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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 26th of February 0364 | EVENT | Valentinian I is proclaimed Roman Emperor. |
| 26th of February 1266 | EVENT | Battle of Benevento: An army led by Charles, Count of Anjou, defeats a combined German and Sicilian force led by King Manfred of Sicily. Manfred is killed in the battle and Pope Clement IV invests Charles as king of Sicily and Naples. |
| 26th of February 1658 | EVENT | Treaty of Roskilde: After a devastating defeat in the Northern Wars (1655 : 1661), the King of Denmark-Norway is forced to give up nearly half his territory to Sweden to save the rest. |
| 26th of February 1794 | EVENT | The first Christiansborg Palace in Copenhagen burns down. |
| 26th of February 1815 | EVENT | Napoleon Bonaparte escapes from Elba. |
| 26th of February 1876 | EVENT | Japan and Korea sign a treaty granting Japanese citizens extraterritoriality rights, opening three ports to Japanese trade, and ending Korea's status as a tributary state of Qing Dynasty China. |
| 26th of February 1909 | EVENT | Kinemacolor, the first successful color motion picture process, is first shown to the general public at the Palace Theatre in London. |
| 26th of February 1914 | EVENT | HMHS Britannic, sister to the RMS Titanic, is launched at Harland & Wolff shipyard in Belfast. |
| 26th of February 1917 | EVENT | The Original Dixieland Jass Band records the first jazz record, for the Victor Talking Machine Company in New York. |
| 26th of February 1919 | EVENT | An act of the U.S. Congress establishes most of the Grand Canyon as a United States National Park (see Grand Canyon National Park). |
| 26th of February 1920 | EVENT | The first German Expressionist film and early horror movie, Robert Wiene's The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, premiered in Berlin. |
| 26th of February 1935 | EVENT | Adolf Hitler orders the Luftwaffe to be re-formed, violating the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles. |
| 26th of February 1935 | EVENT | Robert Watson-Watt carries out a demonstration near Daventry which leads directly to the development of RADAR in the United Kingdom. |
| 26th of February 1936 | EVENT | In the February 26 Incident, young Japanese military officers attempt to stage a coup against the government. |
| 26th of February 1946 | EVENT | Finnish observers report the first of many thousands of sightings of ghost rockets. |
| 26th of February 1952 | EVENT | Vincent Massey is sworn in as the first Canadian-born Governor-General of Canada. |
| 26th of February 1960 | EVENT | A New York bound Alitalia airliner crashed into a cemetery at Shannon, Ireland, shortly after takeoff, killing 34 of the 52 persons on board. |
| 26th of February 1961 | EVENT | Hassan II becomes King of Morocco. |
| 26th of February 1966 | EVENT | Apollo Program: Launch of AS-201, the first flight of the Saturn IB rocket |
| 26th of February 1966 | EVENT | Vietnam War: The ROK Capital Division of the South Korean Army massacres 380 unarmed civilians in South Vietnam. |
| 26th of February 1971 | EVENT | U.N. Secretary General U Thant signs United Nations proclamation of the vernal equinox as Earth Day. |
| 26th of February 1972 | EVENT | The Buffalo Creek Flood caused by a burst dam kills 125 in West Virginia. |
| 26th of February 1980 | EVENT | Egypt and Israel establish full diplomatic relations. |
| 26th of February 1987 | EVENT | Iran-Contra affair: The Tower Commission rebukes President Ronald Reagan for not controlling his national security staff. |
| 26th of February 1991 | EVENT | Gulf War: United States Army forces capture the town of Al Busayyah. |
| 26th of February 1992 | EVENT | Nagorno-Karabakh War: Khojaly Massacre: Armenian armed forces open fire on Azeri civilians at a military post outside the town of Khojaly leaving hundreds dead. |
| 26th of February 1993 | EVENT | World Trade Center bombing: In New York City, a truck bomb parked below the North Tower of the World Trade Center explodes, killing 6 and injuring over a thousand. |
| 26th of February 1995 | EVENT | The United Kingdom's oldest investment banking institute, Barings Bank, collapses after a securities broker, Nick Leeson, loses $1.4 billion by speculating on the Singapore International Monetary Exchange using futures contracts. |
| 26th of February 2004 | EVENT | Republic of Macedonia President Boris Trajkovski is killed in a plane crash near Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina. |
| 26th of February 1361 | BIRTHDAY | Wenceslaus, Holy Roman Emperor, King of Bohemia (d. 1419) |
| 26th of February 1564 | BIRTHDAY | Christopher Marlowe, English dramatist (d. 1593) |
| 26th of February 1587 | BIRTHDAY | Stefano Landi, Italian composer (d. 1639) |
