Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/February 23

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[edit] Births

• 1633 - Samuel Pepys, English naval administrator and man of letters, posthumously famous as a diarist (d. 1703) (pictured)
• 1685 - Georg Friedrich Handel, German/British Baroque composer (d. 1759)
• 1868 - W.E.B. DuBois, American civil rights leader (d. 1963)
• 1908 - William McMahon, twentieth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1988)
• 1940 - Peter Fonda, American actor

[edit] Deaths

• 1792 - Joshua Reynolds, English painter (b. 1723)
• 1821 - John Keats, English poet (b. 1795)
• 1848 - John Quincy Adams, 6th President of the United States (b. 1767)
• 1965 - Stan Laurel, British born actor and comedian (b. 1890)
• 1969 - King Saud of Saudi Arabia (b. 1902)