On This Day — February 26
4206 noted people were born and 2089 died on February 26 in our archive, including Lloyd Geering, Ahmed Zewail and Ahn Cheol-soo.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on February 26
Lloyd Geering
b. 1918
Ahmed Zewail
1946 – 2016
Ahn Cheol-soo
b. 1962
Aleksander Jabłoński
1898 – 1980
Aleksander Koj
1935 – 2016
Anders Chydenius
1729 – 1803
Benegal Narsing Rau
1887 – 1953
Brigitte Kieffer
b. 1958
Charles Joseph Sainte-Claire Deville
1814 – 1876
Charles Woeste
1837 – 1922
Costantino Bresciani Turroni
1882 – 1963
David Beasley
b. 1957
Duncan Kerr
b. 1952
Edward Alfred Minchin
1866 – 1915
Ernst Schmutzer
1930 – 2022
Eugen Millington-Drake
1889 – 1972
Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer
1841 – 1917
François Arago
1786 – 1853
Fritz Bock
1911 – 1993
Gennadij Borisov
b. 1962
Georges Pouchet
1833 – 1894
Giulio Natta
1903 – 1979
Helen Clark
b. 1950
Herbert Henry Dow
1866 – 1930
Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila
1963 – 2023
James J. O'Donnell
b. 1950
Jean-Michel Bismut
b. 1948
Jeff Forshaw
b. 1968
Johan Ernst Gunnerus
1718 – 1773
John Bowlby
1907 – 1990
Katharine Stephen
1856 – 1924
Kazimira Prunskienė
1943 – 2026
Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel
b. 1955
Leslie Knox Munro
1901 – 1974
Ludwig Ruetimeyer
1825 – 1895
Nicolaas Wilhelmus Posthumus
1880 – 1960
Noboru Takeshita
1924 – 2000
Peter Kristian Prytz
1851 – 1929
Shields Warren
1898 – 1980
Sundaresh Menon
b. 1962
Tim Kaine
b. 1958
Vasily Nebenzya
b. 1962
Vladimir Shcherbakov
1909 – 1985
Willy Hellpach
1877 – 1955
Yves Bouthillier
1901 – 1977
Zdeněk Jičínský
1929 – 2020
Zhang Boli
b. 1948
Adem Demaçi
1936 – 2018
Ahmet Davutoğlu
b. 1959
Alamine Ousmane Mey
b. 1966
Alar Streimann
b. 1964
Alejandro Mon y Menéndez
1801 – 1882
Aleksander Gintowt-Dziewałtowski
1821 – 1889
Alexander Kogan
b. 1969
Alexander Prokhanov
b. 1938
Alexander Varnek
1782 – 1843
Alfred Lutwyche
1810 – 1880
Amos Kloner
1940 – 2019
Andreas Maislinger
b. 1955
Andrew Haines
b. 1947
Andrzej Celiński
b. 1950
Anton Reicha
1770 – 1836
Ariel Sharon
1928 – 2014
Artur Rasizade
b. 1935
Avi Loeb
b. 1962
Bengt Morten Wenstøb
b. 1963
Betty Hutton
1921 – 2007
Camille Flammarion
1842 – 1925
Carl Friedrich Geiser
1843 – 1934
Carl Friedrich Keil
1807 – 1888
Cassam Moollan
1927 – 2010
Catherine Blakespear
b. 1976
Charles P. Thacker
1943 – 2017
Chen Wei
b. 1966
Cho Minhaeng
b. 1965
Christian Samuel Weiss
1780 – 1856
Christoph Badelt
b. 1951
Claude Cahen
1909 – 1991
Claude Piron
1931 – 2008
Dan Goldman
b. 1976
Dane Clark
1912 – 1998
Dermot Turing
b. 1961
Diane Curry
1938 – 2016
Dmitry Okhotsimsky
1921 – 2005
Dzianis Maroz
b. 1982
Edward C. Holmes
b. 1965
Efim Etkind
1918 – 1999
Else Roesdahl
b. 1942
Emanuele Severino
1929 – 2020