| 26th of February 1671 | BIRTHDAY | Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, English politician and philosopher (d. 1713) |
| 26th of February 1672 | BIRTHDAY | Antoine Augustine Calmet, French theologian (d. 1757) |
| 26th of February 1714 | BIRTHDAY | James Hervey, English clergyman and writer (d. 1758) |
| 26th of February 1715 | BIRTHDAY | Claude Adrien Helvetius, French philosopher (d. 1771) |
| 26th of February 1720 | BIRTHDAY | Gian Francesco Albani, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1803) |
| 26th of February 1732 | BIRTHDAY | Francis Marion, American Revolutionary War officer (d. 1795) |
| 26th of February 1740 | BIRTHDAY | Giambattista Bodoni, Italian publisher and engraver (d. 1813) |
| 26th of February 1746 | BIRTHDAY | Archduchess Marie Amalie of Austria, duchess of Piacenza (d. 1806) |
| 26th of February 1786 | BIRTHDAY | Francois Arago, French mathematician (d. 1853) |
| 26th of February 1799 | BIRTHDAY | Emile Clapeyron, French engineer and physicist (d. 1864) |
| 26th of February 1802 | BIRTHDAY | Victor Hugo, French writer (d. 1885) |
| 26th of February 1808 | BIRTHDAY | Honore Daumier, French painter, illustrator, and sculptor (d. 1879) |
| 26th of February 1808 | BIRTHDAY | Nathan Kelley,American architect, active mainly in Ohio, (d. 1871) |
| 26th of February 1814 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Joseph Sainte-Claire Deville, French geologist (d. 1876) |
| 26th of February 1829 | BIRTHDAY | Levi Strauss, German-born clothing designer (d. 1902) |
| 26th of February 1846 | BIRTHDAY | William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody, American frontiersman (d. 1917) |
| 26th of February 1852 | BIRTHDAY | John Harvey Kellogg, American surgeon, advocate of dietary reform (d. 1943) |
| 26th of February 1857 | BIRTHDAY | Emile Coue, French psychologist (d. 1926) |
| 26th of February 1858 | BIRTHDAY | Vladimir Serbsky, Russian psychiatrist (d. 1917) |
| 26th of February 1861 | BIRTHDAY | Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya, Russian revolutionary, widow of Vladimir Lenin (d. 1939) |
| 26th of February 1861 | BIRTHDAY | King Ferdinand of Bulgaria (d. 1948) |
| 26th of February 1866 | BIRTHDAY | Herbert Henry Dow, American chemical industrialist (d. 1930) |
| 26th of February 1879 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Bridge, English composer (d. 1941) |
| 26th of February 1882 | BIRTHDAY | Husband E. Kimmel, American admiral (d. 1968) |
| 26th of February 1885 | BIRTHDAY | Aleksandras Stulginskis, President of Lithuania (d. 1969) |
| 26th of February 1887 | BIRTHDAY | Grover Cleveland Alexander, American baseball player (d. 1950) |
| 26th of February 1887 | BIRTHDAY | William Frawley, American actor (d. 1966) |
| 26th of February 1887 | BIRTHDAY | Stefan Grabinski, Polish writer (d. 1936) |
| 26th of February 1893 | BIRTHDAY | I. A. Richards, English literary critic (d. 1979) |
| 26th of February 1896 | BIRTHDAY | Andrei Alexandrovich Zhdanov, Soviet politician and art ideologist (d. 1948) |
| 26th of February 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Max Petitpierre, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 1994) |
| 26th of February 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Fritz Wiessner, American mountaineer of German descent (d. 1988) |
| 26th of February 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Dwight Wilson, Canadian Soldier (d. 2007) |
| 26th of February 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Bruller, alias Vercors, French writer and illustrator (d. 1991) |
| 26th of February 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Orde Charles Wingate, British Major-General, prominent Zionist, eccentric (d. 1944) |
| 26th of February 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Giulio Natta, Italian chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1979) |
| 26th of February 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Madeleine Carroll, English actress (d. 1987) |
| 26th of February 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Dub Taylor, American actor (d. 1994) |
| 26th of February 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Tex Avery, American cartoonist (d. 1980) |
| 26th of February 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Leela Majumdar, Bengali writer (d. 2007) |
| 26th of February 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Jean-Pierre Wimille, French race car driver (d. 1949) |
| 26th of February 1909 | BIRTHDAY | King Talal of Jordan (d. 1972) |
| 26th of February 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Fanny Cradock, English food writer and broadcaster (d. 1994) |
| 26th of February 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Taro Okamoto, Japanese avant-garde artist (d. 1996) |
| 26th of February 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Dane Clark, American actor (d. 1998) |
