List of Famous people born on February 23rd
Sir Edward Blackett, 6th Bt.
Diego Braghieri
Diego Luis Braghieri is an Argentine football defender who plays for Colombian club Atlético Nacional.
William Hjortsberg
William "Gatz" Hjortsberg was an American novelist and screenwriter known for writing the screenplay of the film Legend.
Khaled Fawzy
Major General Khaled Fawzy is a former Director of the Egyptian General Intelligence Directorate (EGID). He was the head of the national security agency since 2013.
Alexander Evert Kawilarang
Alexander Evert Kawilarang was an Indonesian freedom fighter, military commander, and founder of Kesko TT, what would become the Indonesian special forces unit Kopassus. However, in 1958 he resigned his post as military attaché to the United States to join the separatist Permesta movement where he encountered Kopassus as his opponent. His involvement in Permesta damaged his promising military career, but he remained popular and active in the armed forces community.
Hickman Molesworth
Sergey Lazo
Sergey Georgiyevich Lazo was a Russian nobleman, officer of the Imperial Russian Army, and Bolshevik leader in the October 1917 Revolution in the Russian Far East.
Princess Adelheid of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym
Princess Adelheid of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym was a princess of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym by birth as a daughter of Victor II, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym. As the wife of Duke Paul Frederick Augustus of Oldenburg she became a Duchess of Oldenburg by marriage.
P. C. Sorcar
Protul Chandra Sorcar was an Indian magician. He was an internationally active magician throughout the 1950s and 1960s, performing his Indrajal show before live audiences and on television. Sorcar died of a heart attack at the age of 57 in Asahikawa, Hokkaidō, Japan, on 6 January 1971, where he was performing.
Agnes Arber
Agnes Robertson Arber FRS was a British plant morphologist and anatomist, historian of botany and philosopher of biology. She was born in London but lived most of her life in Cambridge, including the last 51 years of her life. She was the first woman botanist to be elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society and the third woman overall. She was the first woman to receive the Gold Medal of the Linnean Society of London for her contributions to botanical science.