Who Was Born Today – February 23 Birthdays
Important and famous people from throughout history born on this day
Born on February 23 | ||
1633 | Samuel Pepys, English diarist. | |
1685 | George F. Handel, German composer. | |
1743 | Meyer Amschel Rothschild, banker and founder of the Rothschild dynasty in Europe. | |
1868 | W.E.B. [William Edward Burghardt] Du Bois, U.S. historian and civil rights leader, founder of what became the NAACP. | |
1883 | Victor Fleming, film director (The Wizard of Oz, Gone With the Wind) | |
1899 | Erich Kastner, German poet, novelist and children’s author (Emil and the Detectives). | |
1904 | William Shirer, CBS broadcaster and author (The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich). | |
1924 | Allan MacLeod Cormack, physicist, developed the CAT scan. |