Famous birthdays for Feb. 23: Niecy Nash, Dakota Fanning

Feb. 23 (UPI) -- Those born on this day are under the sign of Pisces.

They include:

-- Pope Paul II in 1417

-- British diarist Samuel Pepys in 1633

-- German composer George Frideric Handel in 1685

-- Mayer Amschel Rothschild, European banker/founder of the Rothschild financial dynasty, in 1744

-- Writer/philosopher W.E.B. DuBois in 1868

-- Film director Victor Fleming in 1889

-- Journalist/author William Shirer in 1904

-- Paul Tibbets, pilot of the Enola Gay on the 1945 flight that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, in 1915

File Photo courtesy of the U.S. Air Force

-- Former congressman/longtime University of Nebraska football Coach Tom Osborne in 1937 (age 83)

-- Actor Peter Fonda in 1940

-- Football Hall of Fame member Fred Biletnikoff in 1943 (age 77)

-- Novelist John Sandford, born John Roswell Camp, in 1944 (age 76)

-- Former Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko in 1954 (age 66)

-- Actor Patricia Richardson in 1951 (age 69)

-- Japanese Emperor Naruhito in 1960 (age 60)

File Photo by Keizo Mori/UPI

-- Businessman/TV personality Daymond John in 1969 (age 51)

-- Actor Niecy Nash in 1970 (age 50)

-- Actor Kelly Macdonald in 1976 (age 44)

-- Actor Josh Gad in 1981 (age 39)

-- Actor Emily Blunt in 1983 (age 37)

-- Actor Aziz Ansari in 1983 (age 37)

-- Actor Dakota Fanning in 1994 (age 26)

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