Ernest N. Harmon
1894 – 1979
Evžen Tošenovský
b. 1956
Galina Ivanovna Tsukanova
1942 – 2014
Garry Conille
b. 1966
Giuseppe Gabrielli
1903 – 1987
Guy Baring
1873 – 1916
Hans Frode Asmyhr
b. 1970
Henri Pujol
b. 1930
Henry Barwell
1877 – 1959
Henry E. Riggs
1935 – 2015
Henry Hu
1920 – 2025
Horace Harmon Lurton
1844 – 1914
I. A. Richards
1893 – 1979
Irina Vlah
b. 1974
Israel Gottlieb Canz
1690 – 1753
Izumi Yoshida
b. 1949
Jacqui Lambie
b. 1971
James B. Donovan
1916 – 1970
James Goldsmith
1933 – 2019
James Mutende
1962 – 2015
James Rennie
1787 – 1867
Jean-Marie Pontaut
b. 1947
Johan Wästlund
b. 1971
John Pentland Mahaffy
1839 – 1919
Jonathan Berry, 5th Viscount Camrose
b. 1970
Jose W. Diokno
1922 – 1987
Josef Kotin
1908 – 1979
Joseph LeConte
1823 – 1901
José María Calatrava y Peinado
1781 – 1847
José Policarpo
1936 – 2014
José de la Riva-Agüero y Osma
1885 – 1944
Józef Kozioł
1939 – 2023
Kim Jang-soo
b. 1948
Kurt Burneo
b. 1961
Levi Strauss
1829 – 1902
Lim Hwee Hua
b. 1959
Lionel Halsey
1872 – 1949
Lionel Logue
1880 – 1953
Liubomyr Huzar
1933 – 2017
Lucia Alma McCulloch
1873 – 1955
Luigi Fortis
1748 – 1829
Marie-Hélène Lefaucheux
1904 – 1964
Marjorie Constance Caserio
1929 – 2021
Marta Zofia Kwiatkowska
b. 1957
Max Petitpierre
1899 – 1994
Michael Kimmel
b. 1951
Michael Matthes
b. 1966
Michel Houellebecq
b. 1956
Molly Antopol
b. 1978
Mordecai Seter
1916 – 1994
Mungo William MacCallum
1854 – 1942
Mykhailo Koval
b. 1956
Mārtiņš Virsis
b. 1959
Nadezhda Krupskaya
1869 – 1939
Najma Chowdhury
1942 – 2021
Nalini Anantharaman
b. 1976
Nikolai Orlov
1892 – 1964
Noreen Murray
1935 – 2011
Odd Isaachsen Willoch
1885 – 1940
Oswald Werner
1928 – 2023
Otto Truchsess von Waldburg
1514 – 1573
Paul Gautsch von Frankenthurn
1850 – 1918
Paul Longley
b. 1959
Paweł Mariusz Rowiński
b. 1965
Paweł Skutecki
b. 1975
Peter Landau
1935 – 2019
Peter Nijkamp
b. 1946
Piotar Mašeraw
1918 – 1980
Prince Karl, 9th Prince of Auersperg
1859 – 1927
Ramin Golestanian
b. 1971
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
b. 1954
Robert Alda
1914 – 1986
Robert Chester Smith
1912 – 1976
Robert Le Gall
b. 1946
Roman Malinowski
1935 – 2021
Ronald Lauder
b. 1944
Rui Matsukawa
b. 1971
Sadie Peterson Delaney
1889 – 1958
Saturnino Calderón de la Barca y Collantes
1799 – 1864
Shapoor Ji Reporter
1921 – 2013
Simon Crean
1949 – 2023
Susan J. Helms
b. 1958
Talal I of Jordan
1909 – 1972
Tex Avery
1908 – 1980
Toimi Kankaanniemi
b. 1950
Tom Kenyon
b. 1972
Tristam Burges
1770 – 1853
Valentin Dogiel
1882 – 1955
Vanessa Ruta
b. 1974
Vladimir Koptsik
1924 – 2005
Wang Dan
b. 1969
Wayne Goss
1951 – 2014
Whitney Smith
1940 – 2016
William Bouverie, 1st Earl of Radnor
1725 – 1776
Witold Rowicki
1914 – 1989
Wojciech Jastrzębowski
1884 – 1963
Wu Youxun
1897 – 1977
Yuli Tamir
b. 1954
Zvi Berenson
