters of the German Romantic movement.
1635
Adam Dollard des Ormeaux
New France garrison commander (died 1660)
Adam Dollard des Ormeaux is an iconic figure in the history of New France. Arriving in the colony in 1658, Dollard was appointed the position of garrison commander of Fort Ville-Marie.
1705
Francis Blomefield
English historian and author (died 1752)
Rev. Francis Blomefield, FSA, Rector of Fersfield in Norfolk, was an English antiquarian who wrote a county history of Norfolk: An Essay Towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk.
1802
Manuel María Lombardini
Mexican general and president (died 1853)
Manuel Apolinario Josef María Ignacio Antonio Lombardini de la Torre (1802–1853) was a Mexican soldier who served as president briefly for about three months in 1853.
1906
Chandra Shekhar Azad
Indian activist (died 1931)
Chandra Shekhar Sitaram Tiwari, popularly known as Chandra Shekhar Azad, was an Indian revolutionary who reorganised the Hindustan Republican Association (HRA) under its new name of Hindustan Socialist Republican…
1991
Lauren Mitchell
Australian gymnast
Lauren Stephanie Mitchell is an Australian former artistic gymnast. She is the 2010 World champion on the floor exercise and the 2009 World Championships silver medalist on the balance beam and floor exercise.
1968
Elden Campbell
American basketball player (died 2025)
Elden Jerome Campbell was an American professional basketball player who was a power forward and center in the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 1990 to 2005, primarily with the Los Angeles Lakers.
1983
Aaron Peirsol
American swimmer
Aaron Wells Peirsol is an American former competition swimmer and backstroke specialist who swam for the University of Texas and is a former world champion and world record-holder.
1894
Arthur Treacher
English-American actor and television personality (died 1975)
Arthur Veary Treacher, Jr. was an English film and stage actor active from the 1920s to the 1960s, and known for playing English types, especially butler and manservant roles, such as the P. G.
1914
Virgil Finlay
American illustrator (died 1971)
Virgil Finlay was an American pulp fantasy, science fiction and horror illustrator. He has been called "part of the pulp magazine history ...
1976
Judit Polgár
Hungarian chess player
Judit Polgár is a Hungarian chess grandmaster, widely regarded as the strongest female chess player of all time.
1900
John Babcock
Canadian-American sergeant (died 2010)
John Henry Foster Babcock was a Canadian electrician and soldier.