23 February: today's birthdays

• Aziz Ansari - American actor, screenwriter, and comedian of Indian descent
• Emily Blunt - English actress, born Emily Olivia Leah Blunt. She starred in My Summer of Love and in Irresistible
• William Edward Burghardt Du Bois - American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, and author, best known as W.E.B. Du Bois or simply DuBois.
• Dakota Fanning - American actress. She starred in I Am Sam, Coraline, The Runaways, and The Motel Life
• Georg Friedrich Händel - German-born British composer
• Karl Theodor Jaspers - German psychiatrist and philosopher
• Viktor Juščenko (Yushchenko) - Ukrainian politician.
• Kazimir Severinovič Malevič (Kazimir Severinovich Malevich) - Russian painter
• Kazimir Malevič (Malevich) - Russian painter
• Naruhito - Japanese prince
• Evgenij Bronislavovič Pašukanis (Evgeny Bronislavovich Pashukanis) - Russian jurist
• Samuel Pepys - English politician who became famous for the diary he kept for more than ten years. He was very detailed and what he wrote became a primary source to know what happened in London during the most important events like the Great Plague and the Great Fire
• Claude Sautet - French actor and screenwriter
• Jacques Séguéla - French advertising executive. He co-founded the Havas worldwide (Euro RSCG until September 2012), one of the most important integrated marketing communications agencies in the world
• Franz von Stuck - German painter, sculptor and architect
• Tom Wesselmann - American artist