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Active on screen for over three decades, he made his debut in the drama film Blackboard Jungle (1955).
Notable Deaths on July 23
1982 — Vic Morrow
American actor (born 1929)
July 23 has 106 recorded notable deaths across history, from 955 to 2024. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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Notable Deaths
106 source records
955 – 2024
Today in history
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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Heflin won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Johnny Eager (1942).
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Leo McKern also portrayed Carl Bugenhagen in the first and second installments of The Omen series and Number Two in the TV series The Prisoner.
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In 1998, Sahgal was awarded the Padma Vibhushan, India's second-highest civilian award.
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Hull previously represented Tennessee in both houses of the United States Congress for 24 years, first as a member of the U.
More major people who died on July 23
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
1971
Van Heflin
American actor (born 1910)
Emmett Evan "Van" Heflin Jr. was an American theatre, radio, and film actor. He played mostly character parts over the course of his film career, but during the 1940s had a string of roles as a leading man.
2002
Leo McKern
Australian-English actor (born 1920)
Reginald "Leo" McKern was an Australian actor who appeared in numerous British, Australian and American television programmes and films, and in more than 200 stage roles. His notable roles include Clang in Help!
2012
Lakshmi Sahgal
Indian soldier and politician (born 1914)
Lakshmi Sahgal was an Indian politician and activist. She was a revolutionary of the Indian independence movement, an officer of the Indian National Army (INA), and the Minister of Women's Affairs in the Azad Hind…
1955
Cordell Hull
American captain, lawyer, and politician, 47th United States Secretary of State, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1871)
Cordell Hull was an American politician and diplomat who served as the United States secretary of state for nearly twelve years under President Franklin D. Roosevelt, from 1933 to 1944.
1980
Mollie Steimer
Ukrainian activist (born 1897)
Mollie Steimer was an anarchist activist. A Ukrainian Jew, she left Russia and settled in New York City in 1913. She quickly became involved in the local anarchist movement and was caught up in the case of Abrams v.
1916
William Ramsay
Scottish chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1852)
Sir William Ramsay was a Scottish chemist who discovered the noble gases and received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1904 "in recognition of his services in the discovery of the inert gaseous elements in air" along…
2017
John Kundla
American basketball coach (born 1916)
John Albert Kundla was an American college and professional basketball coach.
2015
Shigeko Kubota
Japanese-American sculptor and director (born 1937)
Shigeko Kubota was a Japanese video artist, sculptor and avant-garde performance artist, who mostly lived in New York City.
1298
Thoros III
Armenian king (born c. 1271)
Thoros III or Toros III was king of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia, ruling from 1293 to 1296. He was the son of Leo II of Armenia and Kyranna de Lampron, and was part of the House of Lampron.
2014
Ariano Suassuna
Brazilian author and playwright (born 1927)
Ariano Vilar Suassuna was a Brazilian playwright and author. He was the driving force behind the creation of the Movimento Armorial. He founded the Student Theater at Federal University of Pernambuco.
1972
Esther Applin
American geologist and paleontologist (born 1895)
Esther Applin was an American geologist and paleontologist. She completed her undergraduate degree in 1919 from the University of California, Berkeley.
2022
Zayar Thaw
Burmese politician and rapper (born 1981)
Phyo Zeya Thaw (Burmese: ဖြိုးဇေယျာသော်; pronounced [pʰjò zèjà θɔ̀], also referred to as Zeya Thaw was a Burmese politician and hip hop recording artist who was detained and executed due to the perceived anti-junta…
1978
Kamil Tolon
Turkish industrialist (born 1912)
Kamil Özdemir Tolon was a Turkish businessperson, industrialist and inventor, known for the first manufacture of an electric engine in Turkey. Tolon was born in 1912 in Istanbul.
2001
Eudora Welty
American novelist and short story writer (born 1909)
Eudora Alice Welty was an American short-story writer, novelist, and photographer who wrote about the American South. Her novel The Optimist's Daughter won the Pulitzer Prize in 1973.
1951
Robert J. Flaherty
American director and producer (born 1884)
Robert Joseph Flaherty was an American filmmaker who directed and produced the first commercially successful feature-length documentary film, Nanook of the North (1922).
1727
Simon Harcourt
1st Viscount Harcourt, English politician, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (born 1661)
Simon Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt, PC of Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire, was an English Tory politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons from 1690 until 1710.
1536
Henry FitzRoy
1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (born 1519)
Henry FitzRoy, Duke of Richmond and Somerset was the son of King Henry VIII of England and his mistress Elizabeth Blount, and the only child born out of wedlock whom Henry acknowledged.
2015
Don Oberdorfer
American journalist, author, and academic (born 1931)
Donald Oberdorfer Jr. was an American professor at the Paul H.
2002
William Luther Pierce
American activist and author (born 1933)
William Luther Pierce III was an American neo-Nazi political activist. For more than 30 years, he was one of the highest-profile individuals of the white nationalist movement.