Births on 26 February
2000s
Jamal Musiala
2003
German footballer (born 2003)
Gerard Martín (footballer)
2002
Spanish footballer (born 2002)
César Tárrega
2002
Spanish footballer (born 2002)
Yeat
2000
American rapper (born 2000)
1900s
Jessie Bates
1997
American football player (born 1997)
Jacob Trouba
1994
American ice hockey player (born 1994)
Mahra bint Mohammed Al Maktoum
1994
Emirati princess (born 1994)
Morgan Gautrat
1993
American soccer player (born 1993)
Mikael Granlund
1992
Finnish ice hockey player (born 1992)
CL (rapper)
1991
South Korean rapper and singer (born 1991)
Kevin Plawecki
1991
American baseball player (born 1991)
Takanoiwa Yoshimori
1990
Sumo wrestler from Mongolia
Gabriel Obertan
1989
French footballer (born 1989)
Mārtiņš Karsums
1986
Latvian professional ice hockey player (born 1986)
Hannah Kearney
1986
American freestyle skier
Fernando Llorente
1985
Spanish footballer (born 1985)
Emmanuel Adebayor
1984
Togolese footballer (born 1984)
Beren Saat
1984
Turkish actress (born 1984)
Jerome Harrison
1983
American football player (born 1983)
Pepe (footballer, born 1983)
1983
Portuguese footballer (born 1983)
Li Na
1982
Chinese tennis player
Matt Prior
1982
English cricketer
Kevin Dallman
1981
Kazakhstani ice hockey player
Kertus Davis
1981
American racing driver
Simon Maljevac
1981
Slovenian politician (born 1981)
Robert Mathis
1981
American football player and coach (born 1981)
Oh Seung-bum
1981
South Korean footballer (born 1981)
Sharon Van Etten
1981
American singer-songwriter
Steve Blake
1980
American basketball player (born 1980)
Steve Evans (footballer, born 1979)
1979
Welsh football manager and footballer
Pedro Mendes (footballer, born 1979)
1979
Portuguese footballer and agent
Abdoulaye Faye
1978
Senegalese footballer (born 1978)
Marty Reasoner
1977
American ice hockey player (born 1977)
Tim Thomas (basketball)
1977
American basketball player (born 1977)
Shane Williams
1977
Wales and British Lions international rugby union player
Nalini Anantharaman
1976
French mathematician
Chadwick Stokes Urmston
1976
American musician (born 1976)
P. J. Axelsson
1975
Swedish ice hockey player
Mikee Cojuangco-Jaworski
1974
Filipino sports official, equestrian, television host and actress (born 1974)
Sébastien Loeb
1974
French rally driver (born 1974)
Marshall Faulk
1973
American football former player (born 1973)
Ole Gunnar Solskjær
1973
Norwegian footballer and manager (born 1973)
Jenny Thompson
1973
American swimmer (born 1973)
Max Martin
1971
Swedish record producer and songwriter (born 1971)
Hélène Ségara
1971
French singer (born 1971)
Predrag Danilović
1970
Serbian basketball player (born 1970)
Mark Harper
1970
British politician (born 1970)
Hitoshi Sakimoto
1969
Japanese composer (born 1969)
Leif Rohlin
1968
Swedish ice hockey player
Kazuyoshi Miura
1967
Japanese footballer (born 1967)
Gene Principe
1967
Canadian sports reporter and broadcaster (born 1967)
Garry Conille
1966
Haitian politician (born 1966)
Marc Fortier
1966
Canadian ice hockey player
Najwa Karam
1966
Lebanese singer (born 1966)
Father James Mitchell
1965
American professional wrestling manager (born 1966)
Ahn Cheol-soo
1962
South Korean politician (born 1962)
Jaz Coleman
1960
English musician (born 1960)
Rolando Blackman
1959
Panamanian-American basketball player
Ahmet Davutoğlu
1959
Prime Minister of Turkey from 2014 to 2016
Liza 'N' Eliaz
1958
Belgian musical artist (1958–2001)
Susan Helms
1958
American astronaut and Air Force lieutenant general (born 1958)
Tim Kaine
1958
American lawyer and politician (born 1958)
David Beasley
1957
American politician
Joe Mullen
1957
American ice hockey player (born 1957)
John Jude Palencar
1957
American artist
Keena Rothhammer
1957
American swimmer
Michel Houellebecq
1956
French writer (born 1956)
Andreas Maislinger
1955
Austrian historian
Ernst August von Hannover (born 1954)
1954
Head of the House of Hanover since 1987
Barbara Niven
1953
American actress (born 1953)
Wayne Goss
1951
Australian politician
Helen Clark
1950
Prime Minister of New Zealand from 1999 to 2008
Billy Steinberg
1950
American songwriter (1950–2026)
Simon Crean
1949
Australian politician (1949–2023)
Elizabeth George
1949
American mystery and thriller writer
Emma Kirkby
1949
English soprano (born 1949)
Sharyn McCrumb
1948
American writer (born 1948)
Sandie Shaw
1947
English pop singer (born 1947)
Colin Bell (footballer, born 1946)
1946
English professional footballer (1946–2021)
Bingo Smith
1946
American basketball player (1946–2023)
Ahmed Zewail
1946
Egyptian and American chemist (1946–2016)
Peter Brock
1945
Australian racing driver (1945–2006)
Christopher Hope (novelist)
1944
South African novelist and poet (born 1944)
Ronald Lauder
1944
American businessman (born 1944)
Paul Cotton
1943
American guitarist (1943–2021)
Dante Ferretti
1943
Italian production designer
Bob Hite
1943
American musician (1943–1981)
Jozef Adamec
1942
Slovak footballer and manager
Oldřich Kulhánek
