February 23rd, 1955

Born on February 23rd, 1955

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 25,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 742 days, exactly on May 1st, 2026, people who were born on February 23rd, 1955 will be 26,000 days old!

... in seconds, minutes and hours

What happened on February 23rd?

February 23rd, 2017

Syrian civil war: Allied troops led by the Turkish Armed Forces captured the city of al-Bab from the Islamic State.

February 23rd, 2008

A B-2 Spirit stealth bomber crashed on the runway shortly after takeoff from Andersen Air Force Base in Guam in the most expensive crash in U.S. Air Force history.

February 23rd, 1987

SN 1987A, a supernova in the Large Magellanic Cloud, was observed from Earth.

February 23rd, 1971

Vietnam War: South Vietnamese General Đỗ Cao Trí was killed in a helicopter crash en route to taking control of the faltering Operation Lam Son 719.

February 23rd, 1945

American photographer Joe Rosenthal took the Pulitzer Prize–winning photograph Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima during the Battle of Iwo Jima, an image that was later reproduced on the Marine Corps War Memorial.

February 23rd, 1943

35 children and 1 adult employee were killed in a fire at an orphanage in the town of Cavan, Ireland.

February 23rd, 1941

Plutonium was first chemically identified by chemist Glenn T. Seaborg and his team at the University of California, Berkeley.

February 23rd, 1886

American inventor Charles Martin Hall discovered an inexpensive method of producing aluminium (sample pictured).

February 23rd, 1847

Mexican–American War: The United States Army used artillery to repulse the much larger Mexican army at the Battle of Buena Vista near Saltillo.

February 23rd, 1778

American Revolutionary War: Prussian military officer Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben arrived at Valley Forge in Pennsylvania as a volunteer for the Continental Army.

February 23rd, 1739

The identity of English highwayman Dick Turpin was uncovered by his former schoolmate, who recognised his handwriting, leading to Turpin's trial.

February 23rd, 2020

Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old African-American citizen, is shot and murdered by three white men after visiting a house under construction while jogging at a neighborhood in Satilla Shores near Brunswick in Glynn County, Georgia.

February 23rd, 2019

Atlas Air Flight 3591, a Boeing 767 freighter, crashes into Trinity Bay near Anahuac, Texas, killing all three people on board.

February 23rd, 2017

The Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army captures Al-Bab from ISIL.

February 23rd, 2010

Unknown criminals pour more than 2+1⁄2 million liters of diesel oil and other hydrocarbons into the river Lambro, in northern Italy, sparking an environmental disaster.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on February 23rd

Born on February 23rd, 1955

69

Howard Jones

English musician, singer and songwriter

*February 23rd, 1955, Southampton

69

Jeffrey Sprecher

American businessman

*February 23rd, 1955, Madison

69

Vu Van Ninh

Vietnamese politician

*February 23rd, 1955, Nam Định

60

Flip Saunders

American basketball player, coach, executive (1955-2015)

*February 23rd, 1955, Cleveland †October 25th, 2015, Minneapolis

69

Tomasz Stockinger

Polish actor

*February 23rd, 1955, Warsaw

69

Richard Brookhiser

American historian

*February 23rd, 1955, Irondequoit

69

Giuseppe Sciacca

Secretary of the Apostolic Signature (since 2016)

*February 23rd, 1955, Catania

69

Dave Smeds

American writer

*February 23rd, 1955, Reedley

69

Stefano Abbati

Italian actor

*February 23rd, 1955, Rimini

69

Elisabetta Pozzi

Actress

*February 23rd, 1955, Genoa

69

Geoff Gollop

British politician (born 1955)

*February 23rd, 1955, Bristol

69

Francesca Simon

British writer

*February 23rd, 1955, St. Louis

69

Barbara Bürer

Swiss television presenter and radio host

*February 23rd, 1955, Rapperswil

69

Guadalupe Pineda

Mexican singer

*February 23rd, 1955, Guadalajara

69

Tom Bodett

American writer, voice actor and radio host

*February 23rd, 1955, Champaign

69

Toshifumi Hinata

Japanese composer

*February 23rd, 1955, Tokyo

69

Anatoly Kozlov

Soviet weightlifter

*February 23rd, 1955, Taranay

69

Peter Scamurra

American ice hockey player

*February 23rd, 1955, Buffalo

69

Kazuo Niibori

Actor

*February 23rd, 1955, Ibaraki Prefecture

69

Marco Bellodis

Italian bobsledder

*February 23rd, 1955, Cortina d'Ampezzo

69

Lucio D'Ubaldo

Member of the Italian Senate

*February 23rd, 1955, Magliano Sabina

69

Rodney E. Slater

U.S. Secretary of Transportation, 1997-2001

*February 23rd, 1955, Marianna

69

Zeke Manyika

Zimbabwean musician

*February 23rd, 1955, Zimbabwe

69

Nagya Al Rabiea

Saudi Arabian actor

*February 23rd, 1955, Ta'if

Same Day
Who's birthday is on February 23rd?

