Claude Brown (born February 23, 1937) U.S. novelist, autobiographer, sociologist – Manchild in the Promised Land
W.E.B. Du Bois (born February 23, 1868) U.S. civil rights activist, author – The Gift of Black Folk: The Negroes in the Making of America (1924) (reissued February 2009)
Read about Du Bois here and here
Listen to W.E.B. Du Bois give a speech in 1960 about social equality here
Watch a short biography of
W.E.B. DuBois
Aziz Ansari (born February 23, 1983) U.S. comedian