Births on 23 February
2000s
Emilia Jones
2002
British actress (born 2002)
Femke Bol
2000
Dutch hurdler and sprinter (born 2000)
1900s
Jamal Murray
1997
Canadian basketball player (born 1997)
D'Angelo Russell
1996
American basketball player (born 1996)
Andrew Wiggins
1995
Canadian basketball player (born 1995)
Dakota Fanning
1994
American actress (born 1994)
Triptii Dimri
1994
Indian actress (born 1994)
Neviana Vladinova
1994
Bulgarian rhythmic gymnast
Casemiro
1992
Brazilian footballer (born 1992)
Kyriakos Papadopoulos
1992
Greek footballer (born 1992)
Samara Weaving
1992
Australian actress and model (born 1992)
Kevin Connauton
1990
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1990)
Marco Scandella
1990
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1990)
Evan Bates
1989
American ice dancer (born 1989)
Jérémy Pied
1989
French association football player (born 1989)
Wilin Rosario
1989
Dominican baseball player (born 1989)
Nicolás Gaitán
1988
Argentine footballer (born 1988)
Ab-Soul
1987
American rapper (born 1987)
Malik Hairston
1987
American basketball player (born 1987)
Theophilus London
1987
American rapper and singer (born 1987)
Emerson (footballer, born February 1986)
1986
Brazilian footballer
Skylar Grey
1986
American singer (born 1986)
Kazuya Kamenashi
1986
Japanese singer (born 1986)
Jerod Mayo
1986
American football player and coach (born 1986)
Ola Svensson
1986
Musical artist
Aziz Ansari
1983
American actor and comedian (born 1983)
Emily Blunt
1983
British actress (born 1983)
Mido (footballer)
1983
Egyptian football manager (born 1983)
Dijon Thompson
1983
American basketball player (born 1983)
Jia Perkins
1982
American basketball player and coach (born 1982)
Karan Singh Grover
1982
Indian model and actor
Gareth Barry
1981
English footballer (born 1981)
Josh Gad
1981
American actor and singer (born 1981)
Charles Tillman
1981
American football player and FBI special agent (born 1981)
Residente
1978
Puerto Rican rapper (born 1978)
Dan Snyder (ice hockey)
1978
Ice hockey player
Kristina Šmigun-Vähi
1977
Estonian cross-country skier and politician
Kelly Macdonald
1976
Scottish actress (born 1976)
Michael Cornacchia
1975
American actor
Robert Lopez
1975
American songwriter of musicals (born 1975)
Herschelle Gibbs
1974
South African cricketer
Robbi Kempson
1974
South African rugby union player (born 1974)
Jeff Nordgaard
1973
American/Polish basketball player (born 1973)
Alessandro Sturba
1972
Italian footballer (born 1972)
Rondell White
1972
American baseball player (born 1972)
Carin Koch
1971
Swedish professional golfer (born 1971)
Melinda Messenger
1971
English television presenter, model (born 1971)
Joe-Max Moore
1971
American soccer player
Niecy Nash
1970
American actress (born 1970)
Michael Campbell
1969
New Zealand golfer (born 1969)
Martine Croxall
1969
British journalist and news presenter
Daymond John
1969
American businessman, investor, and television personality (born 1969)
Bhagyashree
1969
Indian actress (born 1969)
Steve Stricker
1967
American professional golfer (born 1967)
Chris Vrenna
1967
American musician and producer
Kristin Davis
1965
American actress (born 1965)
Michael Dell
1965
American businessman (born 1965)
Helena Suková
1965
Czech tennis player
John Norum
1964
Swedish guitarist (born 1964)
Bobby Bonilla
1963
American baseball player (born 1963)
Radosław Sikorski
1963
Polish politician and journalist (born 1963)
Michael Wilton
1962
Musical artist
Naruhito
1960
Emperor of Japan since 2019
Clayton Anderson
1959
Retired NASA astronaut and member of the ISS Expedition 15 crew
Nick de Bois
1959
British Conservative Party politician
Ian Liddell-Grainger
1959
British politician
Linda Nolan
1959
Irish singer and actress (1959–2025)
David Sylvian
1958
English musician (born 1958)
Charlie Brandt
1957
American serial killer (1957–2004)
Sandra Osborne
1956
Scottish politician and former Labour MP
Howard Jones (British musician)
1955
English singer
Flip Saunders
1955
American basketball player and coach (1955–2015)
Francesca Simon
1955
American-British author (born 1955)
Rajani Thiranagama
1954
Human rights activist
Viktor Yushchenko
1954
President of Ukraine from 2005 to 2010
Kenny Bee
1953
Hong Kong singer and actor
Satoru Nakajima
1953
Japanese racing driver (born 1953)
Brad Whitford
1952
American guitarist (born 1952)
Eddie Dibbs
1951
American tennis player
Debbie Friedman
1951
Jewish American singer-songwriter of liturgical music
Ed "Too Tall" Jones
1951
American football player (born 1951)
Patricia Richardson
1951
American actress
Rebecca Goldstein
1950
American philosopher and novelist (born 1950)
John Greaves (musician)
1950
British musician & composer (born 1950)
César Aira
1949
Argentine writer and translator
Marc Garneau
1949
Canadian astronaut and politician (1949–2025)
Bill Alexander (director)
1948
British theatre director (born 1948)
Trevor Cherry
1948
English footballer and manager (1948–2020)
Steve Priest
1948
British bass player (1948–2020)
Pia Kjærsgaard
1947
Danish politician (born 1947)
Anton Mosimann
1947
