Paul Tibbets, American general and pilot (died 2007)

Paul Warfield Tibbets Jr. was a brigadier general in the United States Air Force. He is best known as the aircraft captain who flew the B-29 Superfortress known as the Enola Gay when it dropped a Little Boy, the first of two atomic bombs used in warfare, on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.

February 23 is the 54th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 311 days remain until the end of the year.