64

Naruhito

Emperor of Japan since 2019

*February 23rd, 1960, Hospital of the Imperial Household

54

Allan Fung

American politician in Rhode Island (born 1970)

*February 23rd, 1970, Providence

43

Alistair Casey

Badminton player

*February 23rd, 1981, Glasgow

70

Viktor Yushchenko

Ukrainian politician who was President of Ukraine

*February 23rd, 1954, Khoruzhivka

71

Luis Alberto Quevedo

Uruguayan sociologist, university professor, researcher, journalist and essayist

*February 23rd, 1953, Rivera

58

Didier Queloz

Swiss astronomer

*February 23rd, 1966, Lausanne

79

Peter Fonda

American actor (1940–2019)

*February 23rd, 1940, New York City †August 16th, 2019, Los Angeles

67

Bernd Wiegand

German politician

*February 23rd, 1957, Brunswick

59

Mikel Erentxun

Spanish singer

*February 23rd, 1965, Caracas

32

Peter Briggs

Badminton player

*February 23rd, 1992, Leicester

57

Andreas Schockenhoff

German politician (1957-2014)

*February 23rd, 1957, Ludwigsburg †December 13th, 2014, Ravensburg

30

Tom Wolfenden

English badminton player

*February 23rd, 1994, Liverpool

30

James Paxton

American actor

*February 23rd, 1994, Ojai

86

Karl Jaspers

German-Swiss psychiatrist and philosopher (1883–1969)

*February 23rd, 1883, Oldenburg †February 26th, 1969, Basel

43

Josh Gad

American actor

*February 23rd, 1981, Hollywood

30

Dakota Fanning

American actress (born 1994)

*February 23rd, 1994, Conyers

92

Christian Habicht

German historian and epigrapher (1926–2018)

*February 23rd, 1926, Dortmund †August 6th, 2018, Princeton

63

Regine Schumann

Lightartist, Painter

*February 23rd, 1961, Goslar

41

Emily Blunt

English actress

*February 23rd, 1983, Wandsworth

36

nisola gaitani

Argentine footballer

*February 23rd, 1988, General San Martín

Same year
Born in 1955

63

Pete Shelley

British singer-songwriter (1955–2018)

*April 17th, 1955, Leigh †December 6th, 2018, Tallinn

68

Adolf Sauerland

German politician

*June 4th, 1955, Duisburg

68

Bill Gates

American businessman, investor, and philanthropist (born 1955)

*October 28th, 1955, Seattle

68

Guillermo Lasso

47 president of Ecuador

*November 16th, 1955, Guayaquil

68

Tim Berners-Lee

English computer scientist, inventor of the World Wide Web (born 1955)

*June 8th, 1955, London

68

Lars Brygmann

Danish actor

*November 30th, 1955, Copenhagen

56

Steve Jobs

American entrepreneur; co-founder of Apple Inc. (1955–2011)

*February 24th, 1955, San Francisco †October 5th, 2011, Palo Alto

69

Lasse Lindtner

Norwegian actor

*March 7th, 1955, Bergen

68

Steve Jones

English guitarist

*September 3rd, 1955, Shepherd's Bush

69

Nicolas Sarkozy

President of France from 2007 to 2012

*January 28th, 1955, Paris

61

Bill Paxton

American actor and filmmaker (1955–2017)

*May 17th, 1955, Fort Worth †February 25th, 2017, Los Angeles

68

Caroline Loeb

French actress and singer

*October 5th, 1955, Neuilly-sur-Seine

68

Saw Swee Leong

Badminton player

*July 16th, 1955, Penang

69

Uwe Reinders

German association football player and manager

*January 19th, 1955, Essen

61

Jimmy LaFave

American musician

*July 12th, 1955, Wills Point †May 21st, 2017, Austin

69

Steve Mann

British chemist

*April 1st, 1955, Leeds

69

Jair Bolsonaro

President of Brazil from 2019 to 2022

*March 21st, 1955, Glicério

43

Gerhard Gundermann

German musician

*February 21st, 1955, Weimar †June 21st, 1998, Spreetal

69

Martin Jehne

German historian of classical antiquity

*January 27th, 1955, Hamburg

68

Isabelle Adjani

French actress

*June 27th, 1955, 17th arrondissement of Paris

Birthdays of famous people

Public holidays on February 23rd

Fixed holidays (Christian feast day, Red Army Day or Day of Soviet Army and Navy in the former Soviet Union, also held in various former Soviet republics) which are celebrated on February 23rd.

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

Born on February 23rd, 1955
Future birthdays

Leap year

No: With 365 days 1955 is a normal year and no leap year.

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