June 23 is the 174th day of the year (175th in leap years) according to the Gregorian calendar. There are 191 days remaining until the end of the year.
Events
- 656 - Ali bin Abu Talib was elected Caliph.
- 1854 – Silistra victory was won when Tsarist Russia armies left the battlefield and retreated.
- 1868 - American inventor Christopher Latham Sholes patented the typewriter.
- 1894 - The International Olympic Committee was founded in Paris.
- 1902 - A Spanish name "Mercedes" is registered as a brand name. The first Mercedes car was designed by Wilhelm Maybach.
- 1939 – The agreement regarding the accession of the Hatay State to Turkey was signed in Ankara.
- 1941 – Welfare Disaster: The freighter "Refah", carrying the personnel to take delivery of the submarine and aircraft fleet ordered to the United Kingdom, was sunk by a submarine off the coast of Mersin on its way from Mersin to Alexandria. After the incident, in which 168 people died and 32 people survived, an investigation was launched in the Turkish Grand National Assembly.
- 1950 – The Tourism Bank of the Republic of Turkey was established.
- 1954 – Selected as the Dean of the Faculty of Science at Istanbul University, Prof. Dr. Nüzhet Gökdoğan became the first female Dean.
- 1955 - Akis Journal's Editor-in-Chief Cüneyt Arcayürek was sentenced to 6 months in prison.
- 1982 – The safe of Banker Kastelli, who fled abroad, was seized; 70 bankers and bank managers were banned from going abroad.
- 1983 – True Path Party (DYP) was founded.
- 1987 – People's Houses were opened by the decision of the Court. The activities of the People's Houses were stopped by the National Security Council after September 12 and their managers were put on trial.
- 1992 – Election was held in Israel. Labor Party leader Yitzhak Rabin was elected Prime Minister.
- 2016 – A referendum was held in the United Kingdom on European Union membership. The rate of votes to leave the EU was 51,89%.
- 2019 – Interim local elections were held in Istanbul. Ekrem İmamoğlu He was re-elected mayor of the metropolitan area.
- 2020 – 7.5 magnitude earthquake occurred in Mexico.
Births
- 47 BC – Caesarion, Last King of the Ptolemaic dynasty (30 BC) who ascended the throne of Ancient Egypt at a young age
- 1534 – Oda Nobunag, Japanese warrior (d. 1582)
- 1596 – Johan Banér, Swedish field marshal (d. 1641)
- 1668 – Giambattista Vico, Italian philosopher and historian (d. 1744)
- 1772 – Cristóbal Mendoza, first prime minister of Venezuela (d. 1829)
- 1796 – Franz Berwald, Swedish composer (d. 1868)
- 1879 – Huda Sharavi, Egyptian nationalist-feminist leader (d. 1947)
- 1889 Anna Akhmatova, Russian poet (d. 1966)
- 1894 – Alfred Kinsey, American biologist, professor of entomology and zoology (d. 1956)
- 1894 – VIII. Edward, King of the United Kingdom, British Empire dominions and British India (d. 1972)
- 1897 – Winifred Wagner, German opera producer (d. 1980)
- 1900 – Anna Ivanovna Boltunova, Soviet archaeologist (d. 1991)
- 1901 – Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar, Turkish writer (d. 1962)
- 1906 Wolfgang Koeppen, German writer (d. 1996)
- 1907 James Meade, a British economist (d. 1995)
- 1908 – Nadir Nadi Abalıoğlu, Turkish journalist and Cumhuriyet newspaper's Editor-in-Chief (d. 1991)
- 1910 – Jean Anouilh, French playwright (d. 1987)
- 1910 – Gordon B. Hinckley, 15th president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, also known as Mormonism (d. 2008)
- 1912 – Alan Turing, English mathematician (d. 1954)
- 1913 – William P. Rogers, American politician, diplomat, and lawyer (d. 2001)
- 1916 – Ernst Wilimowski, Polish-German football player (d. 1997)
- 1916 – Irene Worth, American stage and screen actress (d. 2002)
- 1919 – Mohammed Budiaf, Algerian political leader and President of Algeria (d. 1992)