| 26th of February 1913 | BIRTHDAY | George Barker, English poet (d. 1991) |
| 26th of February 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Alda, American actor (d. 1986) |
| 26th of February 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Jackie Gleason, American actor, writer, composer, and comedian (d. 1987) |
| 26th of February 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Otis Ray Bowen, American physician & politician, 44th Governor of Indiana, and 16th United States Secretary of Health and Human Services |
| 26th of February 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Theodore Sturgeon, American writer (d. 1985) |
| 26th of February 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Rie Mastenbroek, Dutch swimmer (d. 2003) |
| 26th of February 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Mason Adams, American actor (d. 2005) |
| 26th of February 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Danny Gardella, American baseball player (d. 2005) |
| 26th of February 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Lucjan Wolanowski, Polish journalist, writer and traveller (d. 2006) |
| 26th of February 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Randall, American actor (d. 2004) |
| 26th of February 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Betty Hutton, American actress and singer (d. 2007) |
| 26th of February 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Karl Aage Praest, Danish football player |
| 26th of February 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Margaret Leighton, British actress (d. 1976) |
| 26th of February 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Noboru Takeshita, Japanese politician (d. 2000) |
| 26th of February 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Verne Gagne, American wrestler |
| 26th of February 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Miroslava Stern, Mexican actress (d. 1955) |
| 26th of February 1926 | BIRTHDAY | H.M., Henry Gustav Molaison, the amnesiac patient (d. 2008) |
| 26th of February 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Kennedy, American game show host |
| 26th of February 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Anatoly Filipchenko, Soviet cosmonaut |
| 26th of February 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Fats Domino, American musician |
| 26th of February 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Monique Leyrac, Canadian singer and actress |
| 26th of February 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Ariel Sharon, 11th Prime Minister of Israel (2001 - 2006) |
| 26th of February 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Lazar Berman, Russian pianist (d. 2005) |
| 26th of February 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Novak, American political columnist (d. 2009) |
| 26th of February 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Ally MacLeod, Scottish footballer and manager (d. 2004) |
| 26th of February 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Johnny Cash, American singer (d. 2003) |
| 26th of February 1933 | BIRTHDAY | James Goldsmith, Anglo-French businessman (d. 1997) |
| 26th of February 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Hagood Hardy, Canadian musician and composer (d. 1997) |
| 26th of February 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Evagoras Pallikarides, Cypriot guerilla (d. 1957) |
| 26th of February 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Josephine Tewson, English actress |
| 26th of February 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Ray-Jones, British photographer (d. 1972) |
| 26th of February 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Duke, American actor and director |
| 26th of February 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Dante Ferretti, Italian art director and costume designer |
| 26th of February 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Ronald Lauder, American philanthropist and president of the World Jewish Congress |
| 26th of February 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Hite, American singer and harmonicist (Canned Heat) (d. 1981) |
| 26th of February 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Giannis Ioannidis, Greek basketball coach and politician |
| 26th of February 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Brock, Australian motorsports champion (d. 2006) |
| 26th of February 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Mitch Ryder, American musician (The Detroit Wheels) |
| 26th of February 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Marta Kristen, Norwegian actress |
| 26th of February 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Ahmed H. Zewail, Egyptian chemist, Nobel laureate |
