| 20641 | February 23 | Birth | 1417 – Pope Paul II (d. 1471) |
| 20642 | February 23 | Birth | 1443 – Matthias Corvinus, Hungarian king (d. 1490) |
| 20643 | February 23 | Birth | 1583 – Jean-Baptiste Morin, French mathematician, astrologer, and astronomer (d. 1656) |
| 20644 | February 23 | Birth | 1633 – Samuel Pepys, English soldier and politician (d. 1703) |
| 20645 | February 23 | Birth | 1646 – Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, Japanese shogun (d. 1709) |
| 20646 | February 23 | Birth | 1648 – Arabella Churchill, English mistress of James II of England (d. 1730) |
| 20647 | February 23 | Birth | 1664 – Georg Dietrich Leyding, German organist and composer (d. 1710) |
| 20648 | February 23 | Birth | 1680 – Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville, Canadian politician, 2nd Colonial Governor of Louisiana (d. 1767) |
| 20649 | February 23 | Birth | 1685 – George Frideric Handel, German-English organist and composer (d. 1759) |
| 20650 | February 23 | Birth | 1723 – Richard Price, Welsh-English minister and philosopher (d. 1791) |
| 20651 | February 23 | Birth | 1744 – Mayer Amschel Rothschild, German banker (d. 1812) |
| 20652 | February 23 | Birth | 1752 – Simon Knéfacz, Croatian monk and author (d. 1819) |
| 20653 | February 23 | Birth | 1840 – Carl Menger, Austrian economist and educator (d. 1921) |
| 20654 | February 23 | Birth | 1842 – Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann, German philosopher and author (d. 1906) |
| 20655 | February 23 | Birth | 1850 – César Ritz, Swiss businessman, founded The Ritz London Hotel and Hôtel Ritz Paris (d. 1918) |
| 20656 | February 23 | Birth | 1852 – Dục Đức, Vietnamese emperor (d. 1883) |
| 20657 | February 23 | Birth | 1868 – W. E. B. Du Bois, American sociologist, historian, and activist (d. 1963) |
| 20658 | February 23 | Birth | 1868 – Anna Hoffman-Uddgren, Swedish actress and director (d. 1947) |
| 20659 | February 23 | Birth | 1873 – Liang Qichao, Chinese journalist, philosopher, and scholar (d. 1929) |
| 20660 | February 23 | Birth | 1874 – Konstantin Päts, Estonian lawyer and politician, 1st President of Estonia (d. 1956) |
| 20661 | February 23 | Birth | 1878 – Kazimir Malevich, Ukrainian painter and theorist (d. 1935) |
| 20662 | February 23 | Birth | 1883 – Karl Jaspers, German-Swiss psychiatrist and philosopher (d. 1969) |
| 20663 | February 23 | Birth | 1886 – Antonio Alice, Argentinian painter (d. 1943) |
| 20664 | February 23 | Birth | 1889 – Musidora, French actress and director (d. 1957) |
| 20665 | February 23 | Birth | 1889 – Cyril Delevanti, English-American actor (d. 1975) |
| 20666 | February 23 | Birth | 1889 – Victor Fleming, American director, cinematographer, and producer (d. 1949) |
| 20667 | February 23 | Birth | 1889 – John Gilbert Winant, American captain, pilot, and politician, 60th Governor of New Hampshire (d. 1947) |
| 20668 | February 23 | Birth | 1891 – Robert Barrington-Ward, English barrister and journalist (d. 1948) |
| 20669 | February 23 | Birth | 1891 – Harold Horder, Australian rugby player and coach (d. 1978) |
| 20670 | February 23 | Birth | 1892 – Kathleen Harrison, English actress (d. 1995) |