- 1924 – Osman Bayezid Osmanoğlu, head of the Ottoman Dynasty (d. 2017)
- 1926 - Baron Lawson Soulsby, British microbiologist, scientist and politician (d. 2017)
- 1927 – Bob Fosse, American director, choreographer (d. 1987)
- 1927 – John Habgood, English Anglican Archbishop, educator (d. 2019)
- 1929 – June Carter Cash, American musician (d. 2003)
- 1930 – Annasif Døhlen, Norwegian painter and sculptor (d. 2021)
- 1930 – Donn F. Eisele, United States Air Force officer, test pilot, and later NASA astronaut (d. 1987)
- 1931 – Joachim Calmeyer, Norwegian actor (d. 2016)
- 1931 – Ola Ullsten, Swedish politician and diplomat (d. 2018)
- 1934 – Virbhadra Singh, Indian politician and bureaucrat (d. 2021)
- 1935 - Keith Burkinshaw, English football player and manager
- 1936 – Richard Bach, American writer
- 1936 – Costas Simitis, former prime minister of Greece
- 1937 – Martti Ahtisaari, Finnish politician
- 1940 – Wilma Rudolph, American athlete (d. 1994)
- 1942 – Hannes Wader, German musician and composer
- 1943 - Vint Cerf, American internet pioneer
- 1945 – John Garang, South Sudanese politician and rebel leader (d. 2005)
- 1947 – Bryan Brown, Australian stage, film and television actor, voice actor
- 1951 – Alex Asmasoebrata, Indonesian politician and speedway driver (d. 2021)
- 1953 – Armen Sargsyan, Armenian politician
- 1955 – Glenn Danzig, American singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer
- 1955 – Jean Tigana, Malian-French coach
- 1957 – Frances McDormand, American film, stage, and television actress
- 1960 – Fadil Vokrri, Kosovar Albanian football player (d. 2018)
- 1964 – Joss Whedon, American screenwriter and director
- 1969 – Ahinoam Nini, Israeli singer
- 1970 – Yann Tiersen, French musician
- 1971 – Nona Fernández, Chilean actress, writer and screenwriter
- 1972 - Selma Blair, American actress
- 1972 – Zinedine Zidane, Algerian-French football player
- 1975 – Sibusiso Zuma, South African national football player
- 1976 – Paola Suárez, Argentine tennis player
- 1976 – Emmanuelle Vaugier, French-Canadian actress
- 1976 – Patrick Vieira, French football player
- 1977 – Miguel Ángel Angulo, Spanish Footballer
- 1977 Hayden Foxe, former Australian football player
- 1977 – Gulhan, Turkish singer
- 1977 Jason Mraz, American singer-songwriter
- 1978 – Memphis Bleek, American rapper
- 1978 – Leandro Firmino, Brazilian actor
- 1978 – Jan Hakon Erichsen, Norwegian artist
- 1980 – David Andersen, Australian basketball player
- 1980 – Sibel Arslan, Swiss lawyer and BastA! party politician
- 1980 – Melissa Rauch, American actress and comedian
- 1980 – Francesca Schiavone, Italian tennis player
- 1981 – Anthony Costa, British singer and actress
- 1983 – José Rojas is a Chilean football player.
- 1984 – Duffy, Grammy Award-winning Welsh singer-songwriter
- 1984 – Mya Nichole, American porn actress
- 1984 – Levern Spencer, Saint Lucian high jumper
- 1985 – Cem Dinç, Turkish basketball player
- 1986 – Mariano, Brazilian football player
- 1987 – Alessia Filippi, Italian swimmer
- 1992 – Nampalys Mendy, Senegalese national football player
- 1994
- HoYeon Jung, South Korean model, actress
- João Pedro Gomes Camacho, Portuguese football player
- Roger Martinez, Colombian football player
Deaths
- 79 – Vespasian, Roman Emperor (b. 9)
- 1213 – Marie d'Oignies, Belgian Christian mystic (b. 1177)
- 1537 – Pedro de Mendoza, Spanish conquistador, soldier, and explorer (b. 1487)
- 1565 – Turgut Reis, Turkish sailor (b. 1485)
- 1659 – Hyojong, 17th king of the Joseon Kingdom (b. 1619)
- 1806 – Mathurin Jacques Brisson, French zoologist and natural philosopher (b. 1723)
- 1836 – James Mill, Scottish historian, economist, political theorist, and philosopher (b. 1773)
