Born on 23 July 2016

At A Glance

23 July 2016 at a glance

Day of the week

23 July 2016 was a Saturday.

Irish Chart Song in 2016

The Irish chart song for 2016 was “One Dance” by Drake.

Top Film of 2016

The highest-grossing film worldwide released in 2016 was Captain America: Civil War.

Star sign

The star sign for 23 July is Leo.

Chinese zodiac

In the Chinese zodiac, 23 July 2016 fell in the Year of the Monkey.

Birthstone

The birthstone for July is Ruby.

Moon phase

The moon phase on 23 July 2016 was Waning Gibbous.

On this day: 23 July

• 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.
• 2001 Megawati Sukarnoputri was sworn in as the first female president of Indonesia following her predecessor's impeachment.
• 2010 The English-Irish boy band One Direction were formed while auditioning for the 2010 series of the British singing competition The X Factor.
• 2012 The Solar storm of 2012 was an unusually large coronal mass ejection that was emitted by the Sun which barely missed the Earth by nine days. If it hit, it would have caused up to US$2.6 trillion in damages to electrical equipment worldwide.
• 2015 NASA announces discovery of Kepler-452b by the Kepler space telescope.

Famous people born on 23 July

• Woody Harrelson, American actor and activist (born 1961)
• Daniel Radcliffe, English actor (born 1989)
• Philip Seymour Hoffman, American actor, director, and producer (1967–2014)
• Kathryn Hahn, American actress (born 1973)

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