On This Day — February 23
4152 noted people were born and 2083 died on February 23 in our archive, including W. E. B. Du Bois, Alexandr Bogomaz and Allan McLeod Cormack.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on February 23
W. E. B. Du Bois
1868 – 1963
Alexandr Bogomaz
b. 1961
Allan McLeod Cormack
1924 – 1998
Andreas Schockenhoff
1957 – 2014
Andrew Zayakin
b. 1981
Arkady Sarkisyan
b. 1959
Bob Ferguson
b. 1965
Bruce P. Luyendyk
b. 1943
Carl Menger
1840 – 1921
Denis Manturov
b. 1969
Derrick Henry Lehmer
1905 – 1991
Georg Milbradt
b. 1945
Giorgio Starace
b. 1959
Ilora Finlay, Baroness Finlay of Llandaff
b. 1949
Irene Ward, Baroness Ward
1895 – 1980
Johan Jakob Nervander
1805 – 1848
Jorge Sahade
1915 – 2012
Józef Kupny
b. 1956
Keijo Korhonen
1934 – 2022
Kimberly Yee
b. 1974
Kōtarō Honda
1870 – 1954
Mahmoud Hessabi
1903 – 1992
Marc Bleuse
b. 1937
Marc Garneau
1949 – 2025
Martin Aurell
1958 – 2025
Michael Dell
b. 1965
Oleg Korolyov
b. 1952
Radosław Sikorski
b. 1963
Richard Price
1723 – 1791
Roberto Forges Davanzati
1880 – 1936
Rostyslav Hryhorchuk
b. 1953
Sarah Foot
b. 1961
Shigefumi Mori
b. 1951
Simon Collis
b. 1956
Tomasz Robert Taylor
b. 1954
Waldemar Dubaniowski
b. 1964
William McMahon
1908 – 1988
Yakov Zeldovich
1914 – 1987
Yamagiwa Katsusaburō
1863 – 1930
Yohannes Haile-Selassie
b. 1961
Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Rabiah
b. 1955
Agnes Arber
1879 – 1960
Ain Mäesalu
b. 1955
Alan Valentine
1901 – 1980
Alberto Pinto
b. 1964
Alexander Postnikov
b. 1957
Alfred P. Wolf
1923 – 1998
Anatoliy Butenko
1938 – 2021
Andreas Zelinka
1802 – 1868
Anna Chapman
b. 1982
Anna Stupnicka-Bando
b. 1929
Anton Antonov-Ovseyenko
1920 – 2013
Arthur Humble Evans
1855 – 1943
Ashok Kamte
1965 – 2008
Aurelian Ridsdale
1864 – 1923
Baki Urmanche
1897 – 1990
Bernard Sergen
b. 1946
Carl Theodore Liebermann
1842 – 1914
Charles Gordon Hewitt
1885 – 1920
Charles S. Maier
b. 1939
Chel Diokno
b. 1961
Christian Habicht
1926 – 2018
Christopher Tugendhat, Baron Tugendhat
b. 1937
Chuck Mawhinney
1949 – 2024
Chuner Taksami
1931 – 2014
Claude V. Ricketts
1906 – 1964
Clayton Anderson
b. 1959
David Somerset, 11th Duke of Beaufort
1928 – 2017
David W. Henderson
1939 – 2018
Daymond John
b. 1969
Didier Queloz
b. 1966
Djené Kaba Condé
1960 – 2023
Douglas Volk
1856 – 1935
Eddy van der Maarel
1934 – 2021
Eduardo Giannetti
b. 1957
Ernest Brooks
1878 – 1957
Ewald Grothe
b. 1961
Fattah Heydarov
1938 – 2020
Federico Chabod
1901 – 1960
Fernando Cheung
b. 1957
Franz Josef Gerstner
1756 – 1832
Fraser Colman
1925 – 2008
Gabrielė Martirosianaitė
b. 1991
Galina Savelyeva
1928 – 2022
Geoff Gollop
b. 1955
George Ballard Mathews
1861 – 1922
George Cave, 1st Viscount Cave
1856 – 1928
George Rousseau
b. 1941
George Volkoff
1914 – 2000
Georgy Filimonov
b. 1980
Gustav Hermann Nachtigal
1834 – 1885
Gustav-Adolf Schur
b. 1931
Haki R. Madhubuti
b. 1942
Harrie Langman
1931 – 2016
Herbert Weichmann
1896 – 1983
Hiroyuki Nakamura
b. 1961
Howard Ensign Evans
1919 – 2002
Hélène Darroze
b. 1967
Isabelle Graesslé
b. 1959
