February 23 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on February 23, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♓︎ Pisces
Feb 19 – Mar 20
Birth stone
Amethyst
Birth flower
Violet
How common
#288 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous February 23 birthdays
W. E. B. Du Bois · American sociologist and activist1868
Karl Jaspers · German-Swiss psychiatrist and philosopher1883
Casimir Funk · Polish-American biochemist1884
Victor Fleming · American film director, cinematographer, and producer1889
Erich Kästner · German children's writer1899
Norman Taurog · American film director1899
William L. Shirer · American journalist1904
Allan MacLeod Cormack · American physicist1924
Peter Fonda · American actor and filmmaker1940
Viktor Yushchenko · 3rd President of Ukraine1954
Naruhito · Emperor of Japan1960
Michael Dell · American businessman and CEO1965
Kristin Davis · American actress1965
Didier Queloz · Swiss astronomer1966
Josh Gad · American actor1981
Emily Blunt · British actress1983
Aziz Ansari · American actor, stand-up comedian, screenwriter and director1983
Skylar Grey · American singer1986
Casemiro · Brazilian association football player1992
Dakota Fanning · American actress and model1994
On this day in history
1778American Revolutionary War: Prussian military officer Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben arrived at Valley Forge in Pennsylvania as a volunteer for the Continental Army.
1847Mexican–American War: The United States Army used artillery to repulse the much larger Mexican army at the Battle of Buena Vista near Saltillo.
1886American inventor Charles Martin Hall discovered an inexpensive method of producing aluminium.
1941Plutonium was first chemically identified by chemist Glenn T. Seaborg and his team at the University of California, Berkeley.
1981In Spain, Antonio Tejero attempts a coup d'état by capturing the Spanish Congress of Deputies.
1983The United States Environmental Protection Agency announces its intent to buy out and evacuate the dioxin-contaminated community of Times Beach, Missouri.
1987SN 1987A, the first supernova that modern astronomers were able to study in great detail, was observed from Earth occurring in the Large Magellanic Cloud.
2017Syrian civil war: Allied troops led by the Turkish Armed Forces captured the city of al-Bab from the Islamic State.
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