1907 – 2001
Åke Lindemalm
1910 – 2004
Abe no Seimei
921 – 1005
Achille Funi
1890 – 1972
Adolf Stieler
1775 – 1836
Adolphe Danhauser
1835 – 1896
Agneta Pleijel
b. 1940
Agustín Pedro Justo
1876 – 1943
Aidan McLindon
b. 1980
Albert Winsemius
1910 – 1996
Albina Osipowich
1911 – 1964
Aleksandras Stulginskis
1885 – 1969
Alex Burton
b. 1968
… and 4,006 more
Died on February 26
Ludvig Faddeev
1934 – 2017
Tjalling Koopmans
1910 – 1985
Arthur Philemon Coleman
1852 – 1939
Arturo Uslar Pietri
1906 – 2001
Bechir Ben Slama
1931 – 2023
Carl Menger
1840 – 1921
Charles de Villers
1765 – 1815
Cornelius Conway Felton
1807 – 1862
David Shakow
1901 – 1981
Eugene Garfield
1925 – 2017
Gleb Pavlovsky
1951 – 2023
Henri d'Arbois de Jubainville
1827 – 1910
Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild
1936 – 2024
Jale İnan
1914 – 2001
Lee O-young
1934 – 2022
Michael Hainisch
1858 – 1940
Mordecai Ehrenpreis
1869 – 1951
Otto Wallach
1847 – 1931
Princess Alexandra, 2nd Duchess of Fife
1891 – 1959
Pyotr Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky
1827 – 1914
Robert Heatlie Scott
1905 – 1982
Theodore Hesburgh
1917 – 2015
Theodore Schultz
1902 – 1998
William Ralph Inge
1860 – 1954
Władysław Natanson
1864 – 1937
Yokoyama Taikan
1868 – 1958
Zhu Guangya
1924 – 2011
Aaron Tänzer
1871 – 1937
Albin Weisbach
1833 – 1901
Aleksandar Belić
1876 – 1960
Alexander Wood
1817 – 1884
Angelo Secchi
1818 – 1878
Angelo de Gubernatis
1840 – 1913
Berthe Bovy
1887 – 1977
Betty Boothroyd
1929 – 2023
Beulah Louise Henry
1887 – 1973
Boris Trajkovski
1956 – 2004
Carl H. Brans
1935 – 2026
Caspar Wistar Hodge, Jr.
1870 – 1937
Charles Scarborough
1615 – 1694
Cornelis van Eck
1662 – 1732
Count Johann Bernhard von Rechberg und Rothenlöwen
1806 – 1899
David W. Mullins, Jr.
1946 – 2018
Don Getty
1933 – 2016
Donald R. Deskins
1932 – 2013
Elisabeth Kuyper
1877 – 1953
Eri Klas
1939 – 2016
Francis Lloyd
1853 – 1926
Fred Shabel
1932 – 2023
Gerald Kaufman
1930 – 2017
Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich of Russia
1866 – 1933
Guy Dain
1870 – 1966
Harold Amos
1918 – 2003
Harold Dennis Taylor
1862 – 1943
Heinrich Häberlin
1868 – 1947
Hendrika Johanna van Leeuwen
1887 – 1974
Hermann Ebbinghaus
1850 – 1909
Howard Hanson
1896 – 1981
Itō Sukemaro
1832 – 1906
Ivan Fedko
1897 – 1939
Ivan Petrovich Sklyarov
1948 – 2007
Jean Coulomb
1904 – 1999
Jean de Largentaye
1903 – 1970
Jef Raskin
1943 – 2005
John Berchmans Creeden
1871 – 1948
Joseph Jules Dejerine
1849 – 1917
Juan María Gutiérrez
1809 – 1878
Kang Mun-bong
1923 – 1988
Karl Albiker
1878 – 1961
Karl Dehio
1851 – 1927
Karl Jaspers
1883 – 1969
Kim Tae-young
1949 – 2025
Knut Frydenlund
1927 – 1987
Kostas Voutsas
1931 – 2020
Kostiantyn Dankevych
1905 – 1984
Licinio de la Fuente
1923 – 2015
Louis Fabian Bachrach, Jr.