J. C. C. Davidson, 1st Viscount Davidson
1889 – 1970
Jaan Einasto
b. 1929
James L. Holloway III
1922 – 2019
Jarmo Viinanen
b. 1959
Jean Antoine Injalbert
1845 – 1933
Jean-Bernard Tarbé de Vauxclairs
1767 – 1842
Jerome Lettvin
1920 – 2011
Jiří Menzel
1938 – 2020
John Gilbert Winant
1889 – 1947
Julian Larcombe Schley
1880 – 1965
Karin Wolff
b. 1959
Karl Jaspers
1883 – 1969
Kirsten O'Brien
b. 1972
Kong Te-cheng
1920 – 2008
Konstantin Päts
1874 – 1956
Konstantin Totsky
1950 – 2018
Kristin Davis
b. 1965
Kristina Šmigun-Vähi
b. 1977
Leslie Probyn
1862 – 1938
Liu Thai Ker
1938 – 2026
Louis Stokes
1925 – 2015
Louis Straker
b. 1944
Luigi Cibrario
1802 – 1870
Maurice Bloomfield
1855 – 1928
Maya Bejerano
b. 1949
Michael Ausiello
b. 1972
Mike Kelly
b. 1960
Mikhail Prusak
1960 – 2025
Morris Dickstein
1940 – 2021
Mubashir Husain Rehmani
b. 1983
Mykola Swarnyk
b. 1957
Naoki Hyakuta
b. 1956
Naruhito
b. 1960
Olga Kálmán
b. 1968
Oskar Lindberg
1887 – 1955
Paul Gérin-Lajoie
1920 – 2018
Paul West
1930 – 2015
Paweł Graś
b. 1964
Petras Klimas
1891 – 1969
Pietro Maestri
1816 – 1871
Prisdang of Siam
1851 – 1935
Pál Maliga
b. 1946
Ralph Nuzzo
b. 1954
Rebecca Goldstein
b. 1950
Richard Brookhiser
b. 1955
Robert Neelly Bellah
1927 – 2013
Robert Schlögl
b. 1954
Rodney E. Slater
b. 1955
Roger Schlaifer
b. 1945
Ronnie Earle
1942 – 2020
Rose Emma Lamartine Yates
1875 – 1954
Roy Dikeman Chapin Sr.
1880 – 1936
Royal Meeker
1873 – 1953
Rufus Bowen
1947 – 1978
Ruth Mazo Karras
b. 1957
Sadok Chaabane
b. 1950
Samuel Pepys
1633 – 1703
Selwyn Porter
1905 – 1963
Senjūrō Hayashi
1876 – 1943
Sidsel Wold
b. 1959
Sir William Jardine, 7th Baronet
1800 – 1874
Sri Srinivasan
b. 1967
Symphorien Boittelle
1813 – 1897
Therese Comodini Cachia
b. 1973
Valentin Gapontsev
1939 – 2021
Valerii Pustovoitenko
b. 1947
Viktor Shreyder
1952 – 2026
Viktor Sobolev
b. 1950
Viktor Varshavsky
1933 – 2005
Viktor Yushchenko
b. 1954
Vladimir Okrepilov
1944 – 2026
Wolfgang P. Schleich
b. 1957
Yannis Panaretos
b. 1948
Yoseph Imry
1939 – 2018
Yoshikazu Uchida
1885 – 1972
Yousef Jabareen
b. 1972
Zillur Rahman Siddiqui
1928 – 2014
Árpád Prandler
1930 – 2014
Édouard Risler
1873 – 1929
Abdelmunim al-Rifai
1917 – 1985
Abraham Tolentino
b. 1964
Adolf II, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe
1883 – 1936
Aenne Brauksiepe
1912 – 1997
Aggrey Awori
1939 – 2021
Alan Gilbert
b. 1967
Albert Burger
1925 – 1981
Aleksandr Grossheim
1888 – 1948
Aleksey Khlobystov
1918 – 1943
Aleksey Shcherbatov
1776 – 1848
Alex Mitchell
1947 – 2010
Alexander Deichsel
b. 1935
Alexandre Chauveau
1847 – 1916
Alfred Witkon
1910 – 1984
Alfredo Ramírez Bedolla
b. 1976
Allan Boesak
b. 1946
Amos T. Akerman
1821 – 1880
Amy Khor
b. 1958
Anastasiia Tsybuliak
b. 1984
Andre Ward
b. 1984
Andrew Griffith
b. 1971
Andrew Hamilton Russell
1868 – 1960
… and 3,952 more
Died on February 23
George Van Biesbroeck
1880 – 1974
Robert K. Merton
1910 – 2003
Abraham Harman
1914 – 1992
Albert Victor Bäcklund
1845 – 1922
André Chaumeix
1874 – 1955
Antonio Signorini
1888 – 1963
Carl Friedrich Gauss
