July 23:

Events

• 1999 - ANA Flight 61 is hijacked in Tokyo.

Births

• 1938 - Mickey Curtis, actor, singer, and television personality
• 1962 - Hiroshi Mikami, actor
• 1986 - Ayaka Komatsu, model and actress

Deaths

• 1990 - Kenjiro Takayanagi (b. 1899), engineer
• 1997 - Chuhei Nambu (b. 1904), long jumper