- 1864 – Christian Ludwig Brehm, German cleric and ornithologist (b. 1787)
- 1891 – NR Pogson, English astronomer (b. 1829)
- 1891 – Wilhelm Eduard Weber, German physicist (b. 1804)
- 1893 – William Fox, New Zealand politician and four-term Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1812)
- 1894 – Marietta Alboni, Italian opera singer (b. 1826)
- 1926 – Jón Magnússon, Prime Minister of Iceland (b. 1859)
- 1939 – Timofey Vasilyev, Mordovian lawyer (b. 1897)
- 1942 – Valdemar Poulsen, Danish engineer and inventor (b. 1869)
- 1943 – Elise Richter, Viennese philologist (b. 1865)
- 1944 – Eduard Dietl, soldier in Nazi Germany (b. 1890)
- 1954 – Salih Omurtak, Turkish soldier and commander of the Turkish War of Independence (b. 1889)
- 1956 – Reinhold Glière, Polish, Russian and later Soviet composer (b. 1874)
- 1959 – Boris Vian, French writer and musician (b. 1920)
- 1959 – Fehmi Tokay, Turkish composer (b. 1889)
- 1967 – Franz Babinger, German writer (b. 1891)
- 1978 – Cihangir Erdeniz, Turkish soldier (retired Marine Lieutenant Colonel who shot Hüseyin Cevahir in Istanbul Maltepe on June 1, 1971)
- 1989 – Michel Eflak, Syrian thinker, sociologist, Arab nationalist politician (b. 1910)
- 1989 – Werner Best, German Nazi, lawyer, police chief, Darmstadt Nazi Party leader and SS-Obergruppenführer (b. 1903)
- 1995 – Jonas Salk, American bacteriologist (invented the Polio vaccine) (b. 1914)
- 1996 – Andreas Papandreou, Greek politician and Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1919)
- 1998 – Maureen O'Sullivan, Irish actress (Tarzan famous for portraying “Jane” in her films) (b. 1911)
- 2000 – Cemil Gezmiş, Deniz Gezmiş's father (b. 1922)
- 2006 – Aaron Spelling, American television producer (b. 1923)
- 2006 – Harriet, Giant galapagos tortoise (b. circa 1830)
- 2009 – İsmet Güney, Turkish Cypriot painter and cartoonist (b. 1923)
- 2010 – Frank Giering, German actor (b. 1971)
- 2011 – Peter Falk, American actor (b. 1927)
- 2013 – Bobby Bland, American soul, jazz and blues singer, musician (b. 1930)
- 2013 – Richard Matheson, American science fiction, fantasy, and horror writer and screenwriter (b. 1926)
- 2014 – Małgorzata Braunek, Polish actress (b. 1947)
- 2015 – Cüneyt Arcayürek, Turkish journalist and writer (b. 1928)
- 2015 – Magali Noël, born in Izmir, French film actress and singer (b. 1931)
- 2017 – Saman Kelegama, Sri Lankan economist and author (b. 1959)
- 2017 – Stefano Rodotà, Italian lawyer and politician (b. 1933)
- 2018 – Donald Hall, American poet, author, editor, and literary critic (b. 1928)
- 2018 – Kim Jong-pil, South Korean soldier and politician (b. 1926)
- 2018 – Violeta Rivas, Argentine singer and actress (b. 1937)
- 2019 – Andrey Haritonov, Soviet-Russian actor, director and screenwriter (b. 1959)
- 2020 – Vehbi Akdağ, Turkish national wrestler (b. 1949)
- 2020 – Jean-Michel Bokamba-Yangouma, Congolese politician
- 2020 – Michael Falzon, Australian actor, performer, producer and singer (b. 1972)
- 2020 – Arthur Keaveney, Irish historian (b. 1951)
- 2020 – Jampel Lodoy, Russian Tuvan Buddhist lama (b. 1975)
- 2021 – Melissa Coates, Canadian professional wrestler, bodybuilder, fitness athlete, model, and actress (b. 1971)
- 2021 – Jackie Lane, English actress (b. 1941)
- 2021 – John McAfee, British-American computer programmer and operator (b. 1945)
- 2021 – Med Reventberg, Swedish actress, short film and theater director (b. 1948)
- 2022 – Henri Elendé, Congolese athlete (b. 1941)
- 2022 – Sally Greengross, Baroness of Greengross, British politician (b. 1935)
- 2022 – Ernst Jacobi, German actor (b. 1933)
- 2022 – Yuri Shatunov, Russian male singer (b. 1973)
- 2022 – Soon Cho, South Korean academic and politician (b. 1928)
- 2022 – Mahmut Ustaosmanoğlu, leader of İsmailağa Community (b. 1929)