Anniversaries 26 February
Birth
![Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury photo]()
English politician and Earl
1671–1713
![Anders Chydenius photo]()
Swedish politician
1729–1803
![François Arago photo]()
French mathematician, physicist, astronomer and politician
1786–1853
![Victor Hugo photo]()
French poet, novelist, and dramatist
1802–1885
![Honoré Daumier photo]()
French printmaker, caricaturist, painter, and sculptor
1808–1879
![Franz Strauss photo]()
German composer and virtuoso horn player. Father of Richard…
1822–1905
![John Pentland Mahaffy photo]()
Irish classicist and polymathic scholar
1839–1919
![Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer photo]()
British diplomat
1841–1917
![John Harvey Kellogg photo]()
American physician
1852–1943
![Emile Coué photo]()
French psychologist and pharmacist
1857–1926
![Basil King photo]()
Canadian writer
1859–1928
![I. A. Richards photo]()
English literary critic and rhetorician
1893–1979
![Elizabeth Bibesco photo]()
writer, actress; Romanian princess
1897–1945
![Orde Charles Wingate photo]()
British Army General
1903–1944
![Dane Clark photo]()
American film actor
1912–1998
![Theodore Sturgeon photo]()
American speculative fiction writer
1918–1985
![William J. Baumol photo]()
American economist
1922–2017
![Ariel Sharon photo]()
prime minister of Israel and Israeli general
1928–2014
![Fats Domino photo]()
American R&B musician
1928–2017
![Johnny Cash photo]()
American singer-songwriter
1932–2003
![James Goldsmith photo]()
Anglo-French billionaire financier and tycoon
1933–1997
![Loraine Despres photo]()
Novelist/screen writer
1938
![Jay R. Galbraith photo]()
American business theorist
1939–2014
![Dossie Easton photo]()
American author and family therapist
1944
![Elizabeth George photo]()
American woman mystery and thriller writer
1949
![Helen Clark photo]()
37th Prime Minister of New Zealand
1950
![Recep Tayyip Erdoğan photo]()
12th President of Turkey from 2014
1954
![David Beasley photo]()
113th Governor of South Carolina
1957
![Kjell A. Nordström photo]()
Economist, writer, public speaker
1958
![Roger Lewis photo]()
Welsh academic and biographer
1960
![Naoto Ohshima photo]()
Japanese video game artist
1964
![Erykah Badu photo]()
American neo-soul singer
1971
![Marshall Faulk photo]()
All-American college football player, professional football…
1973
![Ngô Thanh Vân photo]()
Vietnamese singer and actress
1979
![Kian Barazandeh photo]()
Iranian Super-model & Actor
1998
Death
![Louis Tronson photo]()
French Roman Catholic priest
1622–1700
![Joseph De Maistre photo]()
Savoyard philosopher, writer, lawyer, and diplomat
1753–1821
![Theodore L. Cuyler photo]()
American minister
1822–1909
![Carl Menger photo]()
founder of the Austrian School of economics
1840–1921
![Hermann Ebbinghaus photo]()
German psychologist
1850–1909
![Sam Walter Foss photo]()
American writer
1858–1911
![William Ralph Inge photo]()
Dean of St Pauls
1860–1954
![Vinayak Damodar Savarkar photo]()
Indian pro-independence activist,lawyer, politician, poet, …
1883–1966
![Gino Severini photo]()
Italian painter
1883–1966
![Karl Jaspers photo]()
German psychiatrist and philosopher
1883–1969
![Theodore Schultz photo]()
American economist
1902–1998
![Tjalling Koopmans photo]()
Dutch American economist
1910–1985
![Fletcher Knebel photo]()
Novelist, journalist
1911–1993
![Robert Aickman photo]()
British fantasy and horror writer
1914–1981
![Theodore Hesburgh photo]()
Congressional Gold Medal recipient
1917–2015
![Paul Taunton Matthews photo]()
British scientist
1919–1987
![Gerald Kaufman photo]()
British politician
1930–2017
![Andy Bathgate photo]()
Canadian ice hockey player
1932–2016
![Jef Raskin photo]()
American computer scientist
1943–2005
![Bill Hicks photo]()
American comedian
1961–1994
