About the day » Friday February 23, 1900Calender converter

• Adriana Wilhelmina Hansler, Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Bittner, Keyneton, South Australia, Australia († 1900)
• Adriana Cornelsdr Meijer, Voorschoten
• Jacobus Matthijs Duifhuize, 's-Gravenzande († 1926)
• Adriana Johanna Oostrom, Montfoort († 1926)
• Albertus Franciscus de Reuver, Dreumel, Gelderland, Nederland
• Adriana Johanna Oostrom, Montfoort, Utrecht, NL († 1926)
• Agnès SCHOBBENS († 1936)
• Albertus Francis de Reuver, Dreumel,West Maas en Waal,Gelderland,Nederland († 1936)
• Adrianus Cornelis Diemel, Voorhout III-18 († 1981)

• A. Barenbrugh
• Andriana de Bruijne (67), Middelburg, Zeeland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Krollen (78), Hooge en Lage Mierde, Reusel
• Aaltjen ten Cate ov (72), Enschede {OV}
• Anna Louisa Groeneveld (82), Rotterdam
• Anna Maria Hubertina Janssen (0), Itteren, Limburg, Netherlands
• Adrianus van den Ende (0), 's-Gravenzande
• Alida ten Cate (63), Nijmegen {GE}
• Albertus Barenbrugh (66), Zutphen (Gl)
• Abraham Renier (68), Leiden,Leiden,Zuid-Holland,Nederland

• 1889 » Cyril Delevanti, English-American actor († 1975)
• 1889 » Musidora, French actress and director († 1957)
• 1892 » Agnes Smedley, American journalist and writer († 1950)
• 1892 » Kathleen Harrison, English actress († 1995)
• 1894 » Harold Horder, Australian rugby league player and coach († 1978)
• 1899 » Erich Kästner, German author and poet († 1974)
• 1899 » Norman Taurog, American director and screenwriter († 1981)
• 1904 » Terence Fisher, English director and screenwriter († 1980)
• 1904 » William L. Shirer, American journalist and historian († 1993)
• 1908 » William McMahon, Australian lawyer and politician, 20th Prime Minister of Australia († 1988)

• 1859 » Zygmunt Krasiński, Polish poet and playwright (b. 1812)
• 1879 » Albrecht von Roon, Prussian soldier and politician, 10th Minister President of Prussia (b. 1803)
• 1897 » Woldemar Bargiel, German composer and educator (b. 1828)
• 1900 » Ernest Dowson, English poet, novelist, and short story writer (b. 1867)
• 1908 » Friedrich von Esmarch, German surgeon and academic (b. 1823)
• 1918 » Adolphus Frederick VI, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (b. 1882)
• 1930 » Horst Wessel, German SA officer (b. 1907)
• 1931 » Nellie Melba, Australian soprano and actress (b. 1861)
• 1934 » Edward Elgar, English composer and academic (b. 1857)
• 1944 » Leo Baekeland, Belgian-American chemist and engineer (b. 1863)

• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1897 to August 1, 1901 the cabinet Pierson, with Mr. N.G. Pierson (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
• February 6 » The Permanent Court of Arbitration, an international arbitration court at The Hague, is created when the Senate of the Netherlands ratifies an 1899 peace conference decree.
• March 7 » The German liner SSKaiser Wilhelm der Grosse becomes the first ship to send wireless signals to shore.
• March 13 » British forces occupy Bloemfontein, Orange Free State, during the Second Boer War.
• March 24 » Mayor of New York City Robert Anderson Van Wyck breaks ground for a new underground "Rapid Transit Railroad" that would link Manhattan and Brooklyn.
• April 30 » Hawaii becomes a territory of the United States, with Sanford B. Dole as governor.
• July 2 » Jean Sibelius' Finlandia receives its première performance in Helsinki with the Helsinki Philharmonic Society conducted by Robert Kajanus.

The temperature on February 23, 1900 was about 10.9 °C. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 96%.