February 26
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[edit] Births
- 1361 - Wenceslaus, Holy Roman Emperor, King of Bohemia (d. 1419)
- 1802 - Victor Hugo, French poet (d. 1885)
- 1808 - Honoré Daumier, French painter, illustrator, lithograph and sculptor (d. 1879)
- 1829 - Levi Strauss, clothing designer (d. 1902)
- 1846 - Buffalo Bill, American pioneer and officer, hunter and carny (d. 1917)
- 1861 - King Ferdinand of Bulgaria (d. 1948)
- 1875 - Hans Böckler, unionist and politician (d. 1951)
- 1879 - Frank Bridge, English composer (d. 1941)
- 1885 - Aleksandras Stulginskis, President of Lithuania (d. 1969)
- 1887 - Grover Cleveland Alexander, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1950)
- 1887 - William Frawley, American actor (d. 1966)
- 1893 - I. A. Richards, literary critic (d. 1979)
- 1902 - Albert Anastasia, Mafia boss (d. 1957)
- 1907 - Dub Taylor, American actor (d. 1994)
- 1908 - Tex Avery, cartoonist (d. 1980)
- 1908 - Jean-Pierre Wimille, race car driver (d. 1949)
- 1909 - King Talal, King of Jordan (d. 1972)
- 1914 - Robert Alda, American actor (d. 1986)
- 1916 - Jackie Gleason, actor, writer, composer, comedian (d. 1987)
- 1918 - Theodore Sturgeon, science fiction writer (d. 1985)
- 1919 - Mason Adams, American actor
- 1920 - Tony Randall, actor (The Odd Couple) (d. 2004)
- 1921 - Betty Hutton, American actress
- 1927 - Tom Kennedy, American game show host
- 1928 - Fats Domino, musician
- 1928 - Anatoli Filipchenko, cosmonaut
- 1932 - Johnny Cash, country music singer (d. 2003)
- 1933 - Godfrey Cambridge, actor (d. 1976)
- 1934 - Robert Novak, American political columnist
- 1941 - Tony Ray-Jones, British photographer (d. 1972)
- 1943 - Bill Duke, American actor, director
- 1945 - Marta Kristen, Norwegian actress
- 1946 - Ahmed H. Zewail, Egyptian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1947 - Sandie Shaw, British singer, Eurovision Song Contest winner
- 1950 - Helen Clark, Prime Minister of New Zealand
- 1951 - Lee Atwater, American political operative (d. 1991)
- 1954 - Michael Bolton, singer
- 1956 - Keisuke Kuwata, Japanese singer
- 1957 - Besim Hasani, President of Kosova Olimpic Committee
- 1958 - Michel Houellebecq, French novelist
- 1959 - Rolando Blackman, basketball star
- 1962 - Greg Germann, actor
- 1971 - Erykah Badu, singer
- 1973 - Marshall Faulk, American football star
- 1973 - Jenny Thompson, U.S. Olympic swimmer
- 1974 - Sébastien Loeb, French WRC driver
- 1984 - Natalia Lafourcade, Mexican pop singer
[edit] Deaths
- 1266 - King Manfred of Sicily
- 1813 - Robert Livingston, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1746)
- 1903 - Richard Jordan Gatling, inventor (b. 1818)
- 1913 - Felix Draeseke, German composer (b. 1835)
- 1921 - Carl Menger, economist (b. 1840)
- 1931 - Otto Wallach, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1847)
- 1961 - King Mohammed V of Morocco (b. 1909)
- 1969 - Levi Eshkol, Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1895)
- 1971 - Fernandel, actor (b. 1903)
- 1975 - Stephen Tibble, London police officer shot by the IRA (b. 1953)
- 1981 - Howard Hanson, American composer (b. 1896)
- 1993 - Constance Ford, American actress
- 1994 - Bill Hicks, comedian (b. 1961)
- 1997 - David Doyle, American actor
- 2002 - Lawrence Tierney, actor
- 2003 - Gerhard Czerwensky, economist
- 2004 - Shankarrao Chavan, Chief Minister of Maharashtra
- 2004 - Adolf Ehrnrooth, Finnish general
- 2004 - Boris Trajkovski, President of the Republic of Macedonia (b. 1956)
- 2005 - Jef Raskin, computer scientist (b. 1943)