February 23rd Deaths |
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| February 23rd, 2008 (February 23 2008) | Death | Janez Drnovsek, Slovenian prime minister and president (born in 1950) | |
| February 23rd, 2008 (February 23 2008) | Death | Paul Frere, Belgian race car driver and motorsport journalist (born in 1917) | |
| February 23rd, 2008 (February 23 2008) | Death | Douglas Fraser, Scottish pilot, first to land at Newfoundland Airport on January 11, 1938 (born in 1916) | |
| February 23rd, 2007 (February 23 2007) | Death | Donnie Brooks, American singer (born in 1936) | |
| February 23rd, 2007 (February 23 2007) | Death | John Ritchie, British footballer (born in 1941) | |
| February 23rd, 2006 (February 23 2006) | Death | Benno Besson, Swiss actor and film director (born in 1922) | |
| February 23rd, 2006 (February 23 2006) | Death | Telmo Zarraonaindia, Spanish footballer (born in 1921) | |
| February 23rd, 2004 (February 23 2004) | Death | Vijay Anand, Indian film director (born in 1934) | |
| February 23rd, 2004 (February 23 2004) | Death | Carl Anderson, American singer (born in 1945) | |
| February 23rd, 2004 (February 23 2004) | Death | Sikander Bakht, Governor of Kerala (born in 1918) | |
| February 23rd, 2004 (February 23 2004) | Death | Don Cornell, American singer (born in 1919) | |
| February 23rd, 2004 (February 23 2004) | Death | Carl Liscombe, Canadian hockey player (born in 1915) | |
| February 23rd, 2003 (February 23 2003) | Death | Robert K. Merton, American sociologist (born in 1910) | |
| February 23rd, 2003 (February 23 2003) | Death | Howie Epstein, American bass guitarist (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers) (born in 1955) | Tom Petty Quotes |
| February 23rd, 2001 (February 23 2001) | Death | Robert Enrico, French film director and screenwriter (born in 1931) | |
| February 23rd, 2000 (February 23 2000) | Death | Ofra Haza, Israeli singer (born in 1957) | |
| February 23rd, 2000 (February 23 2000) | Death | Stanley Matthews, English footballer (born in 1915) | |
| February 23rd, 1999 (February 23 1999) | Death | Carlos Hathcock, USMC Sniper, 93 Confirmed Kills (born in 1942) | |
| February 23rd, 1997 (February 23 1997) | Death | Tony Williams, American jazz drummer (born in 1945) | |
| February 23rd, 1995 (February 23 1995) | Death | Melvin Franklin, American singer (The Temptations) (born in 1942) | |
| February 23rd, 1995 (February 23 1995) | Death | James Herriot, English writer (born in 1916) | |
| February 23rd, 1992 (February 23 1992) | Death | Markos Vafiadis, Greek politician (born in 1906) | |
| February 23rd, 1990 (February 23 1990) | Death | Jose Napoleon Duarte, President of El Salvador (born in 1925) | |
| February 23rd, 1983 (February 23 1983) | Death | Herbert Howells, English composer (born in 1892) | |
| February 23rd, 1979 (February 23 1979) | Death | W.A.C. Bennett, Canadian politician (born in 1900) | |
| February 23rd, 1976 (February 23 1976) | Death | LS Lowry, English artist (born in 1887) | |
| February 23rd, 1974 (February 23 1974) | Death | Harry Ruby, American composer and writer (born in 1895) | |
| February 23rd, 1973 (February 23 1973) | Death | Dickinson W. Richards, American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (born in 1895) | |
| February 23rd, 1970 (February 23 1970) | Death | Hirsch Jacobs, American thoroughbred horse trainer and owner (born in 1904) | |
| February 23rd, 1969 (February 23 1969) | Death | King Saud of Saudi Arabia (born in 1902) | |
| February 23rd, 1965 (February 23 1965) | Death | Stan Laurel, British born actor and comedian (born in 1890) | Stan Laurel Quotes |
| February 23rd, 1960 (February 23 1960) | Death | Arthur Legat, Belgian racing driver (born in 1898) | |
| February 23rd, 1957 (February 23 1957) | Death | Marika Ninou, Greek singer (born in 1918) | |
