On this day: 23 February
Events, births and deaths on 23 February. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Events · 2025 German federal election
- Events · The funeral of Hassan Nasrallah
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Peter Lustig
100 years ago1926
Within 10 years of that
- 1918 · Events · Red Army
- 1934 · Deaths · Edward Elgar
- 1924 · Births · Allan McLeod Cormack
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 1100 · Deaths · Emperor Zhezong of Song
- 943 · Deaths · Herbert II, Count of Vermandois
- 1011 · Deaths · Willigis
Events · 25
- 532(Julian date)Hagia Sophia — mosque, museum, and former church in Istanbul, Turkey
- 1836Battle of the Alamo — 1836 major battle of the Texas Revolution
- 1854Orange River Convention — treaty 23 February 1854
- 1885Battle of Dong Dang — 1885 battle of the Sino-French War in northern Vietnam
- 18871887 Diano Marina earthquake — Earthquake affecting Italy and France
- 1905Rotary International — international non-profit service organization
- 1918Red Army — Soviet army and air force from 1918 to 1946
- 1938Taihoku Air Strike — 1938 airstrike
- 1942Bombardment of Ellwood — 1942 airstrike
- 1943United Panhellenic Organization of Youth — Youth wing of the Greek National Liberation Front
- 1945Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima — photograph taken during the Battle of Iwo Jima of World War II
- 1945Bombing of Pforzheim in World War II — 1945 aerial bombing
- 1947International Organization for Standardization — international standards development organization
- 19501950 United Kingdom general election — general election held in the United Kingdom
- 19661966 Syrian coup d'état — 21–23 February overthrow of government
- 19811981 Spanish coup d'état attempt — February 1981 coup d'état attempt in Spain
- 19911991 Thai coup d'état — military coup d'état in Thailand on 23 February 1991
- 2007Grayrigg derailment — train accident
- 2008Andersen Air Force Base B-2 accident — aviation accident
- 2018
- 2019Atlas Air Flight 3591 — February 23, 2019 aviation accident
- 2020murder of Ahmaud Arbery — 2020 murder in Georgia, U.S.
- 2021February 2021 Ecuadorian prison riots — Massacre in Ecuadorian prisons in February 2021
- 20252025 German federal election — general election for the 21st German Bundestag
- 2025The funeral of Hassan Nasrallah — 2025 funeral in Beirut, Lebanon
Births · 60
- 1417(Julian date)Paul II — pope of the Catholic Church from 1464 to 1471
- 1443(Julian date)Matthias Corvinus — King of Hungary and Bohemia, Duke of Austria (1443-1490)
- 1633Samuel Pepys — English diarist and administrator (1633–1703)
- 1646Tokugawa Tsunayoshi — The fifth shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan (1646-1709)
- 1685(Julian date)George Frideric Handel — German-British Baroque composer (1685–1759)
- 1723Richard Price — British philosopher, preacher and mathematician (1723–1791)
- 1744Mayer Amschel Rothschild — Jewish German banker (1744–1812)
- 1840Carl Menger — founder of the Austrian School of economics (1840–1921)
- 1842Eduard von Hartmann — German philosopher (1842–1906)
- 1863
- 1868W. E. B. Du Bois — American sociologist and activist (1868–1963)
- 1873Liang Chi-chao — Chinese politician, activist and journalist (1873–1929)
- 1879Kazimir Malevich — Russian avant-garde artist of Polish ancestry. Founder of the Suprematist movement (1879–1935)
- 1883Karl Jaspers — German-Swiss psychiatrist and philosopher (1883–1969)
- 1884Casimir Funk — Polish-American biochemist
- 1889Victor Fleming — American film director, cinematographer, and producer (1889–1949)
- 1899Erich Kästner — German children's writer (1899–1974)
- 1899Norman Taurog — American film director (1899–1981)
- 1908William McMahon — Australian politician, 20th Prime Minister of Australia (1908–1988)
- 1924Allan McLeod Cormack — American physicist (1924-1998)
- 1928Vasily Lazarev — Soviet cosmonaut (1928–1990)
- 1929Patriarch Alexius II — 15th Patriarch of Moscow and all the Rus', the primate of the Russian Orthodox Church (1929–2008)
- 1930Gorō Shimura — Japanese mathematician (1930-2019)
- 1932Majel Barrett — American actress (1932–2008)
- 1938Diane Varsi — American actress (1938-1992)
Deaths · 60
- 715(Julian date)Al-Walid I — Umayyad caliph
- 908Li Keyong — Shatuo military governor during the Tang Dynasty (856-908)
- 943(Julian date)Herbert II, Count of Vermandois — Frankish noble from Carolingian dynastys.
- 1011(Julian date)Willigis — Archbishop of Mainz
- 1100(Julian date)Emperor Zhezong of Song — 7th emperor of the Song Dynasty
- 1270(Julian date)Isabelle of France — French Roman Catholic princess, nun and blessed
- 1447(Julian date)Eugene IV — pope of the Catholic Church from 1431 to 1447
- 1447(Julian date)Humphrey of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Gloucester — 15th-century English nobleman (1390-1447)
- 1464Zhengtong Emperor — emperor of the Ming Dynasty
- 1473Arnold, Duke of Guelders — Duke of Guelders (1410–1473)
- 1526(Julian date)Diego Columbus — Spanish governor of the Indies and son of Christopher Columbus
- 1554(Julian date)Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk — English Duke
- 1603
- 1603Andrea Cesalpino — Italian physician, botanist and philosopher (1524–1603)
- 1704Georg Muffat — German composer and organist (1653-1704)
- 1766Stanisław Leszczyński — King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania (1677–1766)
- 1792Joshua Reynolds — English painter (1723–1792)
- 1821John Keats — English Romantic poet (1795–1821)
- 1848John Quincy Adams — President of the United States from 1825 to 1829
- 1855Carl Friedrich Gauss — German mathematician and physicist (1777–1855)
- 1859Zygmunt Krasiński — Polish poet (1812–1859)
- 1879Albrecht von Roon — Prussian general (1803-1879)
- 1897Woldemar Bargiel — German composer (1828-1897)
- 1900Ernest Dowson — English writer (1867-1900)
- 1908Friedrich von Esmarch — German academic (1823-1908)
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