| 26th of February 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Sandie Shaw, English singer |
| 26th of February 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Elizabeth George, American novelist |
| 26th of February 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Emma Kirkby, British singer |
| 26th of February 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Helen Clark, New Zealand politician, Prime Minister (1999-2008) |
| 26th of February 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Jonathan Cain, American musician (Journey, Bad English, The Babys) |
| 26th of February 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Bolton, American singer |
| 26th of February 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkish politician, Prime Minister (2003-present) |
| 26th of February 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Ernst August, Prince of Hanover, heir to the deposed Kingdom of Hanover and husband of Princess Caroline of Monaco |
| 26th of February 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Andreas Maislinger, founder of Austrian Holocaust Memorial Service |
| 26th of February 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Keisuke Kuwata, Japanese singer |
| 26th of February 1957 | BIRTHDAY | David Muldrow Beasley, American politician and 113th Governor of South Carolina |
| 26th of February 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Mullen, American ice hockey player |
| 26th of February 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Greg Germann, American actor |
| 26th of February 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Susan J. Helms, astronaut |
| 26th of February 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Tim Kaine, American politician, 70th Governor of Virginia |
| 26th of February 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Karen Berger, American comic book editor |
| 26th of February 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Michel Houellebecq, French novelist |
| 26th of February 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Rolando Blackman, American basketball player |
| 26th of February 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Jaz Coleman, British musician |
| 26th of February 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Jaspert, German football manager |
| 26th of February 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Kelly Gruber, American baseball player |
| 26th of February 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Dacascos, American actor and martial artist |
| 26th of February 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Najwa Karam, Lebanese singer |
| 26th of February 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Currie Graham, Canadian actor |
| 26th of February 1967 | BIRTHDAY | James Allodi, Canadian actor, writer and director |
| 26th of February 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Tim Commerford, American bass player (Rage Against the Machine) |
| 26th of February 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Ed Quinn, American actor |
| 26th of February 1968 | BIRTHDAY | J. T. Snow, American baseball player |
| 26th of February 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Hitoshi Sakimoto, Japanese composer |
| 26th of February 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Max Martin, Swedish composer and producer |
| 26th of February 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Erykah Badu, American singer |
| 26th of February 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Helene Segara, French singer |
| 26th of February 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Marshall Faulk, American football player |
| 26th of February 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, Norwegian footballer |
| 26th of February 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Jenny Thompson, American swimmer |
| 26th of February 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Erinn Bartlett, American actress |
| 26th of February 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Sebastien Loeb, French rally driver |
| 26th of February 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Nikolaos Siranidis, Greek diver |
| 26th of February 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Chad Urmston, American musician |
| 26th of February 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Marty Reasoner, American ice hockey player |
| 26th of February 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Tim Thomas, American basketball player |
| 26th of February 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Greg Rikaart, American actor |
| 26th of February 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Josh Towers, American baseball player |
| 26th of February 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Shane Williams, Welsh rugby player |
