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

By UPI Staff   |   Feb. 23, 2020 at 3:00 AM
Niecy Nash arrives for the 71st annual Primetime Emmy Awards held at the Microsoft Theater in downtown Los Angeles on September 22. The actor turns 50 on February 23. File Photo by Christine Chew/UPI Daymond John arrives on the red carpet at The Bloomberg 50 at Cipriani Downtown in New York City on December 10, 2018. He turns 51 on February 23. File Photo by Jason Szenes/UPI Emily Blunt attends the 70th EE British Academy Film Awards at Royal Albert Hall in London on February 12, 2017. The actor turns 37 on February 23. File Photo by Paul Treadway/ UPI

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

They include:

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-- 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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