Famous Birthdays on February 23

10 notable people were born on February 23.

19th Century

W. E. B. Du Bois

1868 – 1963

Ghana

American sociologist and activist (1868–1963)

autobiographersocial workernovelist

Karl Jaspers

1883 – 1969

Germany

German-Swiss psychiatrist and philosopher (1883–1969)

Casimir Funk

1884 – 1967

Poland

Jewish-Polish biochemist

20th Century

Allan McLeod Cormack

1924 – 1998

South Africa

American physicist (1924-1998)

biophysicist

Patriarch Alexius II

1929 – 2008

Estonia

15th Patriarch of Moscow and all the Rus', the primate of the Russian Orthodox Church (1929-2008)

patriarch

Anatoliy Banishevskiy

1946 – 1997

Azerbaijan

Soviet footballer (1946-1997)

association football playerassociation football coach

Viktor Yushchenko

1954

Ukraine

3rd President of Ukraine

bank managerbankereconomist

Naruhito

1960

Japan

Emperor of Japan since 2019

Hendry Thomas

1985

Honduras

Honduran footballer

association football player

Casemiro

1992

Brazil

Brazilian association football player

association football player