1777 – 1855
Charles M. Herzfeld
1925 – 2017
Dickinson W. Richards
1895 – 1973
Edward Elgar
1857 – 1934
Eliahu Nissim
1933 – 2020
Elizabeth Piper Ensley
1847 – 1919
Hannes Gebhard
1864 – 1933
Hugo Suolahti
1874 – 1944
Jean Gaston Darboux
1842 – 1917
Johannes Gabriel Granö
1882 – 1956
John Quincy Adams
1767 – 1848
Josep Palau i Fabre
1917 – 2008
Joseph W. Barr
1918 – 1996
Leo Baekeland
1863 – 1944
Lorenzo Arrazola y García
1797 – 1873
Luna Leopold
1915 – 2006
Lynden Macassey
1876 – 1963
Marcel Griaule
1898 – 1956
Ming Fay
1943 – 2025
Pierre Frieden
1892 – 1959
Pieter Willems
1840 – 1898
Predrag Keros
1933 – 2018
Robert Alexander Falla
1901 – 1979
Saint-René Taillandier
1817 – 1879
Vicente Asuero y Cortázar
1806 – 1873
Vladimir Potemkin
1874 – 1946
Édouard Desor
1811 – 1882
Abdul Rehman Malik
1951 – 2022
Ahmed Zaki Yamani
1930 – 2021
Albrecht von Roon
1803 – 1879
Aleksey Tolstoy
1882 – 1945
Alexander Ilyinsky
1859 – 1920
Alexander Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Carisbrooke
1886 – 1960
Anatol Heintz
1898 – 1975
Anton de Waal
1837 – 1917
Ashot Petrosian
1930 – 1998
Auguste de Forbin
1777 – 1841
Benjamin Ball
1833 – 1893
Blasius Merrem
1761 – 1824
Boris Berman
1901 – 1939
Carlos José Gutiérrez de los Ríos y Rohan Chabot Fernán-Núñez
1742 – 1795
Csilla von Boeselager
1941 – 1994
Curt Michel
1934 – 2015
David Chilton Phillips
1924 – 1999
Donald E. Williams
1942 – 2016
Edward Lansdale
1908 – 1987
Edward Theodore Salvesen
1857 – 1942
Ephraim P. Holmes
1908 – 1997
Erasmus Ransford Tawiah Madjitey
1920 – 1996
Eugene Bolkhovitinov
1767 – 1837
Friedrich von Esmarch
1823 – 1908
Gaëtan de Rochebouët
1813 – 1899
George Lawson Johnston, 1st Baron Luke
1873 – 1943
Giichi Tsunoda
1937 – 2024
Grigore Trandafil
1840 – 1907
Gustav Groß
1856 – 1935
Gustav Storm
1845 – 1903
Guy Calthrop
1870 – 1919
Henk Zeevalking
1922 – 2005
Hervé Bourges
1933 – 2020
Ivan Buravlyov
1942 – 2024
James M. Gavin
1907 – 1990
James Maury
1746 – 1840
Janez Drnovšek
1950 – 2008
Jerzy Dietl
1927 – 2021
Joan Child
1921 – 2013
John Alexander Armstrong, Jr
1922 – 2010
John Friend Mahoney
1889 – 1957
John Motson
1945 – 2023
John Olver
1936 – 2023
Jonas Jablonskis
1860 – 1930
Joseph Cachin
1757 – 1825
Joshua Reynolds
1723 – 1792
José Napoleón Duarte
1925 – 1990
Juan Pablo Colmenarejo
1967 – 2022
Judah Even Shemuel
1887 – 1976
Jules Coutan
1848 – 1939
Justo Arosemena Quesada
1817 – 1896
Katherine Helmond
1929 – 2019
Lies Cosijn
1931 – 2016
Louis Jean Baptiste Bergeron
1876 – 1948
Machteld Mellink
1917 – 2006
Mahendralal Sarkar
1833 – 1904
Malkhaz Abdushelishvili
1926 – 1998
Marcel Prawy
1911 – 2003
Michael Knatchbull, 5th Baron Brabourne
1895 – 1939
Othman Kechrid
1920 – 2021
Otto Michael Ludwig Leichtenstern
1845 – 1900
Paul A. Chadbourne
1823 – 1883
Paul Claudel
1868 – 1955
Pavel Lebeshev
1940 – 2003
Peter Gregson
1957 – 2024
Pyotr Gannushkin
1875 – 1933
Rajendra Narayan Singh Deo
1912 – 1975
Risieri Frondizi
1910 – 1983
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 5th Marquess of Salisbury
1893 – 1972
