page_title: 1923
section_title: February
hierarchical_section_title: 1923 / Births / February
caption_attribution_description: Nederlands: Aankomst van mevrouw Fatmawati Soekarno op Schiphol 5 november 1966
context_page_description: 1923 was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1923rd year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 923rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 23rd year of the 20th century, and the 4th year of the 1920s decade. As of the start of 1923, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was relegated that February to use only by churches after Greece adopted the Gregorian calendar.
context_section_description: February 1
  Stig Mårtensson, Swedish racing cyclist (d. 2010)
  Gena Turgel, Polish author, Holocaust survivor and educator (d. 2018)
  February 2
  James Dickey, American poet, author (Deliverance) (d. 1997)
  Red Schoendienst, American baseball player (d. 2018)
  Liz Smith, American gossip columnist (d. 2017)
  Clem Windsor, Australian rugby union player, surgeon (d. 2007)
  February 3 – Edith Barney, American female professional baseball player (d. 2010)
  February 4
  Conrad Bain, Canadian-American actor (d. 2013)
  Bonar Bain, Canadian actor (d. 2005)
  Belisario Betancur, Colombian politician, 26th President of Colombia (d. 2018)
  February 5
  Dora Bryan, English actress (d. 2014)
  Fatmawati, 1st First Lady of Indonesia (d. 1980)
  Claude King, American country music singer and songwriter (d. 2013)
  February 6
  Gyula Lóránt, Hungarian footballer and manager (d. 1981)
  Georges Pouliot, Canadian fencer (d. 2019)
  February 7 – George Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood, first grandchild of King George V (d. 2011)
  February 8 – Urpo Korhonen, Finnish Olympic cross-country skier (d. 2009)
  February 9 – Brendan Behan, Irish author (d. 1964)
  February 10
  Allie Sherman, American professional football coach (d. 2015)
  Cesare Siepi, Italian opera singer (d. 2010)
  February 11
  Rosita Fornés, Cuban-American actress (d. 2020)
  Pamela Sharples, Baroness Sharples, English politician
  February 12 – Franco Zeffirelli, Italian film, opera director (d. 2019)
  February 13
  Yfrah Neaman, Lebanese-born violinist (d. 2003)
  Chuck Yeager, American test pilot, NASA official
  February 16 – Samuel Willenberg, Polish-born Israeli sculptor, painter and last surviving member of the Treblinka extermination camp revolt (d. 2016)
  February 17 – Jun Fukuda, Japanese film director (d. 2000)
  February 18 – Allan Melvin, American actor (d. 2008)
  February 20
  Forbes Burnham, Guyanese politician, 1st Prime Minister of Guyana and 2nd President of Guyana (d. 1985)
  Robert Lucy, Swiss gymnast (d. 2009)
  Victor Atiyeh, American politician (d. 2014)
  February 21
  Wilbur R. Ingalls, Jr., American architect (d. 1997)
  William Winter, American politician
  February 22 – Norman Smith, English singer, record producer (d. 2008)
  February 23
  Mary Francis Shura, American writer (d. 1991)
  Ioannis Grivas, Greek judge, politician and 176th Prime Minister of Greece (d. 2016)
  John van Hengel, American "Father of Food Banking" (d. 2005)
  February 24 – David Soyer, American cellist (d. 2010)
  February 25 – Harry Leslie Smith, English writer and political commentator (d. 2018)
  February 27 – Dexter Gordon, American jazz saxophone player, actor (d. 1990)
  February 28
  Jean Carson, American actress (d. 2005)
  Charles Durning, American actor (d. 2012)
caption: Fatmawati
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