February 23

In literary history

• 1821John Keats died in Rome at twenty-five, his lungs by then nearly dissolved. He had asked that his gravestone carry no name, only: 'Here lies One Whose Name Was Writ in Water.' His name has never stopped being read.

Writers born on February 23

• Samuel Pepys (1633),
• W.E.B. Du Bois (1868)

The Daily Canon for February 23

The Diary of Samuel Pepys by Samuel Pepys (1669).