Famous people died in 23 July

Ernst Otto Fischer was a German chemist and educator who was jointly awarded the ‘Nobel Prize in Chemistry’ in 1973

Sir Henry Hallett Dale was a British physiologist who won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1936

Montgomery Clift was an American film and stage actors

Amy Winehouse was a highly talented yet troubled singer-songwriter

Mohammed Zahir Shah was the king of Afghanistan from 1933 to 1973

William Ramsay was a Nobel Prize winning chemist who discovered the ‘noble gases’

Philippe Pétain was a French general who was declared a national hero in World War I but was later discredited and sentenced to death.

William Tubman was the 19th President of Liberia

Andrew Cunanan was an American spree killer, who committed suicide after killing five people within a period of three months

Sally Ride was an American astronaut and physicist, who became the first American woman to travel into space