1940
Chuck Wepner
1939
American boxer (born 1939)
Paul Dickson (American football)
1937
American football player (1937–2011)
José Policarpo
1936
Portuguese Catholic prelate (1936–2014)
Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina
1934
Algerian film director and screenwriter (1934–2025)
James Goldsmith
1933
French-British tycoon and politician (1933–1997)
Ally MacLeod
1931
Scottish footballer and manager (1931–2004)
Fats Domino
1928
American pianist and singer (1928–2017)
Ariel Sharon
1928
Prime Minister of Israel from 2001 to 2006
Tom Kennedy (television host)
1927
American game show host (1927–2020)
Doris Belack
1926
American actress (1926–2011)
Verne Gagne
1926
American professional wrestler and football player (1926–2015)
Henry Molaison
1926
American memory disorder patient
Everton Weekes
1925
West Indian cricketer
Mark Bucci
1924
American classical composer
Noboru Takeshita
1924
Prime Minister of Japan from 1987 to 1989
Bill Johnston (cricketer)
1922
Australian cricketer (1922–2007)
Margaret Leighton
1922
British actress (1922–1976)
Danny Gardella
1920
American baseball player (1920–2005)
Lucjan Wolanowski
1920
Polish writer
Mason Adams
1919
American actor (1919–2005)
Otis Bowen
1918
American politician (1918–2013)
Pyotr Masherov
1918
Soviet Belarusian resistance leader and politician (1919-1980)
Theodore Sturgeon
1918
American speculative fiction writer (1918–1985)
Robert Alda
1914
American actor (1914–1986)
Tarō Okamoto
1911
Japanese artist (1911–1996)
Vic Woodley
1910
English footballer and manager
Fanny Cradock
1909
English restaurant critic, television cook and writer (1909–1994)
Talal of Jordan
1909
King of Jordan from 1951 to 1952
Tex Avery
1908
American animator (1908–1980)
Nestor Mesta Chayres
1908
Mexican tenor
Jean-Pierre Wimille
1908
French racing driver (1908–1949)
Madeleine Carroll
1906
English actress (1906–1987)
Giulio Natta
1903
Italian chemist (1903–1979)
Orde Wingate
1903
British WWII Army general (1903-1944)
Jean Bruller
1902
French writer and illustrator
Halina Konopacka
1900
Polish discus thrower
Fritz Wiessner
1900
German free climber
1800s
Max Petitpierre
1899
Swiss politician
Andrei Zhdanov
1896
Soviet politician (1896–1948)
Wallace Fard Muhammad
1893
Founder of the Nation of Islam (c. 1877 – disappeared c. 1934)
Dorothy Whipple
1893
English novelist and children's writer (1893–1966)
Grover Cleveland Alexander
1887
American baseball player (1887–1950)
William Frawley
1887
American actor (1887–1966)
Stefan Grabiński
1887
Polish writer (1887–1936)
Aleksandras Stulginskis
1885
Lithuanian politician
Husband E. Kimmel
1882
United States Navy admiral (1882–1968)
Janus Djurhuus
1881
Faroese poet
Kenneth Edgeworth
1880
Irish astronomer (1880–1972)
Frank Bridge
1879
English composer and violist (1879–1941)
Henry Barwell
1877
Australian politician
Rudolph Dirks
1877
American cartoonist
Matti Turkia
1871
Finnish politician (1871–1946)
Herbert Henry Dow
1866
American chemical industrialist (1866–1930)
Gustave Mathieu
1866
French worker and illegalist anarchist
Ferdinand I of Bulgaria
1861
Prince/Tsar of Bulgaria from 1887 to 1918
Nadezhda Krupskaya
1861
Wife of Vladimir Lenin (1869–1939)
Émile Coué
1857
French psychologist (1857–1926)
John Harvey Kellogg
1852
American physician (1852–1943)
Buffalo Bill
1846
American soldier and showman (1846–1917)
Camille Flammarion
1842
French astronomer and author (1842–1925)
Levi Strauss
1829
German-American businessman (1829–1902)
Honoré Daumier
1808
French artist (1808–1879)
Nathan Kelley
1808
American architect (1808–1871)
Victor Hugo
1802
French writer and politician (1802–1885)
Before 1800
François Arago
1786
French physicist and astronomer (1786–1853)
Matija Nenadović
1777
Serbian historian and politician (1777–1854)
Anton Reicha
1770
Czech-born French composer (1770–1836)
Maria Amalia, Duchess of Parma
1746
Duchess of Parma, Piacenza and Guastalla from 1771 to 1796
Anders Chydenius
1729
Swedish-Finnish priest, politician, enlightenment thinker and economist (1729–1803)
Gian Francesco Albani
1720
Johan Ernst Gunnerus
1718
Biagio Bellotti
1714
Italian painter and architect (1714–1789)
Nicola Fago
1677
Italian Baroque composer and teacher (1677–1745)
Antoine Augustin Calmet
1672
French Benedictine monk (1672–1757)
Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury
1671
English politician, philosopher and writer (1671–1713)
Quirinus Kuhlmann
1651
German Baroque poet and mystic (1651-1689)
Archibald Campbell, 9th Earl of Argyll
1629
Scottish politician, soldier, and nobleman (1629–1685)
Stefano Landi
1587
Italian composer (1587–1639)
Albert VI, Duke of Bavaria
1584
German nobleman
Christopher Marlowe
1564
English playwright and poet (1564–1593)
Christopher of Bavaria
1416
King of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden under the Kalmar Union (1416–1448)
Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia
1361
King of Bohemia (1378–1419) and Germany (1376–1400)