Notable deaths on February 23

American sports commentator (1956–2025)

American singer, composer and producer (1951–2025)

American attorney (1931–2025)

Owl that escaped from a New York City zoo (2010–2024)

English football commentator (1945–2023)

American politician (1936–2023)

Saudi Arabian politician (1930–2021)

American actress (1929–2019)

American baseball catcher (1928–2016)

German television presenter

Australian-British writer and journalist

Pakistani judge (1942–2015)

Israeli classical pianist (1903–2014)

American soldier, statesman, teacher, and author (1919–2014)

American politician (1918–2013)

Holocaust survivor, Holocaust historian, Yiddish writer, lecturer and editor (born 1922)

Belgian religious historian, titular archbishop and cardinal of the Catholic Church

Indian feminist, educator and lawyer

American X-ray crystallographer

Polish sociologist (1919–2012)

American politician

Indian spiritual teacher (1923–2011)

Cuban activist

Slovenian statesman (1958–2008)