1917 – 2010
Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine
1807 – 1864
Marguerite Ross Barnett
1942 – 1992
Martin J. Buerger
1903 – 1986
Mary Whiton Calkins
1863 – 1930
Oktay Efendiyev
1926 – 2013
Oleksander Osetsky
1873 – 1937
Otto Haxel
1909 – 1998
Patrick Hastings
1880 – 1952
Paul Due
1835 – 1919
Peter Bannister
1939 – 2008
Peter Struve
1870 – 1944
Piero Barucci
1933 – 2026
Pierre Roques
1856 – 1920
Rafael Merry del Val
1865 – 1930
René de Possel
1905 – 1974
Saitō Makoto
1858 – 1936
Santosh Kumar Ghosh
1920 – 1985
Shinagawa Yajirō
1843 – 1900
Sibnarayan Ray
1921 – 2008
Srihadi Soedarsono
1931 – 2022
Stanislav Kosior
1889 – 1939
Sándor Szurmay
1860 – 1945
T. S. R. Subramanian
1938 – 2018
Takahashi Korekiyo
1854 – 1936
Vitaliano Donati
1717 – 1762
Vlas Chubar
1891 – 1939
Wendy Richard
1943 – 2009
William Collis Meredith
1812 – 1894
William Palmer, 2nd Earl of Selborne
1859 – 1942
Ze'ev Herring
1910 – 1988
Aarón Sáenz Garza
1891 – 1983
Adolf Ehrnrooth
1905 – 2004
Adolf von Heinleth
1823 – 1895
Albert Parker, 3rd Earl of Morley
1843 – 1905
Albrecht von Rechenberg
1861 – 1935
Alexander Brook
1898 – 1980
Alexander Ivanovich Uspensky
1902 – 1940
Alexander Löhr
1885 – 1947
Alexandre Antigna
1817 – 1878
Alexandros Koumoundouros
1815 – 1883
Algernon Walker-Heneage-Vivian
1871 – 1952
Alois Glück
1940 – 2024
Andrejs Žagars
1958 – 2019
Andrew Henderson Leith Fraser
1848 – 1919
Andrey Smirnov
1905 – 1982
Anil Joshi
1940 – 2025
Archibald Cary
1721 – 1787
Armand de Bourbon, Prince of Conti
1629 – 1666
Arnošt Lustig
1926 – 2011
Artturi Leinonen
1888 – 1963
Asaf Jah V of Hyderabad
1827 – 1869
August Ritter
1826 – 1908
Aurelio Sousa y Matute
1860 – 1925
Austin Melvin Knight
1854 – 1927
Barbara Paulson
1928 – 2023
Barry Bowen
1945 – 2010
Benudhar Sharma
1894 – 1981
Bernardino Caballero
1839 – 1912
Bob Braithwaite
1925 – 2015
Camillo Giardina
1907 – 1985
Carl Alexander von Martius
1838 – 1920
Carl Ehrenberg
1878 – 1962
Carlos Talbott
1920 – 2015
Casimiro Montenegro Filho
1904 – 2000
Charles Hope, 1st Earl of Hopetoun
1681 – 1742
Charles K. Tuckerman
1827 – 1896
Charles L. Flint
1824 – 1889
Charles Ranlett Flint
1850 – 1934
Charles Varnum
1849 – 1936
Charles d'Angennes
1577 – 1652
Claude Favre de Vaugelas
1585 – 1650
Curzio Maltese
1959 – 2023
Cyril Adelbert Stebbins
1880 – 1953
Cécile Stanislas Xavier de Girardin
1762 – 1827
Dan Shomron
1937 – 2008
Daniel Murray
1768 – 1852
David Henry Stone
1812 – 1890
Dennis Richardson
1949 – 2019
Diederik Durven
1676 – 1740
Domenico Gilardi
1785 – 1845
Earl Lloyd
1928 – 2015
Edward Anson
1826 – 1925
Edward Richardson
1831 – 1915
Elof Tegnér
1844 – 1900
Emmanuel Félix de Wimpffen
1811 – 1884
Enrique Ortúzar
1914 – 2005
Eric Marshall
1879 – 1963
Esther Rofe
1904 – 2000
Everard Hambro
1842 – 1925
Felix Auerbach
1856 – 1933
Felix Draeseke
1835 – 1913
Fernandel
1903 – 1971
François-Emmanuel Guignard, 1st Count of Saint-Priest
1735 – 1821
François-Marie Luzel
1821 – 1895
Fred Thaddeus Austin
1866 – 1938
Frederick C. Alderdice
1872 – 1936
Fritz J. Raddatz
1931 – 2015
Georg Henneberg
1908 – 1996
George Browne, 6th Marquess of Sligo
1856 – 1935
George Cubitt, 1st Baron Ashcombe
1828 – 1917
George Gill Green
1842 – 1925
George L. Street III
1913 – 2000
Georges Sagnac
1869 – 1928
Giovanna of Savoy
1907 – 2000
Godefroi, Comte d'Estrades
1607 – 1686
Goldwin Arthur Martin
1913 – 2001
Grace Quintanilla
1967 – 2019
Gus Franklin Mutscher
1932 – 2023
Gustavs Klucis
1895 – 1938
György Snell
1949 – 2021
Harold Earthman
1900 – 1987
Hasan Âli Yücel
1897 – 1961
Helen Megaw
1907 – 2002
Helmut Link
1927 – 2009
Henry Grunwald
1922 – 2005
Henry James Priestley
1883 – 1932
Herman Diamand
1860 – 1931
Hicri Fişek
1918 – 2002
Hiromichi Kozaki
1856 – 1938
Hiroshi Saitō
1886 – 1939
Homer Martin Adkins
1890 – 1964
Hosmer Allen Johnson
1822 – 1891
Ilyas Zhansugurov
1894 – 1938
… and 1,889 more