Anniversaries 23 February
Birth
![Samuel Pepys photo]()
English naval administrator and member of parliament
1633–1703
![George Frideric Handel photo]()
German, later British Baroque composer
1685–1759
![Josiah Quincy II photo]()
American lawyer
1744–1775
![Ichabod Spencer photo]()
American minister
1798–1854
![George Frederick Watts photo]()
British painter and sculptor
1817–1904
![Hendrik Willem Mesdag photo]()
painter from the Northern Netherlands
1831–1915
![John Heyl Vincent photo]()
American theologian
1832–1920
![Carl Menger photo]()
founder of the Austrian School of economics
1840–1921
![George Ballard Mathews photo]()
British mathematician
1861–1922
![W.E.B. Du Bois photo]()
American sociologist, historian, activist and writer
1868–1963
![Digby Jephson photo]()
English cricketer
1871–1926
![Kazimir Malevich photo]()
Russian and Soviet artist of polish descent
1879–1935
![Karl Jaspers photo]()
German psychiatrist and philosopher
1883–1969
![Vittore Pisani photo]()
Italian linguist
1899–1990
![Erich Kästner photo]()
German children's writer
1899–1974
![Julius Fučík (journalist) photo]()
Czech journalist and revolutionary
1903–1943
![Helen Nearing photo]()
American writer
1904–1995
![William L. Shirer photo]()
American journalist
1904–1993
![Paul Tibbets photo]()
United States Air Force pilot
1915–2007
![Allan McLeod Cormack photo]()
American physicist
1924–1998
![Robert N. Bellah photo]()
American sociologist
1927–2013
![Goro Shimura photo]()
Japanese mathematician
1930–2019
![David Fasold photo]()
American sailor
1939–1998
![Allan Boesak photo]()
South African anti-apartheid activist
1946
![Walter Wick photo]()
American photographer and creator of children's books
1953
![Viktor Yushchenko photo]()
Ukrainian politician who was President of Ukraine
1954
![Naruhito photo]()
Emperor of Japan since 2019
1960
![Mirco Bergamasco photo]()
Italian rugby union player
1983
![Aziz Ansari photo]()
American actor and stand-up comedian
1983
Death
![Polycarp photo]()
Christian bishop of Smyrna
69–155
![Thomas Goodwin photo]()
English clergyman
1600–1680
![Joseph Warton photo]()
English literary critic
1722–1800
![Joshua Reynolds photo]()
English painter, specialising in portraits
1723–1792
![John Philip Kemble photo]()
British actor-manager
1757–1823
![Joanna Baillie photo]()
Scottish poet and dramatist
1762–1851
![John Quincy Adams photo]()
American politician, 6th president of the United States (in…
1767–1848
![Carl Friedrich Gauss photo]()
German mathematician and physical scientist
1777–1855
![John Keats photo]()
English Romantic poet
1795–1821
![Zygmunt Krasiński photo]()
One of Poland's three national bards
1812–1859
![Duncan Gregory photo]()
British mathematician
1813–1844
![David Law Proudfit photo]()
American writer
1842–1897
![Edward Elgar photo]()
English composer
1857–1934
![Paul Claudel photo]()
French diplomat
1868–1955
![Stefan Zweig photo]()
Austrian writer
1881–1942
![Tomoyuki Yamashita photo]()
general in the Imperial Japanese Army
1885–1946
![L. S. Lowry photo]()
British visual artist
1887–1976
![Leonard D. White photo]()
American historian
1891–1958
![Muhammad Asad photo]()
Austro-Hungarian writer and academic
1900–1992
![Jessamyn West photo]()
American author
1902–1984
![Robert K. Merton photo]()
American sociologist
1910–2003
![James Herriot photo]()
veterinary surgeon and writer
1916–1995
![Douglas Fraser photo]()
American labor leader
1916–2008
![José Napoleón Duarte photo]()
President of El Salvador
1925–1990
![Rana Bhagwandas photo]()
Pakistani judge
1942–2015
![Janez Drnovšek photo]()
Slovenian politician
1950–2008
![Jan L. A. van de Snepscheut photo]()
Dutch computer scientist
1953–1994
