List of Famous people born on February 23rd
Félix Bossuet
Ren Hang
Ren Hang is a Chinese footballer who currently plays for Hebei China Fortune in the Chinese Super League.
G. Mennen Williams
Gerhard Mennen "Soapy" Williams was the 41st Governor of Michigan, elected in 1948 and serving six two-year terms in office. He later served as Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson and Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court.
Robert O'Shaughnessy
Robert Emmet O'Shaughnessy, Sr. was an American Democratic politician and a member of the Ohio Senate. A member of a political family, O'Shaughnessy was initially appointed to the Senate to succeed his brother, Jerry O'Shaughnessy, who had died. In 1974, O'Shaughnessy overcame a divisive primary and a challenge by Republican Keith McNamara to retain the seat. He subsequently was appointed as Chairman of the Senate Energy Committee.
Peter Briggs
Peter Briggs is a badminton player from England. In 2019, he started to represent Canada.
Wellington Feitosa Queiroz
Andrew Zayakin
Andrey Victorovich Zayakin is a Russian physicist, political activist and journalist. One of the founders of the volunteer community network Dissernet.
Marguerite Georges
Marguerite Georges (1787–1867) was a French stage actress. She was one of the most famous French actresses of her time. She is also known for her affair with Napoleon, but also claimed to have had an affair with the Duke of Wellington, a claim which is considered probable by some historians. She published under the name Marguerite-Josephine Weimer George.
Agnes Smedley
Agnes Smedley was an American journalist, writer, and activist who supported the Chinese Communist Revolution. Raised in a poverty-stricken miner's family in Missouri and Colorado, she dramatized the formation of her feminist and socialist consciousness in the autobiographical novel Daughter of Earth (1929).
Franz Delitzsch
Franz Delitzsch was a German Lutheran theologian and Hebraist. Delitzsch wrote many commentaries on books of the Bible, Jewish antiquities, Biblical psychology, as well as a history of Jewish poetry, and works of Christian apologetics. Today, Delitzsch is best known for his translation of the New Testament into Hebrew (1877), and his series of commentaries on the Old Testament published with Carl Friedrich Keil.