Swiss chef and restaurateur
Rusty Young (musician)
1946
American guitarist (1946–2021)
Allan Boesak
1945
South African cleric and anti-apartheid activist (born 1946)
Bernard Cornwell
1944
British writer (born 1944)
Florian Fricke
1944
German musician (1944–2001)
Johnny Winter
1944
American blues guitarist and singer (1944–2014)
Fred Biletnikoff
1943
American gridiron football player and coach (born 1943)
Bobby Mitchell (golfer)
1943
American golfer (1943–2018)
Ron Hunt
1941
American baseball player (born 1941)
Peter Fonda
1940
American actor and filmmaker (1940–2019)
Jackie Smith
1940
American football player (born 1940)
Lee Shaffer
1939
American basketball player (born 1939)
Sylvia Chase
1938
American journalist (1938–2019)
Paul Morrissey
1938
American film director (1938–2024)
Diane Varsi
1938
American actress
Tom Osborne
1937
American football coach and politician
Majel Barrett
1932
American actress (1932–2008)
Tom Wesselmann
1931
American artist (1931 - 2004)
Paul West (writer, born 1930)
1930
British-born American novelist, poet, and essayist (1930–2015)
Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow
1929
15th Patriarch of Moscow and all the Rus', the primate of the Russian Orthodox Church
Elston Howard
1929
American baseball player and coach (1929–1980)
Hans Herrmann
1928
German racing driver (1928–2026)
Vasily Lazarev
1928
Soviet cosmonaut (1928–1990)
Régine Crespin
1927
French singer (1927–2007)
Jessica Huntley
1927
Publisher and community rights activist (1927–2013)
Mirtha Legrand
1927
Argentine actress and television host (born 1927)
Louis Stokes
1925
American politician (1925–2015)
Allan MacLeod Cormack
1924
South African and American physicist
Rafael Addiego Bruno
1923
Uruguayan jurist and political figure (1923–2014)
Harry Clarke (footballer, born 1923)
1923
English footballer
Ioannis Grivas
1923
Greek judge
Dante Lavelli
1923
American football player (1923–2009)
Clarence D. Lester
1923
Tuskegee Airman (1923–1986)
Mary Francis Shura
1923
American novelist
Johnny Franz
1922
English record producer (1922–1977)
Paul Gérin-Lajoie
1920
Canadian politician
Johnny Carey
1919
20th-century Irish footballer and manager
Jon Hall (actor)
1915
American actor (1915–1979)
Paul Tibbets
1915
United States Air Force general (1915–2007)
William McMahon
1908
Prime Minister of Australia from 1971 to 1972
Terence Fisher
1904
British film director and film editor (1904–1980)
William L. Shirer
1904
American journalist, war correspondent, and author (1904–1993)
1800s
Erich Kästner
1899
German author, poet and satirist (1899–1974)
Norman Taurog
1899
American film director (1899–1981)
Harold Horder
1894
Australia international rugby league footballer (1894–1978)
Kathleen Harrison
1892
English actress (1892–1995)
Agnes Smedley
1892
American journalist and writer
Musidora
1889
French actress
Cyril Delevanti
1889
English actor (1887–1975)
Victor Fleming
1889
American film director, cinematographer, and producer (1889–1949)
John Gilbert Winant
1889
American Republican politician and diplomat
Casimir Funk
1884
Polish-American biochemist (1884–1967)
Karl Jaspers
1883
German-Swiss psychiatrist and philosopher (1883–1969)
Guy C. Wiggins
1883
American painter
Kazimir Malevich
1878
Russian artist and painter (1879–1935)
Konstantin Päts
1874
Estonian statesman and president (1874–1956)
Liang Qichao
1873
Chinese politician, activist and journalist (1873–1929)
W. E. B. Du Bois
1868
American sociologist and activist (1868–1963)
Anna Hofman-Uddgren
1868
César Ritz
1850
Swiss hotelier (1850–1918)
Eduard von Hartmann
1842
German philosopher (1842–1906)
Hendrik Willem Mesdag
1831
Dutch painter
Magdalene Osenbroch
1830
Norwegian actress (1830–1854)
Johan Jakob Nervander
1805
Finnish poet, physicist and meteorologist (1805–1848)
Before 1800
José Joaquín de Herrera
1792
President of Mexico in 1844, from 1844 to 1845, from 1848 to 1851
Mayer Amschel Rothschild
1744
German banker (1744–1812)
Richard Price
1723
British philosopher, preacher and mathematician (1723–1791)
George Frideric Handel
1685
German-British composer (1685–1759)
Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville
1680
French colonial governor of Louisiana
Tokugawa Tsunayoshi
1646
Japanese Samurai, Daimyo and Military leader of Japan from 1680 to 1709
Samuel Pepys
1633
English writer and politician (1633–1703)
George Frederick of Nassau-Siegen
1606
German prince and officer in the Dutch Army (1606–1674)
Balthazar Gerbier
1592
Anglo-Dutch courtier, diplomat
Jean-Baptiste Morin (mathematician)
1583
French astronomer and astrologer (1583–1656)
Henry XI of Legnica
1539
Thrice Duke of Legnica: 1551–1556 (under regency), 1559–1576 and 1580-1581
Salima Sultan Begum
1539
Empress consort of Mughal Emperor Akbar (1539–1613)
Onofrio Panvinio
1529
Italian historian and antiquary (1529-1568)
Matthias Corvinus
1443
King of Hungary and Croatia from 1458 to 1490
Pope Paul II
1417
Head of the Catholic Church from 1464 to 1471
Louis IX, Duke of Bavaria
1417
Duke of Bavaria-Landshut from 1450 to 1479
Al-Zafir
1133
Fatimid Caliph from 1149 to 1154