List of Famous people born on July 23rd
Kim Ekdahl du Rietz
Kim Ekdahl du Rietz is a Swedish retired handball player.
Richard Rogers
Richard George Rogers, Baron Rogers of Riverside is an Italian-British architect noted for his modernist and functionalist designs in high-tech architecture.
Yoshio Yatsu
Yoshio Yatsu was a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet. A native of Tatebayashi, Gunma and graduate of Hosei University, he was elected to the first of his three terms in the assembly of Gunma Prefecture in 1975 and to the House of Representatives for the first time in 1986. After losing his seat in 1990, he was re-elected in the same year. From 2000 to 2001 he served as the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries.
Akihiro Fukatsu
Akihiro Fukatsu is a Japanese male volleyball player. He is part of the Japan men's national volleyball team. On club level he plays for JT Thunders.
Sir Thomas Gooch, 3rd Bt.
Susan Wardlaw-Ramsay
Janet Maitland Dundas
Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke
Field Marshal Alan Francis Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke, & Bar, was a senior officer of the British Army. He was Chief of the Imperial General Staff (CIGS), the professional head of the British Army, during the Second World War, and was promoted to field marshal in 1944. As chairman of the Chiefs of Staff Committee, Brooke was the foremost military advisor to Winston Churchill, the British Prime Minister, and had the role of co-ordinator of the British military efforts in the Allies' victory in 1945. After retiring from the British Army, he served as Lord High Constable of England during the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953. His war diaries attracted attention for their criticism of Churchill and for Brooke's forthright views on other leading figures of the war.
Dilly Knox
Alfred Dillwyn "Dilly" Knox, CMG was a British classics scholar and papyrologist at King's College, Cambridge and a codebreaker. As a member of the Room 40 codebreaking unit he helped decrypt the Zimmermann Telegram which brought the USA into the First World War. He then joined the Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS).
Claude Fournier
Claude Fournier is a Canadian film director, screenwriter, editor and cinematographer. He is one of the forerunners of the Cinema of Quebec. He is the twin brother of Guy Fournier.