About the day » Friday July 23, 1897Calender converter

• Aloisia Cornelia Maria van Dijk, Tilburg, Nederland († 1971)
• Ada Victoria Peacock, East Retford, Nottinghamshire, England, UK († 1955)
• Angela Rosalia Servatia KOX
• Allegonda Petronella van Lieshout, Woensel († 1897)
• Wilhelmina Adriana Gijsberta Atonia Nollen, Raamsdonkveer
• Alexander Schoon, Aalst, Belgium († 1899)
• Albertha ten Bruggencate, Koedijk, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands
• Bosscher, Loeg († 1897)
• Alida van der Waart, Den Haag († 1899)
• Albertus Bril, Ambt-Hardenberg, Overijssel, Nederland († 1979)

• Anna Catharina de Kort (66), Gilze en Rijen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriaan van Doorn (0), Zaamslag,Gemeente Terneuzen,Zeeland,Netherlands
• Alfonsine Adolfine De Taevernier (1), Nokere, Belgium
• Catherine Blake (15), Wigton, Cumberland
• Auke Klazes Hoekstra (62)
• Alida Magdalena Boon (40), Leiden
• Adriana Wilhelmina Alberta Peperkamp (0), Utrecht
• Aaltje Hoek (47), Alkmaar
• Anna Catharina de Kort, Gilze en Reijen
• Catherine Vos (77), Holland, Michigan, Verenigde Staten

• 1894 » Arthur Treacher, English-American actor and television personality († 1975)
• 1895 » Aileen Pringle, American actress († 1989)
• 1898 » Bengt Djurberg, Swedish actor and singer († 1941)
• 1898 » Daniel Cosío Villegas, Mexican historian, economist († 1976)
• 1898 » Herman Kruusenberg, Estonian wrestler († 1970)
• 1898 » Jacob Marschak, Ukrainian-American economist, journalist, and author († 1977)
• 1898 » Red Dutton, Canadian ice hockey player and coach († 1987)
• 1899 » Gustav Heinemann, German lawyer and politician, 3rd President of West Germany († 1976)
• 1900 » John Babcock, Canadian-American sergeant († 2010)
• 1900 » Julia Davis Adams, American author and journalist († 1993)

• 1875 » Isaac Singer, American businessman, founded the Singer Corporation (b. 1811)
• 1878 » Carl von Rokitansky, Bohemian physician, pathologist, and politician (b. 1804)
• 1885 » Ulysses S. Grant, American general and politician, 18th President of the United States (b. 1822)
• 1904 » John Douglas, English-Australian politician, 7th Premier of Queensland (b. 1828)
• 1909 » Frederick Holder, Australian politician, 19th Premier of South Australia (b. 1850)
• 1916 » William Ramsay, Scottish-English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
• 1919 » Spyridon Lambros, Greek historian and politician, 100th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1851)
• 1920 » Conrad Kohrs, German-American rancher and politician (b. 1835)
• 1924 » Frank Frost Abbott, American author and scholar (b. 1850)
• 1926 » Viktor Vasnetsov, Russian painter (b. 1848)

• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• Regentes Emma (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1898 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from May 9, 1894 to July 27, 1897 the cabinet Roëll, with Jonkheer mr. J. Roëll (oud-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1897 to August 1, 1901 the cabinet Pierson, with Mr. N.G. Pierson (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
• June 22 » British colonial officers Charles Walter Rand and Lt. Charles Egerton Ayerst are assassinated in Pune, Maharashtra, India by the Chapekar brothers and Mahadeo Vinayak Ranade, who are later caught and hanged.
• July 11 » Salomon August Andrée leaves Spitsbergen to attempt to reach the North Pole by balloon. He later crashes and dies.
• July 26 » Anglo-Afghan War: The Pashtun fakir Saidullah leads an army of more than 10,000 to begin a siege of the British garrison in the Malakand Agency of the North West Frontier Province of India.
• September 12 » Tirah Campaign: In the Battle of Saragarhi, ten thousand Pashtun tribesmen suffer several hundred casualties while attacking 21 Sikh soldiers in British service.
• December 6 » London becomes the world's first city to host licensed taxicabs.
• December 30 » The British Colony of Natal annexes Zululand.

The temperature on July 23, 1897 was about 19.0 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 74%.