List of Famous people born on July 23rd
Erika Blanc
Enrica Bianchi Colombatto is an Italian actress, usually known by her stagename of Erika Blanc.
Lola Momoa
Raphael Slidell von Erlanger
Danjong of Joseon
Danjong of Joseon was the sixth king of the Joseon Dynasty. He was forced to abdicate by his uncle, who became Sejo of Joseon, and exiled to Yeongwol County, where he was later put to death and his remains are buried.
Irina Kiseleva
Irina Vladimirovna Kiseleva is a former Soviet modern pentathlete. She won medals at five consecutive World Modern Pentathlon Championships from 1984 through 1988. These included two gold medals and two sliver medals in the individual competition. She also two gold medals and one silver medal in the team competition.
Herbert Cayzer, 1st Baron Rotherwick
Herbert Robin Cayzer, 1st Baron Rotherwick DL, known as Sir Herbert Cayzer, 1st Baronet, from 1924 to 1939, was a British shipping magnate and Conservative Party politician.
Steve Lacy
Steve Lacy, born Steven Norman Lackritz in New York City, was an American jazz saxophonist and composer recognized as one of the important players of soprano saxophone. Coming to prominence in the 1950s as a progressive dixieland musician, Lacy went on to a long and prolific career. He worked extensively in experimental jazz and to a lesser extent in free improvisation, but Lacy's music was typically melodic and tightly-structured. Lacy also became a highly distinctive composer, with compositions often built out of little more than a single questioning phrase, repeated several times.
Carl Foreman
Carl Foreman, CBE was an American screenwriter and film producer who wrote the award-winning films The Bridge on the River Kwai and High Noon, among others. He was one of the screenwriters who were blacklisted in Hollywood in the 1950s because of their suspected communist sympathy or membership in the Communist Party.
Jim Chapin
James Forbes Chapin was an American jazz drummer and the author of books about jazz drumming. He was the author of several albums on jazz drumming, as well as 2 CDs entitled Jim Chapin: Songs, Solos, Stories. He was posthumously inducted into the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame in 2011.
Robert L. Bacon
Robert Low Bacon was an American politician, a banker and military officer. He served as a congressman from New York from 1923 until his death in 1938. He is known as one of the authors of the Davis–Bacon Act of 1931, which regulates wages for employees on federal projects.