List of Famous people born on February 23rd

Arabella Churchill was the mistress of King James II, and the mother of four of his children.

Sir William Jardine, 7th Baronet of Applegarth FRS FRSE FLS FSA was a Scottish naturalist. He is known for his editing of a long series of natural history books, The Naturalist's Library.

Mikhail Mikhailovich Gromov was a Russian and Soviet military aviator, test pilot, researcher, and Hero of the Soviet Union.

Elisabeth of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel was a German noblewoman. She was princess of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel by birth and by her first marriage Countess of Holstein-Schauenburg and then by her second marriage Duchess of Brunswick-Harburg.

Li Shuoxun is a Chinese communist martyr. He joined the Chinese Communist Party in 1924, and went underground after the Kuomintang (KMT)'s massacre of communists in 1927. In 1931 he went to Hainan, was caught by the KMT and executed. He is now commemorated as a revolutionary martyr.

Francis Scott Napier, 8th Lord Napier was a British peer and army officer.

Gao Yu is a Chinese journalist and dissident who has been repeatedly imprisoned.