| 26th of February 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Abdoulaye Diagne-Faye, Senegalese footballer |
| 26th of February 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Marc Hynes, British racing driver |
| 26th of February 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Mariano Bainotti, Argentine racing driver |
| 26th of February 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Pedro Mendes, Portuguese footballer |
| 26th of February 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Corinne Bailey Rae, English singer |
| 26th of February 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Shalim Ortiz, Puerto Rican singer and actor |
| 26th of February 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Alex Fong, Hong Kong singer |
| 26th of February 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Gary Majewski, baseball pitcher |
| 26th of February 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Blake, American basketball player |
| 26th of February 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Johnathan Wendel, American video gamer |
| 26th of February 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Kertus Davis, American racing driver |
| 26th of February 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Li Na (tennis), Chinese Tennis Player |
| 26th of February 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Song Hye Kyo, South Korean model and actress |
| 26th of February 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Jerome Harrison, American football player |
| 26th of February 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Pepe, Brazilian born Portuguese football player |
| 26th of February 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Kara Monaco, American glamor model |
| 26th of February 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Emmanuel Adebayor, Togolese footballer |
| 26th of February 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Alex de Angelis, San Marino motorcycle racer |
| 26th of February 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Natalia Lafourcade, Mexican singer |
| 26th of February 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Miki Fujimoto, Japanese singer |
| 26th of February 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Carolin Nytra, German athlete |
| 26th of February 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Gee Atherton, British cyclist |
| 26th of February 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Alexandria Hilfiger, American actress |
| 26th of February 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Fernando Llorente, Spanish footballer |
| 26th of February 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Hannah Kearney, American freestyle skier |
| 26th of February 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Crystal Kay, Japanese singer |
| 26th of February 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Leandro dos Santos de Jesus, Brazilian footballer |
| 26th of February 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Teresa Palmer, Australian model and actress |
| 26th of February 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Juliet Simms, guitarist and singer (Automatic Loveletter) |
| 26th of February 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Matteo Ciofani, Italian footballer |
| 26th of February 1991 | BIRTHDAY | CL (singer), South Korean singer/rapper (2NE1) |
| 26th of February 1992 | BIRTHDAY | Mikael Granlund, Finnish ice hockey player |
| 26th of February 1993 | BIRTHDAY | Taylor Dooley, American actress |
| 26th of February 1154 | DEATH | King Roger II of Sicily (Born 1093) |
| 26th of February 1200 | DEATH | Symeon, former Serbian ruler and saint (Born 1109) |
| 26th of February 1266 | DEATH | King Manfred of Sicily (Born 1232) |
| 26th of February 1360 | DEATH | Roger Mortimer, 2nd Earl of March, English military leader (Born 1328) |
| 26th of February 1552 | DEATH | Heinrich Faber, German composer |
| 26th of February 1561 | DEATH | Jorge de Montemayor, Spanish writer |
| 26th of February 1577 | DEATH | King Eric XIV of Sweden (Born 1533) |
| 26th of February 1608 | DEATH | John Still, English bishop |
| 26th of February 1611 | DEATH | Antonio Possevino (Born 1533) Jesuit humanist, diplomat, bibliographer |
| 26th of February 1630 | DEATH | William Brade, English composer (Born 1560) |
| 26th of February 1638 | DEATH | Claude Gaspard Bachet de Meziriac, French mathematician (Born 1681) |
| 26th of February 1723 | DEATH | Thomas d'Urfey, English writer (Born 1653) |
| 26th of February 1726 | DEATH | Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria (Born 1662) |
| 26th of February 1770 | DEATH | Giuseppe Tartini, Italian composer (Born 1692) |
| 26th of February 1790 | DEATH | Sir Joshua Rowley, 1st Baronet, Royal Navy admiral (Born 1730) |
