The 54th day of the year
Born on 23 February
Every 23 February birthday from 1920 to 2026 was Pisces, in every time zone.
- Star sign
- PiscesWater, mutable, ruled by Jupiter.
- Birthstone
- AmethystThe same as on the 1912 list.
- Birth flower
- Violet, PrimroseUsually taken today to mean faithfulness and young love.
- Most common weekdays
- Monday and Thursday16 times each between 1920 and 2026.
Your year
Without JavaScript, the pages for each birth year give the generation and Chinese animal for a birth on 23 February in any year.
Which weekday 23 February falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 23 February falls on every day of the week: Monday 16, Thursday 16, Wednesday 15, Friday 15, Saturday 15, Tuesday 15, Sunday 15.
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How common a birthday 23 February is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,779 babies were born on 23 February in each year of the twenty, making it the joint 285th most common of the 366 dates, where 26 September came first with 1,974 and 26 December last with 1,359.
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Born on 23 February
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| George Frideric Handel | 1685–1759 | German-British Baroque composer; born 23 February in the Julian calendar, which is 5 March in the Gregorian |
| Karl Jaspers | 1883–1969 | German-Swiss psychiatrist and philosopher |
| Kazimir Malevich | 1879–1935 | Russian avant-garde artist and founder of Suprematism |
| Pope Paul II | 1417–1471 | pope of the Catholic Church from 1464 to 1471 |
| Casemiro | 1992– | Brazilian association football player |
| W. E. B. Du Bois | 1868–1963 | American sociologist and activist |
| Erich Kästner | 1899–1974 | German children's writer |
| Matthias Corvinus | 1443–1490 | King of Hungary and Bohemia, Duke of Austria |
| Allan MacLeod Cormack | 1924–1998 | American physicist |
| Casimir Funk | 1884–1967 | Polish-American biochemist |
| Gareth Barry | 1981– | English association football player |
| Konstantin Päts | 1874–1956 | Estonian politician |
| Michael Dell | 1965– | American businessman and CEO |
| Samuel Pepys | 1633–1703 | English diarist and administrator |
| Victor Fleming | 1889–1949 | American film director, cinematographer, and producer |
| Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow | 1929–2008 | 15th Patriarch of Moscow and all the Rus', the primate of the Russian Orthodox Church |
| Femke Broeders-Bol | 2000– | Dutch athletics competitor |
| Kelly Macdonald | 1976– | Scottish actress |
Died on 23 February
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Carl Friedrich Gauss | 1777–1855 | German mathematician and physicist |
| John Quincy Adams | 1767–1848 | President of the United States from 1825 to 1829 |
| John Keats | 1795–1821 | English Romantic poet |
| Pope Eugene IV | 1383–1447 | pope of the Catholic Church from 1431 to 1447 |
| Paul Claudel | 1868–1955 | French diplomat, poet and playwright |
| Edward Elgar | 1857–1934 | English composer |
| Joshua Reynolds | 1723–1792 | English painter |
| Saud of Saudi Arabia | 1902–1969 | King of Saudi Arabia from 1953 to 1964 |
| François Viète | 1540–1603 | French mathematician and lawyer |
| Janez Drnovšek | 1950–2008 | Slovenian politician |
| Stan Laurel | 1890–1965 | English actor |
| Stanisław Leszczyński | 1677–1766 | King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania |
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