Robert Sharon Allen
1900 – 1981
Roger Hilsman
1919 – 2014
Rudolf Lange
1910 – 1945
Sabine Oberhauser
1963 – 2017
Sophus Müller
1846 – 1934
Suzanne Jovet-Ast
1914 – 2006
Sverre Fehn
1924 – 2009
Syed Abul Maksud
1946 – 2021
Thomas Brassey, 1st Earl Brassey
1836 – 1918
Thomas Edward Thorpe
1845 – 1925
Tomoyuki Yamashita
1885 – 1946
Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Lebedev
1943 – 2024
William Carlos Stone
1859 – 1939
William Knowland
1908 – 1974
William Raggio
1926 – 2012
Woldemar Bargiel
1828 – 1897
Zhang Boling
1876 – 1951
Abdelaziz Ben Dhia
1936 – 2015
Abraham Bruyn Hasbrouck
1791 – 1879
Adama Samassékou
1946 – 2024
Ahmad Dahlan
1868 – 1923
Alan Colmes
1950 – 2017
Albert Nicolai Schioldann
1843 – 1917
Albert Ricot
1826 – 1902
Aleksandr Vasil'evič Kosarev
1903 – 1939
Alexander Kolisko
1857 – 1918
Alice Ricciardi-von Platen
1910 – 2008
Amos Dolbear
1837 – 1910
Amritlal
1916 – 1990
Anatole Lewitsky
1903 – 1942
Anders Venger
1872 – 1935
Andrea Cesalpino
1519 – 1603
Andrej Medved
1947 – 2026
Annelien Kappeyne van de Coppello
1936 – 1990
Anson Burlingame
1820 – 1870
Antonio Rodotà
1935 – 2006
Ardeshir Ji Reporter
1865 – 1933
Arturo Droguett del Fierro
1906 – 1977
August Tammekann
1894 – 1959
Benno Besson
1922 – 2006
C. Harding Walker
1859 – 1934
Cally Monrad
1879 – 1950
Carl Hildebrand Lindroth
1905 – 1979
Carl Meinhold
1926 – 2019
Chaim Corfu
1921 – 2015
Charles Laban Abernethy
1872 – 1955
Charles S. Dean, Sr.
1939 – 2026
Christopher Hill
1912 – 2003
Coleman Barks
1937 – 2026
Conolly Norman
1853 – 1908
Constantin Silvestri
1913 – 1969
David Berlo
1929 – 1996
David Sayre
1924 – 2012
David Watts Morgan
1867 – 1933
Dimitrios Kokkidis
1840 – 1896
Dionisio Pérez Gutiérrez
1872 – 1935
Don Flickinger
1907 – 1997
Dorothy Awes Haaland
1918 – 1996
Douglas Reynolds
1882 – 1916
Duncan Farquharson Gregory
1813 – 1844
E. Hart Fenn
1856 – 1939
Edward Sandford Burgess
1855 – 1928
Edward Vardon
1866 – 1937
Einar Holbøll
1865 – 1927
Elizabeth Stephansen
1872 – 1961
Emmett Forrest Branch
1874 – 1932
Enrico Celio
1889 – 1980
Erich Isselhorst
1906 – 1948
Ernest Blythe
1889 – 1975
Eugene Bookhammer
1918 – 2013
Fan Ming
1914 – 2010
Felix von Wimpffen
1744 – 1814
Ferenc Mérei
1909 – 1986
Floros Konstantinou
1952 – 2018
Francis M. Forster
1912 – 2006
François Couchepin
1935 – 2023
Frederic Toulmouche
1850 – 1909
Friedrich Winkler
1888 – 1965
G. Frederick Reinhardt
1911 – 1971
Gabriel Coury
1896 – 1956
Gaspar Lax
1487 – 1560
George Davis
1820 – 1896
George Pop de Băseşti
1835 – 1919
George Sackville-West, 5th Earl De La Warr
1791 – 1869
Giulio Perugi
1886 – 1949
Gordon Upton
1920 – 2010
Grigory Khakhanyan
1895 – 1939
Guillem de Plandolit i d'Areny
1822 – 1876
Gustav Just
1921 – 2011
Hadley Williams
1864 – 1932
Heinz Berggruen
1914 – 2007
Henry Arthur Blake
1840 – 1918
Henry Clay
1811 – 1847
Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk
1517 – 1554
Henry M. Teller
1830 – 1914
Henry Noris
1631 – 1704
Henry T. Mayo
1856 – 1937
Henry Ward, 5th Viscount Bangor
1828 – 1911
… and 1,883 more