Anniversaries 26 February

Birth

Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury17

English politician and Earl 1671–1713

Anders Chydenius5

Swedish politician 1729–1803

François Arago8

French mathematician, physicist, astronomer and politician 1786–1853

Victor Hugo308

French poet, novelist, and dramatist 1802–1885

Honoré Daumier6

French printmaker, caricaturist, painter, and sculptor 1808–1879

Franz Strauss1

German composer and virtuoso horn player. Father of Richard… 1822–1905

John Pentland Mahaffy2

Irish classicist and polymathic scholar 1839–1919

Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer3

British diplomat 1841–1917

John Harvey Kellogg14

American physician 1852–1943

Emile Coué9

French psychologist and pharmacist 1857–1926

Basil King5

Canadian writer 1859–1928

I. A. Richards3

English literary critic and rhetorician 1893–1979

Wilhelm Bittrich2

German general 1894–1979

Elizabeth Bibesco21

writer, actress; Romanian princess 1897–1945

Orde Charles Wingate1

British Army General 1903–1944

Dane Clark4

American film actor 1912–1998

George Barker4

British poet 1913–1991

Theodore Sturgeon44

American speculative fiction writer 1918–1985

William J. Baumol9

American economist 1922–2017

Ariel Sharon15

prime minister of Israel and Israeli general 1928–2014

Fats Domino4

American R&B musician 1928–2017

Johnny Cash51

American singer-songwriter 1932–2003

James Goldsmith1

Anglo-French billionaire financier and tycoon 1933–1997

Loraine Despres2

Novelist/screen writer 1938

Jay R. Galbraith9

American business theorist 1939–2014

Dossie Easton2

American author and family therapist 1944

Marta Kristen1

Norwegian actress 1945

Sandie Shaw3

English pop singer 1947

Robin Maxwell1

American writer 1948

Elizabeth George3

American woman mystery and thriller writer 1949

Helen Clark4

37th Prime Minister of New Zealand 1950

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan31

12th President of Turkey from 2014 1954

Helena Maria Viramontes1

American writer 1954

Michel Houellebecq24

writer 1956

Tzachi Hanegbi4

Israeli politician 1957

David Beasley1

113th Governor of South Carolina 1957

Kjell A. Nordström3

Economist, writer, public speaker 1958

Ahmet Davutoğlu2

Turkish politician 1959

Roger Lewis2

Welsh academic and biographer 1960

Vasily Nebenzya2

Russian diplomat 1962

Naoto Ohshima1

Japanese video game artist 1964

Erykah Badu6

American neo-soul singer 1971

Marshall Faulk4

All-American college football player, professional football… 1973

Ngô Thanh Vân1

Vietnamese singer and actress 1979

Нэйт Рюэсс1

1982

Kian Barazandeh1

Iranian Super-model & Actor 1998

Kian barazandeh4

Actor , Model 1998

Death

Louis Tronson11

French Roman Catholic priest 1622–1700

Joseph De Maistre13

Savoyard philosopher, writer, lawyer, and diplomat 1753–1821

Arsène Houssaye5

French writer 1814–1896

Theodore L. Cuyler41

American minister 1822–1909

Carl Menger6

founder of the Austrian School of economics 1840–1921

Hermann Ebbinghaus16

German psychologist 1850–1909

Sam Walter Foss8

American writer 1858–1911

Остин О'Малли1

1858–1932

William Ralph Inge18

Dean of St Pauls 1860–1954

Vinayak Damodar Savarkar24

Indian pro-independence activist,lawyer, politician, poet, … 1883–1966

Gino Severini28

Italian painter 1883–1966

Karl Jaspers44

German psychiatrist and philosopher 1883–1969

Theodore Schultz15

American economist 1902–1998

Swami Narayanananda10

Indian guru 1902–1988

Tjalling Koopmans16

Dutch American economist 1910–1985

Fletcher Knebel1

Novelist, journalist 1911–1993

Robert Aickman1

British fantasy and horror writer 1914–1981

Theodore Hesburgh1

Congressional Gold Medal recipient 1917–2015

Mu Dan1

Chinese poet 1918–1977

Paul Taunton Matthews1

British scientist 1919–1987

Gerald Kaufman4

British politician 1930–2017

Andy Bathgate2

Canadian ice hockey player 1932–2016

Jef Raskin29

American computer scientist 1943–2005

Bill Hicks100

American comedian 1961–1994