February 23
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Art and culture
- 1455 - Traditional date for the publication of the Gutenberg Bible, the first Western book printed from movable type.
- 1898 - Émile Zola is imprisoned in France after writing "J'accuse", a letter accusing the French government of anti-Semitism and wrongfully placing Captain Alfred Dreyfus in jail.
- 1985 - Sleng Teng riddim first unleashed at a soundclash between Jammy's sound system and Black Scorpio at Waltham
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Births
- 1633 - Samuel Pepys, English naval administrator and man of letters, posthumously famous as a diarist (d. 1703)
- 1685 - Georg Friedrich Handel, German/British Baroque composer (d. 1759)
- 1792 - Joshua Reynolds, English painter (b. 1723)
- 1842 - Eduard von Hartmann, German philosopher (d. 1906)
- 1868 - W.E.B. DuBois, American civil rights leader (d. 1963)
- 1878 - Kazimir Malevich, Ukrainian painter and art theorist (d. 1935)
- 1889 - Musidora, French actress and director (d. 1957)
- 1904 - Terence Fisher, English film director (d. 1980)
- 1924 - Claude Sautet, French film director (d. 2000)
- 1931 - Tom Wesselmann, American collage artist (d. 2004)
- 1938 - Paul Morrissey, American film director
- 1940 - Peter Fonda, American actor (d. 2019)
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Deaths
- 1704 – Steven Blankaart, Dutch entomologist (b. 1650)
- 1819 - John Keats, English poet (b. 1795)
- 1934 - Edward Elgar, English composer (b. 1857)
- 1942 - Stefan Zweig, Austrian novelist, playwright, journalist and biographer (b. 1881)
- 1955 - Paul Claudel, French poet and playwright (b. 1868)
- 1975 - Hans Bellmer, draughtsman and photographer (b. 1902)
- 1976 - L. S. Lowry, English artist (b. 1887)
- 1999 - Gershon Legman, American social critic and folklorist (Rationale of the Dirty Joke) (b. 1917)
- 2003 - Robert K. Merton, American sociologist (b. 1910)
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