Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/February 23

Births

 * 1633 - Samuel Pepys, English naval administrator and man of letters, posthumously famous as a diarist (d. 1703) (pictured)
 * 1685 - Georg Friedrich Handel, German/British Baroque composer (d. 1759)
 * 1868 - W. E. B. Du Bois, American civil rights leader (d. 1963)
 * 1908 - William McMahon, twentieth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1988)
 * 1940 - Peter Fonda, American actor (d. 2019)

Deaths

 * 1792 - Joshua Reynolds, English painter (b. 1723)
 * 1821 - John Keats, English poet (b. 1795)
 * 1848 - John Quincy Adams, 6th President of the United States (b. 1767)
 * 1965 - Stan Laurel, British born actor and comedian (b. 1890)
 * 1969 - King Saud of Saudi Arabia (b. 1902)