Born on February 23
February 23 birthdays & history
If you were born on February 23, you share a birthday with George Frideric Handel, Karl Jaspers and Kazimir Malevich. February 23 babies are Pisces, with amethyst as their birthstone and the violet as their birth flower. February 23 is the 54th day of the year in leap years.
Famous people born on February 23
- 1685George Frideric Handel, German-English organist and composer
- 1883Karl Jaspers, German-Swiss psychiatrist and philosopher
- 1878Kazimir Malevich, Ukrainian painter and theorist
- 1417Pope Paul II, Head of the Catholic Church from 1464 to 1471
- 1992Casemiro, Brazilian footballer
- 1868W. E. B. Du Bois, American sociologist, historian, and activist
- 1443Matthias Corvinus, Hungarian king
- 1899Erich Kästner, German author and poet
- 1924Allan McLeod Cormack, South-African-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1884Casimir Funk, Polish biochemist
What happened on February 23
- 1725Johann Sebastian Bach premiered his Shepherd Cantata for the birthday of Christian, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels.
- 1854The Orange River Convention was signed in Bloemfontein, with the United Kingdom agreeing to recognise the independence of the Orange Free State in present-day South Africa.
- 1854The official independence of the Orange Free State, South Africa is declared.
- 1883Alabama becomes the first U.S. state to enact an anti-trust law.
- 1905Chicago attorney Paul Harris and three other businessmen meet for lunch to form the Rotary Club, the world's first service club.
- 1909The AEA Silver Dart makes the first powered flight in Canada and the British Empire.
- 1917First demonstrations in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The beginning of the February Revolution (March 8 in the Gregorian calendar).
- 1927U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs a bill by Congress establishing the Federal Radio Commission (later replaced by the Federal Communications Commission) which was to regulate the use of radio frequencies in the United States.
- 1927German theoretical physicist Werner Heisenberg writes a letter to fellow physicist Wolfgang Pauli, in which he describes his uncertainty principle for the first time.
- 1934Leopold III becomes King of Belgium.
- 1947International Organization for Standardization is founded.
- 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.
Also observed on February 23
- The Emperor's Birthday, birthday of Naruhito, the current Emperor of Japan (Japan)
- Mashramani-Republic Day (Guyana)
- National Day (Brunei)
Questions, answered
What star sign is February 23?
People born on February 23 are Pisces. Their birthstone is amethyst and their birth flower is the violet.
Which famous people were born on February 23?
George Frideric Handel (1685), Karl Jaspers (1883), Kazimir Malevich (1878), Pope Paul II (1417), Casemiro (1992), W. E. B. Du Bois (1868) were all born on February 23.
What happened on February 23 in history?
Among other things: in 1934, Leopold III becomes King of Belgium; in 1947, International Organization for Standardization is founded; in 1987, SN 1987A, the first supernova that modern astronomers were able to study in great detail, was observed from Earth occurring in the Large Magellanic Cloud.
Can I get a newspaper front page from February 23?
Yes. The Birthday Gazette makes a personalised vintage-style front page for any February 23 birth year, with their name in the headline, events, famous birthdays and typical US prices. The preview is free and the print files cost $9.
Events, birthdays and observances are adapted from Wikipedia contributors, “February 23”, English Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0 (shortened and filtered). Ranking uses Wikidata (CC0). Sources.