26 February
Notable Births
Jamal Musiala
b. 2003
German footballer (born 2003)
Gerard Martín (footballer)
b. 2002
Spanish footballer (born 2002)
Yeat
b. 2000
American rapper (born 2000)
Jessie Bates
b. 1997
American football player (born 1997)
Jacob Trouba
b. 1994
American ice hockey player (born 1994)
Morgan Gautrat
b. 1993
American soccer player (born 1993)
Mikael Granlund
b. 1992
Finnish ice hockey player (born 1992)
CL (rapper)
b. 1991
South Korean rapper and singer (born 1991)
Kevin Plawecki
b. 1991
American baseball player (born 1991)
Takanoiwa Yoshimori
b. 1990
Sumo wrestler from Mongolia
Gabriel Obertan
b. 1989
French footballer (born 1989)
Mārtiņš Karsums
b. 1986
Latvian professional ice hockey player (born 1986)
Hannah Kearney
b. 1986
American freestyle skier
Fernando Llorente
b. 1985
Spanish footballer (born 1985)
Emmanuel Adebayor
b. 1984
Togolese footballer (born 1984)
Beren Saat
b. 1984
Turkish actress (born 1984)
Pepe (footballer, born 1983)
b. 1983
Portuguese footballer (born 1983)
Li Na
b. 1982
Chinese tennis player
Matt Prior
b. 1982
English cricketer
Kevin Dallman
b. 1981
Kazakhstani ice hockey player
Notable Deaths
Michelle Trachtenberg
d. 2025
American actress (1985–2025)
Joseph Wapner
d. 2017
American reality court show judge (1919–2017)
Andy Bathgate
d. 2016
Canadian ice hockey player (1932–2016)
Don Getty
d. 2016
Premier of Alberta from 1985 to 1992
Sheppard Frere
d. 2015
British historian and archaeologist
Theodore Hesburgh
d. 2015
American Catholic priest and 15th president of Notre Dame
Earl Lloyd
d. 2015
American basketball player and coach (1928–2015)
Tom Schweich
d. 2015
American politician, diplomat and attorney
Sorel Etrog
d. 2014
Romanian born Israeli-Canadian artist, writer and sculptor (1933–2014)
Phyllis Krasilovsky
d. 2014
American writer (1926–2014)
Marie-Claire Alain
d. 2013
French organist (1926–2013)
Stéphane Hessel
d. 2013
Writer, Holocaust survivor and French Resistance member
Simon Li
d. 2013
Arnošt Lustig
d. 2011
Czech Jewish writer (1926–2011)
Nujabes
d. 2010
Japanese hip-hop producer (1974–2010)
Johnny Kerr
d. 2009
American basketball player, coach, and commentator (1932–2009)
Wendy Richard
d. 2009
British actress (1943–2009)
Norm Van Lier
d. 2009
American basketball player (1947–2009)
Jef Raskin
d. 2005
American computer scientist (1943–2005)
Adolf Ehrnrooth
d. 2004
Finnish general