| February 23rd, 1955 (February 23 1955) | Death | Paul Claudel, French poet and playwright (born in 1868) | |
| February 23rd, 1948 (February 23 1948) | Death | John Robert Gregg, Irish-born publisher and inventor (born in 1866) | |
| February 23rd, 1946 (February 23 1946) | Death | Tomoyuki Yamashita, Japanese general (hanged) (born in 1885) | Tomoyuki Yamashita Quotes |
| February 23rd, 1944 (February 23 1944) | Death | Leo Hendrik Baekeland, Flemish-American chemist and inventor of the first synthetic plastic, Bakelite (born in 1863) | |
| February 23rd, 1934 (February 23 1934) | Death | Edward Elgar, English composer (born in 1857) | Edward Elgar Quotes |
| February 23rd, 1931 (February 23 1931) | Death | Nellie Melba, Australian opera soprano (born in 1861) | |
| February 23rd, 1930 (February 23 1930) | Death | Horst Wessel, Nazi ideologue and composer (born in 1907) | |
| February 23rd, 1922 (February 23 1922) | Death | Albert Victor Backlund, Swedish physicist (born in 1845) | |
| February 23rd, 1908 (February 23 1908) | Death | Johannes Friedrich August von Esmarch, German surgeon (born in 1823) | |
| February 23rd, 1897 (February 23 1897) | Death | Woldemar Bargiel, German composer (born in 1828) | |
| February 23rd, 1879 (February 23 1879) | Death | Albrecht Graf von Roon, Prime Minister of Prussia (born in 1803) | |
| February 23rd, 1859 (February 23 1859) | Death | Zygmunt Krasinski, Polish Romantic poet (born in 1812) | |
| February 23rd, 1855 (February 23 1855) | Death | Carl Friedrich Gauss, German mathematician, astronomer, and physicist (born in 1777) | Carl Friedrich Gauss Quotes |
| February 23rd, 1848 (February 23 1848) | Death | John Quincy Adams, 6th President of the United States (born in 1767) | John Quincy Adams Quotes |
| February 23rd, 1819 (February 23 1819) | Death | John Keats, English poet (born in 1795) | John Keats Quotes |
| February 23rd, 1800 (February 23 1800) | Death | Joseph Warton, English literary critic (born in 1722) | |
| February 23rd, 1792 (February 23 1792) | Death | Joshua Reynolds, English painter (born in 1723) | Joshua Reynolds Quotes |
| February 23rd, 1781 (February 23 1781) | Death | George Taylor, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (bc. 1716) | |
| February 23rd, 1766 (February 23 1766) | Death | Stanislaw Leszczynski, King of Poland (born in 1677) | |
| February 23rd, 1730 (February 23 1730) | Death | Pope Benedict XIII (born in 1649) | |
| February 23rd, 1704 (February 23 1704) | Death | Georg Muffat, French composer (born in 1653) | |
| February 23rd, 1669 (February 23 1669) | Death | Leo Aitzema, Dutch historian and statesman (born in 1600) | |
| February 23rd, 1603 (February 23 1603) | Death | Andrea Cesalpino, Italian philosopher, physician, and botanist (born in 1519) | Philo Quotes |
| February 23rd, 1572 (February 23 1572) | Death | Pierre Certon, French composer | |
| February 23rd, 1554 (February 23 1554) | Death | Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk, English politician (executed) (bc. 1515) | |
| February 23rd, 1526 (February 23 1526) | Death | Diego Colon, Spanish Viceroy of the Indies | |
| February 23rd, 1464 (February 23 1464) | Death | Zhengtong, Emperor of China (born in 1427) | |
| February 23rd, 1447 (February 23 1447) | Death | Pope Eugene IV (born in 1383) | |
| February 23rd, 1447 (February 23 1447) | Death | Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester (born in 1390) | |
| February 23rd, 1270 (February 23 1270) | Death | Saint Isabel of France, daughter of Louis VIII of France (born in 1225) | |
| February 23rd, 1100 (February 23 1100) | Death | Emperor Zhezong of China (born in 1076) | |
| February 23rd, 1011 (February 23 1011) | Death | Willigis, Archbishop of Mainz | |
| February 23rd, 0943 (February 23 0943) | Death | Herbert II, Count of Vermandois, (born in 884) | |