| 26th of February 1802 | DEATH | Esek Hopkins, American Revolutionary War admiral (Born 1718) |
| 26th of February 1813 | DEATH | Robert Livingston, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (Born 1746) |
| 26th of February 1815 | DEATH | Prince Josias of Coburg, Austrian general (Born 1737) |
| 26th of February 1821 | DEATH | Joseph de Maistre, Savoyard diplomat and writer (Born 1753) |
| 26th of February 1864 | DEATH | Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine, Canadian politician (Born 1807) |
| 26th of February 1883 | DEATH | Alexandros Koumoundouros, Greek politician, Prime Minister of Greece (Born 1817) |
| 26th of February 1889 | DEATH | Karl Davydov, Russian cellist (Born 1838) |
| 26th of February 1903 | DEATH | Richard Jordan Gatling, American inventor (Born 1818) |
| 26th of February 1913 | DEATH | Felix Draeseke, German composer (Born 1835) |
| 26th of February 1921 | DEATH | Carl Menger, Austrian economist (Born 1840) |
| 26th of February 1931 | DEATH | Otto Wallach, German chemist, Nobel laureate (Born 1847) |
| 26th of February 1933 | DEATH | Princess Thyra, daughter of Christian IX of Denmark (Born 1853) |
| 26th of February 1943 | DEATH | Theodor Eicke, Nazi official (Born 1892) |
| 26th of February 1947 | DEATH | Heinrich Haberlin, Swiss politician, member of the Federal Council (Born 1868) |
| 26th of February 1950 | DEATH | Sir Harry Lauder, Scottish Music Hall Entertainer, Knighted for WWI War Work (Born 1870) |
| 26th of February 1952 | DEATH | Theodoros Pangalos, Greek general who briefly ruled the country (Born 1878) |
| 26th of February 1959 | DEATH | Selig Suskin, Russian-born Israeli agronomist and early Zionist (Born 1873) |
| 26th of February 1961 | DEATH | King Mohammed V of Morocco (Born 1909) |
| 26th of February 1966 | DEATH | Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Indian freedom fighter and writer (Born 1883) |
| 26th of February 1969 | DEATH | Levi Eshkol, Israeli politician, Prime Minister (1963-death) (Born 1895) |
| 26th of February 1969 | DEATH | Karl Jaspers, German psychiatrist (Born 1883) |
| 26th of February 1971 | DEATH | Fernandel, French actor (Born 1903) |
| 26th of February 1981 | DEATH | Howard Hanson, American composer (Born 1896) |
| 26th of February 1981 | DEATH | Robert Aickman, English writer and conservationist (Born 1914) |
| 26th of February 1985 | DEATH | Tjalling Koopmans, Dutch economist, Nobel laureate (Born 1910) |
| 26th of February 1989 | DEATH | Roy Eldridge, American musician (Born 1911) |
| 26th of February 1990 | DEATH | Cornell Gunter, American singer (The Coasters) (Born 1938) |
| 26th of February 1993 | DEATH | Constance Ford, American actress (Born 1923) |
| 26th of February 1994 | DEATH | Bill Hicks, American comedian (Born 1961) |
| 26th of February 1995 | DEATH | Jack Clayton, British film director (Born 1921) |
| 26th of February 1997 | DEATH | David Doyle, American actor (Born 1929) |
| 26th of February 1998 | DEATH | James Algar, American film director, screenwriter and producer (Born 1912) |
| 26th of February 1998 | DEATH | Shirley Ardell Mason, American psychiatric patient (AKA Sybil Isabell Dorsett in Sybil (book) (Born 1923) |
| 26th of February 1998 | DEATH | Theodore Schultz, American economist, Nobel laureate (Born 1902) |
| 26th of February 2000 | DEATH | George L. Street III American Navy submariner and Medal of Honor recipient (Born 1913) |
| 26th of February 2001 | DEATH | Arturo Uslar Pietri, Venezuelan writer (Born 1906) |
| 26th of February 2002 | DEATH | Lawrence Tierney, American actor (Born 1919) |
| 26th of February 2003 | DEATH | Christian Goethals, Belgian racing driver (Born 1928) |
| 26th of February 2004 | DEATH | Shankarrao Chavan, Indian politician (Born 1920) |
| 26th of February 2004 | DEATH | Adolf Ehrnrooth, Finnish general (Born 1905) |
| 26th of February 2004 | DEATH | Boris Trajkovski, Macedonian politician, President (1999-death) (Born 1956) |
| 26th of February 2005 | DEATH | Jef Raskin, American computer scientist (Born 1943) |
| 26th of February 2008 | DEATH | Dick Fletcher, American meteorologist (Born 1942) |
| 26th of February 2008 | DEATH | Buddy Miles, American drummer (Band of Gypsies) (Born 1947) |
| 26th of February 2008 | DEATH | Glory Mukwati, Zimbabwean politician |
| 26th of February 2009 | DEATH | Wendy Richard, English actress (Born 1943) |
| 26th of February 2009 | DEATH | Johnny Kerr, American basketball player and Chicago Bulls broadcaster (Born 1932) |
| 26th of February 2009 | DEATH | Norm Van Lier, American basketball player and broadcaster (Born 1947) |
| 26th of February 2010 | DEATH | Nujabes, Japanese hip hop producer (Born 1974) |
| 26th of February 2011 | DEATH | Arnost Lustig, Czech writer (Born 1926) |
| 26th of February 2011 | DEATH | James A. McClure, American politician (Born 1924) |