Famous people born on 26 February

• Victor HugoFrench novelist, poet, dramatist and politician · 1802–1885
  83 yrs
• Johnny CashAmerican country singer · 1932–2003
  71 yrs
• Nadezhda KrupskayaRussian revolutionary and politician · 1869–1939
  70 yrs
• Ahmed ZewailEgyptian chemist · 1946–2016
  70 yrs
• François AragoFrench mathematician, physicist, astronomer and politician · 1786–1853
  67 yrs
• Giulio NattaItalian chemist · 1903–1979
  76 yrs
• Honoré Daumier ↗French artist · 1808–1879
  70 yrs
• Camille Flammarion ↗French astronomer and author · 1842–1925
  83 yrs
• Ferdinand I of Bulgaria ↗Bulgarian ruler · 1861–1948
  87 yrs
• Fats Domino ↗American pianist and singer · 1928–2017
  89 yrs
• Andrei Zhdanov ↗Soviet politician · 1896–1948
  52 yrs
• Jackie Gleason ↗American comedian and actor · 1916–1987
  71 yrs
• Buffalo Bill ↗American soldier and showman · 1846–1917
  70 yrs
• Levi Strauss ↗German-Jewish-born American businessman · 1829–1902
  73 yrs
• Talal I of Jordan ↗King of Jordan from 1951 to 1952 · 1909–1972
  63 yrs
• Noboru Takeshita ↗74th Prime Minister of Japan · 1924–2000
  76 yrs
• Shiro Teshima ↗Japanese association football player · 1907–1982
  75 yrs
• Christopher of Bavaria ↗King of Denmark, Norway and Sweden 1442-1448 · 1416–1448
  31 yrs
• Venceslau Brás ↗President of Brazil · 1868–1966
  98 yrs
• Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot ↗French inventor · 1725–1804
  79 yrs
• Gaspard II de Coligny ↗French nobleman and admiral and Huguenot leader · 1519–1572
  53 yrs
• Georg Joachim Rheticus ↗Austrian physician, astronomer and mathematician · 1514–1574
  60 yrs
• Theodore Sturgeon ↗American speculative fiction writer · 1918–1985
  67 yrs
• Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury ↗English politician and Earl · 1671–1713
  41 yrs
• Li Ching-Yuen ↗Chinese martial artist and herbalist who claimed extreme longevity · 1840–1933
  93 yrs
• Tex Avery ↗American animator and director · 1908–1980
  72 yrs
• Aleksandras Stulginskis ↗Second President of Lithuania · 1885–1969
  84 yrs
• Betty Hutton ↗American actress · 1921–2007
  86 yrs
• Jean Bruller ↗French author and illustrator · 1902–1991
  89 yrs
• Milan Babić ↗First President of the Republic of Serbian Krajina 1991–1992 · 1956–2006
  50 yrs
• John Bowlby ↗British psychiatrist and psychoanalyst · 1907–1990
  83 yrs

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