Famous people died on February 23

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Ofra Haza 2

Israeli Musician

Janez Drnovsek 6

Slovenian Statesman

Alan Colmes 2

American Journalist

Tony Williams 3

American Musician

John Motson 7

British Celebrity

Rana Bhagwandas 2

Pakistani Judge

John Olver 21

American Politician

Alan Brownjohn 3

British Writer

Katherine Helmond 10

American Actress

José Napoleón Duarte 2

Gershon Legman 5

American Critic

James Herriot 24

British Surgeon

Douglas Fraser 2

Hans Hellmut Kirst 1

German Writer

John Edward Christopher Hill 3

English Historian

Robert K. Merton 12

American Sociologist

Jessamyn West 31

American Author

Muhammad Asad 35

Austrian Journalist

Stan Laurel 11

English Actor

Fannie Hurst 11

American Writer

L. S. Lowry 12

Artist

Tomoyuki Yamashita 4

Japanese Officer

Stefan Zweig 116

Austrian Writer

Paul Claudel 10

French Diplomat

Ernest Dowson 13

English Poet

John Robert Gregg 2

American Inventor

Leo Baekeland 5

Belgian Inventor

Nellie Melba 5

Australian Musician

Edward Elgar 11

British Composer

David Law Proudfit 2

American Writer

Zygmunt Krasiński 3

Polish Poet

John Keats 255

British Poet

Carl Friedrich Gauss 85

German Mathematician

John Quincy Adams 59

American President

Joanna Baillie 14

Scottish Poet

John Philip Kemble 2

British Actor

Joshua Reynolds 32

English Artist

Joseph Warton 1

Stanisław Leszczyński 12

Polish Royalty

Owen Feltham 11

British Author

Thomas Goodwin 10

English Clergyman

Polycarp 15

Bishop

See also: Famous people born on February 23